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Yazmine Downing

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
Yazmine Downing Yazmine.Downing@mail.bcu.ac.uk
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
2021
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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'.
Come Out and Chat by Yazmine Downing

 Over the past few years my work has become focused on the human experience, giving a platform of others who are willing to share their stories and testimonies. I explore these narratives through the use of fabric and video mediums.

For my final year project, I have chosen to base it around the queer event of coming out. As it was something that I’ve experienced, so I was intrigued to sit down with others and listen to their testimonies.

The main reason I chose to use fabric/textiles in all of my projects is due to the personal relationship the medium has to me. It represents warmth, home and security. Whilst also embodying an essence of nostalgia, of when I was younger and my mother used to sit down and teach me fabric construction all whilst retelling family histories.

With each project, I’m challenged to come up with new ways to visually represent and capture the individuals stories. I’ve always struggled on finding a relationship between fabric and video work. Through exploration and experimenting over the past year, stop-motion animation has been highlighted as the missing link.

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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 […]

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Zehui Ju
Zehui Ju
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#Activist #Historian #MA Arts and Project Management
K’Zhayha James
K'Zhayha James
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Finn Sharratt
Finn Sharratt
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#Activist #Storyteller
A digital illustration of a blue hand on a blue background. The hand has a liquid substance dripping from the fingers into a puddle. The image is a portrait format and framed with a black background.
Josh Powell
Josh Powell
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#Activist #Engineer
a photograph of three ceramic pots on a light blue fabric. the ceramics are odd shaped vases and are glazed in green , blue and red.