MADE IT 2023
Group Exhibition
The Royal Standard Gallery
15th September - 5th October
MCR BASED SHORT SUPPLY’S ANNUAL MADE IT SHOW WAS HELD IN LIVERPOOL FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THE ROYAL STANDARD. Short Supply is a bridge between emerging artists and arts organisations, producing exhibitions, workshops and talks to create enriching environments that allow us to platform, connect and exchange knowledge alongside emerging artists in the north west and nationally.
MADE IT 2023 SHOWCASED GRADUATE WORK FROM THE CLASS OF 2022/23, PRODUCED BY ELLSQUARED. Ellsquared (Elisa Sallis and Ella Matthews, CURRENT ARTIST LEADS) are a visual artist pair who create kitsch and gaudy art that challenges assumptions of how the professional art world should be.
‘POLKA-DOTS AND PALMS’
Blurring borders between interior design and contemporary art, ‘POLKA-DOTS AND PALMS’ is a sculptural piece imbued with links to childhood and family. An upholstered couch contains image transferred polka-dot patterns of my family's faces, and is presented with pillows of my own hands specifically. The work aims to challenge the functionality of object and space, explore the relationship between the body and sculpture, distort the familiarity of dwellings, and through intervening with objects meticulously, raise questions regarding the personification of objects, and the attachment of memory to objects.
COMMISSION
COMPLETED!
SHORT SUPPLY and Ellsquared commissioned me to create the golden milk carton awards for the MADE IT 2023 exhibition! The winners of the following awards received a handmade ceramic.
𝙐𝙆 𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝘼𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙:
Emily Armstrong
𝙖-𝙣 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩’𝙨 𝙄𝙣𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝘼𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙:
Robin Rehman
Clodagh Delahunty-Forrest
𝙍𝙚𝙙𝙚𝙮𝙚 𝙋𝙝𝙤𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙮 𝘼𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙:
Amber Gent
𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙨 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙯𝙚:
Hannah Smith
𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙧’𝙨 𝘾𝙝𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚:
Faith Noblets
𝘾𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙡𝙙 𝘼𝙨𝙨𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝘼𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙:
Adam Lewis Jackson
Manuela Amey
Orla Jude
𝘾𝘼𝙎𝙎 𝘼𝙍𝙏 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙯𝙚:
Campbell Forey
𝙀𝙡𝙡𝙨𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝘼𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙:
Cara Smith
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙤𝙮𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝘼𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙:
Octavia Inns
Short Supply partnered with BUILDHOLLYWOOD to bring the bold, colourful poster campaign for MADE IT 2023, which also featured snippets of the graduate work featured in the exhibition, to the streets of Liverpool and Manchester.
You can read more about the project HERE
517 DEGREES
BOOK BY SHORT SUPPLY
“517 Degrees celebrates five years of MADE IT, the graduate art prize for the North West, established in 2019 by Short Supply. It’s about an idea, which became an art prize, which became the springboard of an organisation, but it’s also about our personal journey of navigating the ‘creative industries’ — whatever that really means. It features the artists who have exhibited in MADE IT over the last five years, and essays by guest writers exploring the art landscape in the region.” — Short Supply
“517 Degrees with honesty, humour and insight looks back over five years of a crucial North West award and offers an honest and devastatingly funny insight into life after art school in the twenty-first century.” — Marie-Anne McQuay - Curator, Liverpool Biennial 2025
You can order your copy now at shortsupply.org/book
You can find my contribution to the book on pages 208-209.
