Hello!
I’m Katy a second year Geography student from Bristol. For as long as I can remember, art has always been a huge part of my life. It is the thing that comes most naturally to me, has followed me places and taken me places and has showed me the purest joy and comfort. I’ve experimented with all sorts of mediums over the years at school and since, obsessing for periods on particular ones such as lino printing, etching or graphic illustration. During my cancelled gap year travels, isolation forced me to find refuge in my art and I spent hours each day completely captivated, going where my free mind, but imprisoned body took me, and by the end I’d filled what became my lockdown sketchbook. Part of the reason I love and study Geography is that it’s a very visual subject and is about looking for the connections between things and trying to express or explain these visually. I knew I couldn’t let go of the artistic side of me and knew I needed to intertwine it somehow into my degree, so I am thrilled to be on this course this semester. As a human geographer we are constantly analysing human behaviour, social interactions, customs and cultures and how these inhabit and interact within different spaces, such as ‘the city’, so for me this course is a fantastic opportunity to explore areas I study all the time, and think about them through a creative lens. I hope my exploratory journey will reveal the city in a completely new way and enhance not just my studies but understanding and my personal responses to it.
