UEL Masters Students in Fashion, Graphic Design and Fine Art showcase their best work
Tuesday 11 September 2012
UEL Masters students in Fashion, Graphic Design and Fine Art will showcase their final pieces in a show at the AVA building at UEL’s Docklands Campus. The exhibition opens with a Private View on Thursday 13 September and will be open to the public from Friday 14 September until Monday 17 September.
The fashion students come from a diverse range of countries, namely Malaysia, South Africa, Cyprus, India, Barbados/ Nigeria, Pakistan and Ireland. Their show, which is entitled ‘Collective East’ features Siobhan Callaghan who examines lucid dreaming and sleepwalking, creating a series of images which have inspired a collection of scarves. Poonam Choksi explores the use of liquid latex rubber whilst Hariza Zambri is interested in the ‘lesbian gaze’ and how women look at each other emotionally, erotically and aesthetically. Kate Williams provides audiences with ‘The Sweet Escape’ looking at individuals and attitude and Jenni Smit, an MA Graphics student examines the young emerging Afrikaners who are recreating themselves socially, politically and culturally.
Lucy Jones, Programme Leader MA Fashion at UEL, said: “Students have voyaged on independent and challenging journeys of discovery, the outcomes of which are both exciting and expressive, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of their experience thus far. The show presents the culmination of their individual efforts and we applaud their achievements and success.”
Fine Art student William Goodin takes an experimental approach to film exhibited as a video installation. Jennifer Hale explores the changing ground-plans of airports producing cast concrete pieces, wall drawings, installation and prints. Beau Haut works chiefly with 16mm film, using it as subject, object, and process, producing projections, installations, prints and sculptures that refer to the processes used in filmmaking. Sooji Jung makes abstract paintings that utilise delicately modulated colour and mark making within a regular formal framework. Tatenda Mabaya works from the body, directly casting and photographing fragments and details of poses and gestures. Edyta Trzebiatowska makes paintings that begin as representational portraits and landscapes which then become eroded and over-painted into apparent autonomous abstractions that still continue to express aspects of the original subject.
Peter Cobb, Field Leader for Fine Art at UEL, said: “Through the summer of 2012 the MA students have responded to the opportunity of working in the extended studio space available, developing work in a wide range of media, including painting, film, video, sculpture and installation. The MA Show brings us the results of their experimentation and shows the maturity of their vision and brilliance of their creative achievement.”
