Kiera Saunders

Project Leader

Kiera Saunders is an artist crafting sculptural costumes and walkabout puppets. Her mediums are paper mache and textiles, creating fun and bold artistic wearables. Her work has led her to facilitate in life drawing, mask making, experimental costume and arts and crafts for young people. In 2020, Kiera co-founded the mask walkabout collective, Vomiton, which explores themes such as the anonymous mask and puppetry, amphibian extinction, and upcycling, embracing the motto “Art from Trash is Not Trash Art.” In addition to her artistic practice, she has explored a career in costume and mask making for TV and theatre. Working in theatres such as Barbican, Globe, Regents Park Open Air and Soho Walthamstow, commissioned to make headpieces and textile works.