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Curriculum Vitae
Rachael Baird SE27 MOB : 07398787649 Projects Assistant & Office Administrator AT Cronin Workshop Ltd – London October 2022 to Present Homeware & Interior Design assistant – Rose & Lee interiors July 2021 – December 2021
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Artist research – Jennifer & Kevin McCoy
J&K Suburban Horror Youtube Video Jennifer and Kevin McCoy (J&K) build miniature installations sets that are then captured on multiple miniature cameras which are then displayed in a screen. They attempt to embody set film narratives such as 1970’s horror to 50’s melodrama. Each work displays the magic of movie making as each changing seen…
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Artist Research -Thomas Demand
Thomas Demand is a German conceptual artist who makes illusionistic photographs of realistic three dimensional models made entirely out of paper. Although he seems to be capturing the mundane, Demand usually captures places that are historically / politically significant. Such as, the hotel room that L. Ron Hubbard wrote ‘Dianetics‘. Photographing the sculptures rather than…
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Making the shroud
Initial sketches for shroud design. At first I thought of telling a tapestry story like a Grayson Perry work. However, with this sort of design with lots of colour would be difficult to embroid.
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After this email the idea of making a shroud design started to become the idea for the final work.
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Key Post- Investigation
Here is where the first ideas for my final work are starting to form. After some research shown in a previous post I learned about the history of the language used on a tombstone. Puritans from England travelled over to America who strongly believed in ‘momento mori’, images that reminded followers of their death and…
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Quick sketches beginning looking into tombstone deigns and burial history.
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Artist research
I wanted to look into artists that had similar interest in our impact on the environment. Many highlight how we have changed and shaped the world in ways that benefit us for now but not in the long run, Brad Temkin’s work I liked in particular as is shows how we have pushed nature out…