THE RETROGRADE
BATH SPA UNIVERSITY
artists
Angela Cowan
The body is the site of experience. It is the collective and subjective experience in which we all live. Iam trying to make work that explores the corporeal, that describes and involves more bodily senses than vision alone.
Lauren Dear
Originating from Bournemouth in Dorset and moving to Bath for university. My practice of photography stems from my work in realism pencil portraits. Always with key interest between the subject of the person and their relationship with the camera lens, exploring the creative realms within the relationship. The work i create is insight of developing a career within the Fashion Photography industry as I aspire to work well into developing an internationally recognized branding of myself.
Ciri Elsigood
I am currently studying contemporary arts practise at Bath Spa University, specialising in 2D (painting, drawing & photgraphy) & graphic arts.My specialism is definetly painting and drawing and completing pieces realistically with detail. I Base my work on near enough anything, taking this time while I study to realise what my preferred area is, although I do take a lot of interest in colour, patterns, landscapes & looking at techniques.
Molly Eyers
As an artist and designer I enjoy mostly graphic arts and photography, with painting popping up here and there! I love photographing both scenery and people, and especially like using the analog camera. I feel this makes the image a lot more unique, and gives it texture. As for graphic arts I am very interested in typography and how this can be used to influence work. I enjoy painting with oil paint, and I make my work unique by using very precise strokes with a palette knife, and rarely use a paintbrush. Again, I think this gives my work texture and depth.
William Ford
In my practice I create objects and body extensions and present these through performance and live sculpture. I draw my inspiration from the intimate links that unite us or divide us as humans. My work presents, through visual metaphors the different balances of a relationship between two people and the effect it has on the third person.
William Mcgregor
'I work in all forms of media, trying not to limit myself by the materials I use. My work often becomes a social commentary for the things going on around me. At the moment I have been looking at the knock on effect that we as people have on our environment, taking a particular interest in the things we are unaware of.'
Jana Jonhardsdottir
I first started painting landscapes when I moved abroad. Ironically these paintings were not depictions of this new country instead I painted the cold and harsh North Atlantic scenery I so recently had left behind. Through my paintings I explore the harshness of nature, and the idea that the violent tendencies of nature can indeed be beautiful, such as the ferocious storms and waves that year after year bombard the North Atlantic shores with unimaginable force, slowly eroding and grinding away at the ancient rocks that make up my homeland, The Faroe Islands.
What I want to portrait through my work, is how strong and resilient nature is, while on the other hand how terribly fragile it is. Like the erosion of the North Atlantic basalt rocks. We as a species contribute to the slow destruction of life by polluting and depleting every imaginable resource on this planet. My art explores the idea that mankind is merely a small part of the world and does not hold dominion over it. We are merely spectators, and so am I as an artist, documenting and portraying my surroundings and surrendering to nature’s dominion over me.
Felicity Jowitt
My art is an expression of joy and is truly mixed media. I have always created using fabric and knit but have added more textile techniques to my repertoire as the facilities have become available. I also make sculptural pieces using
techniques including CNC cut MDF shapes, laser cut plastic, scagliola, welded steel components, ceramic and paint. Most recently, I have been exploring the use of print techniques and colouring fabrics in my work. I will often make a series of works that interrogate a theme or idea in different media. I like my art to be fun and accessible. Creating is my life and
vocation, it brings me a joy that I like to share.
Miyu Leiler
I've been working with the images or materials which I've always got in my daily life. With new ideas, every object around me has great possibility to change its shape into a piece of art works or different goods such as wearable items in my view. Hoping my works will bring you some notice for that you're surrounded by such a nice stuffs and help you to feel all the moments are really enjoyable than you might have thought.
Emily Nethercote
As an artist I express my thoughts and ideas using a wide range of media from drawing and ceramics to oil painting and photography. I am interested in colour, form and pattern and often focus on an abstracted view. My inspiration comes from the beauty of the natural environment.
Ashley-Daniel Mackle
A combination of what is real and what isn’t, the ideas in the work produced take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns, progressing through the abstract, pop and conceptual ways of thinking.
I find enjoyment in creating vivid work that humorously dislocates and subverts. The paradigm of disconnection that we live in has awoken our acts of denial, separation, power and control and are the main authority of this social structure.
We have underlined that changing the system needs all of us to recognize and consider the acts and decisions we make, and what we are faced with: our environment being slowly destroyed; the rising gloom of worldwide violence; and the governed predictability of human woe. My aim, a direct comment on this
generation and our culture, which I hope leaves the viewer in contemplation:what are the possibilities we are faced with as a modern, collective society
Alysha Moxom
Discovering paper art just a few years back, I have developed a love for finding new ways to create an image or photograph and bring it to life. Using layers and layers of paper/card, I can create a 3D image through cutting or ripping into it each layer, having the flexibility of making each layer as delicate, intricate or as abstract as I wish. The beauty of working with paper, is that it allows me to be in full control of how the outcome of my work will look; and being heavily influenced by organic lines and shapes, it creates the opportunity to build up a surface which is highly aesthetic. Being constantly surround by nature as a child, I have always been drawn to organic lines and shapes, and find the creative possibilities that organic lines have for pattern, endless. Creating a three dimensional piece, using the flexibility of the paper and the amount of pages in a book to my advantage; making a sculpture through organic lines and shapes to represent nature, I can create a world within a book, using the depth created by the pages to help build up every layer, turning it into a visual sculptor
Akane Ono
My artworks are wide-ranging, including illustration, painting, embroidering, screen printing, and recently, I mainly do both hand-knitting and machine knitting.
I am interested in spacial works and fashion, and exploring the relationships between them through my works. As I raised in Japan, studying and living here makes me know the differences between the cultures, backgrounds and people, and the new findings in my daily life are always be material in my works. Also I am often inspired by the nature which is closely related to my own culture, and the colours, textures and forms are unconsciously appeared into my works.
Sally Peters
I am Welsh and proud of it. I was born and raised in a beautiful small town called Deganwy in North Wales, a place close to my heart. I was taught through the medium of Welsh but English in the later years. I often converse with family and friends in either language and it is even natural to swap from Welsh to English mid sentence, a skill you will hear often in Welsh towns. Being proud I wanted to incorporate this influence in my final pieces I have therefore used 2 emotive Welsh items: Welsh National Athem and the distinctive Welsh tapestry design.
www.bethpetersceramics.wix.com/ceramics
Chantelle Raybould
I'm interested in formal aspects. I like to explore how the form and the function of an object affect one other, whilst taking inspiration from the world around me.
Sanket Shrestha
‘Is this really art or a bunch of video loops?’ ‘What do I feel funerals and train stations?’ ‘What do I think we humans are afraid of; what am I afraid of?’ It is the process of evoking enquiry and a conscious re-rendering of how one can observe art that I use in work. At its core, it is me simply mixing images, sound and words. It is the poetry I am looking to convey, woven in between them that exists in the narrative made by our subjective associations with symbolism in everything we see.
For the Retrograde, I am making use of the images that I grew up in Kathmandu as well as my travels outside my home city to explore the relationship between them. There is a potential for things in close proximity to turn alien when looked at from a slightly different angle. At the same time, although some previously unseen actions and images might seem strange and foreign, they might resonate with one more rather than the sequence of movements that can be seen played out around us every day. It is this process of looking back at the construction of meaning borne out of the connection and dissonance present in our method of observation that I am using in the Retrograde.
Ellie Sims
My practice focuses primarily in the form of drawing. My art is inspired by the way I feel about the world around a me in 'everyday life' and of the people I see or encounter. In my work I capture the overlapping chaos of people in a crowded city, the many crossed paths of complete strangers, or the sense of isolation and disconnection one can feel from these surroundings. Along side this, I also create line drawings of animal faces and abstract forms with my fascination for intense detail, texture and pattern.
Emma Straw
My Art is an attempt to express my love for the outdoors and awe-inspiring landscapes; as mixed media – focusing on the art of tapestry.
My Art is influenced by the places I have been and memories I have made; focusing on water and the intricate and unique reflections created. My Art uses colour, texture and atmosphere to bring these memories to life, with a tangible piece of work.
Jennie Tu
Having an interest in graphics, I like to capture typographic, and abstract elements in my work. A significant part of my work also explores the relationship between colours, symmetry and nature. Personally, the idea of pushing boundaries, going beyond the line of conventionalism and exploring the endless possibilities by mixing multiple medium and materials together is exciting to me. As a result of this, I often combine digital software, such as Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop with silkscreen techniques in my work. Digital experimentation means I can easily explore the relationship between space, the type itself, and expression all at the same time; it allows me to extend the boundless potential to inform and innovate.
Kimberley Wong
I mainly paint, draw and create mixed media textiles pieces. Most recently, I have been weaving tapestries, on both a miniature and large scale. Over the last 5 years, my main inspiration has come from building exteriors. I enjoy looking at textures and recreating them using different materials and techniques, but also playing around with colour, exaggerating contrasts. In regards to painting, I have begun to appreciate the use of oil paints, and the different textures that can be create with paintbrushes and palette knives. My work tends to be precise and detailed in all mediums, unless I am purposely being experimental, which I enjoy from time to time.