Fairy world gets mechanised

First diploma art and design student Rose Taylor casts an eye over a Yorkshire artist's flight of fancy showing how the fairy world could benefit from some labour-saving gadgets.

Samantha Bryan has found herself spellbound by the extraordinary imagination the Victorians showed in making life easier, often with the most rudimentary technology.

She put her imagination to work in portraying how the advances of the machine age could have benefited members of the fairy kingdom.

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The results can be seen at her exhibition called Fairy Aiding Inventions which can be seen at The Gallery, York College, until February 11.

The work includes suspended, wall mounted, and free-standing sculptures – portraying these other-wordly beings with contraptions “to provide everything a fairy would demand during its daily existence”.

She said: “My aim is to create an imaginary world for people to enter.”

Samantha, who graduated in 2001, will talk about her career at the Gallery at 2pm on Wednesday (27). The free exhibition is open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.

Picture: Mike Cowling.

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