I am a mixed media artist who makes work as a way to think about time, speed, efficiency, money and routine. The covid lockdown has forced all of us to slow down and spend time reflecting, without the pressure of the outside world and this has directly informed the work I’ve made in the last 12 months. My practice is engaging different mediums and approaches to honour slow processes and slowness in general. Using time as my main medium to respond to the lack of environmental consciousness that is a result of the fast-paced world we are living in today through eco design, with recycling and reusing. I am using craft along with various other analog and digital processes, like macrame knotting, cyanotype printing and time-lapse video, to oppose the idea that immediacy is central to modernity.
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 […]