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Welcome Leeds College of Art is proud of being one of the few remaining independent specialist art and design institutions in the UK. The College has a culture of engaging with ‘live’ external events promoting a professional and outward looking ethos amongst its students. The BA (Hons) Fine Art programme recognises that the students should be prepared intellectually, practically and professionally and this year’s graduate exhibition celebrates the conflation of these qualities. Students on the programme explore drawing, painting, sculpture, lens- based media, installation, performance, sound, web based, social and public art through a series of critically positioned modules. They also actively engage with exhibiting and public facing practices as key knowledge instruments in Fine Art practice. This publication, ‘Departures’, draws together the profiles of our individual students as one form of celebration of their time at the College. The final exhibition in Leeds celebrates the achievement of the students’ degree. It the¬n tours to London to be seen as part of ‘Free Range’, the annual art show at Truman Brewery in Brick Lane, London to celebrate the first year of their professional careers. I applaud the achievement of this year’s graduating students and warmly invite you to explore their work in both exhibitions. Sheila Gaffney Head of Fine Art
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This years Fine Art exhibition records the personal accomplishments of our students. Departures is an exhibition that celebrates the journey as much as the destination. In just three years of undergraduate study, our students have risen to the challenge of producing art in a ‘post-everything’ world. Equipped with exquisite making skills and material knowledge our graduates have confronted the complex problem of producing work that ‘says who they are’. The learning environment at Leeds College of Art is characterized by the diverse approaches to representation, narrative and materiality that we find in the works shown. The Fine Art course continues to support students to be the best kind of artists that they can potentially be, with no house style the course continues to nurture personal voices. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with this years final year students, leading them to this point of departure has been wonderful. The level of initiative and commitment required to sustain this kind of endeavor is quite extraordinary. This particular cohort can be very proud of themselves, we are. Well done. Dr Sarah Taylor | level 6 Year Tutor | 2016
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Studio 152 main Studio 152 Mezzanine Corridor Studio 147
Mia Allonby
Yvonne Baines
Beth Baldwin
Katarzyna Barczyk
Lydia Blakely
James Blamires
Daniel Bones
Molly Brocklehurst
Samuel Burke
Bertie Chapman
Sophie Clarke
Adam Collier
Sammy Cook
Paige Cottam
Emma Darnell
Charlie Eden
Katherine Fell
Tyler Gordon
Lana Grabinskis
Rachael Green
Isaac Harrison
Charlotte Harvey
Tessa Hawkes
Elle Heeley
Loui Holdsworth
Ella Holland
Aisha Hout
Georgina Howard - Baker
Charles Hubbard
Hannah Jackson
Jairaj Lall
Max Lennon
Terry Lister
Shauna Magner
Matilda Manser
Brandon Mansueto
Chloe Martin
Khadija Mayat
Olivia McMullen
Tiffany Mitchell
James Montgomery
Seana Nicholson
Lauren Ogden
Thomas Parker
Ella Pattinson
Mike Pittman
Chloe Rice - Greer
Dan Richards
Eleanor Robson
Hugo Samengo - Turner
Hannah Saville
Roxanne Shanks
Georgie Sladen
Maddy Smith
Hayley Smith
Mikkel Ullah
Casey Varley
Hannah Ward
Sarah Williams
George Worthington
Johanna Wragg
Sophie Yates
Holly Youngs
MIA ALLONBY
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miaallonby.wordpress.com
m.c.allonby@gmail.com
BETH BALDWIN
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elizabethbaldwinart.com
bethbaldwin1994@gmail.com
KATARZYNA BARCZYK
My Pratice is looking at the aesthetic of Russian Constructivists and is driven from materials and processes. I am exploring two opposites resin and plaster that I force together into a sculpture form.
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katbarczyk@gmail.com
LYDIA BLAKELEY
Rendered in the hyper-reality of advertising both old and new, in half-memories from years ago, and promises of a future that never came, my practice presents a familiar world. Signs, intuitively collated without date, form spaces of living nostalgia, simultaneously neither here nor there, both present and distant.
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www.lydiablakeley.coml
ydiablakeley@gmail.com
JAMES BLAMIRES
I practice sculpture; making things out of lots of different materials. I also take pictures of things and use photography for inspiration to make 3D work. I also use my old photos for inspiration to create new work. It’s really important to me that I make stuff that engage you and capture your attention, even if this is momentarily. The work I’m producing is immortalising these times. Experience is everything.
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JamesBlamires.com
DAN BONES
I just want to tell you how I feel
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donebonesdanbones.tumblr.com
danbonesdanbones@gmail.com
MOLLY BROCKLEHURST
mollybrocklehurst@icloud.com
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www.mollybrocklehurst.com
Departures BA (HONS) Fine Art degree show 2016
End of Year Show Opening Times: Friday 10th June – 5pm - 9pm Saturday 11th June – 10am - 4pm Monday 13th June – 8am - 8pm Tuesday 14th June – 8am - 8pm Wednesday 15th June – 8am - 8pm Thursday 16th June – 8am - 5pm Admission Free Leeds College of Art, Bleneim Walk, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS2 9AQ www.departuresexhibition.co.uk
Touring to: Free Range - Graduate Art Show 2016
Free Range Exhibiton Opening Times: Thursday 7th July – 6pm - 10pm Friday 8th July – 9am - 6pm Saturday 9th July – 9am - 6pm Sunday 10th July – 9am - 6pm Monday 11th July ?
Admission Free The Old Trueman Brewery 91 Brick Lane London E1 6QL www.free-range.org.uk
Yvonne Bains Adam Collier Tessa Hawkes Dan Jones Brandon Mansueto Sophie Yates
Jessica Johnson Taylor Pycroft
Amelia Crouch April Virgoe David Steans Duncan Mosiey Emily Yeadon Garry Barker Kelly Cumberland Liadin Chambers Mark Dunn Ope Lori Richard Baker Sara Cookland Sarah Taylor Scott Crosby Sheila Goffney Tom Palin
Scott.crosby@leeds-art.ac.uk 0113 202 8283
BA (HONS) Fine Art
Leeds College of Art, Bleneim Walk, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS2 9AQ 0113 202 80000
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