Draped on Daisy
Draped on Daisy was a collaborative studio project developed with photographer Freddie Stisted and model Daisy Lowe, exploring how printed silk works could operate not only as suspended artworks, but as spatial and bodily interventions. The project centred around the installation of fourteen large-scale silk prints within the studio environment, arranged through asymmetrical draping, layered suspension, and organic placement to create a fluid relationship between fabric, space, light, and movement.
Rather than constructing a fixed set, the silks were installed responsively—allowed to fold, gather, overlap, and shift according to their own weight and transparency. Colour relationships were adjusted across the space to create subtle transitions between opacity, light filtration, and tonal depth. The arrangement evolved continuously throughout the shoot, with each silk influencing the positioning and behaviour of the next.
A central part of the project was observing how the body would move in response to the works. As Daisy interacted with the suspended silks, the fabrics began functioning less as backdrop and more as active material counterparts. The way the silk caught against the body, fell across movement, or held temporary form through gesture revealed new possibilities for how the prints could exist beyond the wall or installation space alone.
The collaboration became an important extension of my wider practice, particularly in understanding textile as something relational and spatial rather than static. It reinforced my ongoing enquiry into process-led textile art exploring uncertainty, where form develops through interaction, responsiveness, and environmental condition.
More broadly, the project deepened my interest in how silk operates simultaneously as image, structure, and movement. Through light, transparency, and bodily interaction, the works shifted continuously between object and atmosphere—revealing how material can hold both physical presence and perceptual softness at once.
