Interactive arts provides me with the versatility that I currently need in the stage of my practice. With no limits it would give me chance to experiment and refine a mature craft of my own work and the critical analysis of others. Whilst working to my strengths of being very versatile with materials. However the challenge working in other areas of art and design would push me both personally and as an artist. I feel that now is my starting point, especially with a degree that is tailored to myself and my practice is definitely the pathway I want to pursue.

Final Pieces for my ceramic unit. The set brief was commissioned by a independent shop for ceramic pieces based on animals. I chose to gain influence from animals with horns and the territorial nature of them. I chose to create slab built constructions that supported the bulky nature of the horned animals. I chose to keep my colour scheme rather natural and earthy, with a contrast of the added gloss black in both texture and depth. My final pieces were set to be pairs to show the difference in velocity as one set is intertwined and lost in each other whilst the other is almost facing for battle.

Part of my still life study, I chose to keep the study thematic and looked into local history and found the details and photos of a local family during the war. I then created and remade broken jars to work within the still life as I thought these would add a subtle contrast and a gritty style to the images. Whilst supporting the theme and the gritty atmospheric pictures.

This is the start of my development work for one of my A2 units, mixed media portraiture. I have gained influence from Sally Mankus who works with rust, metal and other unconventional objects. I then started experimenting with stencilling, spray painting and bleach. I liked the soft and subtle effect you could create especially on industrial materials with harsh mediums. This I feel worked well especially with the image of a face. I plan to do a large scale multimedia industrial piece for my final outcome.

This is a normal way of displaying my supporting work. This is my artist influence for my mixed media portraiture (pictured above). Where I have experimented with processes such as monoprinting, stencilling and lettering. All which are linked to my artist work however still have the influence from myself and the guidance into the pathway of the unit. I find this a great way to reference my change in idea and thought along side experimenting with materials, which is a great strength of mine.

My unit 5 exam, this was based on my critical analysis of other artists, where I was given numerous artists to compare and contrast from Ansel Adams to David Hockney. This was essay based. I then had to complete a set brief for a client with one of the given artists as influence, I chose Tom Purvis and advertising. My brief was for a new bus company, that promoted bus travel. I experimented with imagery and lettering whilst researching the history. I designed a mixture of innovative and classic designs, taking into account the brief constraints. Which would have then been pitched to the client.

Part of my Photography units entailed completing an illustrated study, which was based on a chosen photographer that we would contact and they would tutor us within the shoot. My chosen photographer was Scott Chalmers, a alternative editorial and advertising photographer. I wrote my own conceptual brief based on a new fashion movement that I would create myself with influence from girls in the circus. The study consisted of 3 shoots that I styled myself and photographed. I also made garments and styled the models for the shoot as it was crucial I depicted the fashion movement as created in my mind. The end result being a magazine editorial.

With my illustrated study I chose to expand the brief and create the inside article for the shoot, with the article explaining the concept behind my whole idea. The insert consisted of my own taken photography and my own writing. This expanded on the whole concept of the new fashion movement I had styled and portrayed myself in my illustrated study.

This is the starting point of my recent self portraiture unit. Two acrylic studies based on first-hand observation of myself. My own personal style has developed endlessly, this I feel is evident in the piece itself. By watering the acrylic down and blending the colour, also with the addition of none conventional colouring (such as purple and green).

Unit 3 exam which I gained full marks. This involved working to a set brief of designing hospital curtains for a children's ward. This was a textiles based unit which included wax resist, printing and batik. I gained influence from other non textile based materials and first-hand observations of butterflies and the given constraints including set artist influence.

An A2 scale acrylic painting of the 'mad hatters tea party set up' from a different perspective. I chose to use a smaller scale when creating my composition to challenge the detail in my painting techniques and abilities.

An A2 scale mixed media piece, based on first-hand observations of a visually exciting display created by myself and other members of my group. This display was heavily influenced by 'The mad hatters tea party', and also by Hammond Gower's card design with the use of manuscripts. The media's used were graphite, craypas, gold pen, tissue paper and musical manuscript.