Celeste John-Wood

About my work

My illustration studies, and particularly my final year, have been a process of exploring how design can be socially engaged. My focus has been on creating design outcomes that don't exist as commodities, but as tools, which can be used in everyday life to build power in our communities. Designing and facilitating creative workshops, I have explored collaborative approaches to design through image making workshops centred around creating activist materials from community-led solutions to environmental injustice. As my practice continues to develop, I intend to discover how I might use a foundation in design - and illustration particularly - to build pedagogical methods for building collective imaginations towards better ways of being for our communities and ecologies. For now, I hope you will see in my work my application of design as a tool to fortify networks of mutual care and solidarity and make political and social ideas accessible and relevant to people in the every-day!