Alison Ellis
Artist Statement
Hello there! I’m Alison Ellis and I have always had a fascination with monsters, especially dragons, which inspire my art practice along with surrealism and dreams. For my artwork I mainly use photoshop for digital art, pencil and pen/fine liner, but can use a wide range of other mediums when necessary including Zbrush, a 3D sculpting software. Main areas of art led practice I would consider in the future are concept and book illustrations and attending comic conventions because I enjoy meeting the other artists.
Email: Alisonellis@yorksj.ac.uk
Amelia Wilson
Winter Show Artist Statement
My practice centres around music and the enjoyment involved within it. I create and express my own interpretation of my experience surrounding events I have attended. Music is a great way to connect with people around you. I acquire my inspiration by the nature of everyday surroundings, with this, much of my imagery is focused on organic natural forms incorporated with my passion for music. I enjoy exploring lots of alternative design aspects within music and aim to project a sense of excitement, giving off a fun, energetic vibe through my illustrations that can be interpreted by the audience. I experiment with a variation of materials which allows me to explore new ways of working. This refers to both watercolour paint as well as digital development. This opens up opportunity to explore diversity in my artwork and to learn techniques at a professional degree. This has been portrayed in these images I have chosen to exhibit.
Jasmine Chow
Artist Statement – Jasmine Chow
Through illustration I digitally design and illustrate characters in a manga style, from their visual look to their background and personality as an individual, tying them together to create someone believable, with their own thoughts and ideals. The images created communicate a narrative to those whom may resonate with the ideas that are told. To achieve a level of attachment and knowledge of a character, I design the characters to look visually striking to appeal and interest the audience first, then tell a deeper story to the character’s life. This idea of realising these intricate character backstories stems from my interest in people and how everyone has a story to tell, and in bestowing small aspects of myself to them, I hope they can be relatable, and perhaps provide solace for someone out there who may be struggling in the same ways as these characters do as well.
Logan Downie
Artist Statement
My practise centres around characters and monsters from fantasy worlds. I use my illustration to celebrate genres I am passionate about such as horror and fantasy whilst also celebrating queer identity and queer culture. Fantasy settings offer a space removed from prejudice which are often used by queer people to explore facets of themselves such as their gender identity without fear of repercussion from real-world queermisia. Tabletop roleplaying games have inadvertently functioned as a safe haven for LGBT people and my recent work, including my illustrations around Chance Encounters, are part of a project that focuses on this genre. Generally my practise focuses on characters with monstrous features because through celebrating them in art I intend to construct a narrative that reclaims the act of dehumanisation that LGBT people are frequently subjected to through emphasising the power and beauty of the monstrous figure.
Matt Jinks
‘Easter in Eire’
‘Fake News: Evaluating the Canon of Historical Villains’ is a multipart project that attempts to grasp with the way in which we, as a British culture, view historical figures.
This series aims to bring to light this phenomenon – but also provide a way to begin the revaluation of the way in which we view historical ‘villains’ – in particular, those whose historical place sits within a class conflict.
Though some figures are almost certainly villains and possess evil ideas – are they those whose ideas we view uncritically because of this cultural canon of ‘this individual was evil.
The series aims to for an audience to begin to form an individual view on individuals and their ideas separate to this.
‘Easter in Eire’ focuses on those involved in the Easter Rising. This is a conflict that would ultimately breed almost a century of brutal warfare in Ireland– and yet we overlook the core event, as a wider British society, of this conflict.
Morgan Scott
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As an illustrator my practise varies in some ways, but I usually keep to my core themes. I take much inspiration from the feminist art, zines, comics, and political artwork. At the moment my current interests are mostly focusing on the female forum I use pottery to focus on certain parts of the body that women are taught to hate by the magazines, social me, male gaze. I want to create artwork that encourages for people to love parts that they dislike. My main focuses are exploring aspects of stereotyping and the stigmas around women’s bodies. Artists like Juno birch and polyester zine inspire my work. I love experimenting with different materials in my work such as using clay and paint I usually like to combine my digital art together with them as then it allows me to explore different mediums and aspect of my work.
Molly Leigh
WINTER SHOW ARTIST STATEMENT
For my Riso print I was inspired by the classic horror film posters painted in the 50s-70s, I was also inspired by gothic horror illustrations in novels, artists such as Harry Clarke, Gustave Dore, John Tenniel, and Pam Smy who focus on ink work in their illustrations and intricate cross-hatching and a strong environmental sense of mood through value and shading. I wanted to touch on the supernatural and gothic horror elements as that is something that interests me a lot in my work. I wanted the ‘Chance Encounter’ to be something chilling, coupled with a sense of mysteriousness and deception. My work often focuses on the interplay between two characters and the human condition. I aim to tell a full story through my illustrations that can be interpreted by the audience. My ‘Chance Encounters’ works are both related to each other, showing the same character having two encounters that may or may not be linked- depending on the interpretation from the viewer.
I used both traditional sketching and digital line work.
Niamh Cullen
Artists Statement (150 words)
As an Illustrator, my practice varies in some ways but sticks to certain core themes. I take inspiration from the fantasy genre, mythology, folklore, and the natural world. Currently my interests are primarily focused on fairy tales and children’s literature, with the works of Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton, Grimm Brothers and J. R. R. Tolkien. This current interest has led me to begin to research the field of children’s book illustration, within my own University work I am exploring Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox.
I love to experiment with the materials I use in my work, combining both traditional and digital mediums. In the past I have worked with pastels, Watercolour and Gouache paint. I am still quite fond of both Watercolour and Gouache, often combining them both with colour pencils or with digital illustrations. My primary focus when choosing materials is the texture it will create as I think it is important for maintaining warmth and personality in my work.
Sarah Dallow
My practice centres around the portrayal of the natural female body, focusing on the areas that women have been encouraged to dislike about themselves. In this way, I look at framing the body to look at it from a different perspective; one that has not been clouded by Photoshopped imagery or influence from the mainstream media. My imagery aims to challenge the stigma surrounding the stereotypes and body standards women are judged against. I have utilised black fine liner to produce dot work illustrations in order to create an anonymous representation of women’s bodies from a range of backgrounds and ethnicities. My imagery is carefully cropped to focus on areas of the body that women are taught to hate, be it through beauty products, social media, or the male gaze. My collection of illustrations intends to celebrate the diversity of the female body.
Paulina Narloch
Hello! I am Paulina Narloch and I work with characters and cartoon/anime style work.
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