Space for interpretation Chloe Milner, BA (Hons) Sculpture, Edinburgh College of Art I started off wanting to create work that would have an effect on how a space feels but I hadn’t realised what a big effect the space has on the work. Over the last two years I have continually tried work out in different spaces. I’ve then developed the work in response to feedback from the space, as well as from peers and tutors. For the degree show I am compiling an installation made up of papier maché casts of stones. On the one hand these forms are very familiar to us, but also strangely translucent and delicate. For me, there are allusions to impermanence, absence, and memory, the mind’s idealisation of things or people left behind. But I’d like people to make their own inferences. I think the work can be interpreted and appreciated on different levels; from the aesthetic of the form, along with any personal associations it may have for the viewer, to interest or wonder evoked by the changed nature and context of the object. My initial research led me to make these stone forms, but then the work started to leave behind its original inspiration. I reached a stage where the reasons for making them took a back seat – the placing and context became the important part. At this point new themes and concepts began to emerge; the work has come to have a different meaning and association to me than it originally did. Degree show: 3-10 June. www.eca.ed.ac.uk
2
Performance and interaction Robin Woodward, BA Fine Art, University of Worcester When I applied for university I used to paint and use photography. Using the facilities available to me as a student I learned programs such as Final Cut Pro and Photoshop, and these allowed me to make my first ever performance piece, Homage to Yellow (2015). Now I primarily work in performance, and during the second and third years I’ve become very interested in making my own props using found materials. I intend to bring this into the degree show but on a much larger scale. I plan to make an interactive sculpture that will display up to four videos of performances that have taken place in the space. I've worked non-stop for the past three years to develop myself as an artist. I would now like to learn what it is like to be part of such a big exhibition and the ins and outs of producing such a show. Most of all, I would like to successfully work with my colleagues to produce a show that is worth visiting and sets us all in good stead for our future plans.
1
22
Degree show: 19-24 May. www.worcester.ac.uk