The Story The story is incredible! I can only give a small flavour of it here: “The Rowan tree, Sorbus aucuparia, the mountain ash, the traveller’s tree; a laughing pioneer, it grows where other trees dare not go – further […]
Falling This painting started with a photograph of a building in the middle of being renovated, a very large tarpaulin covering it. I wonder where on earth one could find such a huge swathe of material? It covers like a […]
The Stuff of Life A conversation on here with Marion Michell, (see comments under previous post) about a shared love for researching the origin of words provoked, as it so often does with her comments, a flood of connections in […]
Invitation to talk.. Such stillness today, that I have to crack the air to make something happen.. I prepare and edit streams of images to project on a stone wall. An invitation to give a talk here, to a new […]
And it’s UP! I finally finished the hanging on Friday.
Images of the final pieces selected for my end of year show. YAY!
For quite some time now, I have resorted to using a sketchbook rather than my blog in order to keep track of my thought process as I have progressed. As much as I have found the blog an interesting and […]
Wednesday 7th May. Today, was the first time that I have been able to test my sculpture in a clinical white space. I am still not 100% sure as to wether or not it is the correct context to display […]
My work is finally up. Looking around the studio there is so much fantastic work- The Degree Show on Thursay night should be good!
Wednesday 14th May As the degree show soon approaches, I find myself constanly thinking about my project, and the journey it has gone through over the last year. Looking back, I now realise how literally I was trying to portray […]
I have said that I want to continue with this current project after I have left university and in my sketchbook I have been thinking about the things I could look at in the future to push my work to […]
The hanging is finished!! It looks exactly how I envisioned it and more. When you eneter the space everywhere you look around there is something to look at so there’s an intimate feeling when you are inside. Curating the space […]
So anyway – here’s the last post prior to the art being marked – but not the last post, as I’ll pop back to update on the actual degree show; it’d be daft not to. My project has evolved & […]
6ix Souls -the end The water screen shows a roughly 13 minute long film on a continuous loop. Entitled Is Death Your Bitter End? it depicts the beginnings of bacterial life, sudden deaths by drowning, suicide, fire, and old age […]
I added a few little touches to my piece that i believe really make the piece come to life. I do feel as if there is a particular atmosphere as i wanted to my piece which i am very happy […]
My piece is called In the Stillness of Remembering I think this sums up my piece exactly. My piece is based on memories and i have set up my installation as though time has been paused in a way. All […]
Day 1 Almost There! Final stages of the large portraits. The main areas to address are the detail around the eyes and to add more life and texture to the flatter areas of tone in order to create volume in […]
Swan Vesta Project. When thinking about the different directions I could go, from my concept of consumer culture and media. I wanted to work with a piece of packaging that most would recognise upon viewing. The packaging of Swan filter […]
Over the last few years, ‘Swan’ has released several different limited edition packets. These designs with strong aspects of British ‘Pop Art’ were a major influence on my practise. So I used an A2 piece of canvas board, I sketched […]
Here you can see more of an idea of what it was I wanted. One interesting comment I had from one of my lecturer’s, was that it reminded them of the works of Sarah Lucas. Particularly her ‘Cigarette’ works, whereby […]
I researched into the history of ‘Swan Vesta’, and found that the origins of the company produced the first striking matches in Britain. I realised that the two traditional colours of ‘Swan Vesta’ where originally red and yellow…….. This was […]
All for one! Who to include in the cluster of portraits in theory seemed a difficult task. In reality it wasn’t. The strong portraits stayed strong and the weak ones in their own right were transformed when placed in a […]
The company lettering I also wanted to use within the work (top, left). I sketched onto foam board and cut out. This I painted the same colour red as the background. The main reason for the use of foam board […]
Robot Project. Even though a lot of my work is in paint and photograph, I have always enjoyed making sculptures, and so wanted to incorporate this into my studio practise. I had this image in my head of a life-size […]