Practice | Direction

During my summer in 2016, most of my time was spent exploring local parks and forests in Oldham where I grew up. After gathering images of the scenery that I captured, I recognised the fluidity within my images as it exhibited the natural and organic shapes and forms that mother nature creates. As well as discovering these beautiful places, galleries were another interest I gained as I could imagine my work being placed there in the future. I received information in how I could submit my work and when the best time would be to do so, for potential employers to come across my work.

The images above are taken from local parks and forests in Oldham where I initially gathered research for the practice unit.  The similarities between the two images can be clearly seen as they both have the organic flow and shape to them.

These images were taken later on into the practice unit as I felt I needed further research and inspiration. From these images, I was able to create more textured samples and drawings.

After settling into the third and final year at MMU, one to one tutorials were held and this gave me the chance to speak to my tutor Kate about all the plans and aspirations I had planned for my work. We discussed that I had far too many images and projects to be focusing on and that I should pick my favourite 3 or 4 images and work from there. Suggestion were made such as: Larger drawings, dying fabrics, Drawing directly onto fabric. As usual, after the tutorial I felt a huge sense of excitement about knowing what to do next and how to develop my practice. So immediately I began drawing, I then used some techniques from drawing days in the first year at MMU as it was a good way to start off my thought of ideas and sampling.