"I’m an illustrator who primarily works with digital art due to its flexibility and accessibility, but I’m always wary of becoming stagnant and too comfortable using one medium, and I’m at my happiest grabbing a new material or medium and just having a go and see what happens. While the pieces I’ve chosen to exhibit are illustrative in nature, that’s really the only theme they have in common. I find sticking to one theme very dull and I love being able to swap from fun, friendly cartoons to detailed and visceral horror."

ARTWORK

MONOPHOBIA 

Animated Illustration, Projector

Monophobia is the fear of isolation.

This piece came about 1 year into lockdown while working at home for university and at the time, I was struggling with the mental exhaustion that came with living through a  pandemic.

My goal was to emulate this feeling of being stuck in your own head with all these negative thoughts swarming around, staring, shouting, and looping, to symbolize the feeling that there may be no end to the looming misery. 

MAGIC ZENER CARDS

Wooden Hand, Magic Playing Cards

Zener cards used to test Extrasensory Perception or ESP. Each card has a different shape; circle, square, cross, star and wavy lines.

Using Numerology, Shape Language and Colour Personalities, I built a personality for each shape, and then used that personality to create a line-up of characters all based off different areas of stage magic. 

MANIPULATE ME 

Paper, paint 

The prompt for this piece was Manipulation and I took it quite literally and made a piece that can be physically manipulated and interacted with. Pulling the handles will lift the puppets' limbs.

I took inspiration from articulated paper puppets and decided to make one on a much larger scale. At the time, I wanted to make a proper marionette, but the giant paper puppet was the perfect compromise of making a puppet, but in a way more suited to my skill set at the time. 

GLASGOW

Jumper, Development work

The abstract shapes of this design were pulled     directly from old maps of Glasgow.

I would put tracing paper over a map and trace out any interesting shapes from streets, roundabouts, buildings, or negative spaces between streets, and then use those shapes to create an abstract pattern for textiles. 

LIMINAL SPACES 

Wood, paint, markers

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A liminal space is a transitional area between two locations and often comes with an odd eerily   feeling.

 These four illustrations are of liminal spaces (empty train station platform, a hotel corridor, a closed shopping centre and a road bridge), with emphasis on the negative space. This was to convey a feeling of emptiness and isolation. This is expanded on by having each illustration     floating within a black void

FERGUS FELLOW 

Felt, Stuffing, Wire, Clay, Wool, Bra pad

Fergus Fellow is a little mushroom gnome creature. He has a propensity for mischief and will put pebbles in your shoes and steal the copper change left in your trouser pockets.

When he is not posing for the public in an art exhibition, Fergus is trundling through the woods, collecting any small trinkets or items left behind by human explorers.

This art doll is made with a wire armature, quilt batting, polymer clay, wool hair, and a lot of sewing.