Maisie Shelbourne is a Leeds-based visual artist whose practice spans multiple mediums including set and prop design, garment design and image making. Her creative practice stems from a background studying Fashion Photography at Leeds Arts University, where she realised the direction of her creative career and love for wearable art through her final degree show project. Satire is the driving force behind Maisie’s practice as she integrates a sense of humour and irony into the everyday, whilst being heavily inspired by the 70s-born Arte Povera movement and the process of scavenging and reusing materials to create a space where the ordinary and the absurd converge.
Crappy Couture is an ongoing project that aims to showcase the transformative power of mundane material. Through a satirical lens, Maisie Shelbourne celebrates a sense of resourcefulness whilst exploring wearable art that subverts the viewer from any preconceived ideas about what is considered fashionable, encouraging a more relatable and accessible fashion image. Employing objects and discarded material found within everyday life to construct her creations, Maisie uses Crappy Couture to celebrate creativity in the face of financial restraint, and aims to empower us to reimagine the potential of everyday objects and the limitless possibilities that emerge from repurposing pre-existing material.
