For part of my Foundation Degree, I have been working on a project about Banbury. On our visit to the Banbury Museum, the thing that struck me most was the changes to buildings and industries within the town. I took inspiration from Banbury’s rich history of woodcut chapbooks in choosing the style for my designs. I […]
Category: Exhibition
Rose Finn-Kelcey & Aleksandra Mir @ Modern Art Oxford
There is something really wonderful about going to an art gallery and finding artists you’ve not heard of before whose work really excites you. Back in October, I headed to Modern Art Oxford and discovered the work of Rose Finn-Kelcey and Aleksandra Mir; two very different artists working in very different ways but who both […]
Folkestone Triennial 2017
At the start of September, I headed down to Folkestone for the Triennial. This, as the name suggests is an art festival that happens every three years. I lived there when the inaugural Triennial occurred but missed the next two, so I was determined not to miss another! As well as the official events there […]
Breathing Colour by Hella Jongerius @ The Design Museum
Our first trip of year 2 was to the Design Museum for Breathing Colour by Hella Jongerius. This exhibition collects Hella’s body of work exploring colour together, which gives an overview of the way she perceives colour as well as the wide variety of materials she uses in order to achieve this. Jongerius (b. 1963, […]
FdA Level 1 Final Piece – ‘Ackerthrop’
With the first year done and dusted, I am writing a bit more about my final piece for year one: ‘Ackerthrop’ The Brief Unlike last year where I had to write a proposal, we were given a brief that instructed to us to work with the concept of play. In my initial explorations, I looked […]
New Year, New Blog
One of my final acts for 2015 was to post something to this blog. I still have the rest of the site to get up, but there is a page for our Winter Showcase Exhibition, so I’ll call that a win. Hopefully I will be able to add some “press” to the page soon. It would […]