Jen Graham Using raw materials suggestive of domestic and personal connection, Jen is exploring highly personal and current issues revolving around the importance of choice and decision. Employing Buddhist philosophies discussing the affects of attachment and aversion, Jen is considering how in the subtle grasping and pushing of objects and opportunities cannot help but form a sculpted ‘whole’. By working and reworking, adding and removing, the canvas, cotton and thread is an evolving and unfinished expression of process.
Sophie Turner For her final project, Sophie is investigating the topic of ephemeral beauty through fashion textiles. She is exploring different perceptions of beauty from people of different ages collecting different definitions focusing specifically on the
universal term ‘Beauty Fades’. This has led her to investigate ‘decaying beauty’, the struggles of old age (particularly for women) and also society’s pressure on women to go to extremes to grasp onto their physical youth.