the ball rolling...

I haven't updated this in a while and thought i would start to get the creative ball rolling as iv now started a new project.
After a (long) summer off, i feel its time i started to think about how i would want my work to move on and develop from my degree show. i love the idea of continuing with visual narratives and set design, but i feel keeping it with a nautical theme may limit my experiences and start to stereotype me. Instead i would like to use this theme as a means to show how i would 'sail' away from one idea to the next.
I have been keeping a little diary/journal, its not much, but it contains both important, meaningless and drawn thoughts which have sparked the makings of a development...
utopia was a main area that i worked withing throughout my nautical exploration, and this word takes you to so many different places, means so many different things to various different people and also has great effects when put into action...
i have started to explore the varieties of meanings of this word in order to tie connections between my personal utopia,or what i thought was my only utopia...scans coming soon!

graduate seeks new inspiration

finished!

prepping up for the show

The final week in the studio has been pretty intense but it has seemed to work out and I am really pleased with my final outcomes. I was a bit nervous about putting up my pieces as it required a lot of thought and planning and the three large pieces needed to be drilled into the wall, but after lots of trial and error moments and some slight hiccups I got there in the end and I think its working really well.
The display as a whole really invites the viewer into the scene, which was what my original intensions were. I think combining various sizes and scales has brought a greater depth of field to the aesthetics and I recently discovered that when I placed the small Polaroids within the larger a real sense of movement was created. The stitching in each piece travels from left to right and makes a great relationship between my coastal visit journey and my embroidery investigation

on the wall

trying out various display techniques with my Polaroid pieces...i like the combination of imagery with the stitched pieces, they are starting to resemble actual photographs which is what I wanted

Polaroid

Found a site that lets you upload your photographs and they transform them into polaroids for you,would make lovely postcards

an update at last!

So...i have less than two weeks left as a student...the embroidery studio has been cleared, my room is a mess and the stress levels are getting higher....this is some of the most recent imagery of what I'll be having in the degree show. My work is concerned with hand held imagery, and Polaroids in particular. I have an emotional connection towards old antique photographs and I wanted to demonstrate this within my work, and it seems to be going pretty well...I am looking at the various ways in which we view an image, either realistically or abstractly, and have focused on making my marks visible for my audience through vast and exciting colours.
The more abstract stitching was captured on site around some of the inspirational coastal towns and I am developing them into a Polaroid format, with a white border and a larger space at the bottom.
The more realistic piece details some of the personal coastal compositions which I constantly return to. I am fascinated by their intriguing narratives and how even if you change the composition, the mood still remains the same, for me it is my own utopia,somewhere I can feel tranquil safe and splendid in