Signs Of Solitude (Emotional Solitude) - Third Year Work - December 2009

As part of my Negotiated Practice unit for my final year at university I decided to look at and represent the idea of how solitude, isolation and alienation affects people in different ways. As usual I looked at signs and signifiers in contextual theory to represent my surreal photographic visualisations in a symbolic form of solitude. My first investigation lead me to look at colour and mind relates to notions of how people shut themselves off from the world and bar themselves from interaction in their own personal prisons.

Tree

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.