Client: Haringey Council, part of the Tottenham Shutter Gallery
Location: Tottenham High Road, N17
Date: 2022
Brief and how I responded: I was matched with OMG Fashion - a great match because I love colours and patterns, and Yilmaz's shop is packed full with them!
Luckily, as we'd recently come out of lockdown, I was able to go into the shop and sit and draw, this is always a good starting point for me when coming up with ideas.
As I sat there drawing I noticed how people were touching and holding the clothes to get a sense of whether they wanted to buy them or not. Seeing this reminded me that a lot of what is important about choosing clothes is the texture and this is lost when shopping online. I knew then that I wanted to base my design on that.
Medium and Creative Process: Back in the studio I started working on a design which combined the patterns and colours of the clothing with a close up image of two women shopping. I looked back through some sketchbooks and came across a small sketch of two women at an airport. I liked their closeness, they are obviously sharing a moment, and so I decided to base my characters on this image.
I developed the rough sketch further and added a headscarf to one lady and white hair to the other to represent greater cultural and age diversity. ]
Installed as a spray painted mural together with BudStudio
