HERE &
NOW
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M A F I N E A R T , M A F I L M & P H OTO G R A P H Y University of Derby | Degree Show 2021 | Here & Now
INTRODUCTION All seven students here have been creating and developing their practice at a unique and challenging moment in history – during a global pandemic. This has inevitably impacted on the way they have been able to make work. What this show demonstrates is that even in extreme adversity creative minds will flourish. Some have used printing techniques that they could manage at home; others have made temporary sculptural interventions in a domestic context. For some the situation impacted on the type of subject matter they could tackle in a suddenly shrunken world. They have looked inwards and reflected more on their own lives and relationships. Others took on nature at a microscopic scale rendered large in the final prints. Some consider the industrial processes of the past filtered through a contemporary conceptual reframing. What this collection of work demonstrates is the creative resilience of artists to adapt and respond to the world around them. The MA teaching staff at The University of Derby are hugely proud of all that the students have managed to achieve in such a challenging context. It confirms for us that they all have a promising artistic future ahead.
Camilla Brown Curator, Writer and Academic.
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ARTHUR WRIGHT
GRIST FOR THE MILL
ARTHUR WRIGHT MA FINE ART
GRIST FOR THE MILL
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As an artist influenced by theory, history, myth, and personal experience, it is clear to me that technology is accelerating away ever more rapidly, leaving in its wake a tsunami of data, but little wisdom or progress. Many people are left behind; I am not too proud to admit that I sometimes feel this way. Some are forced into the role of human-automatons, living precariously within an outmoded economic paradigm. This is not the way the future was meant to be. These thoughts are at the root of my current installation entitled, ‘Grist For The Mill’.
www.artwright.myportfolio.com @art.wright.artist
AVALON OAKES MA FINE ART MICRO-SCAPES Stemming from a long-term fascination with the microscopic world, my current body of work explores the idea of an alternate utopian universe where the unseen element of the landscape has begun to take over the seen element of the landscape. The microscopic world is a place that contains never-ending phenomena and is only able to be explored using scientific technology. Inspired by the notion of the uncanny, in my new work I have created images that represent mother nature or the unseen forces of nature, over taking and reclaiming back the urban landscape that has been altered and destroyed by humanity.
www.instagram.com/avalonEArt @avaloneart
@art.wright.artist
AVALON OAKES
MICRO-SCAPES
DEBORAH ROGERS
STILL BECOMING
DEBORAH ROGERS MA FINE ART STILL BECOMING I am an artist that uses a range of different materials and characters. I have worked under my performance name of MsDMeanar, and in this character, I play around with performative acts, looking for ways to transform myself. I use materials that themselves transform and whose states are altered in a form of alchemy. Debbie Doodar is the name I use when fabricating items and ideas for MsDMeanar to play with. I focus on gender and identity in my work, I’m interested from a feminist perspective around how women are seen in society as they age and change.
msdmeanar.artist@gmail.com msdmeanar.wordpress.com @MsDMeanar
ELLIOT ARROWSMITH MA FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY ANCORA Anchor, something that holds someone or something steady. Still, Again, Yet, More. Ancora is an exploration of living with multiple physical and mental health conditions, from the mundane to the surreal. The fluctuations, deterioration and remission of bipolar and chronic pain are shown here through use or absence of colour, the gaze of the artist and those around and medical artefacts. Photography as a visual medium is a gateway into a complex reality, with the authority of the artist dictating what is to be seen, what is to be assumed and what is to be obscured.
info@elliotarrowsmith.com www.elliotarrowsmith.com
@art.wright.artist
@e.arrowphoto
ELLIOT ARROWSMITH
ANCORA
HAZEL HUTCHISON
ROUTE
HAZEL HUTCHISON
MA FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY ROUTE I have been exploring a personal examination of bodily and mental fragility. My own experience of emergency surgery in 2019, bears similarities with our collective experience of lockdown in 2020. Route illustrates another step towards a personal recovery. I wanted to demonstrate a motivation to be out more in nature while inside during lockdown, and to reflect the connection between myself and the adaptations found there. Conceptually, I decided to explore how external factors affect appearance and draw comparisons with my own body post-surgery; observing the idea that humans and nature both go through challenges.
hazelelizabethcreative@gmail.com www.hazelhutchison.com @imagesbyhaze_
JAGODA WLEŹLAK
MA FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY THE FIRST YEAR OF MARRIAGE On August 10, 2019, after my previous project ‘Bride Story’, I started my next photography project, which we can simply call “Marriage Life”. Presented in the pictures from the perspective of women, who enters the next stage of life, which is being a wife, and for everyone, it means something completely different. I created a book, included photographs taken from 10.08.19 to 10.08.20 using a disposable camera. I photographed my life. My husband, my fears, my happy and bad moments of everyday life. Many of those pictures have symbolic meaning and can be interpreted in many ways, exactly the same as all marriages are different and everyone looks into it in an individual way.
www.jagodawlezlak.wixsite.com/pandart
@art.wright.artist
@jpandart
JAGODA WLEŹLAK
THE FIRST YEAR OF MARRIAGE
MEGAN DOYLE
ERRATIC INSTANCES
MEGAN DOYLE MA FINE ART
ERRATIC INSTANCES I am a visual artist who uses sculpture, installation and drawing. My work is primarily concerned with the fragility of materials and how they can be manipulated. The use of materials involved are increasingly important to my practice. Through a diverse approach to making and an openness to experimentation my work has more recently become concerned with the space in and around objects, being acutely aware of the proximity and locations around the placements of my sculptures. The final outcomes of my work often balance between both two dimensional and three-dimensional forms. Through the use of selected materials, I attempt to explore notions of translucency, physicality and temporality.
www.meganldoyle93.wixsite.com/megandoyleart @megan_doyle_art @MeganDoyleArt2
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ARTHUR WRIGHT
GRIST FOR THE MILL
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ANCORA
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ELLIOT ARROWSMITH
ROUTE
HAZEL HUTCHISON
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MICRO-SCAPES
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AVALON OAKES
THE FIRST YEAR OF MARRIAGE
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JAGODA WLEŹLAK
DEBORAH ROGERS
STILL BECOMING
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ERRATIC INSTANCES
MEGAN DOYLE