Updated Website!

I've just had a spring clean of my website, updated some of the pages and added dates and titles to the works, which I completely forgot about doing before.

I hope to add images of my most recent work soon....

www.nicola-spencer.co.uk

I've been thinking about different ways I could hang the dolls that I've been making, either within an installation or displayed in a similar way to paintings. In the images below the dolls are hooked onto nails, and because of the lightness of the materials that I've used, they hold well and don't require any further support. I quite like them arranged in a series, but perhaps I need to be more experimental in terms of the way the figures look?

Dainty Dolls

In order to further my exploration into puppets, instead of continuing making hand-puppets I decided to try making dolls. Ideally I would have used cotton wool or sand to fill the dolls and make them more solid but seeing as though I was just tested an idea, I used shredded newspaper in order to fill the bodies instead. I've tried to keep the elements of clothing that worked with the hand-puppet outfits - but add more details, such as lace.

I've kept the face white for now, but might add details at a later stage. I'm unsure about whether to add hair to the dolls...it wouldn't work if I used a material such as wool, so the other alternative could be hair used for wigs or human hair? This would add a slightly grotesque element to the dolls, and help develop their individual characters.