Travel Ban Print

Born in Bristol July 1995 I now live in Devon UK, currently studying Fine Art at Plymouth University. Originally a former student of Coombeshead Academy where I studied Art, Photography and Illustration I’m now a practicing Transdisciplinary artist working out of Plymouth University. Finding the balance between the digital and the handmade is something I strive for each time I produce work. Currently finding my field in printmaking I often work from digital imagery including typography and photography, however. Printmaking in its natural sense implies originality this is something that I feel can be challenged. Passionate about arts education I feel that students should be encouraged to break the rules of art and experiment in order to find new opportunities that will push both artist and the art world. (“Practically, art is used mainly to support other parts of the curriculum, so if art skills are taught at all, they're often restricted to making pastiches of existing pictures, which reinforce conventions and practices of the 'high' art tradition. And in channeling modes of personal expression towards a set of age-old preconceptions -- you must paint a house and garden, the grass must be green and the sky blue -- it denies the sort of original thinking which is supposed to be a high priority in general, and stymies fresh, enjoyable ways of making art in particular.”) (Whittaker (1999)