Introduction

PP&M: Blog entry 1 

So, this week I started a Masters course in Visual Communications, and apparently; part of that is keeping a blog.

All my past attempts at blogging have failed after the first week. I usually get as far as setting it up, fannying around with colors, and making it look nice, and then I forget about it. So we'll see how this goes...

A  little about me? I graduated Sheffield Hallam in 2012 having done BA (Hons) Fine Art. I took  year out to decide what to do next; and i decided to do this. 

In my work, I have always liked to experiment with a range of techniques and combinations. However, towards the end of my last degree I was focused mainly on photography.  I had spent a while toying with ideas of sculpture, printing, drawing, and possibly taxidermy, but eventually I came back around to my original and strongest interest, photography.

I've always had an interest in birds, and decided to work around that as a theme, and examine my own and other peoples interest in birds.  For my dissertation, titled 'Birds and their symbolism and their use in contemporary Fine art".

After lots of experimentation, I decided that for my final piece, I would photograph pigeons around the city of Sheffield. You can have a gander at my degree show piece here, and some of the work leading up that here. 

I think I've managed to put a link to my Flickr at the side of the page...if not try this.

I'm not sure what direction my work will go in while I'm on this course. I think I will probably still work around birds and animals, and our relation ships with them, but I have no idea in what form that will take yet.

We shall see...