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FOREWORD
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Postgraduate Show 2016
FOREWORD
The School of Art’s MA heralds the start of a new academic year, with all the anticipation that this promises. The show celebrates the work of our MA and MFA students, and acts as a creative catalyst for the year ahead. The energy and connectedness that surrounds this group of students has been developed through a challenging and ambitious curriculum, that has encouraged them to research, imagine and explore, to make work in new spaces and places, to engage with ideas and debates and to situate their ideas and work in professionally relevant settings. Staff and students have in partnership, sought opportunities, partners and events, in order to enrich the context of projects. They have engaged in debate, discussion and have tested ideas, in the city, nationally and internationally. We are proud to present our postgraduates from 2016; we hope you enjoy reading this catalogue and visiting their exhibition. PENNY MACBETH DEAN, MANCHESTER SCHOOL OF ART
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CONTENTS
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MA Animation James Condon MA Illustration Paula Smithson Jessica Hubbard Joanne Spicer Robin Sukatorn Amy Mizrahi Graphic Design + Art Direction Cindy Fentanes Alice Scoggins Jacek Bies Beth Post Emma Matley Yuyang Cao Sara Barnes Zelko Sabol Wan Hei Lim Gary Nip
MA Design: Jewellery Xiaotong Zhu Mark Mcleish
MA Fashion Graphics Lucia Lorenzo Periscal Gina Nadal Fernandez Anze Ermenc Sebastian Ospina
MA Landscape Architecture Sanjay Nayee Kairong Jiang Charalampos Stylianou Rebecca Lyons Yixu Zhou Bingrui Chai Alejandra Arambula Tanvir Hasan Ayumi Suzumoto Zifei Zeng
MA Fashion: Womenswear Aithne Synnot Anchal Gupta Tzu Yin Hsu MA Design: Textiles for Fashion Sophie Dobson 6
MA Textile Practice Carmen Etches Emma Ford Charlotte Wood Rebecca Worrall Christine Ryan MA Embroidery Debra Boothroyd Clare A. Baker
MA Design: Glass David Hammond MA Interior Design Friny Papadopoulou MA Design: Furniture Eade Hemingway
MA Fine Art Saffina Bhatti Jenny Eden Polly Tomlinson Katerina Eleftheriadou Francesca Hughes Riikka Enne Laimdota Steke MA Collaborative Practice Jacenta Bevington Valentina Jimenez MA Design Cultures Crystal Wai-Kwan, Chan MA Contemporary Visual Cultures Sophie Butcher
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MA Photography Julia Rushton Jonathon Rowe Ginger Liu Mu-Jung Chuang Polly Shave Penny Mercer Darryl Lonsbrough Ulysse Di Meglio Katie Meadow
MA/MSc Product Design Adnan Arif Houda Kaddouh Claire Davison Emma Crabtree Richard Bacon
MA Filmmaking Ana Ordonez Sanchez John Lloyd Haleemah X Alan Amin
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DESIGN
The MMU Postgraduate Design Network is a community of staff and students exploring innovative design ideas in a discursive, cross-disciplinary studio environment. Critically informed practical designers, we work experimentally, inspired by new insights and possibilities. Looking, reading, thinking, making and sharing, we pursue our individual creative aspirations together in a spirit of collaborative investigation and dialogue. Not defined by specialism but led by creative curiosity, network students consider unfamiliar processes and ways of thinking and of doing in order to enhance their existing skills and knowledge, testing the boundaries of their subject. While studying towards a particular qualification at MA/MFA level, students experience their subject in the broader context of contemporary design practice. CLINTON CAHILL SENIOR LECTURER, GRAPHIC DESIGN 8
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JAMES CONDON MA Animation
James is a practicing animator residing in Manchester since 2005. During this time James has worked on short films and has created moving visuals for live events. James’ practice as an animator has most recently entailed initiating large-scale cross-disciplinary collaborations, enabling him to produce work with other creatives, including writers, actors, and musicians. By mixing together analogue stop-motion methods with digital video James creates his engaging, technical animations. Embracing new technology with his thorough understanding of animation process allows James to create his own visual language. Although his work can, at times, border on the esoteric, his latest pieces follow a narrative lead path, thus presenting themselves openly on all levels to a wide audience of all ages to absorb. James’ animations have been distributed internationally in Japan as well as published online via Creative Review.
jamesdavidcondon.com
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PAULA SMITHSON MA Illustration
The final MA project has been concerned with understanding how to create a charged space, a space designed to evoke tension, mood, and atmosphere. Originally trained as a printmaker, Smithson has developed a multi-disciplinary set of skills on the MA through sustained practice-led research combining digital and analogue techniques. Commedia Dell’Arte and performance have been hugely influential on her practice and she has combined this with interests in historical artefacts. Throughout the MA Smithson has been drawing on location at circuses and carnivals, the performance drawings have been developed into kinetic toys and two-dimensional cut-outs brought to life through projection and film. Networking and collaboration have become integral to the practice and she has recently been collaborating with filmmaker Andrew Davies.
facebook.com/paula.smithson.56
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JESSICA HUBBARD MA Illustration
Scoop’s First Adventure is a children’s picture book based in Chester about the adventure of a lovable and sweet dog called Scoop. I was influenced by the wonderful Grosvenor Park and serene walk along the beautiful River Dee, a place brimming with wildlife and little canal boats. The book contains an exciting and innovative foldable map which parent and child can use to follow a wonderful walk of the area that the character takes in the story and spot the different characters and locations. The map also includes convenient areas in the park to visit such as the miniature railway, restaurant, children’s play area and theatre. An entire day out can be planned around the book and place however it can also be enjoyed at home as a typical picture book. The book can now be purchased from Amazon and is available here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Scoops-FirstAdventure-Jessica-Hubbard/dp/1535545097/
jessica_hubbard101@hotmail.com jessicahubbard.co.uk
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JOANNA SPICER MA Illustration
An interest in trying to capture drawing ‘dance’, stemmed from nostalgic memories of childhood and familial past, specifically dancing with my sister in the front room at home. The ‘domestic’ space became our theatre, a stage set, as we played characters. Here, dance was a place for our imagination to run wild and for us tell our own stories. Drawing then stimulated creative writing and poetry, about the difficult times that adolescence can bring. Now in adulthood and some 30 years later, my drawings have allowed me to reflect upon and revisit those carefree times. These memories were not simply remembered but rather inter-weaved with the present to become part of my continued experience.
spicerj78@me.com
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ROBIN SUKATORN MFA Illustration
I am a figurative artist and illustrator, drawing predominately with pencil and ink. My practice is centred around depicting people and events from the contemporary political, cultural and community life of the North of England. From excursions to explore, directly observe and sketch from various urban locations- such as Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Blackpool and York- I have developed a record of reportage drawings which document the scenes I have witnessed. In February 2016 I was delighted to be awarded the John Ruskin Student Prize for a reportage drawing of Jeremy Corbyn speaking outside Manchester Cathedral. I have exhibited at the New Art Gallery Walsall and Trinity Buoy Wharf in London and am part of a group of five postgraduate students who have set-up a micro gallery in Manchester, SLOE Gallery- an exciting new space to showcase our work and that of other emerging local artists in the future.
rtmsukatorn@gmail.com behance.net/RobinSukatorn
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AMY MIZRAHI MA Illustration
My current work embodies themes surrounding gender, identity and mental health. It is very autobiographical and I often attempt to engage the viewer in an exploration of my own personal thoughts and experiences. Within my current work, I tackle my own personal experiences with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and everyday life. I am seeking to create an understanding of the complexities and misconceptions within OCD, in a way that represents both the debilitating reality alongside the ‘sane normality’. Humour and colour are a vital element within my work, allowing me to present difficult topics in a sometimes humorous or crude way. While working across mixed media, painting is my main practice. Using watercolour, oil and acrylic paint, my paintings often take on a very surreal and abstract form. Bold and brightly coloured, my work is a form of expressionism that asks the viewer to really question it’s meaning.
amymizrahi.wixsite.com/amymizrahi amymizrahi@outlook.com
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CINDY FENTANES MA Graphic Design + Art Direction
As a designer who is infatuated with the curiosity upon materials’ mantle in the daily lives of humans, she pursued her MA journey in investigating and studying further against materiality. Agreeing to Martin Heidegger’s statement in which human existence is tied into the material world (1978) and through observing practices, the designer accumulated her research of materials into the theory of rawness. Strategically deconstructing diverse substances into a conventional unit of cubes and breaking down material technicality further than forms and shapes, the designer aims to achieve the right balance of comparison and similarities. Sewing the loose ends with types and information, the designer created structured images that formed a language. A language that is able to bridge communications, act as visual grammar and give emotional impact in conveying meanings and words along with its details, semiotics, and visual perceptions.
cindyfentanes.com cindy_fentanes@windowslive.com 16
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ALICE SCOGGINS MA Graphic Design + Art Direction
Growing up with a sibling with autism has given me a keen interest in mental health and most particularly the way society views it. My aim during this last part of the year has been to celebrate certain aspects of being autistic rather than trying to ‘find a cure’ or hide away from the problems that it brings. An obsessive personality is definitely a behaviour that goes hand in hand with the condition and I decided to explore the positives it brings, from an artistic point of view. Repetition of activities at very specific times of day... having to brush your teeth at exactly 8:17 every day, for instance, would be an example of an obsessive behaviour but I have taken this idea to see what kind of photographs I could collect if I followed such strict rules myself. I chose the time 2:22pm and every day for a month I would snap whatever was in my field of vision and the strictness of this meant I captured some fabulous imagery I have collected here for the show.
alice_s@hotmail.co.uk
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JACEK BIES MA Graphic Design + Art Direction
For the last 5 years, I have been involved in two different industries: Electronics and Print. Both environments are very intense and innovative. The only difference is one of them is a pure science and another consist elements of design. The intention of my MA was to find a happy balance between technology and art. I was researching programmable LEDs and sensors to explore a new way of working with graphic elements. My work is representing an interaction between the light and the self. Light give us different colours and effects; we, in turn, give them a meaning by interpreting and acting upon them. I was aiming to combine immaterial code and material electronic components to create LED objects that invite the audience to engage in a dialogue. By adopting concepts of random sequences and dynamic abstraction generated through coding I wanted to show the light as a “living� organism.
jacekbies.co.uk
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BETH POST MFA Graphic Design + Art Direction
Eastern Ukraine currently struggles with an identity crisis between their own independence, the Soviet past, and the influence of neighbouring Russia: the need to produce a body of work that expresses a modern regional individuality is evidently crucial. The work comprises in-depth study, research, and implementation of Eastern Ukrainian culture through typography. A locally aware cultural approach to graphic design was identified and realised through calligraphy and embroidery after studying with Ukrainian calligrapher, Oleksiy Chekal and interning with branding agency Boomerang in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Pieces on display include embroidery, a characteristic medium used to express Ukrainian culture, which features Ukrainian florals, cross-stitching and phrases from nationals on what it means to be Ukrainian. Additional pieces include a zine with a calligraphic typeface designed by Beth Post set in a modern editorial design and a book containing illustrations, watercolour, embroidery, and calligraphy inspired by multiple extensive visits to Ukraine.
bethpostdesign.com bethpostdesign@gmail.com
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EMMA MATLEY MA Graphic Design + Art Direction
The main interest of the MA course was to explore title sequence design; it’s functions, the use of narrative, image, genre, text and sound. The titles are the first impression the viewer gets of either a movie or a TV show, the titles become works of art in their own right, concepts that can stand on their own. The methodology is experimenting combining graphics within an image, and trying to work in a different way to conventional title sequence design. The aim is to hint at the content, giving a subliminal message, positioning the viewer’s feelings by setting the mood, manipulating the audience, and creating conflict.
sites.google.com/site/emmamatleyportfolio emmamatley@googlemail.com
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YUYANG CAO MA Graphic Design + Art Direction
The inspiration of the setting is the compressing and overlapping technique used in the recycling of trash. Seen from the above, the arrangement of the garbage seems to be arbitrary and irregular, consisting of a series of geometrical shapes. However, the case is opposite when seeing from the different angle. It can be indicated from the case that the solution to a variety of problems might be found if looking at it from different angles instead of single-mindedness.
caoyuyangyang@gmail.com
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SARA BARNES MA Graphic Design + Art Direction
en masse
The aim for En Masse magazine is to provide a platform for artists, designers and creatives from all backgrounds and disciplines to share their work, regardless of whether they’re at the top of their design career or whether they consider their practice a hobby. All submissions are treated equally and given the same amount of space within the publication, there is no screening process and all submissions will be accepted. The idea came from noticing that most publications are very selective in what they include and I wanted to create something that allows the reader to decide what they like and don’t like rather than the editor. The end result is a publication full of new, diverse and interesting artwork that open up conversations, the magazine may help form collaborations and it will hopefully inspire more people to share their work with the world.
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Narcissus CHEVY-JORDAN THOMPSON
Manchester/Derby Filmmaker/Photographer/Beat-maker chevyj.thompson@gmail.com chevy-jordan.blosgpot.com vimeo.com/chevytmedia
sara-barnes@hotmail.co.uk
There is a stigma around the idea of black men wanting to present themselves to appear vulnerable, weak, homosexual, or feminine. It’s something the a lot of black people disagree with. I believe there is a time and place for everything, and we as black artists in the 21st century should be able to represent ourselves a freely as we like, be us, gay, straight, introverted, or extroverted. The freedom of self presentation is something that needs to be more widely practiced, the fact that throughout history stereotypical negative images have worked against our people to create a single, common ‘world image’ of the black male as if we’re a monolith with a single framework that should be conformed to should be enough to pursuit a diverse look into ourselves.
Primarily I’m a director and cinematographer for short films, small adverts and music videos, though, I often shoot portraits and street photography to study light and composition. Only recently have I felt good about how I look, I was one of those people that used to hide their face when someone was aiming a camera towards them. Narcissus came about wanting to express a more personal side of myself something that I’m used to doing through music. I wanted to see how I’d do this through imagery. Narcissus is what I came up with, rather intuitively might I add. It just seemed so right, I thought, “Which space would be the best place to show vulnerability?” and proceeded to shoot a series of images in that space. I’m really inspired about spaces, it’s something a try to really make stand out in my work, whether directly or indirectly.
19th century social reformer, abolitionist, writer and orator, Fredrick Douglass was a strong advocate for the strength of image representation and saw its potential to help liberate a blind world of its ignorance – ... ... having this to say in this 1883 oration ‘Pictures and Progress’. “A very pleasing feature of our pictorial relations is the very easy terms upon which all may enjoy them. The servant girl can now see a likeness of herself, such as noble ladies and even royalty itself could not purchase fifty years ago. Formerly, the luxury of a likeness was the exclusive privilege of the rich and great. But now, like education and a thousand other blessings brought to us by the advancing march of civilization, such pictures, are placed within easy reach of the humblest members of society.”
In the case of Narcissus, it’s indirect, but when people view the pictures they can get a grasp of where that space is due to how ‘me’ (the object) is presented in it. Just a few weeks after I shot and released this set (June 2016), broke up from a two year relationship with my then girlfriend, ironically she was the first person who made me feel beautiful, her admiration of my features that are often seen as subpar or unprofessional gave me a confidence I’d never experienced before. So unashamedly I have her to thank for giving me confidence in shooting this series.
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ZELJKO SABOL MA Graphic Design + Art Direction
During this course, my main interest was exploring ways how to express my ideas using computer code. The main idea was to detach from traditional practices of making visuals and use code to make graphics, animation, and to incorporate different outside inputs to give a different meaning to graphic elements. During this process, I wanted to “hack� the way I think about tools that I use to produce visuals. The result of this process was a set of tools that I can use to manipulate sound, graphics, light, hardware... The end product is an immersive light installation made with multiple projectors, projection on different surfaces with user interactivity.
sabolism.com zeljko.sabol@gmail.com
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WAN HWEI LIM MA Graphic Design + Art Direction
Born out of the necessity, Antics comes forth as a concept that instigates bizarre forms; expressing their own attitudes and characteristics as likened to brands. How these objects represent themselves, how they fit, blend or stand out within their surroundings or placed in scenarios as they start to affect and slowly manifest themselves into certain types of behaviours. Henceforth, Antics is a form of self-expressionism of a visual language. Picking out concrete as a material of interest and evaluating that it provides a step of advantage and potential begins the metamorphosis and entity. Bare, unrefined and rough – it provides the basic of objects as a solid with an ability to take any shape in its malleable nature. Denoting a material of tangible objects or during its course of a rare phenomenon. How Antics starts to concave itself into strange formations and surreal manifestations, tend to create its own distinctive personality.
reinoldlim.com reinoldlim@gmail.com
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GARY NIP MA Graphic Design + Art Direction
My work has been described as the ‘materialisation of thought making’. I aim to translate the invisible into a shared experience and physical artefact through creating interactions where participants can share information. The action of responding creates a new shared experience by contributing to a physical design which communicates the story of the subject. We live in a world of ‘big data’ as instantaneous information quantifies our interactions and our lives. Infographics and data visualisations are an everpresent language in a world that always seems digitally connected. However, data can dehumanise us, and I want to rehumanize the information. The designs are a platform for connecting people. Participation requires the activity of the body as well as the mind and by slowing down the process of responding, a thought can be more considered and more honest. We can tell our story better.
twitter.com/burnip80 garynip@hotmail.com
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LUCIA LORENZO PERISCAL MA Fashion Graphics
Under the constant influence of social media and Internet viral trends, the understanding of fashion and graphic design is a constant transformation to adapt to new digital platforms. In this work, I took the most relevant trend “food� (recipe video tutorials, Instagram meal pictures etc.) to be the content object of my graphics in order to explore the possibilities of linking fashion and graphic design and use them exclusively as a digital resource.
lucialorenzoperiscal@gmail.com
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GINA NADAL FERNANDEZ MA Fashion Graphics
With a special interest in the importance of everyday objects, this project incorporates memories and emotions into textiles before they are made. Abstract patterns are drawn using a combination of typing the person’s memories and coding, which transforms letters into binary patterns. Once the binary patterns are created, unique and personal scarves are woven.
wovenmemories.co.uk georgina.nadal@gmail.com
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ANZE ERMENC MA Fashion Graphics
I am a fashion based creative director and stylist whose work is about contrast, collaboration, and storytelling. I like focusing on the unseen, unfashionable and unpopular and the themes of my practice often reflect my current mood and the current state of the world around me. I wish to challenge peoples’ opinions, start conversations and stimulate their thought process with everything I produce. With that in mind, my final MA project is about challenging peoples’ perception of what fashion is and how much work goes into a photograph, campaign or a video. Taking a step back from the model-photographer relationship and showcasing every individual involved, in the shoot in their element, lets me narrate the story of what happens on the set of a fashion shoot, from an idea to the postproduction.
anzeermenc.com info@anzeermenc.com
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SEBASTIAN OSPINA MA Fashion Graphics
My work for the last year has focused on creative imaging for fashion. It has involved photography, collage, photo-manipulation, illustration and editorial design to produce fashion related content. I want to become a versatile professional, involved in the every design process from the conception of the images to their publication. I would love to become a magazine designer. I believe there is an intrinsic artificiality in the fashion media. The lifestyle portrayed is surreal, unobtainable. It’s an enhanced reality where the models are unrealistically perfect, the situations are romanticised, the lifestyle exaggerated, and everything is heavily post-produced. No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted. People often take these images for granted, like a true depiction of the world, forgetting that they are idealised and commercially driven. With my extremely modified photographs, I want to challenge beauty ideals making refined yet disturbing dream-like images.
sebastianospina.com jsospina@gmail.com
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AITHNE SYNNOT MA Fashion: Womenswear
A body of research that looks at bra design and how it can be adapted for women who have had breast reconstruction following breast cancer. I have created a website which discusses bra design and breast cancer. I address new making techniques, potential flaws with the current market as well as the history of the bra itself. There is also a prototype of a bra catering to women who have had breast reconstruction which tries to resolve the problems that women have expressed they experience.
brareconstruction.wordpress.com aithne.m.synnott@stu.mmu.ac.uk
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ANCHAL GUPTA MA Fashion: Womenswear
We wear different masks of fashion and attire according to changing cultures but under every mask, there is always a face, which remains rooted to our origin. The concept is inspired from cultural differences and similarities between India and Europe. Combining free-spirited mood with limitations is an interesting aspect of my concept. The garment is the expression of deep pleats and graceful silhouette depicting the securities and insecurities of cultures. The vibrant colour palate is inspired from beautiful Indian festival Holi. The silhouette play is within curves and edges. I want to celebrate positivity around the globe. The concept is an exploration of essentials rendered with simplicity, elegance, and purity. The feeling is minimal. The intention of the collection is to act subtle and take a roller coaster ride of different cultures finding a unexceptional relationship.
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TZU YIN HSU MA Fashion: Womenswear
My current body of work is inspired by the perception of time in everyday life. The physical time as if a straight line that moves in one direction constantly with the same pace; the rhythmic life as if a wave that has a continuous up and down. Through the exploration of the relationship between time and movement, the flowing shape was constructed by joining stripe and wave patterns that create interactive spaces. Its use of hybrid materials, such as bonding tactile textile to foam brings about the fluffy volume and suspended space. In this context, the work implies a state of living at the present time that has its own rhythm serenely yet persistently pushing us moving forward. We are all wrapped in time that cannot be changed and ignored. The only thing that we can do is to embrace and enjoy life until time flies.
shesin57@gmail.com
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SOPHIE DOBSON MA Design: Textiles for Fashion
Sophie is an innovative thinker. Influenced by trend direction and textile design, she has evolved her practice through the introduction of UI/UX design and other technologies. Focusing on a combination of the growth of social health awareness and advancing technology, Sophie has developed a wearable tech brand suited to the rapidly expanding market. The evergrowing consciousness of health development and exercise influenced RuleAir’s ability to allow the wearer to measure and monitor breathing, by quantifying data during their workout. The RuleAir t-shirt is a unique formula of performance sportswear, fitted with complex sensors that communicate with the RuleAir app, ultimately enhancing the wearer’s workouts. The on-going advancements of RuleAir potentially enable independence in pursuing progression in sport-related health and well-being.
sedobson@hotmail.co.uk
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CARMEN ETCHES MA Textile Practice
I am a multidisciplinary textiles designer. My recent work has been inspired by sound and music, using different methods of mark making to produce unique digital abstract designs. My experimentation with various software programs has enabled me to animate my designs in order for them to be projected at a large scale onto buildings and large walls. As part of my MA, I planned an event to showcase a large-scale animated projection that was inspired by 1950’s and 1960’s Rock & Roll music. This took place in Manchester Piccadilly on the old Barclays bank building with an authentic Rock &Roll band playing in the adjacent venue. The images submitted are the original digital 2D drawings inspired by certain musical tracks of that bygone era before they were developed into the animations for the final projection.
carmenetches.com carmenetch1969@gmail.com
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EMMA FORD MA Textile Practice
Juxtaposing aesthetic forms and painterly mark-making with a conceptual undertone, my work aims to recreate revivalist versions of classical design structures, that in the first instance suggest harmony, but on closer inspection communicate something more. My work oscillates between fulfilling a desire to create visually stimulating designs and aiming to convey issues that are present in our modern world. Incorporating traditional techniques with a contemporary focus on thoughts and processes, my work looks to subtly convey environmental and conservational matters such as deforestation, overfishing, loss of habitat, which question our relationship with nature and an ever expanding industrial society through surface pattern design.
contact@emmaford.co.uk emmaford.co.uk
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CHARLOTTE WOOD MA Textile Practice
“Welcome to cocaine country. White-line fever. Bad craziness.” Hunter S. Thompson. Embroidery artist, using printed textiles and thread to illustrate an article by outlaw journalist Hunter S. Thompson; A Dog Took My Place, covering the wellpublicised Pulitzer Divorce trail of the 1980’s Palm Beach elite. In digital print, digital embroidery, Irish machine embroidery, Cornely machine embroidery, Bernina, and hand stitch.
woodsdesign@outlook.com
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REBECCA WORRALL MA Textile Practice
Rebecca’s work infuses knit with mixed media. Encasing circular objects within knit, which is based on her research into bacteria morphology. Using a range of materials she creates hybrid collections of unique installation pieces that illustrate her interpretation of the visually inspiring bacteria. Her aim for this body of work was to create buildable, scaled pieces. The pieces can then be used for textile-influenced interiors and commercial buildings as decorative installations. Experimenting and testing with different medias are key to her practice, using the inherent qualities of her chosen materials to advance her design, this has helped her to gain a more professional outcome. Rebecca’s future aspirations are to work within textile design where she will develop her existing practice and experimental approach to materials further. She wishes to work freelance or for a design based company with the expectation of tutoring after industry experience.
rawdotdesign@outlook.com rawdotdesign.wixsite.com/rawdot
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CHRISTINE RYAN MA Textile Practice
My creative practice explores the connection with land and sea. I am interested in natural processes that reflect the passage of time and how these relate to memories and the transformation of materials. My connection with the sea is deeply rooted. I am drawn to the ceaseless motion of the tide and how the landscape is ever changing in a way that is unpredictable. The sea has the power to make and remake the landscape. All of this underpins my practice and brought me to the larger theme of change over time. For my MA exhibition, in keeping abreast of new developments within the textiles world, I have been growing my own fabric from microorganisms through a process of fermentation. Through the growing and drying processes, it undergoes radical changes over time. Once grown, washed and dried, the resulting fabric can be as fragile as tissue paper or as robust as leather.
christineryan.co.uk christine.ryan62@gmail.com
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DEBRA BOOTHROYD MA Embroidery
During the MA the focus of my practice has transitioned from specialising in embroidery to woven textiles, although characteristics of embroidery remain a subtle presence in my approach to weave design. My research has centered on a conceptual approach to landscape, using it as metaphor and investigating its different layers of meaning and phenomenological characteristics. My design process and the outcome is inspired and influenced by Japanese design and aesthetics, particularly by conceptual and philosophical elements such as Wabi Sabi, and by way of innovative use of material. My woven textiles are designed to respond subtly with light and shadow, and take on abstract ideas of landscape through their contrasts of surface, colour, and texture; expressing mood and atmosphere.
debraboothroyd@hotmail.com
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CLAIRE A. BAKER MA Embroidery
After visiting Chernobyl I was influenced by many aspects of this place post-atrocity; particularly the abandoned, ghost city of Pripyat there, finding it melancholic, atmospheric, emotional and incomprehensibly beautiful... Taking inspiration from the sadness of the evacuated homes in Chernobyl, the layers, remains and the disintegration of past lives, the ghostly transparency of loss, dispersal and destruction, my work illustrates the effect of time. Responding to the walls of those empty, abandoned apartments and the damp, decayed and disintegrating domestic wallpapers, I created papers evoking thoughts of loss and the sudden dispersal of peoples from what is now, a non-place. Techniques employed during the making of the works are intrinsically linked to the concept and research directly correlating to the effects of the nuclear disaster on the people of Pripyat, Chernobyl. Using print and embroidery techniques, by working and reworking I have illustrated the layers of those deconstructed lives.
claireabaker.co.uk claire@claireabaker.co.uk
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XIAOTONG ZHU MA Design: Jewellery
As an element often used in jewellery design, flowers are a product of nature as well as a representation of beauty. The shape of flowers vary throughout their life cycle, so do the people and the environment they are exposed to. The work references particular special moments in a flowers life and the instances the moments are in line with an emotional connection to a person. For my work, the special connection of flowers to people lies in the sharing of space and a moment. Due to its complexity, emotion is difficult to express by language, whereas the jewellery we wear can serve as a silent expression of the emotion. I wish to document these complicated and tangled emotions.
zzhuxt@hotmail.com
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MARK MCLEISH MA Design: Jewellery
My work is about following each piece and being intuitively open to an unspoken dialogue that spans a breadth of choices and unknown exit points. My interest in memory is the makings of the complexities of a souvenir. The moments captured with an object that creates a personal language. For me being a jeweller is an artist that makes heterogeneous artefacts that confront the real world, curated by movement of life that allows the work to be witnessed in challenging surroundings. I see my work as an anthology of objects, each being a unique incomplete tangible question that collects personal provenance. What stimulates my work and research is the ongoing amassments of stuff I collect and own. Obsessions happen without acknowledgement and my inventory shows no boundaries to objects, just an attraction that I find it hard to explain other than: we find each other.
markmcleish.blogspot.co.uk markiemcleish@hotmail.co.uk
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DAVID HAMMOND MA Design: Glass
Inspired by contemporary architecture in our urban environment David creates unique glass sculptures. In his work, he captures the illusory effects of space and shape created on the reflective surfaces of modern architectural constructions. David spends considerable time in his studio experimenting with glass and other architectural products such as solar and dichroic films. It is solely through a continual experiment with materials that he fully understands their potential in his artwork. David creates sculpture that both engages and challenges the viewer. Slight change in the viewer’s position can create immense changes in what is seen. Colours appear, change and disappear. Shapes appear, change into other shapes and return to view. Under differing ambient lighting conditions, the viewer’s experience would differ greatly. David sees the movement of control from the artist to the viewer the most important aspect of his work.
imageryinglass.co.uk david.hammond60@btinternet.com
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EADE HEMMINGWAY MA Design: Furniture
One penny pays for one person to interact with one Rod Block. See what moves, in which directions. Work out what each part is made from. Take it apart if you wish. Get to know the textures and speculate as to all the processes that went into creating them. Smell them, listen to them, leave them in a different position to when you came across them. These Tabletop sculptures aim to question the purpose of furniture and challenge the definition of function. Furniture is inherently functional, and its function is always serving some practical need of our bodies. These sculptures aim to focus instead on the needs of our minds. Keeping the sculptures categorised as furniture allows for the potential that one-day ‘mind serving furniture’ could be seen as an obvious addition to any living room. These particular sculptures are based on research that suggests that feeling engaged and connected to surrounding objects can have positive impacts on peoples’ minds.
eadehemingway.com
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FRINY PAPADOPOULOU MA Interior Design
Why are people turning into rhinoceroses? Am I still human or have I succumbed to rhinoceritis? An experimentation and research on ‘emotional spaces’ and ‘emotional boxes’ is being contextualised as an experiential exhibition on Eugene Ionesco’s play Rhinoceros. An engaging exhibition based on a theatre play can be seen as a metaphorical heterotopia where the lines of the play are represented and expanded in illustrations, sounds, smells and textures, serving all of our senses. The spectator is conceptually transformed, as he becomes the protagonist of the play, experiencing the emotional transitions of the main character. Setting the ground for thought and interaction, the proposal endeavours to generate new associations between spectacle and spectator.
frinypapadopoulou@gmail.com
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SANJAY NAYEE MA Landscape Architecture
Rethinking the value of water as a multi-opportunity resource is the key focus of this project. The objective is to place a new measure on water as a commodity through the process of “absorption�. The upper Kent watershed in the Lake District forms the context for collection and reuse of rainfall runoff. This process will reduce runoff downstream alleviating flooding, introduce new recreational opportunities, increase employment potential and replace the monoculture vegetation of the upper valleys with a diverse forest system.
sanjaynayee@hotmail.com
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KAIRONG JIANG MA Landscape Architecture
Landscape is not only a formal model for urbanism today but perhaps more significantly, a model for process. Thus, re-articulating, representation of the urban discontinuity not only explore the relationships between the urban and the rural but also activate the dynamic systems. It seems like the elevation of plant cells from which I absorb design concept to research the ecological process. It is important to connect with each territory in the landscape that through existing conditions like infrastructures or water navigation channels. My project explores the possibilities of a new urban community, which aims to try to use another different way to explain the development of a city. In terms of method, it is more about an interactive landscape, which hope to encourage and attract people to join the natural environment, such as wetland, vegetation hill, at the same time, people give a response to the environment.
kairongjiang@outlook.com
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CHARALAMPOS STYLIANOU MA Landscape Architecture
In the prevailing industrial/technological system, the separation that exists between nature and culture has had a considerable negative impact on natural systems. This has also influenced current perceptions of culture and its role in determining how we repair the damage of this separation to develop a more sustainable relationship between humans and nature. This project is defined by examining the coexistence of elements which are adjacent in the landscape; Anthropocentric elements (industry, agriculture and residential) and Biocentric elements (physical processes and ecology). These elements coexist but not in a positive way. Biocentric process struggle for survival as viable systems and networks are fragmented. Anthropocentric activities dominated by the chemical industry interfere and compromise the function and processes of the landscape. The proposition is focused on the development of a more beneficial relationship between culture and nature through the creation of multiple scales of “healthy landscape�.
pampos.85.s@gmail.com
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REBECCA LYONS MA Landscape Architecture
Emerging from current energy exigencies and environmental imperatives, this project engages with these challenges by exploring the future of a soon to be redundant coal-fired power station at Fiddlers Ferry. Investigating infrastructure within the dynamics of this ‘energyscape’ has revealed multi-dimensional complexities, barriers, and externalities that span the critical divide in contemporary ‘rurban’ landscapes. I have explored how biocentric and anthropocentric entities can be cultivated to expand the functionality and performance of this landscape as a biomass facility, post-closure, with the objective of proposing a new relationship between landscape and energy of global significance. The design introduces connectivity to the currently severed and detached landscape, through new layers of infrastructure. Connections are defined by geometric circulation axes which transect dramatically ‘folded’ vegetated mounds at multiple scales and mesh the iconic cooling towers as a re-imagined and refunctioned industrial heritage.
rebeccalyons01@hotmail.co.uk
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YIXU ZHOU MA Landscape Architecture
My work focusses on the processes of keeping a balance between wild (nature) and tame (human) elements, for the sustainable longevity of each condition. Proposing sustainable landscape management and design strategies for a centre park of power station museum, as an innovative solution. To make the relationships between biocentric and anthropocentric conditions become harmonious, creating a space which allows mutual synergy and allowing flexibility. My thesis focused on creating a space which can make human have maximized communication with an ecosystem. People can feel both wild and tame in one area, they stay harmonious but still have their own characteristic. Just like a taichi, there will be something wild in the tame, and there will be something tame in the wild too, they won’t be damaged by each other.
564529528@qq.com
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BINGRUI CHAI MA Landscape Architecture
The site is based on the north embankment of the Mersey Estuary at Widnes. The physical landscape is strongly influenced by the presence of the river and its associated extensive tidal range, mudflats, and saltmarsh. A combination of heavy industry, which closes access to the shore and strong tides, which create a dynamic environment reflects the nature/culture dichotomy and the separation of anthropocentric and biocentric systems. The objective of this project is to reconnect the anthropocentric urban infrastructure with biocentric nature. This will be accomplished through opening up the edge to the river to provide extensive access and a range of recreational activities. It will also involve reshaping the salt marsh into multiple islands with unique regenerative features to combat erosion. Some of the salt marsh islands will act as incubators for algae production, which will be processed in the new bioindustry park adjacent to the rivers reformed edge.
chaibingrui120@gmail.com
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ALEJANDRA CARO ARAMBULA MA Landscape Architecture
This project is defined by placing new measures on the landscape and searching for new relationships between two different land uses. Adjacent to the Manchester Ship Canal and Mersey Estuary the area is characterised by the juxtaposition of agriculture; and landfill from the construction of the ship canal. Currently, the area suffers from artificially sustained agricultural practice, pollution, and loss of identity. The strategy uses the Ordnance Survey National Grid as an unseen organising element utilising multiple grid scales to define potential points of intervention. The aim is to establish a collaborative landscape through diversifying agriculture as a sustainable element, enhancing biodiversity through the subtleties of integrated occupation and to create ‘social farms’ on the landfill site to function places for biotechnology and research.
15107304@stu.mmu.ac.uk
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TANVIR HASAN MA Landscape Architecture
“Agriculture” is a topic of global importance in terms of the economics of production and sale, sustainability and food security. My proposition is the “Reinvention of Urban Agricultural landscapes” and how this approach could address the economic problems and lack of facilities surrounding Frodsham district in Cheshire. A park based on agriculture, which includes all elements of production will not only ensure employment opportunities but also act as a sustainable catalyst for future urban development. Visitors will be attracted by a multi-cultural environment, not only to purchase organically grown and fresh vegetables, flowers and livestock products, but also to spend their leisure time, relaxing in an environment which combines ecological processes and human processes in a unique combination. The educational element of this experience is also important and people will be educated on the importance of fresh food, and the process of food production.
tanvir_arch@yahoo.com
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AYUMI SUZUMOTO MA Landscape Architecture
Flooding caused by climate change is a global phenomenon. Forecasts for the potential flood risk to The River Mersey in the North West of England require an innovative and sustainable response. This project aims to control tidal and fresh water as well as rainwater fluctuations by creating a “room� at Wigg Island landfill site in Halton, Cheshire, which can absorb these changes. The project utilises the concept of a water park to create a publicly accessible multi-functional space at the contaminated former landfill site. As well as enhancing natural habitats, the park offers a variety of activities such as water cleansing and harvesting, fishing and birdwatching as well as energy generation.
ayumi.suzumoto@gmail.com
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ZIFEI ZENG MA Landscape Architecture
Landscape architecture is the medium to re-connect nature and culture. In this project, the landscape is utilised as a catalyst to activate an isolated town - Elton and modify the relationship between humans and nature. The objective is to create a multi-functional urban park, which provides a new infrastructure, facilities, and spaces for ecological diversity. The design of the urban park is based on the introduction of a sustainable urban drainage system for the settlement of Elton. The collected water from all hard surfaces will be used to provide the infrastructural framework to the park. The park will contain an extended university campus, commercial centre, leisure garden, urban agriculture; wetland, woodland, and meadow. It will also act as a mediator between the residential area and areas of chemical and service industries.
zifeizeng@outlook.com
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ART
Fine Art provides a stimulating environment in which students are guided to develop their creative aspirations, reach a critical maturity, and gain the selfconfidence and skills that will enable you to work as a successful artist.
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The course is studio practice driven and relies on experimentation and critical reflection supported by individualised mentoring, lectures, seminars and group critiques. It emphasises the articulation of ideas, development of working methods and the realisation of independent work. Seminars are structured to investigate a broad range of themes relevant to the practicing artist and provide a rich diet of inspirations.
Postgraduate Show 2016
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SAFFINA BHATTI MA Fine Art
I am an abstract painter who works with acrylic paints and gloss mediums. Working with vivid colours and multilayer paint applications through erosion, removal, and reapplication of paint I create an archaeology entwining the past and present.
saffinabhatti@gmail.com
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JENNY EDEN MFA Fine Art
These paintings deal with a combined approach to illusion, response, and composition. Executed in a careful palette, each painting makes reference to its mode of construction, indicating depth through the handling of flat colour, glazes, and oil mediums. The paintings seem to manifest a world-like sensibility where, despite their cropped appearance and relatively small size, the fight for presence and ownership envelopes each canvas. Giving particular attention to mark-making and gesture, the paintings begin to suggest something secure, but as the act of looking unfolds a spirited kind of disruption ensues. To this end, the paintings exist for themselves when apparent understanding breaks down.
jennyeden.co.uk jennyeden21@hotmail.com
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POLLY TOMLINSON MFA Fine Art
Rooted in contemporary sculpture practice, making and materiality are central to my process. The exploitation of the qualities of materials, currently industrially fabricated metal, cotton and aluminium thread is the backbone to my creative diagnosis and the conceptual focus of my abstract sculptures. My spontaneous and instinctual physical involvement with the material is nonformulaic as I hammer, compress, fold and curve metal and combine this with threads and wire, stretching and pulling to produce organic and geometric combinations with elements of tension. I am interested in allowing and control, where things appear fixed, bound and restricted but also precarious and fragile, I am searching for a balance within the coiled force. I wish to use the language I am developing to expand my work without controlling the experiment, to maintain an element of naivety and to slow one’s perception. I am interested in the way an object exists and is seen in a space and in the psychology of the response to it.
pollytomlinson.com pollytomlinson1@yahoo.co.uk
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KATERINA ELEFTHERIADOU MFA Fine Art
katelefthe@gmail.com
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FRANCESCA HUGHES MA Fine Art
The work flirts with the suggestion of a liminal place, a peripheral vision of the everyday. A space that suggests something of our surroundings, something familiar yet conversely, it is not anything that we have seen before.
franchughes@hotmail.com
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FINE ART
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RIIKKA ENNE MFA Fine Art
riikkaenne@gmail.com riikkaenne.com
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LAIMDOTA STEKE MA Fine Art
“But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more immaterial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.� - Marcel Poust
laimdota.steke@gmail.com
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FINE ART
Postgraduate Show 2016
DAVID LOMAS MFA Fine Art
The project to produce a series of skull mono-prints arose from the artist’s rediscovery of a skeleton from his medical student days in a cupboard in the family home. This prompted a reflection on time passed and a lament at what had been irretrievably forgotten or lost. The main parameter varied across the sequence is the orientation of the skull in relation to a viewer, ranging from prints where the skull is upright and relatively naturalistic to those where it is tipped upside down and becomes almost unrecognizable. In the latter, the skull is a field of dispersed, quasi-autonomous scratches, smudges, splatters, and squiggles. They are a kind of abstract painting in prolepsis. The skull is still present as a latency, however, a ghostly signifier for the death of painting possibly?
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VALENTINA JIMENEZ MA Collaborative Practice
Memory is a fiction made of human experience as a process of subjective production originated by lived events. Memory is not a faithful discourse of the real, it is a construct that is articulated in the relation between subjects and has an impact in identity construction. My practice is focused on the creation of new narratives about Hulme between 1972 and 1996. Using memory as a raw material, I work with several types of archives, through making them speak to each other. This project uses various elements to depict a common past in a plurivocal scenario, contrasting opposite narratives, to the officially true and homogenized discourses. Here the various dialogues that occur between the past and memory challenge the imaginary of failure insinuated of Hulme that was spread as an official narrative for many.
valentinaj88@hotmail.com
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JACENTA BEVINGTON MA Collaborative Practice
Compelled by the use of art as a therapeutic technique, my work aims to honour the one’s lost to suicide. My practice employs a creative process of portraiture and digital media, to share with audiences the family’s personal testimonies. Obliging the audiences to question societies pre-conceptions and the injustice of a stain saddled to one’s repetition. The main theme of my work is the manifestation of memories, often clouded by a premature end, exceeding them through the families. Artistic expression is used as a means to challenge societies lack of understanding and often ignorance towards people who take their own lives. The work creates a visualization of unwarranted stigmas, often inherited by the families, and illustrates the presence of an absence in their futures.
jacentabevington@yahoo.co.uk
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FINE ART
CRYSTAL WAI-KWAN, CHAN MFA Design Cultures
Since the last century, design has been serving the growth mentality to an extent that “has displaced the ‘invisible hand of God’” as design theorist Tony Fry put it. This magnification of design’s role prompts critical reflections for the fundamental meanings and purposes of why and how we design. Design museums, having a boom since the eighties in the North which continuing to these days to other parts of the world, are distant stakeholders in the design activism discourse. Their connection with the industry and position of shaping the public’s understanding of design, however, place them in a strategic spot. Drawing theories and discourses from design history, design studies and museum studies with a case study of MAK Vienna, my research aims to explore the challenges that design activism brings to these institutions and to discuss the latter’s potential roles. With insights from the discourses of contemporary art museums, my dissertation attempts to argue for “the temple of the Muses” towards an activism for itself and the public.
crystalchanwai1@gmail.com
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SOPHIE BUTCHER MA Contemporary Visual Culture
I am doing an MA in Contemporary Visual Culture- I choose to focus on the internet and popular culture, feminism, and tropes of femininity, whilst exploring themes of nostalgia, trauma, and cultural capital. My work is a series of multimedia mark making - primarily hand embroidery and felt-tip - that has been produced over the last nine months. I work on small pieces of fabric using traditional embroidery methods, however, the results deliberately disrupt the traditional aesthetic of a neat and orderly embroidery sampler. I like to work with felt-tip pens as they have a juvenile/slap-dash/”doodle” quality that challenges opinion on what constitutes as ‘real art’. I refer to my embroideries as visual diary entries, as they depict and narrate my innermost thoughts and feelings, often in a nonlinear format and written in the vernacular. I identify as a millennial and include popular culture references within my work, I believe it is important for my work to be read in this context as it influences my aesthetic, style of communication and use of language. This series accompanies my dissertation: Girls at Night on the Internet: A Discourse on Cultural Capital and the Act of Sharing in relation to Art, Women, and the Internet.
sophiebutcherthefirst.tumblr.com
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MEDIA
The School of Media at the Manchester School of Art runs MA and MFA courses in photography and film-making. The span and diversity of this year’s student exhibitions reflects the best qualities of the course: interdisciplinarity, resourcefulness, professionalism. While quality control is important, and students have access to a wide range of technical skills, everyone is encouraged to find the means that will suit them best. Our students test the boundaries of their discipline - photographers work with film and make artists’ books and film-makers perform and produce installations. These are practice-based courses, but the work is informed by current ideas and theory. MA and MFA students at MSA belong to a vibrant community of peers and academics who are involved in their fields as artists, curators and writers. Students gain confidence and come into contact with key ideas through collaborative units and via the debates and seminars are a large part of the experience. Students learn professionalism and gain confidence through working together with local cultural organisations. We are very pleased to announce that Manchester’s prime cultural venue, HOME, will play host to our students this September as part of a festival of artists’ films.
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DAVID BRITTAIN MA MEDIA POSTGRADUATE COORDINATOR
Postgraduate Show 2016
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JULIA RUSHTON MA Photography
When I photograph a landscape I spend time at each location looking, listening and absorbing the atmosphere before framing a shot. I like to research the history of the area finding that educates my eyes to see features not immediately obvious. Large and medium format film suits my slow method of photography and love of the craft involved in producing the final print.
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JONATHAN ROWE MA Photography
People of Significant Worth explores identity in the discourses of photography, time and social class. Through the production of photographic portraiture, new readings of identity and representation are sought, concentrating on commonly or personally held negative perceptions. The technical processes of the medium itself are employed sympathetically: Time is part of photography’s fabric, most obviously technically. Time is also employed here as a major element of the mediums para-language; howit says. Conventionally, photographic techniques fix a subject to a particular period of time. Deliberately placing objects outside of their given time for effect, or anachrony is employed to disrupt standard readings and subsequent discourse. For example, the images ask questions about progress by inferring recurrence. In so doing new readings of class and identity are achieved.
jonathan@jrowephotography.co.uk jrowephotography.co.uk
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GINGER LIU MFA Photography
Saudade is a Portuguese term for a deep melancholic longing or nostalgia for a person, place or time that has gone forever. American is a portrait of an inveterate exploration into an identity which is defined by an intangible cultural heritage. The Saudade is for the loss of an imagined life. I was born in the United States and grew up in England and have lived my adult life, equally between two countries. By reconstructing the past using the family album and archives, autobiographical memory, familiar and popular culture, oral and national history, I (re)invent the past using self-portraiture and digitally manipulated photographs to explore perceptions of memory, identity, and multiculturalism.
photography@gingerliu.com photo.gingerliu.com
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MEDIA
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MU-JUNG CHUANG MFA Photography
“On the blink of left-side brain� is a series of photographs that depict the state of mind with borderline personality disorder (BPD) while balancing on the edge of recognition and alienation. An individual with BPD tends to process information at extremes based on their memories and experiences. As a quick movement to capture the moment into memory, eyes blinks might be more poetic to describe the situation while sometimes it is easier to forget things in one blink. With a conceptual approach, recreating some particular scenes to embody the moment became provoking. By applying a metaphorical language, I attempted to amplify the loneliness of having BPD by creating compositions or settings that generate tranquil portraits. I try involving the viewers in a way that seems almost like looking at a picture which was put in a wallet to remind someone that never wipe this off in life.
animusj-art.format.com animusjmjc@gmail.com
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POLLY SHAVE MA Photography
“On many of the pages, in faint pencil, was my Grandmother’s distinct handwriting. “Saponaria, Suffolk Roadside, Framlingham, 1960.”, “Meracuralis, garden, Constable Road, Ipswich, 71.”. Plants pressed, dried and delicately preserved between the pages. I pick one up, and a small leaf crumbles into my hand and decorates the page with dust.” Fossils are indexical traces of objects that once existed, animal or vegetable tissue now become stone. A photograph, like a fossil, becomes witness to the life of the object. Using Gilles Deleuze’s metaphor of the “radioactive fossil” to point towards an image that embodies a past that is incommensurable with the present the image depicts. A photographic response to an inherited archive of my grandmother’s amateur botanical illustrations-exploring preservation, representation, and relationship. Using flowers from my mother’s garden, the work becomes a new combined archive of family work.
polly.shave@hotmail.com pollyshave.tumblr.com
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PENNY MERCER MA Photography
I am exploring the blurred line of reality using selfconstructed spaces. I do this by not just simply recreating a structure that already exists but in focusing on various interior spaces that I have generated in my mind. My spaces are photographed straight from conception. No one has seen these locations or given life to space but yet when I photograph these structures there is already a sense of something more that is just below the surface, existing without the need for real life. My practice is solely studio based and the concentrated level of isolation during construction is reflected in final structures.
pennymercer.co.uk pennymercer@outlook.com
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DARRYL LONSBROUGH MA Photography
This series of images have been taken from a much wider body of work, which sits firmly within the field of the ‘familial gaze’. These photographs are fleeting, and they are snatched. They are moments of a much more condensed picture of family life that depict a condition. This condition is personal but is by no means exclusive within the context of a modern age that we are all apart of. The images attempt to address issues of distance, time and space, just as much as they try to represent a state of being, of fatherhood, and also, how photography does not always tell the truth. Photography is most definitely a conduit that can perpetuate myths of how life is being lived, but not, necessarily, how life actually is. This is a piece of work that has quite literally made itself. And it attempts to show a reality, and not a modern digital utopia of life as we think we ‘facebook’ know it.
darryllonsbrough.com darrylluk@btopenworld.com
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ULYSSE DI MEGLIO MA Photography
I live in a fully mutual housing co-operative in Liverpool called Rose Howey. The event room is the main communal space of this house and my project aims to give an insight into housing cooperatives throughout the documentation of this unique room. I documented the event room by capturing it from the same angle for almost two years. I then exhibited photographs of the room in the room itself to invite the dwellers to a reflection on the cooperative space. Working with other artists in the house and collaborating with different groups and institutions in Liverpool, the project later became to set up a cooperative gallery space in the event room, the Rose Howey Cooperative Gallery. From the observation of the living room of Rose Howey to the project of setting up a cooperative gallery, the photographic study of the event room has contributed to its transformation.
ulycyclephotography.weebly.com ulysse5189@hotmail.com
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KATIE MEADOW MA Photography
I have been documenting the life of a woman, haunted by her memories and transported back to her past. I inhabit my character, walking in her footsteps. I preserve her memories through documentation, recollection, and performance. The narrative is fictional, yet inspired by a collection of 19 pocket diaries I bought from a car boot sale in 2014. Merging memories, I leave little distinction between the truth and imagination. Through traces, I re-tell stories, presenting personal narratives through visual imagery and creative writing. I assemble fragments, suggesting connections and inviting the viewer to become the investigator.
katiemeadowphotography.com katiemeadow@outlook.com
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ANA ORDOÑEZ SANCHEZ MA Filmmaking
Ana is a visual artist working with film and photography within the frame of cross analogue-digital techniques. Her influences draw back from her studies in Humanities, which provided a range of fields linked to her expansive nature. After moving her residency to Manchester, her focus has moved into the notion of fiction within reality, developing works which play with introspection and paradox. The work ‘Inner Eye: A visual experience from those who can’t see’seeks to examine the visual experience during the sight loss, particularly people suffering from Charles Bonnet Syndrome. It explores ideas like ‘the mind’s eye’ and ‘memory and creation’ and the way individuals process images and ideas internally by the use of storytelling and description. The work concerns the idea of reconciling different approaches to blindness through sensory experience and mental imagery, in a convergence of two worlds: sighted and non-sighted.
ana.orsan@gmail.com
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JOHN LLOYD MA Filmmaking
Pessimistic voyeur, easily distracted, humble curator of an extensive collection of naval lint. Suspected head trauma due to consistent banging against The Abyss. Often found awakening on the wrong side of the dream. Possible miss-diagnosis - awaiting further testing. Currently picking at the scabs of the unconscious whilst piggybacking on the reanimated corpse of Sigmund Freud. Feel free to recite your recent night terrors and tug firmly on the niggling desire for something other than what appears before you. Current work is a juvenile and self-obsessed attempt to regurgitate the remnants of a consumerist existence. Akin to a psychoanalyst observing the psychosis of their patient in order to gain a better understanding, the function is to expose the perceived absurdity lurking beneath the glossy plastic facade of advertising, entertainment, and other beautiful distractions that keep our eyes off of the unrepresentative. - Please, enjoy the static
jlloydjr@outlook.com
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HALEEMAH X MA Filmmaking
Haleemah X is a Filmmaker, Poet-Rapper, and Music Producer. Her work revolves around the creation of poetry films and visual albums/extended music Videos. Her most recent work is entitled “The Desperation of a Melody”, a poetry film all about the musicality of life and her personal connection with words. “The Desperation of A Melody” is also a story of pain, suffering,tragedy and self-love. The poetry film examines the artist’s state of mind and tells the story from the inside out.
haleemahx@hotmail.com
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ALAN AMIN MA Filmmaking
This short film is about a Twenty-Eight-year-old former soldier from the UK, who was held captive by a group of insurgents in Iraq, while he was dating an Iraqi girl. Traumatised by his ordeal, he is trapped in the memory of his past and lives in a forest in the north of England. He believes he is still in Iraq and he does not know anything about his present life.
alanaminvision@gmail.com
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Postgraduate Show 2016
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MEDIA
PRODUCT DESIGN
To be a successful product designer is a challenge – you have to be an assimilator of knowledge, a creative force at the centre of many disciplines – learning, collating, distilling, responding – a catalyst for change. Designers must engage with the world at all levels, taking everything into consideration. They must be an expert on materials & process, knowing how things are made across the full range of making opportunities, from handcrafting, to industrial manufacture, to future digital production. Their ideas need to touch with the past, engage with the present, and be speculative of the future. Their work must respond to ever changing personal, social, cultural, material, environmental and economic agendas, and be clearly located within these complex contexts. The resulting products can be practical, critical, functional, fanciful, beautiful, challenging, crafted, generated – informed by life, created by passion, existing in society. DAVID GRIMSHAW PROGRAMME LEADER MA/MSC PRODUCT DESIGN 86
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ADNAN ARIF MA/MSc Product Design
My work revolves around seeking more meaningful relationships with objects and exploring my role as a mediator between the user, the object, and the environment. For my project, I wanted to explore hand gestures as a medium to create more physically engaging experiences. This has led to the Muse - a shuffle dice that you can rotate, flip and roll to control the music. In a time when more objects are becoming digital and music is all about personalization, Muse presents an alternative physical interface that is about communal sharing, joy, and surprise.
adnanmakes.com adnan.arif@gmail.com
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Postgraduate Show 2016
HOUDA KADDOUH MA/MSc Product Design
Houda Kaddouh is a design explorer and innovator of lighting & furniture driven by elegance and individuality. As a designer, she forges insightful notions into her products transcending the utilitarian and pragmatic by giving voice to the intuitive, curious and eclectic. Her designs are distinctive and challenging, emerging from the combination of cutting-edge technologies and material sensitivity. Mirror Mirror is a project that investigates the divergences in the perception of luxury across cultures and societies. The main focus is the juxtaposition of or view of ourselves and how we present ourselves to others. The product range acts as a dual identity object that connects with the user by satisfying their desire for luxury in intimacy while offering a humble disguise while in company.
houda-kaddouh.com houda.kaddouh@gmail.com
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CLAIRE DAVISON MA/MSc Product Design
Sparked by a comment “...I wouldn’t have thought you had designed this” a viewer referenced an apparent disparity between my gender and my design aesthetic. I am interested in the notion that objects exude clues about gender - both in terms of the designer and the function of the object itself. Do objects have a gender? What gender should they have? Why are we giving objects gender in the first place? Through an exploration of design form, I play with notions of gender difference and the biological, social and cultural factors which impact on design decisions. I hope you will take away a new presence of mind when considering others, their belongings, and their design aspirations.
clairedvsn@gmail.com www.clairedavison.org
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Postgraduate Show 2016
EMMA CRABTREE MA/MSc Product Design
The focus of my research is sensory stimuli that relax humans, for this project, I have centered on the first stressful experience we all have in common – birth. When comparing the environmental conditions and sensory experiences of the womb to that of a cot or similar, there are clearly vast differences. During my research, I have identified that we are instinctively drawn to natural sensory stimuli, such as a log fire, which poses the question: does a new-born baby have a subconscious draw or an innate yearning to return to the natural environment of the womb? The sensory experience of a baby within the mother’s womb is all consuming and multifaceted. This product will help the baby slowly adjust to the new, unfamiliar sensory experiences of the outside world, bridging the gap by simulating elements of the womb environment. This will reduce stress and encourage the feeling of security that comes with familiarity.
m_crabtree@hotmail.com www.emmacrabtree.com
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RICHARD BACON MA/MSc Product Design
The focus of my major project was to create an elegant and highly customisable piece of furniture which would be suitable in a range of public environments. The narrative for my work is ‘design which reinterprets contemporary architecture and embraces advanced digital manufacturing along with traditional techniques’. The focus of my research has been to understand the practice of modern furniture design and manufacture for the contract furniture market. Secondly, research was done into the architectural style known as structural expressionism which emerged in the 1970s due to technological breakthroughs. The key concept is to reveal the structural elements on the exterior to create an edgy, industrial-based aesthetic. It is a style that is still popular today. These two areas of research led to the creation of a multipurpose frame, which along with a variety of components creates a final product with a multitude of aesthetic options.
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EXTERNAL PROJECTS
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ARTIST FILM WEEKENDER 2016 FOOMOO: The space of the cinematic
In radically divergent ways, the members of FOOMOO (Haleemah X, Darryl Lonsbrough, Alistair I MacDonald, John Lloyd, Alan Amin and Ana O Sanchez), question the traditional cinematic modes of representing time and place, subject and object, inner and outer, text and speech, sound and dialogue, narrative, change, history, power and stillness. The assembled showcase of films at HOME offers the audience a chance to be introduced to 6 new artist films seeking to break down the space between the viewer and the screen, and fill the empty space of the auditorium. As well as the screening package of works presented by FOOMOO, over the weekend of Fri 30 Sept – Sun 2 Oct, HOME will be hosting a retrospective of the American video artist Luther Price, an overview of contemporary Finnish Video Art, the touring programme of the Jarman Awards 2016, new work by artists Oreet Ashery, Rob Crosse, Basim Magdy; North West premiere of the feature ‘La Distancia’ with Q&A with director Sergio Caballero, plus a live music and film event ‘Birdsong - Stories from Pripyat’ with artist Clara Casian and musician Robin Richards.
Friday 30th September 2016 at 20:30 2 Tony Wilson Place First St Manchester M15 4FN homemcr.org/event/artist-film-weekender-2016/ ana.orsan@gmail.com 94
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External Project
SLOE Gallery is the new artist led gallery created by students Eade Hemingway, Amy Mizrahi, Hannah Bayley, Robin Sukatorn and David Hammond in the basement of the existing PS Mirabel gallery in the centre of Manchester The Sloe team, who have turned an untended and disused basement into a fully functioning exhibition space, renovated the space. The gallery has a growing social media presence and had high profile people attending the Launch, such as the Lord Mayor of Manchester. The team worked with guest curator Sophie Butcher on the launch exhibition ‘Collected’, which marks the first of the eight exhibitions it will put on in the coming year. SLOE Gallery intends to work with a variety of curators and artists in the future as the gallery develops.
contact: sloegallery.com 16 Mirabel Street Manchester M3 1DX
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30 YEARS ON CHERNOBYL EXPOSED Clare A. Baker claire@claireabaker.co.uk claireabaker.co.uk
Help us fundraise here: https://www.generosity.com/fundraising/30-years-on-chernobyl-exposed
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Personal research carried out during my MA study led to a passion that has become all encompassing. After visiting Chernobyl (a once in a lifetime experience) I formed a group of artists: the ‘26:86 Collective’, consisting of established creative practitioners alongside emerging artists resulting in a dynamic and passionate team with a common goal, and, ultimately, organised a group trip back to Chernobyl. We traveled there to gain inspiration for the creation of multi-disciplined artworks, individual and collaborative, which will be exhibited in order to raise awareness of associated issues caused by events around the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 and, that are particularly relevant today in a worldwide context. My personal practice has been heavily influenced by this project in terms of processes, materials and techniques directly correlating to the displacement effects of the nuclear disaster on the people of Pripyat & Chernobyl, while other artists within the collective have produced
artwork that illustrates a varied range of interests relating to our trip. Our work includes video installations, photography, fine art, illustration, textiles and graphic art. We have achieved the realisation of personal and shared aspirations, the exploration and production of conceptual artworks born from an in-depth, extensively researched project, allowing new and more established artists to gain a professional stance in the creative sector providing a supportive and nurturing environment, as well as combining our academic and theoretical work with that of an innovative and communal visual conclusion. Each of us feels this project can only benefit our own working practices and in an exciting, innovative and productive manner, and at the same time encouraging debate on important issues. I now aspire to take the resulting exhibition into the international art arena, ultimately showing our work in the Ukraine, specifically in the Chernobyl exclusion zone checkpoints.
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JAMES CONDON
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AITHNE SYNNOT
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PAULA SMITHSON
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ANCHAL GUPTA
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JESSICA HUBBARD
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TZU YIN HZU
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JOANNE SPICER
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SOPHIE DOBSON
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ROBIN SUKATORN
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CARMEN ETCHES
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AMY MIZRAHI
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EMMA FORD
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CINDY FENTANES
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CHARLOTTE WOOD
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ALICE SCOGGINS
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REBECCA WORRALL
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JACEK BIES
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CHRISTINE RYAN
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BETH POST
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DEBRA BOOTHROYD
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EMMA MATLEY
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CLAIRE A. BAKER
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YUYANG CAO
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XIAOTONG ZHU
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RICHARD HARRIS
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MARK MCLEISH
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ZELJKO SABOL
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NATASHA KURTH
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WAN HEI LIM
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DAVID HAMMOND
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GARY NIP
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FRINY PAPADOPOULOU
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LUCIA LORENZO PERISCAL
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EADE HEMMINGWAY
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GINA NADAL FERNANDEZ
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SAM PRICE
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ANZE ERMENC
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JOSH REID
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SEBASTIAN OSPINA
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FATIMAH MOHD
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KAIRONG JIANG
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GINGER LIU
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JENNY EDEN
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MU-JUNG CHUANG
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REBECCA LYONS
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POLLY SHAVE
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YIXU ZHOU
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PENNY MERCER
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BINGRUI CHAI
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DARRYL LONSBROUGH
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ALEJANDRA ARAMBOLA
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ULYSSE DI MEGLIO
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TANVIR HASAN
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KATIE MEADOW
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AYUMI SUZUMOTO
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ANA ORDONEZ SANCHEZ
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ZIFEI ZENG
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JOHN LLOYD
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SAFFINA BHATTI
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HALEEMAH X
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JENNY EDEN
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ALAN AMIN
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POLLY TOMLINSON
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ADNAN ARIF
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KATERINA ELEFTHERIADOU
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HOUDA KADDOUH
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FRANCESCA HUGHES
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CLAIRE DAVIDSON
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RIKKA ENNA
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EMMA CRABTREE
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LAIMDOTA STEKE
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RICHARD BACON
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JACENTA BEVINGTON
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JOSE NIBRA
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VALENTINA JIMENEZ
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WEIHAO CHAN (MAX)
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JULIA RUSHTON
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JOHN HOGAN
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JONATHON ROWE
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EZME ZHAO
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