Drawing and Appled Arts 2016

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Course Staff: Richard Webb John France Ian Chamberlain Tom Abba Lucy Ward Naomi Greeves, Junior Fellow Coordination Team: Leigh Andrews Prerna Chandiramani Maura Zukina Contributors: Rosanna England, Rosalyn Bolt, Sam Knock, Emma Farr, Phoebe Cowan & Hannah Brown Photography& Website design: Jekaterina Ehlers www.jehlers.co.uk Design: Chloe Ford & James Sharpe www.chloeford.co.uk www.jamessharpe.co.uk Printers: JamJar Print www.jamjarprint.co.uk A special thanks to our media partners BCFM for their support

Introduction We are very proud to present the work of graduate students from the very last BA (Hons) Drawing & Applied Arts Degree course of 2016. The course started in 2001 with its first graduating students in 2004. Building upon the many excellent qualities of this course, it continues on as Drawing & Print.

It has been a great pleasure for us as a team to play our part in developing such a distinctive and different collection of voices. It has been a real privilege to facilitate such playful, creative questioning. The old and new studios at both Bower and the Arnolfini have been buzzing over the last three years. The work displayed re-evaluates the essence of drawing. Ideas are made visible and are taken through various materials and processes to convey the artist’s thoughts and ambitions. Some are immediate or poetic, and others ambient or simply questioning, but all are asking for you to respond and enjoy.

We wish them all continued success.

Richard Kenton Webb, Programme Leader On behalf of Drawing & Applied Arts teaching staff.

Special thanks also to: Visual Culture staff, Careers & Enterprise Office, Anouk Mercier (Drawing Centre) and Louise Jennings and her team for the successful move to the 5th Floor of the Arnolfini.

Guest speakers: Dawn Mason, Tessa Webb, Guy Begbie, Dr Richard Davey, Jack Gibbons, Daniel Preece, Joannes Kesenne, Tom Denny, Dorcas Casey, Clare Thatcher, Piers Byzony, Alyssia White, Tom Miller, Dace Kreger, Anouk Mercier, Saied Dai, Emma Stibbon, Nilesh Mistry, Roger Conlon, Simon Gurr, Royal Drawing School, Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery, and The Arnolfini Gallery.

All the technical support from the Physical making Environment team, the Digital media Production team, Large Format Print and the Technical software learning support staff.

Students Bryony Darbon

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Jekaterina Ehlers

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Chris Jefferies

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Jessamy Edwards

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Dominika Madurska

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Kari Kerslake-Vigor

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Emma Farr

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Leigh Andrews

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Felicity Susanna

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Leighann Sayers

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Florence Wigens

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Liz Greenyer

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Freya Stealey

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Lucie Perrier

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Freyja Lee

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Mari Westeng Sorenson

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Gina Birchenough

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Martha Thorn

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Maura Zukina

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Hannah Brown

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Megan Lavery

Sam Knock

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Sandy Robertson

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Mhairi Stuart

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Shu Yan Fung

Natterjack Peirson

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Tibbie Law

Phoebe Cowan

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Prerna Chandiramani

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Rachael Guilfoyle

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Rosalyn Bolt

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Rosanna England

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Sam Eden

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Bryony Darbon

bryonyellendarbon.co.uk bryony.darbon@gmail.com

Bryony is influenced by the ritualistic behaviour that drives human nature.

She is interested in the sacred and secret realm of ceremony, in particular ancient fertility rituals, and the relics and goddesses that accompany them. This has inspired her to create her own style of performative creation, focusing on large scale paintings and pastel drawings, whereby each component is controlled by her, including hand making her own paints and pastels using pigments. This gives her a greater range of colours, another important aspect of her work, and adds to the ritualistic element of the making. Despite their very free form nature, there is a method in the process, and she hopes that while viewing her art, you will find something that speaks to your spirit, as well as your eyes.

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chrisjefferies.tumblr.com chris_jefferies91@hotmail.co.uk

Chris Jefferies

Chris Jefferies is deeply inspired by the ever changing skyline and mass of man made cityscapes, yet also influenced by the vast open spaces of Cornwall where he grew up. His work explores the diversity of landscape and his own personal connection to these polar opposites.

Through a process of construction and deconstruction using a wide variety of mixed media, Chris examines similarities and contradictions taken from architectural geometric shapes, negative & positive space, light, shadow, texture and excavation: both natural and man made, until he reaches the essence of landscape. These pared back abstract compositions reflect his own personal sense of place and invites the viewer to question their own experience of their surrounding environment.

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Dominika Madurska

dominikamadurska@gmail.com

Dominika Madurska’s practice is an investigation of a specific place.

Drawing in-situ forms a fundamental part of her work. She uses the British landscape as part of the process of discovery by researching into the qualities of the natural forms such as cliffs and rocks. Dominika’s careful consideration of colour in her watercolour pieces shows qualities of shades and shapes within the natural subject.

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Emma Farr

Emma aims to try and reimagine the world through the culmination of her studies, photos and beliefs. She is interested in the way the shape of our environment affects society psychologically whilst tackling ideas surrounding mental being, states and moods.

The artist uses drawing as a process; recording an act and later incorporating elements of print, photography and technologies. Immediacy to the connection of visual stimuli is appropriated using ink, felt-tips, charcoal and graphite. Time and control alters gesture and space affecting the sensual properties of a place and its people. Emma aims for her work to be available to those who cannot afford art generally, with a keen interest in community and public arts.

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Felicity Susanna

felicitysusanna.com fs.archer@live.co.uk

Felicity Susanna’s intentions are to provoke conversations about mental health by using materials and processes that create a dialogue between suppression and support. By intuitively responding to her felt and embodied senses, forms emerge that strive to capture these internal experiences Susanna has a fascination in the intimacy that lies within the ceramic vessel and our intrinsic history with clay. By manipulating the vessel and utilising the results, the work evokes a visceral response to the ongoing discourse surrounding mental health, touching upon ideas of fragility, balance and embodiment.

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florencewigens.blogspot.com florencewigens@gmail.com

Florence Wigens

Florence Wigens explores mortality; growth and transience, making organic forms that embody nature and the human figure. Fascinated by the endless possibilities of the material, Florence works intuitively with the clay, endeavouring to make forms and textures with an inviting tactility.

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Freya Stealey

freyastealey.com freya.stealey@outlook.com

Freya has always been fascinated by curiosity, the macabre, nature and xenophobia. Her artwork has always been centred on her own warped mind set in a seemingly self-absorbed attempt to understand her own psyche.

Since an upsetting event in Tunisia in the summer of 2015, Freya has realised that there is a lot more to the world than she previously believed and has been fixated on the ideas of freedom, using the symbology of birds to express this.

Growing up with artistic and horticultural backgrounds, Freya has always taken influence from the world around her, becoming incredibly sensitive towards animals and human nature. She enjoys working in a mixture of mediums, and is forever yearning to learn new ways in which to express herself. She is currently working towards expanding her current work into other mediums.

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Freyja Lee

‘I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.’

—Chekov

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Gina Birchenough

gina-birch@hotmail.com

Gina enjoys studying human emotions, what affects them, why, how they conflict and how they adapt to situations. Her pieces usually contain portraits, so she particularly enjoys studying facial expressions. In her current work the artist has been studying her own facial expressions and how her emotions conflict with each other. Gina’s work consists of a variety of mediums including drawing, textile, paint and etch. However, Gina has used photography as the basis of her projects since A-level and it has been a clear contributor since then.

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Hannah Brown

Hannah Brown draws influence from personal conversations surrounding sexuality, particularly her own. Reflecting on these discussions; her current work teases with cloth as an expression of her femininity, as well as using stitch as a mark making tool. The personal process of layering and revealing areas of fabric, allows her to unpick and understand the emotion surrounding specific conversations. Discrimination is unfortunately prevalent in modern day culture, but Brown’s work desires to make sense and create a light in the darkness.

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Jekaterina Ehlers

jehlers.co.uk katia@jehlers.co.uk

Photography is something more than just art. It has a life of its own, with no boundaries. Not long ago, Jekaterina began a new journey into lithography.

There too are no bounds or altitude, she can be whoever she wants and needs to be. Incorporating her love of photography with a technical printing process has opened many new doors for her. She has been inspired by the brilliant Artist’s Book maker Guy Begbie whose art work motivated her into that field. She finds new ways of expressing herself by placing her litho printed photographs in her ‘Architect’ Artist books.

Deep inside Jekaterina is an architect who wishes to build cityscapes.

Making her ‘Architect’ Artist Books allows her to follow her dream in Architecture. She would like to invite you into her artistic journey with an opened mind to be artistically aroused.

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jessamyedwards.co.uk jessamye@live.co.uk

Jessamy Edwards

Jessamy Edwards’ work is a response to her own personal life experiences, childhood, relationships and memories. By hand building ceramic creatures, she aims to use the animal forms in her sculpture as a morally neutral and recognisable vehicle to explore familiar complex human emotion, events and issues that we as a society, and as individuals, often hide away from.

By giving physical form to the intangible, and using ceramic sculpture to give the formless a unique and personal form, Jessamy intends to give physical life to elements of human living that usually remain hidden and ignored, posing the question is something real if it cannot touch you? What is more important, the things you touch, or the things that touch you?

Believing that the evidence of truth and reality lies in how much something can touch you, can change you.

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Kari Kerslake-Vigor

Kari works phenomenologically with metal, wood, resin and glass. Her work occurs in events with the absence of any obvious intention or cause. Ideas emulate through the concept of alchemy and the means by which nature intended man to explore. The artist has created a series of experiments through the lost foam process and mixed media collages.

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Leigh Andrews

Leigh is interested in how we interact with art and stories. His current work involves repackaging stories, experiences and thoughts into new forms which communicate the lived experience via novel methods of interaction.

Through the use of multi-disciplinary techniques, the artist hopes to create resonation, an understanding, between the audience and the work which surpasses, and renders obsolete, the need for literal communication and becomes a plateau for exchanging feelings and emotions. Pictures show and words tell, but the truth lies somewhere between the two.

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Leighann Sayers

leighann.sayers@hotmail.co.uk

Leighann Sayers is a multi-media artist whose most recent work centres around applying art to the face and body, she has developed a fascination in using the unlikely and unexpected as a blank canvas. Leighann usually goes on to capture and distort her pieces through the use of photography, which often allows her to experiment with the scale and colour of her work and manipulate into print, pattern and textiles.

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lizgreenyer.wordpress.com lizgreenyer2@gmail.com

Liz Greenyer

Liz makes drawings and paintings, she enjoys the way things can metamorphosize on the page. Playing with a connection she has to certain characters or motifs that develop and interact along the way, often merging in and out of other things. She is interested in the process of creation in art as analogous to processes in nature, like the growth of a plant, an interconnected organically evolving process.

She likes to look at systems in nature, playing with order and chaos in the work, watching things change and evolve. As well as being interested in ideas about the way we perceive things as beings, a certain level of abstraction allows her to play with energy in the process, and realise how things come together, enabling more possibilities of interpretation within the work and stories revealing themselves over time.

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Lucie Perrier

lsperrier@sky.com

Lucie’s fascination with pattern and natural formations has developed over a period of time. Capturing the real essence of nature through samples of printed fabrics with layers of stich, inks and 3D fabric formations. Having multiple paths to explore with this substrate, Lucie is exploring all the components and processes of her work to develop a deeper understanding of using print through textiles. There are some sensory aspects that give the viewers an opportunity to interact with her artwork.

The process of hand dying and hand stitching into every piece is something that helps Lucie become more connected with the fabrics. There is a strong element of mixed media throughout the processes, which reflects the natural textures and surroundings. Her practice is constantly evolving and intends to continue her focus on exploring natural formations through the world of textiles.

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Mari Westeng Sorenson

A consideration for nature lies at the heart of Mari’s creative process. Working mainly with drawing and through stylized, patterned and brightly coloured human figures, she attempts to explore the damaging effects of man on the endangered Earth which she understands to be accelerating at this time.

Her style draws inspiration from radical opposition in art, and the idea that our culturally shared images are vital to our perception of environmental, cultural and social interaction. Using mixed media in organic materials and found photographs of current destruction of habitats, forests and oceans to contextualise her imagery, Mari’s work explores the notion that we are the guardians of our planets health, and proposes that our own psychological wellbeing is connected to our natural environment.

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Martha Thorn

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Martha’s practice explores the interplay between our internal and external worlds, the mindscape and physical body. Reusing old fabrics she creates soft sculptural forms that are intuitive and visceral, an organic process that is echoed in the works meaning.

The growth-like qualities of the ambiguous forms come to represent a loss of control, repressed memories and insidious thoughts…exploring the nature of our minds, bodies and the natural world around us.

These forms then reappear in mixed media collages, enticing the viewer into imagined realms situated between reality and the subconscious, evoking a playful sense of the uncanny and a questioning of what is ‘real’.

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maurazukina.com maurazukina@hotmail.com

Maura Zukina

Maura tests the physical boundaries of materials to explore a multi-layered sense of identity. Informed by her own history, the work invites a consideration of vulnerability, fragility of life, grief and healing. Deeply rooted in the visual and haptic equivalents of damage, growth and repair, she aims to make tangible what is missing; acknowledging failure and destruction as essential to growth. With a focus on experimentation with ceramics and decomposing organic matter, sculptural and ephemeral forms elevate the discarded or overlooked to a position of value. Despite the intensity of her themes, Maura believes in the importance of playfulness, immediacy and non-resolution in her making while maintaining an undercurrent of the absurd. Ideas are explored through a metaphorical vocabulary drawn from many years engaged with the seasonal cycles of growth on her allotment.

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Megan Lavery

meglavery.org meglizlavery@gmail.com

Megan has been intrigued by the realisation that every individual is living a life as vivid and as complex as her own. She believes that “collisions� in life are what impact all aspects of our own humanity. This has been the underlying theme within her artwork and has had a huge impact on her most recent project. Megan has ventured into the subject of trauma and the effects it has on humanity. She has done so by experimenting with malleable materials in an attempt to overcome her own experience and to make an impact through the creation of abnormal yet beautiful sculptures.

Her fascination with visual communication has inspired her to delve into the creation of her own illustrative graphic novel and explore the different aesthetics of form. In an aim to create a story that can be physically manipulated by the reader but still tell the same narrative.

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Mhairi Stuart

I am walking back through thirty years, I am trying to show you the child becoming the woman, I am trying to illustrate innocence as it is lost.

Abandoned, I am wondering who will pick us up and take us home, and what reality we will be left to view the world with after.

Everyone I know is doing something illegal.

If this is the case, then who made the laws? Not my People.

Laws which I will say, have never once, made me, feel safe.

But have served to lock my friends away, I am found guilty every day.

And I always bear in mind, those now lost once left behind.

(Extract from my own poem written in 1999, aged 18) 2016

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Natterjack Peirson

rudecatclothing.co.uk

Natterjack Peirson aka Natty Rudecat - textile designer & printmaker, with a background in sociology Natterjack’s work explores environmental and social themes as subject matter.

Creating textile, prints and garments with an eco-fashion philosophy, she embraces fabrics such as hemp & organic fibres. With the current state of our planet in mind, regarding resources & waste Natterjack is motivated to use recycled fabrics wherever possible.

Politically minded, Natterjack’s art focuses on rebellious cultures and environmental issues and she hopes to encourage the audience to ask questions about the world we live in through the medium of print and wearable art.

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pacowan.wix.com/works pacowan@hotmail.co.uk

Phoebe Cowan

Designed to be provocative, Phoebe’s work asks viewers to turn an inquisitive Her work is produced with the intention to be stark, uncomfortable and to encourage uncharted parts of the viewers mind to be conquered and understood. Working predominantly in pen and ink - in print and drawing formats, her work follows a monochromatic palette, which she feels allows for honest viewing without misguided focus, believing her work guides the viewer to specific motifs.

Her interest in science leads her work to explore a variety of concepts most often revolving around the human form and the human mind, and what is contained within these things. The concept of Art therapy is of strong influence and inspiration to her work, which features in the form of disturbing and dark undertones, examining factors affecting human mindset - healthy or otherwise.

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Prerna Chandiramani

artsindia.co.uk

The vibrant culture of India has been a constant source of inspiration for Prerna Chandiramani. Her work focuses on the time-sensitive beauty of movement through space to unfold transient patterns. A sensitive visual communication is established between balance of colour and form thereby encouraging a dialogue between feeling and intellect.

Prerna’s multi-disciplinary approach utilises performance, photography, drawing, sculptural expressions and print to interpret these enduring states of mind.

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rguilfoyle1@hotmail.com

Rachael Guilfoyle

Being fascinated by the sea, Rachael’ s artwork focuses on her personal emotions felt towards it, by creating atmospheric paintings that enable her to understand her complex love hate relationship with it. Growing up in Devon, Rachael has had constant access to the sea and her curiosity towards it began at a young age. This curiosity has been influenced throughout her life by other factors; such as the media producing films like “Jaws”, to her Great Grandfather being aboard a naval vessel during WW2.

Rachael keeps these influences in her mind as she tries to understand what it is about the sea that frightens, yet intrigues her. Despite favouring the medium of paint, Rachael is not unaccustomed to exploring and utilising other mediums in her practice. She uses acrylic paint primarily to explore texture and mark making, by use of a varied range of handmade and found tools.

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Rosalyn Bolt

rosalynjudithbolt@googlemail.com

Rosalyn’s work is informed firstly by drawing and with this ability she is developing an interest in recording the movement of people in the local urban environment, with particular reference to the crossing of bridges; bridges also as a metaphor for the passing of time through space.

In recording scenes through sketching and photography she has also become aware of and excited by, the detail of static, structural forms that people pass in their day-to-day lives. A love of experimenting with the application of different drawing and paint mediums is important to Rosalyn in keeping images alive and vibrant, often creating a surface that informs the outcome of her work.

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rosannaengland.weebly.com rosie.england@gmail.com

Rosanna England

Rosanna England creates work inspired by recycled objects or possessions, which she believes have potential to be something other than their original form. Presently, the practice of utilising the abundance of redundant technology and transforming it into abstract art is the main focus of her work.

England produces haptic visual sculpture to be engaged with in a way which subverts its primary function, via the use of materials such as ceramic, plaster and photography.

The aim of this artist’s practice is to provoke tactile sensory values in pieces inspired by purely operational technology. With an awareness of sustainability of the methods and resources she uses, recycled materials are recurrent throughout her work, symbolic of the lifecycle of ongoing technology.

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Sam Eden

sam.eden92@gmail.com

Sam Eden’s work is heavily influenced by the surrounding cityscapes and their constant change, decay and redevelopment. His on-going obsession with the urban environment results in a subconscious taking in of the shapes and forms of man-made structures. His work aims to combine fine art and architecture, particularly Brutalism.

He creates his own city-like models made from various industrial materials built on top of existing subway maps engraved into the foundations of their bases. The models a photographed throughout resulting in collages from which prints are made. Sam aims for a grainy, almost surveillance-like quality to the images.

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sknockers.tumblr.com sjknock@gmail.com

Sam Knock

Sam aims to depict the porous nature of people within our environments.

The porosity of ideas as well as physical things is expressed in the images.

The existence of contested space interests him for this reason. Even solid monuments in public spaces are not as permanent as they sometimes appear.

Objects loaded with ideology like statues are contested. And in his images he shows the mixed emotions people have towards their seemingly fixed monuments. The erratic marks cut across varying spaces to make visual the ideas of contested space. And within the battle ground of his works he hopes to make clear that there is no singular set way of moving in to the future.

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Sandy Robertson

srobertson.com rdcloud@mail.com

These pieces of work together comprise a series of ideas which encapsulate the idea of engaging with the unconscious mind to such a degree that the world of the unconscious does merge with the conscious mind or indeed overrides temporarily in a given time allotted especially for this purpose, such as in deep meditation, allowing expression of an intelligence greater than our very own. In cooperation with divine source.

In drawing with the media of graphite on paper ,exploration into light and shade is achieved depicting an important focus of the work , this being spiritual light source, energy and power.

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Shu Yan Fung

The artist inspired by an idiom in China “to call a deer a horse” and use it to explain her own experience. A deer tries to be and to tell others that he is actually a horse, some horses may tell him that “yeah you are a horse, we are the same”, while the others may just stay silent. No matter how hard the deer tries to transform into a horse, the other horses always know that it is impossible. No matter how hard foreigners try to integrate into local society, they are always being treated as “others”.

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Tibbie Law

As an Asian studying abroad in United Kingdom, Tibbie Law finds there are a lot of interesting cultural diversities. As an observer and an outsider Tibbie puts these concepts into her art works. It involves using different media, 3D artwork, Painting, Embroidery, Printing, photography and film, especially working on Human portrait.

One of Tibbie’s favorite artists Andy Warhol in conversation with Gene Swenson said: “I think everybody should like everybody”, Gene Swenson: “Is that what Pop Art is all about?”, Andy Warhol: “Yes, it’s liking things.”

It totally inspired the artist into creating her latest art pieces titled “Beauty Of Imperfection”. The definition of beautiful seems to be standardising nowadays, people try to be like each other. Tibbie shows the transformation of face cast to represent the social phenomenon.

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things an end...

Drawing and Applied Arts is more than just an undergraduate degree.

It’s a journey and an evolution. The first step on our metamorphosis into professional artists, art therapists, foundry workers, teachers, draughts persons, printers, designers and more. But all good things must come to an end, and Drawing and Applied Arts is no exception.

The final year of Drawing and Applied Arts epitomizes the attitudes and approaches that define this exciting, dynamic course. Marrying a huge variety of mediums and processes; textiles, screen print, laser cut, etching, 3D metal and wood work and traditional painting and drawing, with the curiosity and verve that the course promotes, the final DAA students now stand poised on the precipice of the real world.

Our graduation show is the culmination of three years of searching and hunting as we chased our dreams and re-defined ourselves a new in the light of our ongoing evolution. In the fantastic studio space at the top of Bush House, with its gorgeous panoramic views of the city, you will find ideas and souls laid bare and rebuilt into something new and exciting.

All good things must come to an end, but an end is also the beginning of something new. And just as we graduates know and support the new incarnation of DAA: Drawing and Print, we hope that you will know and support us as we embark on our individual new beginnings into the wide world.

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Bryony Darbon, Chris Jefferies, Dominika Madurska, Emma Farr, Felicity Susanna, Florence Wigens, Freya Stealey, Freyja Lee, Gina Birchenough, Hannah Brown, Jekaterina Ehlers, Jessamy Edwards, Kari Kerslake-Vigor, Leigh Andrews, Leighann Sayers, Liz Greenyer, Lucie Perrier, Mari Westeng Sorenson, Martha Thorn, Maura Zukina, Megan Lavery, Mhairi Stuart, Natterjack Peirson, Phoebe Cowan, Prerna Chandiramani, Rachael Guilfoyle, Rosalyn Bolt, Rosanna England, Sam Eden, Sam Knock, Shu Yan Fung, Sandy Robertson, Tibbie Law.