A few sketches of installation space ideas... #Drawing #Sketches #Ideas

Just a few of my favourite bits so far. I'm having bit of a re-think about my work and might change things up bit but i do think these elements have certain things about them that i might continue with. I really like the drawing and sculpture mix. The combination of controlled sculpted forms and loose expressive drawn lines works well together i think. The idea of elements balancing gives a sense of tension i am interested in. The combination of crochet and wax, especially wh

Starting to bring elements together and think about how the 2D and 3D things i have been exploring could potentially be used together. I think the soft crochet and the line drawings work well together, in particular the messy line underneath the crochet form as it hints at the crochet unravelling into a layered overlapping mess. The metal and the drawings i feel works less well however the tiny maquette series of drawings i feel could be really interesting on a larger scale w

Doing Undoing Redoing Repeat #Drawing #Undo #Do

This week i am going to be focusing on my written work. Iv been spending hours and hours reading and its about time i got something down on paper! I will say that out of all the reviews, research papers, essays and books i have read the best one by far has been Grayson Perrys 'Decent of Man', maybe not the most scholarly text i have read but really eye opening and will definitely be used in my essay. Well worth a read!! Also at the beginning of the week, after a tutorial with

Here i have started to get some of the ideas i have been bouncing around onto paper, ready for next week when i will hopefully beable to start playing with materials... #Sketchbookpages #MA #Drawing #Ideas

More ideas to do with playing with the physicality of the materials i am using. The metal manipulating the fabric... #Sketchbookpages #Sketches #MA #Drawing

My large-scale soft sculpture 'Susan' is currently on display as part of Worthing College Artist Open House! The exhibition is a mixture of practicing artists work and A level students work from Fine Art, Textiles, Graphics, Photography and Film/Media. I have been working at the college for 3 years as a Visual Arts Technician, and so i get to see and help out with all the talented students work... and there definitely seems to be a gory feel in the Art Department this year! A

Heres some love snaps of 'Susan' being drawn by the Fine Art students of Colchester University. A series of workshops, talks and events are being held as part of the exhibition Covert Corporeality and a drawing session was just one of them... #covertcorporeality #Susan #Exhibition #Drawing #Workshop