CLASS OF 2015
“I want the audience to build up a story in their mind” Eilidh Wilson, BA (Hons) Art, Philosophy, Contemporary Practices, Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee How would you describe your work? My work is a means of documenting social engagement. The video documentation of events focuses on conversations that inspire action and networks of support. I use printmaking to visually demonstrate the strategies used in the media, while my sculptural work contrasts organic materials – representing grass roots movements – with the cold steel of dictatorship. It is a symbolic representation of resistance, tension and a lasting hope of success. How has your work developed in your final year? Over the last few years I have experimented a lot; this year I just wanted to express my passions and reflect upon how I have grown as a person. I wanted to be able to engage with an audience in the hope of sparking some interest in what the work is about. The conceptual basis of this work is relying on others to finish it, taking the time to engage with people. This is fundamental – sometimes art can be so introverted. What are you doing for your degree show? The theme could be described as witnessing resistance or exposing all forms of oppression; I want the audience to engage with the prints and the documentation of events to build up a story in their mind.
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WHAT MY DEGREE SHOW MEANT TO ME SOKARI DOUGLAS CAMP
Central School of Art and Design, London, BA Fine Art (Sculpture), 1983
What would you like your degree show to achieve? I hope my work will create a need for a greater understanding of how perception is conceived. The works are not an attempt to be the voice of people who are silenced, but rather they ‘out’ the fact that they have been silenced. Do you hope to sell any of your work and are sales important to you at this stage? I am not sure that the works will sell – taste is very subjective.
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Sokari Douglas Camp lives and works in London. sokari.co.uk
Are you nervous? I don’t think I will be nervous until I leave the space for assessments. There are very much two states of mind for me: hating my work in fear of it not making the statement it needs to, and thinking that it could not be more apt as a showcase of what I have learned in Dundee. Degree show: preview 22 May, then 23-31 May, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Perth Road, Dundee. www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad Read Eilidh Wilson’s a-n blog
“My degree show gave me license to play, to be adventurous and daring. My work, Ti (Kalabari word meaning ‘to play’), involved a sculptural installation, performance and kinetic movement, and audience participation. Thirty years on, I am still exploring these elements.”
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Eilidh Wilson, performance event, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee 3
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Eilidh Wilson, print work
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