Lewis Latham

Lewis Latham

Life To The Max

Latham’s work  ‘Life To The Max’ is inspired by his childhood adventures. The

brightness and the energy of the character in his light art animation represents

this. Latham’s work involves a character exploring the world as it consciously

knows that it has a short time to live. We often work through our days, weeks,

months wishing and waiting for the next break. Max rejects this and tries to

pack in as many adventures as possible just as Lewis did when he was younger;

there was nothing more exciting than this.  

Martin Owen

Martin Owen 

Under Everything 

A1 Canvas, Photography 

 

Owen’s artwork takes a look at portraiture and how people disguise 

themselves and act differently, especially when they are in public. He 

combines the practice of painting with a photographic outcome to 

document the action.  

 

Owen wants to share with the audience the multiple personalities 

that one often hides when in face-to-face situations. He exposes this 

by physically painting onto people’s faces using only black and white 

media. The monochromatic hues depicts light and dark, with the 

dark side emulating ones more sinister and mysterious side. He 

questions what is ‘acting normally’ in the public sphere? What is 

accepted or not?  Each portrait holds a different emotion of a singular 

person, depicting the multiple personalities we can all camouflage.  

 

 

Destination. 

Employment in Photography 

Mauro Ganhao

Mauro Ganhao 
“Selfie-Portrait”
(2015) Acrylic on canvas.  

The younger generation use technology with unlimited 

self-realisation of much they rely on it. How times have change? 

Ganhao explores the idea of the traditional self-portrait in 

painting history to a more contemporary version known as ‘the 

selfie’. Taking himself s a starting point and the subject of ‘the 

selfie’, he combines this notion of the historic and contemporary 

portrait by analysing his position as a youth and being stuck in 

these times. Where is the skill of representing oneself; not 

through painting but by a click of a button on a mobile phone? 

He represents himself through colours, which depict different 

moods. His paintings, when looked up close show the mistakes 

he has made. They are undeleted as oppose to deleting a digital 

‘selfie’ until one looks perfect and presentable. 

 

Destination: Fine Art at De Montfort University. 

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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