Having been involved in community based creative events and projects helped form a better understanding of how the creative industry works. Between September and December 2011 I volunteered for a Somerset film based charity called The Engine Room. The program granted me valuable skills that certainly broadened my horizons in film, illustration, animation and photography. A personal highlight would be November 2011, when the ‘Tacchi Moris Arts Centre’ reviewed my chalk and charcoal animation as "Outstanding". In February 2012, I had the unique experience of working with Taunton's Olympic procession parade to create a 'Human Powered Vehicle'. Aged 18, I challenged myself to think as a real practitioner and as a result, it motivated me to produce some of my best work, an 11-ft high parade float. Impressed, Somerset College presented a paid work placement to be an assistant technician and TA at a summer art school, July '12. The same year, I exceeded by completing an Extended Diploma in Fine Art achieving top D*D*D*. Went on to create an intense body of work through doing a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design.  Acknowledged by the Head of Somerset school of art and design, I received ‘Student of the year’ 2012/13.

Before and post a jaw operation I had in July 2013, there were constant thoughts on how my face might change. The transformations after this serious operation were incredible. My personal experience inspired a body of work based on transmogrification of the human figure and abstracting quick but beautiful aspects of everyday life. Universally, there is a bold fascination with nature’s quick transformations from one living form to another so that is why for most of 2013 i liked to depict the simple but happy subject of radical change through using illustration, photography, projection and bit of film. 

 

Coming into 2014 I decided to look at cultural changes in anthropology, sub-cultures in Manchester to be precise. The history of music and culture in Manchester after 1978 is vast and incredibly influential worldwide. My focus at the very moment is direct communication of what I think makes Manchester have the style and attitude it has today.  I plan on being more firm with what mediums I decide to use: for instance I am really looking forward to using the medium of Typography in my current interdisciplinary practice.