Mything the ordinary: the mundane world in miniatures

“My eyes are always on the job. My mind never shuts off. You know, I’m sitting in the doctor’s surgery and he’s getting ready to do an injection, and I’m looking round going… could I make that, in miniature?”

In this video, we meet Kath Holden, a miniatures artist who, rather than creating Victorian dollhouses like many of her counterparts, instead crafts immaculately-rendered micro representations of the mundane world around her.

Together with her mother and business partner, Margaret Shaw, Holden finds meaning in their work, capturing the quotidian, yet nonetheless compelling everyday objects and surroundings of their present time.

“I like to represent now – the era I live in,” she says. “If we don’t do miniatures of what we do now, how will it be represented in the future?”

View the original video here.

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