Bailey Murphy is a print and digital designer with a practice rooted in storytelling, ecologies and user experience. She loves translating design across mediums and connecting her work with different audiences. Bailey has experience in the education and not-for-profit sectors, with skills spanning print design, social media marketing and content creation. When she isn’t designing, she is off camping and bird watching from her roof-top tent with very little worries.
Design Problem: The Womb
Mother Fragments
Mother Fragments is a collection of landscape and texture photographs taken by my mum, she gifted me these images, she said she thought I might use them in my design work. I edited the photos into abstract, organic shapes in black and white, manipulating them into forms reminiscent of internal spaces: wombs, vessels, voids. Over these forms, was then layered a raw stream of internalised expectations surrounding motherhood that I wrote. Resulting work is both a collaboration and a rupture: between generations, between seen and unseen labour, between beauty and burden. Making visible the emotional labour and societal weight of “mothering” as a framework.