Leanne Shipley

Leanne Shipley'Unsettled' 2015
Shipley is a photographic artist with a keen interest in Fine Art.Inspired by artists such as Roger Ballen and Joshua Hoffine, Shipley has been exploring the realms of fear, phobia and night terrors. Shipley is fascinated by the extreme and overwhelming emotions provoked by the anxiety created by these phenomena.
Interested in the psychology behind fear, and feeling that when portrayed as an art form, fear stems from the subconscious, the artist has created a two piece installation to house a series of images designed to awaken dormant childhood memories and create a feeling of instinctive unease from within the viewer. The first stage of the piece is intended to gain the interest of the viewer and generate certain emotions, leaving unanswered questions about the intention of the piece. Curiosity will naturally evoke an urge to return to view the second stage which will present the images in a contextual environment,  re-awakening the emotional responses. 
Destination: Life is an adventure.

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Jasmine Storey

Jasmine Storey  

"FEAR = F**k Everything And Run"  (2015) 

Video Art/Installation  

Storey's video art and installation allows the viewer to have an insight and enter the mind and 

world of a Social Anxiety sufferer. Each video allows a display of different portions across the 

anxiety spectrum varying from depressing, distressing and anger.  However, the video produced 

can be relatable to a variation of mentality if the viewer's interpretation allowed this. The 

arrangement and presentation of the installation plays with the curiosity of the audience almost 

teasing and inviting them to walk into her artwork. By experimenting with the light of her 

surroundings, Storey's influence of German Expressionist Cinema is exposed. She often 

associates this with herself and her perception of her deteriorating mentality in comparison to a 

sleek and smooth view produced by a contemporary DSLR camera.  

HND (Art and Design), Grantham College 

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JILL WARSOP

JILL WARSOP – ARTIST’S STATEMENT 

JILL WARSOP   

‘Birdmen of Grantham’ 2015 

Intaglio prints 30cm x 20cm (series of 4)  

Warsop explores alternative photography processes such as photograms, cyanotypes and 

photopolymer prints to create images inspired by the living world. She is drawn to 

innovative processes and is seeking unique ways to link her love of traditional printing 

techniques, such as linocuts, collagraphs and intaglio prints with photography. Warsop 

captures images on black and white film to use as a starting point for painting on acetate 

using Indian ink and salt as media. The pictures are etched onto photopolymer plates, 

which are then inked and printed. 

The portraits ‘Birdmen of Grantham’ depict members of Grantham Cage Bird Society. They 

are influenced by Jasper Johns’ ink paintings based on a photograph of Lucian Freud, and 

the photography and drawings of Henri Cartier Bresson. They seek to express the wealth 

of character found in the mature male human face.  

Destination: HND Y2 Grantham College

 

Tony Halstead

Tony Halstead 

‘Seeing the Unknown’ (2015) 

Wood, Paint, Ink, Coins, Projection, Magazine Cutouts, Metal (Copper)  

Halstead’s work is mix media painting and three-dimensional structures with a twist. He 
uses untraditional materials, such as, coins. He is interested in wanting the audience to 
stop, contemplate and generate their own narratives within the work and to evoke 
mystery.  

Halstead uses specific patterns and shapes to draw the audiences’ attention to certain 
elements of his artwork, such as egg shaped eyes and textural marks in his expressive 
two-dimensional piece. This is repeated in his three-dimensional work with more 
emphasis on curves and rounded shapes. Halstead is questioning how the audience 
identifies an image, in particular, a portrait and how they are first drawn towards the 
eyes. The eyes are the most important part of a portrait as they portray feelings of the 
character. His work extends a personal approach to more universal themes such as 
emotions and humanity.  


Destination: 
HND at Grantham College 

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Leanne Freeman

Leanne Freeman 

‘Feeling is seeing’ 

Ceramics, glass and wood  

Freeman creates work that the audience are able to pick up and feel the texture 
of the marks made by the tools form the grittiness of the industrial crank clay 
to the smoothness of polished porcelain. She wants to allow access to all 
viewers to touch the range of textures so they could be understood more than 
merely seeing them. 
Freeman’s inspiration comes from having dyslexia and feeling excluded from 
certain activities, therefore when she creates art she wants everyone with 
different abilities and ages to experience and interact with the work not just by 
sight but also by touch. 



Destination HND Art and Design at Grantham College  

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William Hughes

William Hughes 

Of One Soul Design

“Buried Treasure” (2015)

1m X 1m

Multimedia piece made using recycled disposable objects, ceramics and spray paint

William Hughes works under the title of One Soul Design; this makes him more identifiable in the art industry and in the public domain. Hughes works in mediums including multimedia, 3D, Animation, photography and drawing, to create work that engages the audience and encourages them to ask questions of the subject matter. His work shines a light on social, political or environmental issues, as Hughes feels strongly that the visual arts should be used as a way to involve people with themes that affect them. In this piece he encourages the audience to think about disposable objects and their effects on the landscape His work is not confined to the gallery environment and can be found on many other platforms including; outdoor spaces, YouTube and on Stickers, making art accessible to a mass audience rather than a select few. Hughes was inspired to go outside the traditional settings by artists such as Barbra Kruger and Jenny Holzer whose work appears on billboards or large screens in public spaces.

Destination

HND art and design Grantham College

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Urszula Sobczak

Urszula Sobczak 

‘What Lies Beneath’ (2015) 

Acrylic  on canvas.  

Sobczak is interested in creating paintings that present ordinary children either smiling or feeling 

anxious. Many people judge others just by glancing at them but dismiss what is under the cover. 

Even a child can have hands soaked with blood; their main weapon is a dreadful imagination which, 

if used incorrectly could leave us speechless. Children might not know that their actions are wrong 

and maybe they do not realize that people can die. However, some of these young souls may 

understand it and regret it as they grow older. They may appear to be innocent because we do not 

know of their crime but once we do know, the title of ‘killer’ will always remain.   

 

Destination: Cartoon and Comics Art, Staffordshire University. 

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