BAAAD ANNUAL

Ashley Wilson

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
Ashley Wilson Ashley.Wilson@mail.bcu.ac.uk
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
2022
#Activist
#Historian
#Storyteller

Ashley’s work is a personal study into the meanings of ‘self’ and ‘place’ and how the the legacy of colonialism is still widespread adding to the Caribbean diaspora that echoes in our search for a home and an identity. Her workis an exploration into understanding how her Diaspora has affected the way she views her personal and cultural identity in the spaces she occupies. Ashley’s practice revolves around examining the difficulties of finding a balance of the transcultural relationship between a distant homeland and your current place.

BAAAD ANNUAL

The annual Degree Show is a highly anticipated event amongst staff, students, external partners and friends of the School of Art – it provides a platform for the work that the students have spent so long conceiving and producing. The 2023 Degree Show has been realised through an ongoing testing of ideas in public arenas in which the discourse around art practice takes place. This process of realising practice which engages with audiences has over […]

Peers & Collaborators

Jessica Overdijk
Jessica Overdijk
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#Activist #Dreamer #Storyteller
Image shows a fictional toy store with pink fluffy toy with a blue face. The toys lounge is sticking out. The toy is sitting on a lilic box and the walls are painted pink. A blue fluffy toy can also be seen, as can a small brown bear with a pink stomach.
Xiaohan Li
Xiaohan Li
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A digital illustration showing a man in an orange jumpsuit. He is crouched down against a wall in a dark space that looks like a prison. How hand is placed onto of a poster that shows a face with the words 'big brother is watching'.
Victoria Blackburn-Harris
Victoria Blackburn-Harris
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#Activist #Educator
A selection of coloured fabric manipulated in a flat bed scanner. The colour of the fabric is red, yellow, purple, pink, green and blue.
Yazmine Downing
Yazmine Downing
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#Activist #Educator
A wooden frame painted in red, orange, yellow, green, blue and dark blue stripes. Inside the wooden frame are a series of felt illustrations. They show a young man with yellow hair and glasses. He has pink lips and a red jumper. The words Liam 20 are written as are a series of footsteps, a mobile phone, a number 15 in a rosette and two text boxes which say 'I knew there was something not wrong, but different' and 'oh yh, mom, By the way, I'm Bi'.