Catherine Anyango came to give us a talk today. She was a great speaker, offering lots of good advice. It was interesting to have a talk from someone who isn't necessarily just a practicing illustrator but also a fine artist. Lots of her work is heavily conceptual and her choice of materials comes from the subject matter of the work she is dealing with. I was particularly taken by her 'violent crimes' series where imagery comes from cctv footage, often documenting the last recorded images of someone's life. Here Anyango uses graphite to capture the grainy detail of the cctv camera. I'm not sure how this fits in with my work but I just found it really inspiring...