J CORLETT ART
Exhibitions, Workshops and Events.
BA (Hons)
Fine Art, Graphic Media and Communication, Textiles, Fashion and Surface Design,Media Make Up. Acess to HE and Diploma.
Art and Design Exhibition.
Somerset College.
June 2014.
As the academic year draws to a close, students once again crack open the wine and celebrate the year's hard graft. Some to celebrate the end of their Degree and others for their future adventures.
It is a bitter-sweet scenario to say goodbye as everyone embarks on their journey.
Fine Art students of 2014 have shared some wonderful and equally awful experiences together, became a brilliant team, held some insightful conversations and debates and produced some of the best artwork I have had the pleasure of watching develop.
I wish the best of luck to you all.
Here once more are my Artists-To-Watch:
Titania Do Rosario
BA Hons Fine Art
Jo Hockings
BA Hons Fine Art
Deborah Westmancoat
BA Hons Fine Art
Do Rosario has captured a poignant debate on identity, nationality and race. Do Rosario's striking images remove the facial recognition we come to associate, and present us with a visual metaphor that acknowledges our programmed pre-dispositions. The result is a peculiar interplay between our brains searching for nuances and the conscience disregarding the need to.
The simplicity with which Do Rosario has touched on a multitude of identity issues is astounding and definitely worth viewing the 'Face Negra' series.
www.titaniadorosario.com
Hockings creates a striking visual metaphor by exploring our impact on the environment.
By re-associating our refuse with our health, Hockings brings a juxtaposition that presents new ways to reinforce in the personal responsibility that we all forget.
Hocking's method of syncing human life with earth life, using scientific image and throw-away materials, brings to light the wider issues we have as a whole.
The abstraction with which Westmancoat produces her images is intense. Her four main components: ink, water, handmade paper and found objects, tie together and interact in a way beyond the realms of control. Yet, for a decisive period in time, Westmancoat captures choice moments to produce a beautiful analysis of the syncretism.
Her work is informative, immersive and pure; forcing your eye to focus on the flow of the water, the opacity of the ink and the implications the found objects produce in this movement. The series portrays many scenarios, in which the tangibility of these elements becomes apparent.
Westmancoat has recently been selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014 and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2014.
Frances Aitken
BA Hons Fine Art
Claire Johns
BA Hons Fine Art
James Marsden
BA Hons Fine Art
Johns is an artist who works with textiles and paper to produce representations of the maternal and gender roles. Her work presents frank realities and argues the representations of women. These harsh scenarios are countered by the fragility and dainty techniques, and vice versa. Johns' most recent work plays on the beauty in the maternal bond and the hardships and flux of motherhood.
Johns has recently exhibited in
Deep Trash Italia - Bethnal Green.
From the moment I saw a Camera Obscura I craved to see it once more. The phenomenal accuracy and the beauty from a simple reflection is unbeaten.
Aitken presents a staggering work of importance... A camera obscura bike and a camera obscura caravan.
The pastoral journies that reminisce on paper and film, present very real representations of experiences. The films are full of sensory excitement and adventure.
Marsden's work is stunning. The vividness and acuracy with which he paints is reminiscent of classical painters such as Frans Hals and Giovanni Francesco Barbieri. Up close the paint strokes are a mixture of meticulously blended hues and bold motions. The result is realistic, and yet adds a personal flair to the paintings. Marsden revives the classical style and archaic scenarios with modern props that highlight our issues with technology and interaction.
The mobiles and tablets interact with the subjects and Marsden creates a luminosity to the skin that captivates the eye. The highlights and interactive poses that reflect our era are a nod back to the work of Carravaggio and Joseph Wright of Derby. This classical technique of Tenebrism has been revived in Marsden's work and brought into the 21st Century.
The aesthetics of the work are admiring and cannot be truly appreciated unless in person - adding to the ethos of the work itself.
Natalie Ellen Turner
BA Hons Design
Becki Cuff
BA Hons Fine Art
Lauren Mann
BA Hons Design
Cuff focuses her latest project on the throw-away culture of today's society. Cuff utilises the rubbish to create modern sculptures and gives rise to a new form, a new utility. The representation and odd combinations allow for a debate on the wider issues whilst offering a curious interest in the unusual aesthetics.Cuff Completed her FdA in Art Therapy and is interested to progress into Community Arts Projects and Courses for the Public.
www.facebook.com/akissfrom.beeka
Turner collects artefacts and curiosities to form her own unique collections. It allows for the viewer to search for connections and nuances of the objects and to appreciate the aesthetic value of the collection. Turner is interested in the assembly of these collections and the arrangement of which we strive to be visually pleasing.
Mann has created some beautiful designs through the use of microscopic images. Mann uses the colour, form and luminosity of insects to replicate and digitally repeat within her surfaces. The result on her wooden cutouts
is an exquisite filigree detail. The asymmetry is reminiscent of Mendhi patterning and alongside the luxurious silk with its rich hues, it has the same, vibrant appeal. Mann creates these images with the intention of transferring to wallpapers, panels and fabrications.
www.laurenbethdesign.co.uk
Rebecca Jelley
BA Hons Design: Fashion
Jelley's Infusion Collection lives to its name. Jelley has introduced unusual and exciting textures, patterns and form with controversial connections. Draped cloth is balanced with strong, geometric wood; the cold, harsh metal against the flat of the grey. Jelley has thought about each material, each influence, and compliments its own form before merging the sequence together. Each element has its own backdrop and this outfit, in particular, stands out as a statement piece.
Chloe Allerton
BA Hons Design
Allerton focuses on the movement of nature; the fluidity, the sound, the feeling. Using natural movements of trees, water and the organic patterns, Allerton creates designs that are transfered to glass. The translucent quality adds an ethereal note which emphasises the sensory information of the pieces. The result is captivating, mesmirising - the definition blurred as if time is captured, as if nature kisses the glass and is trapped upon it.
Allerton's textile surfaces and sculpture reliefs have the same desired effect. Layers, texture and form present an informative look into nature and its vast shape.
JAW Illustrators:
Alex Barnes
Jake Stickland
William Lewis-Childs
BA Hons Graphic Design
JAW Illustrators is a collaberation of three Graphic Graduates from North Devon.
What drew me to their compilation was the difference in drawing styles that are merged into a lively comic crowd. Each drawing in itself holds a mass of visual detail and together it envelopes your eyes- no image overthrowing the other. JAW have produced an impressive installation for their Graduate show which highlights the effort put into one of these collaberations. I see big
things for these designers.
Image ©JAW Illustrators
www.facebook.com/jawillustrators
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designMATTERS Emerging Exhibition
designMATTERS are working to illustrate the importance of art and design education. We are campaigning against government cuts to arts and humanities education that are making creative degrees inaccessible to the majority. We want to show how fundamentally important it is to educate and support creatives within our education system and beyond.Our aim is to show how art and design can be used to communicate and develop scientific discoveries, theories, and new technologies. Without creative minds, science would not be able to develop and innovate; science needs artists to conceptualise how new technologies such as Bio-printers can be applied to our lives. At designMATTERS, we aim to emphasise the ways in which design is of fundamental importance to the development of scientific theory. (designMATTERS: 2014)
becausedesignmatters.co.uk
agihaines.com
normalflora.co.uk
sophielobban.tumblr.com
susanbeattie.com
melaniek.co.uk
julielightglass.co.uk
#dm14 @_designMatters
@instituteofunnessecaryresearch
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Eye, Hand, HE.Art Degree Show.
With our Private viewing in full swing, hundreds of guests have arrived, bubbly in hand, to celebrate the exhibition of Foundation Degree and Diploma students. With over 70 students displaying this year, there is a hub of creativity. Each exhibit is like stepping into a person's esoteric world; spending an entire year researching their chosen theme. The visual outcomes are fascinating. Within this diverse event, there are sophisticated pieces in the fields of Fine Art, Illustration and Ceramics. Below are some Artists that I feel are ones to look out for in the future- big things will happen from these talented individuals.
Open for general viewing June 4th - 28th 2013.9-4 Monday- Friday.Free Entry. Parking and Disabled Access available.
Eveleigh's artistic process is truly an enigma- and that is what keeps me so engaged with her work. Elaborate, sculptural pieces appear in the studio as if by some ethereal means. Rich in texture and colour, they add a real punch to the visual senses. Throughout the year each outcome of Eveleigh's I have seen is always a powerful one. It has a way of captivating you for hours on end; searching for little nuances, or slight asymmetry which guides you to minute patterns rendering you lost in texture. Eveleigh works in a variety of mediums to produce ceramics, sculpture, found objects, installations and 2D work.
Jenny Eveleigh
FdA Fine Art
© 2014 Jessica Corlett.
©Jenny Eveleigh 2013
©Jenny Eveleigh 2013
Burgoyne has such delicacy in her ceramics that they look organic and created out of a stream. Subtle notes of detailing cascading along the handle like icing on a cake. There is something so pure about the style of her ceramics that it takes away the functionality. I daren't touch for the sheer beauty and in doing so, it visual detail is fully admired.
Claire Burgoyne
FdA Ceramics
© Claire Burgoyne 2013
Alex Barnes
BA (Hons) Graphics
(FdA Illustration)
Katy McCarten
National Diploma
McCarten is definately one to watch out for in the future. Delving deep into Philosophy and Politics with her work, it borders on Post-War mixed with some dystopian scene from 1984. Subtle plays in shape and colour leave striking political resonnances that leave the viewer questioning our ecology. Are we as a race on self-destruct mode? McCarten is set to be enrolling for a BA at Goldsmiths and I cannot wait to see more of her outcomes.
Tia Higginson
FdA Fine Art
Deep in the heart of Day of the Dead, festivities well under way. Barnes' unique penmanship really brings the images to 'life' (no punn intended!) Bold blocks of colour with subtle shading bring out the South American love for bold and bright shades. The mixture of characters and guestures really add to the hustle and bustle of the party- the surroundings look comforting with warm glows of red and yellow juxtaposed with the eerie quality of the caves.
Higginson's work is beautiful and aching. I well up just looking at this painting as the ink falls down the petals like sodden cheeks. Bold brush strokes laden with delicate tones, carress their pallette onto the canvas offering flutters of dainty sweet peas. Tia's work is distinctive in its technique and her series is just as mesmerising throughout. If anyone has ever seen the film 'What Dreams May Come' they will appreciate the true loss that can be seen by these paintings in person. Love is professed on this canvas like no other.
©Tia Higginson 2013
Hannah Shuttlewood
BA(Hons) Fine Art
Shuttlewood's work is always intoxicating and so diverse. From the shores of fantastical folklores of mermaid, the shallow workings of club-scene portraits cascading in on you, to the dark depths of crushing depression, Hannah is uncomprimising in her outcomes no matter what the theme. What captivates me most is the siren sounds of her voice that echo across the vast lonliness of her images. Something inside chokes- nothing is said and yet everything is understood. Whether working in films or in paintings, Hannah Shuttlewood is one to watch for the future.
©Annalie Grabey 2013
©Annalie Grabey 2013
©Annalie Grabey 2013
Annalie Grabey
BA(Hons) Fine Art
It is hard to describe Grabey's work because there a little words that do it justice. Each piece holds such personal significance which is in part what makes her art. It becomes something to treasure, such emotional value is hard to come across in artwork because actualising emotions and feelings is to master the essence of art and yet, Grabey has achieved this early. Various works have been themed around Victorian and Sicillian tradition, homages to the dead and visual metaphors of memories. Her 3D pieces are so delicate and exquisite in their construction that they have the same attributes to an archaeology find. As if they have captured a moment in time that was over a century ago, Annalie is a living embodiement to that era.
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