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In response to House Proud, I question why Art and Design are defined as practices independent of each other and aim to encourage a dialogue between the two terms through a drawing piece that embodies them simultaneously.

Using my own drawing vocabulary in collaboration with the language of flat-pack furniture instructions, attributes of both practices have been exchanged so as to blur the line between art and design: the drawing adopts a logical flow, the process becoming methodical and systematic in its realisation, while the rigid language of the flat-pack furniture instructions has become malleable and fluid in having its function removed.

Originally a packing filler used in Amazon delivery boxes, the paper used for this piece is generally considered as disposable. By working on found, recycled or gifted materials, the ethos of my practice and this piece in particular echoes that of BROKE and is in full support of the company’s stance on sustainability. Additionally, this piece pays homage to BROKE’s ‘make-do-and-mend’ policy: their emphasis on being creative with materials, reconsidering their potential and function and challenging our consumption of design are key concerns of this piece.

In coherence with this, the dimensions of the packing paper means that it assumes a wallpaper format and thus, combined with the designed element of the drawing itself, reconfigures what is actually a conceptual drawing into something that could potentially function as a piece of wallpaper design. However, the hand-drawn element and absence of printing processes in the piece may lead one to conclude that this is an artwork in its own right and should be displayed singly as such. Whether this piece is an example of both art and design is contradictory in nature: it is both, one or the other and neither simultaneously.

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“In response to ‘House Proud’, Georgia Markham questions why Art and Design are defined as practices independent of each other and aims to encourage a dialogue between the two terms through a drawing piece that embodies them simultaneously.”