Every Name i Have Ever Been Called 2008/9

Carrying on from the previous thread, this piece was inspired by Emins Tent, Everybody I Have Every Slept With 1963 - 1995. The seconed part of the project was to create your own work inspired by the artist you looked at. I took on bored the idea of using personal experiance to shock and confront social issues. As a larger person i have always had to deal with being called names, though it's still painful to hear, i have long since come to terms with the fact. In this work i've partially been inspired by that which makes, or what most people believe make us fat. Sweets. I looked at typography and colours of confectionery, both of which are used to grab attention and draw people in. The intension here is to shock.

Materials and techniques used are enamels, stencils, fuseing and sandblasting.

Tracey Emin Inspired Work

This piece was for a Ref Def Dif Project at university, the idea was we had to choose an artist and recreate their work in our medium. I chose Tracey Emin, focusing on her embroidered blankets and monoprinting. It was the traditional qualities of the embroidered blankets that inspired me to recreate them in another traditional art form, stained glass. Paints and enamels were used on various pieces of coloured glass to create the patterns typical of Emins blankets, some fusing was also used. The 'pieces' were then leaded in the traditional manner, as in the way Emin stitches them together.

The idea behind the piece was that it could have been used as the window to the Tracey Emin Museum, a shop in Waterloo Road Emin used from 1995 - 98. Due to the nature of the work it could be expanded exponentially to any size by adding new pieces.

Gaining Independance, 2007

Ceramics project from first year of uni, Poles Apart . Having spent time in Ghana, West Africa and visiting the slave castles of Elmina and Cape Coast. The square box represents the prison which over time have crumbled away and are now ruins, the Black star, is symbolic representing the African people and their freedom. Which becomes more prominent as the castles crumble away. 2007 was the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade and the 50th anniversary of Ghana gaining her independance.

I was lucky enough to be in the country on their independance day. The atmosphere was amazing! A day i will never forget, above is an image from Independace Square, over a million people had travelled from across the country to be there that day.