Degree Show 2023 Molly Staniforth BA Art and Design My garment-object series uses poetry and found image to create living fabrics pressed with traces of time, place and memory. I am interested in the idea that garments can possess and represent mental space and memory. Specifically, how they become activated by our physicality and personas. …
Category Archives: BA Art and Design
Edith Young
Degree Show 2023 Edith Young BA Art and Design Edith explores the sensorial and ‘the erotic’ qualities of bodily movement and materiality – how this has the potential to connect us to our embodied experience and emotions. This often takes the form of photography, moving image, and collage.. handshakeConnect with ‘Two bodies’ In this digital …
Imogen Gray
Degree Show 2023 Imogen Gray BA Art and Design Muscle Up Buttercup encompasses an exploration of femininity within female boxing as a contemporary representation of strength and resilience in collaboration with the female boxers of Leeds. The project has moved through multiple stages from the analysation of flowers and what they represent in relation to …
Sian Pitts
Degree Show 2023 Sian Pitts BA Art and Design ‘Amidst the Mycelium’ Responding to the mystery of cryptozoology, fairy tales and folklore, this project alludes to a world beyond our own – A macrocosm that’s seeping through the fissures in the undergrowth, perfectly protected by the blight and excrescency that we evade and hidden away …
Yingfei Zhu
Degree Show 2023 Yingfei Zhu BA Art and Design As a viewer, have you ever thought about why some simple drawings will be counted as ‘art’ for an exhibition? What are these artworks about? How can you understand them? To this extent, interaction between the viewers and the artwork has always been the main focus …
Millie Thompson
Degree Show 2023 Millie Thompson BA Art and Design The routine, a phenomenon that is inherently different and yet so similar. After many years of visiting my grandparents’ house, a place once with so much life, now, slowly unused, with the role of the interior gradually fading into insignificance. This project explores the beauty residing …
Yanqing Li
Degree Show 2023 Yanqing Li BA Art and Design The project theme focuses on healing the inner self, drawing inspiration from Alfred Adler’s quote on the impact of childhood experiences. The project uses drawings and paintings connected through a storyline about a girl’s adventure. It aims to create a space reminiscent of a playground, combining …
Molly Willis-Clarke
Degree Show 2023 Molly Willis-Clarke BA Art and Design My love for colour and crafting processes led me to create a series of textural weaves for exhibition, with the aim of showing the importance of craft. Within the project, I explored the use of colour, playing with how the colour palette can be used to …
Isabelle Barber
Degree Show 2023 Isabelle Barber BA Art and Design This body of work takes inspiration from the whimsical worlds depicted within folklore and fairy tale, creating a nostalgic space for the imagination to navigate through. Mushrooms and fantasy creatures continue to be a focal point in my work, influenced by Manx folklore that I grew …
Georgia Marshall
Degree Show 2023 Georgia Marshall BA Art and Design “The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct” (Jung, 2021) Throughout this project, I embarked upon an archaeological excavation of my childhood, foraging through my loft for archival matter. I stumbled across numerous mass-produced toys, including a hand-sized …