Degree Show 2023 Summer Davis BA Art and Design Serotonin – Urban Encounters This project investigates the question of why the combination of sunlight, warm weather, and greenspaces improves our mental well-being and increases our serotonin levels. My work explores the effects nature has within cities by creating expressive large landscape paintings inspired by personal …
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Macy Yaniv
Degree Show 2023 Macy Yaniv BA Art and Design Questioning whether the male gaze is inescapable within contemporary society, this project analyses the ways in which it is engrained within modern- day civilisation. Through art, film, photography, and literature, it is evident that societal conditioning has allowed the idea to receive such a high degree …
Anna Mullin
Degree Show 2023 Anna Mullin BA Art and Design My body of work is primarily concerned with the connection between landscape and the body. The human body and natural landscapes are undeniably parallel; “veins and arteries are rivers, orifices and passages are tunnels… the bald man’s head is an unredeemable desert” (Porteous, 1986, p.8). The …
Tim C Huang
Degree Show 2023 Tim C Huang BA Art and Design Tim C Huang created a performance-integrated installation, The Museum of Truth; it recreates an imagined excavation scene with three miniature landscapes on plinths, which critiques the inadequate storage management for excavated artefacts in some practices of the museum industry and preconceptions in the traditional museum’s …
Saskia Lythgoe
Degree Show 2023 Saskia Lythgoe BA Art and Design The reimagined forest takes its inspiration from the version of a forest we see in nature and creates a nostalgic, fairy tale version using man-made materials, while also including collected materials from the forest. Planks of wood covered in plaster and painted according to their contours …
Millie Abraham
Degree Show 2023 Millie Abraham BA Art and Design Within this project, I explored ideas such as the canvas as skin, the process of distressing and deconstructing the canvas, and the memory of surfaces. Following on from my previous project, my initial interests focused on the changing surface of aging skin and how this relates …
Aimee Rose Blake
Degree Show 2023 Aimee Rose Blake BA Art and Design After my nanna passed away in November 2022 following a battle with dementia, my family and I were catapulted into a new stage of grief which most of us had never experienced before. My work explores the process of grief from a family perspective, whilst …