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I'm wrapping up all the loose ends of my degree work now.  Sadly we are not able to have a end of year graduate show - instead the Northern School of Art are putting on an online show which will cover all the departments across college.   We have been invited to submit one entry and given fairly strict guidelines for presentation.   

I should imagine its been very difficult for every student to decide which piece of work to showcase and for a lot of people harder still as there work is very tactile and relies on a 3 dimensional approach - those doing costume studies for example as well as a large number of my contemporaries.  


I came up with 3 different possibilities based on what I thought would translate well in an exhibition and also which were my favourite designs  - its hard to get as much detail in as I would like as we were reminded some people will access this on a mobile phone and then any small writing for example will disappear 


I ended up with 7 different collections all based on the starting concept of Juxtaposition and they all ended up quite different - purposely so as I wanted to appeal across differetn markets but htis has made it very difficult to choose one final example of my work to put on show - Any how in the end I choose one of these three designs - you will have to look on line after the show opens on July 2nd to see which I felt the most effective in the circumstances.


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