VAMALGAM 7, The V&A Staff Art Exhibition

As well as doing my freelance illustration work, I've also been working at the Victoria and Albert Museum as a Gallery Assistant since March 2015. And recently these two parts of my working life co-existed, as I submitted an illustration for VAMALGAM 7, The V&A Staff Art Exhibition.

I decided to create a new drawing inspired by the V&A's collection ("Site Specific", innit!) and while looking around at the objects on display, began imagining a knockout slugfest between the plaster cast of Michelangelo's statue of David, housed in the museum's impressive Cast Courts, and the bust of Queen Victoria located in the British Galleries...



The exhibition is on display in the staff canteen area, so sadly isn't on view to the public, but here a few photos of the exhibition...

"I'm a god. I'm not THE God... I don't think."

I've been spending the last few days updating my website, adding some new images to my portfolio and revising some of the sections, and have finally finished!

You can view the results over at paulshinndraws.com.

One section I wanted to revise was the Contact section. Given how important the presence of social media sites has become to publicising my work, I wanted to add details of my Twitter and Facebook profiles.

I also wanted to include a new illustration to the Contact page and after scribbling down some ideas, eventually came up with this...



Now obviously the composition is based on Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel ceiling, but it was only when I had already started drawing the picture that I suddenly realised that I was drawing myself in the position of God...



I would just like to point out that I was in no way suggesting that I'm like God.

Still, I guess we do both have beards...