Laura Louise McDonagh


My project researches into the history of the London zoo, in particular focusing on a tale of a ghost bear seen at the Tower of London. In my final piece I wanted to illustrate this story in a tarot card style print, combing ideas of three dimensional space and aiming to make it seem like the prints are moving to bring the story to life.

Ollie Keefe-Magan

I looked at the practice of Chinese medicine which has traditionally involved using various body parts of tigers to be crafted into different medicinal and pharmaceutical items. I have researched the different body parts that have been used within these medicines and why they are used. I wanted my final piece to showcase a tiger drawn in a Chinese folk style to gradually melt throughout the page to represent the use of tiger bodies in a grotesque craft.

Asare Afjool

The focus of my work was the exploration of honey bees decline causes and how air pollution cuts the short life span of wild honey bees. I set out my work by using different techniques such as line drawing, printmaking, collage, etc. through my drawing process I endeavoured to explore a new way to save bees from extinction because if they die we will die too, my final work includes a very friendly message all about plant flower to save pollinators.

Kirsten Randall

I chose to look into the domestication of bunnies, and how they went from the common wild breed to the many domestic breeds through selective breeding. I also looked at the sequence within a rabbit's binky, a jumping instinct in common with all the breeds. For my final piece I illustrated the timeline of rabbit domestication in the form of a binky as an animated gif.

Isabelle Gallop

My illustration portrays a sequence though a story of my dog running off and getting lost in the woods, I created a flip book style frame by frame of each movement the dog makes to create a sense of life in the final outcome.

Natural History collection in Portsmouth

Photos from a selection of the collection held at Cumberland House Natural History Museum, Portsmouth, UK.

Crow's Fall

Some experimental animation work exploring the app Artivive with one of my animations inspired by the poem Crow's Fall by Ted Hughes. The app 'augments' imagery viewed through a screen superimposing it with whatever media you post to it, a really exciting way to combine static imagery and animation and to bring (as Artivive say) art to life.