HNC & BA Top-Up 2023
List of Works
1. Thomas Pilott. Beyond templates: echos of iron. All custom designed graphics.
2. Dilpreet Singh. After dark.
3. Liz Thomas. Rotations. Short experimental film and digital photographs
4. Clare Smith. Untitled.
5. Clare Smith. Untitled.
6. Clare Smith. Untitled.
26. Clare Smith. Untitled.
27. Clare Smith. Untitled.
28. Clare Smith. Untitled.
29. Clare Smith. Untitled.
30. Clare Smith. Untitled.
31. Jac Shine. Untitled. Acrylic paint and Ink on paper
32. Jac Shine. Untitled. Acrylic paint and Ink on paper
33. Jac Shine. Untitled. Ink
34. Jac Shine. Connections. Ink on paper
35. Jac Shine. Untitled. Ink on paper
36. Jac Shine. Untitled. Drypoint and ink on paper
37. Jac Shine. Untitled. Ink on wood
38. Jac Shine. Untitled. Acrylic paint and ink on paper
39. Emma Allen. On track: +3 degree world drawings
40. Emma Allen. On track: + 3 degree world Pinata globe
41. Belen Durante. Sculpture
42. Belen Durante. Bellies
43. Belen Durante. Madres Unicas
44. Stephen Harrison. High Window.
45. Stephen Harrison. House of Scooby Doo
46. Stephen Harrison. Circles
47. Stephen Harrison. Cross Section
48. Stephen Harrison. Black Forest
49. Adrianna Wojcik. Awaken
50. Adrianna Wojcik. Mysteries
51. Adrianna Wojcik. Do you see me?
52. Simone Seraphine.
53. Simone Seraphine.
54. Simone Seraphine.
55. Simone Seraphine.
56. Simone Seraphine.
57. Simone Seraphine.
58. Simone Seraphine.
59. Simone Seraphine.
60. Bafrin Rashed. Eve in the garden of this age
61. Bafrin Rashed. Woman life freedom
62. Bafrin Rashed. A struggle for survival
63. Liz Thomas. Comfortable and Uncomfortable nouns (1,2). Glicee prints.
64. Liz Thomas. Untitled a, b. ISM (Intentional Scanning Movement) of a screen print.
65. Liz Thomas. Untitled c, d. ISM (Intentional Scanning Movement) of a screen print.
66. Emma Allen. Climate Crisis, No.1.
67. Emma Allen. WOAH
68. Emma Allen. Cause/effect, Cause/affect
69. Evelina Yotovleva.
70. Evelina Yotovleva.
71. Evelina Yotovleva.
72. Megan Banks. Untitled.
73. Megan Banks. Untitled.
74. Megan Banks. Untitled.
75. Karen Mulville. Untitled.
76. Karen Mulville. Untitled.
77. Karen Mulville. Untitled.
78. Karen Mulville. Untitled.
79. Lawrence Kei Naish. Untitled.
80. Lawrence Kei Naish. Untitled.
81. Lawrence Kei Naish. Untitled.
82. Lawrence Kei Naish. Untitled.
83. Sonia Ganan. Untitled.
84. Sonia Ganan. Untitled.
85.Laura Leon Batista. Untitled.
86. Laura Leon Batista. Untitled.
87. Caroline Samules. Villains Series - 1-3
88. Caroline Samules. Villains Series - 4-8
90. LIz Thomas. Balloons of vulnerability. Part of a personal conceptual sculpture made for a friend.
Adrianna Wojcik
Adrianna is primarily a painter. She finds inspiration in the natural world, documenting it by taking pictures to later draw upon. Artworks shown are linked to the ‘Climate Crisis’ project. She chose sea pollution as the theme, as sea life has been a recent area of interest. Sea creatures and plants do not have the ability to verbally communicate to us what hurts them. Adrianna provides a voice for them through her art, which visually communicates how they might feel and encourages action by acknowledging our habits when disposing of rubbish.
Painting the natural world is an intuitive decision Adrianna makes, as she believes humans are connected to nature and she loves to emphasise the importance it has in our lives. She believes disregarding the world around us would mean we lose a part of our-self, as we are not truly living in the present moment. By taking care of our habitat, animals and friends, we are sending out kindness and positivity into the world.
Emma Allen
Emma has explored issues relating to climate change, taking the 2023 summary report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a starting point. Looking for visual ways to understand the science and communicate the impact of global warming, she experimented with collage, ink, cartoons, maps, papiermaché and wire sculpture and drawing.
All of these approaches showed potential but none fully communicated the issues. What resonated most powerfully were her organically made emotional responses to the report. Work which didn’t communicate anything specific, but held something of the emotion generated by the issues.
WHOAH shown here, EA, 2023
Bafrin RashEd
Bafrin is a sculptor and painter. Works displayed are from the Climate Crisis' project where she considers the narrative of human creation; innocence embodied by Adam and Eve who emerged from the purity of nature in Paradise, up to the complexities faced today: the changing needs of humanity growing alongside technological and industrial developments, gradually leading to living with the threat of extinction.
Bafrin's work focuses on women, who she considers most affected by this global tragedy. She thinks about the effect of physical illness, and crisis in daily life leading to difficulty and discomfort. Working with the naked body, flowers and smoke, her work often shows the dual elements of the past and present. Flowers and bodies act as interconnected symbols, representing the harmonious and peaceful essence of man made within Heaven.
Liz Thomas
Liz is an interdisciplinary artist who enjoys playing with and combining musings from different domains of interest.
Work exhibited includes 'comfortable and uncomfortable nouns', two black and white photographs of a mobile made from a paper offcut from a sewing pattern, 'Rotations', a series of short experimental films involving photography and by-products from making other things, and a musical performance piece in costume to the tune of London's Burning.
@liz.e.thomas
Belén Duarte
Belén has created a conceptual work that explores love, a theme that is present in all of her work. She chose to embrace two women who suffered the loss of their children at a young age. The installation of latex alludes to the various ways in which women bring their children into the world.
There are pregnancies through gestation, adoption, clinical treatments, unplanned, lost pregnancies, as well as economically negotiated ones.
The creation process led Belén to connect to her own two pregnancy losses, serving as a mourning process to find some closure. Engaging with the theme of maternity strengthened her connection with her two kids. Regardless of the circumstances, every child is raised by a mother referent. Mother is the name we associate with care. Mother as father, mother as grandmother or grandfather, mother as two fathers or two mothers, mother as tutor. In Spanish they say 'Madres Unicas'
Steve Harrison
Experimenting with ideas around shape and colour, Steve has developed work based on his travels around the UK and Germany.
Attempting to generate forms created by the accidental coming together of palette and canvas, he bases his work on photographs and memory. Recently, he has tried to integrate printing techniques into his paintings.
Simone Seraphin
Simone once considered art to be a hobby, but in recent years describes herself as a mixed media artist. She finds inspiration in nature, primarily Lepidoptera, which she frequently explores through numerous printmaking techniques.
Initially, her passion was portraits, but through her HNC fine art course, she has embraced other themes and methods of making art. Simone prefers her art to do the talking. She wants to express her interest through her artwork and has converted her work from primarily visual-based to narrative-focused. Simone abstracts the narrative as she aims for her audience to uncover the messaging.
Clare Smith
Clare's work celebrates colour, the fall of light and how life moves. Over the last year she has extended her oil based painting practice and made her own stretched canvases.
In the course of planning paintings, her mind delves into a stock of images stored both consciously and subconsciously. A dream like state of romantic ideas drawing on past experiences and an interpretation of the world around her through her senses.
Feelings that remain or music that transports. The way the wind and sunlight continually change the natural world's appearance. Buds that become beautiful flowers. Smells that can calm or intoxicate, creatures that astound, people that resonate. It’s this wealth of external creativity that inspires and is expressed through her brushes. This series of works uses sketches featuring students of the English National Ballet school. Clare's hopes for the observer is that they draw on their own inner world and senses to transmute the paintings back into feelings.
Jac Shine
Jac is a mixed media artist who takes inspiration from the sights and sounds of the natural world. She focuses on painting and drawing on different grounds including wood, paper and practice is informed by the rhythms she observes. Influenced by the shapes, patterns and movement of trees, plants and their debris, she captures the feeling of the natural textures and movement.
Sketching, photographing, filming and mapping walks provides inspiration and information back in the studio where she makes work in acrylic and ink. When walking she imagines the invisible marks being made on the landscape and likens these to the way her mind also wanders. Her works are reminiscent of many items found in the natural world; tree trunks, fungi and the contours found on maps are reflected in the intricate patterns and forms in her work. She sees the process of producing her work as a meditative one, much the same as the meditative aspects she feels when walking in nature.
Caroline Samules
Caroline has re-imagine herself as Villains, fictional characters from the Disney franchise. Experimenting with mono print and screen print techniques, the characters are shown outside of their long established formats of comic books, film, video games, merchandises and live stage productions. Reflecting on childhood, Caroline recalls being afraid of the villains and loving the heroes and princesses. Now she sees how the villain's back story created their evil motives.
Why is it that princesses live on in the movies, the media, dolls and magazines and villains don't? Disney Villains have inspired many other franchises, such as twisted wonderland and Disney descendants. They appear as a crossover group in house of mouse, kingdom hearts, Pattycake productions 'The Villain’s Lair', in stage productions like Fantastic and Halloween shows and parades. Mono prints feature 7 Disney Villains including Evil Queen, Scar, Jafar, Hades and Maleficent.