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Finalising everything for our end of year exhibition.
Accepted my place at Camberwell for BA drawing in September.
Everything recently has been perfect.






















































lotta fun in the plaster room.

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Models for development. Investigating portraying movement, resistance, bursting of emotion and the unconscious, from fragile, decaying physical anatomical form.

two weeks into our 3 week self-initiated project.


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I am interested in the conscious, unconscious, the vulnerability of the anatomical form. For this project I wanted to investigate the resistance of the non-physical: emotion, identity, soul, in contrast with the fragility of the physical form. I have a curiosity in the qualities of skin and flesh, flaws, sagging. I am exploring the stripping down of physical form in art, as if in attempt to discover where soul meets body.

I've been looking at work by Chloe Piene, probably my favourite artist at the moment, her line drawings exploring naked figures, sometimes so naked that they're exposing muscle and bone, and in turn expressing nakedness of emotion and identity. She challenges our usual consideration of the body as a solid mass, she emphasizes it instead as a shell in which something much more powerful resides, something we have little knowledge or control of.
So far I've been producing smaller-scale models, experimenting with ideas, materials, processes to develop further. Some picaatures:
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I've also been influenced by Louise Bourgeois and her interest in the unconscious, in particular her ‘hysteria’ works, in which she explores the boundaries and relationship between extreme psychological and physical conditions, as in Arch of Hysteria:




















And Mark Quinn, his latex body cast hangings exploring the fragility of the physical. You Take My Breath Away: