Professional Skills & Career Paths

Clifford Chance Postgraduate Printmaking in London

I am delighted to have been shortlisted for this exhibition and award which I will proudly include in my post MA CV. I am contributing the following three works to be exhibited through Nov-January. As specified each of the works has been framed, something that I have done myself in the framing workshop I work in.

Clifford Chance promotional material

Sure Place, 2022, 192 x 90 cm, six plate woodcut on hosho paper

From Within, From Without 2022, 64 x 43 cm, Three plate woodcut on Hosho paper

Side and Beyond, 2022, 27 x 40 cm, five plate etching with aquatint on Somerset paper

Natural History Museum

Continuing this collaborative project from Unit 2, in which a small number of us are working with the Natural History Museum in developing a series of objects for school children with visual impairments. The aim of the project is to promote accessibility of imagery in the museum’s collection created by the high power microscopes in their labs.

I am using microscopic images taken from material found in puddles as a starting point for developing imagery and objects, subject matter that I hope will be relatable and amusing for the children. I have separated these images into layers that will be cut it MDF and stacked into three dimensional objects. These layers will be glued, sand blasted and treated. My hope is that the children will explore the crevasses and recesses of the objects with their hands, deep enough to envelop a wrist or an elbow, and perhaps touch a hand coming the other way. I am aiming to imitate the amazing way the microscopes explore surface; focusing a multitude of detail one depth, then to another in which a new world of texture and detail is revealed.

Working files: Four microscopic images of pond water, 2022, 17 x 17 cm, digital

Impact 12 – International Printmaking conference
Bristol University
MA Fine Art Camberwell exhibition

As a group we showed work at the international biennial print making conference and exhibition. It was a great experience, as a group we came together well in applying, installing and exhibiting at the conference. I showed a work from the first term, reconfigured in relation to the format of more recent works and attached with a simple wooden bracket made in the workshop.

Untitled, 2021, 360 x 82 cm, woodcut on hosho paper

MA Fine Art Printmaking installation at Impact 12

Promotional material produced by MA Fine Art Printmaking for Impact 12

Upcoming plans

A small group of Camberwell MA Fine Art students, including myself, have begun looking for exhibition spaces and open call opportunities. I am really enthusiastic about showing work alongside these artist, people with whom I share a seriousness of practice. We are united by an interest in testing and challenging materials and a point of reference for diverse and confident work. I am really delighted to have formed these connections, it gives me confidence to have the regard of those who I respect and whose work I admire. I hope to continue making work alongside them for years to come.

Immediately on graduating I will focus on a new body of work which will be directly informed from where I have leave off at Camberwell. I will maintain links with the Printmaking department at Camberwell, a place I would love to return to in the future. I will continue working at the picture framers as it gives me flexibility of time and affordable options for framing my own work to a professional standard.

I have confidence in my own practice and the work I am producing.