Product Design
While completing an MA in Product Design at Manchester School of Art, Teleri invented two methods to produce paper lampshades and installations. The first is the thinly cut strips of Fluid Shade, and the second is a hook and groove design used in her DIY flatpack cylindrical lampshades.
Fluid Shade
2022
The Fluid Shade lampshade is inspired by the therapeutic qualities of nature, movement and light in particular. The paper strips hang in three layers from a plywood base and create intricate and flowing forms when interacting with changes in airflow, resulting in illuminated movement that is mesmerising and meditative.
Fluid Shade (colour series)
2023
The Vertical Gallery exhibition was a chance to work with organisers and curators at Manchester School of Art to create an installation that consisted of seven cylinders of thinly cut paper attached to intricate geometric bases. Instructed to exclude electrical lighting due to cost and health and safety concerns, Teleri discovered that a single layer of sliced paper let natural light through and worked well with a decorative base and a range of warm colours.
Tree of Light
2023
Tree of Light is a proposal for light festivals that upscales the methods used within Fluid Shade to produce an experience that aims to be soothing and enchanting for audiences. A third, two-thirds or a whole tree can be exhibited depending on the number of festivals invested in the project. Layers of laser-cut plywood make the tree's structure, lit from the inside by LED strip lights. Six curved rings of thinly cut paper (lit by warm white LED bulbs) ripple in the breeze generated by fans.
Flat-pack paper lampshades
2023
Teleri has been testing how to create flat-pack paper lampshades, initially intending to sell the Fluid Shade lampshade. She is yet to transform the Fluid Shade lampshade into a flat-pack product, but she has developed a commercial flat-pack cylindrical shade. By introducing 'teeth' to the outside of a circular plywood base, the sheets of paper can be attached without glue, producing an elegant outcome and a canvas for future nature-inspired illustrations and symbolic shapes.
Ocean of Light
2022
As one of the ten Arts and Humanities postgraduate students awarded the Dr Lee Kai Hung CBE Cultural Bursary 2022, Teleri explored the relationship between lighting, Taoism and design. Her investigations contributed towards the Fluid Shade and also resulted in the Ocean of Light lampshade. Laser cutting Chinese motifs to symbolise the life of the sea, she produced a paper lampshade that could reduce the amount of plastic in our oceans.
