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^{These Things
Happen
First year project}

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During my first year at GSA,  I developed multiple bodies of work in response to a variety of briefs, marking an important period of experimentation and exploration within my practice. This included my first sustained engagement with oil paint. I set deliberate constraints within the process — limiting my palette to only a select few colours — to challenge my approach to composition, tone, and atmosphere.

 The culmination of the year, These Things Happen, draws on the symbolism of memento mori, reinterpreting traditional vanitas imagery through expressionist figures enveloped in shed hair.