ABOUT

Undressed is a limited publication presented as a handcrafted box set, created to be discovered.

Inside the box are a loose set of contents, fragmented and non-sequential. Allowing the reader to move through by touch, instinct, and attention.

Centred on the experience of wearing intimate clothing, the work follows the everyday relationships between the body and lingerie. Considering how fit, support, and comfort shape broader awareness of the body. Brought together through a collection of photography, poetry, and printmaking.

Each copy is hand assembled, existing as a collection of 1 in 100. Undressed invites the reader to move through the layers, fragments, and traces, uncovering what is worn, felt and left behind.

THE MAKING PROCESSES

Craftsmanship is at the core of Undressed; each item has been created through hands-on processes in which material, texture, and mark-making have become part of the language of intimacy.

The making process embraces the imperfections of the hand, leaving the traces of presence, allowing each copy to feel intimate and deeply personal.

  • Cyanotype is a photographic printing technique that uses UV light and light-sensitive chemicals to create a negative image. A surface is coated with the solution, and objects are placed on it before exposure to UV light. This reaction produces a negatively developed image, softly imprinting the object's form and subtle surface details.  

    The use of cyanotype in undress is guided by its capacity to yield organic, unpredictable results. Each print develops with a rawness, allowing forms to emerge rather than be fully controlled. Rather than detailed representations, these prints offer only glimpses of the original objects, evoking an essence of presence through absence.

    Cyanotype subtly reflects the transient, intimate relationship between the body and the garment. It communicates what remains rather than what is fully seen, mirroring touch, memory, and the delicate impressions formed through wear. In this way, it becomes a visual marker for the traces left behind.

  • Gelli printing is a Mono printing method that uses a soft gel plate to transfer layers of paint and texture onto paper. Materials such as fabrics, lace or photographs are pressed into the surface, creating impressions that are lifted through layers. This process allows for a mark-making technique with each pull, creating a unique combination.

    The use of gelli print in Undressed is informed by its ability to fragment and distort. Forms do not appear in full; instead, they are broken, repeated, and obscured. Mirroring how intimate dress often remains hidden and unseen. These representations resist direct representation, shifting the focus towards materiality.

  • Monoprinting is a printing process that produces a single, unpredictable image by directly imprinting ink. Marks are created under pressure, yielding immediate, expressive results that capture a moment that cannot be replicated.

    Within Undressed, monoprinting is used to explore the physicality of touch; the process allows for direct pressure reconstruction of the raw form, holding onto the energy from contact and release. Created to mirror the marks left on the skin by intimate dress, translating the daily interaction between fabric and skin into a visual language of presence.  

BEHIND THE HAND

Undressed is shaped by several years of experience in the lingerie industry, where bra fitting becomes more than a measurement but a daily encounter with understanding the body, comfort and the normalisation of pain in so many women’s lives.

Discomfort is at the core of publication through the collected works, and begins to uncover how intimate dress supports, restricts and marks the body.

The use of mark-making becomes a vivid commentary on the marks left by wearing the wrong bar size, questioning how this comfort has become so normalised.

Undressed moves beyond the visual, using intimate dress to recognise the body through the marks it carries. The pressure, support, and traces left behind are signs to look more closely.

Intimacy is no singular thing, more so a tandem of acts, the act of letting someone close, into a thought, into a space, into oneself.