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Jennifer Coghill
Textile Art

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Consumed!

re-imagining style

Consumed! invites viewers to reconsider their relationship with material goods, by imagining a world where style is measured not by newness or trendiness but by sustainability and creativity.

This mini home environment is made up of second-hand and found furniture, accessorized with home goods made from waste materials: used coffee filters, tea bags, discarded coffee packaging, and burlap coffee sacks. These unexpected substrates capture the ephemeral imprints of daily rituals, moments in time, and the comfort of home, adding additional layers of meaning to each piece.

The work offers a playful exploration of material transformation while critiquing our throw-away consumer culture and asks us to rethink our approach to consumption in all of its interpretations.

Living room showroom

Dining room showroom

Showroom Catalogue

Used three-panel wooden screen with white panels made from used coffee filters, with images of leaves sewn with yarn.

Screen (Front)

Used three-panel wooden screen with panels made from used coffee filters, and leaves made with couched yarn.

Used wooden armchair upholstered with burlap coffee sacks.

Armchair

Used wooden armchair upholstered with burlap coffee sacks.

Pillow made with colourful strips of used coffee packaging sewn in a pinwheel pattern.

Pillow (Packaging)

Pillow made from strips of used coffee packaging sewn in a pinwheel pattern.

White pillow sewn together from used coffee filters, with a rectangular image of blue and white wildflowers.

Pillow (Filters)

Pillow made from used coffee filters, with cyanotyope patch.

Found round coffee table with colourful mosaic made with squares and rectangles of used coffee packaging.

Coffee Table

Found coffee table with mosaic made from used coffee packaging.

Coaster made from two pieces of corrugated coffee sleeves.

Coaster

Coaster made from two pieces of corrugated coffee sleeves.

Metal table lamp with rectangular white shade with blue stripe, made from used coffee filters.

Lamp Shade

Found metal lamp with shade made from coffee filters.

Colourful striped square bowl sewn together from the cut off edges of coffee packing.

Candy Bowl

Square bowl sewn from the cut off ends of used coffee packaging.

Colourful collage sewn from pieces of used coffee packaging, in a black rectangular frame.

Coffee Collage

Collage sewn from pieces of used coffee packaging.

Five books with colourful coffee filter paper wrappers, and orange and white bookends that look like mini bags of coffee.

Books/Book ends

Books wrapped in used coffee filter paper covers. Bookends made from used coffee packaging, filled with dried beans.

Used three-panel wooden screen with panels made from used coffee filters, with colourful rectangular patches.

Screen (Back)

Used three-panel wooden screen with panels made from used coffee filters, with rectangular patches made using Solarfast dye.

Metal chair with round cushion made from a coffee sack.

Chair Cushion

Used metal chair with round cushion made of burlap coffee sacks.

Square made of woven strips of coffee packing in orange, black and white.

Hot Mat

Hot pad made of woven strips of coffee packaging sewn to a scrap old woolen blanket.

Colourful round tea bags with images of wildflower sewn in a grid to create a placemat.

Placemat

Placemat of sewn tea bags with Solarfast dye imagery.

Crimped napkin made from a used coffee filter.

Napkin

Napkin made from crimped used coffee filter.

Brown circular hanging shade made from rectangular tea bags sewn together.

Hanging Lamp

Lampshade made from used tea bags.

Turquoise rectangular window frame and with a short white curtain with blue details, made from used coffee filters.

Cutain (Outside)

Found mirror frame with curtain made from used coffee filters.

Turquoise rectangular window frame and with a short white curtain with colourful details, made from used coffee filters.

Curtain (Inside)

Found mirror frame with curtain made from used coffee filters.

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