Till Lightfoot Pendered, in her final year of 3D Design and Craft BA(Hons), will be showing her ‘typical day at the seaside’ creations in next month’s University of Brighton’s annual Graduate Show at the Grand Parade building, Brighton.
Till’s project has culminated in a film featuring the costumes and objects she has made.
She explained: “The narrative depicts a traditionally testing British day out at the seaside, in which the protagonist ‘Big Fat Man’ is subject to a series of comical disasters, resulting in his mysterious disappearance. The work celebrates the weird and wonderful workings of the human imagination to come up with hilarious ways to entertain.
“My making process begins with imagining and illustrating the characters. Then I ‘draw in the air’ to build their structures, using steam bending and spot welding as the principle techniques for this.
“Adding to these structures, I find that the context and irregularities of found and re-appropriated materials create interesting dialogues within the works. This determines what I produce as much as the vision I start with and gives the work a life of its own.