April 2011
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January 2011
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Past Work
A selection of work from university briefs.
Photographs for V Festival Posters, 2009
Helvetica decorated, 2009 - a very open brief to illustrate Helvetica however I choose.
Pitt Rivers Museum, 2010 - a poster depicting dolls from various periods throughout history to reflect the unusual categorizing method of the museum (similar objects are placed together instead of those from the same...
Photography
I have a keen interest in photography and nearly always carry my camera with me. I am fascinated by the image and how it can represent a place, person or object, whether heavily edited or completely natural. I am also intrigued by the philosophy of photography - Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag are my favourite authors on the subject. Below are just a few of my many collections of photographs.
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Sky Arts Sting
BRIEF:
Create a 10-second sting for Sky Arts channel.
RESPONSE (ON-GOING):
My response is mixed-media, combining various forms of lighting in a backstage environment. My concept is to give the aesthetics of the theatre a contemporary feel in order to attract a newer, younger audience, as well as the current, more elitist audience.
The letterforms are hidden amongst objects of the same...
Barney Bubbles
BREIF:
Produce a 3D paper sculpture which responds to one item in the Barney Bubbles Exhibition at Chelsea Space.
RESPONSE:
I found an interesting symbol on a poster which I made into a 3D object, but I also added a visual grid within the work to emphasise the hand-drawn grids that Bubbles used within his work to make precise geometrical shapes.
“It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be”
– Paul Arden
Heads Up!
BRIEF:
Create a visual response to a random artifact: a stuffed tigers head.
RESPONSE:
My first thoughts on the artifact were that it was quite disturbing, and I wondered where it had come from.
My response is a print image of a tiger which is quite beautiful when seen from a distance, but closer up it becomes apparent that it is made up of knives. This gives an idea of how it may have ended...