Rob Downward
07894455596
This project focuses on looking at our environment and its conditions to observe how our society is coping in the harshest economical circumstances in modern history. It shows a realization of the determination and strength that can bind people together in difficult times.
I wanted to showcase a small part of the problem; potholes. I think they are a perfect metaphor for how our society has been able to maintain itself as well as being a defining factor in most of our lives, connecting people in a less than obvious form.
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Rhiannon Helena Cory
07873778915
“The vocabulary we use to describe typefaces is very anthropomorphic: all fonts have a ‘face’, a ‘body’, they have ‘arms’, ‘eyes’, ‘legs’; we give typefaces names and bestow them with characteristics to which we have an emotional response”
- Type Tarts 2011
Visual communication is the key to my practice. My aim is to illustrate selective elements of human nature and invite the viewer to explore the way in which we visually perceive words. Through experimental and illustrative typography, I have worked with a variation of mark-making techniques to produce a series of illustrated quotes from friends that summarise the bizarre nature of individual personality.
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Nicola Chadwick
07809839586
The aim of my work is to create the illusion of water using everyday materials; creating a blend of uniqueness and depth.
“Water has no taste, no colour, no odour, it cannot be defined, art realised while ever mysterious to life, but rather life itself. It fills us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses”
Antoine De Saint
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“Things tell us who we are, not in words but by embodying our intentions. In our everyday traffic of existence, we can also learn about ourselves from objects, almost as much as from people”
– Czikszentmihalyi and Rochberg-Halton, 1981
This series of photographs steps into the past to explore identity through peoples’ possessions. Some possessions have high sentimental or nostalgic values when they have been preserved; resulting in a story of someone’s life.
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Adam Gruning
07761743383
In this series of work, ‘Quotidian’, the selected pieces reveal how our relationships with commonplace objects can be altered through minor changes, by adjusting a products desire and value through alterations in material and removal of selected branding. Along with this, the objects function and purpose is brought into question, allowing the viewer to perceive the object as a foreign form opposed to its regular familiarity. This bringing into question the nature of the object, as well as our routine associations with them.
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Jack Roberts
07904918311
Landscapes, whether they are rural, costal, cityscapes, or even skyscapes, are always changing, moving, growing and developing. Capturing this movement gives a true essence of the landscape. You gain a sense of the speed, the weather, the noise, almost making you feel as if you were there.
This exploration began as a photographic study creating often blurred and unnatural images of the landscapes movement. These documentations were then reworked and translated into textiles helping to give a link back to the tactile nature of the subject matter. This transition has also enabled me to emphasise the movement, making it more of a focal point within the textile works.
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My work varies from being 2D to 3D, and I enjoy exploring different ideas with experimentation using various materials and paper. I feel that this is what makes each project different from the last, and also it allows me to develop as an artist.
For this particular project, my focus is architecture as head wear. I used research in historical and modern architecture to aid an exploration to develop my final outcome.
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Billi-Jo Morton
07788121218
My project focuses on my passion for Parisian Bakeries and Patisseries. I have completed a range of drawings and textile samples inspired by their decorative displays. These have then been manipulated through Adobe Photoshop to create a repeat pattern that I feel represent these inspiring and creative cake sculptures. My patterns have been produced commercially, by transferring the outcomes onto giftware and kitchenware items.
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Annie Sanderson
‘The line and thread connects relationships and defines emotions’
Alice Kettle
Focused on experimenting with texture, forms and emotions, this collection sees a combination of my passion for heavily embroidered machine stitch and the theme of human anatomy.
Working around the theme of anatomy is something that I consider to fit hand in hand with my specialism of textiles. The reason for this is because fabric is made up of layers and variations in structure. Fabric and stitch is seen in a similar way because it is malleable and can be transformed into different shapes and forms, revealing an array of hidden details in certain areas.
In a sense I have bought the insides, out.
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Lee William Hughes
Coming to art as a mature student, with a gap in my studies of 18 years, I chose the Foundation Degree in order to give myself the opportunity to find my own creative path and artistic medium. Photography was far from my mind and my skill set, but early on, it found me and I discovered that I had an eye for the photographic image and a passion for the actual practice of photography. Taking up the camera, dedicating myself to it and pushing myself into many varied areas of photography, from fashion to cage fighting and much in between, helped to develop my technical and aesthetic understanding of capturing the still image, to the point where I am ready to dedicate the rest of my career, to this creative process. From here I will be entering a final year business degree specific to photography, adding to my knowledge and beginning to push myself forwards as I develop and launch my own photography business and brand.
Rebecca ann Boden
“So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will FLY on wings, forever.” James M. Barrie.
Fabricated Flyers.
Fabricated Flyers is based on one of the most intriguing forms of movement: Flying. There are so many creations that take to our skies and yet I am still firmly on the ground.
You look up, to capture sight of a beautiful butterfly, in a slight turn, a flurry of birds create a gust of wind, gaze even further above the clouds, a plane taking a journey across the world.
Through my projects journey, I have ventured in depth discovering both natures and the man made creations that define gravity using textiles to demonstrate my outcome.
Exploring all aspects of the structures and looking for hidden details, patterns, textures, and shapes that lie within the composition.
Cindel Simmill
07951592942
“A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.” - Henry Moore
The idea of my work was to come up with some design ideas for dinnerware inspired by the coastline. I looked closely at the patterns, textures and shapes of the objects and creatures that live there in order to create ceramic designs associated with them.
