Sashi Handford

BA (Hons) Fine Art

Through various mediums, my work explores ideas of failure, happiness and success in a fast paced, material and career driven society with comic narratives about dystopian futures . The rise of technology and consumerism has created a new immediacy in many aspects of modern life, such as communication, getting around and gathering information. It has also created a certain pressure to be present in the digital realm as well as the physical, my aim is to playfully investigate what this implies. And to celebrate the role of the loser in a society that often feels like a race, whilst highlighting the coexistence of frivolity and labour in contemporary life.


Trwy gyfryngau amrywiol, mae fy ngwaith yn ymchwilio i syniadau o fethiant, hapusrwydd a llwyddiant mewn cymdeithas faterol sy’n symud yn gyflym a ysgogir gan yrfaoedd gyda naratifau digrif am ddyfodol dystopaidd. Mae cynnydd technoleg a phrynwriaeth wedi creu naws ddi-oed mewn llawer o agweddau ar fywyd modern, megis cyfathrebu, symud o gwmpas a chywain gwybodaeth. Hefyd, mae wedi creu pwysau penodol i fod yn bresennol yn y parth digidol yn ogystal â’r byd go iawn, fy nod i yw ymchwilio’n chwareus i oblygiadau’r hyn o beth. A dathlu rôl y rhai sy’n colli allan mewn cymdeithas sydd yn aml yn teimlo fel ras, ac ar yr un pryd amlygu cydfodolaeth gwamalrwydd a llafur mewn bywyd cyfoes.

Other Exhibitors:

Caitlyn Laye

Caitlyn Laye

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Chloe Winder

Chloe Winder

Our species has become increasingly disconnected from nature. I focus on landscapes of personal significance and/or landscapes that have been disrupted by industrial use. Materials from these sites (often rocks, muds, and bricks) are used through a process-orientated...

Rebecca Jones

Rebecca Jones

Non-linear narratives such as unreliable memories, leaky dreams and deja vu are a central reference within my practice. I address the structure of these forms of narrative using repetition, replication and iterations of time. My work is largely sculptural, using...

Rachel Verner

Rachel Verner

Exploring the fragmentation of memory through the physicality of found objects and the spoken word, my work has become an archive of my family history. Due to the archival nature of my work, I replicate ways of preserving my objects through the attentiveness of their...

India Beaudro

India Beaudro

In my current practice I am concerned with the objectivity and phenomenology of colour. Through using media such as light and coloured acetate, my present work is intentionally focused and uncluttered, allowing colour to be considered as a singularity without any...

Katie Berry

Katie Berry

With a love for colour my work addresses form and shape and the impact this has on a space. I am demonstrating how the use of bright colour can create maximum optical impact. I’m interested in pattern and repetition to create a visual aesthetic whilst whilst working...