UNDERGRADUATE PHOTOGRAPHY DEGREE SHOW 2017
EXHIBITORS LAURA BIVLARU RAIMON BOLIBAR OLLE DEIVIDAS BUIVYDAS ALI NAWAZ CHEEMA RHIANNE CLARKE ALESIA CLIFFORD LUDOVICA COLACINO SARAH JOY DAWOUD SIMONA DIMITROVA SAM EDRISI DEMET ERDEM JOEL FONG SHARON FLOCKHART RICCARDO FREGGIA
ALESSIA GUNAWAN JACK HALL LAUREN JACKSON JESSICA KENNEDY ROSIE MAY LEWIN RICO HEI LIU MARCUS LISTER GABRIELE MASIOKAITE PHOEBE MEAD ALESSANDRA MUREDDU KATLYN NEWMAN SCOTT PERRY NATALIA PANEK MAHSA SADR
GARY W SMITH LIVIA SMITH GÖKHAN TANRIÖVER DEVINYA THOMAS CONNOR TURANSKY GARY TYRRELL KLAUDIJA VISOCKYTE TOBY WALL DEÁNNA WOJCIECHOWSKA AMY WOLSTENHOLME JOSEPH WT WRIGHT PEPA YEPES
LAURA BIVLARU LETTERS FOR HOME Photographic Book
Letters for Home looks at three types of interiors, each photographed with a different technology and complemented by letters for the artist’s family. A three-chapter concertina photobook, the project explores how the complex feeling of displacement appears at the intersection of multiple coordinates – unsatisfactory living conditions, a workplace beneath expectations, exposure to home trends, all interplaying on the background of the Eastern European idealisation of the Occidental lifestyle.
laurabivolaru.com info@laurabivolaru.com
RAIMON BOLIBAR OLLE NOVES VISIONS
Series of Prints
raimonbolibar.com contact@raimonbolibar.com
DEIVIDAS BUIVYDAS F(L)IGHT Photographic Book
The work explores a multitude of themes in Boston – a city labelled as “the face of Brexit” as it had the highest Leave vote in the whole of Britain: a massive 75.6%. Located in Lincolnshire, Boston is a small market town surrounded by fields and benefits from expanded food industry and agriculture. Documenting everyday life in one of the most segregated town in the United Kingdom, the following insights reflect both the perspective of the immigrants and that of the locals.
davidphos.com deividasdb@gmail.com
ALI NAWAZ CHEEMA LAHORE: THE DERELICT BEAUTY Series of Prints & Photographic Book
The City of Lahore in Pakistan has been the hub of cultural activities for several centuries. Architecture has played a major role in making Lahore one of the most attractive cities in the region: it was known as ‘The Heart of India’ before the partition of the Sub-Continent. For last few decades, its architectural heritage has been on a downward spiral. One of the major contributors towards this downfall is the inconsiderate approach of the authorities whom are directly responsible for the conservation of national heritage. My book portrays the dereliction of architectural features through a series of vibrant and colourful images, making the case for this beautiful heritage which deserves to be looked after. alicheema.co.uk ali@alicheema.co.uk
RHIANNE CLARKE THERE’S ROOM ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US Photographic Book
There’s Room Enough for Both of Us is an exploration into the gentrification of The Royal Borough of Greenwich. My hometown is often thought of as a beautiful place, an anomaly. It is also a place that now exists in a state of impermanence, both fragile and fleeting.
rhianneclarke.com rhiannelillyclarke@gmail.com
ALESIA CLIFFORD BLACKENED Series of Prints
Drone photography offers new opportunities to see the nature of our landscapes beyond our existing received impressions – the available viewpoints of what we already know. This project examines the new landscape that slag heaps have become by showing the rapidity of change through colour and the fluidity of nature.
acacimage.com acacimage@gmail.com
LUDOVICA COLACINO THE INTERSTELLAR NEIGHBOURHOOD Photographic Book
If you were to expand Earth’s address, after ‘Solar System’ and before ‘Milky Way’ you’d identify the cosmic cloud in which our planet floats. It’s called The Interstellar Neighbourhood and it comprehends our nearest stars. Among them, reside a few stars that are close enough to see the past shine in their light. The Interstellar Neighbourhood is an autobiographical photobook that explores the immediate, yet unfulfillable distance between the past and the present through astronomy and photography.
ludovicacolacino.com ludovicacolacino@gmail.com
SARAH JOY DAWOUD B3
Series of Prints
B3 stands for Brown Baby’s Bridge, a public installation created by a grass roots collective in W10. The photographic project grew from a free workshop held in a community centre. I captured the images on my phone as I wanted to show my peers that you don’t need exspensive equipment to create meaningful work. B3 is putting a spotlight on art outside of institutions and the importance it holds in empowering those not included inside the white cube walls.
welcome2.myportfolio.com 2sarahjoy@googlemail.com
SIMONA DIMITROVA DANCING THROUGH LIFE Series of Prints on Light Boxes
Dance is an essential chapter in the history of human communication, movement and culture. The uniqueness of this art comes from choreographers and dancers joining in sublime movement in order to respond to the climate of their times. Their bodies thus disrupt the monotony of life, the established daily routines people create for themselves often unknowingly. Dancing Through Life looks at how dancers’ bodies can bring elegance into the public space and how audiences are prone to ignore the grace unfolding under their eyes.
simonadimitrova.com smn.dimitrova@gmail.com
SAM EDRISI THE STAGE Series of Prints
Photographing street scenes with the underlying aesthetic inspired by tableaux, this project exposes the theatricality of the everyday subject in the urban environment.
samedrisi.com ssedrisi@gmail.com
DEMET ERDEM CONVERSATIONS Video Installation
This video piece is part of an ongoing project about gesture and communication. Hands are the closest organs to the brain and move according to signals received from it. They are the tools that reflect a vision of the mind and they facilitate transmission and expression of that visualization during speech. Hand gestures are vital to our verbal conversation and sometimes we communicate with gestures without a word.
demeterdem.co.uk info@demeterdem.co.uk
JOEL FONG TSUKIJI: MEMORIES OF A MARKET
Photographic Book
Tsukiji — literally meaning “reclaimed land”— is one of the largest wholesale food markets of any kind, as well as the biggest fish and seafood market in the world. Nowhere else on earth will you find so many people so knowledgeable about fish and seafood. However, despite over 80 years of history and tradition, the future of Tokyo’s Tsukiji Market is currently unknown. With plans for the market to be relocated or rebuilt, Tsukiji as we know it today will most likely disappear, and be replaced by a modernised version of itself. Some market traditions will surely continue on, but just how much Tsukiji Market will change is anyone’s guess. joelfong.photography hello@joelfong.photography
SHARON FLOCKHART CLOSE TO HOME Series of Prints
This body of work draws upon Robert Adams ‘three kings of information’ (geography, autobiography and metaphor) to examine the Thames Gateway regeneration project and its wider consequences on the shrinking natural environment and increasing human population. As plants, wildlife and people compete for the spaces surrounding London in which to put down roots and grow, this project questions how we have come to perceive ourselves and our sense of home as separate to nature, and how ‘regeneration’ is a word now equated with profit rather than with spiritual and biological renewal. sharonflockhart.com sharmsplace@hotmail.co.uk
RICCARDO FREGGIA THE FALL OF SAIGON AND THE BOAT PEOPLE
Series of Prints
The invasion of Saigon by Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Cong regime after the exiting of American troops from South Vietnam brought about a mass exodus of people escaping the South of the country. One of these escapees Mr Thanh Bin Tran, fled with his brother from his country which in his own words had become ‘a long dark night without the sun’. This is his journey.
riccardofreggia.com riccardofreggia@gmail.com
ALESSIA GUNAWAN MARKED TERRITORY Series of Prints & Video Installation
Marked Territory: the voyeuristic outlook of the prying observer who, through his scrupulous scrutiny and his male gaze, turns his subjects into selfless objects.
alessiagunawan.com alygunawan@outlook.it
JACK HALL DEBRIS Series of Prints
jackralphhall.com jackralphhall@gmail.com
LAUREN JACKSON MAKE ME A CHANNEL Installation
To recognize reality as a form of illusion and illusion as form of reality is equally necessary and equally useless. The contemplative life, to exist at all, must see real life accidents as the scattered premises of an unattainable conclusion. Fernando Pessoa
lauren-jackson.net info@lauren-jackson.com
JESSICA KENNEDY CHILBLAINS
Series of Prints & Photographic Book
jessicaamykennedy.co.uk jessicaamykennedy@hotmail.com
ROSIE MAY LEWIN BROKEN GLASS Video Installation
Broken Glass uses the romanticised memories of childhood to portray a troubled and anxious adult mind. Based solely on the artist’s personal struggle with her identity and emotions, this video piece juxtaposes the simple and the complex, representing the fragmentation of emotion and memory. Contrary to a consistent flow of emotion, adulthood anxiety longs for release and an escape from the haze of neurotic chaos.
rosiemaylewin.com rosielewin@hotmail.com
RICO HEI LIU AUTOMOTIVE PHOTOGRAPHY Series of Prints
Every car is a combination of the beauty of the mechanical and visual. Each car has its own character. Photography, in a way, can simply express and present the visual enjoyment of the cars, which is the mission of automotive photography.
ricoliu.wixsite.com/photography ricochunheiliu@gmail.com
MARCUS LISTER HOME Installation
Do you consider your home to be a place of safety? We all should shouldn’t we ?
marcuslister.co.uk marcuslister96@gmail.com
GABRIELE MASIOKAITE PLEASE CONTINUE
Series of Prints, Photographic Book & Video Installation
This project, through an artistic vision of reality, focuses on the eradicated sense of identity and reflects on the political landscape of the late 20th century. Collaboration with Mahsa Sadr.
gabrielemasiokaite.com g.masiokaite@gmail.com
PHOEBE MEAD IN THE DARKEST PLACE Series of Prints
In the Darkest Place attempts to acknowledge the ambiguity surrounding our concept of ‘home’. Focusing on urban spaces within the city of Brighton and Hove, this project attempts to highlight the disparity between aspiration and the reality of the noticeably increasing rate of homelessness within the city.
phoebemead.com phoebemead@gmail.com
ALESSANDRA MUREDDU IS THIS A POSE? Installation
Is this a pose? is the result of the photographer’s own investigation into self-portraiture, fashion photography and performance. By actively borrowing from the physical ideals of fashion photography, she works her body through a series of forced and unnatural poses. Through the photographer’s own gaze, we encounter the female form playfully reimagined through its sculptural possibilities.
alessandramureddu.com info@alessandramureddu.net
KATLYN NEWMAN PROTUBERANT MIND Video & Photographic Installation
In 2016 I was faced with extremely painful news about the presence of growths in a loved one’s brain. The mental trauma which is connected with this news motivated the development of this piece. In understanding that the brain attempts to reason and order the world I have been inspired by the unhealthy cognitive theorising which has been used as an attempt to figure out why this is happening. Focusing on my discomfort in relation to this mental process I have produced an autobiographical exploration of causality developed to question the projection of the past on the present.
katlynnewman.co.uk katlyn.newman@hotmail.co.uk
SCOTT PERRY DEFYING GRAVITY Series of Prints
This project focuses on twenty air shows that have occurred since the Shoreham Accident on 22 August 2015 to the beginning of the 2017 display season. Air shows are the second highest attended outdoor events in the UK, and the displays they feature celebrate aviation heritage, inspire future generations and entertain the vast crowds they attract.
scottperryphoto.org scott@scottperryphoto.org
NATALIA PANEK UNEMPLOYED JESTER IS NOBODY’S FOOL
Video Installation
The allegory of the deserted jester and the king is based on the complicated relationship between them, present in arts, literature and popular culture. In 1970’s Poland, Panek’s father directed ‘School for Buffons’, a play by Michel de Ghelderode, which deals with the extremes of human nature, experience and morality; exploiting the idea of total theatre by using the symbols of the masks and the grotesque aesthetic. A criticism of degradation and materialism is also implied in the work, balanced by Panek’s poetic, political and metaphysical approach.
paneknatalia.com iampaneknatalia@gmail.com
MAHSA SADR PLEASE CONTINUE
Series of Prints, Photographic Book & Video Installation
In its simplicity, this project carries a great burden of addressing the challenges of one’s establishing continuity in one’s life after a mass tragedy. In so doing it attempts to reduce and simplify the details of daily life, such that it can reassemble these components in search of an answer. Collaboration with Gabriele Masiokaite
mahsard.com mah3sard@gmail.com
GARY W SMITH ROW Z
Series of Prints & Magazine
ROW Z intends to recognise and elevate the players and people who give up their time and money to play in the lower leagues. Issue one features the Old Garchonians, a team formed after the tragic loss of a friend and fellow player, Freddie Garcha. This photo magazine will be a limited edition of fifty with all profits going to the club featured in each publication.
garywsmithphotography.co.uk info@photogwsmith..uk
LIVIA SMITH DESQUAMATION
Video Installation
This project explores both the materiality and sensory agency of skin. By nature, skin allows us to perceive and be objects of perception. Through touch, we can understand others and they can understand us. It gives us the ability to form tactile interactions, which in turn, make us human. This work explores what it means to pull away this layer of tangibility. Here, the process of desquamation allows the human surface to become reimagined. Using the 3D process of casting, these objects sit on the threshold between the familiar and the unknown. Whilst redundant in terms of their sensory connection, they fix the lived, as artifacts made directly from the body. liviasmith.co.uk livia.m.smith@gmail.com
GĂ–KHAN TANRIĂ–VER CONFESSIONALS Series of Prints
In a trance of introspection, I began to recollect my childhood memories, linking my current thoughts and behaviours to gain a deeper self-knowledge. The expression or performance of my identity is informed by these memories: those that are recalled and those that remain hidden below the surface. Confessionals is a photographic series rooted in my autobiographical memory. The studio and the darkroom serve as the physical space where a meditative state facilitates a form of auto-therapy. The accessed childhood memories, first voiced as a textual confession, are used to construct an image as a method of enriching my understanding of the self. gokhantanriover.com contact@gokhantanriover.com
DEVINYA THOMAS GOOD HAIR Series of Prints & Video
Good Hair explores the identity of black women behind closed doors delving into the unity and the bond between siblings, who experience an uncomfortable relationship with their hair, whilst embracing it and at the same time exposing their vulnerability and self-consciousness at home. It is a journey of memory building on relationships and the acceptance that afro textured hair is in fact good hair.
devinyathomasphotography.com devinya@hotmail.co.uk
CONNOR TURANSKY SAFE SPACE Interactive Installation
An interactive installation art piece celebrating the successful coping strategies of three individuals affected by mental health issues. The installation contrasts cutting edge augmented virtuality against traditional bookbinding. The techniques utilised throughout SAFE SPACE are the apex of the artist’s intention to create a transitional sensory experience. As the viewer is taken on a personal tour through three unique safe spaces, an ephemeral bond is created between the artist, audience and the participating individuals. This progressive bond is one of discussion; the work functions as a safe space in itself. An environment to discuss, learn and celebrate everyone who lives with, and is positively tackling, mental health issues. connorturansky.com turanskyman@live.co.uk
GARY TYRRELL SOUND BARRIER Series of Prints & Installation
The first time I heard the rhythm of my voice it reflected the sound of my soul.
gary.tyrrell.gogowebspace.com gdtyrrell@icloud.com
KLAUDIJA VISOCKYTE A SONG WHISTLED ACROSS THE INTERSTICE
Series of Prints
A song whistled across the interstice documents the collaboration between the photographer and their subject, and relates this to us in an order influenced by memory and by tracing movement. The interstice is felt in the stillness inherent to the photograph. While we ourselves exist in the continuous flow of time and actions unfold uninterrupted, the photographic stands apart by being constituted by a number of overlapping inflections: a nuanced segmentation of that flow directed by the photographer’s attention and direction. cargocollective.com/klaudija-visockyte klaudija.visockyte@gmail.com
TOBY WALL HEREAFTER Series of Prints
As my father approaches his 70th year, I have become increasingly aware of the temporality of our existence. The anticipation of the inevitable has sparked contemplation of what form an afterlife might take if a soul could transcend from its expired body and consciousness and inhabit a new space. Through varied symbolic, metaphorical and fantastical imagery, this ongoing project is an attempt to depict an immersive and fictional world filled with anomalies that appear surreal and purposeful.
toby@tobywall.com
DEĂ NNA WOJCIECHOWSKA BELONGING TO THE LAND Series of Prints
Belonging to the Land is divided between the past and present. It seeks to trace the wide heritage of the photographer through the use of archival documents, while exploring her own identity through landscape photography. It evolves around the idea of homeland and personal development, displaying a visual journey from Poland to Ireland.
deanna.net deannawojciechowska@gmail.com
AMY WOLSTENHOLME I HAVE NEVER FOUND A COMPANION THAT WAS SO COMPANIONABLE AS SOLITUDE
Series of Prints
I have never found a Companion that was so Companionable as Solitude is an attempt to visually express the ideologies of being alone while in a highly populated proximity. This body of work explores the idea of solitude and trying to search for something quite rare within the city of London.
amywolstenholme.com amywolstenholme@yahoo.co.uk
JOSEPH WT WRIGHT THE CLOUDED PERIPHERY OF UNKNOWING
Series of Prints & Photographic Book
I too am the Soul of the Desert; thou shalt seek me yet again in the wilderness of sand. The title references an anonymous work of mysticism, suggesting that only by the wholly surrender of the mind and ego may one enter into communion with the true essence of reality. This is an experience with universal cultural reference, regardless of religious conviction. These photographs visualise this abyssal journey toward union with the ineffable, as the lower self succumbs to the revelation of a higher centre. During this period, existential anxiety and spiritual crisis are not uncommon. josephwtwright.co.uk josephwtwright@gmail.com
PEPA YEPES REIVINDICACIÓN DE AMOR
Series of Prints
pepayepes.com mail@pepayepes.com
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