This piece, inspired by the literary genre of fantasy and the journals of famous explorers documented from all centuries, takes you on a journey through the land of Yorvishire. This is just an expression of escapism. At its most basic level, escapism is the seeking of a distraction or relief from reality, either in imagined fantasies or in fiction.

My interest in this subject stems primarily from my first-hand experiences with mental health difficulties; I have always admired artists who have expressed their difficulties through their talent, and I felt like now was my time to create something that could help me escape. I have never liked facing the thoughts that were going on in my head and the feelings that I couldn’t help but express, so creating a fantasy world away from this was a symbolic middle finger to my unreasonable mind.

Previously studied at: The College of Richard Collyer, Horsham

Progressing to: The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama to study Design for Performance

For my FMP the aim of my work was based around the concept of memory, specifically the emotion nostalgia associated with these memories. For these pieces I also looked at how memories can become distorted.

I wanted to explore how I could create the sense of nostalgia associated with many memories, visually. In addition with the current lockdown climate, I wanted to create the positive sense of nostalgia associated with many things that we’ve been unable to do in the last year. I hope my work is able to encourage a positive sense of nostalgia in the viewer.

Previously studied at: Steyning Grammar School

Progressing to: After this course, I will be taking a gap year.

“Welcome To My Room” - The Deterioration of the mind into one's environment. I am approaching my 4th year with major depressive disorder. It is extremely romanticised in films, books etc, but as soon as the symptoms are considered “too ugly” they are left out and ignored, making us feel even more misunderstood and alone. The main symptoms I experience is a sense of hopelessness, despair, exhaustion and irrationally. As a result, I often feel no need to keep my personal space clean.

This piece is a representation of my space when I am at my worst. Contingent beauty.

Previously studied at: BHASVIC

Progressing to: UAL Camberwell College of Arts to study Fine Art Drawing

For this project I wanted to explore the line between Ugly and Beautiful and allow the audience to question what they truly value as “beautiful”. As the project developed, ideas of using holes to express curiosity and wanting to explore the unusual became a key theme for the work. I was inspired by trypophobia (a disgust of tightly packed holes) and how this could create repulsion.

The cluster is handmade using a combination of latex and steel wool to give the piece a unique texture. Graphite powder was used to create an element that was interactive for the audience.

Previously studied at: BHASVIC

Progressing to: Kingston University to study Fine Art

My work portrays the feeling of powerlessness, and fragile sense of safety that Gen-Z, and Millennial women, still experience. I’ve interpreted The Three Graces embracing (the mythological Greek goddesses - representing elegance, youth, and beauty), to symbolise the sisterhood that has been created in a society where 81% of women have the shared experience of sexual harassment.

I used embroidery as an ode to the women before us, who were not allowed to educate themselves higher than domestic tasks, like needlework. Many women I know helped inform this piece as a collective group with the same fears, and understandings.

Previously studied at: Varndean College

Progressing to: Bath Spa University to study BA (Hons) in Creative Arts Practice

This piece is a visualiser of a personal yet universal experience of inner struggle and the vulnerability of being human. The warped composition represents the crumbling of the individual's subconscious mind, corrupted by intrusive thoughts.

Previously studied at: BHASVIC

Progressing to: I will be taking a BA Fine Art course at either Goldsmiths or Newcastle University.

"Divine Feminine" - Femininity can translate to an infinite number of meanings depending on who you ask, what cultures you subscribe to, the communities you’re surrounded by, your spiritual outlook on life and many other unlisted factors. Undoubtedly, there is not one single existing definition. I believe it is something that is within every person, whether we choose to outwardly express it or not.

This series of drawings represents the delicate, sensual side to femininity, inviting viewers to seek comfort and warmth in their fragile forms.

Click here to view images - A0 Graphite and Charcoal on Calico.

Previously studied at: BHASVIC

Progressing to: Bath Spa University to study Fine Art for the next 4 years. Though I have no definite pathway after my course, I am hoping to use my integrated placement year abroad, hopefully in France, to refresh my A Level language skills alongside gaining experience in unvisited areas of Fine Art such as curating or art history etc.

“We did see our community diminish, it was heart wrenching. I'd find myself looking at a bar stool where someone always sat and they were no longer there. Each week brought new losses.”

My final painting is the result of an ongoing correspondence with Nic Perry about his experiences during the AIDS crisis, the damaging effects of Section 28 under Thatcher’s government on the lives of young gay people, and the stigma and misinformation surrounding AIDS and how it manifests itself today.

Previously studied at: Kings Academy Ringmer

Progressing to: UAL Camberwell College of Arts to study Painting

I’ve created a series of oil paintings that explore the dynamic relationship between man and nature. The paintings observe the way that man-made structures fit in the environment. The natural elements have a dominance over us: I have explored this by considering the ratios between negative, natural and built spaces.

Previously studied at: Shoreham Academy

Progressing to: University of Southampton to study Civil Engineering

”Rebirth” is an opportunity to materialise your alter-egos, your desires, your fantasies, you if you could start over. In this piece I explore the inner conflict caused by the want to be someone else, as well as the joy that indulging in those fantasies can bring.

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Previously studied at: BHASVIC

Progressing to: I’m going to RSN (Royal School of Needlework) at Hampton Court Palace, where I'll learn hand embroidery to a haute couture level. After that I will be able to embroider for restorative purposes, haute couture, film costume, commissions etc, but at the moment I have my sights set on film costume!

"In between the earth and the sky" - Horizons, the unfathomable, a shift from physical to spiritual, mystical, romantic, fiction. Loss of meaning, corruption, evolution. What is fact, what is felt. Language, word of mouth. Borders, knowledge, context. We came outside, smoke was in the air. We crouched together, bound. Some were turned away. This land. We came together, we sleep side by side.

Previously studied at: Varndean College

Progressing to: Goldsmiths, University of London to study BA Fine Art

The body of work I have produced is entitled an “Androgynous Eden”, which visualises a new genesis of humankind, what the world would look like liberated from the divisions of sex and gender. I have drawn on some of the methods of the Renaissance Masters to give a blend of traditional and decadent Renaissance aesthetics with contemporary ideas regarding gender.

I have produced an installation focussing around a painting of traditional Adam and Eve type figures which are made in my androgynous image instead, to challenge the viewers expectations of what should be the proper subject matter of devotional painting.

Previously studied at: The Burgess Hill Academy

Progressing to: UAL Central Saint Martins to study Fine Art

My final piece reflects the fragmented disillusionment of identity in social media. Under my title "Challenging the artificial constructs of image and identity in social media" I explored what it means to have authority over what version of ourselves we put online, through social media, and how that can change how others view us. The repeated image in my final piece of my own face represents this concept where I aimed to show a multi faceted version of myself, touching on the idea of having more than one identity.

Previously studied at: BHASVIC

Progressing to: London College of Communication (LCC) to study Design for Art Direction

"Know Something You Don't" - This was an early study as part of my final project, for which I researched ghosts and phobias, in order to examine the feeling of hauntedness. Diptych, oil on canvas.

Previously studied at: Roedean School

Progressing to: University of Manchester to study Physics with Theoretical Physics

This was my final multi media piece for my FMP, my project was on "Perception and identity".

Previously studied at: BHASVIC

Progressing to: University of the West of England (UWE) Bristol, to study Psychology BSc (Hons)

Exploring the roots of my family and the lives of the relatives that I never got to meet.

Oil, acrylic and charcoal on board.

Previously studied at: BHASVIC

Progressing to: I am going to be studying Fine Art, Painting at Camberwell College of Arts