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Molly Walker

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
Molly Walker Molly.Walker3@mail.bcu.ac.uk
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
2022
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Body Hair

My work explores contemporary and historical ways in which body hair has been represented through beauty standards. Looking in depth at the relationship individuals have with body hair through having conversations, I do this though asking direct questions and creating these through using my own hair as a material. My work communicates to an audience how by using such a disgusting, yet normal material portrays such a powerful message. By keeping a personal level within my work has allowed conversations to be made and for the audience to feel potentially grossed out by my work whilst still holding the importance and beauty that is behind my piece.

Past Shows

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

Hazera Begum
Hazera Begum
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A series a cubes with photographs printed on them are stacked against a white background. The cubes show a young woman eyes and mouth, alongside architectures from the Middle East. The female characters represented on the cube appear to wear a head scarf.
Yoana Petrova
Yoana Petrova
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A blue grid on a white background. On top of the grid are 3 angular shapes made. These shapes suggest concrete, steel and mirrored glass. In the bottom left a hand appears to grip the blue grid structure.
Victoria Blackburn-Harris
Victoria Blackburn-Harris
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A selection of coloured fabric manipulated in a flat bed scanner. The colour of the fabric is red, yellow, purple, pink, green and blue.
Lucy Lucas
Lucy Lucas
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A colour photograph showing two fabric collages on a white background. The collage on the right shows parts of a mens blazer that have been deconstructed. The fabric is in pieces and layered onto of one and other. A leopard print fabric replaces the body. The words 'Be Strong and Couragous' are written in pink on a white piece of fabric. In the fabric collage on the right the words 'you are perfect' are stitched in pink and written on off-white fabric. A photograph pf three women is printed onto fabric and layered underneath alongside other elements of a deconstructed mens blazer.