First Fold’s second issue of their arts journal Premier Pli will be out in June and I have proudly contributed a number of works to this issue (more on that closer to its release). First Fold’s mascot is a Plague Doctor and for this issue of Premier Pli all contibutors were asked to customise a paper toy grid, created by Alex Bermingham in their own peculiar way - with stunning results. “The assembled and photographed paper toys, based on the shape of the plague doctor, serve as artists portraits, solving the mugshot dilemma that inevitably causes contributors to over think their pictorial representations.” My particular customisation inspired by this issue’s theme of ‘nostalgia’ led me to create a hand stitched Fuzzy Felt version of The Plague Doctor (pictured in the centre of the grid of Plague Doctors).
