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Postgraduate Degree Show September 2012 This exhibition is the culmination of the excellent work undertaken by our Master’s students over the last year or two and shows the diversity of creative thinking, skills and professional approach to practice that they have achieved in that time. Both full-time and part-time students have come from a variety of backgrounds and experiences to contribute to the debates and extend their individual practices, with a good proportion of international students to offer enriched cultural understandings of art and design. This is therefore, a particularly lively show from the three courses of Fine Art, Digital and Visual Communications, and Design and Applied Arts with multi-disciplinary work ranging from painting, sculpture, print, illustration and photography to audio-visual pieces, animation, glass work and installation. Thanks go to the highly motivated and dedicated staff who have supported these students through the Master’s programme. Dr Alistair Payne, Prof John Roberts, Lester Meachem, Pat Dillon, Dr Louise Fenton and the rest of the MA staff team are all experienced researchers and/or professional designers and artists in their own right, who have shared their knowledge and expertise with the students to deliver exciting and challenging opportunities for learning. The result of their valuable input is clearly evidenced in the quality of the student work on show at The Public. Following on from this exhibition and graduation, we wish our students continued success in their endeavours and future plans whether this is to further develop their individual practice, work in the creative industries, teach, or continue to research at doctoral level. We hope that the MA experience has left them well-equipped to prosper and make their mark on the world. Prof Dew Harrison Associate Dean for Research and Postgraduate Studies
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MA Design and Applied Arts MA Design and Applied Arts provides a creative platform for artists and designers to question and develop their individuality in the specialist discipline areas of glass, ceramics, interiors, fashion and textiles. The School of Art & Design accommodates a full range of art and design practice within one building, allowing for interdisciplinary interaction and access to an excellent physical resource. The 2012 graduating cohort of students originate from a number of locations in the UK and across the globe, from countries such as China, Cyprus, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Mauritius. The cultural diversity of our postgraduate community creates a stimulating and supportive environment, which assists students to progress, sharing experiences and ideas with each other. The students are supported by postgraduate tutors that are themselves practitioners of national and international status. The work you will see represents outstanding work in contemporary art and design. It is the culmination of many months of demanding, concentrated study. The students independently considered ideas have been realised through a mix of conceptual research, technical skill and theoretical enquiry, resulting in creative statements that inform current and future practice in design and applied arts. The students are now at the threshold of their creative futures and are confronted by a complex market place in a changed economic climate. They have accepted this challenge and have been proactive in preparing themselves. Many of our overseas students will return to their home countries and will use their
experience to add to the growth and economy of their industries. Several have already begun to secure their futures as academics in higher education in China and Saudi Arabia. Others intend to launch immediately into setting up their own companies and have prepared their business plans as part of their studies in Professional Practice and Enterprise. Several home-based students are already established in their careers, ranging from arts education and community arts to freelance design and working to commission. Many of this year’s students graduating in glass and ceramics have been closely involved with the Wedgwood Museum. Their work has featured in several specialist exhibitions at the museum, from which work has been selected for inclusion in the museum’s permanent collection. Some of this work will soon be available to buy through the Trust Shop at the Museum. On behalf of our finalists, I would like to take this opportunity to extend sincere thanks to Professor Dew Harrison, the Associate Dean, and the extensive team of MA tutors, technical and administrative staff in glass, ceramics, interiors, fashion and textiles for their support and commitment to students during their studies, ensuring them of an exciting and rewarding experience. Finally, I would like to extend my very best wishes to all of our graduating students and wish them every success in the future. Congratulations to you all. Patricia Dillon Course Leader, MA Design and Applied Arts
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Doga Arcan MA Design and Applied Arts - Interior Design
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By combining the inspiration of natural, graphical textures with environmental consciousness, my work as a designer has an approach related to the numerous scales of living things, from our basic DNA to the most beautiful mathematical structures such as bee combs. I seek meanings behind every living creature, exploring the spectacular textures of live organisms through the lens of a microscope. Applying this natural inspiration to my designs solutions not only blends with the beauty of nature, but also strives to be as environmentally friendly as possible. The first impression is the best impression: this green airport has a futuristic and environmental approach to greeting international visitors, with the intention to reduce harmful emissions, and conserve energy. My project includes departure pavilions, partition wall designs, benches for the waiting areas and direction signs, which have all been influenced by my organic and artistic approach.
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Chrysanthi Constantinou MA Design and Applied Arts - Interior Design
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My design work takes a critical view of social and ecological issues in contemporary society specifically, environmental pollution, earth population and the fact that we are running out of space. My work considers what a modern city will look like in the future and the range of ideas and new concepts that underpin new thinking, for example, floating cities and floating houses. My inspiration comes from sea waves and the lines and shapes that can be seen in the movement and formation of the waves. Water is one of the most important design elements within my work.
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Developing city sites on water is becoming an increasingly popular new trend, inspiring an interaction between architecture, innovative new materials, light and water. My work is dependent on an aesthetic that satisfies a desire for luxury and wellbeing. The main materials that feature in my work are corian, a new generation material and combinations of wood and metal.
Contact e: chrysanthi.constantinou@gmail.com
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Hannah Day MA Design and Applied Arts - Textiles
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This exhibition concludes a body of work looking at the broad themes of family and the passage and visualisation of time. Within these areas my thesis has looked at the therapeutic nature of creating and so process is at the heart of all that I do. Creating the screen prints of 830 Days was a physical exorcism of the time invested in trying to become a mother, carrying the child and then ultimately the miscarriage. My hope is that by the end of the exhibition my story has been shared and dispersed, that all 830 sheets will have been taken and all that remains is a bare plinth, ready for something new to be placed there.
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In An Act of Faith, each stitch is a prayer, a sign of longing and a recording of my personal investment into making an item that has no guarantee of ever being used. Its title comes from reading the gospels where each time, before a miracle took place, a person with faith acted. No miracle happened without faith first. This is my act of faith.
Contact t: 07766 207 653 e: hannah_day@live.com
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Shi Dian MA Design and Applied Arts - Glass
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My work takes its inspiration from Chinese landscape painting and Taoist ecological ethical philosophy. Chinese painting is based on Chinese ink: ink and water mixed together produce special effects. Chinese painting embodies traditional Chinese philosophy and aesthetics. I combine this unique aesthetic element and glass material, exploring different techniques to achieve different aesthetic effects. Taoism culture emphasises the harmonious ecological idea. The element of landscape in my work is the natural element representation, we all love natural landscape, when we enjoy its beauty we should protect it, in order to retain the ecological concept of harmony between nature and human. I use the medium of glass to express these philosophies.
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Contact e: 379995681@qq.com
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Matthew Hanna MA Design and Applied Arts - Ceramics
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Colour, form and function in Imperial ceramics. I’m interested in the qualities of Chinese monochrome vessels of the Ming and Qing dynasties. For more than 8,000 years Chinese potters have made ceramic vessels both for daily use and for ceremonial purposes. The form and colour of an imperial ceramic piece are often indicative of the function that it served. Imperial meals included a wide range of delicacies served in a dazzling array of bowls and plates, each distinct in form and decoration. During the Qing dynasty, one’s rank determined the colours and patterns that one could use at a table. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, alter vessels such as stem cups and censers, which had their origins in bronze forms, were often made of porcelain. Monochrome wares were specially produced for the four alters used for imperial ceremony and sacrifice. Brilliant yellow ceramics were used at the Alter of Earth and deep blue ceramics were used at the Alter of Heaven.
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Contact e: hannamatthew@hotmail.com w: www.hanaceramics.com
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Yang Hong MA Design and Applied Arts - Glass
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Fragile Unity. Asking the question “What is Art?” is like asking the question “What is Peace?” These questions are too broad and must be framed more closely. In order to provide a visual response to such complex issues, I have chosen to explore the question of art that will touch the subconscious. I have chosen the concept of danger to explore the fragile thread that keeps our world in balance. My work considers texture, light and contrast to explore this. My inspiration comes from the tensions that exist between nature and mankind. The shapes are simple and geometric. Natural elements are controlled in basic shapes. The sublime occurs through the use of different textures, colours and suggested movement to reveal an implied threat and a visual danger.
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Contact e: 470468338@qq.com
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Betul Katigoz MA Design and Applied Arts - Ceramics
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I am interested in creating handmade objects through which I can communicate my innermost feelings. My vessels explore the relationship between fragility and strength, logic and emotion. Touching the clay enables me to convey these feelings through the repetitive actions of developing hollow forms. I use very rough brick clay to create my work which for me represents the physical state of the human body. However my forms are delicate and petite, representing my emotional state. I am fascinated with ‘clay’ as a material that has been extracted from the Earth as rocks and strata and it is this feeling which I wish my own work to embody. As a form, I am drawn to the tulip as it has cultural significance to Turkey where it is considered the embodiment of perfection and beauty. My forms reflect the quality of the tulip, both metaphorically and physically. Just as the rock brings strength into my works so the tulip evokes a fragile and ephemeral state. My practice continues as a voyage of self-discovery as new influences immerge and combine to form my artistic practice.
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Contact e: betul_katigoz@hotmail.com w: www.betulceramics.com
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Christiana Kontou MA Design and Applied Arts - Interior Design
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The personal design and aesthetic of a home relies predominantly on the requirements and lifestyle of the people that will occupy it. Creating a sense of space and comfort in a small, compact house has been a priority in my design thinking. Economic use of space and the aim to make a minimal footprint on the landscape has informed my ideas in the design of a small but functional house. Cost has also been a crucial consideration. As the world population increases year on year, designing small, functional homes can assist in creating more effective, economic living environments. I elected to design a small house located in the countryside, to be used for either holiday or permanent living. Despite the abundant land space in the countryside, the environment has to be respected and protected. The aim is for the design to make as little impact as possible on the location in which it will be constructed. My influence was the mountains - a place where people go to feel refreshed, relaxed and exhilarated as they explore the magnificence of the environment.
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Contact e: christiana.kontou@hotmail.com w: http://ck-interior-design.webnode.com
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Rachel Lambourne MA Design and Applied Arts - Textiles
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Language is a fundamental life-skill. It enables us to understand the world around us, connecting us to other people. Visiting foreign countries, where languages are alien to us, provides an insight into the insecurity experienced by those who are excluded to the full range of the spoken and written word. Through my work I hope to articulate the way that language excludes or includes people. To achieve this, I have focused on creating a textile language that visually explores these concepts. Written communication assumes the viewer is literate and understands the language that is used, whereas visual language is wider reaching, crossing national and other boundaries.
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During my MA I have created handmade yarns that, through their construction, convey various ideas linked to exclusion and inclusion. I have used these yarns to inspire a final collection of dresses, mixing, manipulating and ‘spinning’ my concepts to arrive at creative statements that express a textile dialect.
Contact e: craftyshropshirelass@hotmail.com
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Yaoqing Li MA Design and Applied Arts - Glass
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‘City’ is the universally recognised descriptor for population conurbations. The skylines of the world’s famous cities are one of mankind’s greatest visual and physical achievements. The world has become lively and complex. Cities have changed the patterns and trends of modern life, modifying the living environment for massive sections of the population. The city has become the largest, most concentrated, wonderful stage on earth. As a response, my glasswork is divided into three parts. The first section describes the city as a roly-poly toy. Like the toy moves and stays in balance, so does the glass form, representing the need to establish equilibrium between the city infrastructure and its population. The second section is described through a combination of flowers and the city; expressing mankind’s need to retain a connection with nature. The final section focuses on the production of three tall vases that describe the architecture of the city. Economic development leads to prosperity. Old buildings are demolished and replaced by tall buildings that majestically stand out in great numbers. The overriding message concerns the ecological balance of the metropolis. Waste and noise pollution and over development can upset the ecological balance of the environment. Like the roly-poly, the city must return to a position of balance to survive. My work is intended to make people think and consider what they want their city to be.
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Contact e: liyaoqing_1990@hotmail.com
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Matthew David Marsh MA Design and Applied Arts - Ceramics
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Decanter and Shot Cups (Prison Farm Project) – Slip Cast Porcelain. Walking around an abandoned prison farm in the village where I live you gain a real presence of the history of the place. From its use as a farm to its previous use as an ammunitions factory during the War the pieces capture the essence of the place, drawing inspiration from decaying items such as machinery, boxes and various surfaces. Imbedded with meaning the work captures the current state of the farm whilst portraying an underlining presence of the time and history behind the place.
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Laura Morgan MA Design and Applied Arts - Interior Design
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My work focuses on the collaboration between nature and design, taking inspiration from the three major elements of nature - animal, vegetable and mineral. My exploration focused on a study of the structure, patterns, layers and colours found in nature, experimenting with different materials to mimic the properties I wanted to capture, described through models, image montages and photography. Colour psychology and the use of light is an important element of my work, intended to influence the viewer’s mood, creating specific ambiences in the surrounding environment. The methodological conclusion I have arrived at for my work has been to create silhouettes of the natural subject matters patterns, layers and structure, using light and colour to broadcast the spaces created between the solid forms.
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Many artists and designers, such as Thomas Heatherwick, Richard Weston and Yayoi Kusama, as well as landscape photographers have provided inspiration and influenced the direction for my work.
Contact e: l_morgan@hotmail.co.uk
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Serena Perks MA Design and Applied Arts - Fashion
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My work pursues the concept of protection. During my studies I have become increasingly intrigued by this concept. We all need to protect ourselves in different ways and most of the time we do this instinctively. Nature provides the most successful and complex protection in the form of skin, feathers and fur. Animals have many forms of protection. The one that intrigues me the most is camouflage. Hydrochromic inks have inspired my work; I wanted to create clothing that reacts to its environment. I believe that people use the clothes they wear to communicate. Some people choose to express parts of their identity through the image they portray while others try to hide and disguise parts of themselves. Through my work I want to express the idea of disguise; the fashion equivalent of camouflage. This is where my idea for a water-reactive raincoat originated; just like the chameleon, the coat changes according to its environment. The idea behind my digital printed lingerie is the thought of wearing your heart on your sleeve, wearing your identity as a print for all to see.
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Contact e: serena87@hotmail.co.uk
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Ashley Purmessory MA Design and Applied Arts - Interior Design
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My postgraduate research has concentrated on modular and flexible spaces. I am interested in multifunctional environments that can adapt and change according to circumstance. My design methodology has focused on the study of geometrical shape and an understanding of the structure and strength of three dimensional forms. The major innovation in my work is concerned with the interaction of modules and their capacity to connect in a variety of combinations. My final work is a proposal for a temporary living solution for construction workers, which is modular and transportable, providing the capacity to adapt to the various sites and environments under development.
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Contact e: ashley3d@hotmail.com w: http://ashley3d.webs.com
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Julia Rowley MA Design and Applied Arts - Glass
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Memory and provenance imparted to an object through its contact with the human race are the core inspiration for my work. Exploring the complex relationships we have with our memories and personal associations, I am continually fascinated by the value we construct around everyday belongings. This ability to iconize memories and weave new interpretations and stories around possessions offers an intriguing combination of sentient and material elements. This body of work is informed from inherited vintage fabric and clothing and my associations with them; strength, femininity and fragility. My glasswork explores the beauty of imperfection and celebrates the effects of time passing with a visible lifetime displayed on the surface texture of an object. Heirloom textiles and hand carved print blocks were used to create the casting moulds that translated the intricate relief detail onto the glass.
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Contact e: info@juliarowley.com w: www.juliarowley.com
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Serge Sanghera MA Design and Applied Arts - Ceramics
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Yin Yang. The inspiration for my work derives from the Chinese concept of Yin Yang, the philosophy which sees two opposing energies within the universe; one energy cannot exist without the other. To express this concept I use the simplicity of wheel thrown cylindrical forms with my main focus on an installation of multiples. The composition of the multiples is of paramount importance in this concept and I have incorporated the Golden Ratio to give a fixed proportion to the work regardless of the individual scale of each piece. I use two different clay bodies with very opposing characteristics to communicate my work; black brick for ‘Yin’ and porcelain for ‘Yang’.
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Contact e: sergesanghera@yahoo.com w: www.sergesanghera.com
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Lihua Xue MA Design and Applied Arts - Glass
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Meets in Flow. Everyone’s life is moving quickly or slowly. As a Chinese youth, I desire to create new ideas in contemporary glass design. I have recognised that my individual creative language should be original – independent of existing styles or ethnic isolation. My general concept considers ‘East meets West, Classic meets Modern’ which guides me to pursue my personal goal. I have been fortunate to realise my ambition through the MA programme in glass. My work has taken two directions in its interpretation. Each pathway will be developed accordingly. The first concept combines glass with digital technologies in architectural space, expressing the connection between traditional and innovative process. The second pathway responds to the emotional potential of the material expressed through sculpture and the essential involvement of the hand of the maker. This exhibition presents the digital enhanced work, named Meets in Flow: Blowing, and the sculptural glass named Meets in Flow: Floating. Both works were inspired by flowing people, blowing wind and sparkling ocean. The works presented at the postgraduate exhibition form the beginning of my further exploration in glass art.
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MA Digital and Visual Communications The MA Digital and Visual Communications offers study in a broad range of digital and visual communication theory and practice. Specialist areas covered are: • • • • • • • •
Graphic Communication Illustration Animation Computer Games Design Multimedia Design Design for Advertising Photography Film and Video
The course attracts students from a wide range of disciplines and from all over the world, giving it a strong international flavour. The current cohort comes from as far afield as China, Nigeria, India, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Poland, Greece and Germany, as well as the UK. The course gives students the opportunity to develop their creative design abilities but also equips them with marketing and branding skills and knowledge essential for a career in the competitive market place that is International Visual Communications. I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of the graduates every success for their future careers in the Creative Industries. Lester Meachem MA FHEA Course Leader, MA Digital and Visual Communications
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Ameirah Abdullatif Alazman MA Digital and Visual Communications
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In this course I focused on the symbols of Islamic art (octagonal star, crescent, Arabic calligraphy and plant ornaments) and asked: to what extent can computers be utilised to create innovative designs that are derived from Islamic designs? Theoretical and practical approaches were implemented to answer this question; the purpose of my work is to show the Western world in general and graphic designers in particular about the value and aesthetics of Islamic art and the ability of its symbols to be used creatively and professionally to produce magnificent artwork. This artwork sends a message about the Islamic religion; it does not terrorise. Islam is wonderful and interested in people’s feelings and emotions.
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Contact e: dorar2000@hotmail.com
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Christin Bourjau MA Digital and Visual Communications
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Question: What happens to someone by wearing clothes? Answer: One will move through different worlds and feelings like Alice in Wonderland. My Master’s project deals with the idea of a journey through five selected worlds (nature, culture, industry, space and dream) each shown by an art-dress and transformed by a projection onto it to change the appearance of the dress and build a story around them. I want to experience the interaction between the light of a projection and the reaction of the materials of a dress bound by a question and their answer in a little journey.
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Contact e: c.bourjau@googlemail.com
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Helene Marie Dick MA Digital and Visual Communications
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Time to tidy up! Our world is full of visuals, information and a lot of useless things. In this consumer society we are losing track of all this. That is why we need organisation. My editorial design project idea is a personal organisation assistant which helps to organise all your stuff, and in the broader sense, your life. The main target group includes younger people starting to live independently and beginning to build up their own life. Nobody wants this kind of moralising attitude, that is why the project is realised in a humourous way. This business world, where everybody wants to be the best, fastest and most successful is serious and intense enough. I would like to give meaning to the product that I create. For me it is fundamentally important that my creations are not only pretty, but also make sense and, in the best case, are helpful.
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Contact e: helene.dick@gmx.de
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Sibylle Egelkamp MA Digital and Visual Communications
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My Master’s project is a magazine called Magazine BAFF (BAFF is the German word for ‘to be flabbergasted’). This booklet is packed with curious stories from all around the world. All articles are based on a true story. The magazine is for a young target group to educate them about unusual things in the world and make them more accessible. The magazine contains illustrations and exciting stories. There are no technical limitations; instead they are imaginative, creative, and extraordinary as photos. Therefore they fit well to the topics of the text. The fact that only illustrations were used in the magazine is also abnormal and fit again to the content of the magazine.
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Contact e: sibylle.egelkamp@gmx.de
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Martin Evans MA Digital and Visual Communications
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At the time of partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1967 the age of consent for gay men was set at 21, it was subsequently lowered to 18 in 1994, then 16 in 2001. In my work I have recorded the views of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people on the changing face of the LGBT Bar and Club scene. These personal reminiscences give an insight into past and present LGBT venues and their clientele, and create a snapshot of LGBT culture and the state of its acceptance within society. Even today anonymity is important to members of the LGBT community and retaining this has been a major consideration within my work. With influences including club signage and church stained glass windows, I seek to emphasise the feeling of belonging felt by many when attending an LGBT venue and the religious nature of their attendance.
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Anna Monika Grabowska MA Digital and Visual Communications
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I major in children’s book illustration. I enjoy painting people and animals. In my Master’s project I have combined both my interest and experimentation to develop my technique.
Contact e: anna.grabowska@hotmail.co.uk w: www.catsandcupcakes.tk
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Anna-Madeleine Grimm MA Digital and Visual Communications
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Radical Braille.
Braille is the typeface for the blind. It is a dot typeface for giving visually impaired people the opportunity to read and write. But for us, sighted people, typography is more than just getting information. It can express emotions and feelings through variable typefaces. In my Master’s project, I’ve worked on the emotional part of the Braille. Because reading could be so much more than just getting information. Of course, a person can perceive emotions by the content of a text but the text’s appearance remains emotionless. So I want to go a step further. I want to make it palpable and therefore to increase the reading experience. I refine the dot typeface with different materials. Soft material gives the person a reassuring feeling whilst hard, scratchy ones may produce discomfort. This follows the conclusion that reading is more intense. For example: if the protagonist of a story passes a hard path and you can feel the exertion through scratchy surfaces, you feel even more of the story and a new dimension is achieved.
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Patrycja Grzywaczewska MA Digital and Visual Communications
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iArt: Learn, Create & Sway is a project to bring broken communities together through art – with children as a key target audience. I am confident in my idea that if children were raised in the right way in the right environment, and if they were getting the right inspirations that this would give us more successful people with ambitions and vision of bright future. Learning is difficult for children, because they simply don’t feel like it or are too lazy. But when fun and games get into it memorising and learning are much easier. iArt – Learn, Create & Sway aims to create a sense of unity by asking children from Wolverhampton to get engaged with art in different forms:
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Conventional: painting and drawings Modern: iPad and iPhone applications in form of quizzes, visualizations, etc. Through interactions and marketing I want to advertise a multilingual message of love, clarity and global unification.
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Ibrahim Sule Gyadigyadi MA Digital and Visual Communications
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Malaria is a serious problem in Nigeria. My project is about encouraging people to use treated insect nets to protect themselves and their children from the disease. My aim is to use research and design to create informative material and give-away items that encourage the target group to engage with these nets and use them properly.
Contact e: ibrahimgyadigyadi@yahoo.com
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Franziska Holly MA Digital and Visual Communications
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The focus on my Master’s project is book illustration. In this context I have dealt with the novel Master and Margarita by Michael Bulgakow. This cult novel combines several stories in a fantastic and whimsical adventure, a biting satire, a romantic love story and moreover philosophical aspects. Bulgakow created a picturesque scene of action by choosing the capital of Russia - Moscow. The various characters which are very beautifully described bring the book to life. I implemented a short trailer for the book which will arouse curiosity and also some independent illustrations. My goal was to capture the mood and introduce the main, as well as the small distinctive figures, of the story.
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Contact e: franziska.holly@web.de
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Sven Jaeger MA Digital and Visual Communications
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For my Master’s project I have worked on teaching materials and how to improve them in order to make them more interesting. I created a textbook about the German history after the Second World War however any other historical issue could also be explored. At the beginning of the teaching, the student receives a sealed envelope. Inside the envelope the student finds his or her personal ‘investigation file’ that contains all the important information about the topic. The file contains more envelopes, photos, handwritten notes, a map and a ‘cassette’ with digital content. The design should be as authentic as possible in order to support the taught content best. To solve the tasks the students have to research and investigate on their own, thus they complete the textbook and also reach the learning outcomes in a creative way.
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Contact e: sven.jaeger@gmx.de
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Yvonne John MA Digital and Visual Communications
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Kitsch Up. In my Master’s thesis I have developed and displayed a method to make young people more interested in art and art history by popularising it. This method combines the artistic genre of appropriation and kitsch. More precisely, it is based on the creation of three appropriations of old masters in a kitsch style. ‘Kitsching up’ or updating an old master’s painting is the attempt to make the artwork more accessible. Giving the artwork a more contemporary, more popular appearance aims to attract and invite the youth to engage in the artwork and traditional art. The new artworks can be understood as a hint, a directory to know where to begin and how to understand the original painting by looking at the appropriation (or both at the same time).
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Stella Johnsson MA Digital and Visual Communications
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Interactivity can be so much more than connecting through digital devices. I want to examine how adverts could become something we explore and become part of by getting involved in the creation process. Effective advertising should connect the analogue with the digital and should become more of a process where the viewer is becoming part of it. I want people to get involved in physical ideas and get them more involved in real analogue situations which will intrigue and inspire them to get involved in the spreading of the advertising message. To illustrate this, the techniques are presented through different posters dealing with one topic: our environment. The posters are based on the phrase: ‘You have to do something to start something’.
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I believe in order for a message to work, we need to become part of it.
Contact e: johnsson.stella@gmail.com
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Matt Jones MA Digital and Visual Communications
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I am an Illustrator/Author from Shropshire. Over the course of my MA I have been working on creating a picture book based around characters and themes from my sketchbooks. The ‘Cog-Folk’ are organic mechanical creatures who feast upon letters to create strange words and sounds: “It might never have occurred to such a tiny little Cog-person before then, but he didn’t want to be like all the OTHERS. He quite liked being different. He took delight in finding new words and sounds, the more new words he found, the more curious about the world outside the Machine he became. Perhaps there where others out there like him, others who dared to dream.
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Course Highlights: • Penguin Design Award 2010, Puffin Children’s Book Prize. [Shortlisted]. • Lloyds TSB The Art of Nurture Award 2011. [Shortlisted]. • Work featured in The Fundamentals of Illustration 2012 (2nd Edition). [AVA Publishing].
Contact e: zemattio@hotmail.com w: www.facebook.com/mattjonesillustration
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Yasemin Kilinc MA Digital and Visual Communications
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My Master’s project is an interactive magazine about contemporary art and culture that will be sold in Europe. It is called remag (re=revolution/remake/change, mag=shortform of magazine). The interaction between the magazine, its website and its readership ensures the development of a community that can help shape the magazine on its website by voting for features for the next issue. Furthermore, readers can send in their own work, such as poems and photography, or design a few parts of the magazine, like for example dividing pages or included posters.
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With this magazine I want to impart on young artists a revolutionary spirit and inspire them for their own work. It is for socio-critical people that do not hesitate to use their art to express their feelings. Thereby they get part of a revolutionary, but peaceful movement. The slogan ‘a revolution with love, art and culture’ summarises my concept.
Contact e: yase-kilinc@web.de
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Frederic Lahme MA Digital and Visual Communications
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For my Master’s project I planned, designed and coded an app for the iPad called Ask Mom. After moving out from home you have to face a lot of new challenges. Cooking, washing, cleaning and ‘what shall I do if red wine is on my new white carpet?’
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The first thought is to call your mom. But to call your mom every time you’ve got a problem is dependent and a bit embarrassing. But you can use the app instead! The app will teach you all basic skills you need to survive. And if your problem is a bit special, you can ask the Ask Mom-community.
Contact e: info@fredericlahme.com w: www.fredericlahme.com
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Arno Linde MA Digital and Visual Communications
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In my Master’s project I planned and created a website called The Perfect World. It is about how people imagine a perfect world. I was always interested in the fact that every human being has a different view on what is perfect or utopian, what is good and what is bad. Furthermore most people like to share their thoughts and opinions. We are naturally inclined to pass on information and stories. The stories we share let people know what is important to us and who we are. With The Perfect World I will provide a website where people can share, discover and discuss different views of a utopian world. They can learn about needs and problems of other people and cultures and have the possibility to exchange their very own opinions and thoughts. The website will show how different people from all over the world think about a perfect world.
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Christina Ludewig MA Digital and Visual Communications
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During my Master’s project I developed a website (storylodge.com) where parents can create a children’s book for, or with, their child. This website works as follows: the parents or the child can choose from different fairy tales. After they have chosen their favourite tale, they can create a children’s book with the help of given and illustrated characters, backgrounds and objects.
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As the main technique for my Master’s project I have chosen illustrations. My style is abstract and contains distinct and facile forms. To me it is one of the greatest challenges to change complex content into a simple and logical illustration. Before starting with an illustration, I always develop a sophisticated concept which is helpful to visualise my thoughts and ideas appropriately.
Contact e: christina.ludewig@googlemail.com w: www.storylodge.com
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Lena Matthies MA Digital and Visual Communications
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Unusual Sheet Music is the title of five interactive books showcasing photographs of my surroundings to control and inspire musicians playing. I have divided the music into five elements: melody/harmony, rhythm, articulation/dynamic, vocals and mood. The photographs include birds on wires, tall buildings with different windows in shade, the bark of various trees, sheep on pasture and light reflecting on flooring. With the help of geometrical shapes I have abstracted my photographs, creating graphic works that are like ‘sheets of music’ for musicians. Every picture has been interpreted musically and recorded. All these recordings in combination will produce an entirely new song. The interactive design and an MP4 player make it possible to hear, see, smell, taste and touch music so music becomes a more sensory experience. If readers suddenly feel like making music themselves, drumsticks are provided, making a truly personal interpretation possible.
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Contact e: matthies.lena@freenet.de
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Frauke Mester MA Digital and Visual Communications
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The aim of my project is to find a way that we can make packaging even more convenient for the customer and the environment, by producing as little waste as possible and saving space. While industry is developing new materials such as plant-based plastics that are biodegradable, but still expensive in production, I am looking at ideas to use less material from the beginning. Packaging needs to be flexible to adapt to changing consumer needs, as people’s lifestyles become more mobile and spontaneous. To make packaging more space efficient, its shape can either be adapted to the product or the product is adapted to fit the packaging. Two of my ideas are a new bottle that extends and shrinks depending on the amount inside and a new way of producing cornflakes in sheets, so they can be packaged more efficiently and broken into flakes by the consumer.
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Contact e: frauke.mester@web.de w: fraukemester.wordpress.com
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Fred Perry Munnelly MA Digital and Visual Communications
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I am a keen digital designer interested in how people interact with the world. I enjoy working across all types of media mostly screen, interactive and display design. I’m interested in design that challenges the viewer to re-consider their own ideas and views. After completing my BA (Hons) Graphic Communications I continued my studies to explore interactive media and the views of people in relation to design. I’m displaying pieces that are both 3D and print with a screen-based interactive result. The first being a 5m2 QR-Code created from QR-Codes. The second is a self-portrait created up of thousands of QR-Codes, once scanned both lead to my memories within six areas, people, self, belonging, times, learning and work. I wish to continue my research and create design to push boundaries of what digital design can do and how we think and relate it to our own lives.
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Andreas Olymbios MA Digital and Visual Communications
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For my Master’s project I chose to create a new brand of energy drink and examined the effect of different approaches to advertising and promotion for this new product. The target market is an adult audience aged from 18 to 40 of both sexes. My product is different from other energy drinks which are mainly aimed at young consumers with a specific way of life. This product is based on natural ingredients for consumers with an awareness of health issues. My target audience is busy people with a hectic routine who may feel tired or stressed during the day.
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Contact e: info@andreasolymbios.com w: www.andreasolymbios.com
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Mirja Peters MA Digital and Visual Communications
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“A friend is a second self” – Aristotle. Human beings need people they can call friends, but in the last few years the status of a good and true friendship has changed unfortunately. Today the ‘social network-century’ turns friendship into a quick mouse-click. In my project I want to create something that everyone could use to collect their memories, because there is a huge importance of memory and of sharing experiences in friendship. The idea is that you have a template which you can personalise with your true friends. So, you have a unique personal memory of your true friends in today‘s social network-age. It is in contrast to today‘s ‘digital trend’ analogue. You could touch and feel it. It should adapt the charm of the earlier collection, such as sports cards or marbles. True friendship should not die and its values must not be forgotten.
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Contact e: hello@mirjapeters.de w: www.mirjapeters.de
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Lindsay Pritchard MA Digital and Visual Communications
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As an illustrator, I have always been fascinated with the connection between light and cast shadows, and as a result, my work often has a three-dimensional element to it. This has been the basis of my work throughout my Master’s which has led me to using cut paper coupled with photographic projection to create strong images from a delicate medium. My Lips Are Inside Out investigates the relationship between miscommunication and social/religious tension in Britain. It explores how easy it is for communication to break down when people speak but are not heard either because of language barrier or the ignorance of the hearer, leading to intolerance and mistrust.
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Contact e: linz.pritch@hotmail.com w: lindsayp.co.uk
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Dorothée Schmidt MA Digital and Visual Communications
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My project, the freebox, is a concept to change our behaviour and attitude towards commodities and the throw-away-society. It basically is a shelf, where people can put things which are not required anymore and others can take them. This kind of gift-giving creates a sense of community and makes people happy. And hopefully people will get away from the consumerist thinking of always buying new. There have been two prototypes in the University of Wolverhampton and the freebox enjoys increasing popularity. Schools would be an ideal place for the freebox to teach children that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. I therefore created ideas/activities how to better integrate the freebox within the curriculum. I am continuously trying to spread the word about this freecyling method and encourage anyone interested to establish a freebox in their own work environment, at a (sport) club, etc.
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Contact e: dorothee.schmidt@hotmail.com w: http://einherzfuerdodo.blogspot.co.uk w: http://freebox-uk.blogspot.co.uk
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Mandeep Seehra MA Digital and Visual Communications
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As a visual communicator, my ultimate objective is to methodically solve creative problems. Although I specialise in advertising and branding design, I have developed a portfolio that showcases a comprehensive range of practical skills and theoretical knowledge. Competition is immense, therefore my project needed to validate my position within the industry and I intended to do this by selecting a project that required the work to ask the questions. Regulations play an integral role in controlling video game consumption and their presence allows material suitable for all ages and adults to exist abreast. When consumers, especially parents, ignore the rating system, criticism falls upon the video game industry for allegedly training youth users to kill. Consequently, the content becomes in question. Thus, my project aims to question the current rating board, by producing material that presents an extreme example of what is currently in view today.
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Contact e: m.seehra@yahoo.co.uk w: www.behance.net/mandeepseehra
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Richard Anthony Woad MA Digital and Visual Communications
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In the past year I have concentrated on sleep deprivation issues in regard to falling asleep behind the wheel. Through this project I hope to make people stop and think about taking a break rather than carrying on to their destination. I thought that this would be an exciting and challenging campaign. My idea was to create visual images promoting tired driving which would travel all over the country and be exhibited in local schools, libraries, town halls etc. My work combines line, colour and photographic images that accumulate in photographic montage.
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Contact e: magrich@btinternet.com
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Mirja Vollgraf MA Digital and Visual Communications
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During my project I dealt with the experiences and feelings of holidays which can change or influence one’s personality. To my mind travelling is very important to expand one’s identity. For my Master’s project I decided to work on the topic of travelling and moreover, of travelling by train. Therefore I planned and created a new type of special interest magazine especially for InterRailers. InterRail is some kind of travelling which is very popular for many generations because of the possibility of going through a very experience-oriented, spontaneous and therefore unforgettable vacation. The magazine supports the free feeling InterRail brings into a travellers‘ lives, moreover with the magazine people could enhance their trips because they could act much more independently while travelling. Furthermore through the presented tips it is more possible for InterRailers to experience destinations more authentically and originally.
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Contact e: yellow.LC1@gmx.de
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Xinrui Yu MA Digital and Visual Communications
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Time is not something that can be simply defined but is around all of us and it runs continually. In reality we cannot halt, reverse or condense it, however in films we can. My project is trying to practise the destruction of time in a common object – a jar. Putting several objects into the jar, we can witness the changes occurred by the passage of time under certain circumstances. They react, they transform, or they stop. Also, under different modes of camera shooting, viewers may reshape their perception of the normal objects as well as time. This series of videos is manipulating the time in a jar, and giving an unusual visual experience of usual existence.
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Contact e: ukinrui@163.com
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Shiqi Zeng MA Digital and Visual Communications
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My work is about the relationship between parents and children. The child is a piece of white paper, and the parents are painters. They can fill the paper with any colour and they may want to use the most beautiful colours in the world; yet, they may make the first stain on the paper. Parents create a dream world for their children and teach them right from wrong. A child learns from its parents, and if they are not good role models, such as cheating, having affairs etc., this will harm the child. I use food to explore this situation. I want to create a project which does not depict parents as saints. I want to say that parents should face their mistakes and tell the family, even if they want to divorce. Cheating and hiding is not a good role model.
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Contact e: s.z@wlv.ac.uk
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MA Fine Art This exhibition of work reflects the great diversity of the MA Fine Art course at the University of Wolverhampton. Students hail from across the country and around the globe, and have joined the programme from a variety of backgrounds and previous educational and artistic experiences. Supported by the School of Art & Design’s community of technicians and academics, the exhibiting students have developed individual, independent voices through sculpture, painting, installation, photography, relational and other practices, each covering different aspects of the vast spectrum of contemporary artistic expression. In spite of this rich diversity, there is a thread that runs through and gathers together all of the work on display at the Public: a common theme of shared effort. This show represents the culmination of a long period of reflection, research, experimentation and application, qualities that are reflected in the work on display. The ethos of the MA Fine Art programme is the development of critical and artistic independence supported through regular tutorials, lectures and peer dialogue and tested in group critique and exhibition. In addition to the regular teaching team who have worked on the programme, I would like to thank the outgoing
MA Course Leader, Dr Alistair Payne, Professor Dew Harrison, Professor John Roberts, Maggie Ayliffe, Euripides Altintzoglou, as well as Jo Mills, Sharon Raybould and Don Adamson, and to extend my appreciation for the efforts of all of the MA studio tutors who provided the graduating students with supportive individual advice and tuition. Finally, I would like to wish all of the graduating students every success with their future development as artists, and extend my firm belief that they will capitalise on the skills that they have developed at the University of Wolverhampton to secure interesting employment and remunerative opportunity. Congratulations.
Benedict Carpenter Course Leader, MA Fine Art
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Lisa Abrams Fine Art
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The home is a theatre set within which mannequins perform life. The mannequins perform the physical everyday lifecycle of eating and bathing alongside the spiritual life cycle demonstrated in the celebrations we have throughout the year. The furniture within the room has an architectural quality, the metal bed looks like iron railings, the wardrobe like a tower block, transforming the room into a small city with trees dotted around. This is a black and white home, like an old film, giving the feeling of entering another world.
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Contact e: abrams0105@yahoo.co.uk
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Sarah Alwashmi Fine Art
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Life can be interpreted from different perspectives. Each community has its own concept of life. As the individual is part of a community, then the concept of life is also an individual concept. Culture is determined by the past, and through exchange, by what we eat, and how we live. As an Arabian woman, if I want to talk about the concept of life to a member of a different culture, then I would say that what I wear does not determine how I think.
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Contact e: artist_sa@hotmail.com
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Jon Crump Fine Art
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Work as an insight into politics, society, culture and the praxis of life. Not for others, but for oneself.
Contact e: info@joncrump.co.uk w: www.joncrump.co.uk
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Eliada Fernandes Fine Art
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The subject of my artistic practices has always been and still remains nature. Throughout the MA I have been exploring media and methods of documenting natural reactions, and I studied physics and chemistry to contribute to my studio’s experiments. Colours, forms and movements were captured during the production of elements’ reactions, such as ice melting or liquids mixing, or found observations, such as the water’s moving reflection. Every little thing happening under the functionalities of the four fundamental natural forces within the four dimensions could be noticed and documented. Additionally, some visual compositions such as reflection or repetition have been observed as ‘taught by nature’, while reversing the visual sequence of a video aims to touch the fourth dimension: a naturally impossible visual effect. “4x4 Lines” (left side) and “4x4 Circles” (right side) are stills from two of the strongest representative videos of this project.
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Contact e: eliada_fernandes@hotmail.com
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Xu Gu Fine Art
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My work is about drawing. It is nearly seven years since I began to learn drawing. I like drawings and I also enjoyed dealing with pen and paper. My inspiration is from plastic bags. Originally, I found there are many beautiful textures on a plastic bag, then I drew them, the work looked like a lot of overlapped lines, also like many irregular shapes, it made me think of geometry. I have collected lots of works which combine art with maths, and generated an interest in those work which have a rigorous academic attitude. They guided me to develop my thoughts, to broaden my ideas step by step. I plan to express my work through lines, shapes and maths. I hope every line and shape in my work could have accurate mathematical principles.
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Contact e: benpao.113@163.com
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Peter James Jennings Fine Art
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Donald Judd once said that after Pollock “colour, to continue, had to occur in space.” In this context the Set Piece series is a methodological exploration of the tension between Formalist aesthetics and mathematical accuracy in Conceptual works such as Sol LeWitt’s Open Cubes (1973). Combining the components of a Venn diagram, the mathematical device used to visually represent overlapping sets of data, with semitransparent primary colours, these suspended pieces enable a critical examination of the beauty inherent in simple geometric shapes.
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Contact e: petejennings@supanet.com
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Aaron Jones Fine Art
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The work I have created revolves around a process that when repeated many times always creating different results. I introduce melted wax to a pile of broken glass and then I allow the wax to harden. The glass that has not been stuck together by the wax then falls away to reveal a sculpture which has an antiform shape.
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This process can be repeated but the shape or size of the glass sculpture will be different depending on how the wax has dripped through the pile of glass shards. This style of sculpture-making fascinates me because of the unknown end results.
Contact e: aaron.jones88@hotmail.co.uk w: http://aaronjones-art.weebly.com
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Gareth Jukes Fine Art
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As a street photographer I photograph places that I feel seduced by. I pass through the city streets and I am drawn to different people and places. I have gained a greater understanding of the different urban environments in which we live by working and travelling vastly and visiting many places around the world such as Paris, Amsterdam, London, Istanbul, Athens, Belfast, and Atlanta. My images show mundane everyday situations and events played out in the urban environment. The juxtaposition of elements within my work draws upon issues surrounding representation and advertising within the public spaces of the city.
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Contact e: g.jukes@hotmail.co.uk
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Ian Male Fine Art
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My practice is predominantly exploratory and may not appear to have a specific outcome or conclusion. This open approach reduces restrictions imposed on my practice by myself. My work is an exploration into the notions of memory and history; time and our place in it. Can aesthetics and texture convey a sense of age or time and can this promote thoughts of history and memory in an audience? An audience that is integral to the work rather than a passive observer.
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I have employed specific methodologies in my practice, reordering the narrative through the use of allegory. The found object is the past, the work is the present; the past is made manifest through the interaction of the present. The audience are to produce the meaning through the exploration of metaphor and allegory. Thus the work may have meaning, both literal and symbolic.
Contact e: sharkyengland@yahoo.co.uk
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Julio Ioulios Orphanides Fine Art
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Through video and sound I try to create installations which will act as total environments, in an effort to enclose my viewers physically in the concepts and narratives that my work describes. Through experimentation I try to touch upon various methods of manipulating the notion of ‘time’ and ‘fragmentation’ in video pieces. Working with sound at the same time I try to construct the best way of communication between myself and my viewers. I always try to engage with concepts that don’t only reflect personal concerns but also have something of collective significance to communicate to my viewers. Human experiences, self-exploration or social comment are always in the centre of my projects. The idea is to make my viewers active thinkers and not to promote my beliefs. My subjects are socially engaging, yet not didactic. My approach to them is to address them and maybe give a personal opinion sometimes.
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Emma Perry Fine Art
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My current works explore interior and exterior spaces by manipulating materials to expose conflicting space that co-exist both in one vessel. The dualistic tendencies of conflicting space become more apparent through use of colour. I use colour in any form to highlight the interior space for the viewer’s attention. The use of colour in space in my work is of precedence. Organic shapes maintain my works anonymity of ideology. Given the scale and materiality of the works, colour takes priority over the need for a perfect surface, which is seen in smaller sculptures.
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Contact e: emmalouiseperry@hotmail.co.uk w: http://emmalouiseperry.wix.com/emmalouiseperry
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Gillian Townsend Fine Art
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My work is driven by the process of casting and creating replicas of the objects that surround us at home. All these objects have a function, some more important than others, but through the process of casting this function is removed. In some cases this is replaced with a purely aesthetical purpose, in others it is the material that defines the object’s functionality.
Contact e: gilliantownsend13@yahoo.co.uk
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Rebecca Woodcock Fine Art
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In my opinion, our principle need is to learn to draw properly again. Technology can never replace the skill of co-ordinating hand, eye and brain observation. To study accurate representation is still the most sophisticated and advanced way to organise our visual perception. After this skill is learnt we can then develop our own language.
Contact e: rebeccawoodcock1971@hotmail.co.uk w: www.rebeccajwoodcock.co.uk
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Yuan Zhong Fine Art
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My work is about the emotion of the animal and human beings. In my opinion, animals sometimes have the same emotion as human beings, such as being angry, sad and happy. What I would like to do is to discover this emotion through my work. I will use 15 pieces of 10X10 paintings to hang on the wall, each painting will have a black frame.
Contact e: 38342180@qq.com
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PhD Research CADRE (Centre for Art, Design, Research and Experimentation) at the School of Art & Design currently has 27 students undertaking doctoral research, both part-time and full-time, and all at different stages of their study. Their projects are highly creative, innovative and diverse, some theory-based, some practice-led, but all challenging in their unique approaches to the contribution of new knowledge across art, craft and design. This exhibition has an array of work from a number of the practice-led research students, those who have outcomes ready to show and are not concentrating on either the preparation of their Confirmation of Research, or on the writing-up of their final thesis.
Prof Dew Harrison Associate Dean Research and Postgraduate Studies Director of CADRE
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Garfield Benjamin PhD Research
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“How can cyber-art force the contemporary subject to confront its position as the parallactic gap between physical and digital worlds?” Garfield Benjamin is currently undertaking a doctoral research studentship into the role of art in confronting the subject as gap between digital and physical worlds, under Prof Dew Harrison and Dr Denise Doyle. Positing the individual subject itself as the space between worlds, the research uses ˘ ˘ to frame a discussion between Deleuze and Quantum Physics, focusing on the the work of Slavoj Zizek parallax of digital experience. His practice seeks an artistic approach to a multiplicitous self-destructive drive necessary to expose the void of the subject and question the decentred self.
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Hyper-Subject directly confronts this theoretical framework, confronting the subject as an assemblage of the functions of consciousness, and as the constitutive gap between the physical and the digital. As a hyper textual assemblage, the work utilises mixed media in both gallery based and online settings to approach the subject as the void within our manifold perspectives.
Contact e: garfieldbenjamin@wlv.ac.uk w: http://garfieldbenjamin.wordpress.com
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Everlyn Nyangiro PhD Research
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“The materiality of food: Investigating the potential of food as material for art practice.” My work takes a critical view of food as a material for art practice. Through the creation of food installations, I seek to question food’s materiality in influencing how a work is perceived, interpreted and experienced. I question how meaning is made and undone in such works and the contribution the material may have in that process. I propose an open-ended somatic experience through works that can be viewed, touched, smelt or/and tasted.
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Investigating models of new media curating and artistic practices in relation to participatory and socially engaged practices in both museum and online contexts.
Carina Brand
Art, Enterprise, Finance and Development: Changes in global cultural production.
Gemma Collard-Stokes
Unfolding Mutuality: Revealing the connections between writing, moving and habitation through creative process.
Carol Cooper
The development of architecture in the Black Country in the 20th century for art, design and visual media use; using the context of contemporary influences to analyse success or failure of a variety of projects completed during this era.
Mathew Dalgleish
A contemporary approach to Tudorian expressiveness in the design of digital musical instruments.
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Laura Dicken
An investigation into the representation of social class.
Christopher Foster
Determining the indeterminate: a composition portfolio.
Robert Grose
Instances of the emergence of the documentary real within relational and post-relational political aesthetics.
Catherine Hale
The ethics of one-on-one theatre.
Simon Harris
Deleuze and Painting: Re-thinking the formal.
Antje Hildebrandt
The reading of a Performance-Language, text and spectatorship in European contemporary performance.
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Fiona Jardine
The artefactual nature of signature, the readymade as a mode of recognition and the possibilities for active aesthetics and ad-hoc artistic practice.
Xin Li
Researching design interventions to improve glass recycling both in terms of its system and its products.
Carol Meachem
What is the role of creativity in visual communication?
Joanne Mills
The audience as explorer within the performative fine art space.
Clive Moore
Investigating modes of communication.
Lorna Moore
The impact of the phenomenology of the digital ‘other’ on lived experience.
Caroline Pemberton-Crump
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Richard Poynton
Corporeal docility and sociological scarring: the intermedial performance work of Jasmin Vardimon Company.
Sara Saeidlou
Analytical approach to the progression of female image in Iranian art, media and advertisement since Qajar dynasty (18th Century).
Nicola Schellander
An investigation into the part played by the particular nature of hot glass in the creative development of glass production technologies and their resulting products.
Benedict Seymour
The time/money image: fictitious capital, film, and social (non) reproduction.
Daniel Somerville
Body Opera: the ‘operatic’ in the performance of the body.
Katarzyna Warpas
Designing for dream spaces: exploring digitally enhanced space for children’s engagement with museum objects.
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Artists in Residence Artists in Residence is a new scheme designed to encourage practising artists to engage with the School of Art & Design and our students. It provides visual artists and designer makers with the opportunity to undertake a period of research or realise a project, using our workshops and supporting facilities, in exchange for volunteering their services to the School for one day. This gives those participating the opportunity to use equipment of which otherwise may not be available to them, as well as benefiting the School by bringing ideas and techniques which may not otherwise enter the University environment.
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Sue Parry Artists in Residence
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Geology is a long standing theme for me, during my residency I looked at microscopic images of minerals to gain a fresh perspective. The resulting work is a collection of wall panels made up of hand painted glass discs, I have pushed the medium to create textural and subtle effects of colour and monochrome, texture and polished surfaces light and dark, giving a three dimensional appearance. Each piece is attached using powerful magnets which enable the viewer to interact changing the evocation, composition and colour of the work in a playful way.
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Contact e: info@sueparry.co.uk w: www.sueparry.co.uk
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Annette Pugh Artists in Residence
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Contact w: http://birminghamartspace.org
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Benjamin Lam Xiu Qin Artists in Residence
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Recent graduate and current artist in residence in Illustration at the School of Art & Design, University of Wolverhampton. I work with digital and traditional media, combining my illustrative and graphical style into creating bold bright artworks. I am currently expanding my skills and learning how to produce screen printed images with assistance from the printing department.
Contact e: ben_lamxq@hotmail.com w: www.behance.net/ben_lamxq
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