tegan button
ABSTRACT
Identity Connections is a collection that consists of eight brooches. The work is predominately based on the celebration of family narratives and the identity that is formed within those family stories. The ones that you use as an anecdote, the ones that your parents tell you to make you feel better, they all act as family history and they allow you to feel connected to the generations before. The collection is comprised of old photos depicting family. The materials used are resin, sublimated acrylic, copper, brass, steel, silver plating and antiquing fluid.
LAURA McCarthy
ABSTRACT
Concern for the environmental impact of craft and interest in the emotional aspects of making, have informed this project. Materials and processes involving minimal environmental harm have been explored, producing objects that are aesthetically pleasing and some also function as interior design products.
I have created a series of artefacts in folded paper; a large mobile, a collection of light shades and some smaller elements designed for direct manipulation by others. Some of these are pre-scored folding templates to encourage personal exploration of origami techniques. These represent an interest in pattern, and geometry as key aesthetic elements, expressed through basic materials that encourage multi-sensory engagement for the viewer and the maker. This personal engagement is understood as highly significant in mental health and in fostering a sense of interdependence with the environment.
pAIGE jAMES
ABSTRACT
The ceramic vessels and tea services that make up this collection are informed and inspired by tea ceremonies and rituals. In my practice I value the joy of making by hand and the sense of well being this brings. The tea services merge organic, sculptural form with function. The thrown forms sit together in family groups, stack, balance, and rest. Some of the thrown forms nestle, cwtch and find protection on hand built forms. These objects invite you to hold them, to take a moment, to contemplate, pause and engage in the ritual of tea drinking and taking time.
jane mills
ABSTRACT
Time and tide wait for no man” brings a seemingly random selection of man-made objects from different eras together as ‘Fossils of the Future’. This MA study, through the medium of porcelain slip and a variety of moulds speculates forward in time, objects that have been washed together in some catastrophic flood, buried in mud, and lost from sight until scientists in the future, rediscover them as trace fossils.
The flood is the result of sea levels rising as global warming affects the planet. Biodiversity has collapsed including the human species as part of the 6th mass extinction event identified as the Anthropocene period. It asks the question “is this what we want our legacy to be? A collection of discarded human ephemera, and how will future scientists use this information to discover who we were? How will it be interpreted by future geologists?
lILIAN sUTTON
ABSTRACT
The process of materializing the body, using materials to explore and represent the qualities of the body and replicate its surface texture or shape allows us to examine the physical and metaphorical vibrancy of the body as matter. New Materialism has given me a way of exploring the relationship between the agency of the body and the agency of materials and how these can be used to represent the triple goddess female archetypes of maiden, mother and crone. I have begun to understand that many of my negative views towards my own body, weight, shape, nudity, purpose and ageing are ingrained into me through societal pressures. By giving these archetypes a material and visual representation I am able to link the way we view and experience our own bodies and to try and positively transform that narrative.
BEE ALLWOOD
ABSTRACT
Hills of Joy: Sense of Place, the panoramic majesty of the Shropshire Hills and the view of Caer Caradoc. These landscapes are mapped, their textures, lines and forms are marked, composed, impressed and expressed into fabric and ceramic. Stitch, print and clay become the visual and material language used to record what is seen and what is felt. Memories, meanings and experiences lived and made over the years become an important part of the biography of the landscape, the cloth and me.
Vivienne Beaumont
ABSTRACT
The ephemerality and cyclical nature of life is at the core my textile practice. My work sits within the genre of narrative stitched textiles. It references the figurative, the mythological, nature, female archetypes and the theme of transformation. The portrait becomes a shadow of someone who once was, their fleeting youth and beauty symbolised in flowers. Harvest, seeds, barley and pomegranates represent both life force and loss. Archetypal theory and mythology use the goddess to denote the cyclical nature of female life. My practice uses machine embroidery and print to tell this personal and universal story through symbol and thread.
