Unusual studies of everyday actions - like getting changed and picking a nose - have helped a De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) Fine Art student to an end-of-year award.
Rhianne Burgess was one of the winners at an awards ceremony which launched this year's Degree Show.
Rhianne Burgess's line drawings
The week-long Art and Design Degree Show celebrates the talent and innovative work of DMU's final year art and design students.
The exhibition showcases exciting creations by the next generation of artists and designers across our art and design courses and attracts over 4,000 visitors including potential employers.
And it was launched with a series of awards given to top-performing students in subjects including Footwear Design, Fashion Design, Fine Art and Contour Fashion.
Rhianne Burgess won the Leicester Print Workshop prize for a portfolio of Fine Art work, which included a portrait of nose-picking and a study of the actions taken as someone gets changed.
Rhianne said: "I work with line and motion, representing physical actions as images. So I have done portraits of someone picking their nose and eating it, and of someone getting changed but with the movement of each part - hands, feet, fingers - represented as lines on the paper.
"I was happy and shocked to have been named the winner and I'm looking forward to the exhibition."
Footwear student Naomi Field won the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers award for her designs which were inspired by architecture.
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The 21-year-old said: "I'm so surprised I'm here tonight, honestly. I have had a good response at Graduate Fashion Week but I had no idea about this.
"For some of these shoe designs I have looked the Gherkin building in London and used elements of its foundation brickwork as inspiration for interlocking panels used in the design.
"I wanted this collection to be wearable; I'd already done conceptual stuff and I was really keen these designs were practical."
In Fashion Design, Danielle O'Neill won the Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters Pershall Hirst Bursary for a collection of unconventional designs.
Danielle O'Neill
The 23-year-old said: "I introduced a herringbone effect to my knitted fabrics, a V-shaped weaving pattern usually found in wool, and I have worked on reinventing faire isle by using the reverse side of the fabric to give it a much more modern appeal.
"I've also incorporated internal construction elements like shoulder pads, interfacing and seams, as external decorative detail."
Other winners on the night were Niamh Meehan, for Fine Art, Deborah Abidakun for Interior Design, Betsan Evans for Contour Fashion and Hazel Symons - who recently won the Christopher Bailey Gold Award at this year's Graduate Fashion Week - for Fashion Design.
Posted on Monday 20 June 2016