Round one of Edi’s top student creatives to watch in 2021 is here

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Looking to celebrate the talents and creative abilities of the student populace across Edi’s four universities, The Edinburgh Tab is here with an exciting new series of articles, showcasing the student creators that truly represent the best of the best and should definitely be on your radar in 2021.

Do you fancy yourself as one of Edi’s top student creatives to watch in 2021? If so let us know by completing our form here.

Here’s the talented individuals round one has to offer.

Amy Anthoney – 3rd Year, Fashion Communication

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What is your creative passion, skill or pursuit?

Fashion Photography/Graphic Design

What inspired you to start doing this?

“My family are very creative, so I grew up constantly making and creating things from a young age. During my teen years I became more interested in the world of fashion and photography and decided that it was the route I wanted to go down with uni.”

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Is there any particular message you want your work to communicate?

“I want my work to be as inclusive as possible, it’s really important that my work relates to a wide audience of people and represents a clear message of diversity. The fashion world can be a very tough industry to break into without financial help, I want to show that someone from a normal background in Scotland can work their way up through hard work and determination!”

Where do you see this going in the future?

“I’d love to end up working for an inclusive and upbeat publication like i-D magazine, where I can push my creativity to the limit and find new ways to challenge the limits of the fashion world.”

Check out more of Amy’s work on her Instagram and her website.

Funmi Lijadu – 3rd Year, English Literature

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What is your creative passion, skill or pursuit?

Graphic Design/ Collage Art

What inspired you to start doing this?

“I’ve always loved consuming popular culture in magazines and would create vision boards and works of art made of things I liked. In 2018 I started doing it more and posting my work and today it’s a mixture of work and play as I create relentlessly on my own but also offer my services to clients.”

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Is there any particular message you want your work to communicate?

“I am motivated by creating images that people can take different meanings from. I’d like to see my work as a reference point for people’s social critique.”

Where do you see this going in the future?

“I want to keep experimenting visually and try out new types of work with time.”

Check out more of Funmi’s work on her Instagram.

George Tomsett – 4th Year, English Literature

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What is your creative passion, skill or pursuit?

Poetry

What inspired you to start doing this?

“I’ve been a writer since I was a kid, but once I got to Edinburgh in 2017 I felt like I finally had the space and time to properly begin writing. I wrote maybe two hundred poems in first year, about my life before university, about love, my fears – it was a healing process.

“After having poems in a load of student magazines, and people expressing to me that what I’d written spoke to them, I took the best fifty and made them into my first anthology, of which I sold about ninety, mostly to other students. Now I can’t stop writing and honestly feel at once so supported by my friends here in Edinburgh, and totally free to write without fear of judgement.”

Is there any particular message you want your work to communicate?

“I think that we often view making art as something which is only worthy if it can be monetised, or if we share it with the world. For me, writing has been my saving grace, and by writing I healed, and by healing I wrote, and the greatest message I try to convey is probably the power of making art out of your pain, even if no one will ever see it. There is something so pure and freeing about being able to mould internal pain and trauma into something which is external. That to me is everything.”

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Where do you see this going in the future?

“I think I’ll always be publishing books, writing as best I can. I’d love to move on from self-publishing and hopefully have something published by a publishing house, to try and get my work out there, but before then I’ll have to have a new project/idea…”

Keep up with George’s work on his Instagram and check out his poetry book.

Do you fancy yourself as one of ‘Edi’s top student creatives to watch in 2021? If so let us know by completing our form here.