The Archive of Modern Conflict

During a short trip to Scotland, I visited the well known Stills centre of photography. This is a very intimate and unique gallery, that was established in 1977 and has been highly successful from then on. A gallery which then becomes very personal, this is purely due to the welcome that you have when presented

John Stezaker :: The Whitworth Gallery

This week I visited Manchester’s Whitworth Gallery. There was a mixture of Stezaker’s practices on display in this exhibition, including his projects, ‘Masks’ and ‘Untitled’. They both make use of mixed-media, and his way of appropriating imagery to mean something they don’t originally. ‘Untitled’ was a piece that definitely appealed to me, because of the

Postgrad Fair

In the past week visited the Postgraduate Study Fair at the University of Huddersfield, as I have already applied I just wanted to learn about financing and how I would get through the year financially. This was very helpful, and I would advise anyone to visit these type of events, it gives you an insight

Final Interim

This week was the final interim, for the final year students, and for me personally my thoughts were on the pairings of my images and how they would work well together. This was a thought triggered because of my title ‘Conversations’, Stella realised that it would show my title well if I were to place

Bake Sale

This week we hosted a bake sale in SU of the University, this was to add to our money raised so far. As a group we did really well, persuading people to help contribute to our final show. We were very happy to raise almost £100!!!

Career plans for the future…

After changing my mind on my career path (from PGCE to MA), I decided to book a slot with the careers office. This was to give me a piece of mind, for where I wanted to go after graduating. A lot of people have told me in the past that they struggle on where to

The Scottish National Portrait Gallery

As an investigation in to my personal practice I chose to attend The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, this therefore would help me develop my ideas in to the world of portraiture and to progress my project further. One exhibit that was on show, was that of the BP Portrait Awards from 2017, which showcased some