This is Octiprey

I sculpted the head and body of this clay octopus around a supporting wire armature, the arms were sculpted separately upon their own armature and then pushed into the body.

After a coating of PVA to give it a glossy finish, Octiprey was born!

Dairy Industry Illustration

This was a one day fine art project.

I gathered my thoughts about the dairy industry and produced a piece to reflect my opinions! I used fineliner, ink and water to make these drawings, I really enjoy the sense of melancholy in these drawings.

Mixed Media: Owl Illustrations

This was a communication project where I was asked to describe what my dream job was when I was a child.

I had always wanted to work with animals, and these fineliner drawings that I produced reflect on the animal charity experience I have done in recent years.

Bee Observatory

This project required us to do something unconventional with a shipping container, I made a bee observatory. There is a circular seating (made out of plasticine) in the centre and a plastic covering over the hives so that people can view the bees without the bees escaping into the container.

Beekeeper suits are frequently white or an off-white colour, in part because it’s believed that this has a calming effect on bees, so, the interior walls of the container are painted white. There are little flaps on each side to allow the bees to come and go but keeping the rain and other elements out. And to complete the design I added a little bee friendly roof garden so that the bees wouldn’t have to travel far for sustenance!

Inflatable Life Drawing

These drawings are a mixture of ink and collage, the model sat in the middle of the room, clutching an inflatable banana and with a blanket over her.

Found Object Installation

This project on found objects had me rummaging in Kingston's skips and recycling boxes to find interesting items.

The cat scratcher like podium is made from sheets of glass and bottles filled with food colouring, and in the final few hours I constructed a cat out of masking tape.

I blagged it and told my fellow students I was making a comment about a cat’s natural behaviour in a home environment. Turns out red food colouring dries like blood so it looked like a murder scene. They bought it!

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