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'Grow your own' culture inspires student's award-winning work
Posted on 28/05/2009
‘Grow your own’ culture inspires student’s award-winning work
A striking piece of work by Sophie Naylor, a final year Illustration student from Loughborough University, has been awarded a Merit in an international art competition and is to be included in an esteemed annual produced by 3x3, a major New York-based magazine.
Sophie (22) was one of just ten people from the UK to receive an award at the 3x3 International Journal of Illustration Student Show. Her work, entitled ‘Go Organic Plop n Grow’, is an automaton that depicts self-sufficiency, recycling, organic produce, global warming and the current economic situation within the setting of an allotment plot.
“When the automaton is activated the shed door swings open, revealing the allotment keeper reading The Financial Times while sitting on his composting toilet,” explains Sophie. “When he pulls on the toilet chain, it causes the carrots to grow vigorously out of the ground,” explains Sophie.
Sophie admits to being thrilled, and a little bit shocked, by her achievement. “To know that my work was one of so few to have been selected from thousands of entries and that it will now be in the annual and seen by people all over the world is just amazing,” she said.
