CLARE DOHERTY I wonder whether I am a graphic designer or fine artist, or whether it matters. I am fully-equipped to be a graphic designer, in any case. My recent work has been about "personal patterns" - selecting images from personal photos and transforming them into repetitive patterns. Some of the images are immediately readable, others become more abstract patterns which are harder to decipher. I enjoy the process I work by, and the different stages of the transformation of ordinary family snapshots into generic imagery - from the selecting of images among the hundreds of filed-away photos, via the "purification" of the image on the computer, to the silk screening of the pattern onto different surfaces and backgrounds. As for my professional experience as a designer/artist, I have had my work exhibited in 1995 in Quito, Ecuador. I have participated in group exhibitions at Camberwell. In 1995, I did an internship in the graphics department of the Economist magazine. I am currently looking for design work of a part-time, freelance nature.