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WePresent · From 2020-2024, I freelanced as an art director for WePresent, WeTransfer’s beloved editorial platform – it currently has over three million monthly readers – which tells weird, wonderful and unexpected stories about creativity. Inspired by WePresent’s mission to be the most representative creative site on the Internet, I discovered and commissioned emerging artists from all over the world, with a focus on collaborating with creatives from countries typically less visible in Western media.
As the only art director on the content team, I was in charge of commissioning artwork for the majority of WePresent's articles and all WeTransfer wallpapers and newsletters. I also art-directed monthly artist manifestos, working with renowned creatives such as the Guerrilla Girls, Bat For Lashes and Olafur Eliasson in the creation of manifestos written by Molly Manning Walker, Roxane Gay and Sheila Heti, among others. While I collaborated with artists from a variety of disciplines, commissioning illustrators, graphic designers, animators, ceramicists, painters, embroiderers and collage artists, I was most passionate about commissioning artwork with a personal, handmade sensibility. Below are examples of some of the work I art-directed for WePresent.
Nearness Project · In 2020, I co-founded Nearness Project, an online magazine documenting artists' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The site encouraged open conversations about mental health and a rare and real opportunity to slow down and process what was happening to us. Featured in i-D Magazine within a few weeks of going live, the magazine existed primarily as a digital space but inspired readers to get offline and create tangible, expressive and imperfect art as a vehicle for self-reflection and catharsis. I commissioned, edited and art-directed all of the work published on the site, including personal essays, comics, collage kits, photo series and playlists. Below are some of my favourite works of art, which were published on the now-defunct site.
Annual Calendar · For almost a decade, I have art-directed and self-published a bespoke annual calendar, with each month designed by a different artist of my choosing. Each edition features artwork by twelve female-identifying or queer artists, working across wide-ranging disciplines, from illustration to embroidery, collage, painting and ceramics. It's a valuable opportunity for me to collaborate with artists I admire, and each year I design a page myself, along with the front cover.
In 2024, I was commissioned by WeTransfer to create a special edition of the calendar, which was made available to subscribers as an end-of-year gift, and downloaded over 2,500 times. I sell more than 500 print copies a year, through Instagram and a growing list of independent bookstores and cafes, including Lala Books, Lumberjack and Housman's in the United Kingdom, and La Régulière and Peanut Butter Books in France. Below are some of my favourite pages from the past few years.
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