This is another completely different portfolio from
the previous one I've just shown.
It's equally interesting but shows a very different
skill set to the one I've previously shown you.
It's a great and unusual first page where
she's dealing with a really, it's great because it's
print making and print makings a really interesting
process to take drawing through.
There's something quite brave and quite unusual
about the way she's made these images of this
narrative character that obviously feeds through
into the rest of her work which I'll show you now.
You can see from the etchings I've just shown you
that obviously this character who happens to be
a well known painter and author that was attached
in some way to her previous school.
She's used him as a character almost turning him
into a narrative character.
She's obviously a natural print maker so she's
used print to use typography and she's used
lino and wood cut to really explore the historic
context of this character.
This flows naturally onto a final piece which she
also bought to the interview which is a large
scale, A0 painting which combines both collage
painting and mix media.
It's a really interesting piece its the sort of piece
that you want to run your hands over because
it's really texturally interesting and you can't quite
pin it down in terms of history or context of when
it was produced.
Then we move onto potentially quite a
conventional drawing, well at first it appears
conventional but then it's really showing really
beautiful observations and you've got some
really wonderful quite eccentric observations
of different objects within this environment.
This is a really beautiful set of drawings,
For those of you who do life drawing it doesn't
perhaps look like a conventional academic
drawing but there's such an amazing
exploration of movement, of form.
These are obviously quick drawings but they really
give you a sense of space, proportion and
that movement.
It's also a really brave move to actually decide
that for a final portfolio you're going to put
a series of drawings that don't potentially feel
finished but actually they are really exciting.
Again she's showing that progression,
very naturally in the portfolio where this is a
really beautiful example of again fast one minute
drawings that really give us a sense that she
understands the anatomy of this form.
Then she slowed it down some what in these
next two drawings, where we get a much more
fundamental idea of the three dimensionality
of the body.
Not everybody will have done this many life
drawings, obviously this student really enjoys
it and wants to actually show off that she's
dealt with a variety of different techniques.
But more than anything else she's really
shown that she's kind of prepared to give it
a go and also deal with colour in the body,
which can work really well this is a really
interesting first exploration where she uses
colour even more sucessfully in my opinion
is in this drawing, a really beautiful, exciting
drawing of a type writer.
Almost going back to the original page where
she was dealing with a historic figure as a
character, this type writer almost
feels like a character itself.
Then she's decided to photograph this amazing
type writer.
Really beautiful art direction she's really
looking at the shadows and the way that the light
reflects onto the page, shes really thought about
where she puts the type writer and it gives us a
real sense of the context of the environment.
This slightly pains me this page as it's a terrible
destruction of a beautiful object but actually
she's photographed it and documented it with
probably the same commitment she put into
actually dismantling it.
What's very interesting about this portfolio
is understanding whether she sees photographs
as final pieces or whether she actually sees
these paintaings as final pieces.
In my opinion the photographs are fantastic
and actually could be seen as the last final
resolution to the work.
Potentially I'm thinking that she's looking at
these images as the final pieces.
Great paintings, great use of materials again but
perhaps not quite as sucessful as the
photographic pieces and then she's actually
put in a canvas that she has obviously taken
off the frame, it may not have even been on a
frame in the first place,
But you really get a sense of the fact that she
really is great with materials,
she's using typography on the background of
this piece, she's using basic print techniques
and then obviously showing that she has great
skills in terms of figuration.
This piece is really exciting this is combining
all of the things we have seen in the portfolio
which is a great piece to end on.
She's made a really beautiful fabric piece which
combines her photography, her making skills,
her drawing skills and her sense of narrative.
Which she's then art directed beautifully
in these shots.
As with the previous portfolio I want to take
you back and show you where this under pins
her work.
This is her research and we can see that
obviously with this she's looking at historic
figures which is where we started the portfolio.
Looking at the other artists which is great
because they are mixed and varied,
This is where suddenly I get excited we've
already seen the final two pieces of these
photographs but what I can see here is she
didn't just take one photograph to get the
image and the art direction right for this
photograph, she took loads and loads and loads
of photographs and she worked out exactly
which one shot would best articulate what she
wanted to say about this work.
There's a real sense of excitement in what
she's producing.
Again she goes back to drawing she's
continuously using different processes to work
out what she's actually trying to do with her
work and what she's tying to explore
throughout these materials.
Again a really lovely page there's a really playful
quality with how she's creating images of
this work.
And again back comes her photography.
She's not afraid to use photography as an art
form but also as a way of documenting
her testing.
Again really great image making she kind of
uses a scale in a brilliant way and like wise
where we saw the previous project she's using
photography to work out compositionally
how she makes something work.
To show one last sketch book of a series of
sketch book she showed us.
Really beautiful sketch book where again she's
looking at really diverse artists and designers.
She's obviously trying all of these things out
herself, probably using her family as models
for such things but it's a really great way of
testing out whether an idea can work in a
photographic form.
Again a really lovely use of materials you can see
she obviously had a natural feel for
painting and drawing but then she takes it on.
She's dealing with photocopies which she's
then colouring, testing, overlaying and it really
helps her understand why a piece might work
and how she can push that piece further.
Every possible perspective on this subject
has been explored whether it's the front of
the card or the back of the card.
She's obviously evaluating right at the very
end and working out how this becomes
her final resolved piece.