The H&M Recruitment day poster competition

Below is my submission for the H&M recruitment day poster. The aim of the poster is to display the meaning of the event simply and explicitly. The image is however a rough design- further development would have mostly entailed font experimentation.

Etta's Kitchen

The situation of consumer buying patterns in this country at the moment is a pity. Its a pity that Large organisations and businesses are pushing the independent business to extinction. In return for the disappearance of these small businesses we get sterile and clinical supermarkets run by overseas companies sucking life out of  local economy and in my opinion further declining the sense of community spirit in built up areas.
Brixton Market is a short walk round the corner from where I live and that is one place I feel that the community is striking back. New tactics and measures such as the brixton pound and night time events are being employed to ensure that this is one local infrastructure that will not soon be a shopping mall, retail centre or a link in a conglomerate supermarket chain.
This was my inspiration for the Etta's kitchen project. Etta's Kitchen is a delightful Caribbean Seafood restaurant in the heart of Brixton Village. The proprietor of this business- Etta has not only a warm smile for all but a genuinely outstanding knack for authentic caribbean seafood.

Seeing and tasting this gave me an idea- to offer my illustrative skills to aid the progress of this quaint eatery.
Etta was keen and knew exactly what she wanted- for someone to design imagery for the window display of her shop.

  To help speed up the production I enlisted the help of good friend Will Flawn, having seen some examples of Will's work in big before I knew he was the man for the job, we collaborated on the first image of the fish on the window.

V&A Charity Art Auction

Recently I made a piece for the sun's 40Th anniversary art auction. The event was held at the Victoria & Albert museum and raised £15 000 for the charitable organisation- break through breast cancer. My submission was a mixed media art object which helped raise £600 for the cause when it sold at the eve

The piece itself is a parody on the regular newspaper column- 'The news in briefs'. The model pictured is Peta Todd, a current page three girl and radio presenter, chosen for her involvement in recent discussion about the controversial page three debate. The piece is entitled 'the news in briefcase'.

The aim of the piece is to open debate about the sun's "national institution" AKA page 3 using the contents of the briefcase as a metaphor for the contents of the tabloid newspaper- The Sun.

The production of the piece was a collaboration between photography, drawing and illustration. The exterior of the case was rendered through a process called photo emulsion. To complete this task I enlisted the help of some good friends of mine, Josh Horwood and Josef Hoyle who succeeded in exposing a photograph of the newspaper cover sheets onto the case, essentially turning the object into a photographic surface. The inside is a pencil portrait of page 3 glamour model Todd, underneath this image is a secret illustration- available to the buyer only.

myself and fellow collaborators

We're all Pawns Tube Poster

My piece "We are all pawns" is currently on display at London Bridge Underground Station(Northern line platform southbound).

 A couple of months ago I was given the opportunity of having my work displayed on the London Underground and I was certainly eager. This was a chance to try to visually communicate with the thousands of commuters that use London Bridge station. The deadline was tight but I did it! feels pretty good too. Below are images of the piece in situ courtesy of professional photographer Yumi Yoshinaga Thanks to everyone for the great response this received and a special thanks to Art Below for helping make this possible.