Each week we will be showcasing the work of a student artist. If you would like your work to feature then please email arts@exepose.com. This week’s Exehibition is Hannah Peck and her intricate illustrations.
Image credit: Hannah Peck
When asked to write ‘about your work, what you do and how you do it’, it struck me that drawing with black pens on white paper (or occasionally cream when things get really interesting) gives me very little to expand upon technique-wise.
Image credit: Hannah Peck
I could instead tell you that after being nagged for a few months by a pushy friend I decided to set up a Facebook page of some of my drawings about a year ago. After a few pity likes I decided to up the game by putting them on postcards, selling them in a café at home. From there they’ve somehow appeared around campus on stash t-shirts and logos (Razz my Berries and Pearshaped to name a couple – fruity) and soon to be iphone cases!
Style wise I think I was most inspired by the packaging of a well-known quiche company, local architecture / scenery, the stationery section of The Hambledon, Lazy Oaf and, (I wish I was) Shantell Martin. Despite all these claims I still struggle to use my scanner and still buy pens from Poundstretcher.
Image credit: Hannah Peck
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Each week we will be showcasing the work of a student artist. If you would like your work to feature then please email arts@exepose.com. This week’s Exehibition is Raúl Ramírez with his incredible stylised drawings of the female form.
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Human figure and technique were the words that I always heard during my four years as a student in Fine Arts. And starting from there I realized that if I wanted to communicate ideas related to specific behaviours or poses that people use to express themselves, I should keep trying to find my own way to do it. In Chile (the place where I come from), painting in a realist style is a popular and major part of contemporary art while drawing and sketching is always seen as part of the process but never as the final artwork. In my artwork, I want to transform this idea of drawing to become a product in itself.
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Lines and the atmosphere they create are essential elements of my work. This line must be strong and delicate at the same time, and can even be ‘transparent’. In reality when the sun touches the skin, the line that separates figure and background disappears. That is what I want to explore in my work; how the line can communicate and support my illustrations and drawings like an extension of the image. Maybe the naked woman is not the most important thing on the paper; the line might be the most provocative element.
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The media I normally use are extremely simple and must be that way because they are always with me. Paper, sketchbooks, pencils and pens are always packed in my bag. It is incredible the number of opportunities that you can find when you are walking around or having coffee somewhere. Suddenly you can quickly draw the form of a couple that are seated in front of you. This is why I always need to keep pens and paper with me.
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Currently I will keep discovering and exploring human tendencies to transform and propose them as an extension of what we are or what we want to experience. Women in complicated dress, fancy objects and crazy parties are my inspiration to create attractive or intriguing scenes. I’m a fan of the human figure, especially depicted with stylized curves and provocative poses. Someone, or a situation, can be attractive in a very basic way, but attractive enough to love.
Each week we will be showcasing the work of a student artist. If you would like your work to feature then please email arts@exepose.com. This week’s Exehibition is Exeposé’s very own photographer, Niklas Rahmel.
Image Credits: Niklas Rahmel
I would definitely not consider myself to be an artist. Photography has always been a hobby of mine; I got my first camera in 2010, and that was a pretty great day. From then on I have just continually progressed on the photographic front through taking photos of various school events, sports matches, scenic surroundings, and formal balls. After joining Exeter University, and Photo Society, I got a bit more creative with my work and began producing a new style of photography.
Now I am Chief Photographer at Exeposé, official photographer for the Students’ Guild, freelance for societies’ dinners and balls and have been published in a number of local publications beside Exeposé, such as the Express & Echo, This Is Devon, The Grecian and Her Campus. I do all this while still trying to do a degree in Information Technology Management for Business, which is everything but related to photography.
The monochrome photo was taken at Bristol Temple Meads station, after a long day-trip with Photo Soc to Bristol. We left Exeter at 7 o’clock in the morning and we were tired by 11 pm, so we thought we’d be creative with some black and white photography. Temple Meads is one of the most iconic stations in the UK and it was exciting to shoot.
Image Credits: Niklas Rahmel
The photo of the bird was a much luckier shot. The year before, I spent three days in Paris. Sightseeing all of the city in only three days is quite a challenge, I can assure you. Outside Notre Dame Cathedral, there were a lot of people, and a lot of people eat a lot of food, and a lot of food means a lot of waste which leads to all sorts of birds coming to survey the area and look out for dropped food. The hungrier the birds get, the braver they become, and at the time I was there they ate food from people’s hands. I was lucky enough to capture one of these glorious Parisian moments.
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Each week we will be showcasing the work of a student artist. If you would like your work to feature then please email arts@exepose.com.
This week’s Exehibition is Grace Bulaitis, with her incredible oil paintings of birds and nature.
I am currently in my third year of studying Animal Behaviour at Exeter. Although my degree may be heavily science based it has not overshadowed my interest in art. From a young age I have been fascinated by nature in all its shapes and forms and thus it is the primary inspiration for my paintings and photography.
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I paint primarily in oils on a canvas background but I enjoy experimenting with mixing in natural materials such as sand, wood and dried vegetation. I enjoy painting both controlled pieces that focus on detail such as my bird portraits as well as larger, more surreal landscapes.
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I appreciate a wide variety of art from Tracey Emin’s personal scribbles to Henry Moore’s flowing figure sculptures. My favourite artist is Kurt Jackson, a landscape painter and the artist in residence at Glastonbury festival, he has an amazing ability to capture light and intense detail whilst still creating wildly expressive paintings.
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Besides oil painting I am also a keen wildlife photographer, I find capturing behaviour in photos highly satisfying and challenging. The new equipment available to photographers has opened up so many options for artistic photography and the future of digital art. I make an effort to see the ‘Wildlife Photographer Of The Year’ exhibition each year in London, which showcases the most stunning images from all around the world from both amateur and professional photographers. The RAMM museum in Exeter usually has pictures from the exhibition on show and I would recommend anyone with an interest in photography or nature to check it out.
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After my degree I hope to continue in a more artistic direction. I hope one day I might be able to spark other people’s interest in the natural world and work to conserve wildlife for future generations to enjoy the way I do.
Grace Bulaitis
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This week’s Exehibition is Louis Doré with his intricate paintings and abstract photoshopped pieces.
It brings me a little shame to say I give no great thought to subject matter or what my art supposedly ‘says’. As a third year student of English Literature, questions relating to subjectivity and interpretation have surrounded my day to day existence in Exeter, leaving me too weary to tackle them in my recreational art.
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I paint or sketch pieces (either from life or my own photography), usually in the hope of manipulating them later on Adobe Photoshop, attempting to render completely abstract images that, in my mind at least, look appealing.
I tend to find my medium of choice is 2B pencil on paper/sketchbook for ease of use, but I occasionally dabble in charcoal. However if I want to lend time to a piece I inevitably paint in oils, as I find it the most therapeutic, time consuming and rewarding medium.
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The still life included is probably one of my favourite pieces, despite the morbid presence of the skull. I really enjoyed creating a piece around a softer colour palate of cream and grey-blue, working against the brown/purple shadow.
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I find self-portrait a fun genre to explore as it allows you to represent yourself as critically or perversely as you choose to. I really enjoy making angular sketches of the planes of the face, then using these in abstract image manipulation, hoping to emulate the colour palate of David Bomberg and Percy Wyndham-Lewis paintings.
Louis Doré
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This week’s Exehibition is Ella Fleck. We love her beautifully intricate installation, ‘Girls’, which was displayed at this years Arts on the Move.
‘Girls’ was my first installation (in the past I have usually stuck with painting, drawing, collage etc) but it explores a subject that my work has always discussed: the gendered body. I am very interested in how our understanding of gender divides the body into symbols we interpret and use to project our ideas about sexuality, identity and masculinity/femininity back onto the physical body.
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My inspiration comes from a range of different people like Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin, Marlene Dumas, Patti Smith, Basquiat, PJ Harvey, Egon Schiele, Ty Segall, Edvard Munch, Anish Kapoor, Judith Butler, Wolfgang Tillmans, Emily Dickinson, Yves Klein… I could go on. I find ideas very important, sometimes more important than being well practised in one medium but I also enjoy the struggle between translating what’s in my head into an object.
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I find installation an appealing medium to work in as I really enjoy cutting into a space. I was very lucky to be given the area for ‘Girls’ at Arts on the Move as it suited my piece very well (spacious, light, delicate and haunting). Poltimore House itself is a very beautiful venue to work in. ‘Girls’ was constructed of balloons, tissue paper underwear (which was very hard to make!), thread and glass bottles. I wanted the bodies to be weightless, ghostly, fragile and unstable.
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This week’s Exehibition is Lauren Swift with her beautifully intricate drawings of nature. We love how she has layered natural and geometric forms.
As someone who really appreciates things that look nice, I try to create pieces of art that have a real visual appeal. My preferred style is pencil; for such a simple medium I love how it can produce a variety of effects on any scale. That said, I use a variety of mediums but one thing they all have in common is the amount of control I can have over them – I find that I have a neat and fine approach to creating work.
If I’m not focusing on experimentation with one form, I’ll combine and contrast two styles, mediums, and often two separate subjects, in layers. The result is a single piece of art – as seen here with the lion – creating a dialogue between two distinctly different yet complementary layers. The lion is quite possibly the most painstaking work I have produced; an A1 scale mash-up of pencil and embroidery. As geometry and nature are often central influences in my work, I looked at their opposing qualities as well as the ways in which they can be seen at work together.
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Nature has always interested me. The lion piece looks at order and patterns in the environment: for example I was really intrigued at how nature could produce the flawless geometry of diamonds, and I also studied the structural regularity of honeycomb and fruits. I then played these elements off against natural, irregular forms and living animals. The result was a pencil drawing of the wild elements of nature layered it with a piece of embroidery depicting ordered and regular structures.
To get the embroidery just-so involved a lot of measuring, precision and patience, and I was worried about the piece becoming overwhelming. However I hope that compositionally it is successful: the thread seems to be subtle enough to be appreciated but not to detract from the pencil drawing. I quite like the areas where pencil and drawing combine, such as the circular wing embroidery which highlights the centrality of the lion. I think that as two separate pieces of art, the drawing and embroidery would be lacking in excitement. Luckily, the interaction resulting from layering the two mediums leads to each composition framing the other and emphasising its merits.
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The hare is an A1 rollerball drawing, taking just under 18 hours and two pens to produce! Inspired by woodcut prints, I tried to make the fur as texturally interesting as possible. The monochromatic and well-spaced presentation was chosen to create maximum visual impact, but also so that I could pursue another interest of mine – layering. Taking photos from the natural textures found in moss, tree bark and leaves etc., printing them on acetate and projecting them onto the hare, I was left with a series of pieces which combined yet contrasted the two elements in colour and texture. Following this, it was time to create more artistic combinations.
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When I’m not combining several artworks into one, I’ll experiment with mediums individually. The kaleidoscopic piece is actually a photo I took of a friend’s beehive. Inspired by the geometry of the hexagonal honeycomb, I decided to play with geometry and create a series of kaleidoscopic bee pieces using the original photos. It’s definitely hard to get bored of art when there are so many exciting possibilities with medium, subject and style.
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This week’s Exehibition is a digital piece by Francesca LeGall. She has skilfully edited a photograph to make it hauntingly realistic.
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Made for the final summer exam of AS Photography, Time and the Hour is inspired directly from William Shakespeare’s tragic play Macbeth. Taken with a Nikon D90 and edited with Photoshop CS5 over the course of a week, one quarter of the image has been painted over with a WACOM tablet and thus looks substantially different to the original.
The image itself depicts Lady Macbeth (portrayed by Rebecca, a friend) holding her blood soaked hand to her face. The blood is a direct reference to the play and Lady Macbeth’s paranoia towards her hands which she believes to be perpetually unclean after her and Macbeth’s murder of the King. The work aims to provide an intense perspective towards the play and the character of Lady Macbeth. Through the hand drawn blood on her hand to her emerald eyes I’ve wanted to draw in anyone who views the piece and to observe the tiny details which give it character. To get the full effect, I would recommend listening to Tour of Venice by Jesper Kyd while looking at Time and the Hour.
Francesca LeGall
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This week’s Exehibition features the drawings of Jemima Hubberstey. We love how she captures the delicate features of animals.
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Despite being an English Literature student, it is surprisingly difficult to describe myself as an artist. Art is normally what I do when words no longer make sense, when I can’t string an articulate sentence together and language is totally alien to me. Art is my catharsis, a creative outlet for relieving any anxieties or negative emotions. Whether or not one believes in ‘l’art pour l’art’, I think the creative has a huge effect on one’s state of mind.
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There is something enchanting about animals in art, and I particularly love the works of George Stubbs and Cecil Alden as both artists capture so much of the animal’s expression and animation. I try to do the same in my own animal portraits- I may be slightly batty but I really think that animals have their own characters as much as humans do. When I draw some dogs there is so much energy it is as though they want to jump out of the picture, while others could happily doze off and sit quietly while I draw their noses. At times I do feel a bit like Miss Potter, talking to my drawings and smiling at their expressions.
The type of materials I use depends on the subject, as different mediums can help to enhance certain features of the subject’s character. By choice I will nearly always use chalk pastel as I think it gives a lovely soft effect. If I want a picture to make more of a statement, then acrylic has a lot of vivacity and gives a picture a lot of body.
“I studied Art at school and have always had a passion for drawing. My uncle is a graphic designer, and a family friend, Matt, does the famous cartoons in the Telegraph, so I have always been amongst artistic people.”
Grand Challenges Image credit: Ellie Taylor-Roberts
“Last year I frequently illustrated for Exeposé, to go alongside articles, and I find drawing a very relaxing thing to do.”
Spotted in the forum Image credit: Ellie Taylor-Roberts
“In the future, I would possibly like to go into advertising, and having recently done work experience at Leo Burnett in London, I found that my love for art came in useful when generating advertising storyboards.”
Quotes from Ellie Taylor-Roberts
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