Hello 2021!!

Happy 2021, here’s hoping the end of the year is much better than the start! Where did time go?! I’m back on the blog, and I will try my best to keep updated! So, 2 lockdowns later, and on to the 3rd. Here, I am wondering why I haven’t even started shooting yet, but with

You Paid For Me…

As a social difference, and a split within opinions, sex work, and it’s relationship with society is somewhat rocky. These are the relationships I investigated heavily through the last year of both Academia, and my practical experimentations. It is a project I have however been unable to talk about for many unfortunate reasons: one being

Starting something new

I am a month out of University, and have come to the decision that I am going to record and track my experiences of being out of University. It is common knowledge that there are struggles when leaving university, whether you are looking for creative work, or experience problematic differences of full-time work from full-time

Entwhistle

After some trouble with printing out our books at a reprographics, reminding us why we give ourselves enough time for small problems such as this; me and three other colleagues had the opportunity to visit Entwhistle in Manchester, to speak about professionally printing our zines/books. The company was extremely helpful in making sure everything was

Book Review: Alex Beldea

To coincide with the development process, I asked Alex Beldea to review my dummy book thus far. As a small booklet to showcase my practice from the year, I felt there were significant changes that I could make to this, therefore a professional and academic opinion was the best way for me to get feedback

Blueprint :: Conor Palliser

This week a fellow student (Conor Palliser), was part of a group of artistic University students, that showcased their unique work in a small exhibition. This included a range of creative aspects such as; photography, music, graphic design and illustration, all of which were arranged and presented by the artists themselves. The exhibition space was

Paper Tests

For a successful final piece I want to know if I am using the right materials and paper, for the book to look as best as it can be. This is why I have tested a few different paper stocks that would be suitable for a book. Choosing a few aspects of my book to

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