The Family This body of work has been inspired by the emotional content found within fairytales. It focuses upon the embodiment of human emotion and not on the traditional ideals of fairytale, being made to highlight the human condition through materiality and...
Touch Drawing is a key element of my practice and I have previously worked with fabric, stitch, light and wire as well as traditional drawing materials. For this work I wanted to develop my interest in the body and make a piece about movement, about energy and energy...
Hybrid Furniture Wood and ceramic have been the material focus of much of my work. My latest project explores material hybridity in furniture, incorporating ceramics and metal as visual elements within hardwood pieces. The coffee table incorporates dovetailed metal...
Attracted to the light My designs are derived from various insects that have a reaction to light, a reaction that makes them move whether they are attracted or repelled by it. I studied these movements and took the negative spaces created by their body and wings,...
Medals of Injustice Joshua Baurley is an artist specialising in small-scale sculpture, using the vehicle of the art medal to compare opposite or opposing sides of a humanitarian or political issue. This series of art medals is inspired by themes of injustice. The...
Dazzled My work is centered on paper manipulation and inspiration comes from naturally occurring structures, primarily shells. I was interested in taking lines and shapes from nature into a different situation, the domestic interior. My starting point were paper...
Contort Definition: To twist or bend out of the normal shape. The properties of wood and Valchromat have been modified to create a flexible material through the empirical experimentation of the laser cutting process. These light boxes utilise the idea of concealment...
Series One... The Cube This exhibition shows the journey of a simple line drawing developed through Corel Draw, laser cutting and Photoshop, to create a complex pattern. My interest is in taking a 2D image into a 3D object and then back in to 2D. Bringing the...
Immortalised in Porcelain The main focus of Hannah's work is to create bespoke ceramic artefacts that are inspired by traditional Wedgewood Jasperware, and through digital manipulation the work is made in to a piece of contemporary ceramics. The works main feature is...
Flock My work is an exploration of beauty and life within organic sculptural pieces. With a focus on the natural world, my work brings beauty to the commonplace or throwaway elements of our lives. The transformation of stainless steel cutlery into animal forms gives...
Drawing with Light - Describing an Arc This body of work began with the discovery of a box of Soviet sextant parts in my dad's cellar. Somehow it didn't seem entirely out of place that he would have such a thing, although the circumstances surrounding its acquisition...
The Hare This project explores the many symbolisms linked with the hare. Many cultures have their own story/myths surrounding the hare, but in each there are links with fertility, new life and more importantly, the Moon. Each ceramic figure explores a different...
A Deadly Beauty This body of this work is based upon the recent passing of my late Uncle Gary. My uncle was a very important person in my life, and responsible for igniting my fascination for the macabre. When I mentioned my Uncle's passing to people outside of my...
Shadow Shelter First conceived by the notion of "shelter", this final piece was influenced by Japanese architecture and Design theory, the project explores the values of malleability and kinetic environments. The conception of the interactive kirigami fan is to...
Upcycled Wood Furniture This is a collection of furniture pieces made from locally sourced unused wood from the Welsh valleys. Alongside the wood I used a hybrid of metals and yarn to create the furniture pieces. I believe by doing this I am giving the wood a new...