Julie Plantecoste

Julie Planetcoste's theme was autobiographical. As the daughter of parents raised on different continents and who herself has lived in many different countries Julie's memories are strongly fixed on particular people who have perhaps remained constants or who were there at particularly important times. 

Themes were explored using drawing but were realized in her final piece using screen printing on fine fabric. This gave her the opportunity to layer the fabric, offsetting the images ultimately giving a shifting, faintly ambiguous quality so appropriate to her meaning. The final piece was approximately two meters wide.

Jake Turner

Jake Turner's project was entitled ‘The Chaos Beneath the Calm’.  He made use of models, drawing and photography,  combining them to hint at the dark side of suburbia. With a keen interest in film makers such as  David Lynch, who portrays the suburbs as a melting pot of strange and dark happenings, Jake wanted to give the audience an unfolding set of clues rather than the whole story.

This approach was a departure for Jake. Whilst on work experience he had made sets used for a photo shoot for a national campaign and this together with a strong personal interest in confronting prejudices about suburban life drove his work into unfamiliar territory. He struggled to maintain his intended ambiguity between maintaining a sense of the reassuring make-believe inherent in a small scale model and the reference to a real and unspecified darkness, he struggled with his limited experience of photography and he struggled with the time limits a final show brings. However,  Jake had a strong idea and personal interest and he did take his work into a fresh and interesting place.

Mica White

Mica took on a heavy workload, developing, writing and realizing a story about a magical visit from the skies of a young girl.

To carry this off,  Mica spent a tremendous amount of time developing her characters, devising ways of telling this story, exploring composition, rhythm and pace. She also had to keep a consistency of approach. Colour was all but banished in order to help this.

Will Wells

Will Wells produced a series of portraits of famous people accompanied by a quote from them on God.  The people Will chose included actors, scientists and politicians; they are all well known, they all have a public face so the accompanying quotes offer an insight into their normally private space. This became a real hook to entice his audience, we want to collect their thoughts, compare them with what we know about them.  

Will spent a great deal of time developing the visual form finally settling on a simple and direct line and black and white.

Abi Overland

Abi explored family relationships and in particular the rivalry between distinctly different siblings.  She explored her theme in an open ended way and through this developed an array of visual forms to convey her meaning. She devised a mystical, elemental but quite barren landscape in which the tense relationships are played out.

Jerome Ince-Mitchell

Jerome's theme is a contemporary account of the Rake's Progress inspired, in part, by Hogarth.  His narrative was personal and complex conveyed through a rich iconography. Here, a man tries to drag a dog forwards on his path, a Jeff Koons dog representative of materialism and decadent consumption. Below, the hand of God points the way forward to every child. Jerome produced five plates showing life's meal, each roughly cast in a plaster mould, and each one painted using glazes and then transfers were applied.

.... see some of the work here: http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2012/july/brighton-graphic-design-illustration-2012