We are buzzing to launch our newest artist tees, a collab with the divine Aoife Cawley whose work explores folklore, mythology, history, and early Christian saints, blending traditional medieval art forms with contemporary techniques.
The Aoife Cawley x TropPop tee takes all the elements both of us are most known for and merges them together into a delightful mish-mash of brash & colourful Tropical, Celtic and Sheela glory.
The front features Holiday Sheela, based on traditional Sheela-Na-Gig carvings historically found above doors and windows on castles, cathedrals and churches, the origins and meaning of which are still hotly debated. Whether she was an iteration of a pagan goddess; a symbol of fertility; a warning against sins of the flesh 😱; a protector against evil or an empowering figure of sexuality we’ll never quite know. However, we quite like Scholar Georgia Rhoades take, that the gesture of the Sheela's unapologetic sexual display is "a message about her body, its power and significance—a gesture of rebellion against misogyny, rather than an endorsement of it".
We are buzzing to launch our newest artist tees, a collab with the divine Aoife Cawley whose work explores folklore, mythology, history, and early Christian saints, blending traditional medieval art forms with contemporary techniques.
The Aoife Cawley x TropPop tee takes all the elements both of us are most known for and merges them together into a delightful mish-mash of brash & colourful Tropical, Celtic and Sheela glory.
The front features Holiday Sheela, based on traditional Sheela-Na-Gig carvings historically found above doors and windows on castles, cathedrals and churches, the origins and meaning of which are still hotly debated. Whether she was an iteration of a pagan goddess; a symbol of fertility; a warning against sins of the flesh 😱; a protector against evil or an empowering figure of sexuality we’ll never quite know. However, we quite like Scholar Georgia Rhoades take, that the gesture of the Sheela's unapologetic sexual display is "a message about her body, its power and significance—a gesture of rebellion against misogyny, rather than an endorsement of it".
