Moving On

Having finished this course, I will now submit for the summer 2022 assessment event. I have started a new module; Level 2 Exploring Media. My new site for the next module can be found at Please follow the work through this next course!

Part 5 Review

Review of Part 5 OCA Practice of painting – Studio Practice

Part 5 – Reflections Assignment 5

My assignment for Part 5 is an evolution of my research and exercises throughout the past few months. It was also important to me to produce a piece of work that would tie in with my Parallel Project for the Holloway Women.s Building. The use of words is a powerful way of communicating, however, it

Part 5 – Project 4 – Parallel Project – Artists’ Statement

Artists’ Statement for #Justice4Holloway, the campaign for a transformative legacy Women’s Building of national importance to be built on the site of the former Holloway Prison

Part 5 – Project 3 – Numbers – Home Sweet Home

When I went into the now-closed Holloway Prison I was struck by the numbers that were located above each door to identify each room on every landing. I removed a few numbers and have united them with images of the room that they come from.

Part 5 – Project 3 – Locating titles

OCA Studio Practice, project 4, Titles. This exercise looks at the role of the title and how it can change the impact, message or feel of the artwork by just changing the title.

Part 5 – Paralell Project – Reflections

allel Project Justice4Holloway is ongoing and will undoubtedly respond in as yet unplanned ways in response to what is a continually evolving situation that is fraught with challenges and disappointments intertwined with new doors of opportunity and research and developments in the saga of trying to get something new and visionary for women in London and beyond.

Part 5 – Parallel Project – Her Bed – Ceramic sculpture

This sculpture is not only a homage to Tracey Emin’s ‘My Bed’, but to all the women that benefited from the ceramics class and the tutors that facilitated them.

Part 5 – Parallel Project – ‘Her Bed’ – Installation

Her Bed is directly inspired by and a homage to Tracey Emin’s ‘My Bed’ and seeks to have the viewer debate the circumstance and mental wellbeing of an incarcerated woman, many of whom have not committed violent offences, are sentenced to short sentences, have to contend with the separation from their family or children and the fallout from a custodial sentence, but are often victims themselves.

Part 5 – Project 1 – HMP Holloway Cell Graffiti

A series of works based on the graffiti written by inmates of HMP Holloway which closed in 2016. OCA Studio Practice part 5

#Justice4Holloway Blog posts

Throughout the period that I will call ‘Part 4’ I have posted a number of blog posts published that cover the my work for my parallel project on the Holloway Women’s Building over this time period (June, July, September 2021).

Part 3 – Review

Project 1 – Remade Clothing – The Gym Orderly Jacket I began this part by borrowing a jacket from someone who had spent time in HMP Holloway. I found it interesting to work with an item of clothing that had such a rich story behind it. The first exercise was ro remake the clothing which

Paraellel Project – Visual Mapping

The campaign for an iconic, visionary and transformative Women’s Building, that meets the needs of women, replacing and improving the vital services that were lost when the prison closed, to be built as a living legacy on the site of the former prison. Under the guise of a plan to close the crumbling victorian prisons