Molly Hooper (she/her)
My practice is driven by my love of fun and slightly odd ideas and of creating playful work. I enjoy being eclectic with my research which emerges from niche aspects of popular culture. My work this year has mainly explored narratives that I find exciting, through various mediums like textiles, coding and visual play.
Projects
Collaborative Works
Tooth loss
Through teeth grinding, a romantic mishap, a dentist extraction, a sporting injury, and rotting gums five teeth were lost from this mouth. This project began with my interest in teeth – our collective fears of tooth loss, the dentist and the oral illusions our tongues make – and visualises a series of fictitious tooth losses from inside the mouth, which I then coded.
Facebook Gospel
Facebook Gospel looks at the way the boomer generation often treat Facebook ‘as gospel’ and the role reversal of being told not to trust what you read on the internet, by elevating Minions memes to the level of biblical ephemera. The project draws on the visual language of religious tracts to convey the innocence and joy of these seemingly banal memes. We made the poster at a large scale in the caseroom, before reproducing and redistributing it in public as an A5 pamphlet, in keeping with the idea of reposting on social media.
Go piss
Go piss is a collaborative publication which explores the public/private nature of toilets through celebrity gossip culture. Using visual play, we exaggerated a series of stories to create a salacious narrative borrowed from gossip magazines and the golden age of paparazzi. The materiality of the book reflects the space of the bathroom, taking inspiration from loo roll and notes written across toilet cubicles.
Collaboration between Izzi Menzies & Molly Hooper
Flash Sheet (exhibition identity)
Identity design for the Communication Design Y4 work in progress show. We wanted to avoid the design feeling stuffy and boring (which we felt was a misconception about Com Des), instead aiming to highlight the personality of the course and the fun of experimentation. We decided on the theme of temporary tattoos as a way of looking at the ephemeral nature of a WIP show compared to the permanence of degree show.
