This work was featured in the exhibition, Multifarious, which consisted of level 4 and 5 students.

Amber-Leigh Young 2023- ‘each to their own’

I predominantly use drawing and realism with a focus on producing portraits. I use pencil as it adds that more realistic look to her work, enhancing the in-time moment captured that I am recreating. The content of the work focuses on impermanence, in respect of memory and personal connections/histories to an individual through retrieving and working with old and new photographs.

This is achieved through the process of sitting down with the chosen individuals and conversing about their own experiences and memories to gain a better understanding. The work intends to show the supposed more and less significant moments of an individual's life alongside each other, by leaving the work in different states of completion to bring each drawing its context. This to me demonstrates identity and our individuality that forms as we get older through past and present experiences and other factors that make us who we are.