I'm going to take you through this portfolio
which is a successful portfolio for Kingston
foundation application.
It's really important to remember that what we're
judging you on is the quality of your work
and not on how much money
you spend mounting or presenting your work.
This is a great first page because what we're
looking at, we're looking at a neat and
simple presentation of
three really beautiful drawings.
Phoebe obviously has a real skill and a real talent
for dealing with life drawing and figuration.
It's not precious, it's not necessarily
academic but it has a real flare for materials.
She then very sensibly because drawing is
obviously a real strength from this portfolio
gives us a series of drawings that shows she
can use color, shows that she can really explore
expressive mark making.
Often it's not necessarily neat and tidy but
that's part of the charm of these drawings.
We then get to another phase in her portfolio
where she starts to introduce research
It's obviously a very significant part of how she
explores ideas and how she expresses herself very
visually through materials.
She's looking at Hastings and this environment
but rather than just photographying,
she's photographying, collaging, using paint,
using paper, using materials
that obviously suggest the sense of place.
This prolific body of research then moves
onto the idea of maps,
she doesn't just look at maps in the way
that perhaps most would, as a way of finding
directions but she uses those as a backdrop
to paint on top of and you can see with some of
these images here that the actual typography
and the map making is creeping through her
water colour and her painting.
What's really exciting about this page is the fact
that she's not necessarily using photography in a
conventional fashion either, where she's
actually using it to collage with and using it to
explore in quite a painterly way how she sees her
interpretation of Hastings.
We then move onto a much more large scale
more expressive way of making marks.
There is a real confidence in these pieces of work
where she's not necessarily giving us a very
specific observation of what she's looking
at but it doesn't really matter because there's
an excitment in how she uses these materials.
This is a real key page for me as from what
we have seen with the Hastings research
she is very much using her materials to resolve
a final piece, she's beautifully photographed them
but you can see that this comes from the way
she used collage, the way she cut up her
photographs, the way shes apropriated different
materials to suit what she's trying to communicate.
This is another really interesting piece again until I
look through her sketchbooks I'm not quite sure
what this piece is about but she has a really great
feel for materials she's using bleach, she's using
tissue paper to stick on top of the bleach and it's
a really innovative way of exploring
traditional techniques.
She ends her porfolio on a rather lovely looking
chameleon, Again it doesn't necessarily follow
previous body of work in terms of project or
concept but I love this little guy and it really
gives me a sense that Phoebe has a real sense of
humour and is not afraid to kind of show that
in her work.
Whilst that portfolio was a really lovely exploration
into the essence of what she produces, for me
the most exciting thing in her portfolio
is actually in her sketch books.
These are so well discovered.
She's looking at absolutely everything, she likes
to write, her image making follows through in
everything she does but it's not just about
necessarily looking or referencing artists just
because she's been told to.
There's a real sense that she's looking at artists
to understand how potentially she can make work
in new ways.
This page really excites me she's obviously playing
with materials you can see the kind of seeds of
what she was doing in her portfolio
coming through in this and really beautiful
watercolour or collage of the underground map.
Not all of these images are perfect she's doing
examples of first class stamps, It's not the best
painting I've ever seen but that doesnt matter
because it's actually getting her to understand
how she articulates her own ideas.
Here we see where she's looking at and
exploring map making.
Here we have again as we did with the
portfolio really original examples of how
she's actually used nails in order to show maps
and then photographed it in a really
appropriate way.
Again she's stuck in really interesting ways
of creating maps on hands.
Again she's out photographing,
observing people, situations, environments
to feed back into her work.
Another sketch book that follows on from
the same project, what a beautiful page.
So again she's using collage but in the most
beautiful way it's playful it's not too precious
but you can really see where it follows on from
her observations in this particular church.
Really great use of collage where she's cutting out
thinking about her image making skills and
that's just such an exciting page it's again
very free it's very brave, it's very courageous
it doesn't feel finished but that's the beauty of it.
There's a real excitement about what she's
exploring and then she's using materials, she's
using thread, again map making follows through
in this really beautiful example of how you can
articulate using a material that isn't
just a drawn line.
Again as we saw with the portfolio her
photography is being used as a drawing tool
here rather than just a way to document
a sense of place.
Overall there's just a real commitment, a real
passion for what she's looking at.
I can imagine this is the sort of work that
extends beyond the classroom or beyond the
studio, this is something that she is
genuinely excited by.