And i'm back!

So, it's been a while since I updated my blog (again!). Since I last updated, i've been doing all sorts of exciting things:

I graduated on 23rd June (to a backdrop of torrential rain and thunder!)

Spent a week in sunny Berlin, drinking lots of this stuff.

I also turned 22 last week. But my most exciting news is that i've been invited by the lovely people at Caravan to take part in their opening exhibition.
You can check them out here-  http://wearecaravan.tumblr.com/  

So now I have to decide which pieces will be coming down to Edinburgh with me next week when I get to see the gallery for the first time. Possibly these three pieces among others, although I may well change my mind:

Ava Gardner

Arlene Dahl

Bob Hope

Collaboration

In the spirit of moving on after the Degree Show, there's a possible collaboration in the works between myself and the lovely Claire Borwell. It's in the planning stages at the moment but will definitely be awesome. You can check out Claire's blog here: http://claireborwell.blogspot.com/    

Degree Show

I have finally uploaded my photos from the Degree Show after a week long break.

Here's the exciting part- my name! I got vinyl lettering printed to put up in my space and once that was up, it all felt so official. 

I took lots of photos of my longest wall of pieces (30 in total), although it was difficult to capture the whole line:

My other framed pieces were next to the door of the studio, and they attracted a lot of attention when visitors came in:

Unfortunately I didn't manage to get a photo without some glare from the high windows in our space, but you get the idea. In addition to the Hollywood film stars, there are three religious pieces in this set. 

The part of my show that seemed to attract the most interest was my installation, this combined the Hollywood pieces with religious ones, overlapping in an attempt to blur the boundaries between the two. Because all of my works are on parchment paper, the transparency lent itself well to layering. Another reason for pinning these pieces up was to allow people to see how the work was created. I was asked many times during the show what material i'd used for my pieces and when I explained that it was permanent marker on parchment paper, it helped to show the layered wall to make this a bit clearer. This was the piece that was photographed for the Courier:

Here's a shot from my invigilating corner, to give you an idea of the space as a whole. To the left of my 'nine block' you can see three of Lisa's pieces (I shared the studio space with Lisa and Lauren).

Here's the lovely flowers I was given at the show opening night, the left hand ones are from my boyfriend, Sean and the ones on the right are from my parents:

I didn't take any photos on the opening night because it got so busy, but my mum brought her camera and took some. Here we are, my mum, me and my cousin:

Hope you enjoyed my round-up of the show. A lot of lovely people came to see it and it was overall a good week (if a bit tiring!). 

Here's to the start of everything to come.

All done.

Apologies for my complete lack of updates for almost a month. The Degree Show is now all done and us 4th years are taking our work down during the next 2 weeks. I can't believe that 4 years at university has flown by so quickly. I have lots of snippets of the show to post, once I sort through all of my photos etc, so watch this space!
In the meantime, check out this review of the show- including my work :)

http://wearecaravan.tumblr.com/post/6039069502/its-a-dun-deel

I also got a mention in the Dundee Courier at the beginning of the show, which was very unexpected. With such a huge number of students showing work (over 300) and around 80 in Fine Art alone, it is lovely to be picked out of that many people and get a bit of coverage.

Before I go, I just want to thank all the people who came along to this year's Degree Show and the many people who spent time looking at my work and talking to me about it.

More soon.

One day left

Today is the last day to prepare Degree Show spaces, get everything up and looking perfect for assessment. We find out next Wednesday our grade and then the show opens on Friday 20th. It's all a bit terrifying to be honest! Anyway, i'm going to get the last of my sketchbooks together and go into uni. More later.

Cary Grant

Again, apologies for the shiny, rippled effect of the scan...It doesn't look like this in real life when it is framed. I decided to upload Cary Grant as i'm about to start watching 'An Affair to Remember ' while I finish a few more pieces to add to my Degree Show (not long to go now!).

Doris Day

I quite like the colours in this one, usually I would go for a more contrasting colour for the background to make the figure stand out but turquoise seemed to work better. Doris was a request from my boyfriend's auntie- I hope she likes it! This is one for my framed series, which I will explain more about later.