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MA Degree Show September 2015 This year, we are celebrating our history and prestigious reputation as one of the UKs founder art schools by returning to our former title - the Wolverhampton School of Art (Est. 1851). From our past through to the present day, there’s been a long and favourable association between the Wolverhampton School of Art (Est. 1851) and the Wolverhampton Art Gallery. It is therefore fitting that the MA Degree Show is housed in this wonderful public gallery that features 300 years of art, from Georgian portraits and Victorian landscapes, to Pop and contemporary art. Many of our graduates are destined for greatness and will become sort after artists and designers in their own right, as indicated by the first-rate pieces on display in this exhibition. This MA Degree Show is the culmination of the excellent work undertaken by our Master’s students over the last year or two and shows the diversity of creative thinking, skills and professional approach to practice that they have achieved in that time. Both full-time and part-time students have come from a variety of backgrounds and experiences to contribute to the debates and extend their individual practices, with a good proportion of international students to offer enriched cultural understandings of art and design. This is therefore, a particularly lively show from the three courses of Design and Applied Arts, Fine Art and Digital and Visual Communications, with multi-disciplinary work ranging from painting, sculpture, print, illustration and photography to audiovisual pieces, animation, glass work and installation.
Thanks go to the highly motivated and dedicated staff who have supported these students through the Master’s programme. Su Fahy, Pat Dillon, Lester Meachem, Maggie Ayliffe, Dave Colton, Dr Max Stewart, Prof John Roberts, Prof Kristina Niedderer, Dr Alexi Penzin, Dr Rina Arya and the rest of the MA staff team are all experienced researchers and/or professional designers and artists in their own right, who have shared their knowledge and expertise with the students to deliver exciting and challenging opportunities for learning. The result of their valuable input is clearly evidenced in the high standard of the student work on show at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery. We wish our students continued success in their endeavours and future plans whether this is to further develop their individual practice, work in the creative industries, teach, or continue to research at doctoral level. We hope that the MA experience sees them well-equipped to prosper, inspired to make their mark on the world and to follow in the footsteps of many renowned artists, designer makers and creative thinkers to graduate from the Wolverhampton School of Art (Est. 1851).
Sam Hope
Head of the Wolverhampton School of Art (Est. 1851) Faculty Associate Dean, Enterprise, Knowledge Transfer and Research
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MA Design and Applied Arts MA Design and Applied Arts provides a creative platform for artists, makers and designers to question and develop their practice in preparation for their creative futures. The 2015 MA cohort will present exhibitions in ceramics, glass, textiles, fashion and interior design. Their work is the culmination of many months of concentrated study, resulting in original and exemplary work in contemporary design and applied arts. The Wolverhampton School of Art, established in 1851 supports a full range of art and design practice within one building, allowing for interdisciplinary interaction and access to an excellent physical resource in which to expand their creative, analytic and evaluative skills. They are supported by postgraduate tutors that are themselves researchers and practitioners of national and international status. The students are now at the threshold of their creative futures and are confronted by a complex market place in a unpredictable economic climate. They have accepted this challenge and have been proactive in preparing themselves. Several of our
students are already in employment as educators in the UK or overseas and have used the MA to develop and expand their practice. Others have already established their own businesses that are poised to thrive and add to the UK economy and creative community. Many of our overseas students will return to their own countries to share their experience and add to the growth and economy of their industrial and educational sectors. On behalf of our MA Design and Applied Arts cohort, I would like to take this opportunity to extend sincere thanks to the extensive team of MA tutors, professors, researchers, technical and administrative staff for their support and commitment in providing students with an exciting and rewarding experience. Finally, I would like to extend my very best wishes to all of our graduating students and wish them every success in the future. Congratulations to you all.
Patricia Dillon Head of Department, Visual Arts
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Amal Abdullah Alkhabra MA Design and Applied Arts
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The ceramic work explores the historical context and values of Islamic sculpture in relation to its capacity to evoke a secular notion of transcendence within the paradigm of contemporary art. In particular, the artist examines the figure of the human hand in terms of its symbolic reference to prayer and thus transcendence. This allows the artist to view the symbolic representation of the relationship between personal expression and the hand in terms of both its secular and religious symbolism.
e: i.seven7@hotmail.com
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Alhanouf Allabun MA Design and Applied Arts
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Recent research indicates a serious problem in Saudi’s housing sector. An increase in the cost of land and construction materials has had a significant impact on Saudi society, regarding the size and function of the family home. The design concept explores how in limited space; homeowners can enjoy their environment without compromising on comfort. The concepts offer alternatives based on priority alongside luxury, via a closer scrutiny of space and innovative design. Reduced scale need not result in limited effectiveness and a lesser aesthetic. The design concepts are applied within a Saudi setting, taking into account culture, climate and lifestyle. The ultimate aim is to develop affordable, practical housing for an emerging Saudi market. The visual aesthetic for the work explores the collaboration between Art and Interior design. The concept brings an artistic, eclectic style into home furnishing and decoration, offering an ‘Art Home’ where the client finds individual expression.
e: hnouf.ms@hotmail.com
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Veena Bhatti MA Design and Applied Arts
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‘Trying to remember things is like whistling in the wind. Language and memory are the old growth forests of the mind. Sometimes randomness itself becomes a pattern. Memory is like a cat’s cradle of knots’. (Main, D, 2012). The artist has explored the theme of memory in various forms. Memories underpin who we are. What we experience in life has an impact on our futures, but what happens when recent memories are eroded, whilst events of twenty or thirty years previous are remembered vividly? The work presented explores the extremes of memory loss through research into dementia. Dementia causes plaque to corrode the neurons in the brain, eventually causing severe memory loss through the breaks in the neurotransmitters. Visual changes of the brain illustrate how the disease develops and gradually takes hold. Erosion, connections and deteroration form significant conceptual triggers for the textile exploration.
e: veena23@live.com
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Iain Burton-Legge MA Design and Applied Arts
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My investigation utilises techniques and artistic approaches that most other practitioners can only achieve through photo-manipulation. The images I create, in collaboration with leading photographers, are achieved by exploiting modern silicone products and materials using specialist makeup techniques. These are applied directly onto the body, creating illusions and bodily change that mesmerise and confuse. Shape, form, appearance and texture of the skin are reworked on the human form to present the viewer with images suspended between the real and the imagined. As an educator, my aim is to demonstrate the scope and impact the contemporary makeup artist can achieve through physical recreation; thereby returning power from the photographer/technician back to the designer. The exhibited work presents a contemporary twist on the shock and horror of Dante’s “Inferno”. The images are a series of allegories, which question stereotyping and attitudes towards the meaning of sin in an historical context.
e: iburtonlegge@me.com w: iburtonlegge.com
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Abdullahi Bello Kabir MA Design and Applied Arts
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A contemporary lifestyle often involves a fast pace of life and global connections that involve international travel. The young entrepreneur expects a high standard of luxury to alleviate the strain of the constant demands of an executive lifestyle. This interior concept presents visual proposals for transient use by travellers that require a specific high-end service whilst in an airport space. It considers the level of quality, privacy, tranquillity and luxury required to satisfy the expectations of an elitist clientele.
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The chosen site is Abuja International airport. The airport is a typical example of a developing infrastructure, highlighting the changing lifestyle and economic growth of an emergent African nation. The designer is anticipating the future needs of local entrepreneurs and international business users through the design of luxury transient spaces.
Contact e: kabirb4real01@yahoo.com
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Louise Ward MA Design and Applied Arts
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Louise completed her MA in Design and Applied Arts, specialising in Glass in 2014 and was awarded the Deans Prize for Excellence. Since graduation Louise has established her own business and has recently been selected for the prestigious Stanislav Libensky Award 2015. Louise is one of only four British students who have been selected for this European glass prize, which has attracted competition from across the world. As a prize winner, Louise is exhibiting her latest work, which continues to investigate the impact and devastation of war.
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The work aims to bring the brutal, physical consequences of the First World War to the forefront of our minds, creating a deeper understanding and a greater respect for the millions of men who laid down their lives for us. It is inspired by the diary of Louise’s Great Grandfather, Corporal Walter Davis who fought in the Battle of the Somme.
Contact e: info@louisewardglass.co.uk w: louisewardglass.co.uk
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Patty Wouters MA Design and Applied Arts
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COCOON, a vulnerable package in transition to a new existence
These thin, fragile, closed forms imply vulnerability; wrapped work resembling mummies or cocoons. Containment is further investigated through the creation of assemblages of elemental forms in gauzy bags; the sacks are hung with the elements forcing themselves against the fabric skin, suggesting ‘escape’. Closed forms play an important role in my ceramic design, suggesting an aura of something intriguing, fascinating and mysterious - a container or wrapping that protects a precious object or a valuable present. Clay is a symbol of transformation; the result of millions of years of rock erosion. The hands of the artist shape it into new forms. Fire converts it into rock-hard ceramic. The deliberate choice of paper porcelain to construct the cocoons, emphasizes the concept of vulnerability and transformation. According to Jung, all artistic creations contain form and image of symbolic meaning, which are archetypal, and communicable to others. The mummy or cocoon, symbolises an intermediate stage: both are a metaphor for new life. Making cocoons in porcelain is a metaphor for new practice.
e: patty@pattywouters.be w: pattywouters.be
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Susan Yonluer MA Design and Applied Arts
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Knot: a. A compact intersection of interlaced material, such as cord, ribbon, or rope. b. A fastening made by tying together lengths of material. My research investigates the ‘knot’ in its broadest context. Knots are referred to in a number of situations; as a practical means of joining, interlacing and combining material; in reference to hard materials such as wood; as a means of expressing water speed; to describe a tightly packed group of people; to describe an unpleasant feeling of tightness or tension in a part of the body. The resultant surfaces, textures and garment construction interpret these themes resulting in a collection of concept pieces that connect together in a number of variations to transcend fashion as timeless items of clothing.
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MA Digital and Visual Communications The MA Digital and Visual Communications offers study in a broad range of digital and visual communication theory and practice. Specialist areas covered are: • Graphic Communication • Illustration • Animation • Computer Games Design • Multimedia Design • Design for Advertising • Photography • Film and Video This MA attracts students from a wide range of disciplines and from all over the world, giving it a strong international flavour. Over the last two years students have comes from as far afield as China, Nigeria, India, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Poland, Greece and Germany, as well as the UK. The course gives students the opportunity to develop their own creative practice as well as their creative thinking and research skills. It also equips them with the skills and knowledge essential for a career in the competitive market place that is International Visual Communications. I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of the graduates every success for their future careers in the creative industries. David Colton Course Leader, MA Digital and Visual Communications
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Tim Baker MA Digital and Visual Communications
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LIONS OF DISSENT // MUSIC, VISUAL AND VIDEO COMMUNICATION Is it a band? Is it a record company? Composer? Producer? Is it an art installation? Design? Music? Visual? Video? Is it one man? Is it ten?
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WHO KNOWS, OR EVEN CARES? // DOES IT REALLY MATTER?
Contact e: connect@lionsofdissent.co.uk w: lionsofdissent.co.uk facebook: /lionsofdissent twitter: @lionsofdissent
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Melina Beil MA Digital and Visual Communications
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What makes us unique? From a purely scientific point of view nothing but our DNA makes us unique. DNA carries most of the genetic instructions used in the functioning of all known living organisms. For social reasons we feel the need to define our identity and do this in different ways, such as the way we dress. One key way of marking or adorning our bodies is with jewellery, which has always been used in human culture. It was used as a way of showing one’s identity and affiliation.
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My project combines DNA and jewellery. By extracting DNA, it can be made visible and turned into or used as the basis for jewellery. It can be your own DNA or that of someone dear to you. The DNA inside jewellery can be used to show your literal identity, your sense of belonging, or even your love for someone else.
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Laxmi Bhatti MA Digital and Visual Communications
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My project focuses on the interaction of the use of digital technology in Hinduism, which is about maintaining the authentic and traditional aspects of the religion, whilst also recognizing the importance of integrating religion and technology. The Dharma Project is a Hindu Foundation that aspires to participate in various awareness-raising campaigns to effectively create a positive link between Hinduism, technology and globalisation. The campaigns strive for a betterment of human life and mankind in order to reach the main objective of bringing together global communities in order to collect funds to support worldwide charities. Current projects include, the launch of branded t-shirts introducing the existence of the foundation. The android application, which is another project, provides a fun platform for educating Hinduism. The app portrays the symbolism of Hindu Deities and teaches true meanings and how these can be incorporated in the modern Hindu lifestyle.
e: laxmibhatti@ymail.com w: behance.net/laxmiDB t: 07895 563459
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Ramona Bietenbeck MA Digital and Visual Communications
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My project contains two components, both of which are about representations of Japanese culture. The first part is a film, which illustrates excerpts and impressions of the Japanese community in my hometown, Düsseldorf. The Japanese community comprises a smaller community within the German urban environment and influences our understanding of cosmopolitanism and global exchange. The second part is an adaption of a Japanese woodcut of the Edo period that has been updated for the contemporary in the modern city of Düsseldorf. My interest in the art of the Edo period, as inspired by the artist Hokusai, inspired me to do a study of soft cuts and digital imitated cuts, which show a series of different views of the Rhine Tower of Düsseldorf. The pictures being created are modern interpretations of the art of the Edo period and the different art styles of that time.
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Nadja Brunk MA Digital and Visual Communications
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Travelling - a journey which takes you to strange places you have never been before enables you to explore foreign cultures and experience moments away from daily life. With my project I want to motivate people from different backgrounds to get out of their comfort zone and try independent travel, away from all-inclusive holidays. In doing so I am creating a brand, which is represented through its website, where the user can chose their destination and their way of travelling. In the next step the user gets send an individualized box with useful supplies (postcards, travel diary, tips, selection of typical sweets, recipes), which encourages, motivates and inspires the user to try a new way of travelling even it seems scary at first. It is unlike typical travel guides. It confronts the user with questions and reflections, engages cultural interaction and gives the impetus for unique experiences and experiments.
e: nadjabrunk@yahoo.de
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Andrew Edwards MA Digital and Visual Communications
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I was keen to explore character development and animation. I decided early on to create one central character to base my project around, and the character featured in my project went through many changes during the project until I felt he was both engaging and relatable. The relationship between fantasy and reality has always been an interesting topic for me, so I was keen to take this opportunity to incorporate these themes into my film. My project is a short film animated in a 2D traditional style, using TV Paint. It centres on a boy named Craig who spends his time drawing and painting in his bedroom. Craig covers every inch of the room in drawings of dragons, knights, aliens, monsters and anything else that springs from his imagination. He creates characters and scenes as a form of escapism, and wishes to be a part of the worlds he creates.
e: andyedwards747@hotmail.co.uk t: 07842984677
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Amy Evans MA Digital and Visual Communications
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Using a piece of contemporary music surrounding the idea of things being ‘in and out of control’ as a starting point, my work explores the use of different media to convey narrative illustrations. The narrative context of my work is integral to the interactivity between the viewer and the message behind it. Comprised of four themes (Love, War, Grey, and Forms) derived from a piece of music, I allow my work to remain accessible by using humour and narrative. Interested in natural forms, my work abstracts the human form, and using geometric shapes, marries the forms of man and nature to create humorous or grotesque combinations. The manipulation of the human form is something which in western society we use as a mean of control over our bodies. My prints distort the figure to create humorous characteristics which highlights how ridiculous we look when we try to control nature.
e: amylouise.evans@yahoo.com w: amylouiseevans.com t: 07904229660 twitter: @amyinkyevans
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Jolien Hampson MA Digital and Visual Communications
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For my project I hope to develop my understanding of what it takes to be an illustrator, particularly with regards to children’s books. Through researching and comparing work from well-known artists I have realised that the most honest form of expression is simplicity. Stripping back all of the unnecessary components and using the story and characters as a guide. By doing so it can allow the reader to form their own opinions and find their own meanings in the work. I have chosen the theme of bereavement for the book because I believe it is a subject that children long to understand. They question it and can sometimes be fearful of the lack of answers or acknowledgement on this subject.
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The book allows the child to breach the subject and in some small way begin the process of accepting its place in life.
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Steven Hobbis MA Digital and Visual Communications
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Throughout my Master’s study, I have explored the ethical, diplomatic and political power that internet communities have and the way they choose to use this power. In my research one name kept cropping up: Julian Assange, who gained notoriety in the 1990’s for his involvement with the ‘Cypherpunk’ movement. My project concentrates on the international controversy that WikiLeaks caused, as well as looking into the man behind the organisation. Advocates of Assange praise the organisation for its attitude towards political transparency, information ethics and historical recording. Assange believes a civilisation is able to advance through an intellectual record, chronicling a nation’s development and uses this to legitimate his activities. Through publishing these highly sensitive documents, Assange has become one of the most controversial figures in the world and I explore the significance and complexities of the WikiLeaks case as well as tracing the rise and fall of Assange.
e: SMHobbis@gmail.com
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Ann-Katrin Katsis MA Digital and Visual Communications
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‘Our planet is our home, our only home. Where should we go, if we destroy it?’ (Dalai Lama, 2004) My project is about creating an illustrated book. I have produced clear, thought-provoking and colourful Illustrations, which reflect what we do in our environment and how we need to look after the planet and think about the impact we have in order to make a difference in the future. My basic sources are the environment, art that uses rubbish, and illustration. By following the example of the artists who use rubbish in their work, I gathered bits and pieces that littered the streets. My main objective was to transform the old into the new, the useless into the useful. I want to include the rubbish directly into my work because it enlivens the idea as well as the form, rendering it more tangible and authentic.
e: a.katsis@web.de w: behance.net/Ann-KatrinKatsis
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Charlotte Kelly MA Digital and Visual Communications
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The central theme in my work is the use of collage to explore contemporary culture. My practice asserts the medium as a site to collect the disparate fragments that constitute the self, in order to reflect the post-modern narrative self and post-human considerations of the self. Collage presents the subject as a conduit for these societal and cultural signifiers, explaining the anonymity and fragmentation of the self within post-modern culture. My dissertation engages with the exploration of collage as a way to consider the body in relation to technology. Focusing on the edge of a component within a collage as the site of meaning formation initiates an investigation into the blurring of the boundaries between the human and the machine. Hannah Höch’s Dada photomontage will be viewed as anticipating current realities; her work becomes a fore warner of capitalistic society, and the blurring of boundaries between the biological and technological.
e: charl_kelly@hotmail.co.uk t: 07891983602
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Alan Lee MA Digital and Visual Communications
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Not just a fluffy tale is a short 2D animated film aimed at children and the young at heart. The film is about a wandering bunny that finds a carrot but encounters another bunny who also wants it. A fight over the carrot ensues however they’re too distracted to notice a third bunny that swoops in for the prize and even watches the brawl from the side-line! The moral of the story is; when you quarrel, someone else gains, something that children or even young teenagers can learn from.
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Most of the film was created in cut out animation in After Effects and all the sets and characters were built in Photoshop. Through the visuals, I tried to mimic old cartoons with a simple style and block colours to help keep the sense of humour flowing even through the ‘violent’ fight scene like a Tom and Jerry sequence.
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Sijun Liu MA Digital and Visual Communications
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My work features a documentary about the children who live in areas of poverty in China. There is a small village in the south of China, which is isolated by the mountains. It is not too far from the city but there is a great difference in the standards of living between them. The children who live there live in extremely bad conditions in comparison with the children who live in the city. Most children in that village have a shared dream, which is to see what life is like outside of the village.
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One day a volunteer started an online campaign to help those children. Lots of people doubted him at the beginning, but one day his destiny changed – a football fan group noticed his campaign work and its members started supporting him by doing voluntary work in the village.
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Joana Schlutter MA Digital and Visual Communications
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Mental health awareness is very important in order for society to function well. Physical health has a lot of provision for care and mental health needs to be treated similarly. The pace of modern life in Western societies can lead to growing levels of stress and anxiety, and this often leads to depression. In this campaign I want to raise awareness about depression. While recognizing the variety and degrees of depression it is something that hampers the full functioning of the individual and can be debilitating. Many people with depression struggle to look after themselves. It is important that families and friends lend a helping hand to make life easier and to show the sufferer that they are cared for. This in turn can alleviate feelings of isolation and despondency.
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This campaign shows the effects of reaching out and caring, and show carers that they can be helped too.
Contact e: mail@joanaschlutter.de t: 07475 431655
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Jiamin Zhang MA Digital and Visual Communications
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This series of works is based on my autobiographical account from China to the United Kingdom. This approximates to one year and during this time, punctuated by brief visits to Europe, I became aware of the correspondences and similarities of certain sights and experiences between life in China and the UK. With this inspiration and the enlightenment of the fantastic ‘light and shadow work’ from artists Tim Noble & Sue Webster, the final works encapsulates the idea of ‘communication and connection’ which was seen in the parallels between China and UK in different areas like culture, architecture, foods and lifestyle, and as presented by two forms: illustration and shadow artistry. The illustrations were fused by two photographs, which were taken in Britain or Europe and China separately but from the same perspective. Each illustration has its own subject but all indicate that there are certain connections and communication between them.
e: jammyzjm@qq.com w: dribbble.com/jammyzjm t: 07517206998 facebook: /Jammy Jiamin Zhang
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MA Fine Art Contemporary Fine Art as a subject is typified by its promise of being an infinite and boundless field of practice, and covers the whole gamut of visual expression. The emerging artists exhibiting in this show reflect various elements of the broad range of work supported by the MA Fine Art course at the University of Wolverhampton. Working with Wolverhampton School of Art’s community of technicians and academics, the exhibiting students have developed individual, independent voices through sculpture, painting, installation, photography, performance art, relational and other practices. This show represents the culmination of a long period of reflection, research, experimentation and application, qualities that are reflected in the work on display.
critique, and individual tutorials with a subject specialist. In addition to the regular teaching team who have worked on the programme, I would like to thank; Professor Dew Harrison; Professor John Roberts; and our new Reader in Fine Art Dr. Alexei Penzin; as well as the school’s administrators, Clare Jackaman and Don Adamson; and to extend my appreciation for the efforts of all of the MA Fine Art studio tutors who provided the graduating students with supportive individual advice and tuition. Finally, I would like to wish all of the graduating students every success with their future development as artists, and extend my firm belief that they will capitalise on the skills that they have developed at the University of Wolverhampton. Congratulations.
The ethos of the MA Fine Art programme is the development of critical and artistic independence, delivered through intensive practice-led studio study, alongside technical workshops, theoretical lectures, seminar
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Stephanie Bannister MA Fine Art
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Bannister is a conceptual artist who uses offal as provocation within her works, the notion that beauty is found within is explicitly depicted in an abject art form, referencing the internal organs of the human body, illustrating that which sustains human life. Bannister uses realism through various practices installation, drawing and photography - to explore the complex relationship between life and death. The theme of investigating bio-art within the modern day body invites a question of morality: should we artificially sustain life or let it run its natural course? Through using primary materials that are an embodiment of life, Bannister renders the work compelling portraying representations of the ways in which artificial intelligence is enhancing the human race, Bannister invites the question of whether embodied artificial intelligence will eventually take over the function of the human organ.
e: stephaniebannister@ymail.com w: saatchiart.com/stephbannister
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Kathryn Gough MA Fine Art
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Kathryn Gough specialises in installation art and screen based media. Her work explores the interrelationship of our conscious and subconscious, to which an intriguing transition can be formed between the reality of everyday life and our dreams. Through the use of liquid technology she has choreographed the vibrant colours and fluid movement of a human form, to give the impression of a dream like state.
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Heavily influenced by contemporary psychology her work has consisted of significant aspects such as behaviourism, human expression and memory. Her theatrical projections portray a submersed, captivating ballet dancer that inhabits a darkened installation space. The work is a hybrid blend of projection and dance, reflecting the illusion formed by the dreamer.
Contact e: kattgough1@hotmail.co.uk w: kattgough1.wix.com/projection-art
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Xiaojia Huang MA Fine Art
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Life offers me an insight into narrative and its ability to inspire the imagination expanding concepts of the feminist perspective. Drawing within fine art practice offers me the space to explore these narratives bringing to the page some abstracted traces of human affection and desire. Drawing is instinctive to my practice and offers her a line of enquiry to engineer the imagination exploring ideas of exposure, of small truths, of the nature of secrets related to the emotional life of the individual closed to outsiders but revealed through the artist’s intention. I will follow this methodology using drawing and photography to reveal notions of closed society and the boundaries crossed by women writers and artists revealing affect and inner lives and emotion affect, it will be emphasized through my use of colour and who drawing language tracing lines and delicately exposing the female form .The sense of words and an unspoken language are there in the entwined forms or through the tentative gesture and emergence of human form.
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David Morris MA Fine Art
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My practice is implemented with the notion of enticing the viewer while simultaneously gaining an emotional response through the edgy subject matter. The theme of the work derives from the newspaper articles which are collated into the foreground of the work. However the newspaper articles are situated to delicately seep through while not distracting anything away from the vivacious textures of the paint. My intentions are to use provocative material to gain a shocking reaction from the viewer. The rough application of textures is implemented to correlate with the sensitive concept.
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Danielle Morris-Hughes MA Fine Art
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The majority of the western world is sheltered from atrocities happening daily in other countries. Modern technology allows us to tune in and switch off or, alternatively, to watch clips, miniature snippets of someone else’s reality, then carry on with our lives. My multidisciplinary practice was previously focused around painting and found ex-military items, which were then merged with religious pattern and camouflage; however I have recently developed to utilising found war audio within an installation setting. This audio, of actual conflict situations, plays continuously for the audience allowing no respite. This conscious decision for no break in sound enhances that, for others, this is reality at all times.
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My war art aims at enlightening the viewer and bringing a sense of awareness of other’s current situations. In this I hope to achieve a new sense of empathy and understanding. A chance to re-find humanity within a technology dominated world.
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Brian Sheridan MA Fine Art
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I am a multi-disciplinary photographer whose methodologies are rooted in walking and exploration, the exploration of urban edge lands and postindustrial ruins, of green spaces and protected habitats, the exploration of wild and manufactured landscapes, methodologies that explore the relationships between land ownership and access, between land and identity. My walking is present in my social activism and the creation of documentary projects of local and national concerns such as the politics of austerity, social justice and human rights, the environment and global warming. My walking is reflected in my fine art photography of natural history, especially trees, photography that makes use of readymade natural and household materials and objects with surreal qualities of shape, form and colour.
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My work also includes the creation of collage and sculpture from recycled materials and the creation of image with text for socio political comment, irony and humour.
Contact e: bsheridan@blueyonder.co.uk
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Jordan Smith MA Fine Art
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Jordan’s work explores painting by combining abstraction and the use of text; operating within a system of layering and staining paint onto large canvases; to create interesting forms. She explores alternative ways to present her work by deconstructing and re-constructing the traditional principles of painting.
e: jordanpsmith@hotmail.co.uk
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Robert Wright PhD Research
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The primary focus of my mostly theoretical research is centred upon the power relations between individuals, society and networked technologies. One area my research is interested in looking at specifically is the use of magical and occult language to describe the digital world; from installer wizards to daemons, from the black mirrors that are our screens to the magic fingers and cursors that interact with them. In this work I have addressed our relationship, with what one could call the ‘light web’, in the form of the Kabbalistic tree of life. Our electronic devices, acting as shaman-like intermediaries by receiving and translating data from spheres of existence incomprehensible to everyday human cognition, allow us to transcend the physical by the unpacking and reconstruction of data that would otherwise hitherto remain inaccessible.
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Artists in Residence Artist in Residence is a scheme designed to encourage practicing artists to engage with the Faculty of Arts and our students. It provides visual artists and designer makers with the opportunity to undertake a period of research or realise a project, using our workshops and supporting facilities, in exchange for volunteering their services to the Faculty for one day. This gives those participating the opportunity to use equipment of which otherwise may not be available to them, as well as benefiting the Faculty by bringing ideas and techniques which may not otherwise enter the University environment.
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Simon Francis Artists in Residence
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Although primarily a painter, I used the facilities at the University whilst an Artist in Residence to develop my photo-imaging practice. The experience has permanently changed my approach to making images. I discovered ways of using painterly language with digital photographs to achieve ways of focussing on the subject matter. During the year, I made altered sublime and immersive landscapes, dream affected forest narratives and re-traced, re-imagined figures from Vermeer paintings.
e: smfrancis@mac.com w: simonfrancis.co.uk
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Jain McKay Artists in Residence
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My new work could be read as a series of portraits of small children or as a commentary on modern civilisation; we think we are grown up but is humanity still in its early years, mere toddlers? As a species have we progressed no further than the second of Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development? Egocentric, with an inability to see a situation from another person’s point of view? Are we primitive and childish but believe ourselves to be mature adults?
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Influenced by a number of painters and printmakers I try to give print a painterly quality, this is achieved by experimenting with the inking up process and cross mixing techniques. Colour is influenced by the old masters with their limited pallet and earthy colours.
Contact e: pumpkin_mckay@yahoo.com w: prettypinkpumpkin.blogspot.com t: 07772 676789 twitter: @Jainmckay
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Artists Access to Art Colleges The Artists Access to Art Colleges (AA2A) project is a national set of schemes, providing visual artists and designer makers with the opportunity to undertake a period of research or realise a project, using workshop and supporting facilities in fine art and design departments of Higher and Further Education institutions. This gives participating artists and makers’ the opportunity to use equipment which otherwise might not be available to them, as well as benefiting the institution by allowing students to work alongside, and interact with practising artists and makers. Typical supporting facilities available to artists and makers include college lending libraries, access to lecture programmes, life rooms, etc. Each artist/ maker has at least 100 hours access, which they can use between October and April. Although access is free, artists are expected to engage with students and those who apply are asked to propose ways in which their presence will benefit students e.g. by doing a technical demonstration or talking about their work or self-employment.
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Sue Chand Artists Access to Art Colleges
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Sue’s work is embedded in cloth as a custodian of stories, personal stories of life changing events, memories, and images that become part of who we are. A natural development from her MA collection ‘Transformation Narratives’, has been to consider the fragility of memories and how they affect us; how they change with time, the emotional response we feel and their importance to our wellbeing. Sue’s earlier fabrics embedded text within their structure, giving the stories and storytellers anonymity. Whilst continuing to develop the use of her own twisted paper yarn and woven fabrics, she is currently exploring other processes and materials to add depth. Employing methods of embedding image and text as part of the surface of the work, such as dry point, chine-collé, emulsion lifting and stitching, is enabling her to further develop the narrative as an essential part of a cloth’s surface as well as its structure; layering images and text in response to the story being told.
e: soozchand@tiscali.co.uk
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