MIKE STOUT
AARON HOWELL “LOST”. Aaron’s piece explores how an individual inhabits his personal space whilst mentally isolated from a congested society. Lost in his own world, it conveys the beauty of being totally submerged in one’s own imagination, instincts and desire. The film aims to challenge the limitations of ‘social normality’ and the potential in a person’s freedom to create and express. Dancer- Shawn Willis
ALICE RAE
BETH SHERRARD Beth’s Don’t Waste Create was an animation she did made entirely out of recycled materials. It was originally created to promote Up-cycling for the space that used to be the Brudenell school but has just been left as wasteland. ‘UpCycled’ was created when experimenting with recycled materials; using these Beth created her animation, it progressed on to a more realistic animation to promote recycling to children.
CHRISTIAN MAROT Throughout Christians photographic journey he aims to highlight the breath-taking beauty of Madagascar’s fragile ecosystem, viewing its wildlife from an animal’s perspective. Madagascar has extremely unique biodiversity due to its separation from Africa 165 million years ago. 89 percent of its plant life and 92 percent of its mammals exist nowhere else on earth. Since humans settled 2000 years ago a staggering 90% of the original forests have been lost. This extensive deforestation and clearance of land for crops means that the future of Madagascar’s wildlife is uncertain, this Indigenous paradise is in danger, with many species on the brink of extinction and many yet to be discovered.
EMILY GOVIER TOMASSO Emily’s project is centred on social-economic prejudice and waste, interested in photographing the uncomfortable, the underbelly of the everyday. It presents recurring themes of waste and human trace and through photographing individuals bath water from different social backgrounds from P.E teachers to Lawyers, it makes a stand against social prejudice through spotlighting that even those from a high socialeconomic standing have dirty bath water they would rather nobody see.
ERIN CAINE Erin’s piece serves as a conversation between herself and a peer, starting at each side on the edge, working towards the centre. It consists of snippets of rough poetry noted when out and about on the move; comments on society, people’s body language, gender stereotypes and her own feelings. The painting was executed in a quick, frantic fashion as the ideas were scraped onto the canvas. Erin sees the piece as a cathartic experience where discontented emotions were released onto the surface through the medium of paint.
JAMIE SINCLAIR
JANIN RAIZ
JESSICA JOHNSON Through the exploration of illusion Jessica’s work analyses the relationship between the consumer and the world of marketing and advertising. She considers how this society and world we live in is manipulated heavily by large scale corporations at a large cost to our environment with little reflection on the impact on our world.
LUCY DALTON Lucy’s piece explores themes of isolation, depression and diagnosis. It is about her personal diagnosis of health issues and how she deals with it. “I found this piece helped a lo with other people coming to understand how isolating a health diagnosis can be as well as helping other visualise their own journey through similar situations…It’s very important to me that we bring awareness to help issues such as depression, anxiety, pain issues and very importantly feeling alone in a situation which being along is not an option”.
MICHAEL SAVAGE “Human/nature� is a project Michael began over Summer 2015, born of frustration with the general mistreatment of our planet and appreciation of the nude. It aims to re-establish the synthesis of natural form and rural landscape, as the subject wanders through vibrant shrubs, gazes at pastel skies and immerses himself within crashing riverbeds. It is a celebration of natural beauty in a world ravaged by deforestation, air pollution and ocean contamination.
NIAMH CURRAN In response to the film Girl Rising, Niamh’s piece help raise awareness for young girls in developing countries who have no rights to education. She has created her own piece to go along side the film to promote the film and the cause. She thinks that people can easily forget important issues like this in other countries because we disconnect from them, people often forget how lucky we are.
NICOLA RADFORD The title of Nicola’s piece is Receptacles; the work is visually focused on the semiotics surrounding female genitalia and the objectification of women in general. The sentences she has used are all from women who have been raped and their experiences surrounding that event. 1 in 20 UK women are raped. She feels it is important as a woman artist to highlight issues that affect women.
SAMUEL HORTON Sam’s photos question, “how do I escape without imagining a utopian city? In puddles, windows and mirrors reflections are perceived; they all allow me to visually slip away from reality through an alternate dimension for a split second. Deceiving me to believe I have a chance to escape, however, I realise that this is only a mirrored perception of reality, recording my moves. Although, they allow me to see an alternative reflection of life, implying that there is always another side to everythingconceptually referencing the totalitarian system we are trapped in. I strive to teach contextually through imagery that once you understand there are alternatives in life (alternative perspectives perceived through reflections) it will influence your opinions and the way you perceive life, exposing that you don’t have to live systematically under the influence of others. This is my peaceful revolt against capitalism”.