Starlight Faerie
Oxford Street, London, UK
The Starlight Faerie was a collaboration with designer Dan Ripnar, and lighting designer Cory Xavier. The sculpture is made predominantly from waste items, which were recovered from across the Westminster district and repurposed by Julie and Dan into sculptural material. These include a mannequin body from an Oxford Street store and repurposed tealights from Westminster Abbey integrated into the faerie’s corset.

Oxford St, London

Primark mannequin. Image Dan Ripnar

Sourcing waste construction plastic

Lighting design

Attaching plastic skirt

Steel armature fabrication

Steel plinth fabrication

Oxford St, London. Image Dan Ripnar

Oxford St, London. Image Dan Ripnar

Oxford St, London. Image Julie Beech

Oxford St, London. Image Dan Ripnar

Oxford St, London. Image Dan Ripnar

Oxford St, London. Image Dan Ripnar

Fabricating the corset from tealight holders. Image Dan Ripnar

Inserting electrical wiring. Image Dan Ripnar

Preparing discarded tealight holders

Corset fabrication process

Fibreglass process

Oxford St, London. Image Julie Beech

Tealight holder coset detail. Image Julie Beech

Proposal render