Workshops

I teach the art of mindful mobile making in small group sessions from my studio and offer workshops for events and organisations.

Mindful Mobile Workshops

My workshop is designed to help you find a centered state of being and go on to create a mobile which can act as a visual prompt to bring a sense of calm to mind when you need it during day-to-day life. We will be taking some time for deep breathing with aromatherapy oils before our making session. You will have access to all the guidence, tools and materials needed to create a beautiful mobile that you can hang in your home.

No experience needed, my workshops are open to all whatever your confidence or experience levels. If you have never engaged in a creative making activity or feel you are 'not a creative person' I encourage you to come and have a go.

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Whistles Summer Windows

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Brand Collaborations

Summer Window Campaign 18 All-store, Internationally
Summer Window Campaign 19 All-store, Internationally
Hong Kong Art Week 19

This is one of three projects I have created for Whistles alongside an all-store installation of mobiles and a site specific piece for their involvement with Art Basel during Hong Kong Art Week.

Textile work forms the roots of my creative journey so any chance to work with this medium is always exciting. This Summer Window installation was an all-store project across the UK and internationally for Whistles, a British fashion retailer. The idea was to create a light and airy feeling window installation that reflected the earthy tones of the summer photography campaign. We hand-dyed a lightweight muslin to create a soft, translucent fabric banner; bold appliqued shapes were printed in specific colourways and contrasted beautifully with the muslin.

Brand Collab

Art Installation

Installations

The effect of being surrounded by something bigger than ourselves is such a visceral feeling, be it a expansive landscape or piece of artwork.

This work was created to celebrate the union of two wonderful people who trusted me to take their reference ideas and turn them into an undulating canopy of colour. Their friends and family sharing in a magical evening, united under a rainbow of 40,000 squares of paper spanning 22 meters.

From brief to concept, design and the making process, the intricacies of hanging the work and finally the on-site rigging of an installation - I love the challenge of creating larger scale work and it is my aim to find more opportunities to do so.

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Private commissions

Relief Sculpture, Private Commission

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Private Commissions

This is a great example of the variety of projects I like working on. If art is about connection then creating something with and for a specific person or space brings me so much joy.

This was an open brief to create a larger scale artwork for a home setting. The work was to feature on the main wall and introduce a focal point of colour into the room. Using a relief technique and layering the shapes enabled me to incorporate a lighting element to the piece. I wanted to weave in some really personal details including the Pride rainbow spectrum and my clients initials in a carnival-esque font as a nod to the other artwork in the room and also evocative of good times.

A celebration of Life & Love.

Exhibitions

Ruth Mulvi X Claire Knill - DRIFT

In the making of this work specifically I wanted to explore the use of light and shadow.

I’m interested in the play between what is physically there and what is not - the colours cast through the transparent materials, the reflections of light and the changing composition of the shadows are as important as the solid materials in the mobiles. In the same way light can change our perception of the reality of this piece of work, so too can feelings, thoughts and memory change and shape the reality of our day to day experiences.

Here watching the shifting realities of light, shape and colour allow us to be present in the moment. This moment of pause allows us to find a truer connection to ourselves helping us to discern a clearer path through the internal and external influences in our lives.