Every year I make Christmas presents for my family, and things to sell alongside them. In 2015 that folded into SWAG, an artist-led Christmas shop a collective was opening in the Northern Quarter for the two months before Christmas.
I was given a space in it and, with it, a prominent window. The starting point was a pattern: a run of kaleidoscopic designs, mandalas built out of smaller marks, screen-printed by hand in pinks and oranges and a deeper blue and green. My wallpaper is never on rolls, it is printed onto 400mm squares of paper, tiled up to make the pattern. The same design then carried across onto the things I made to sell.
Part of the SWAG Christmas Shop case study.