Verity is a multidisciplinary artist and visual communicator, working across textiles, illustration and video.
After graduating in 2018 with a BA (Hons) in Fashion Knitwear and Knitted Textile Design, she worked as a designer in London before embarking on the MA in Visual Communication.
Most recently, her practice engages with the everyday, to tell nuanced stories of relationships, memories, emotion and place.
My practice often takes the form of textiles, illustration and photography. Through these, I am interested in zooming in on the details that make up the fabric of a visual narrative. In this final project I have been intrigued by how I can use video as a medium to convey more abstract and intangible elements – or human qualities such as memory, emotion or feeling.
In this latest work, I have been exploring how to construct a visual language that contemplates the ever evolving and complex shape of relationships, through a collection of short stories.
I am interested in what can’t be defined or answered; evolving memory, feeling or connection with another person. Rather than seeking definitive answers, I want to invite viewers to interpret their own meaning beyond my initial statements, or to resonate with the open-ended and non-linear form of each video.
Situating these stories in the everyday has also been important, mostly filmed on an iPhone as a form of documentation of particular moments with someone; a visit to their new house, going for a walk, or playing a game to pass time. Drawing from my background in textile design, I am drawn to finding colour, shape, and texture in these everyday moments to create collages, compositions and montages. This is reflected in the stills below, taken from each of the 4 short videos.
For full video work please see the links above.
A short love letter to the shape of friendship as it evolves from childhood to present day. The text is written by Anna Holbrook and the video consists of layered footage from Amsterdam and London, where we both now live, as well as microscopic visuals of letters and paintings that we have sent to one another over the years whilst living far apart.
Filmed whilst cold water swimming with my stepdad, Jonny, near his hometown in Wales, this video work explores distance, togetherness, and the essence of home. I am interested in colour theory and how various hues can connote and create mood and feeling.
Based on categories games my sister and I would play growing up, this work explores consistency amidst change and the paths that parallel or intersect. In this video we looked for things that ‘matched’ or came as a ‘pair’, thinking about how language has on our perspective. How does being an ‘older’ or ‘younger’ sister shape a relationship?
Filmed with my dad's phone, my phone, and through a microscope; this video montages moments and elements from various walking trips together through micro and macro perspectives. In this work I am seeking to visualise the fluctuating shape of memory as it is revisited, as we grow older alongside a parent.
