Starlight Faerie
Oxford Street, London, UK
The Starlight Faerie was a collaboration with designer Dan Ripnar, and lighting designer Cory Xavier. The sculpture is made predominantly from waste items, which were recovered from across the Westminster district and repurposed by Julie and Dan into sculptural material. These include a mannequin body from an Oxford Street store and repurposed tealights from Westminster Abbey integrated into the faerie’s corset.
Oxford St, London
Primark mannequin. Image Dan Ripnar
Sourcing waste construction plastic
Lighting design
Attaching plastic skirt
Steel armature fabrication
Steel plinth fabrication
Oxford St, London. Image Dan Ripnar
Oxford St, London. Image Dan Ripnar
Oxford St, London. Image Julie Beech
Oxford St, London. Image Dan Ripnar
Oxford St, London. Image Dan Ripnar
Oxford St, London. Image Dan Ripnar
Fabricating the corset from tealight holders. Image Dan Ripnar
Inserting electrical wiring. Image Dan Ripnar
Preparing discarded tealight holders
Corset fabrication process
Fibreglass process
Oxford St, London. Image Julie Beech
Tealight holder coset detail. Image Julie Beech
Proposal render