About me
Recent Graduate from London Metropolitan University, attaining Upper Second Class Honours In Fine Art.
An experienced and competent Operational Retail Assistant, Graduated Waitress, Receptionist and Events Manager. Highly successful with proven abilities in planning direction, achieving targets and developing new and repeat business, regarding retail. Skilled in optimising team potential through the delivery of sales solutions, whilst promoting best-practice and encouraging a culture of self development. Now looking for a new challenging operation that offers a genuine opportunity for further development.
Proven ability to plan, co-ordinate and oversee retail events with exceptional abilities in the areas of logistics and planning, multi tasking and business development. Able to provide the highest levels of service regardless of time constraints or special consideration.
With outstanding presentation and communication skills, a strong communicator with customers and a full appreciation of team working and leadership by example. Confident, intuitive with drive and ambition to achieve and exceed company goals, targets and general required expectations. Very well organised, able to keep calm under pressure and focused on the task in hand. Supported by strong IT skills, familiar with full suite Microsoft Office as well as Mac & PC graphic design programs.
I pride myself in being a polite, attentive, bubbly and easy going individual and put 100% of my attention to whatever I desire.
Projects
- POLLUTED LANDSCAPES VIA REFERNCING PRINT AND PAINTERLY RELATIONSHIP This project focuses on the man made problems which occur in the 21st century through the hands of us humans. For example, pollution is being produced by corporate companies such as SHELL, CHEVRON, BRITISH AIRWAYS and PEABODY energy; and it is regular working class people who aid and pay for this, therefore my work took a turn to focus on print made logo's of these companies, then juxtaposed against the natural state on a floral background in the medium of paint. Each piece consists and is made up of metaphor's and juxtapositions from the two mediums of printmaking and paint, parallel to the logo's of these toxic companies on painted floral background's, almost wallpaper like (Allied to William Morris). William Morris patterns are naturalistic , and all processes of my work start by me painting on A4 scale and then enlarge them-all mostly to A1,sometimes A0. I print on top floral engraving’s from the likes of William Morris , who’s work politically is very compatible to my own as he believed people are depended on 'parliamentary agitation’, and such reforms would be sucked into the tremendous stream of commercial production. These pieces politically reference him and his work obviously evokes naturalistic charm. I used his prints as a representation to nature and juxtaposing this with my objectification and exemplification about pollution. The process of these pieces all started out the same ; by painting on A4 scale in acrylic paint of polluted landscapes, then digitally added a 50% opacity of William Morris print, enlarged and printed A1 or A0. Painting is a long-standing human activity, and is as much the outcome of thought and reflection as writing a novel or a theoretical scientific paper. An awareness of the history and traditions of the painting are fundamental to the making of one. When painting, I tend to reflect the complex and changing conditions of art today, whilst responding to new ideas and encouraging innovation. What's interesting about printmaking is the 'new age' in which it is transcribed. Print exists as a vital force in our everyday lives, it produces an effective means for communicating ideas and disseminating information. Understanding the continuing relationship between reproduction and expression of print, the original and the copy, Fine art and the printed information, engenders an awareness of the print as a primary form of visual art, whilst supporting the creation of work informed by critical debate ; which is why when creating this project I took on these acknowledged concepts and embraced and used them to my advantage and as a cognition to my pieces. I have always believed it is very important to understand your references in your own work and make it evident and significant; especially when one is generating their work back into the art world where it is full of credited and acknowledged artists. The beauty of printmaking is that once you understand the basic processes, there are infinite ways of experimenting to make new and exciting marks by combining or modifying techniques. I was dependant on this idea of man made misfortunes around environmental crisis but displaying this through paintings of pollution. I referenced William Morris by using his wallpaper prints but also making attribute to this painterly and print dimension. I manifested these prints on 180GSM as traditionally, this is the thickness which forms wallpapers.
- THE NAKED TRUTH BEHIND A CORPORATE WORLDThis project was something I worked with at University. What I struck out to do, was paint female nudes in extreme states of grotesque exaggeration—deformed, obese, brutalized, or mutilated—working against the male-dominated history of idealized portraits of women. The morbidity of human subjects, often bleeding or violently gripping their own flesh, bears a stark resemblance to portraits of butchered animals, both grotesque and objectified - similarly to Jenny Saville - who was an inspirational artist to this particular work. I played around with the idea of using technique in brushstroke and colour to represent vulnerability, and used this as a means of juxtaposition with my political and social work. I created paintings of women in this style using corporate companies logo’s to cover their face ; the reasoning of the specificity of the logos placement , rather than another body part, is to suggest the loss of their identity, and advocates consumption of corporations. In consequence I named these portraits “The naked truth behind a corporate world”. I wanted to somehow communicate my sense of the world—that way of understanding, engaging, experiencing the world—to somebody else. I wanted them to be transported into the world that I have created through my art works. I experimented in the print workshop and explored the connection between print made work juxtaposed with painting. My work has always been revolved around painting, and when I introduced various print techniques, in return, they have offered possibilities for making marks that couldn’t possibly be produced solely through the medium of paint.
Work history
Events Member
London, United KingdomFreelance
Requires long shifts. Worked alongside this agency for 2 years now to help aid my funding at University, this job requires me to work at different events all over London ranging from waitressing to cloakroom duty to Receptionist.
Places I worked through the company goes as follows ;
Alexandra Palace- Receptionist, Waitress, Cloakroom duty and Bar staff
Bubble @ One Mayfair- Cloakroom, Bar Staff, Waitress
SMART Christmas Parties @ Battersea - Cloakroom, Waitress and Bar staff
Key responsibilities:
Managing other staff members and ensuring efficiency
Events co-ordinator
Handling customer problems and complaints
Handling Exchanges
Ensure a happy, successful and motivated team by offering constant support, encouragement, incentives and praise
Event Manager
- Kingsdown, Deal, UKFull Time
Required long shifts. Responsible and trusted with handling large amounts of cash on a day to day basis. A significant candidate for running day to day operations involving events taking place in the evenings, as well as designing posters and advertisement for those events. I trained new staff at the bar as well as training them with the correct waitressing skills. Was put in charge of collaborating events with clients/musicians who were performing at those events. I worked with children and put in charge of creating “fun-days” to help entertain them. There was a bakery on site so was put in charge of handling food as well as constant interaction with customers.
Key responsibilities:
Managing other staff members and ensuring efficiency
Events co-ordinator
Special promotions, display and events
Promoting the organisation locally by liaising with local restaurants, other chains and the community in general
Working across different departments to effect and implement change
Handling customer problems and complaints
Involved with the budgeting, planning and management of events
Managed costs & expenditure to hit targets and meet projected profit
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Skills
- Promotion/marketing
- Web Deisgn
- Budget Planning
- Customer Development
- Training Development
- Project Managemant
- Event Coordinator
- Receptionist
- Fine Artist
- Exhibition Environment
Education
2:1 BA (Hons) Fine Art
- London, United Kingdom
Art and Design Foundation
- Canterbury, United Kingdom