Departure
Olaniyan, Khaleed
My practice is both fine art new media and also photography. The work in both practices is about interaction between the work and the viewer, also how without conscious knowledge the viewer is willingly put in a situation where choice is seemingly taken away and replaced with a belief that they must comply with work being viewed. The new media piece is centred on an installation piece, which confronts the audience in various different manners and seeks to keep your attention and also without the viewer’s knowledge provoke interaction. The photography aspect is also similar taking across the views from new media and creating pieces, which draws the viewer to the work. Manipulation of scale and also the facial expressions is the key to making the audience interact with the work.
Pantea, Patrick
My paintings are developed from a wide variety of source material. I used photography, found images, collage and film stills to help encourage the realisation of my final pieces. I gain a lot of inspiration from old American horror movies and films that are very visually intriguing, such as more modern cinema. I am also interested in artists such as Peter Doig for his painting style and David Mach’s collage work. I emulate the techniques that these artists use in my own work. I mainly focus on landscape and interesting old architecture and how they relate. The paintings I produce contain both representational and abstract elements. I use almost every variety of paint depending on the piece I am working on. My work is a fusion of photography and paint, using both mediums as inspiration for each other and bringing the best elements of each together in my final pieces.
Papworth, Natalie
Faith is a personal expression of belief that develops throughout our experience of life, through a process of deep contemplation and thought; it combines taught religious concepts with influences from education, parental input, peers and society. Thus becoming a constantly evolving journey that effects how you choose to live your life and develops moral codes that defines your behavior, attitude and opinions. One of the most integral questions of our lives is an attempt to establish our position in the physical world and in the universe, to define our humanity and to grasp spiritual concepts through a process of understanding. In my sculptures I use the human form as a tool within the narrative that invites the viewer to respond by identifying with the shared experience of living, through expressing humanity’s extreme vulnerability in comparison to the immenseness of the universe and the omnipotence of the Divine presence.
Parkin, Grace
My practice involves the investigation of the museum as the space within which definitions of art and artefact; past and present; fact and fiction; education and entertainment collide.
My work explores the idea of fact and fiction in order to draw attention to the authority the institution holds in mind of the public to legitimise constructs of ‘reality’ and provide us with authentic objects, as well as questioning our ideas of value, originality and reproductions. My overall aim is to make explicit the hidden activities of the museum, to make the viewer question the authority of classification and cataloguing. I hope to make the viewer (museum visitor) aware of the thousand decisions that, made differently, can cause work to exist within a different context and effect their interaction with it. I also hope that my work in someway highlights the effort, skills and dedication of museum staff.
Pilling, Laura
The predominant element within my work is the interaction between the natural and the synthetic. The combination of the two reflects the relationship that the organic and the inorganic share in our everyday lives. The wood shows the lines and ravages of life whilst the resin casts provide a stylised reflection of the living tree.
The hollowness and jaggedness of the casts give an empty, skeletal effect, which represents the sense of loss that of something which once was, is no more. Light and shadow have a part to play in the work, giving extra dimensions to the piece. On one hand illuminating the scene whilst on the other, providing shadow, which gives solidity and mass to the piece.
