FUSIO N
Where Two Minds Collide A multi-disciplinary collaboration between Art at the Heart of the RUH and Bath Spa University
“As a final Year Contemporary Art Practice student at Bath Spa University and Exhibitions volunteer at the RUH I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to play a central role in coordinating and co-curating FUSION with Art at the Heart of the RUH. Developing FUSION has been an exciting, challenging and rewarding journey where I have experienced the challenges of coordinating and developing a multidisciplinary student exhibition suitable for a hospital environment. I am really impressed by the diversity and originality of work created by BSU students and hope FUSION enhances the environment for RUH staff, patients and visitors�.
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FUSIO N Where Two Minds Collide Fusion: Where Two Minds Collide connects two organisations, two worlds, and two minds on a quest to fuse them with a simple live brief; to improve healthcare with art and design. Bath Spa University students across a variety of disciplines from Arts, English and Creative Writing have explored their own art practice within a healthcare context, whilst respecting a sensitive environment that sees over 500,000 visitors enter its doors every year. Work Proposals were judged by an expert panel of judges nominated by Art at the Heart of the RUH for their diverse backgrounds and interests in arts and health. Famous British Artists Gavin Turk and Cedric Christie made a special visit to the hospital, and were joined by Dr. Mike Osborn, Consultant Macmillan Clinical Psychologist and Steve Boxall, Head of Capital Projects and Chair of the RUH Arts Strategy Group.
Thank you to the following organisations for supporting Fusion 2015:
Catalogue designed by student: Hannah Walker
From 35 proposals, 30 have been carefully selected and installed to create this exhibition. The work ranges from poetry to painting, photography to contemporary sculpture, and projections to outdoor installations.
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FUSIO N Artists 1 Tutor 29 Students
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Title: 20 Minutes with Dog 20 Minutes with Dog is an unconventional portrait of a dog she found staring at a hedge. The work explores its movements in a certain period of time and the small gestures captured create a story and personality for this dog. Poppy’s intention with this work is to give whoever walks past time to stop and be immersed in a story to temporarily remove them from their day and experience her encounter as if they were experiencing it for themselves.
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Title: Bound By a Journey Kayleigh’s work as a contemporary artist takes her on many journeys, both artistically and physically. She is driven by nature and foraging for items she can directly work with such as drawing with natural objects dipped into inks and fabrics deteriorating in the wild.
ZSOLT DUDAS & ELENA HUTCHCROFT A collaboration between two artists
Zsolt Dudas Title: Pain I. & Pain II. Zsolt is concerned with existence and the human conditions, with the consequences of being and the ways in which they may be measured, perceived and ultimately understood. It constitutes an experimental investigation into philosophical questions connecting to and examining the nature of being.
ANGELA COCKAYNE , BSU TUTOR Title: Laminations Angela Cockayne explores the interface between art practice, text, natural sciences and ecology to address issues of the future sustainability of the planet. Terms familiar from art and museology such as custodianship, ownership and stewardship, become both illustration and metaphor in regard to the need to address the future life of the world around us. This ambiguous collection of drawings and text is made as a blueprint, or plan of action for making work, performance and film - an oblique mission statement which explores our anthropogenic impact upon the environment.
Elena Hutchcroft Title: Love and Life & Horizon of Hope Alexander Pope in his Essay On Man reminds us that, “Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man never is, but always to be blest.” Hope is explored in chance, accident, collision or collision of ideas: the material (process), subject and object (two students) merge to produce a new hope.
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Title: Merging elements A significant aspect of Fiona’s practice reflects her on going interest in the relationship between nature and humanity-visually and metaphorically. ‘Merging elements’ fuses brain and cell imagery with other organic forms into a visually dynamic wall piece that seeks to express the internal physical components behind our identity and our proximity with nature.
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Title: Lucid Dream (8 Pieces in Total approximately 20-30cm x 20-30cm) Aisha’s work records her lucid and non-lucid experiences in textile workings. The artwork takes the form of ‘pillows’ made from Aisha’s own blanket and pillow material. The pillows will have images from her dreams along with her writings sewn onto them. Her work explores the fusion of the conscious and subconscious parts of the mind as it merges into a dream reality.
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Title: 3 works - Exterior: Letters from Kathleen Ainsworth, Solvent Ink Prints: Four Hundred and Fifty to Four Hundred and Ninety Five Nanometres (Blue) and Coprum Tendo.
In Emily’s practice, the concept of manifesting time and its transience is one at the brink of futility. Visual and physical changes in objects recorded over time evidence ephemeral properties of seemingly stable materials like steel and copper.
Sophie Reynolds: Entomology Tapestry and Print Series.
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Title: To the Lighthouse
Title: Identity Wen- Hsi is a Taiwanese woman educated and working in Britain. Her studio practice provides a platform of freedom from which she explores the tensions of living in the space between two cultures. Her work involves using fingerprints, bananas and mould-making to reconstruct objects and express the notion of identity.
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CHARLOTTE HUMPSTON
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A film, by artist Charlotte Humpston, is set on the island of Fuerteventura, which is part of the Canary Isles and off the coast of Africa. Filmed last spring on this beautiful volcanic island, the film visually describes a walk along the wild coastline towards an old lighthouse. Special features of this extraordinary landscape are the black volcanic rocks, lush green plants and surrounding mountains next to the white sands and surging waves of the Atlantic Ocean. A slow film to enjoy.
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Title: Frankenstein’s Tea Party
Title: The Periodic Table of Elements
Mac’s work is influenced by the Japanese art of kintsugi. She wants to celebrate fragility and imperfection, as she believes that the scars we may carry ultimately show that we have overcome illness, accidents, disease and trauma, and that we are stronger and more beautiful for the experience.
These selected works are from an ongoing series using abstraction as a method of representing the discovery process of elements from the Periodic Table. Taking everyday objects and rendering them in a way which is implicit of their base chemical composition from these limited elements.
FELICITY JOWITT Title: Hospital kinetics Felicity is a mixed media artist and her art is an expression of joy. Sometimes techniques inspire her to want to create; sometimes she will be inspired and seek out the techniques and methods to actualise her ideas. Anything can inspire her and she creates because she is alive. This artwork was designed to be accessible to all. Whilst its more subtle elements allow people to interpret it in their own ways, as a public work of art, its primary purpose is to bring enjoyment and fun to the hospital environment.
M AR T H A KEL SEY Title: Secondary Bloom Hospital aprons come in primary colours, each coded for use; with frequent exposure, the vitality of colour can be easily forgotten. ‘Secondary Bloom’ takes the clinical material and reworks it, fuses it, hoping to free our institutionalised associations surrounding colour from the sterile and remind us of our organic origins.
Emily Furnell: Four Hundred and Fifty to Four Hundred and Ninety Five Nanometres
J A N K I N S M A N & A L I S O N H A R P E R A collaborative project contributions from Sue Bradley, Alison Harper, Hannah Mattravers and Jan Kinsman
Title: A fish out of water This courtyard installation is a playful collaboration between mixed media textile students and staff at Bath School of Art and Design, it is a work which depicts and disguises the serious message of how we treat the world on which we depend. Jan Kinsman Jan is a mixed media artist, currently working in contemporary weave. Her practice focusses on man’s impact on the environment and the effects our actions have not only on our future but that of the planet.
Alison Harper Alison’s works is about resources; she deconstructs, unpicks, and reworks used ‘waste’ materials, bringing attention to materials that are usually taken for granted, used once and discarded; post-consumer waste that has no-where to go. She believes that sustainability starts at our finger tips – the things we touch and use every day.
Ellie Mawby - Impair Vision, Provoke Toothache, & Make the Face Turn Pale.
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Felicity Jowitt
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Charlotte Humpston
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Angie Cockayne Aaron Lembo Aisha Eveleigh Ben Cahill Jones Charlotte Robinson Claire Tigoglu Elena Hutchcroft/ Zsolt Dudas Ellen Brogan Shipley Fiona Costelloe Jane Demiere Macey Kayleigh Cornish Lou Miles Poppy Clover Sae Murai Sophie Reynolds Toby Rainbird-Webb Wen-Hsi Harman Mac Honeyman
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Peter Yorke
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Emily Furnell
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Martha Kelsey
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Laura Luing
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Ellie Mawby
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Jo Waterworth
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grass roundabout
oncology waiting room
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Title: Ekphrasis Revised
All the works involved in Ekphrasis Revised intend to show the special and ancient relationship which poetry and visual art share. Forever related yet always different, these works shows how artists respond to each other’s work in original, personal and thought provoking ways. Artists in collaboration with Aaron: Rebecca Cattell, Laurie Jay Newman, Sophie Harrington, Harry Hancock.
Charlotte Robinson:The Vastness of Flight
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Title: Aeolian Harps Laura is a musician who is interested in unusual instruments and sound sculptures. Wind chimes have always fascinated her with the way the instrument decides when it wants to play for itself, instead of the human deciding. These aeolian harps are handmade from guttering and fishing wire. They create a soft melodic bowing sound when the wind is at the right airflow. She was inspired to make these because of a fascination with instruments that are able to play themselves when they want to without human interaction.
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Title: Impair Vision, Provoke Toothache, & Make the Face Turn Pale. During the 18th century, people in Europe had a ‘problematic and anxiety-ridden’ fear of water in relation to cleaning the body. They believed ‘full immersion in water was thought to impair vision, provoke tooth ache, and make the face turn pale’ and so deliberately avoided it. Ellie worked directly onto the window, exposing the delicate intricate and surreal forms of illustrations relating to the fear of water to viewers both inside and outside.
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Title: A Thing Among Things, i - iv
Title: Lichen 1 & Lichen 2
By phenomenological definition space is a medium of communication, mediation and transference, of ideas and perception. Perception through experience prioritizes the body as the immediate and principal way of understanding our environment, our space; the body and its surroundings cannot be distinguished from each other.
Lou strives to find a visual language, a method to explore the subtleties of communication in non-representational and indistinct ways. Air pollutants dissolved in rainwater can damage and prevent the growth of leafy lichens making the delicate, composite organism an excellent indicator of environmental pollution levels. The visual and responsive similarities of the lifegiving passageways passing air through our lungs and the structures of these delicate, sensitive organisms inspired these etchings.
Lines Composed Upon a Lake Comical elegance gliding straight toward me. Beauty in the shape of a duck; curious adventurous, fleeing, I see a swan parallel, of grand majesty. Wings arched, bent, white, fluffy. The neck, so curved and precise. Sat still, resting, observing the lake. The shadows, hanging, low trees. Droplets falling down. The swan in a movement turns, Floating forward, to a stream different. The duck throws his head down, underwater, gone.
Aaron Lembo: Lines Composed Upon a Lake
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Title: Time Trace & Route Sae is a mixed media artist, her practice is continually evolving as she develops her knowledge of new techniques and materials. The experience of training and growing up in Japan has had a profound effect on her, due to the change of cultures, customs, and lifestyles.
TOBY RAINBIRD-WEBB Title: Lighthouse at Sunset Toby is a Jersey born Video and Audio artist studying Fine Art at Bath School of Art and Design. Within his work he explored the condensed nature of time and experience, the act of observation, and the expression of memory. He has previously worked within a large array of materials; rejecting a set artistic style, and has over the last 4 years explored painting, drawing, sculpture, sound, and video art within the context of his artistic theme.
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Title: Entomology Tapestry Series Inspired by the natural world and things that normally go by unappreciated, beetles form the base behind the imagery. Sophie’s work acts as a celebration of insects that are often described as pests. She wishes to cross the boundaries between decoration and expression by embedding surprising images within patterns and displays.
CHARLOTTE ROBINSON Title: The Vastness of Flight Charlotte has always been interested in the relationship between art and storytelling. This work focuses on the links in nature, mainly on Birds and how they are the closest animal to space. Charlotte was interested in the narrative between the shape of birds in flight and the formation of nebulas in space. Her artwork presents itself as a narrative of how nature can take many forms and invoke wonder in people.
Jane Demiere Macey: A Thing Among Things, i - iv
ELLEN BROGAN SHIPLEY
JO WATERWORTH
Title: Toothsmile Toothsmile is a project that studies the oddities of an mental illness, and draws on the characteristics that become part of your personality.
Title: SAGE
Using teeth imagery to represent an almost manic obsession with childhood, and not wanting to leave it behind.
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Title: Prosthetica Series Working on surreal imagery pertaining to Claire’s amputated leg, using a variety of found and made props to make still life photographs. The series was made as an exploration of possible new forms. Having the pieces hung in the R.U.H. means a lot to Claire as she spent part of her recovery after her car accident here. She would like to propose that the hospital keeps the pictures as a thank you.
The title of the work relates to the head itself, as a representation of a wise human in meditation; to the handprints, as human touch is sometimes more communicative than words. Sage is a healing plant with textured leaves and a strong scent. It is also an old word meaning wise. I invite you to share the wisdom of touch, scent, and silent meditation. In the words of the mediaeval mystic Julian of Norwich, ‘All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.’
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Title: Down To Earth Peter’s intention through this installation is to distract the passing observer, if only for a moment while they look at it. His working practice relates to how he observes the world, and how for him it falls away into meaninglessness, allowing him to reinvent it, reform it and relive it. Peter’s altered perspective brings about a new understanding to shift what is already know and represent it in a new form. He sees things how you see them, however for him these things can transform, limited only be his imagination.
PRICE LIST
Fiona Costelloe - Merging elements
Artist & Title of Artwork
Price
Poppy Clover - 20 Minutes with Dog (Poem)
NFS
Kayleigh Cornish - Bound By a Journey
£200.00
Fiona Costelloe - Merging elements
£240.00
Zsolt Dudas - Pain 1 and Pain 2
£150.00
Elena Hutchcroft - 1) Love and Life 2) Horizon of Hope
1) £130.00 2) £140.00
Aisha Eveleigh - Lucid Dream (Mixed Media Textile Series)
Individual: £28.00 Collection: £185.00
Emily Furnell - 1) Coprum Tendo - 2) Four Hundred and Fifty to Four Hundred and Ninety Five Nanometres - 3) Letters from Kathleen Ainsworth
1) £520.00 2) £450 3) £200.00
Vicky Wen-Hsi Harman - Identity
£300.00
Charlotte Humpston - To the Lighthouse
NFS
Ben Cahill Jones - The Periodic Table of Elements
Individual Prints: £60.00
Felicity Jowitt - Hospital kinetics
£45.00 each
Martha Kelsey - Secondary Bloom
NFS
Jan Kinsman & Alison Harper - Fish out of water
NFS
Aaron Lembo - Ekphrasis Revised (Poetry Series)
NFS
Laurie Jay Newman - Botanical Gardens
£250.00
Rebecca Catell - Dreaming of Orcas
£100.00
Harry Hancock - 1) Moon Sophie Harrington - Flux
£250.00
Laura Luing - Aeolian Harps
NFS
Jane Demiere Macey - A Thing Among Things
Individual Prints: £190.00
Ellie Mawby - Impair Vision, Provoke Toothache, & Make the Face Turn Pale.
NFS
Lou Miles - Lichen 1 and Lichen 2
£150.00 each
Sae Murai - 1) Time Trace - 2) Route
1) £50.00 2) £500.00
Sophie Reynolds - Entomology Tapestry Series
Single: £195.00 Four framed tapestries: £250.00 Nine framed Tapestries: £400.00
Sophie Reynolds - Beetle Screenprints
£60.00 each
Charlotte Robinson - The Vastness of Flight
£60.00 each
Ellen Brogan Shipley - Toothsmile
upon request
Claire Tigoglu - Prosthetica Series
£150.00 each
Jo Waterworth - Sage
£200.00
Toby Rainbird-Webb - Lighthouse at Sunset
NFS
Peter Yorke - Down To Earth
£900.00
£60.00
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