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Lavender Jane Gartlan 

Design for Stage + Screen

As a qualified makeup artist, I came to IADT to develop my makeup and film skills, which I have done, as well as improved on my design abilities. In the last year I really expanded my confidence with performance art, performing at Prague Quadrennial 2023 and doing Drag, burlesque style performing for crowds up to 100 people. I have done volunteer work for over 10 years and continued this in IADT working with involvement in societies and the Student Union. I have been elected to be the next IADTSU President 2024/25.

The Surrealist Experience of Body Dysmorphia. Photographer: Roisin Cork @rcphotography0305
The Surrealist Experience of Body Dysmorphia.
The costume I designed was to disfigure the shape of the body and add absurdity to what would be a simple underwear otherwise. Made by @vomaxdesign
I love the idea of makeup being a part of a performance piece and would love to develop this in the future. This stomach prosthetic would ideally be part of live performance art where it gets pulled apart, cut into, ripped into pieces and/or covered in slime.
I designed the set to include items from my life to bring home the personal aspect of this piece. The maximalist aesthetic adds layers of textures and chaos to the characters surroundings.
This is a collage mood board I did for my major project. I wanted this is visualise Surrealism and the Body and the feeling of comfortability in your own skin. Collaging is something I love to do as it helps me expression my ideas and the emotion behind work I do. for further design process, check out my notebook attached xoxo
This is the mood board I collaged for my minor project. For my minor project, I designed the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes. Lysistrata is a comedy where the women of Athens, tired of the war, devise a plan to set a sex ban until the men stop the fighting. My design is for a theatre production where the world of Lysistrata is set in the sex club “The Akropolis”, tonight's theme: Elizabethan.
I designed the set and did this collage to map out the opening scene. I want the room to look expensive and busy. People will be spread over on various couches and chairs, drinking and laughing while some will be preforming sexual acts on each other. In the centre of the room, a woman chained in a tank and in the background 2 security guards. Erotic paintings in frames will hang above, that lower to act as windows for the rest of the play. The neon lights of the “THE AKROPOLIS” sign will illuminate the stage.
I designed all the characters for the production and actualised 8, one from each character grouping. for more on this project check out my portfolio and website xoxo
A TRIP TO THE DENTIST. Dental Prosthetic Project. I designed a character that looks beautiful and on her way to the dentist we see people looking at her in awe but the shuddering away in disgust. The concept of this was to portray the idea of beauty do bad teeth equate to your beauty simultaneously reflecting the anxiety behind bad teeth. These images are her before the dentist, in the dentist chair and then a poster I designed if this was to be made into a short film skit.
Project Description

For my Major project, I examined Surrealist artists and how they portray the body and surrealist ideas and I reflected on my own experiences of body dysmorphia and eating disorders. My experiences with body dysmorphia have led me to hold unrealistic standards for myself. Haunted by thoughts of my own body not being how I see it to be, eating disorders and living in a society where body modifications and surgery are possible, my self-image has fluctuated over the years. I imagined my distorted self-image into reality using prosthetics, creating this surreal character and world.


Notebook, Surrealism and The Body PDF Lavender Jane Gartlan, Portfolio PDF Thesis, Shinto and Miyazaki PDF

Shinto and Miyazaki: Spirituality in Studio Ghibli Films

This thesis examines the overt spiritual characteristics of the Shinto religion exemplified throughout Miyazaki’s films, focusing on the three epics: My Neighbour Totoro (1988), Princess Mononoke (1997) and Spirited Away (2001). Shinto is so prominently placed in his films that, in viewing his work an audience can be said to be witness to Shinto. While Miyazaki is consistently reserved on the question that his films could be religious in genre, as an audience we are witness to deeply spiritual content and specifically the influence of Shinto. This thesis aims to comprehensively show strategies of spirituality at work in his films, aiming to identify how Miyazaki creates universally accessible films, how he uses Shinto to aid in his narratives and how Shinto influences his characters to conclude that Shinto has an active role in Miyazaki’s work.


Notebook, Surrealism and The Body PDF Lavender Jane Gartlan, Portfolio PDF Thesis, Shinto and Miyazaki PDF
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