Part 1 Norwich Art & Design Graduation Show

On June 22nd I went to go and visit Norwich Graduation show and having been to one before, I knew the competition, once again was going to be very high!
To be honest I wasn't and still not quite sure what to think of the Fine Art....as 'out there' as i expected it to be. I'm not sure what a piece of bubble wrap and a calender of dead flies was meant to conclude of what they had learnt within 3 years...?? but each to their own I guess...

However the Graphic Design section was well.......AMAZING. The illustration in particular was so well presented and the standard of their ideas,techniques, colours were really inspiring and professional. All this scaring me a little for next year but excited to hopefully produce something with the same wow factor.

Two illustrators in particular that caught my eye were Anna Brinded and Lauren Greaves.
Anna had a really amazing book she had created along side some alone illustrations, with all of them having the same standard of beautiful detail and colour which also seem very dream like.
Lauren Greaves had a lot more cleaner look to her work, her ideas were so creative and seem so effortless. Her presentation of her show was obviously well thought out and framed every piece the same and added a vinyl of one of her characters to the wall underneath.

Here's blog links as I don't feel I can give them enough justice, so have a little look.

http://laurenmarina.blogspot.com/
http://annabrinded.blogspot.com/

Well that was the illustration and Part 2 will be the textiles when i find my camera charger!