@ultimate98illustrator

A poster adverting the European Championship game Italy vs Turkey, which would have been played this summer but due to the circumstances it will be played next year.

I have created my designs and illustrations taking inspiration from the artist Alice Pasquini and her graffiti art and style. Her work is reflected all across the world adding a meaning and reflection of the city.

I have embraced the colours she reflects in her artwork and presented the colours on my background as well as adding her unique style to my illustrations. Embracing the composition of her designs I have decided to use the same effect by adding the architecture and the culture behind my illustrations of the players.

Addressing the culture of Rome by illustrating its architecture, history, festivals and traditional food. Showing what Rome has to offer.

www.starziloexhibition.blogspot.com

'Birth By A Hero'

Birth By A Hero is a piece dedicated to the personal hero that is with us from birth. A mother who raises and protects her child/children from the day of their birth till adulthood and upwards, during this time a mother will go through any length to protect her child/children to the point of even taken on the world if necessary. The strength of a mother to overcome adversities for the sake of her offspring is unfathomable and equally, so is her wrath. Always try to stay on a mother’s good side and hope you never have to face her wrath.

www.ascendancygame.blogspot.com/2020/06/ascendancy-gameplay-trailer.html

For my final project, I decided to make art for Ascendancy - a card based decision making game.

The game puts you in the position of a country's leader inundated with a variety of requests from a sequence of originally designed characters, the player is given the ability to swipe left or right on each card, making different decisions which impact both the player and other characters in different ways. The game is designed with a variety of different narrative paths in mind and different factions within the game must be kept satisfied throughout if the player wants to keep themselves in power.

The art style is minimal in order not to distract from the narrative of the gameplay itself. However, I added subtle shadows to give a feel of depth to an otherwise flat medium. I also chose to give the characters no eyes to convey their lack of significance to the player, easily replaceable and passing through. I think this style of art fits in the intended feel for the overall game. The game is curren a work in progress but in the coming months more characters and scenarios will be added.

www.clairecollen.blogspot.com

'Quality Street'

'Quality Street' celebrates the diversity of everyday images found in a short walk around Leeds City Centre. The aim of the work is to draw attention to the detail that we often overlook. Using the example of psychogeography, which focuses on our psychological experiences of the city, my work is based upon the often neglected and overlooked images contained within the City Centre. Urban landmarks typically embed meaning and memories, sometimes inspiring and reassuring by their familiarity, but at other times challenging.

The myriad of contrasting images which compete for one’s attention can present a chaotic and overwhelming impression with the result that cities become regarded as confusing, alienating and hostile environments. Their true character, beauty and charm lies hidden behind the crowds of people, the noise of traffic, the endless disruption of building works, and the inevitable signs of decay.

Taking inspiration from the forgotten, discarded or marginalised aspects of the ordinary city environment, I have focused my work on those often obscure and rarely noticed details that are easily missed, sometimes overwhelming in their design and beauty and often simply mundane: shadows in a certain light, paving stones, street furniture, traffic signs, road markings and construction paraphernalia.

@anniecunniffe14 / www.anniecunniffe.blogspot.com

Anthony Earnshaw Bursary Runner-up

The concepts of Psychogeography have enriched my personal engagement with the urban environment of Leeds and, through drawing, painting and sculpture I have interrogated one specific architectural feature – the Lovell Park Road bridge over Leeds Inner Ring Road, a bridge I crossed daily on my 3 mile walk to Leeds Arts University - to make sense of my relationship to the immediate environment.

Bridges in themselves offer a wealth of physical and metaphorical
potential – from the textures, geometry, colour, spaces, light, planes and perspectives, to the narratives of connectivity, interchange, journey and movement – this bridge would appear to be a manifestation of human triumph over nature. The dizzying heights of its monolithic walls, where wild buddleia thrives in fissures and moss clings to concrete while traffic roars, suggests something more sensuous and symbiotic.

Initially my work aimed to convey a sense of loneliness in the city, inspired by Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City, but this evolved into imagining an empty city with the introduction of the Covid-19 lockdown. In my work I aimed to convey my fascination with the warm and promising lushness of the March sunshine and how it evoked feelings of optimism and nostalgia during a singular and challenging time.

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At the beginning of this project we had a clear idea of what film we were going to make and thought we had devised a foolproof work process after making a film last year.

By the time we had got to the production phase and the pandemic lockdown had come into effect, all the the pre-production planning we had done was now useless. Our foolproof workflow plan never accounted for a global pandemic, suddenly causing mass quarantine of nearly the whole worlds population. Covid-19 really showed us that you can plan as much as you like but something will come up that you will have to work around on the spot and that you have never predicted. We wrote this film with a few weeks to spare before deadline after having scrapped previous plans and it was filmed by Tom in self isolation as Ryan edited remotely.

It is a film about a future, alternate by similar, reality where the government has taken the step of installing Friendo's (Facial Recognition Identification and Essential Network Digital Organiser) in each home to monitor those in quarantine.

www.marinaghevondjan.com / www.mediamaterialsresearch.blogspot.com / 

www.realisationpreparing.blogspot.com

'The Shadows of Chernobyl'

The Chernobyl disaster, considered the worst nuclear disaster in history, occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, then part of the Soviet Union, now in Ukraine. From 1986 onward, the total death toll of the disaster has lacked consensus; as peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet and other sources have noted, it remains contested most extremely among a wide range of anti-nuclear lay groups.

Thousands of men, women and children in the northern Ukrainian city of Slavutych, will gather at the memorial here to light candles to the 30 initial victims of the world’s worst nuclear accident. Three decades on, they will remember not just the dead, but the memories and dreams they left behind in Pripyat, the ghost city that was once their home. 

My project is about documentary photography showing the aftermath of nuclear disaster and my interpretation of tragedy that occurred in 1986 in Pripyat ghost city in the Ukraine. Many people left their houses and animals behind, Pripyat soon gain reputation of the abandoned ghost town.

www.janegibsonaccess.blogspot.com

'Presence and Absence'

 Pin pricks in aluminium foil, 21cm x 29cm

This project is a process driven exploration into the theme of presence and absence as powerful forces within our lives, fundamental to our understanding of ourselves and our place in the world. Presence and absence play a part in describing who we are, what we hold onto and what we have lost, what is seen and what is unseen, reminding us of the fragility of life and the human condition.

My practice seeks to capture not only a moment in time, but also what is behind, around and ahead, connecting fragments of images to try to see beyond the immediately visible through the use of non-traditional mark making and materials.

www.rafaelgilbertaccess.blogspot.com

For this project I planned to develop pencil sketches into a versatile design that I could potentially use for many purposes. The pencil sketches that I’d use I have been creating as tattoo designs to later tattoo onto someone’s skin. I bought my first tattoo machine when I was 16 and I have actively practiced ever since as a hobby, a source of income and as a creative way to express myself. I think there is a lot of fulfilment in seeing my work worn on someone else’s skin.

Urban environments have always been a big inspiration in my work, I have always found harmony within the city and become involved in the culture. Fashion has also been a big interest of mine and I have tried to continue certain elements of fashion throughout this project.

After developing many sketches and playing around distorting and repeating areas of them I produced this surface pattern. I think the potential for this surface pattern is massive. I could see this design used for many products like on skateboards, posters/stickers, clothing and even face masks.

I created this image after looking retrospectively upon my gallery visits throughout the past year. I intentionally used juxtaposition of analog and digital techniques by taking reference from a classic media of sculpture, but using modern technique.

The colour palette I chose was heavily influenced by vapourware aesthetics, which are popular within design currently, the shades give an ultraviolet luminescence to the image which I think adds to the intended juxtaposition.

If asked to describe my practice I would say that I blend graphic design and illustration, having a preference of working digitally as I find it offers more freedom to change but also has less environmental impact than consumable mediums. Which is something I find important within my working practice.

www.bkaccess.blogspot.com

Final Major Project: From ‘Unlocking’ to ‘Lockdown’

Micro-installation created at home in response to lockdown, during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Materials: acrylic paint, wax, found objects, sunlight.

Inspired by installations created by the artist Olafur Eliasson (b.1967. Icelandic) and the use of ‘chiaroscuro’ - light and shade, scale and spacial ambiguity.

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Julie Linley is a mixed media artist, with textiles being her main specialism.

‘What’s the point of life if you don’t live it’ is a story through the artist’s long term relationship with the scooter scene. It is a journey of memories, of times past, and of the future.

It was created with a pair of the artists late husbands jeans, covered with embroidered scooter rallies attended with extracts of two significant Northern Soul songs. A Lambretta speedometer was also included. All highlight an important memory from the past with her late husband but also to the future and moving forward. The scooter scene has been an important continuous thread that joins the past, to the present and to the future.

The casual observer of this piece of work will be drawn firstly to the aesthetical look of the piece. More depth and substance is added when it is realised that only a few people will ever know the importance and connection between each element of this work.

Northern Soul Songs

I’m on my way. Dean Parrish. 1967. Written by Doug Morris, Elliot Greeenburg. Released on Laurie Label.

Just Your Fool. Eddie Whitehead 1969. Written by Kenny Smith. Released on Blackjack Label.

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Anthony Earnshaw Bursary Winner

I have looked at repair and the act of altering an object, taking broken manmade objects and looking at how repairing them changing their meaning or function. In this piece I wanted to integrate nature into my artwork, trying to restore the chair to its roots as a tree before it was cut up and reconfigured. The adjustments I made have given it new life, allowing it to grow again.

It stands unsteady, like a newborn fawn – it is too high to be practical. Its extended legs are covered in thorns, protecting it from being handled. Out of reach for all; although it balances, it would be easily broken if anyone were to try to sit on it, better to look at than to use. Nature conflicts with the manmade – the smoothness of the chair contrasts with the rough moss and branches. With time, the chair will become fully swallowed by the moss and will eventually return to humus.

www.kimmonks.blogspot.com

'Monsters In The Wardrobe'

This piece is made from fabric and utilises screen printing and felting techniques.

The piece is a response to my children's experiences of gender non conformity. I have a trans gender child and a non-binary child. Both children have had terrible and negative experiences regarding their gender identity and the clothing conformities which are pervasive in society. Having to dress in clothing which defines them as a gender they do not feel they are becomes traumatic and eventually the clothing in the wardrobe became monsters to them.

The piece explores the idea of owning the problems that haunt you and turning weakness into power. Gender specific silhouettes and colour pallets were explored as this was central to removing the gender from the garment.

For this piece of work I wanted to combine textile design and illustrative skills to create a collection of patterns inspired by the theme of ocean biodiversity. I used different techniques to make bright, whimsical designs featuring sea creatures and habitats, aimed at a younger market. I want to showcase the diversity and beauty of ocean life to encourage people to think about how we can help preserve it.

www.clareohara.blogspot.com / www.drawing-a-day-clare.tumblr.com

Anthony Earnshaw Bursary Runner-up

My work has been inspired by the ideas of multispecies feminist theorist Donna Haraway and her 2016 book, 'Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulcene'. In it she conceptualises a speculative era where hierarchies between species don’t exist and a symbiotic co-existence supports ecological survival. This offers a more optimistic imagined future and a move away from the inevitability and defeatism of climate crisis from an anthropocentric worldview.

My most recent work looks to illustrate these ideas within a fabulated underwater space, exploring the tentacled beings of the depths both real and mythic, and our own entanglements within an undefined past, present and future. I’ve applied layers of oil pastels and acrylics, scraping away the paint to reveal the images below the surface for a Sgraffito effect . The act of exposing the under surface is integral to the piece, a juxtaposition of viscerally raw clawings and gentle archaeological excavation.

www.vinetapitkevica.blogspot.com

'Togetherness'

 Mixed Media (acrylic, brush paints, white charcoal) on Canvas paper

This is my final piece for “The Vulnerability Project”. It has been a journey to understand vulnerabilities of others and myself. I am quite a sensitive person, so I found myself being vulnerable in many ways. I think, the most creative you can be is when you can get the idea to speak through your own experiences and your own feelings. This is exactly what I tried to do in my painting. The three figures on the top of the picture I would call the manifestations of the level of the consciousness. The eye on the bottom of the picture symbolises the meaning of enlightenment that sees everything, but is connected with itself and cannot be hurt anymore . It is very difficult for the soul so only a few go there.

Trying to understand vulnerability, I was analysing different reasons for people to be vulnerable. I think we all are vulnerable in one way or another. Brenè Brown, who spent past decade learning vulnerability, says: “Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it’s also the birthplace of joy, of belonging, of love.” I could not agree more!

My artwork involves Fine Art, Sculpture and Photography, later on discovering a love of Landscapes.

I enjoy painting on glass, but over time have also used materials such as heavy paper and canvas. With canvas you can use Impasto as a technique, creating layers of paint, something I thoroughly enjoyed.

My final project has been focussed on Still Life. Luckily, this has coincided well with the current situation around Covid-19 and recent weeks of lockdown, as I have been able to use the everyday objects around me for inspiration. As I said, this topic and the environment around me has influenced my final project and the Drawing A Day project.

My chosen exhibition piece is the Washing Basin mirror image, which I painted on glass using water-based paint.

I have used oil-based paint on another piece, the Jesus artwork you can see behind me. The colours used created a bold effect, however the paint took a long time to dry. This meant I spent a long time, painting little and often, to ensure what I had done was dry before continuing.

'Motam Mentem'

You as the audience, needs to seek and challenge the conventional perspective on the reasons why people become addicted to a substance or activity while being aware of their addiction(s). Pleasure is not the answer or the cause when concerning addiction, the loss of human interaction is the main subconscious driver behind addiction. The opposite of addiction is connection. Addicts do not enjoy their addictions as their free will is clouded by their need to chase ‘the dragon’. My finalised collage is to demonstrates different factors of an addiction and how they collectively create ones turmoil.

@chlodesignsprints / www.chloesmithprints.co.uk

'Another drink Tone?'

With the current trend for buying vintage furnishing and homewares in mind, my surface pattern designs have been influenced by 1960/70s drinks trolleys and associated paraphernalia. This is an ongoing theme in my work to find inspiration for pattern in unusual objects found in the everyday. Starting as lino cuts, the soda siphon and bubbles/cocktail stirrer motifs have been hand printed, then patterns developed digitally exploring colour and scale.

My vintage fabric collages of the drinks trolleys and other subjects, with their hand drawn sketchy cut out illustrations and colourful fabrics, juxtapose well with the digitally produced prints.

An artist and designer based in Leeds, I specialise in surface pattern design, printed textiles and fine art prints: printing by hand and digitally. From my home studio I am building my business, hoping to collaborate and exhibit with other local artists and designers as well as working with design companies and for private clients.

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I was inspired by a quote from Barry Purves in “Stop Motion: Passion, Process and Performance” to consider the contradictive nature (and name!) for the process of stop motion. Here, animators make puppets go by making them stop.

For my final piece I took this concept and used it to consider contradiction in my own identity. I fabricated a puppet that playfully comments on my own childhood experience, growing up with undiagnosed inattentive ADHD. The vacant face expressing my struggle to “mask” and contain any fallout from difficulties faced as an unknowingly neurodivergent person.

The face is inspired by a ragdoll I’ve had since my school years, with this comparison helping to express the clumsy (often unsuccessful) attempt to mirror the more “appropriate” behaviours of my peers. The doll representing neatness perfectly separated strands of hair and poker straight seams.

www.remiacces.blogspot.com

Thought turns into an action and action turns into a plan. This poster promotes the wellbeing of health. This poster should inspire the viewer to take care of their health and can inspire thought about their wellbeing. The posters are bold, in your face and fun. I wanted them to be positive with bright colours that are not too hard on the eye. The colours also represent the fruit I have shown in the posters.

The posters show fruit such as Oranges, Mangoes, Chilli and Coconut. Different fruit and vegetables can have different vitamins and minerals. As a person includes them in their diet the health benefits of that product become apparent. You can juice fruit and vegetables as some consumers may prefer the fruit and vegetables in juice form. I would like the posters to be displayed mainly in community based areas and NHS clinics as that would reach my target audience.

I would describe my practice as a Visual Designer. I like designing posters. I like to inform the viewer of information they may not have come across before. I like to use digital mostly and I enjoy experimenting with traditional media. I used PhotoShop, Adobe Light and Illustrator.

@tomzsketch

"Only psychos and shamans create their own reality" – Terence Mckenna

Working with a fine art spin on illustration, I make narrative works to reveal secret, inner worlds, and invisible landscapes. Topics of exploration are psychology, self, religion, and physicality; such as the body, with a particular interest in portraiture.