About me
I am seeking a great career opportunity where I can really invest and grow with a team, sharing a mutual vision and love for the Arts and all things creative.
I strongly believe I can bring something special and unique with nearly a decade of work experience in retail and fashion involving sales, visual merchandising, management responsibilities and events/store openings; over six months now consist of work in the art field.
Currently a Team Leader in a charity organisation, I work with youths and young adults. I have learnt to develop my skills of communication and problem solving and, consequently, see myself as an individual who deals incredibly well with responsibility and targets in a designated time.
Travelling is significant in my life. I love to indulge in new experiences and environments; in search of inspiration and wisdom. Exhibition visits create wonderful opportunities for me to explore places around me. This (with other things), I share through blogging.
As a Painter, my artistic nature and creativity has allowed me to expand out of the canvas into styling and a range of independent projects. The importance of being open-minded has really created many opportunities for me, to branch out into different disciplines. In combination, working for over seven years (across an array of companies) has enabled me to establish great relationships and connections and has provided me with many learning opportunities; equipping me with various well-developed forms of communication.
My experiences have highly benefited me in excelling targets in previous employment, networking and motivating others but most importantly; self-development and the development of others around me.
Projects
- Camberwell Degree Show 2015A collaborative exhibition put together by the third year students of UAL's Camberwell College of Arts. The various disciplines of art; Painting, Sculpture, Illustration, Graphic Design, 3D Design, Drawing and Photography come together in one big explosion of creativity by talented artists. In addition, we see an array of crossovers throughout each specialism. My work is as a result of a studio practice and external works under the discipline of Painting, but displays evident influences of Print
- Exhibition: FLESHLocated in London Bridge (minutes walk from the Shard), is this collaborative exhibition with site-related themes. With six artists from a background of the painting discipline; this exhibition explores painting through various, yet unconventional, avenues and executions. The title relates to the dilapidated interior of the venue and mutual concepts and aesthetic qualities that is shared between the artists and their works.
Work history
Intern
Sales
Research
Excel spreadsheets
Public Relations and networking
Production; Stretching canvas and handling loaned art work
Curation (resident artists and external shows)
Events and stencil workshops with corporate companies, organisations and children's parties
Representative at Moniker Art Fair, Press Release of Disney's 'Descendants'
Administration and receptionist
Presenting
Work Placement
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Final year of study work placement.
Start-up company. Pop-UP store in NW London.
Promotion and selling works of local artists and designers from various practices.
Social media and online platform development.
Sourcing clients to rent space within the facility of the store.
Sales in products.
Opening and closing of the store.
Maintenance
Event organising and promotion
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Skills
- Fashion
- Events
- Visual Arts
- Customer Services
- Design
- Direct Sales
- Creative Thinking
- Office
- Photoshop
- Curation
- Leadership and Team Management
- Community Outreach
- Communication Presentation
- Organisation and Coordination Skills
Education
BA Painting
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Fine Art discipline with studio practice and contextual studies.
Cross-discipline interaction (Photography, Illustration, Sculpture)
Independent projects: exhibitions, production and curation
Extensive exhibition visits and private tours
Artist talks and discussions
Participation in talks and debates
Reading groups
Digital and creative workshops
Architecture
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Working with various software; computer-aided design.
Studio based practice and portfolio work
Contextual studies with History of Architecture and applied arts.
Real-time and site-specific projects
Group and independent projects
Gallery and Museum visits
Model-making and 3D workshops
Hand-drawn axonometric, isometric and scaled elevation, section and plan drawings.
Fine art, photography and animation modules
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