Silence Project

There are so many ways you can interpret the word silence. Here are few ideas that I liked.

And then it was Third Year!

This is my view for the next seven months from my uni studio, a different view every evening.

BBC Work Experience-Coming of Age

So, I was extremely lucky and priveliged to get a weeks work experience at the BBC, for the filming of the last episode of BBC3 comedy Coming of Age. I was There was so much to take in and I was quite nervous!

Black Panther Exhibition Urbis

I went to the Black Panther Exhibition in the Urbis. It showed the graphic artwork of Emory Douglas, the official artist of the Black Panther Party. His art documents growing civil unrest and rapid change, he became responsible for for the design of the Black Community News Service , the official paper of the party in which he used strong graphic style to communicate recent news and events, to the largely illiterate black community.

The content of all these graphics were very powerful and controversial so from that aspect I found the exhibition fascinating, I love the bold propaganda screen printed style, even today they look contemporary and effective. I found them more compelling because its interesting to see how Douglas communicates news and messages through graphics, because most of the black people at that time couldn't read.

Dads birthday Present

This was the present I gave to my Dad for his 50th birthday. I collected the best photos of Dad from the day he was born and made this little photo album. He loved it! I've realised in the last few years I like documenting people's lives, watching people and looking at moments in time recorded, so I enjoyed making this.

Holiday to Spain including Barcelona and Gaudi

These are just a few photos I took when I went to Spain with my family. I love photography but havn't done too much of it myself, so I thought it was about time to get clicking.

Parque Guell. It looked like the ginger bread house from Hansell and Grettel. It was refreshing to see something so weird and wonderful but it did give me a sense of unease, was quite nice to escape back to reality!

This was an installation from the Gaudi House in Barcelona. I couldn't decide if i loved or hated Gaudi style. You can't help but admire his individuality and outrageousness, I thought it was quite grotesque and dream like. He goes against the rules of conventional architecture, and is inspired by organic shapes and the irregular forms of plants and animals. I asked my brother to describe his style in one word, he said "snippelly".

I found some ants, and liked them so I took pictures

I think I like the rawess and honesty of this photo of my Dad

Leake Street London

This is a legalised grafitti area in London I visited. I've always loved grafitti, I like the spontaneity, expression, accessibility, it's short life span and how it tells the story of the streets.

I remembered an amzing dance production I went to see at the Contact Theatre
http://www.contact-theatre.org/ in Manchester a couple of years ago. Called Tag vs The City. The production, directed by Jonzi D, tells the story of brilliant but obsessive graffiti writer. It explores the concept of 'physical calligraphy' using the body as paint. I loved the inventiveness of transforming the 2D art of grafitti into a moving dance production, it was so good!

Adventure through Central Europe

At the beginning of the Summer I went with a group of friends to EXIT Festival, it was amazing! But the journey to and from the Festival was just as amazing. We travelled overnight on old rickety trains from Istanbul to ...... ending up in Serbia, every time you looked out the window you saw a different view, from mountains to eerie lookin villages to plains to cities. Unfortunately I lost my camera phone at the airport so havnt got many photos, but here are some I found. The mosques in Istanbul were so beautiful. We sat on the roof of a building one night and the mosque next to us was lit up, there were birds circling the roof, it looked like a scene from a horror film!

http://www.elifnursad.com/
This was a little gallery I found in Istanbul. I've always loved expressive portrait paintings like the ones on this website

MMU Art and Design 2009 Exhibition

So this is my first ever blog post! I will call it
"The Beginning of Something Brilliant".
This is when I went to the Manchester Metropolitan University Art and Design Exhibition. I was so impressed, and it was refreshing seeing other people's work from other courses from Photography to Textiles to Jewellery. I also got to see some of the amazing work lots of my friends from third year produced ...very proud:)

Outside the box


Inside the box

I love how the angry scratches give the photo gives the photo an extra depth

Such a simple way of putting text with image but the simplicity is what makes it work so well. I like the necklace that drops down too