Year 13 Visual Art & Design

Ongoing Destination:

Photography BA, The University of Westminster

Alien Nation

I have been drawn to visual language from a young age and feel my dyslexia made me a visual learner, something that I now deeply value. It took me a while to accept my way of thinking, but the struggles I encountered at school versus the joy I found in art, have given me the strength and conviction to create out of the box. My experience of feeling alienated from society for having dyslexia was the main inspiration for this piece. The colours and patterns I used reflect a part of me that I find hard to expose. My desire is for my audience to discover a new part of me with each viewing. My work is saturated with colour and pattern because I feel like I have so much to say beyond words. What do you see?

Ongoing Destination: Art Foundation

Email: lardantcarpentier@gmail.com

Instagram: @the_art_of_a_line

Growing Discomfort

In my final project I looked at feeling uncomfortable and what evokes this feeling. From my research I focused on lichen and fungus as I found their appearance makes me very uncomfortable. I wanted to portray this feeling of discomfort growing on you the more you look at something through textiles, so I created this corset style garment inspired by lichen using mainly free machine embroidery.

Ongoing Destination:

Fashion and Textiles Foundation course

Email: ellabarry17@gmail.com

Naturally Dyed Weaving

It is so hard to be environmentally friendly as a modern artist, but I try my best. I opt for locally sourced natural fibres and traditional natural dyeing to do my part to combat the climate crisis. I hope to create pieces of work that can bring beauty into the homes and everyday lives of people. My work is inspired by sacred geometry, the beauty of nature and traditional craft techniques. Sharing these techniques is also a key part of my practice as I try to learn and grow with my peers whilst exploring crafts from all over the world. I look forward to exploring many mediums including woodwork and ceramics to create useful items that bring the joy and balance of nature to everyday life.

Ongoing Destination:

Foundation in Art and Design, Camberwell

Email: jodiebastow@gmail.com

Instagram: @artbyjodieb

Beautiful Mundane

As an artist my aim is to translate social and historical issues into a format that is creative, accessible and enjoyable for my audience. Throughout my projects I was drawn to exploring social movements, historical and political events, as well as more personal topics such as migration and belonging.

In this project I explored the aspects of privilege and eventually focused on the idea of undocumented history, because history is told from the perspective of those in power. Through my artwork I aim to represent the mundanity of areas that are usually considered unattractive in a striking way. I want to inspire my audience to feel a sense of enthusiasm when they pass by mundane locations and appreciate its hidden uniqueness.

In the long term, I want to explore the realms of documentary filmmaking and photojournalism.

Ongoing Destination:

BA Liberal Arts, University of Manchester

Email: dana1834benedek@gmail.com

Instagram: @danabenedek

The Reality of Fantasy

I am inspired by hyperrealism which has developed my practice as a make-up artist. I aspire to work on set for Fashion Magazines, Movies and TV shows to create both editorial looks, similar to those on ‘Euphoria’, and Special Effects looks for horror or action movies.

My FMP work explores the relationship between us and the universe via dreams. Through our fascination and complete lack of understanding of how we came to be as brief existences, the theory promoting the idea that we ourselves are the product of long dead stars is expressed through my photography, make-up and digital art. Viewing dreams as a way to receive this alternative reality is the way in which we choose to comprehend the vast universe we stumbled upon.

Ongoing Destination:

Hair, Make-up and Prosthetics for Performance, London College of Fashion

Email: nimrit.bhogal@gmail.com

Instagram: @rito.arts

Drowning in Dreamland

As an artist I am in love with the weird and wonderful things in life so for my FMP project I looked into the subject of ‘Escapism’. During this project I was investigating a way in which I could escape from the day to day norm within my work.

I created this piece by being inspired by my own dreams and past experiences related to my fear of drowning as well as the pop up book artist Robert Sabuda. I created this bizarre hat to ‘catch my dreams’.

Ongoing Destination:

Gap year

Email: dabrooks2626@gmail.com

Instagram: @aameliasart

Smudge

I am a Multimedia artist who plays around a lot with the ideas of appearance and underground themes and subcultures. With my artwork I am known for using an extremely colourful and vibrant colour palette and making my art very childish, camp and playful. I chose to show this piece as it represents me the most as it is a self portraiture piece exploring the ideas of personas. This piece just highlights how fun most of my work is.

I am currently working on a collaborative project to hopefully produce a magazine or zine called “Peanut” focused on London teen life and alternative fashion trends and styles from Japan and London. It will hopefully be an ongoing project I will still be a part of after I leave Brit.

Ongoing Destination:

Foundation in Art and Design, Camberwell

Email: jcwynarski@gmail.com

Instagram: @jazzy2groovy4u or @tacky_tastic

My Brain's Pet Dog

I am a multimedia artist that likes to consistently play around with the themes of “sweet-and-sour”. I am very much inspired by underground fashion subcultures and bright, loud, cute, colourful kinds of art, which I present in my own works.

I chose the piece “My Brain’s Pet Dog” to present, as it is based on the delights and struggles of living with a small handful of learning difficulties, which has became a big part of my art and visual expression. I wanted to present visual joy and stress at the same time, with the pinks and playful figures to represent the amount of inspiration I receive from my disability and the little dark, almost creepy details, to represent the downs.

Currently, I am working on a collaborative project to create a magazine named “Peanut”, which is focused on alternative teenage fashion styles from Japan to America to England!

Ongoing Destination:

Freelancing

Email: dujabsabee@gmail.com

Instagram: @nuchpocho

Eye to the Sky/ Perspective

BRIT has been a huge learning curve for me. I have developed countless valuable skills that will remain with me for the rest of my life.

I have developed my creative side throughout this course and I have confidence in my most recent/ last work at BRIT being an accurate representation of me and my time here.

Ongoing Destination:

Photography BA, Sussex University

Email: freddie.frenchff@gmail.com

Instagram: @freddo.o

The hand that mocked

There are certain things in life that people simply don’t like thinking about let alone talk about, maybe it’s because they’re scared, maybe it’s because it makes them uncomfortable. Either way those are the things I love most in life because they are just as much a part of life as all of the good and wonderful things people actually do like to think about are. So you may as well try and tackle them head on.

Ongoing Destination:

Gap year

Email: hugofulton9000@gmail.com

Instagram: @uggibearsociety

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My starting point was ‘puddles’ and has gradually changed into an exploration of the sun and my shadow.

This piece looks at the shared anonymity of graveyards and shadows where the viewer cannot see my physicality nor those who have passed. Graveyards are full of shadows - shadows of past lives and hopes. I am filming my shadow in the graveyard over a long period of time, looking at its ephemeral nature and dependence on the sun. I am interested in the delicate juxtaposition of time and non- time. where the passage of time in the graveyard is finite yet exists within our transitory world. This piece is somehow a meeting of shadows.

Ongoing Destination:

Edinburgh University - Intermedia Art or

Newcastle University - Fine Art

Email: evegilal@gmail.com

Instagram: @eveallais

Vignettes of a Year's Life

In life there are the good days and the bad ones, how we perceive and handle them builds us as individuals. This project has helped me visualise and combat this year’s hardest days, which I’ve found is necessary in order to move on in life. I hope that these comics and small insights of my life can help others find peace with their own struggles this year has thrown at us.

Ongoing Destination:

Foundation in Art and Design, Kingston University

Email: Hanamokochan@gmail.com

Instagram: @kinoko.mori_

Waves

I am a mix media artist who loves creating! The three pieces I’m currently presenting are a symbol of how life is like the ocean. It can be uncontrollable but sometimes it’s calm and quiet, so peaceful and innocent. The different shades of blue represent the good and bad. I added some green to show mixed emotions of good and bad.

Email: Bonnie.faye.heath@gmail.com

Two Pigs

With a lot of my work I aim to tackle the issues of our current political system with vibrant and surreal imagery, often drawing inspiration from comic book artists, graphic designers and illustrators such as Dave Gibbons or Craig Gleason. This piece is a response to the two contrasting ways that we treat animals within our societies. On the one hand, if you look at cartoons, children’s books or advertisements you will see this image of humanised animals who stand up on their hind legs and speak like us and live like us but when you look at the reality of our relationship with animals, you see something entirely different. We slaughter and torture animals for food, clothing and domestic products, looking at them only for what they can give us without considering that they, like us are living, breathing and feeling creatures.

Ongoing Destination:

Foundation in Art and Design, Camberwell

Email: joehenson38@gmail.com

Instagram: @melon_comics

Copied Mannerisms

As just another person in our world populated by billions, I have always been intrigued by how people interact with each other. So, it is only natural that I should immerse myself in the understanding of our unconscious behaviour.

Due to subconscious influence, we all omit movements of which we are unaware as a response to somebody else’s physical behaviour, similarly to a yawn.

Ongoing Destination:

Cardiff Metropolitan 2022

Email: Rukeenan50@gmail.com

Instagram: @aporkyrecital

Football Shirt

My work focuses on sport. In This project I am focusing on English Football and the Football industry, in particular English Youth football and the young athletes who face the ugly consequences of the system.

I am interested in the journey of young footballers trying to break into the professional sport and the challenges they face in a ruthless institution that will spit them out if they fail to achieve unrealistic standards.

I have been making unwearable football shirts as a symbol of the ultimate goal of playing professional football and how this dream is unattainable for many.

Ongoing Destination:

BA Fine Art Chelsea

Morpheus Jacket (Illustration)

My hope for fashion as an aspiring tailor is to humanise it again through bespoke garments. This means that the consumer (you) can completely see how the clothes got on your back - from where the cloth was woven to who stitched them together. I hope fashion will be more sustainable and relationships will form between you, your clothes and the person who made it.

For the FMP I learned how to cut jackets and took a more technical approach. I developed my technique conceptually exploring how my dreams became an escape for me during quarantine including one about the God of Dreams Morpheus. It’s crucial that my work has cultural relevance. The lining is embroidered with the line “The caged bird sings in the arms of Morpheus” combining a line from Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” and Angelou’s “Caged Bird” referencing the BLM movement. As well as that the collar is detachable to transform into a mask (Covid Collar).

Ongoing Destination:

Bespoke Tailoring Degree, London College of Fashion

Email: phoebelam2508@gmail.com

Instagram: @phoebe._.lam

Saggy Boobs

This project work began with the idea that every object had a perceivable essence, a set of properties, and subsequently an intrinsic value based on the style of those properties. I then began looking further into the set of properties required to feel empathy for an object, and more in depth, looking into the essence of a sexualisation, what set of shapes, colours and references creates a visual innuendo.

I felt it was important as during the time of this project the Sarah Everard case sparked women all over the world to explain their experiences with oversexualisation and the violent culture that allowing oversexualisation can create.

I created a sculpture with the idea of it being the visual antithesis of the perfect pair of boobs from the perspective of the male gaze.

Ongoing Destination: Communication Design BA, Glasgow School of Art

Email: gretel_lg@icloud.com

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I am a textile designer who loves to create work that is a reflection of me and the things that interest me. For example the unknown and spirituality which are often references in my work. Recently I have discovered a new found love for embroidery and beadwork because I’ve grown to appreciate the smaller details in life and I think they reflect that. I am able to bring myself to a better focus and although it is very slow and labour intensive, you keep going because the outcome will always be worth it.

I have a massive love for textiles and I hope to combine my skills with the craftsmanship of footwear design and bring something that is sustainable and new to the shoe industry.

Ongoing Destination:

BA Hons Footwear Design, London College of Fashion

Email: fallondesigns@icloud.com

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I like my work to focus on current subjects and things that are personal to me because I think it’s important to look at and be passionate about the things that are going on around us. My art is also heavily inspired by the types of media that I consume like music and different TV programs because it shows different pieces of my personality in my work. I focus more on linocut printing because I find it really therapeutic and I love the result of it. For the FMP I chose to do my project on autism because I’m autistic and I thought it was important to create more acceptance around the topic and break the stigma surrounding autism to show it’s not a bad thing to have.

Ongoing Destination:

Graphic Design BA, Leeds Arts University

Email: lilysue972@gmail.com

Instagram: @lilymackinnon_art

She Kissed Me

I have been exploring the theme ‘memory’ through hazy mood based images.

The work I have been producing has been a response to the emotions surrounding memories. I was inspired by feelings of nostalgia and strange familiarity which I was able to convey best by experimenting on my photos with different physical techniques, such as using inks and bleach during the development of a photograph to change the effect and texture of the images into something more unclear. I was trying to play with the idea that our memories can be blurred and unreliable.

‘She kissed me’ was inspired by journal and diary notes we make about our lives. I wanted the final image to have a scrapbook feel to it as if it were someone’s personal notes on someone they kissed.

Ongoing Destination:

Gap year then Edinburgh college of Art or The Gerrit Rietveld Academie for BA in Photography

Email: miamarriott@icloud.com

Instagram: @miasfakeaccount / @mia.marrie

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For this project I have been exploring the concept of language communication through textiles and fabric formations.

My work has been heavily influenced by Anni Albers and Francesca Capone with their weaving concepts and designs.

This piece was an exploration of weaving in a stylised form. Assembled with cotton macrame and structured with machine stitching. I have gone on to explore Generational storytelling in families and I am going to create a personal embroidered textual map. From the knowledge and experiences the eldest matriarchs in my family shared with me.

Ongoing Destination:

Foundation in Fashion and Textiles, Ravensbourne

Email: Lilamcrae1@gmail.com

Instagram: @christinalila_

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My artistic ambitions lie in creating work which is accessible and concept-driven, focusing on the female experience of personal identity as well as the difficulties of womanhood.

This project began as a way for me to explore the uncomfortable feelings related to being in a period of your life when you are constantly changing. I later extended this idea to the universal female experience and am using it as a way to visualise the way in which we emotionally navigate life in a patriarchal society, as well as the feelings we carry towards this experience.

Ongoing Destination:

Fine Art Degree, Goldsmiths

Email: hana.mehmed@icloud.com

Instagram: @hellssend

FMP

I am looking into the different techniques used to write and design characters for video games, comics and cartoons. I am exploring different ways to create interesting characters that can be both relatable and unique.

I have experimented with different character archetypes and stereotypical personalities whilst exploring things like anatomy, fashion design and writing all within the digital design blanket.

I want to really get into writing backstories and definitive personalities/struggles for these characters and really go personal and in depth.

Ongoing Destination:

Animation BA, University of Westminster

Email: nathanrose.mc@gmail.com

Instagram: @nate.doodles

Jarring

For my Final Major Project, I have focused on preservation and image through self-portraiture.

I have been looking at the ways we can put ourselves on display whilst remaining unseen. Inspired by female identifying artists and the outcry in the industry for representation and appreciation, I have focused on creating work that I want to see as a woman.

I have become dedicated to portraiture and expanding my knowledge of painting throughout my time in VAD.

Ongoing Destination:

Fine Art BA, Newcastle university or Liverpool John Moores university

Email: edithvioletowen@hotmail.com

Instagram: @peas111

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I focus on digital art specifically, graphic designs that help invoke certain emotions within a specific audience to help them connect with my work. This could be anything from feeling very happy or emotional to being confused. I find that this helps my work have a lasting effect on people. I love doing digital designs and using photography as my starting point to help me get good ideas on what work I can produce. For example, this photo of a sponge I cut into was one that I took to help me generate ideas on my project about the human brain and its structures and textures.

Ongoing Destination:

Apprenticeship in Graphic Design

Mountain Warehouse

Email: aneetaphilip@hotmail.com

Instagram: @aneeta_create

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Through this project I have been exploring the idea of gender and more specifically looking at gender and sex in nature, and body hair as a way of expressing gender. I wanted my images to be confrontational and almost uncomfortable to look at, as it is an uncomfortable topic for some.

In these images I collected worms from my garden and used them to represent creatures with no set gender, (as worms are hermaphrodites and have both male and female parts). I photographed them in food to suggest how humans should take an example from nature’s more fluid way of expressing gender, and how they should be consuming these ideas, instead of humans man made and more hardened viewpoints.

Ongoing Destination: Foundation in Art and Design, Kingston University

Email: jalayarajwadi@gmail.com

Instagram: @jsart03_

For Sale: Selling the Idea of Fear

This is my favourite piece of work that I did during my Year 13 ‘For Sale’ project, where I focused on the concept of ‘Selling the Idea of Fear.’

Throughout this project I proposed to sell the feeling of experiencing fears and linking the distortion of memories, dreams and nostalgia to a contorted reality by using surrealist and realism influences within my work and research.

What I attempted to achieve through this piece in particular was a sense of uneasiness and an uncomfortable viewing experience for my audience. The fear displayed in this piece is the fear of deformity, ‘Dysmorphophobia’. I think this is a successful surrealist piece, as by combining an eye and hands that appear to have the same proportions, it gives a distorted yet realistic effect.

Ongoing Destination:

Fine Art Degree

Email: hazelreevesmoore@gmail.com

Instagram: @hazelrm.art

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My work explores the relationship between topics that affect today’s society and the consequences it has on the younger generation. As an artist, I work hard to produce artwork that communicates the issues people have to face on a daily basis which don’t receive enough attention and awareness, and I aim to impact the viewers with my art and ask questions that challenge their opinions.

I am inspired by artists such as Jenny Saville and Denzil Forrester, two artists, although very different in style, both use their platform to comment on important topics and dare the observer to criticise their work.

Part of my process before I begin painting is to have discussions with my audience about the specific topic I am about to recreate on canvas, this way the brushstrokes not only speak for me, but also for the people who aren’t given the opportunity to express their beliefs.

Ongoing Destination:

BA (Hons) Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, or a BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting at Camberwell College of Arts

Email: Harriet@franey.com

Instagram: @h.attie_art

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I have chosen this design because it is one of my favourite pieces of work from this series that I created. In the project “book title” we had to create a series of images that represented our chosen book, the book I chose was “Fear and loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson.”

I knew that I wanted the final outcome to have graphic qualities and simple colours. I used the gun silhouette to show the recurring sight of this specific type of gun and I didnt want to use the obvious themes such as the heavy drug use or the iconic car. I carefully cut out the stencil with a shape x-acto knife to show the constant spiralling that the characters experienced throughout the book.

Ongoing Destination: Foundation in Art and Design, Bournemouth University

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My aim in art is mostly just to have fun and hope that my peers enjoy what I do. As a more academic student, art allows me to be more playful in an institutionalised setting, whilst still allowing me to work to my strengths in research and analysis. I prefer to focus on aspects of character design in my personal work, combining them with subjects such as mythology and legend - this was actually the basis of my year 12 FMP, where I drew inspiration from Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology.

For my final project at Brit, I decided to focus on gems, rocks and minerals, combining them with character design; gemstones are a huge part of modern and historical culture, as classic gifts for partners to having deep historical connections with Western and Eastern zodiacs. The inclusion of this topic in my project allowed me to research history and character design to my heart’s content, meaning I could have a satisfying conclusion to my past four years at Brit.

Ongoing Destination: History and History of Art at SOAS

Email: rroyle2003@gmail.com

Instagram: @griffin.stars

The Death of the Masculine

My art has always been based on my own experiences and how, as a woman, I perceive the world around me. For my final major project I wanted to challenge this, and create work which I had never done before, using artistic styles which were new to me and research topics I had never looked into before.

‘The death of the masculine’ is a multimedia artistic series looking into my relationship with men and how the rise in hegemonic masculinity has led to a loss in identity with boys. In addition I explored pagan rituals and the similarities between men and beasts in easten european folklore.

Ongoing Destination: Foundation in Art and Design, Kingston University

Email: margotsaywood123@gmail.com

Instagram: @margotsprocess

Mutualism

As an artist I am incredibly driven in finding a more sustainable way of working. Fashion is one of the most critiqued and wasteful industries. It has always been an interest of mine to improve and develop this. My work focuses on finding better ways to make fashion more accessible and acceptable among all people. I like to support small businesses in hopes to offset the impacts of fast fashion. And one day aspire to be a part of my own business.

For my Final project at Brit I began looking at the history of women’s fashion and how it has evolved over time. Through my research I have also looked into the practicality of clothing and the impact it has had on society. I am interested in exploring the medium of fashion and pushing the boundaries of the current designing process to better the future of fashion with an eco-friendly mindset.

Ongoing Destination: Gap year, then Fashion BA, University of Bournemouth

Email: oliviasecord@hotmail.co.uk

Instagram: @olivia.secord

Aesthetic: Flower Series

My concept for this project is based on personal aesthetics. My thought processes have led me to exploring colours, and how they influence me. Many of the colours we see are in nature (natural environments or animals). Therefore I feel like it is one of the main factors which helps to form a personal style and idea of beauty, as nature is not only within us, but all around us.

Ongoing Destination: Foundation in Art and Design, Ravensbourne

Instagram: @artbyast0u

Split Medicine

In the work I create I am considerate of colour psychology, which has become of interest to me in the last year. The way in which different colours can influence behaviours and emotions in people intrigues me. Research into this often influences my designs for the pieces I create and determines colour schemes in my work.

My FMP was based on the theme of ‘Health’, I worked with graphics and textiles throughout the project. For my final piece, I took photos of spilt medicine and edited them together to make a digital design. I used latch hooking techniques to turn my design into a textile wall hanging.

Ongoing Destination:

Foundation in Art and Design, Camberwell

Email: isabelle@isabellesmart.net

Instagram: @izzi_smart

Menstrual Poverty - Bloodline

For this project I looked into social economic problems and I zoomed in on the area of period poverty in the UK. I wanted to aim to depict the concept of menstrual capitalism and use quite bold visuals to attempt to break the stigma that surrounds it.

This image was created by drizzling red food-dye (replicating blood) in a container of water. It strives to reflect menstruation in a more artistic, abstract way contrasting with some of the typical views that connect with it. It attempts to portray a period in its purest form without prices and packaging surrounding it, showing the cause and foundation of all the good and bad that encompasses it.

Ongoing Destination: Foundation in Art and Design, Ravensbourne

Email: izzy.blaze@yahoo.co.uk

Instagram: @izzys_arttt & @izzyblaze.s

Asthma Attack

I am an artist who mostly focuses on creating concept art and portraiture with my own illustrative style that I am continuing to develop. Game art, manga and a large variation on social media artists are some of my main influences on my concepts and style development.

I enjoy experimenting a lot with character design and the type of worlds they would be. I have my own characters that I am continuing to develop and design so they become more lifelike. I also explore more personal and a darker themes in some of my illustrations, however I tend to enjoy using brighter and more pastel colours to contradict the darker themes.

Ongoing Destination:

Illustration BA, UWE Bristol University

Email: Martha.i.solman@gmail.com

Instagram: @isartbea

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For my final project I have been exploring aspects of my dual heritage, investigating Indian culture and what it means to be British, having grown up in South London.

The images here are stills from a short film I made of myself draping my hand screen printed sari piece. The sari depicts Sarasvati, the goddess of creativity and knowledge, ‘The Midnight Shop’ bag design from the shop my family used to run and a large red St. George’s cross that extends along the whole sari.

By dressing myself in the sari while wearing western top and trainers, I am using it as both a prop and a symbol to represent me exploring and grappling with aspects of my mixed identity and to question the sense of ‘Britishness’ that I have felt so strongly throughout my life so far.

Ongoing Destination: Foundation in Art and Design, Camberwell

Email: ellabluebellsoni@gmail.com

Instagram: @ellasoni_

Frustration When Your Heart Is Trying to Break Through but the Whole World Tells You to Keep Moving

I am mostly concerned with trying to replicate a specific feeling in my work - the Sublime, a Sense of Wonder, viscerally and vertigo are previous themes I’ve explored that converge from this same place. Doing dance outside of school inspires a sub-theme of motion in my work, in particular drawing me to pieces with a sense of speed and intensity.

In the photograph opposite, part of the FMP project, I am manifesting two opposite feelings into one: the frustration of creative paralysis during a pandemic, by obstructing the natural focal point of the image; with the exhilaration of breaking through it, conveyed through a contrastingly emotive, red apparition.

My aspirations for the future are to experiment with dance more within my practice. That is why I am going on to do a one year dance foundation!

Ongoing Destination:

Northern School of Contemporary Dance

Email: joseph.rcw.teh@gmail.com

Instagram: @rayframe_ @saneguard_

Masculinity and Stoicism

As a student it is difficult to differentiate your work from other students, as you are constantly surrounded by creativity and innovation. BRIT has really helped me differentiate myself while also guiding me to a better understanding of what I am creating.

The pandemic has brought out a lot of great qualities in my work, such as an independent work ethic, which led to me heavily focusing on the idea of stoicism. I find this philosophy to be engaging and motivating during a time of isolation, and in result has made me more aware of how beautiful the complexity of a working environment or a city really is.

Here is a sketch made during my final major project, where I tried to present the inner workings of a society in an entertaining fashion, with multiple unique characters crammed into geometric patterns.

Ongoing Destination: Graphic Design BA, University of Brighton

Farm Life

This piece is from my FMP, Farm Life. This project showcases my life as a young farmer and the relationship I have with my animals.

This piece in particular is inspired by Marek Chaloupka, another photographer who is known best for his project: Latency. The photos are of shadowy figures, and I wanted to respond to his work with one of my hens feet.

I believe this was a successful piece because the contrast between the white background and the deepest imprint of the foot is strong, and it has that heavenly lighting I have been aiming for throughout this project.

Ongoing Destination: Employment

Email: joelyvaughan256@gmail.com

Instagram: @jesuxjuice

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Anxious Orange

I am an artist who likes to think outside of the box and tries to push the norms. I am hoping to pursue a career in the tattoo industry after my studies at university. Therefore it was only right to practice with my tattoo machine on an orange.

This piece was actually for a university pre task brief titled “inside out”. I chose tattoos for the medium because they are on the ‘outside’ and I chose an ‘inner’ feeling (Anxiety). I wanted to combine these two things together as I know it affects almost 300 million people globally. Conversations about mental health should be normalised. Additionally, the consumption of oranges helps with anxiety as diets rich in vitamin C can help to calm you and put you in a better frame of mind.

Ongoing Destination: Foundation in Art and Design, Central St Martins

Email: macy@hencorner.com

Instagram: @macy.ward_

Endorphins

As an artist I have always been fascinated by the female form. My enjoyment for life drawing and passion for running is what drove me to explore the concept of exercise for this project.

My main focus for this project has been on exploring ways of translating my internal exercise induced euphoria into an abstract visual format. Endorphins manipulate the brain to give you a high feeling of ecstasy after exercise and I have been trying to create an abstract representation of them through multiple mediums. Coronavirus has massively impacted people’s mental health and for me personally exercise has been a good escape and in helping to boost my mood. I want to encourage my audience to share the same enthusiasm I do for exercise.

In the long term I want to be really experimental and push the boundaries of mixed media art.

Ongoing Destination: BA Fine Art, UWE Bristol University

Email: ngward24@gmail.com

Instagram: @naomi.ward5030

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I have always preferred the act of physical construction to graphic portrayal. Over the past two years I have discovered the importance to me of the process of hand making textiles. Darning, rug making and weaving have been a therapeutic way to spend lockdown. I have wondered whether this relates to my ADHD and the role tactile stimulation plays in my experience.

For my FMP I have explored contemporary witchcraft and the ways I personally connect with the various practices. Many witches believe that hair holds much of one’s power and spirit and I feel that this resonates with the importance that hair plays in reflecting and constructing people’s identity.

Through the process of felting I created a novel fabric that is sustainable. I embellished it with beads in order to make it more attractive. I found that people are either disgusted or intrigued by the use of hair in my work.

Ongoing Destination: Foundation in Art and Design, Camberwell

Email: rubyjcookewebster@gmail.com

Instagram: @falafelsfalafels

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For this project I have been exploring the idea of the temporary, and how we as humans are powerless against the natural flow of time. This concept has been an attempt to form a new relationship with the present, and develop a more meaningful connection with the material world - to counteract the consumerist narrative this capitalist system conditions us to believe in.

My ideas have been influenced by the absurdist and existential works of Jean Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and George Orwell. My main mediums of work have been jewellery making, collage, photography, multimedia and graphic design.

I am in the process of making a time capsule which will include contributions from friends, family, strangers, classmates etc, and will be buried on school grounds.

Ongoing Destination: Gap year then English literature Degree

Email: francescawight@hotmail.co.uk

Tokyo Purge

Throughout my time at BRIT the importance of having fun with my own work has grown more and more over time, and my idea of having fun is playing video games! Although I cannot fully program or code, I wanted to think about all of the areas that should be considered before that stage; character designs, the world they live in, the concept of the game and finally how this may be pitched or advertised.

I already enjoy creating universes and characters to go in them, so for my FMP I decided to create a game based around some original characters, Teriyaki and Ginger. It was an opportunity to showcase not only what I have enjoyed, but also develop what I want to do in the future, which is character creation and game design.

Ongoing Destination: Game Art BA, Falmouth University

Email: tiffeyks@hotmail.com

Instagram: @tiffeyks

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I mostly look at 21st century media and how we experience nostalgia in such a rapidly paced society. my mind moves at 200 miles per hour so all I can truly take in is some pretty pictures!

Ongoing Destination: Fine Art Painting & Printmaking, Glasgow School of Art

Email: teganpatricia@gmail.com

Instagram: @tegaaanwilson