Month: August 2017
Jennifer Gordon

Jennifer Gordon

Dementia In recent years I have been exploring how to accurately depict my experience with Vascular Alzheimer's. In 2010, my grandma - Christine Marshall, was diagnosed with dementia, a disease that affects the brain, specifically how you think, remember and...

Sam Kitcher

Sam Kitcher

Autism Within Society, 2017 This work is focused on educating the minds of people who refuse to think about the impacts autism may have on an individual within the spectrum. Too many people use 'autistic' as a word of ridicule, as if it were to be describing a person...

Rachel Fletcher

Rachel Fletcher

I Crave You, Yet I Loathe You Skin forms the ultimate boundary of the body, one which separates "self" from "other". I aim to highlight our relationship with skin as a complex one. Disruption of bodily boundaries causes fear and anxiety- threatening ones' existence....

Jessica Pearse

Jessica Pearse

This series of works represents a culmination of the studies I have made whilst exploring my own concerns of the human condition through different disciplines over the course of my degree. These mundane human processes of breathing, coughing, swallowing, mastication...

Stefani Georgieva

Stefani Georgieva

One For All and All For Wildlife Six coffee paintings and two tea paintings completed on 100% recycled paper, with the use of as little as 30ml of coffee and one reused tea bag The wildlife you see in my paintings are endangered species, balancing on the brink of...

Courtney Flay

Courtney Flay

My installation is based around an interest I have with colour, how colour alone can create illusions and visual distortions. I experiment with texture using fabrics to contrast surfaces as well as colour, to enhance the concentration between the two. Light has a huge...

Ffion Gardner

Ffion Gardner

Dementia Influenced by social media and the effect it holds on the self-image of young women, I explore the growth of social media and how it has influenced the way women are perceived by men and society using social platforms. I address issues such as revenge porn...

Rebecca Donnelly

Rebecca Donnelly

27,417 This installation confronts the restrictions imposed by my upbringing as Catholic Irish, and how this continues to affect my life and the lives of other females in a country where religion still heavily influences the choices of a modern society. There are 27,...

Anna Rogers

Anna Rogers

50°29'48'' N 3°12'45'' W My current work is an ongoing exploration of fragmented environments and the relationship of the architectural and geometric to the natural and biometric. This is a reflection of the idea that environment is, whether artificially altered or...

Becky Feltham

Becky Feltham

Zeneske In my work, I focus on ideas of space exploration, biodiversity, landscape and creature design within an imaginary alien universe. It is my aim to tell a story with the work I create by building a fictional world that others can interact with and discover as I...

Farah Al Sidiky

Farah Al Sidiky

The Green Books:- The Millennium's Life Guidebooks On the occasion of the anniversary of 'The Green Books' occurrence, the Literacy Department under the International Culture of Society has selected several issues from their archives to be displayed to the public for...

Ffiôn Roberts

Ffiôn Roberts

Touch Me It has been over fifty years since the beginning of the sexual revolution but today's society still maintains an ambivalent attitude towards females openly talking about/exploring their sexuality, which has resulted in women repressing their sexuality and...

Ronnie Houselander Cook

Ronnie Houselander Cook

Not Permanent, Not Permanent: Living in Collapsible Society I explore our cities and steal shapes and lines to create a city that is joyous yet irrational. We live in a society that changes so fast I have to alter what I see. I reject the fundamentals of city life...

Lauren Colborne

Lauren Colborne

Airless Throughout the last two years of my practice I have been exploring ways in which to create the experience of anxiety and stress through video projections and installations. I have taken my own experiences of anxiety and incorporated them into my practice. By...

Rhian Sullivan

Rhian Sullivan

Textural Exploration I work as a multidisciplinary artist focusing in sculpture. My 3d practice focuses on textures particularly those in nature that have repetitive patterns. These tend to be recurring structural features in forms such as corals and some microscopic...

Jessy Plant

Jessy Plant

42AB (Ithaca) This colour series explores the contemporary condition of colour within geometric forms. Inspired by the philosophies of early 20th Century theorists, who collectively explored the potential of colour and form. My investigations have allowed me to...

Miranda Rigsby

Miranda Rigsby

Urban Residential Landscapes Within the paintings I have suggested an abstract urban/ residential landscape, the central stage is the intermediate, transparent, undefined, unfinished and the in-between. I have focused on is the physicality of my body in the...

Natasha Dorman

Natasha Dorman

As a multidisciplinary artist, I draw on materials and processes that have a relationship with the domestic setting. I feel that mimicking fabric and genitalia with vitrified porcelain juxtaposes the negative and weak, aged stereotypes associated with being a woman....

Jillian Goodrich

Jillian Goodrich

Curved Perspective of Place My recent body of work has been an exploration of the interaction between memory and places that are liminal or transitory. With this, I draw on the idea of the 'non-place'; the idea that spaces that do not contain any significance to...

Constance Gilfedder

Constance Gilfedder

We all live in a world where we are almost constantly recorded when in public. When we see a surveillance or CCTV camera we tend to assume that it is there to protect the public, to look out for crime, to keep the streets safe. We then assume that the footage will be...

Rachel Smyth

Rachel Smyth

Trichotillomania The focus of my work is to explore the often-misinterpreted impulse control disorder called Trichotillomania, whereby a person has the irresistible urge to pull hair out anywhere on the body. Through the use of scanography, sculpture and video I aim...

Aislin Hollyman

Aislin Hollyman

Surroundings I am creating small enclosed spaces that aim to highlight sounds that we are surrounded by in day to day life, whether we choose to listen them or not. Too often these days, people can't seem to spend time on their own, and appreciate time in their own...

Francesca Chambers

Francesca Chambers

Insularity My current practice consists of the visualization of the sound of isolation and using it to create interactions between people. Leading into this installation is an abstract sound score traveling towards the screen in the corner, which through my past work,...

Gweni Llwyd

Gweni Llwyd

Dwylo Blewog Mae fy ngwaith yn ceisio archifo profiadau synhwyrol o fater digidol a ffisegol, gan dynnu o atgofion personol a chyfarfyddiadau ar-lein. Mae fy ngherfluniaeth wedi ei osod a'r profiadau o ddefnyddiau gweadog o fy mhlentyndod, ac yn ymateb i ffurfiau...

Sophie Bristow

Sophie Bristow

Under Wraps My work is an exploration into concepts of hiding or obscuring elements of an image, with the intention of creating a sense of intrigue about what lays beneath the blank layers of each piece. I hope to make the viewer inspect the individual objects in an...

Adam Musitano

Adam Musitano

CC 5.5 "Colour to continue had to occur in space." - Donald Judd Within my practice, I aim to challenge the conventional assumptions around printmaking and display. I do this through the use of 3D constructs. I am interested in engaging the viewer in a different way...

Elizabeth Platt

Elizabeth Platt

T1-D: Spectrum Diabetes is a chronic auto immune disease that effects 10% of the diabetic population. I was diagnosed with the condition a year ago and it has come with far more impactful complications that just injecting after food. For me the hardest part has been...

James Szylobryt

James Szylobryt

'105' & '4' My practice involves printmaking and drawing. I am interested in creating elaborate patterns and designs that often display symmetry, and the illusion of depth. The absence of planning leads to spontaneous outcomes that are as much about the process of...

Georgia Leventi

Georgia Leventi

The Forgotten My artwork takes a critical view of social, political and cultural issues. Regarding the global political crisis that takes place nowadays, my intention is to project the uniqueness of suppressed minorities such as refugees, LGBT people and people with...

Charlotte Davis

Charlotte Davis

My work this year has derived from the concept of 'women's work.' Using painting and incorporating textile techniques that were a fundamental part of everyday life previous to our contemporary day, whilst representing the juxtaposition of today's modern views,...

Emma Khammaneechan

Emma Khammaneechan

In my most recent practice, I am creating series of sculpture using domestic appliances, such as a knife and fork, by taking away their commonly known purposes and functions, turning them into unusable objects. My aim is to challenge the normality of an everyday...

Holly Weston-Zygadlo

Holly Weston-Zygadlo

Playing Mamam The struggle of being a Mother and Artist is undeniably tense. My interest lies in the dynamism of this relationship and how I can utilise my position to create. My work became a dialogue between artist mother and children. A mother teaches her children,...

Carlota Nóbrega

Carlota Nóbrega

Vagina Soap Working with a different range of medias, since painting to sculpture and using a variety of materials, my work reflects the interested in the body intimate parts. Taking primarily my own body as exploration source, I started developing a special interest...

Laura Bralsford

Laura Bralsford

Hidden Wealth What is value? A concept taken for granted due to value being everywhere. Value is seen in many ways in the modern world. It can be made through the movements of our hands to important memories created throughout our lives. From taking a photograph, a...

Fintan Hart

Fintan Hart

3D Box Installation These series of boxes represent a process with a hidden message. starting from observational drawings of box instillations to printmaking which led now to 3D sculpture. Each individual box is different and unique, the boxes reflect on various...

Rebecca Davies

Rebecca Davies

Click4Real By playfully navigating a growing digital archive of information, I hope to address our increasingly fragmented relationship with information following our widespread engagement with online search technologies. I have become especially interested in...

Ella Louise Jones

Ella Louise Jones

Thanatopsis Mae fy ngwaith yn archwilio fewn i lawdriniaeth deunyddiau drwy arbrofi gyda themâu o natur, a gwrthrychau sydd wedi casglu a'i ddarganfod. Ceisiwn ddefnyddio fy celflynwaith i ymchwilio fewn i'r chwilfrydedd o'r synnwyr teimlo gan greu gwrthrychau sy'n...

Luke Stone

Luke Stone

Ruination My installation work focuses around a collection of sculptures, all constructed using every-day and industrial materials. Viewers recognise these materials, and are encouraged to explore and question the works. The installation explores ideas around Utopia,...

Adam Farrugia White

Adam Farrugia White

Palomin-uh-oh In 'Palomin-uh-oh,' it is the absence of the muse that implicitly makes it so present. Presence is made manifest within its minimalist form in the Palomino, which through conceptual strategies is realised as a portrait of this absent muse. "SHOW ME WITH...

Paige Rosser

Paige Rosser

Save Our Steel Neath Port Talbot is widely known for its historical industrial background; the steelworks being the main means of employment, resulting in a strong community. As a member of the community, I have a personal motive for expressing concerns surrounding...

Amy Penketh

Amy Penketh

Untitled The figure forms a significant emphasis in my work. Since late childhood it has always been something I have been aware of, I'm cautious of my own appearance I often feel self-critical and have analysed my battle towards acceptance, endeavouring to beautify...

Sam Whitaker

Sam Whitaker

The Norm Fusing collage, painting and video, my work integrates traditional fine-art techniques with a more experimental approach. Using contemporary media - relevant to our increasing technoculture - I aspire to examine techniques of 'distraction' employed by...

Holly Jones

Holly Jones

Witch & Wiccan My project is based on witches and Wiccans and their craft. The purpose of my project is to demonstrate through my paintings the representations of how they are stereotyped, and the reality of the subject is depicted through the form of photography. A...

Lily Rye

Lily Rye

Untitled My practice is informed by my experience of movement through multiple environments. By recording fragments of my journeys through drawing, both in real time and from memory and photography explore a personal vision of this experience. I build collages from my...

Mark Hicken

Mark Hicken

Echo-chambers 'People don't talk, people don't talk about politics, people don't discuss the things that matter and affect us all. People are too afraid to do that. To afraid that they'll be judged or worse offend someone with their opinion. Society encourages this,...

Ryan Anthony Jones

Ryan Anthony Jones

Kaleidoscope Eyes My practice stems from a natural inclination toward human psychology, with a specific interest in transitional objects. Equipped with a figurative, mixed-media background, I have refined my current focus to memories and environment. This recent body...

Abbie Brackpool

Abbie Brackpool

Ambiguous Line Ambiguous Line investigates drawing in space with line and light, questioning its interaction with the spectator and formulating a visual relationship between the viewer, the overlapping lines and fields and the space, thus creating a sense of motion as...

Carter Birch

Carter Birch

Oriented Strand Design In my final year at university, I have become interested in understanding art and design through the relativist and formalist paradigm; to which the latter describes my practice. As a formalist material properties are very important to me. This...

Emma Hastings

Emma Hastings

The Walnut Collection I am a furniture maker working predominately in walnut- subsidized with other materials like textile, metal and ceramic- to produce bespoke pieces with eccentric twists, driven by the key contemporary trends. My current work is inspired by...

Stephanie Jane Burnham

Stephanie Jane Burnham

Hard/Soft/Constructs My background in textiles has given me a real interest in how soft and malleable materials can be manipulated, stitched and folded to create form. In this collection called Hard/Soft/Constructs, I was keen to reverse key material properties by...