Julie Arkell is known as a contempory folk artist who makes small doll like people and creatures. Her work is mixed media, she makes the papier mache figures, stuffs bodies and embroiders their little clothes. She uses recycled materials, found objects, discarded toys, newspaper and scarps of fabric ect, creating alot of different textures. I really like the handmade element to her work and the distintive style, her small characters are really unique and interesting, they are very quaint and fairy-tale like. Some of her dolls are completely 3d and some are more 2d with raised elements. I'd really like to experiement with making my own small doll of one of the freakshow chracters as part of development for this project.
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