A random internet search for cheap flights brought up one for the Indian capital the fare almost £100 less than to other destinations. While I was searching for flights to Melbourne, I had the idea to stop somewhere on the way and have a bit of an adventure. I’d live in Melbourne, teach English to Southeast Asian students, eat ice cream on the beach, and maybe even carry on with my artwork. Getting a job was the obvious option, but with a degree (Honours degree, actually!) in Illustration, that wouldn’t just involve doing a lot of drawings, rather, I’d have to network, draft pitches, get an enormous number of rejections, and probably (at least in the beginning) work for free.Īt the tender age of twenty one I didn’t really want to begin the downward spiral of a failed artist, and so, as soon as I graduated, I did a TEFL course and got a qualification to teach English as a foreign language, and decided to move to Australia. The only problem was that my course would end in the early summer, and I had absolutely no idea what I was going to do next. I was drawing and painting and printing and taking photographs (and writing my dissertation), and I was pretty happy. Three years ago, I was in the final semester of my degree at art college.
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