'un-locked' - University of Chester Art & Design Graduate Catalogue 2021

un-locked 2021

University of Chester Art & Design Degree Show 2021

thanks : Alan Summers / Andrew Hooper / Bernadine Murray Chris Bebbington / Chris Millward / Cian Quayle Clare Dickens / David Raffo / Delphine Wilson Drew West / Gareth Price / Greg Fuller / Guy Mayman Janey Deng Klingelfuss / Jeremy Turner Kevin Furlong / Lynne Bell / Lynne Connolly Maggie Jackson / Maxine Bristow / Michael Moore Nick Thompson / Paula Johnson / Rebecca Falcon Sarah Connor / Simon Grennan / Simon Winter Steven Clarke / Steve Carrick / Tabitha Jussa Tim Daly / Tom Hignett / Tom McGuirk Tracey Hall / Tracy Piper-Wright cover image: Cat Parker-Jones catalogue design assisted by: Chloe Corcoran & Taylor White

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un-locked 2021

Welcome to un-locked, the University of Chester’s 2021 celebration of our graduating Art & Design Degree students from our seven undergraduate programmes. This diverse body of work demonstrates the uniqueness of each student, representing both the culmination of their degree studies as well as a hint as to their visual, professional future.

COVID-19 has had a significant impact on all our lives in many ways and to say the last year and a quarter has been a rollercoaster for these graduating students would be an understatement. As we have been in and out of lockdown, witnessing and living through the devastating impact of COVID-19 on our lives, our families and communities across the globe, our students have continued to pursue their dreams; they did not give up, they did not stop exploring, experimenting, discovering, creating and innovating. These students are inspirational, and in turn will inspire. Within this catalogue you will find many things that will unlock your emotions, will make you smile or reflect, will stimulate you, will generate questions and will impact upon you beyond this collection of works.

That is the power of creativity, the potential of these creative individuals, the graduates of 2021, to change you and to change the world.

Bernadine Murray Head of Department

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Georgia-Lea Clutton Baxter Mia Foster Susan Grundy Luci Irwin Courtney Lovatt Louise McLoughlin Klaudia Szablak Jade Williams

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Lauren Barnes Verity Buckley-Jones Carys Bullock Molly Davies Shannon Gallagher Iqra Khan Naomi Lehepuu Ellie Lyon Caitlin Martin Hannah McGuckin Cathryn Munro Kieran O’Reilly Molly Parry Paige Rowan Kiera Sahota Sofia Stenson-Jones Lauren-Leigh Walton

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* Jagroop Bains * Kara Barker * Mair Chilton-Thomas Maria-Luisa Cruz-O’Brien Rosamund Dakin * Niamh Dickinson Jade Gore * Catherine Hague Orlaith Keating * Rosalind Kelly Laura Keoghan Sandra Lagzda Dean Lockett Chloe Longley * Victoria MacDonald Helen MacDougall Bethan Page Joy Parker * Elizabeth Pellicci Anja Pynenburg * Freya Reisin Saran Richards Theerapong Saobuppha Rosie Scott Jacob Whewell

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Danah Adams * Aimee Arrowsmith * Kara Barker Callum Beaver Emelia Brooks Holly Brown Alisha Butterworth Connah Caldecott * Mair Chilton-Thomas Jakub Cichy Chloe Corcoran Chloe Craig * Melissa Dasher Abbie Davies Rita De Oliveira Cruz Russell Fearn Muthuthanthrige Fernando Connor Francom Nikolai Gabrysch Jordan Glen * Catherine Hague Jodie Hall Russell Hannick Tasfia Haque Marvin Henrius Anna Hill * Jessica Hodson Shantel Holgate Terrence Kearney Heather Kendall Syeda Khatun Annie Maskell Cat Parker-Jones Harry Parkes-Smith * Freya Reisin Anna Roberts Bozena Roberts * Carla Saunders Ashlee Smedley Taylor White

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Mohammed Adam Cerys Bascombe Mariana-Alexandra Costache Sophie Downes Jamie Johnson Gore Nina Jones Natasha Milliard Charlotte Platt Samantha Pritchard Millicent Tawil Megan Wainwright Feng Zhu

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* Aimee Arrowsmith Ruth Ashbrook Burrows Chelsea Busby * Melissa Dasher Angel Devlin * Niamh Dickinson Sam Farrell Susannah Fletcher Lauren Hitchmough * Jessica Hodson Caitlyn Jones Calum Jones Sophie Little Megan Lloyd Ffion O’Dell Jennifer Oliver Melissa Parry Georgina Price Sarah Sadler * Carla Saunders Miranda Smith Ffion Thornton Cassandra Vallance Ian Warburton Hannah White

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Sam Barlow Stephen Clayton Sian Davies Danielle Maw Rose Meredith Simon Owen Oliver Rowan

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Georgia-Lea Clutton Baxter

My collection is all about dyslexia and seeing the positivity within it. As a dyslexic myself I find it so important that we need to appreciate the positives dyslexia brings, and stop seeing it as such a negative thing and embrace the creativity it gives us.

I wanted this collection to be ‘the different one’ , the one that doesn’t exactly stand out but the one people give a second look to; a bit like me. Because, you see , dyslexia isn’t just about reading and writing, its so much more than that, it affects all aspects of a persons life. From communication skills, to physical activities such as sports or even someones social life .

As part of my research i took this theme back to young georgia, the girl who was a lot more insecure and focused on her flaws rather than her positives and strengths. I was clumsy, scruffy, untidy, people didn’t quite understand me, but yet i was happy, because i always knew I’d make it. People have their doubts. but I just knew I’d be alright.

I knew id get to this point today.

Email: Georgiaabaxter@icloud.com Insta: @GCBFASHION

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Mia Foster

Future Roche AW 21/22 Collection sought inspiration from the influence that couture houses of the 1950’s had on the future concept of style. From the innovative shapes invented, to the appropriation of the tactile, sculptured fabrics that materialised within this period. This is underpinned by the principle of creating pieces that not only transcend seasons but can also be effortlessly worn with pre-existing collections.

As a designer, Mia showcases her own style through her work. Minimalistic, monochrome and sophisticated are words that describe both past and present collections, regardless of the season.

Email: miarochellef@icloud.com Insta: miarochellef

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Susan Grundy

Scapes

The Spring Summer collection 2022 is inspired by nature. The fabric prints encapsulate the colours of the beauty of the rising and the setting of the sun which globally we all share.

In designing my collection, I wished to create the transparency and the layering effect we see in the skies above and the lightness of drifting clouds.

My brand is Lilandeyma Designs a brand with a narrative of a sustainable future and encouragement to value our planet.

Email: Sue.grundy2@btinternet.com Insta: Lilandyma_Designs

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Luci Irwin

Throughout my final year as a fashion design student at Chester University, I created my final collection: ‘living in fear - a masked generation’. The ideology behind my collection is to illustrate the social and political issues that humanity is facing, including such themes as controversy of political power, children growing up quickly due to the strains of social media and the ever declining mental health of this generation - directly linked to the effects of COVID-19. This is expressed in my collection in the form of highly powerful print statement pieces and textiles.

Each piece within my collection is designed to stimulate the viewer’s mind and encourage them to consider its deeper meaning. I believe that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, therefore, my uniquely expressive style of merging outrageous design statements with on-trend fashion garments automatically creates a talking point.

Email: luciiirwin@gmail.com

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Courtney Lovatt

My brand, CJL, is all about making women feel empowered, strong, independent and to make sure they know their worth. Everyone should have the ability to love themselves and this is where the brand brings that confidence to women!

The brand falls in the high-end category.

CJL brings not only luxury garments such as powerful suits and sophisticated dresses but also brings a smile to every woman. The brand pays attention to detail, the details which show throughout the latest collection “LOVE” is what makes the collection eyecatching. Every stitch put into each item is made with passion and creativity.

The collection “LOVE” is surrounded by empowerment and independence. One thing which is amazing about the collection is there isn’t a set season. Women can feel empowered whenever the weather.

Courtney Jade Lovatt has no restrictions.

There is a range of clothing’s which can be worn whenever. The clothes vary from suits, skirts, jumpsuits, and coats. There will also be an opportunity to expand on accessories such as, handbags and shoes.

Bringing accessories to the brand will give more to the outfits.

Insta: @courtneyjadelovatt

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Louise McLoughlin

The photo opposite represents part of my final collection for the third and final year of my degree. It is a wool print the wool being a metaphor for connecting with each other and was made from an actual knit.

The collection was built around an expression and metaphors for our strength during the pandemic, and how it brough out the good in people and their natural protective and altruistic attributes.

Email: mcloughlin456@gmail.com

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Jade Williams

I am a strong visual designer driven by narrative. My approach to design is very playful and exciting. My personal thoughts on social issues such as politics, women empowerment and mental health are expressed into my work with the power of print and large silhouettes.

‘Let’s talk’ A/W 23 is my new upcoming collection exploring the importance of mental health. With main inspirations from the Joker film, hippie subcultures and power dressing, this collection is tied together with 8 fun, colourful and creative looks. My collection has grown strong with a powerful and direct message. Through the power of print, colour and scale I want to help people understand mental health and not to ignore it. I also want to encourage people to have the confidence of talking about how they are feeling. Each of my looks and hand painted prints have hidden meanings and hopefully will relate to some people who view my work, encouraging them to talk.

Email: Jademwilliams27@gmail.com Web: jadejmw.wixsite.com/my-site-4 Insta: Jademarie_fashion

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Lauren Barnes

My Final Major project is heavily influenced by 90s rave culture, nostalgia, freedom and adventure. I chose to create a TikTok as part of my Final Major Project in order to strategically target my audience, generation Z. My TikTok is smaller heavily edited video clips of one model who is styled in 90s sportswear, located in the spare room of my house and in my garden.

The music featured in my TikTok, is “We lost dancing”, by Marea and the blessed Madonna. I specifically chosen this song because it reflects the concept of my brand, which is to bring back 90s raves, as the rave scene is argued to not exist anymore.

Also, my brand concept is the idea of that the global pandemic has isolated us all, therefore, it will bring us all together again to enjoy freedom, adventures and raving.

Email: Laurenbarnes3@live.co.uk Web: laurenelizabethbarnes.com Insta: Laurenb_creative

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Verity Buckley-Jones

CYBER is a short fashion film which explores the possibilities of luxury streetwear through the use of digital fashion. Luxury streetwear clothing is a very niche sector in the digital clothing industry. I used brand influences of the likes of Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga and Prada to help create a vision for my final outcome, and the film ‘The Matrix’ due to its mysterious story and monochrome colours.

The aim of my fashion film is to show how digital clothing can look on people before and after, specifically focusing on the luxury streetwear style. I also wanted to show how we can push stereotypical boundaries within the fashion industry to create something different and exciting. I want people to see that luxury digital fashion is something present and can work for most people.

Overall, I would like for my audience to take the time to watch CYBER in order to gain a better understanding on digital fashion and see how different market levels and styles can be incorporated into it.

Email: Verity_buckleyjones@yahoo.co.uk Web: veritybuckleyjones.wixsite.com/vcreative Insta: @verity_fmc & @cyber_fmp

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Carys Bullock

This course has taught me many things regarding the marketing and communication of the fashion industry but more importantly it has taught me where I see myself fit within the industry. I have fallen in love with styling and being able to communicate briefs and concepts through my work, which has inspired my FMP for my final year.

These images that I have styled and photographed represent ‘The New Luxury’, this is inspired by my research findings of what I see the new luxury industry to be like post events such as COVID-19 and the emerge of a new generation. COVID-19 has made me think and feel differently into everything that surrounds a day to day life, both mentally and physically. Therefore, I sought after finding how we look as a generation is a reflected emotion on the new world we see before us. Gender was also a massive contribution to my investigation as within my research and this new way of life have merged many gender ideologies to create one generation.

Email: Carysbullock@hotmail.co.uk Web: carysbullock.wixsite.com/website Insta: CarysCreative & Carysfashionfmc

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Molly Davies

Hello, I am Molly Ellen Davies, a member of the graduating Fashion Marketing and Communication class of 2021. I specialize in styling, digital illustration, social media content and layout composition. My brand, Molly Ellen is elegant, demure, classy and showcases romantic fashion, femininity, and individualism. The stylized images from my final major project campaign shoot, depict a romantic, feminine, look, styled with modern, soft, and romantic garments, conveying confidence and individuality.

Molly Ellen is creating a new romantic feminine story; bringing romantic, elegant pieces back to the limelight with modern, everyday styling; see you later athleisure, contemporary romantic fashion has arrived!

Thank you for taking the time to look at my work!

Model- Lottie Davies (Sibling)

Email: mols567@live.com Web: mollyellen.wixsite.com/mollyellenportfolio Insta: @mollyfmc

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Shannon Gallagher

I am Shannon Gallagher, a Fashion Marketing and Communications graduate. I specialise in creative marketing such as styling and social media content. These images are part of the photoshoot for my magazine, ‘Gallagher’.

The pictures depict different subcultures and aesthetics, including Disco, Regencycore and Y2K. My work explores self-expression, individuality and empowerment. The exaggerated features represent being true to yourself even if it looks different, unconventional and breaks boundaries. Due to the pandemic, I styled, modelled, shot and edited the photoshoot in my bedroom using a smart phone and tripod.

This mirrors the unique and independent ethos of my campaign.

Email: contact.gallaghercreative@gmail.com Web: gallaghercreative.wixsite.com/gallagher Insta: @gallaghercreative

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Iqra Khan

After uncovering the heart-breaking truth of garment workers and their lack of rights across the globe. I became determined to make a change and shed light on this issue, especially as the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated these issues and many people have suffered as a result. Unsurprised, yet saddened by the fact that many of my Generation Z peers (born between 19952012) were aware of these issues but continue to buy from these fast fashion brands due to their affordable price point, despite being hailed as “activists”. I wanted to highlight the dissonance between their beliefs and actions.

After many hours of development @rsltns “resolutions” was created. An educational platform that can be found on Instagram to demystify how Gen Z’s demand for fast fashion is largely the cause of the problem. Inspired by the strong family bond I experienced growing up @rsltns aims to create a community positive space for change makers.

Email: Iqrakhan142@gmail.com Insta: @rsltns & @visualsbyi.k

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Naomi Lehepuu

Blue Prospect is a brand centred around creativity and community. The colour blue represents serenity and a feeling of calm.

The word prospect defines the possibility or likelihood of some future event occurring.

A future filled with calmness and serenity.

My brand focuses on the gap between fashion & conceptual art, and how the consumer can achieve such at home themselves. It is almost like a collaborative space for like-minded creatives to create a sustainable piece of art that can reused and repurposed in any way they wish.

My brand is tactile and purposeful with a focus on craftmanship & transparency.

The promotion of my brand is organic, transparent and authentic. Much like the brand identity itself. Blue prospect aims to support sustainable living whilst following sustainable practise itself.

Email: Naomilehepuu@gmail.com Web: naomilehepuu.wixsite.com/naomilehepuu Insta: @naomilehepuufmc & @blueprospect

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Ellie Lyon

My love letter to Liverpool.

Combining the Liverpool culture and contemporary fashion, the idea of new feminism is shining a new light on Liverpool and promoting the lack of self-consciousness scouse women have. Jilted; sudden reject or abandonment, how we have all felt through the pandemic, but unfortunately women’s independence is the silent victim of the pandemic, crystalize how the singular event can completely shatter a human being.

All I want is someone to remember me or us collectively, not the fact we wear huge rollers and are orange but there is a lot more to the city. This city loves to be first with things, to be different and challenge ourselves. It is a melting pot of people and cultures and that is ingrained in our heritage.

Email: Ellielyon99@gmail.com Web: ellielyon99.wixsite.com/ellielyon Insta: @ellie.lyon_

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Hannah McGuckin

During my time at University, I have developed knowledge and skills that have enabled me to become an effective creative marketer and communicator.

I aspire to gain a role within marketing, predominantly in the content creation and direction sector. I am drawn to the luxury streetwear market and have enjoyed expanding my awareness its future through my research. The aim of my campaign is to convey my 3 brand concepts; community, protection, social consciousness and to represent men in a sensitive yet positive way, subverting from the luxury market convention.

My overall 360 campaign concept “This is Not a Trend” refers to the importance behind my brand in how it is a step towards a positive change for the luxury fashion market’s future.

Email: info@hannahmcguckin.co.uk Web: hannahmcguckin.co.uk Insta: hanmcguckin_creative

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Kieran O’Reilly

This work was born out of a project called “Brand Me” which focused on representing myself as a brand. Through this project I aimed to create a physical embodiment of a virtual plane where dreams that we let go of through our lives came to rest. This place full of all our forgotten dreams was full of this contrast of happiness and anger and sadness. This place developed into what could only be described as a circus or freak show of these dreams that had died.

My work is greatly inspired by my own life and my joy for escapism and fantasy worlds. The purple through my work has represented the good, the happiness and another world.

The bad is represented through the muddy green, this is also the symbol of a bleak reality of the real world.

Email: oreillykwj@gmail.com Web: Notokaycs.com Insta: Notokaycs

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Molly Parry

For my final major project and what I have chosen to present here is my campaign, ‘We Are The Future’, created to educate and inform the audience of the negative impacts of fashion and the effects it has on our environment. Although the market level of my brands campaign is Fast Fashion, I chose this market so that I could educate the consumer on how to make their fast fashion less detrimental to the world. The image presented is a typical fast fashion looking shoot however I have carefully selected an image that highlights the impact that fashion has on the world with a powerful quote which will help the consumer understand these impacts in a better light and inspire them to want to make a change.

We have the power to change the world.

We can make a difference.

We Are The Future.

Email: mollyparry@hotmail.co.uk Web: mollparryxx.wixsite.com/mollyp

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Kiera Sahota

My work surrounds the idea of combining commercial luxury fashion with exclusive story-telling street style.

I attempted to capture the idea of transparency and brotherhood igniting strength and companionship.

Email: kierasahota@icloud.com Insta: @kieravisuals

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Sofia Stenson-Jones

My work is inspired by welsh heritage, it’s beauty and the escapism of the lost treasures of Wales. .

Throughout my module my heritage has flared through my work and research.

Finding how welsh heritage can often be shadowed and its beauty can be lost. My brands concept is to bring an uplift to welsh culture, show the lost treasures and dig up independent welsh stores. Showing what Wales has to offer globally! This shoot was inspired by a traditional welsh lady dress which is traditionally worn once every year on the saint David’s day. I personally hand crafted the whole outfit waist upwards and tried to create a modern twist to show the new, modern Wales. The shoot also took place in a favorite welsh beauty spot of mine, south stack Anglesey.

The very talented photographer Joe Owen beautifully captured the imagesjoeowen97.wixsite.com/jwophotography

Email: Sofiaamanda830@gmail.com Web: sofiaamanda830.wixsite.com/website Insta: Sofiaamandasj

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Lauren-Leigh Walton

My final image is a response to the current state of the fashion industry. In the hope this campaign starts a movement towards more “well” and meaningful fashion. My campaign predicts a future where personal expression and meaning fashion will matter more.

Where more people will trade in the addictive endorphins of manic fashion consumption for the serotonin (true peace and happiness) of buying slower and choosing clothes with values and meaning.

Email: laurenwalton29@hotmail.com

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Jagroop Bains

The initial concept for this project was to create an exploration of the theme of repetition through visual devices. Ostensibly, the strict grid-formation explores the theme of repetition; however, the viewers are placed in a state of repetition through the videos being shot in a first-person narrative. The fixed point of view gives the videos a documentarian observational style, where the unobtrusive camera becomes the viewers’ eyes and ears.

A state of inescapability is derived from the fast pace editing depicting the audiences’ actions as gradually becoming tiresome. The body of work presents a dichotomy between the emptiness of the household environments and the liveliness of the projections; resulting in, the experimenting with visual representation of illusionistic space. The three-dimensional atmosphere allows the projections to be caught on different surfaces causing the artwork to appear simultaneously as if it is protruding outward directly into the viewers’ gaze and expanding into the background.

Email: j-bains03@hotmail.com

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Kara Barker

The idea behind my project is body appreciation, ‘Beneath the Skin’. Thankfully the inside of the human body isn’t something we see all the time and I think it’s quite extraordinary that our body gets us from A to B. Instead of showing paintings of the skeleton, I decided to go with a different approach by making it look like blood and guts were thrown onto a canvas. This intends to shock people; however it still manages to grab their attention because it’s not something we are used to seeing.

Email: Kb2000@hotmail.co.uk Insta: Kara_barkerxx

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Email: Mairelizabeth1999@gmail.com Web: mairelizabeths.wordpress.com Insta: @chilton_123

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Maria-Luisa Cruz-O’Brien

In my work I have taken inspiration from various fairy tales and folklore. Some less known and others more famous. I have chosen to portray several scenes from these stories and have manipulated and changed the characters into animals, focusing on the aspect of predator and prey.

A lot of my inspiration came from Angela Carter’s iteration of the different fairy tales and folklore, especially from her book of short stories titled ‘The Bloody Chamber’. Many of the stories I focused on told a story of male and female dynamics depicting a predator and prey concept, such as the title story ‘The Bloody Chamber’ which is based on the French folklore ‘Bluebeard’ and other stories like ‘The Snow Child’ and the ‘Erl King’.

Email: Malu2010@hotmail.co.uk Insta: marial_arts

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Rosamund Dakin

Childhood Lost These sculptures are based on the harsh transition many of us have into adulthood. We look back on childhood with fond memories of a time when we didn’t have to worry about anything and as we get older the world becomes ugly, difficult and full of obstacles we didn’t know about until they present themselves. Using stuffed animals dislocated from their original context, these childhood symbols become distorted as the adolescent brain does when subjected to the pressures of life in modern society.

The sculptures are made from plaster and recycled stuffed animals formed around chicken wire and wood.

Email: rosamundsarahdakin@gmail.com Web: rosamundsarahdakin.wixsite.com/artist Insta: @rosamunddakinart

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Niamh Dickinson

My visual ambition is to capture a transitional space, a boundless world yet with form and structure. My work engages with the idea of a liminal space, as my goal was not to convey a subject matter, but rather a feeling of ambiguity.

For us all, recent events have interrupted life as we know it, placing us in a liminal space, a space of waiting whilst everything seems to be up in the air. My aim has been to capture this waiting through painting and focus on the physicality of this uncertainty.

Email: dickinsonniamh@gmail.com Insta: @ndickinson.art

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Jade Gore

This project is based on movement documented through cubist shapes and abstract qualities, highlighting the impact of negative space, composition and colour.

Obscuring the figure and making the dancer more prominent was an enjoyable challenge; through further observation of my project, you will gain understanding of the journey into gestural movements and mark making.

My work reflects an interest in collaborating with others in the creative field, developing ideas for future projects and group workshops. The manipulation of art materials such as charcoal and acrylic featured heavily within my work, allowing me to merge areas of the figure together but also obscure it from view. The use of minimal colour was an important decision in this work as it sharpened various elements of my work making the areas of movement even more effective.

Email: jadegore27@gmail.com Web: jadegore27.wixsite.com/website Insta: jadegore_art

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Catherine Hague

Portraiture has been a long-standing focus of my work often reflecting the subject’s struggles, with particular reference to mental health difficulties. I am interested in negative space in terms of the implied narrative within the piece and also in helping the audience form a deeper understanding.

Negative space can be an element completed by the viewer with what could be there, what should be there or what used to be. I find this strategy coupled with a monochrome palette a very powerful way of showing emotion, or lack of it.

Email: Catherinehaguee@gmail.com Insta: Arthague

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Orlaith Keating

My practice is a study of colour, looking at the different colours found on skin, hair and clothes, and then exaggerating them.

I have been working from photos of my family members, mainly my young nephews and nieces, because they are often up to something and the photos caught them in that moment. The mediums I chose to use were oil pastels and paint, mediums I had not extensively used before, offering me the challenge of a new and fluid material.

Email: keatingo10@gmail.com

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Rosalind Kelly

The focus of my recent work has been the architecture and psychogeography of liminal spaces, particularly regarding the relationship that women have with them.

I was first drawn to liminal spaces when I started to distance my work from touristic depictions of cities. I was interested in the idea of these being places we go through, rather than to. However, as I began to investigate these spaces, I was unable to ignore my own anxiety which eventually overshadowed the intrigue I had previously felt.

This anxiety manifested itself in my work through the unsettling visual quality of the unfinished drawings which creates a sense of urgency. All my subway drawings feature an exit, even if only a small fragment can be seen. As soon as a woman enters, she is solely focused on leaving. She only catches short glimpses of other details: a single paving slab, a flickering fluorescent light.

Email: rkrosalind.kelly3@gmail.com Insta: @r_salind

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Laura Keoghan

My project explores my own relationship with my hair, whilst also referencing issues such as the over-sexualization of women in advertisements and exploring the territory between the grotesque and the beautiful. My fascination with my hair began when I thought about the positive reaction to the hair on my head, and the opposite reaction generated when people are confronted with loose hair.

My hair is a big part of my identity and this project has allowed me to look upon it in depth, collecting a whole jar of my hair strand by strand I reflect on today’s society and confront it by weaponizing my hair and evoking the resulting visceral emotion.

Email: Laurakeoghan@hotmail.com

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Sandra Lagzda

These collages focus on the effective way lines are able to frame the subject of the artwork, while also adding extra detail and texture to the final work. A mix of realism and abstract geometry synthesise within each work, allowing the differences and the similarities within to coexist.

Email: lagzda.art@gmail.com Insta: @lagzda.art

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Dean Lockett

My work follows a Dadaesque aesthetic yet aims to experiment with a number of conceptual notions such as materiality, value and the associations afforded to objects.

I find inspiration in objects themselves and then proceed to look at the properties and characteristics that make it such. I then decide whether to exaggerate, alter or completely contrast these features in my working with the object. I often choose everyday household objects as these tend to be overlooked. My work makes us stop for a moment in an ever-busy moving world, to try to figure out what exactly is going on in my pieces.

I also create two-dimensional work alongside my sculptures in support of them. These images mirror my sculptural aims but mediate them through the form of digital manipulation and composition as opposed to a physical sculpture.

Email: deanjosephlock@gmail.com Web: www.picturedeann.com Insta: @picturedean

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Chloe Longley

As a visual storyteller, the national ‘Stay Home’ order inspired a set of works exploring loneliness, isolation as well as the everyday moments we all once took for granted before this time spent at home with our family.

A week before we entered the first ‘lockdown’ and before any of us knew what was to come, I started a journal. When the Covid-19 situation worsened, I began logging my days at home.

Now stacked full of screen grabs from zoom calls, stains from pressing flowers collected on daily walks, to do lists, sketches of house plants which began to swamp my room and climbing death tolls each week, I had built a point of reference and reflection for my future pieces.

These ‘Lockdown Journals’, now a series of intimate oil paintings, communicate the confrontations we have all had with ourselves and how our small spaces have become our entire world.

Email: chloeslongley@gmail.com Web: chloelongley.co.uk Insta: @chloelongleyart

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Victoria MacDonald

As a Christian, I wanted to initially explore how Jesus is shown within art as a form of education. Inspired by the themes within Caravaggio’s work, I explored how light can enhance someone’s power in a portrait, investigating how Jesus’ statement of ‘I Am’ can be shown through a portrait. I followed his religious imagery and explored how texture/materials can alter a piece’s worth.

I primarily used acrylic paint to effectively add bold colours to contrast with the natural materials beneath and played around with using recycled paper and card to explore how something so Holy can be prevalent on, essentially, rubbish. I also like the added dimension of texture and how this creates a natural feel; playing on the concept of the unnatural, barn birth within the Nativity.

Email: vickmacdonald1@gmail.com Insta: @creativelychanged & @_vmacd

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Helen MacDougall

Throughout the three years of this degree, I have realised there is a thread running through my work, an interest in personal and cultural memories and the past. I consider myself a painter, and this year I have been using oil paints in a traditional manner, slowly building layers of glazes. I enjoy painting people trying to convey stories, relationships, and emotions through body language.

Here, I have used works from art history as the inspiration, borrowing the gravitas these images possess. The figures are then reimagined into a new reality.

To make these paintings contemporary and confuse the realism, I have superimposed a pattern that blurs the details with misty veiled areas that push the figures into the background. These patterns have a connection to everyday modern materials, a layer from the present that obscures the figures from the past.

Email: helenmacd47@gmail.com Insta: @helenmacd47

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Bethan Page

The main driving force for what I do is a passion for finding ways to collide imagery in conflicting styles to create a unique experience of the sublime. I use graphic imagery and recurring motifs to introduce a comedy, but also to help illuminate my dominant ideas and central themes as well as suggest a deeper meaning to my painting.

I use erratic and ‘uncontrolled’ marks to deliver an unease, but to also link the painting and create a flow. I am always challenged by my paintings and constantly taken on a journey. I am always learning more about myself and growing as an artist. In that sense, I am never finished with my journey, only satisfied if I achieve my personal triumphs to then move forwards. There is no finish line.

Email: bethanpage0310@gmail.com Insta: bethanpageartist

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Joy Parker

My work is centred on interiors, which often include fish. I paint in acrylics, based on my explorations in collage. Time spent investigating is vital.

As a visual artist, I am interested in creating ‘moments in time’ similar to ‘film stills’, but in a different way from cinema: the image need not tell a story with a beginning, a middle and an end; it can just be. This allows or provokes each individual viewer to interpret the painting according to their own scenario.

I am interested in how shapes fit together and in the repetition of shapes. I am profoundly interested in the relationship between colours, working with subtle, muted shades and restricted palettes, enjoying the challenge of this close interaction of colours.

I am exploring various galleries for my work and have used my work for greetings cards. I hope to continue my studies with the MA (Fine Art).

Email: fourlaneends@outlook.com Web: Joyparkerpainting.wordpress.com Insta: Joyparker_painting

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Elizabeth Pellicci

My work this year has been a subversion of traditional Fine Art movements and techniques – namely Vanitas painting.

Using a combination of readymade items, sculpture, and digital media my pieces explore the longstanding debate in Fine Art as to whether the decorative has high value.

By using low-value craft items with traditional techniques focused on purity such as Suprematism’s black-on-black painting, I aim to challenge the concept of purity equalling worth.

My pieces reference traditional seventeenth century paintings, juxtaposing the beautiful and functional with the disregarded, broken, and unfamiliar. Using digital media allows me to develop an eerie, illusion-like dimension in my work by carefully controlling light and perspective. My intention is to question the status quo of a hierarchal approach to Fine Art disciplines. This approach is informed by the work of artists like Craig Fisher and Beverly Ayling-Smith whose pieces deal with gruesome topics using expensive, high culture materials.

Email: Pellicci.elizabeth@gmail.com Insta: epellicci_

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Anja Pynenburg

Within my artistic practice, the human form, and in particular the female nude, have become central concepts and the framework for my studies. Developing work that utilizes both physical and digital mediums, I’ve established a method of play and experimentation in which the body of my work has been created. As a queer, female artist, I stand at the cross sections of both desire and familiarity in the images I see and create.

Drawing upon Classical paintings and experimenting with digital media, I found myself frustrated with the literal nature of the work produced. There lacked excitement; my forms seemed passive and expressionless.

Utilizing the media but pushing the aesthetic further, I layered the paintings placing imagery behind them, creating abstract expressions of the female form. The resulting work sits between the sensual and confrontational, challenging the viewers experience and expectations of the feminine and the idea of modern femininity.

Email: Anja.Pynenburg@outlook.com Web: anjaraeartist.wixsite.com/home Insta: @AnjaRaeArtist

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Freya Reisin

This work deals with the positive and negative effects of the COVID restrictions over the last year and how people have been forced to slow down and appreciate their surroundings. In contrast is the fact that we as a nation have been trapped in our homes, not being able to see our loved ones. I am aware that art is an escape for a lot of people but as all my work this year has be done from the confines of my bedroom this topic was somewhat unavoidable for my final year project.

Email: Freyamaryreisin@gmail.com Web: Freyareisin.wordpress.com Instat: @freyareisin

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Saran Richards

My work explores the possibilities of marks in a play between spontaneity and control. In an attempt to discover figuration amongst abstraction it aims to find a sense of familiarity in surreal scenarios. By uniting printmaking and textiles, organic forms dominate the space of the calico. The work is concerned with the relationships between formal visual language and how they work together to expand and manipulate what appears on the surface. I am excited by the possibilities of evolving something random that begins unattached to preconceived ideas. This creates limitless opportunities for ultimate creative freedom. The introduction of embroidery highlights unusual shapes, forms and figures that exist within the original print.

To evolve the image further, the introduction of fabrics in a variety of patterns, textures and colours unite individual shapes to form a sense of space where a narrative begins to appear.

Email: Saranrichards1198@btinternet.com

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Theerapong Saobuppha

My paintings are largely influenced by the chaos of lockdown; many sudden changes and restrictions occurred, causing fear and confusion. So many rules caged us in; not being allowed to meet or see family, having to stay inside and so on. This gave rise to many unexplainable thoughts and feelings.

Curiously, lockdown has allowed me to explore and enjoy many activities that I would not normally have done. The many horror, psychological, crime, and pandemic books and films I’ve both read and watched have become influencers to my paintings, as have personal feelings, broader conversations and research into other artists.

In this practice I have explored portraiture, abstraction, texture and mark making as main components with side references to ideas concerning sickness and healing.

Hidden within these visual components I have concealed many personal touches like thoughts, feelings, and activities during lockdown in my paintings.

Email: theerapong111498@gmail.com

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Rosie Scott

In my practice over the past year, I have focused on creating paintings, which largely focus on abstract themes. With influences from Christopher Wool and Jonathan Lasker, I have had the opportunity to experiment and gauge what materials work well and angles on which to focus my own practice.

Concentrating on an abstract route has allowed me to deal with vibrant, bold colours and experiment with a wide range of materials. Focusing on abstract paintings has allowed me to experiment and express my ideas in a vivacious manner and explore a different avenue of presenting my work.

Email: Rosiescott2000@hotmail.co.uk

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Jacob Whewell

Before my degree, I was a painter and a painter only. Needless to say, I had little interest in pursuing three-dimensional art.

However, through the compelling insight of my lecturers, I began to adjust my inflexible and stubborn direction. As time passed, I learned to appreciate the sophistication of materials’ simplified arrangements and respect the essence of what makes a material individual to itself, such as paper.

Paper on its own is sometimes overlooked.

We use paper to plan other pieces and then put it aside, or to draw and paint over. Either way, paper is typically just a stepping-stone in reaching another goal, and understandably so. Through this piece though, I aimed to exhibit the versatility and elegance of suspended paper, with its organic hollow interior that intersperses between each sheet, creating a deceptive sense of depth and weight.

Email: Jacob.whewell4@gmail.com

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Danah Adams

Graphic Design is always around us, and learning how to communicate in a visual manner has inspired me to learn more about the subject. The words ‘create’ and ‘design’ has always sparked a sense of enthusiasm and excitement within me.

The work of designers such as Paul Rand, Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh has inspired me to develop my own skills and have given me an insight as to how establish a creative mind-set. During my time studying Graphic Design at the University of Chester I have been able to explore different ways to communicate through social media, print design and much more.

Email: Adamsdanah@gmail.com Insta: Dagraphics7 & Danah_adams

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Aimee Arrowsmith

This body of work focuses on the between spaces and edge lands in communities and public spaces that I come into contact with, more specifically how young people are using graffiti as a method of communication.

Leaving their thoughts and feelings for people to see as well as expressing their own way of creativity, it is a way of leaving a mark on a place that they may not have otherwise have much impression on.

Email: aimeearrowsmith@yahoo.co.uk Insta: aimeearrowsmith

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Kara Barker

The image I have chosen for the catalogue is a simple poster that gives the definition of ‘Nomophobia’ (the irrational fear of being without your mobile phone or being unable to use your phone). It is more the younger generation that struggle with this issue, this gave me the idea to create an app (Phoniez) that monitors phone usage. Phoniez is an app to limit time spent on phones, however it allows children to earn time on their phone by doing homework and playing maths or English games to develop their learning skills.

The aim of the game is to turn the bad phone zombies to good this is done by completing tasks and games set by parents or teachers.

Email: Kb2000@hotmail.co.uk Insta: Kara_barkerxx

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Callum Beaver

‘Conservative’ Adjective ‘A person who is averse to change or innovation and holds traditional values.’

If you’re in the market for offending your grandparents or just your local bigot then you’re in luck. Choose from this range of 16 hand printed Razcal brand post cards that cover such ‘offensive’ topics as breast feeding, transgender people, anal and much much more! Make their lockdown even worse with just the lick of a stamp!

As an artist my interest lies heavily in illustration and printing – none of this digital art codswollop. I love making things that I can get my hands on and the unique design challenges that follow as a result. I enjoy using my abilities to raise awareness around certain issues that I feel aren’t talked about nearly enough.

Email: cgbdesigning@gmail.com Web: beavercallumg.wixsite.com Insta: Razcal

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Emelia Brooks

The art of visual storytelling has always fascinated me. Illustration has the power to communicate complex messages, evoke emotion and alter our perceptions of the world around us, in an artful way. I enjoy creating visual narratives based on real-life experiences, tackling social issues through my artistic abilities.

The focus of my final project explores the subject of emotion. In today’s climate, an alarming rate of young people are experiencing mental health difficulties. These illustrations represent the challenges and emotional issues that affect children’s daily lives. They are intended to promote relevant conversations surrounding mental well-being, reiterating the message that ‘it’s ok to not feel ok’.

This piece centres on the theme of loneliness.

These feelings are sensitively portrayed through the form of monsters, capturing children’s vivid imaginations. The grayscale scheme and minimal use of colour represents emotion in a universally appealing manner.

Email: EmeliaBrooks61@gmail.com Web: emeliabdesign.wixsite.com/mysite Insta: @emeliabdesign

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Holly Brown

My artwork is a reflection of myself, my journey and my love for the Individuality within people. As a collective I focus on creating characters and settings that connect to the urban, quick paced society my generation live in, capturing adolescent at its finest. I create eccentric, colour filled pieces that are influenced by my friends and life. I focus on spiritual symbolism at times as I have been exploring different teachings and finding my own spirituality. I want my artwork to portray the moments of life we don’t realise are the highlights until they have past and connect with people.

Email: Hollybrownsworld@aol.com Web: Hollybrownsworld.com Insta: @Hollybrownsworld

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Alisha Butterworth

My work is mostly illustrative and I enjoy using both traditional and digital forms of illustration. My style of illustration is perhaps mostly suited to children’s products although I enjoy creating content for awareness campaigns and advertising. I enjoy working with typography and often combine both type and illustration in my practice. I like to produce bold, vibrant imagery when working digitally but have examples of more delicate, whimsical artwork when using ink and paints.

This piece of work represents my home country of Wales. I often find inspiration from my surroundings and felt inspired to create illustrations based on Welsh folklore, with stories I would often hear as a child. The piece is part of a book series I named ‘Tales of Wales’, the first book is about the origins of the famous Welsh Dragon. I wanted the illustrations to have a loose, sketchy feel with handwritten text in a celtic style to match the age of the story.

Email: alishabutterworth123@gmail.com Web: alishabutterworthgraphics.wordpress.com Insta: alisha_butterworth

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Connah Caldecott

Hello, I’m Connah Caldecott a 20-year-old aspiring graphic designer and illustrator. I like to think of myself as a jack of all trades when in comes to designing, I enjoy using and exploring various techniques when it come to my work. Such as spray painting, photography and animation.

My preferred technique is illustration, I’ve always enjoyed drawing and over the past couple of years I have learned various digital illustration techniques that I now implement I my designing process. When it comes to drawing, I’m more of a cartoonist rather than a realist. I enjoy the freedom of being a cartoonist, it always me to add my own style to what I am drawing.

Email: caldecottc2000@gmail.com Web: caldecottdesign.wordpress.com Insta: connahcaldecottgraphics

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Mair Chilton-Thomas

I am reminiscing on times before a covid world, a card game that celebrates the stereotype on Welsh Rugby game day.

Email: Mairelizabeth1999@gmail.com Web: mairelizabeths.wordpress.com Contact: @chilton_123

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Jakub Cichy

An aspiring motion designer looking to set foot in the motion world, I have a passion for digital design and eco-friendliness.

Reprocess is a recycling campaign aimed at children, hoping to get them involved in creative and environmental mindsets. The campaign involves a series of illustrated characters along with a follow along video tutorial. The tutorial features a ship made entirely out of used household materials.

Check it out if you are interested! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNtW-xmgLoA

Email: Jakubcichy98@gmail.com Web: jakubgraphics.co.uk Insta: jakubgraphics

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Chloe Corcoran

Chloe Corcoran is a talented artist with abilities in a variety of sectors within the creative industry consisting of photography, fine art, textiles, book illustration, promotional marketing design and Graphic Design.

Chloe’s work is known for being highly detailed, refined and elegant. Chloe’s Brand name CorCor Designs is derived from her last name Corcoran, which reinforces her family history and creates a unique repetitive spelling that will hopefully soon be known for her impressive designs.

The project shown is inspired by the merging of both heavenly virtues and deadly sins but showcased as typography specifically this image represents the heavenly virtue diligence and deadly sin Sloth.

Email: Chloelouisecorcoran@gmail.com Web: chloelouisecorcora.wixsite.com/mysite Insta: @chloecorcoran_designs

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Chloe Craig

My interests throughout my third year at university have been based around illustration and branding, with my work giving off a digital style and approach. When researching for ideas, I use Pinterest as a main outlet for my inspiration to spark my creativity and ideas.

The image presented is based around a project on inspiring women and how they themselves or their actions alone have helped to change problems in society. Greta Thunberg is an environmental activist. She has taken action against world leaders to help combat climate change and protested every Friday to help her case. #FridaysForFuture.

Email: chloecraig18@hotmail.com Insta: ccraig_designs

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Melissa Dasher

‘Making statues move” My aim for this project was to focus on the existence of statues and the disconnect we now have with them in society. I wanted to explore the idea of statues having a lost narrative and breathing life into them. This video was inspired by the Wilfred Owen statue in Hamilton Square which represents his poem ‘Futility’ which can be heard in the background of this video. We have a habit of filtering statues out of our view and completely ignore them, so I wanted to create this project to make people realise what they are walking past and humanising the statues.

Email: melissadasher@outlook.com Web: Meldasherart & meldasherphotography

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Abbie Davies

A firery haired life form who likes to design things.

My work for this year’s exhibition is very close to home. I always make a conscious decision to bring awareness to important situations or causes and this year, Breast Cancer Awareness was my top priority. I hope my work will help normalise checking our bodies regularly, we will know if something doesn’t feel/look ‘normal’. Better to be safe than sorry.

Email: Abbiejdavies99@gmail.com Web: abs19995.wixsite.com/graphicdesigner Insta: @_abbiejdavies_

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Rita De Oliveira Cruz

My love for nature is what defines me.

Whether it be in animated or illustrated form, if there is one thing that I love to produce in my work is nature. I have an immense attention to detail, constantly loving to add small narratives to everything that I can.

Adding the highlights and shadows to any work I paint is, pun intended, the highlight of creating them. I strive to do what I love.

The image that I have shown is an ongoing project of a short story animation with the title of Corruption, that I have written and am looking forward to finishing in the near future

Email: ritatinha_densi@live.com Web: ritanimart.wixsite.com/portfolio Insta: ritanimart

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Russell Fearn

If there is one part of the Graphic Design world that I treasure, it’s being able to tell stories. Through the medium of different editorial design, vector design and videography, I find joy in telling and showcasing stories from the world around us.

Whether it be a superhero movie trailer, a documentary-style video, or a whole magazine, our world’s stories deserve to be heard and I love telling them.

This exhibition piece is a movie trailer for a film that takes a grungier take on the whole superhero trope. A darker back-story to a character and world that flickers between the modern day, and an era long before.

Email: russfearn17@outlook.com Web: russfearndesigns.wordpress.com Insta: russfearndesigns

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Muthuthanthrige Fernando

The Zoetrope “The Zoetrope” was invented by William George Horner and patented in 1834. It was an early form of motion picture display that consisted of a drum containing a set of still images.

I have always been fascinated with physical and interactive designs. I was keen to build things throughout my university life, and here I am, trying to design a Zoetrope with strobe light effect.

Email: risharinda@gmail.com Web: www.rf-studio.co.uk

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Connor Francom

“There are three responses to a piece of design – yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for.” - Milton Glaser. I pride myself of these kinds of reactions, yes or no is just not good enough for me it must be Wow or it must be asking a question.

My work is very much experimental ranging from data visualization to a much artier approach. My work mainly has hidden meanings or information. I enjoy watching the viewer interpret what they think it could be all about and putting their spin on the artwork.

Email: c.francom@hotmail.com Web: francomdesigns.com

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Nikolai Gabrysch

My approach to Graphic Design is something I’ve been building on over the past few years.

It has taken me some time to understand my style and approach. However, I have realized that my concept is to build on what I know inspired by my earlier surroundings of artists and painters growing up . I enjoy the interaction of paint and typography in my work. For example the work below was for my book, ‘Dreams Project’ which shows how I documented my dreams in the form of painting and notes, and communicated them in the form of this book. I enjoy the arranging of typography to communicate effectively a personal portrayal of my immediate environment. My intentions were to communicate my interaction of the subconscious and conscious mind through dream analysis. My graphics work explores the relationship between my personal life, typography and communication through image.

Email: Nik.g.156@gmail.com Web: Nikolaigabryschgraphicdesign.com Insta: Nikolai.gdp

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Jordan Glen

I am a Designer and Illustrator with a focus on visual narrative and storytelling. Loves printmaking, especially Lino prints.

“Calm Down Monster” is an Illustrated book intent on helping children to understand complex issues related to health, stemming from the authors struggles with migraines as a child. The book tells the tale of a boy whose invisible monster that brings him pain and his efforts to calm down the monster.

Email: jdg.graphicdesign@gmail.com Web: jdglen.com Insta: jdg.graphicdesign

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Catherine Hague

My work focuses on Branding. Illustration and Animation. I like to touch on issues such as mental health, or political/sociological topics.

My work this year has centered around my experience with BPD. My intent is to make people more aware of the co-morbidities of the illness and remove the stigma around the condition.

Email: Catherinehaguee@gmail.com Insta: Arthague

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Jodie Hall

Throughout my University years, I have developed my skills in Graphic Design in areas including collage, print, illustration, branding and embroidery. I prefer to create artwork by hand rather than digitally as I can be more experimental, and I enjoy it more.

The purpose of the design opposite was to spread awareness of British endangered animals. The Red Squirrel has been endangered for over 150 years and is almost extinct. One of the main causes of the red Squirrel’s downfall is litter, many Squirrels get trapped in litter or poisoned by it.

Email: jodiefhall08@gmail.com

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Russell Hannick

A multi-media designer specialising in digital illustration, branding and abstract collage.

Branding and digital illustration in my work has been used for positive movements such as non-alcoholic drinks company with strong values on mental health, as well as a beach clean company with a focus on education, using branding and digital illustration to confidently communicate what these companies stand for.

The collage side developed from ripping old pieces of paper together and rearranging.

Which became a usual practice for me. It then developed further into experimenting with shape, character and layout. The work adapted an abstract retrospective feel.

Working together with multiple imagery that pulls the eye from one visual experience to another, while all harmonizing together.

Email: russhannick@hotmail.com Web: ruskydesign.com Insta: @rusky_

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Tasfia Haque

Race, religion and culture is something I was surrounded by growing up. It has always inspired my work, from henna patterns to cultural attire, Black Lives Matter to #StopAsianHate. I am passionate about my work and what I create and I like to also express my culture, race and religion through my work.

Creating pieces which are minimalistic is my niche, I stick to simplicity but also show power within my drawings.

This piece represents the beauty of the South Asian cultures including my own; Bangladeshi. It shows the similarities and differences through attire and facial features.

Email: Tasfiahaque_329@hotmail.com Insta: @t.h.graphics

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Marvin Henrius

Going into this course I only had a basic understanding of Graphic Design. Through these last couple of years, I have come to understand that Graphic Design is always around us, even in the smallest forms. I have always seen myself of more of a traditional designer, but this realization has made me want to explore what being a designer really means, and I cannot wait to explore some more!

Email: mhenrius@gmail.com

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Anna Hill

My passion is with illustration and my style is formed by the collaboration of digital and traditional illustration and can be adapted to whatever the brief requires. My work is often developed with the purpose to inform and raise awareness of issues such as mental health, global warming and animal welfare whilst being sustainable throughout the design process in anyway that I can.

The illustration is taken from my illustrated Lockdown journal where I documented various personal days within our national lockdown. The illustrations form short narratives that form a personal diary of my Covid-19 experience and serves as a memory of illustrated events.

Email: Annahill469@gmail.com Web: Annadesign98.wordpress.com Insta: @byannakate

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Jessica Hodson

The intention for this project was to create a series of illustrations that focussed on rebranding the negative connotations that commonly associate with the Red Fox, whilst also promoting messages of how human induced climate change is destroying different ecosystems. The illustrations follow the journey of Bramble fox who leaves his woodland home due to construction and travels the world in search for somewhere safe to live. Throughout his Journey Bramble meets other animals who have had their homes impacted by human induced climate change and work together to try and find somewhere to call home.

Email: Hosojessi@gmail.com Insta: @jessihoso

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Shantel Holgate

I am a Graphic Designer/Illustrator with a flair for Typography. I enjoy taking complex problems and turning them into a fun/ quirky design. I like to think of myself as a Multi-Media Designer, I appreciate all aspects of design and aim to exert myself in a variety of different mediums from illustration, animation, branding and editorial- you name it, I’ll do it. When I’m not experimenting on Illustrator, Photoshop or After Effects, you will find me indulging in Animal Crossing or Zelda.

Email: shantel.kate@outlook.com Web: shantelkate.wixsite/portfolio Insta: @shantelhdesign

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Terrence Kearney

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Design to me is about the balance between chaos and simplicity. I am guided by the process and prefer to see where a project takes me rather than have a predetermined outcome. As a creative in the 21st century I like to use digital techniques that include audio and video mixed with an array of printing techniques as i believe that design should always have an element of touch and feel to it.

Email: aterrencekearney@gmail.com Web: eitherreflection.wixsite.com/tk42 Insta: Either_reflection

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Heather Kendall

As an illustrator, I have strived to be as inclusive as possible in my work. Having seen that there is a lack of representation in most forms of modern media, I made it my mission to represent as many groups of people as I could. Representation is very important to me and I believe that everyone should get the chance to see themselves and people like them in popular culture.

My approach to my work is to always be considerate when creating characters of different ethnicities, cultures, religions, disabilities, and personal back stories. I remain respectful and like to challenge myself. I believe more representation is needed in popular culture in the modern world, variety is what makes up the human race, and this should be reflected in media.

In the future, I aspire to be an inclusive visual novel author and illustrator.

Email: hkendall97@hotmail.com Web: 1703479.wixsite.com/heatherekendall Insta: hevvdraws

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Syeda Khatun

‘The Lost’ depicts the story of those that were lost in the Sewol Ferry accident which took place on 16th April 2014. It is from the point of view of after the incident, depicting scenes which would usually be full of joy and laughter of students and staff, but are now empty and quiet without them now that they are gone.

I wanted to produce an animation for this subject as many of the families and friends of those who were lost, continue to struggle with the upsetting events that took place that day.

Email: Syedakhatun2000@gmail.com Insta: _deshidesign

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Annie Maskell

The world as a whole is so immense it becomes immeasurable within our minds, almost frightening and definitely daunting to speculate on our own insignificance. This strange year of lockdowns left me looking closer to home, it allowed me to open my mind to things that may seem less significant but really are no less extraordinary.

I noticed every time you leave the house and just wander down the street, there’s a new face sat under the streetlight at the end of the road, a rainbow of diffracted light waving across the canal bridge from the water below and a conversation with a friend you’ve known for years sparks a whole new perspective. I started to appreciate that the possibilities are boundless, one word can spark the creation of a whole new project and in this case; that’s what happened.

The exploration of how typography can evoke and convey a feeling.

Email: Annieloudesignsuk@gmail.com Web: annieloudesign.myshopify.com Insta: @annieloudesign

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Cat Parker-Jones

I primarily am an illustrator, but I also love to experiment with animation and incorporate my love of music and storytelling. My work is primarily inspired by music I listen to and the movies I watch and how I see them. My work is fun and lively with elements of the bizarre, I love to use bold lines and bright, gaudy colours to create my work.

Email: caitlinje@gmail.com Web: catpjart.com Insta: @catpjart

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Harry Parkes-Smith

I’m Harry a graphic design student from Conwy, for this project I wanted to express the imaginative side to my work, producing a range of illustrations using adobe illustrator.

This specific style is something I really enjoy, a style that best describes me and my skills as a designer.

My exhibition piece is a variety of cartoon characters. Experimenting with shape and colour, each character takes inspiration from a variety of objects, animals and nature.

Some blended and mixed to create these unique forms, all in attempt to present each character with its own individual, characteristics and personality.

Email: Harryps_2000@hotmail.com Web: harrysblog.webador.co.uk

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Freya Reisin

My project is intended to encourage women to reclaim language that is often used to undermine them and empower them to use this language in a positive way and begin to eliminate the negative impact it can have on people. I also explored the use of the work bitch within male-dominated environments and the contrast of the meaning within a female-dominated environment.

Email: Freyamaryreisin@gmail.com Web: Freyareisin.wordpress.com Instat: @freyareisin

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Anna Roberts

As a creative I love to have fun with my work and deliver a message.

My exhibition takes inspiration from the B-movie horror posters of the past, which were quirky and charming. It highlights the animals that aren’t often considered popular, and are overshadowed by others, much like B-movies and Hollywood.

Highlighting the lesser loved creatures and telling their story is important to me, I use my design work to tell stories. I have explored both the animal kingdom and the world of cryptids, which are creatures that may or may not exist.

It’s a fun take on an issue that needs addressing, some of these animals are critically endangered and don’t receive the funding which could save their species.

Email: annajroberts94@gmail.com Web: annaroro.co.uk Insta: anna_roro

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Bozena Roberts

My main focus is children’s illustration; this leads my work toward the use of bright colours and a simple approach to shapes, to ensure that the objects I am illustrating are instantly recognised by the youngest audience. I always create a more realistic appearance throughout my illustrations, by adding the finer details and using subtle textures.

The ‘Penguin Number’ book was one of the three books I created for an educational children’s book series. The biggest aspect of the books was the puzzle element on the back cover, this connected the four books from each series together to show where the animals live, the penguin book showing Antarctica. I think this gave the final product a more fun appearance, and would definitely engage young children.

Email: bozenarobertsdesign@gmail.com Web: bozenarobertsdesign.blogspot.com Contact: bozenarobertsdesign

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Carla Saunders

The main objective of this body of work is to showcase the theme of pop art and food and combine them to create a pop art themed restaurant, designing materials that you would usually see at a restaurant such as a logo/restaurant brand, menus, posters, business cards, packaging, etc.

I have always had a big interest in pop art in the way it looks as a whole style of art and how it’s just so bold and out there, easily catches the eye. I’m also a big lover of food (who isn’t) and so I thought maybe I could combine these two interests of mine and try and create something that could turn my interests into something more exciting.

Email: carla.saunders16@gmail.com

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Ashlee Smedley

A dreamer, a crafter and an out of the box thinker. I am passionate about creating beautiful things for people. Through Fine Art and Graphic Design, I have explored a range of different techniques to which has given me a mixed media approach.

I find inspiration in my surroundings-in things I see and people I talk to, young or old, tall and small. This year I created storybook to support children learning to tell the time.

This was greatly inspired by a mouse in my grandparent’s garden. Maude was the star of the show.

Email: ashlee.r.s.08@gmail.com Insta: creative.pockets

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Taylor White

Taylor white is a young designer who incorporates typography and language within his work, creating unique and striking typographic outcomes often focusing on various cultures and political issues from around the world. Taylor uses a range of digital software alongside more traditional physical practices, with each piece of work is unique with its own story to tell.

Email: Taylorwhite9903@gmail.com Web: taylorwhite9903.wixsite.com/portfolio Insta: @taylormadedesigns

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Mohammed Adam

Inna likulli shay’in hilya.

(Everything has its ornament) Hadith Investigation of Arabic Culture through Arabic belles-letters played an important role in the formulation of graduation project. I enjoy and try to promote visual arts through my work.

Classical Islam was Arabic-Speaking and Arabic-Writing so is my study before 1998.

I was born in Kuwait and live today in Liverpool, UK. Prior to this, I spent many years travelling through Middle East.

My parents encouraged my love for art through attending exhibitions.

Beauty and Pleasure in Islamic Art have stimulated my work over the years. I have learnt to separate between the good and the beautiful in Arabic culture, and the appreciation of beauty. There is a discrepancy between the practical attitude of the Muslims towards the arts, which allowed aesthetics to be a norm of life, and the absence of a general theory of the arts in my culture.

Email: madaml1@outlook.com Insta: interiormliverpool

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Cerys Bascombe

My design project is based in the uninhabited Baptist chapel across from the Chester bus interchange, making it the perfect location choice for my design idea of a spiritualist community hub for anyone and everyone to come and meditate, join a yoga class or to sit and read for a few hours. It gives people the opportunity to get away from the chaos of the busy Highstreet and now more than ever as were coming closer to normality on the other side of this pandemic people might need a space where they can get away and collect themselves as they rejoin the community after over a year of being restrained to the four walls of their homes. I wanted it to be a place for people to rejoin and reconnect not only with others but with themselves and their new surrounds.

Email: cerysbascom@live.com Insta: @cerysbascombe_interiors

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Mariana-Alexandra Costache

The Coleg Harlech building was originally a residential adult education college for mature students from 1927 until 2017. The proposition will repurpose the existing to create a sustainable community environment where residents have both private individual living accommodation and a vibrant communal space. Considering the history of the site, the new concept aims to preserve elements of the original architecture and materials whilst creating a new atrium allowing natural light to come through the building to house a range of communal spaces in a unique atmosphere.

The atrium serves as a shared space where residents can grow plants, fruit and vegetables supported by an integrated aquaponic system. For the individual living accommodation, expandable spaces can be used as terraces or room extensions. This proposal aspires to create a sustainable community, an environment that brings people together and creates a strong connection with nature.

Email: alexandramcostache@yahoo.com Insta: @theartiststudio.ac

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Sophie Downes

Dorothea Quarry, an abandoned slate quarry on the Snowdonia Slate Trail, has been reimagined as a cultural hub, called Ailwylltio (Rewilding). The proposal explores the narrative of natural rewilding, and the evolution of a landscape scarred by slate mining.

The Cornish beam engine has been reactivated using a Corten steel walkway and carefully curated lighting, highlighting the industrial heritage of the site. A raised walkway snakes through the tree canopy and shrub layer, with views that will evolve as natural regeneration occurs. From here, sculptural interventions punctuate the landscape, acting as wayfinding markers to lead visitors through the site.

A minimal materials palette of just steel, wood and slate is used throughout the proposal, echoing the surrounding landscape, and creating a dialogue between the interventions and the existing site.

Ailwylltio seeks not only to rewild Dorothea Quarry, but also to rewild all those who visit.

Email: sophie.pheedesign@gmail.com Web: pheedesign.co.uk Insta: @pheedesign

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Jamie Johnson Gore

The proposal offers a multi dining experience that provides a social hub to connect a wide target audience. Primarily the space will provide a meeting point to connect the canal network and offer a place to relax, socialize and engage with the city of Chester, contrasting against the isolation of life living on a canal boat. The proposal will also target local residents, students and dog walkers through the Chester City conservation area in which the site is located.

Within the building various dining experiences will separate the space, as the ground floor will include an individual seating area overlooking the canal, a social area to gather with friends and a communal pit in which various people can mix and share their teppanyaki style cooking experience.

Alternatively, the first floor will offer private dining facilities tailored for larger families and groups where the experience is solely led by themselves.

Email: jamiejohnson096@gmail.com Insta: jj_idesign

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Nina Jones

A disused hospital located in Denbighshire has been re-designed into a unique personcentred care facility called ‘Home From Home’ for people living with dementia. This design offers a safe, social and therapeutic environment designed to improve an individual’s experience and ultimately their quality of life. This design has been informed by undertaking research and analysing best practice, designing for space and light, considering the use of therapeutic colour, social and rest spaces, the integration of specialist equipment, the positive impacts of outdoors, wayfinding and the use of landmarks. The design aims to promote independence and support well-being, create familiar surroundings, support meaningful tasks and participation in daily activities.

Home From Home is true to its spirit and seeks to retain a familiar environment that is a nurturing and a warm place to live.

Email: Ninajones1999@icloud.com Insta: njinteriors_

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Natasha Milliard

A Natural Palette The quilt is part of a larger design proposal for Taylors Boat Yard, in Chester.

Situated across the canal from Telford’s Warehouse, The Tool-Shed explores the concept of connection. The proposal includes a “lookout” box, overlooking the canal below.

Large windows provide elevated views of the surrounding area, and a skylight presents the opportunity to pull back the roof and enjoy stargazing, yoga, and meditation, underneath the stars.

The space encourages users to reflect and connect with their inner selves, other members of the community and the natural beauty of our surroundings.

The project is inspired by a personal experience of connecting with neighbours, old and young, over socially distanced stargazing during the first national lockdown.

The scheme incorporates a limited palette of materials and includes bespoke bean bags and quilting, made from organic fabrics and natural dyes produced from personal and commercial food waste, local plants, and seasonal vegetables.

Web: indoor.design.blog/ Insta: arielgreenco

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Charlotte Platt

The Hospice will provide care for patients battling a terminal illness. The main aim of the design was to promote good health and wellbeing for its users; the patients, visitors, and staff, this is achieved through careful selection of colour, materials, and spatial planning that allows good access to nature and daylight. The outcome of this project was to create a hospice environment that provides its patients with dignity, comfort and happiness.

The hospice will provide facilities which encourage the independence and privacy of its users. The main driver for this scheme was to create a space in which the patient’s illness will not hold them back from performing everyday activities and spending time with their family and friends.

Email: charlotte99platt@outlook.com Insta: cpinterior¬¬_design

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Samantha Pritchard

Built in 1881, The Winter Gardens is a historic landmark that has moved locations over the centuries and now stands derelict in Great Yarmouth.

Through an intense design journey, The Winter Gardens has been re purposed as a luxury destination spa. The project provides Great Yarmouth with a new attraction to draw a variety people in and witness the city’s history whilst receiving a luxury spa day in The Winter Gardens Spa.

Insta: @smpinteriors

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Millicent Tawil

The Major Project this year enabled me to lead a creative and personal response to Interior Design. My project looks at retail spaces and how they can be adapted to draw people to the high street. The idea behind my proposal was to think about who is in these retail spaces, who lives in cities and what is missing.

From research and my own personal experience, I realised there is not one singular space catering for students and young people alone. My design and proposal for the Next Building in Liverpool One is a creative and collective hub where students and young people can either come and relax at the spa, hang out with friends, go to the upstairs club or work in a quiet space downstairs. I used bright, warming colours inspired by James Turrel’s. I also focused on creating big spaces enclosed with coloured transparent glass with wooden features to create a calming yet fun atmosphere.

Email: millieltawil@gmail.com Web: millieltawil.wixsite.com/mysite Insta: millietdesign

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Megan Wainwright

Dee House is a historic building located in Chester City Center, built around 1730.

Research undertaken has provided an understanding of the building resulting in a design proposal that both enhances and protects the original, historic features of Dee House.

The Chapel presents a setting for a high-end restaurant that opens into the ground floor hotel reception area. The first floor hosts standard hotel bedrooms which then leads into luxury hotel suites on the second floor.

Aimed at guests of a range of ages who wish to appreciate the history of Chester, this highend hotel/restaurant showcases the Roman history of Dee House and the character of the building whilst protecting the existing conditions, but using a contrasting interior highlighting the old from the new.

Email: megan.wainwright00@gmail.com Web: mw-interiordesign.co.uk Instat: _mw_designs_

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Feng Zhu

The Hip-Hop culture empire My project is based on a unique live work environment for a professional rapper and producer, DZ. Surrounded by restaurants, bars, shopping stores and clubs , the location is in a two storey empty retail unit in Chester.

My idea is to separate the living, producing and performing environments with a social and performance space to rap with his hip hop music on the ground floor. The first floor contains his private living and working space.

The project has been designed around the personality of the client, full of hip-hop and modern elements within the private space including graffiti brick wall and skateboards and CD albums displayed on walls.

Email: Fengtingzhu520@gmail.com Insta: Tz_ting_zhu

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Aimee Arrowsmith

Having moved over the summer I now live next to Colliers Moss which is a regenerated area in Saint Helens. The area that was once Bold Colliery and Power Station is now full of trees and wildlife, it is a great place for nurturing my love for photographing everything natural.

I focus on the things the average passer by wouldn’t notice and try to capture close up details of natural forms. Whilst I’m out on walks this also gives me an opportunity to hunt for interesting things to take back home and photograph in my lightbox, this is where I play with arrangements and lighting.

This study focuses on natural form, for example leaves, bark and moss. First photographed in their natural habitat where I found them and then taken out and instead placed in an unnatural, manufactured environment on a stark white background.

Email: aimeearrowsmith@yahoo.co.uk Insta: aimeearrowsmith_photography

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Ruth Ashbrook Burrows

I am a third-year photography student who, over the years that I have been studying at university, has discovered a passion for cinematography as well as an interest in landscape photography, natural/wildlife photography and architectural photography.

Over the course of my studies both before university and throughout, I have learned many things when it comes to my photographic practice.

Personally, I like photographs that have a diverse or mysterious look to them or photographs that have numerous elements involved to create a single image, and this is something that I wanted to portray through my images for this exhibition. These photographs, consisting of ordinary places and objects that I see every day, were taken around the village where I live. While, on their own, these photographs may seem like routine photographs of locations or objects, when combined together on top of one another they gain an unusual and distinctive atmosphere.

Email: ruthcashb@gmail.com Insta: @ruthabphotography

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Chelsea Busby

The Virtual Portrait The Global Pandemic has had a major effect upon us all, more than we may have realised yet. There is a disconnection between people since the pandemic, from masks covering identities, to not being able to meet up with people. Therefore, we cannot get a true representation of someone’s identity, other than what we see through a screen, or from a distance. This pandemic has made people understand how much we relied on human interaction. It has put life into perspective and made us question our morals and values.

Our lives have been affected in ways we never could have imagined. But what are the long-time effects of lockdown?

Will it affect our identity?

This project uses facetime to capture people in the uk who have been experiencing the lockdowns, often sitting within four walls of their own homes and trying to create their own daily entertainment.

Email: @chelseabusby09@gmail.com Insta: chelsb.photography

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Melissa Dasher

“On The Wirral” I have an interest in photographing the everyday in a way in which viewers will notice things they usually filter out or ignore because they are so used to seeing. I live on the Wirral and have always enjoyed the luxury of having a beach a short drive away as well as towns and countryside. There is an interesting range of environments within a close proximity which many places in the country don’t have. I wanted to display this range of environments through photobooks of different locations on the Wirral.

Email: melissadasher@outlook.com Web: Meldasherart & meldasherphotography

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Niamh Dickinson

In these unprecedented times regarding the Coronavirus pandemic, it is important that time away from computer and phone screens are valued. This project explores the found photograph and the relationships and connections that are revealed through reflection.

Email: dickinsonniamh@gmail.com Insta: @ndickinson.art

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Sam Farrell

My exhibition aims to give an outsider, an inside look into the UK Car scene. My images provide the viewer with the raw look and feel of what us car enthusiasts enjoy the most; meeting and expressing ourselves through our vehicles. Big, small, expensive, cheap it doesn’t matter, we all share a passion for these blocks of metal with wheels.

Everyone has a story and my images will try and portray this.

The images will not only show the people involved but also the locations we gather.

Whether this be in a large car park on a rainy evening or simply at a friends house.

Email: samfarrellwork@gmail.com Web: exoticartsmedia.com Insta: ExoticArtsMedia

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Susannah Fletcher

I specialize as a portrait artist in candid, staged and documentary photography.

My work over the last three years has been based around studio and location, developing my practice into capturing people’s personality through my photography. I enjoy mixing fashion with a sense of drama and real life situations and emotions. Music and poetry are also big driving forces in my work.

It’s important for me to tell a story in my work that the viewer can connect with.

Email: susannahfletcher@hotmail.co.uk Web: susannahfletcher4.wixsite.com/mysite-2 Insta: suzyfletchphotography

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Lauren Hitchmough

Vulnerable- A feeling of insecurity and fear of being harmed. A feeling we as humans have all felt at some point in our lives, most common with our body and how we see ourselves and how others see us. Our bodies are subjected to constant review and criticism from others, but we never see the love and appreciation. Instead, we see our flaws and insecurities and constantly remind ourselves. My work is about loving your body and accepting that those rolls of fat on our stomach, the cellulite around our thighs and acne scars on our face are a part of us and should be accepted. No more flawless skin or filtered photos, instead our natural bodies should be allowed to be seen in all their glories. No one should have to feel vulnerable about their own skin.

To the ladies that took part in my project, thank you.

Email: Laurenh_98@hotmail.co.uk Insta: Photosbylauren.98

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Jessica Hodson

When first formulating ideas for this project, I started with the notion that I wanted to be creative in my process, deciding I would experiment with creating miniature sets focused on the theme of war. Building miniature sets provides me the opportunity to photograph a topic I would not otherwise experience. I decided to focus on the genre of conflict, which can occur in many forms, but ultimately results in the loss of life and destruction of the planet. Through selecting somewhat of a darker theme, I can create images with more cinematic essence that embrace a collective narrative.

Email: Hosojessi@gmail.com Insta: @jessihoso

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Caitlyn Jones

Over the course of this project, I meet individuals within the Creative Art sector who are willing to speak out about their worries and concerns for the future, not only that but the positives that have come from this year. It has been amazing to see the strength of the Creative industry, coming together to fight for the arts and their future!

Creatives across the UK expressed the general lack of respect shown to the arts industry with the overwhelming majority of British cultural workers such as dancers, musicians, actors – saw their livelihoods shattered in a matter of hours this March with no support given.

This is especially serious for the performing arts world, Music, dance, and theatres are in the mass gathering business, and they will be among the last area of public life to reopen.

The exhibition includes portraits, statements about the participants and a film piece.

Email: Caitlyn-jade@hotmail.co.uk Web: caitlyn-jade.wixsite.com/my-site Insta: @caitlynjonessss

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Calum Jones

My motivation and intention behind creating this work was to highlight both the range of different colours and shades in familiar everyday environments that are usually either lost or unnoticed. My work aims to highlight these colours and shades in such a way that they become the main feature. This has been achieved by capturing prominent colours and identifying contrasting and matching colours within each image.

The work on a whole showcases my personal everyday life and experiences both at home and in my local area during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-21), thereby revealing a part of myself and my isolated life through this period.

My main inspiration has come from documentary photographers Stephen Shore, William Eggleston, Marc Provins, and Niall McDiarmid collectively, as they all explore creatively with the use of colour.

Email: cajphotos@yahoo.com Insta: calumjphotos

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Sophie Little

Isolation is a body of photographic work exploring the ways the pandemic has affected me. It consists of 14 black and white images, some made digitally with long exposures, and some made on 35mm film and printed in a rudimentary makeshift darkroom inside my house. Throughout the lockdowns, I became isolated and lonely and spent more time inside my house than ever before. My long exposure images, featuring ghostlike blurs as I move through the frame, are meant to express how I felt like I was becoming a part of the house, a fixture like the walls or furniture. My film images, produced entirely inside the house from start to finish, relate to the idea of seeing the light at the end of the tunnel; we all expect the pandemic to subside at some point and “normal” life to resume, but none of us know how long it will be.

Web: sophielittlephotography.com Insta: @sophielittlephotography

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Megan Lloyd

I’ve always been someone who’s struggled with my appearance and body image it leaves me wondering why as a young woman this is one of my main worries. The ease of selfies and photo editing on smart phones is coming a popularity competition.

As humans there are all these added pressures to do things in a certain way when in fact there is no correct way to do ‘life’. There are so many obstacles and with the ease of social media and the internet there are so many more added pressures to become this idea of ‘perfect’. Advertising and the media have presented both males and females in an unrealistic way for years.

I chose to stage and make self-portrait photographs which reflect some of my most vulnerable and challenging times. They suggest that not everything that is always visible or can be clearly seen, that the lines between happiness and stability and life’s changes are blurred.

Email: photographedbymeg@gmail.com Insta: photographedbymeg

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Ffion O’Dell

Stay at Home Video: 6 mins During this short film, I have used a mix of still and moving imagery to portray life within the Covid-19 Pandemic. I have focused this on my own experiences in relation to the ‘stay at home’ guidelines provided by the UK Government. The imagery used showcases a meditation on the domestic environment and suggests the impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic with common themes such as isolation and loneliness, and the mundane repetition of each day.

Email: ffionodellphotography@hotmail.com Web: ffionodell-photography.weebly.com Insta: @ffionodellphotography

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Jennifer Oliver

When I first started focusing on photography I started off with landscapes and then gradually moved on to people portraits and then eventually animal portraits. It wasn’t until during the pandemic that I adapted my work to my surroundings during that time, which was my animals.

Every animal has a story to tell and they show it through their body language and behaviour, and that’s where I got my theme for my projects, animal behaviour portraits, it’s not about showing a posed dog portrait it’s about expressing that animal’s behaviour and creating something incredible.

My work is about animal behaviour and letting it speak for its self, the animals in the photoshoots are doing their everyday thing, while I photograph them naturally, some show happiness, some more emotion, every animal has a story to tell good or bad, you just have to look to understand.

Email: jennieoliver99@gmail.com Insta: photos_by_jennie

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Melissa Parry

I began this project with the intention of trying to portray my loved ones in ‘’portraits’’ that only contain objects as I wanted to explore still life photography. I considered using items that they treasured or even things that I felt people who know them, would associate with them. I initially found this to be more difficult than I had anticipated as I was not based in Liverpool with the rest of my family, but in Chester for university. Travelling between the two cities was not possible due to restrictions such as the tier system and eventually the lockdowns. I tried thinking of ways I could continue without breaking any restrictions and decided to photograph items I had with me in Chester, that belonged to me that reminded me of my loved ones.

Photographing things that made me less homesick and brought me comfort during a difficult year.

Email: Melissaparry99@gmail.com Insta: melissaparry_photography

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Georgina Price

My photographic practice focuses on the environment and attempts to capture the way humanity exploits the planet which all creatures call home, not just mankind. We treat the earth like a litter box and pollute the very entity that sustains life. Our actions have caused and will continue to affect the existence of all life on Earth, from the endangerment and extinction of species and global warming which has and will remain to disrupt the environment that has been formed over time to support the most valuable construct, LIFE. The work displayed has been produced because of my curiosity for the way people have decided to embed our way of life onto the world.

Email: georgina.price06@gmail.com Web: gfrances06price.wixsite.com/gp-portfolio Insta: @georginapricephotography

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Sarah Sadler

I am a female portrait photographer based in Chester, and I strongly believe in the power of a portrait to change the warped, negative, self-projected view a woman can have upon herself. As once she is empowered with the removal of, in her mind, the “unobtainable myth of beauty”, whatever that means to her or you, she goes on to change her life.

WWThis journey during these past 8 years at my portrait studio Red Shoe, has been one of self-discovery, not only for the women that have been photographed, but my own personal self-discovery journey in the process.

The works produced and created for this exhibition are a reflection upon this discovery.

Email: sarahjanesphoto@gmail.com Web: redshoemakeovers.com Insta: @redshoemakeovers & @redshoepersona

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Carla Saunders

Timeworn Matter I have captured a series of images that focus on dereliction showing the worn down, decaying buildings that have become old, grotty and vandalised overtime. Through the images that I captured I want to communicate that over a long period of time, everything ages and becomes a form of old, decayed material even ourselves as a human form, get old and eventually turn to ash. I want to show the beauty in what time and age formed together can create. The images displayed are from the North West, specifically Liverpool and Chester.

Many people may have different views on old, vandalised buildings as they can look and be very taunting and stereotyped as a place you would find gangs of teenagers and an example of a quote of a friend of mine once said was “Don’t go down there, you might get stabbed”. This is an exact representation of most people’s opinion and views of run down, vandalised areas when in reality they’re not all bad. Like the English novelist, George Eliot said “Don’t judge a book by its cover”. You never know the reality of something until you’ve experienced it for yourself.

Email: carla.saunders16@gmail.com

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Miranda Smith

What is the new normal? That is the question I am wonting to address with this project.

I want to look at what we take for granted and how this new perspective of the world has changed how we see everyday activities and objects. I have also taken inspiration from my own past work as well as the work of Jan Groover, Jim Dine, and Irving Penn. But the main inspiration I have used to inspire my work and this project is the current world issues of Covid 19.

Email: mirandajaynesmithphotography@gmail.com Insta: miranda_smith_photography

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Ffion Thornton

From altered body shapes to distorted facial features, the media have created an unattainable beauty standard through the digital manipulation of images. Continuous exposure to digitally enhanced photographs has a damaging effect on young women’s body image. Consuming mainstream media has caused our perception of reality to become warped. What used to be a quick glance at a billboard, scroll through social media or flick though a fashion magazine has now become a means of comparison to unrealistic beauty ideals.

“Digitized Dysmorphia” alludes to digital technology’s detrimental impact on our mental health. The project explores female portraiture, with a particular focus on selfperception. When we look in the mirror, we see ourselves as something broken needing to be fixed, we over analyse how we look and focus on the aspects of our body we wish to change. We pull apart our appearance into fragments and the broken mirror embodies this concept.

Email: ffionthornton@icloud.com Web: ffionthorntonphotography.com Insta: fthorntonphotography

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Cassandra Vallance

Due to Covid-19 I wanted create work that I could see myself doing in the future and that I could do without breaking any lock-down rules. I started my research into the style of Vanitas, and how 17th century artists would paint objects that would symbolize a meaning behind them. From my research into that genre I decided to photograph something that I could connect with my Mother. My Mother has a collection of mini perfume bottles, most are from 1990s when she worked in London’s’ West End department stores. The collection has grown throughout the years.

In my work I want the show the detail of the engraving on the bottles and the interesting shapes designed. I want to create artistic images showcasing the shapes and colors of each bottle.

Email: cassandravallance@gmail.com Web: cassandravallance.wixsite.com/my-site Insta: @cass.igphotography

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Ian Warburton

I am a mature student who returned to education in my 50’s, to understand more about how photography is influenced by other artistic mediums. I enjoy portraiture and constructing an image, which has seen me developing an interest in the photograph being used as part of a performance. Where the photograph alludes to something, yet still allows the viewer to make up their own mind.

This element of performance has culminated in my final piece of work being a short film, which I wrote and directed. I also created the film poster from an image I took. I am keen to pursue more projects where I can bring my creativity to use both still and moving image to help tell a story.

Web: ianwarburton.co.uk Insta: @iawarburton & @ianwarburtonphotography

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Hannah White

This short reflective film aims to challenge certain assumptions we have about the older generation. This past plagued year has seen many people go above and beyond to help out our elderly community, but there are also those who believe that the vulnerable ones above a certain age are not worth the multiple lockdowns we have entered. I want to question what makes people think one life has more value over another, and why age often plays a part in determining this.

I asked for volunteers over the age of 70 to answer some questions about life, to share their wisdom as well as their experiences in lockdown in the hope it will inspire an increased appreciation for this oftenoverlooked generation.

Email: Hanwhite20@outlook.com Web: hanwhite20.wixsite.com/my-site Insta: @hann_photos

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Sam Barlow

The ‘1 Card’ concept looks to create a connected, efficient, and informed experience for users of the railway. The 1 Card will store personal information about the user and can be used to progress seamlessly through all stages of the journey. At the kiosk, the user can log in to view personalised offers and choose from their most common journeys, they can also purchase beverages from the kiosk to eliminate further queuing. At the gate, the 1 Card will be automatically detected on the user using RFID, creating a contactless interaction, allowing them onto the platform without needing to drop their bags or search for their ticket. After every journey, the user will earn Track Points which can be spent on further travel or with partnered stores within the station.

Amid Covid-19 minimising congestion and creating a more efficient system in the train station could be vital to restore confidence and safety in the railway.

Email: barlsam12@gmail.com Web: sambarlowdesigns.squarespace.com Insta: SamBarlowDesigns

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Stephen Clayton

The post-Covid backpack; Mod-Pac is a bag that fits around your lifestyle and hobbies.

With the core of the product being its back frame, all the user must do is easily attach on the mods they wish to use on the day.

For example, say you are an avid photographer, the main bag you would use is the ‘photography mod’, built with three compartments, one for the camera itself and storage once the camera is in use, a 2nd compartment with room for extra lenses, and a 3rd for extra space and batteries.

A secondary bag you might use would be the ‘gym mod’, perfect for use in a gym environment, with two compartments consisting of a main bag for extra clothes, food and water, and a 2nd compartment for your used gym clothes once you have finished the work out.

The modifications that can be made to the backpack are boundless.

Email: stephenclaytondesign@gmail.com Web: stephenclaytondesign.co.uk Insta: stephenclaytondesign

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Sian Davies

Research during this major project focused on the needs of working from home and the want to make the most out of outdoor spaces and gardens. Combining these key factors into a design for new garden furniture resulted in interesting ways to make working outdoors more desirable. Through ideation and modelling, this versatile ‘work box’ allows the user to store their essential items in the drawers provided to carry their work from indoors to outdoors with ease. The platform lifts, allowing extra space to place a laptop whilst also having a side panel that can be pulled out to increase the workspace. This product also comes with detachable legs so the box can be used as a small side table or sat on a desk to make the workspace more efficient. Attention to detail has been an essential part of making during this project to provide a well-made working prototype.

Email: Sian.daviess11@gmail.com Insta: Siandavies.design

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Danielle Maw

I joined the 3rd year of Product design after completing a HND in Furniture design.

Although I enjoyed furniture design and my work from both years was exhibited in the Manchester Furniture show, I felt as though I lacked anything more than basic knowledge in the design world. I wanted to branch out and focus on more than just furniture.

During this last year of study, I have concentrated on creating a multifunctional children’s toy that is both playful and educational for use during and post-pandemic.

Children have taken the biggest hit during the pandemic; they’ve been isolated away from their peers and lost a year of their education, which has had a negative effect on their development. I wanted to give back something that would ease the pressure of being indoors for long periods of time without taking up any space from the home. For more information, please look on my website.

Email: Dmawst@outlook.com Web: dmawst.wixsite.com/mysite-1

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Rose Meredith

In-depth research highlighted a need for incorporating safe risk into play spaces, an element of play that is often unsatisfied. A key issue is that adults and guardians will terminate play because they have concerns for children’s safety but by not encouraging or providing for risky play, children seem to find other ways to satisfy their demand for uncertainty. These activities tend to be inherently more dangerous because they are uncontrolled.

This research driven project aims to inspire designers to think outside the current boundaries of creating children’s play spaces, focusing on adapting the layout, environment and forms. The set produced incorporates a range of forms and materials that designers and councils can manipulate and assess. The intent of this set is to encourage a better relationship between play spaces and natural surroundings, less parental involvement during play and in-depth consideration of play values.

Email: Rose_2012_@hotmail.co.uk Insta: rjmeredithdesign Awards: Evoke Award for Innovation

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Simon Owen

In recent years, whilst working full time as a food-retail supervisor and studying Product Design, I have uncovered a new appetite for sustainability. I have seen first-hand how much single use plastic (SUP) is used within the industry especially food packaging that is not or cannot be recycled.

For my Major Project, I have explored how we can manipulate reusable and homebiodegradable materials in order to prevent the use of SUPs within the foods industry.

I have designed a selection of flat-pack, sustainable food packaging which will contribute towards a more environmentally friendly planet.

Email: Simonowen98@gmail.com Web: Info@simoncharlesdesign.com Insta: @simoncharlesdesign

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Oliver Rowan

My project is all about reuse, reduce, recycle, and resonates through reusing high volume waste to create a new sustainable material.

My project uses tea bags to create a paper like material that is used to create a plant pot. The herbs are used for composts and plantaris, this is done by compressing them in the push pop device. The device uses a pellet mould to shape the used tea herbs, the pellets can be compressed with crest seeds for educational purposes.

Email: Oliverrowan13@gmail.com Web: 1812421.wixsite.com/mysite Insta: _ojr_design

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A huge thank you and best wishes to all of our Graduates of 2021.

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