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I initially start with the question of how much I can ‘work’ a surface. All the works display a multiplicity of marks (scratching, piercing or drawing) which result in surfaces resonant with the prolonged activity of their own deconstruction. I stop working on the paper when it achieves a state of fragility whereby its coherent form would be...
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Artist’s Statement Victoria Lucas (b.1982) is an interdisciplinary artist based in the North of England. Working predominantly with video and installation, her practice explores the ephemeral nature of existence over the passage of time. The transient nature of media selected is used to fleetingly re-construct and re-imagine past events,...
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My practice has always had the ethos of making work which costs little or nothing to make. I class myself as a sculptor and although recently my practice has moved away from the making of objects towards digital media. All my work has sculptural elements; recent animations and drawings looked towards extending the flat surface into a three...
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Victoria Ferrand Scott uses a wide range of tools as an artist but thinks of herself primarily as a sculptor. When working in three dimensions her forms are often abstract but with a strong organic character. They do not resemble or imitate anything specific but have their own identity. She works with materials such as plaster...
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Working with paintPainting has gone through many shifts over the centuries and the only obvious similarity is that all painting involves some type of pigment on a surface. And even that may vary. So how can one determine the essence of painting as an artform? How can one define and evaluate it? Is it the artist's depiction of their soul on a...
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Neil Webb is a practising artist based in Sheffield working predominantly with sound. His practice includes sound installation, video, performance, curation,CD releases under the name bocman and is a founder member of Host Artists Group. He is now senior lecturer in sound at Sheffield Hallam University.2003 saw performances by bocman at Sheffield...
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A fascination with individual memory, story-telling and evocative objects characterises So Young Jung's work. She combines film, sound and objects to investigate the theme of personal and collective memory. For her final MA Fine Art show at Nottingham Trent University, Jung presents three small doll's-house size rooms containing...
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Claire Harbottle's premise is to equate 'art making with child rearing' in which 'the drive to create involves endless repetition, everyday frustration, and the impossibility of ever getting it quite right'. This selection of recent work, combining sculpture, video, photography and performance, is likewise something of a mixed...
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HeliocentreThe installation featured in Pending presents a reconstruction of elements drawn from the illusionary visual experience of a nightclub. The title of the work refers to the scientific theory that the sun is at the centre of the Universe as proposed by Copernicus in the sixteenth century. A political/religious debate around the...
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Artist statement One of the emphases in the 'Water Carriers' was to perpetuate and advance the notion of African woman as maker promoting the skills and practice of making clay vessels in the home as domestic pieces or used for ritualistic and symbolic purposes. In this project this is a celebration of the strength of African women throughout...
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Since the beginning of the MA course, I have been focusing on the use of objects as materials in art making. The chosen objects include leaves, text, magnets, balloons, boxes, books, egg shells, cotton wool, sand and lost objects such as gloves. The project comprises a number of works and some of the pieces were selected for display at the...
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Artist statement The works in Ablution were made to convey a tension between sacred and profane space, and the narrow sliver of experience between. My practice as a whole concerns the design, use and politics of environment, and Zen aesthetics. In Ablution I used water and re-arranged institutional furniture remaining at the art school campus...
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Artist statement Cultural Travelling in Leeds Communities, 2006-2007Cultural Travelling in Leeds Communities is a research project started in October 2006 and developed during the eight following months through various visits, interactions and recordings. Following processes of an ethnographic practice, the project concentrates on...
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Bolser's MA show used video to manifest themes and ideas of spectacle, memory and histories to draw the viewer into revealing their own past and preconceptions. Using Super 8 footage of her family juxtaposed with other grainy childhood type images she gently instigates a genuine interaction from the viewer. She expects us to confront that strange...
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He told me something about the art world, probably the art market. I should make them well polished like some luxurious goods. Perhaps art still belongs to the bourgeoisie. I found the modes of making art always incorporated with the bourgeois value. The qualities of art which are "good" and which are taught in art schools, sold in the art market...
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