Lion

Resistance

Poster design I submitted to Don't Panic magazine based on their theme of 'Resistance'.

Midnight Millionaires - November 2009

I took part in another student run exhibition and this time a silent auction organised by Holly Jones from BA Illutration. The objective this time round was to show our work on a larger scale with more contributors and to help raise money for our courses end of year degree show as part of the Free Range exhibition in Brick Lane, London. I submitted this piece I created from a photogram I did on Foundation way back in 2007. Some chap brought it for £1 yeah! Every little helps.

We Do Art - November 2009

Setting up

I decided to submit the lion piece as part of a student organised exhibition amongst members of BA Illustration. The show was called 'We Do Art' and was orchastrated by a miss Sara Perry at the Bufallo bar in Bournemouth and frequent drinking establishment of students from the uni and arts college.

This was my first experience (though low key) of helping to put on and run an exhibition and even though it was small fish at this stage it felt great to be a part of this and see the different reactions to peoples work. I recieved good feedback for my piece and it felt like a good chance to show work to a bigger audience.

Greater Albion?

Beginning in my 3rd and final year of BA Illustration led me to continue with themes of social and political sides of human nature and using known symbols appropriated to give new meaning.

The wilting Tudor Rose and the crying heraldic lion send a message that all is not what Britain once was.

NY. NY!

Images showing what I saw when I visited New York. I went there in 2004 and recently decided to go through my holiday snaps and take individual sections to collect and collage together in grid formation much like the street block layout of the city itself.

Dream Convergence - Second Year Work

Me!

Video for my animation relating to the theme of dreams being a convergence of thought sequences and underlying theme. I used a Game Boy camera to make a stop motion animation of individual still Game Boy photos. The use of the camera and its grainy effects are my way of representing how memory is skewed and reality altered in our own dreams. A persons characteristics can be blurred to show more of a memory vision of ambiguity than a persons physical appearance and the use of the distorting of scenery with these grainy low fi photos symbolises this. The music is an excerpt from a song called 'Splatterstrum' by the group called Tonesucker.

Afew stills from an animation involving the random thought sequences we experience in dreams. Some of the individual sequences symbolise common themes we dream about. The pictures for the stop motion animation were taken using a Gameboy Camera.