At LICAF I spoke about the graphic novel, Mongrel, which l'm currently working on in an interview with Aileen McEvoy titled Caught Inbetween Two Cultures.
25 October 2018
22 April 2018
Inside Job - Tate Modern
I exhibited a few chapter from Mongrel in the Inside Job exhibition at Tate Modern.
23 July 2017
A Way Home
A light-hearted, short story about a women's journey immigrating from Bangladesh to England.
11 May 2017
Imagined Worlds - Kubla Khan
My drawing, Longing for Wonder, was displayed in the Imagined Worlds - Kubla Khan exhibition.
Longing
for Wonder is similar to Kubla Khan in two ways. The first is the narrative
within the drawing. A girl is confined in her room, so she sits on her bed and
peeps through the curtains. She observes. Presented with the ordinary, she
imagines what is beyond the visible. What hides behind the rows of houses and
the tiny stretch of horizon? She has yet to explore the world so her
imagination is not limited by knowledge. She imagines a better world. Inside
her mind she finds her only escape from her reality. The viewer interrupts her
vivid daydream. She turns to acknowledge them.
The second link is the context within which the drawing was
created.
Similar to the poem, Kubla
Khan, my drawing, Longing for Wonder,
originated with a real person and a real place. It was once a reality, but
now it exists only in my mind. The oversized furniture and the warped
perspective suggest that my imagination has distorted it. This is now my
creation.
09 September 2016
Sophronia Exhibition
The exhibition, Sophronia, presented the works of MA Authorial Illustration students at Falmouth university. I exhibited the graphic novel Mongrel, which I wrote on the course.
I was awarded the Atlantic Press Graphic Literature Prize, for the work I created in Mongrel.
On one side of the wall I created a collage from the inner pages in Mongrel.
I did not want the illustrations to be displayed as flat images, so created books to be used in the collage. Some books were nailed open, some had flapping pages and some were nailed shut. The closed books represented hesitancy towards sharing personal narrative.
On the other side of the wall, I presented a framed original and two versions of the book. One version contained the three chapters I had managed to finalise on the course and the other version, the manuscript, contained the whole story at different stages.
02 January 2016
Mongrel - Memories of Waterland
For every chapter I start by creating basic thumbnail drawings for every page. This helps me plan the pacing of the story as I decide how many panels will be on each page and what they will communicate. For Memories of Waterland I wanted to shape the panels so they look like puddles.
This chapter was slightly difficult because I couldn't figure out if I wanted the words to be kept separate from the imagery, so I created a draft with both options to help me judge.
I decided it was best to display the poem on the first page and have a sequence of images following it.
02 November 2015
The Collaborators Exhibition
This drawing was exhibited at The Collaborators exhibition at The Exchange Gallery, Penzance.
03 August 2015
The Story Republic
I created a number of illustrations to accompany poems created by The Story Republic. The drawing were projected whilst the young writers read their poems at an event the The Exchange, Penzance.
Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange
On this postgraduate placement I created a booklet based on the two exhibitions, Artist Rooms: Robert Therrien and In Search of the Miraculous. As well as researching both exhibitions, I wrote, designed and illustrated the booklet. I created questions to help viewers engage with the artwork and designed creative tasks for visitors to take part in during their visit.
23 July 2015
Think & Do Booklet
On the placement with Newlyn Art Gallery I am making a gallery guide for young people aged between 13-25 years.
At the start of the project I had the idea to create a guide that felt like an artist scrap book. A mock-up of this idea can be viewed below. I felt this idea was appropriate as the aims of this guide was to help viewers engage with the art on display, to encourage curiosity and make the gallery space less intimidating to those unfamiliar with it. I believe the warmth looseness of a scrap book design like this would encourage creative thinking. However because of the very quick turnover I had for this project, it was not possible to do this. Instead I had to opt for the quickest medium to work with which is digital media.
Although I could not go ahead with the idea I was set on, I am pleased with the result using digital media because it has created a simple, bold look and lets the illustrations capture the focal point. The colour scheme in the font reflect the colour scheme used in the galleries branding.
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