THE family and friends of a talented young artist and photographer who died earlier this year have vowed to carry on his last project in his name.

Twenty-year-old Rishi Mullett-Sadones, from Florence Park, Cowley, died on Tuesday, March 1.

The young photographer was studying at London College of Communication and had recently photographed models at the London Fashion Week.

The popular and energetic ‘go getter’ was found dead at his term time home in Finsbury Park, London.

The death was not treated as suspicious.

Before he died, Mr Mullett-Sadones founded an art group called Creative Collective.

His mother Jacky Sadones has now joined up with some of Rishi’s closest friends and colleagues to carry on his work.

At the time Mr Mullett-Sadones said: “Creative Collective wants to support Oxfordshire-based artists of all calibre – be it a hobby, lifelong dream or future career.”

He wanted the group to act as a platform for other young artists to get their work shown in galleries across Oxford and in London.

His last two exhibitions proved so successful that the Jam Factory, in Park End Street, Oxford, asked if he could stage a third.

Mr Mullett-Sadones called the exhibition Home, Again.

At the time, he said he picked the name as a nod to the sense of relief he had experienced at returning to Oxford after months away in London.

A new month-long exhibition, Creative Collective 2011 opens tonight at the Jam Factory from 7.30pm.

It will feature work from some of Oxford’s hottest new artistic talent and some of Mr Mullett Sadones’ photographs.

Mrs Sadones said: “Everything Rishi did, just had to be the very best.

“We decided to carry on what he wanted to do with the Creative Collective because we feel that it was a really good thing that he started, and something he would have wanted to see continued.”

Friends and a former tutor of Mr Mullett-Sadones have also produced a book of his work, called Always.

The book costs £16.75, but Mrs Sadones has suggested a donation of £20 so the remainder can be donated to Helen & Douglas house, which her son worked hard to support during his life.