3- interim evaluation / revised statement of intent

After trying to think and work with themes that I could apply to textiles I found that I missed having a deeper context to my work. Also I tried to develop patterns, but I naturally found that I was creating stand-alone narrative images and preferred them. So, I don’t think textile is a route that wouldn’t be suitable for my current practice. I seem to naturally fall into creating image with narratives and I think that this is what I need to focus on. This means that I can investigate making work for publishing and editorial illustration at greater depth and home in my practice. I won’t be trying to spread my practice over too many different areas and will be able to aim at one. I can still work with lighter subjects, particularly in publishing but also after having had a break from working with social/ political issues I’m finding an interest in them again. So , starting to think more about my portfolio, I am lacking in editorial illustration. It would be good to do some that where like a few pieces I did last year that was sequential. Working with sequence of images in one image is something that would be worth investigating further, it an interesting and clear method of communication if done well.

I have started to drop live/competition briefs because for the work I want to do the briefs are not relevant and don’t appeal to me , some of the deadlines have already gone and there are not many left. So moving on from here I will be developing a lot more shorter self- led briefs, making work prominently for my portfolio but also taking the time to push my practice. My method of working must speed up, so by doing editorials and setting myself short deadline for these I hope this will force me to find new methods to speed up my process.

By working with narrative images, I can also see a more exciting and clearer way to develop my ideas and practice further. I have been wanting to produce large screen prints for years now and the time left gives me perfect opportunity to do this. If I get a strong image, printing that A2/A1 would look amazing. It will also help develop my skills as a print maker.  As much as I enjoy having a physical printed final outcome , this would be difficult to do once I have graduated so like I mentioned in the previous statement , I need to find methods of working without much print involvement that give me the same quality of my slower method of image making. By working on this too I will have built up a sustainable practice so once I leave I can still make high quality images but at faster rates.