Liverpool School of Art and Design Degree Show 2014

Liverpool School of Art and Design

Degree Show 2014

Degree Show 2014

Introduction

Once again the time of year has arrived when we celebrate the work of our graduating students.

The Degree Show allows family, friends and visitors to see the high calibre work that our students produce whilst studying at Liverpool School of Art and Design. This annual event showcases our graduating students’ talents but it is also a testament to the quality of our programmes, the teaching of our staff, and - very importantly – to our students’ hard work. Often graduates cite their experience of preparing for and showing at Degree Show as one of the most exciting and rewarding experiences at the School.

As you walk around the show in our award-winning John Lennon Art and Design Building, we hope that you will take the time to experience the range of work representing our diverse subject areas. You will notice brief programme descriptions as you enter the exhibition spaces. We hope that these will inform your visit and demonstrate the distinctive identity of our students in Art and Design.

Staff are confident that this Degree Show is the impressive conclusion to another exciting year at the Liverpool School of Art and Design. It has also been a year in which we said a fond farewell to our former Director, Professor Juan Cruz, as he took up the prestigious role of Dean of Fine Art at the Royal College of Art. On behalf of the School, I’d like to pay tribute to Juan who was with us for six eventful years. Juan’s passion for art and design, his inimical leadership, and his tireless energy in promoting the successes of the School have given staff and students a considerable legacy to build on – something we intend to do as we enter a new and exciting phase of our illustrious history.

I would also like to extend my thanks and gratitude to the teaching, technical and support staff in the School, who each year make the show a success; and – importantly - provide our students with all the support, encouragement and knowledge they need to make their show a memorable conclusion to their studies.

Finally, it is the tenth year of our Fashion Catwalk Show. We gratefully acknowledge the support of Andrew Collinge and his team from the Graduate Salon on Bold Street in our annual catwalk shows. Over the last decade, Andrew’s team has styled our models beautifully and contributed to the smooth running of our catwalk shows. So on behalf of the School I would like to thank Andrew for his continued support.

I hope you enjoy the show and please keep this little guide as a souvenir of your time at the Liverpool School of Art and Design Degree Show 2014.

Professor Julie Sheldon, Acting School Director

AdvAnce your art and design prActice Liverpool School of Art and Design offers cutting-edge postgraduate programmes which facilitate in-depth engagement with advanced professional practice and lead to further research opportunities (MPhil/PhD).

We have places available for a September StArt on:

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mA exhibition StudieS

mA fAShion innovAtion And reAliSAtion

mA fine Art

mA GrAphic deSiGn And illuStrAtion

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All programmes are available in full/part-time modes of study. We also offer a range of competitive bursaries and exciting travel awards.

to Apply contAct [email protected] or call +44 (0)151 231 5175

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Degree Show 2014

This year’s Degree Show features final pieces of student work from:

P2-3 Architecture BA (Hons)

P4-5 Fashion BA (Hons)

P6-7 Fine Art BA (Hons)

P8-9 Graphic Design and Illustration BA (Hons)

P10 History of Art BA (Hons)

P11 MRes Art and Design

P12-13 Interior Design BA (Hons)

P14-15 Master of Architecture (MArch)

P16 Popular Music Studies BA (Hons)

This publication also features the work of the students studying on BA (Hons) History of Art and MRes Art and Design. Although not featured in the Degree Show exhibition, this group of students still have a final body of work which will be acknowledged in this publication.

The Liverpool School of Art and Design would like to thank its supporters for helping to make the show a success, from financial assistance to supporting students with placement opportunities, advice and guidance. Without you, the School would not be able to put on such a great show to celebrate our students’ successes – thank you.

Andrew Collinge

Plexus Cotton

Tate Liverpool

Biennial

FACT

This year’s Degree Show is brought to you in association with The Skinny Magazine North West

Courses featured in the 2014 Degree Show

LJMU launches critical writing award

In April, LJMU and cultural e-zine, The Double Negative launched an exciting critical writing scheme, aimed at encouraging aspiring writers to develop their critical thinking skills.

Thinking>Writing>Engaging is a two year, Arts Council England funded project, part of the Artists’ City scheme, which looks at local and global contemporary art practice, including what Liverpool’s arts scene offer could and should look like in the future. It examines what good critical writing is and why it’s important and gives writers a platform to have their work published.

Following a public call-out for applications, we received over 80 entries. The final 15 writers were selected based on the strength of their application. They had to demonstrate their commitment to the city’s art scene, a clarity of communication and demonstrate how the scheme will benefit their career plans. The writers will work closely with the phase one lead writer, Oliver Basciano, the Managing Editor at Art Review.

Oliver will write a critical analysis of the Liverpool arts scene which will be published on The Double Negative ahead of the opening of Biennial 2014, followed by a masterclass with the final 15 to develop their key critical writing skills. Each participant in the scheme will receive editorial support, £100 writers’ fee and see their article published on The Double Negative and elsewhere.

Commenting on his involvement in the scheme, Oliver said: “There’s a lot of good to be found in art made away from the hubris of capital cities. But what art needs is an audience – a receptive one ready to interrogate, question, praise and criticise it.

“If the programme can bring just one new voice, to investigate and speak up for the art being made in Liverpool, then that should be judged a success. I’m sure with an area as literary and vocal as Merseyside there will be many.”

Read about the scheme on thedoublenegative.co.uk or follow the scheme’s progress on Twitter with the hashtag #BeACritic.

Bursaries for postgraduate study

The School has introduced the Michael Pugh Thomas and Julia Carter Preston Legacy awards, which are open to home and international students who wish to study for a postgraduate qualification in art and design with LJMU.

The awards consist a number of £1,000 scholarships, and must be applied for as part of the application process.

Applicants are required to write a 500 word letter alongside their application to study stating why they should be awarded the scholarship, the benefits it will bring to their studies and any exceptional circumstances they face in studying for a postgraduate qualification.

Further information can be requested from the School office by emailing [email protected] no later than 30 June 2014.

Moreover, all final year LJMU students are now eligible to apply for a 15% reduction in their postgraduate tuition fees if they progress onto a higher degree programme at LJMU. This generous tuition fee discount replaces the previous £500 cash bursary - visit ljmu.ac.uk/feesandfunding for further details.

Artist teachers develop their practice with LJMU

The Artist Teacher Summer School is a new four day programme for teachers of art and design in secondary schools and colleges of Further Education, developed by the Liverpool School of Art and Design. The summer school is ideal for teachers looking for exciting and relevant opportunities to extend and invigorate their practice and enthuse the next generation of young artists.

The 2014 Artist Teacher Summer School takes place on 28-31 July.

The programme, part of the School’s Artists’ City scheme is specially designed to support teachers’ continuing professional development, responding to the demands of the new curriculum coming into force in September 2014. This interdisciplinary programme will include workshops in three dimensional construction, digital imaging and calligraphy within innovative and contemporary themes all delivered by a team of experienced and specialist practitioners. Participants will also be welcome to attend a number of site visits to selected Liverpool Biennial venues.

During the programme participants will have the opportunity to learn new skills with specialist tuition; extend knowledge of contemporary artists to enrich your teaching; explore creative models of learning and teaching to inform curriculum design, and develop sustainable working relationships to benefit students.

Places on the programme for 2014 are now full, but the programme will continue in summer 2015. If you are a teacher who is interested in taking part, contact programme coordinator, Sandra Hiett by emailing [email protected]

Art in the City

LJMU continues to play a key role in bringing challenging and original art to Liverpool; enhancing the city’s reputation as a great place to study, teach, practice and enjoy art.

In November, Tate Liverpool and LJMU’s ‘Art Turning Left: How Values Changed Making 1789–2013’ exhibition opened - the first of its kind in a national gallery to examine how the production and reception of art has been influenced by left-wing values, from the French Revolution to the present day.

The exhibition featured the ‘Office of the Useful Art Association’, part of the ‘Uses of Art: The Legacy of 1848 and 1989’, a five-year pan-European project coordinated by the L’internationale network and supported by Arts Council England and the European Union. The Office was designed in collaboration with Grizedale Arts as a space where visitors could take part in workshops and discussions, a place for students, academics and artists alike could read, listen, join in debates or make things as part of their exhibition visit.

Look out for more announcements about the L’internationale partnership in 2014, including a major conference coming to Liverpool later in the year.

LJMU has further developed its partnership with Tate Liverpool and now staff and students automatically qualify for fantastic offers, includes free entry for members and a friend to all ticketed exhibitions, plus 10% off in the cafe and gift shop. With exhibition tickets costing between £8 and £11 per person, this is a fantastic opportunity for members to take advantage of everything the world-class gallery has to offer.

2014 school news round up

Publication designed by Jon Spencer, lecturer in Graphic Design

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This year’s Architecture show features final projects for undergraduate (BA Hons, RIBA Level 1) and postgraduate students studying on the Master of Architecture (MArch, RIBA Level 2 – see page 14).

The level 6 Architecture studio has explored three thematic projects.

‘Creative Hybrid’ combines activities as a gravitational counterpoint, influencing urban space such that the symbiotic inter-reaction between creative actions and public space-stimulated activity. The ‘Hybrid’ is a combination of uses centred on a fashion house and an urban space as a primer to the renewal of a creative quarter. The ‘Hybrid’ is a social theatre, spilling events onto the surrounding urban space.

‘Film and Architecture’ investigates cinematography as a means of exploring thematic ideas and articulating conceptual designs. Composing a precise image in a two-dimensional plane and representing spatial vision through architectural perspective is compellingly comparable, and is augmented further through the inclusion of symbolism and other poetic intentions in both cinematography and architecture. Virtual space-making is conceived, projected and transformed as staged or architectural space.

‘From Sea to Mountain’ is sited in the startling landscape of Porth Penrhyn, North Wales. This edge condition can be subjected to historical, philosophical and physical interpretations, and the connection of the edge back into the mountainous topography deepens potential interpretation and abstraction. Thematic events were to be ritualised, thus creating significant spatial events within an architectural landscape, which include researching, writing and studying; protection; and observing.

The variety and cultural breadth of work on display in this year’s Degree Show has been influenced by a number of events and extracurricular activities that have taken place within the School in the past year; some of which warrant particular mention here. A well-attended week-long workshop in Rome took place in October 2013 exploring city planning and public realm best practice as well as contemporary architectural interventions in historic contexts. ‘DEVIATIONS’ was a highly inspirational guest lecture series organised by our student architecture society ‘ArchSoc’ which ran from January to April 2014. Speakers included Didier Faustino, Beatice Galilee, Filip Dujardin, Brian Clarke, Assemble Studio, Studio Folder, Space Caviar and David Adjeye.

We would also like to offer our congratulations to Kieran Thompson for being awarded this year’s Susan Cotton Travel Award and to Stephen Stanley for being chosen to represent the School as part of the Faculty’s summer exchange placement in Shanghai.

The Architecture teaching team includes:

Ian Wroot – Programme LeaderGary BrownMark DoyleDr Robert MacDonaldAnthony MaloneGladys Masey-MartinezDr Athanassios MigosPhilip LoMorel RowlinsonDr Charlie SmithDominic Wilkinson

Architecture

Congratulations to the following BA (Hons) Architecture students who have presented their work at this year’s Degree Show

Aqilah AmranDaniel AndersonWilliam BanksMichael Bates-TraceyBrandon BateyJonathan BedfordGlen BilsborrowMichael BlackhurstRyan BlairRebecca BlakleyJoshua BoalerSamantha BonerKari BradburyRebecca BubbCarrie CavanaghChristopher Chandler CrnigojNatalija ChavinaDomnica ChiscaAaron Clarke-RogersJoshua ConfinoHarriet CoxAlexander CrollJames DevineJennifer Diez-JonesDavid DonaldEmily DuttonAdam DwyerAnna EagerDean EcclestonCarl ElliottHannah FairhurstHarry FosterDominic GarrettMai GiangPeter GortonLiam GriffithsLauren GwynnePatrick HemetsbergerJonathon HeyesPatrick HollensteinerRhys HughesSimeon HunterKatja JohnstonOliver JonesGeorge KesekBethan LangstrethSally LukPatson MakangadzaLiam MarsdenHusni Mohamed HassanHelena MokhtarYasir NaeemBenjamin NaylorChristopher NorrisLauren O’DonnellColleen O’NeillHenry Opoku AduseiThomas O’ReillyMichiel PeereboomDil Phagami MagarTom PhillipsChloe PurcellAmer RafiqDerrick RobsonCharlotte RochePeter RuffellDaniel RushChristopher ShawJoshua ShieldRobert SimcoxJade SturmeyAnna TolenOliver TownsendMatthew UsherUldis VilcinsCaroline WalshGeorgina Wileman


Fashion

This year has seen the Fashion programme go from strength-to-strength across all levels of teaching.

Our level 4 students travelled to Paris to observe Parisian fashion and arts culture, and our cohort on level 5 collaborated with Event Management students in the Faculty of Education, Community and Leisure to create a fashion event at the Newz Bar in Liverpool to raise money for the CALM charity.

Fashion Design and Communication students at Level 5 have been involved in a collaboration with Liverpool-based Plexus Cotton Ltd which supplies cotton seed inputs to over 300,000 small holder farmers in Sub-saharan Africa. The project was developed with Young Enterprise and LJMU’s Centre for Entrepreneurship and is centred around designing and presenting a fashion collection for Plexus, based on the use of sustainable cotton derived from its growers.

The project culminates in a static display at this year’s Degree Show, designed and curated by the Fashion Communication students in association with two final year History of Art students as well as opening this year’s graduate fashion show.

We’re pleased that our students continue to gain high profile work placements at companies such as Adidas (Germany), Peter Pilotto, Matalan, Giles Deacon and Julie Eilenberger. We currently have a finalist in Mode Connect and level 6 students have been involved in designing costumes for a production at the Epstein Theatre in Liverpool.

The programme will be exhibiting once again at Graduate Fashion Week in London on the 3 June. This important show allows us to showcase our graduates’ work in an international arena and last year gained our graduates a great deal of high profile media coverage. Many students also made important industry connections which resulted in placements, jobs and project work.

Several of our students have been successful in securing travel bursaries and will be travelling in Europe supported with funding from the Susan Cotton Travel Award and Susan Dunthorne Travel Bursary. A student from level 5 Fashion Communication will be visiting Shanghai for a month in June alongside three other undergraduates from the School of Art and Design as part of our collaboration with Shanghai University.

Fashion Design pathway

This year’s graduate fashion collections have been inspired by a diverse range of themes; from hospitals and asylums to female aviators and conceptual personal design inspiration.

Student designs have been underpinned by factual and visual in-depth research. For example, students have explored different aspects of photography, drawing, materials investigations, and 3D experimentations in paper, fabric and other materials.

We think that the resulting collections succeed in expressing the wide variety of individual interests and means of expression, for which LJMU graduates are known from across the industry.

Fashion Communication pathway

The Fashion Communication students have worked on a broad range concepts culminating in outputs for publications, photography, journalism and branding.

Working across a range of areas, the students have been able to translate themes through to highly individual outputs in line with the requirements of the creative industries.

The Fashion teaching team includes:

Lesley Peacock – Programme LeaderKayla Armstrong GibbsAnne LiddellKayla OwenCarol Ryder

Congratulations to the following BA (Hons) Fashion Design pathway students who have presented their work at this year’s Degree Show.

Alison CareyBethany ChardJennifer ClarkCharlotte Louise ConningAbigail FenderPeter GillAshleigh HoeyOlivia IwedieboPaige LawlerAlicia LittlerDanielle MercerKathryn MorganGeorgia NgHannah PeachSerene Quartey-PapafioAbigail Walsh

Congratulations to the following BA (Hons) Fashion Communication pathway students who have presented their work at this year’s Degree Show

Katie HughesAlicja Nowicka


Fine Art

In this year’s Fine Art exhibition, ‘Me Myself and Art’, there is a diverse range of media, content and approaches to making and this is mirrored by an equally broad set of thematic strands ranging from Freudian symbolism, Celtic myth, Shakespearean drama, autobiography, social realism and a minimalist aesthetic.

It is also notable that there is less of an interest in digital content from this year’s cohort and return to autographic processes. This group of young artists have impressed us with their development of refined and thorough research methods throughout their final year. Perhaps this is a reflection of the fact that the programme has no hierarchy of tradition or media – painting, printmaking, sculpture, drawing and digital media having equal status. In addition, we are very pleased to be staging this exhibition in the Exhibition Research Centre which, over the last 18 months, has established itself as an international space for reflexion on contemporary Fine Art practice.

LJMU’s Fine Art programme is based on a long tradition of encouraging students to make challenging and innovative work in a range of media and as a result we run a diverse programme, which aims to develop a confidence in our students to push their limits and stretch their abilities. The work that you see in this show particularly reflects this and is the culmination of three years’ hard work and investigation into a range of media and practices.

The class of 2014 have worked ceaselessly to improve this work and have established an impressive vocabulary of skills that are enabling them to articulate new practices in a diverse range of ways - their determination and commitment to this are evident in every mark and gesture.

In their first year, this cohort of students were active participants in the Athens Biennial and in subsequent years have successfully received travel scholarships, student advocacy and secured places on postgraduate programmes. This cohort of students has been a pleasure to work with. They have displayed drive, ambition, creativity, and humour throughout a three year period during which they have all worked determinedly to improve their work.

The Fine Art teaching team includes:

Professor Juan Cruz – Programme LeaderPeter AppletonJagjit ChuhanRick CreedPatricia MacKinnon-DayNeil MorrisRosalind NashashibiImogen Stidworthy

Congratulations to the following BA (Hons) Fine Art students who have presented their work at this year’s Degree Show

Layla Adnan AbdulrehmanEmma Anderson-DwyerDavid CarseJade CollinHannah DaviesKayle FairhurstEmma GarnerSamuel GentViktorija GrigorjevaiteNicholas Hope-ParryAbigail HudsonAlexander HughesAlbina KoumirovaMaja LorkowskaRachel McArdleLyndsey MorganMarios PpoulisSamantha RileyKathryn RobinsonLiam SmoutLoren ThompsonAbigail Twigg


Graphic Design and Illustration

Graphic Design and Illustration students are required to complete a portfolio of practical projects over the course of their final year. Typically students are encouraged to develop a rounded portfolio that contains a mix of experimental projects, set briefs often with a live or collaborative element, and at least one personal project. In addition, all students undertake a written research project, and design and produce a print and online portfolio that presents all the projects they have completed in their final year.

In semester one, students completed a set project that allowed them to explore and experiment with a specific media, craft or process. Illustration students were challenged to investigate and explore new ways of working and new processes to produce a body of work that rethought their practice. Projects were supported by Kate Gibb, visiting printmaking lecturer. Graphic Design students were asked to investigate how the aesthetic and cultural values of a building or space, a piece of audio, or a film could be restaged in an alternative graphic form by exploring the formal and functional characteristics of either a book or publication, a typeface, or a webpage.

This year’s students collaborated with a variety of external partners. Most notably, Liverpool-based independent football magazine ‘Spiel’ asked students to respond to myths surrounding football as a way to further their magazine’s approach of offering a cultural perspective on the beautiful game.

As ever, students concluded the year developing self-initiated projects centred on their personal interests and their specific career aspirations within graphic design, illustration and the creative industries. Typically these projects were based around a personal interest or a practical project developed from their Graphic Arts Research Project. Themes and projects this year have been many and varied: from The British Library’s 1,000,000 image archive or UbuWeb.com’s archive of avant-garde material; to the tension between traditional graphic design practice and new ideas of branding. Or simply things our students hate. Many of these projects are featured in the Degree Show.

The work of this year’s graduates has been informed by a number of additional programme activities and external engagements. At the start of the year a group of students participated in an exchange with Anhalt University in Dessau, Germany. The exchange centred around students producing work to be sold at two print fairs, Inprint in Liverpool, run by some of last year’s Graphics graduates, and an equivalent in Dessau, called Designerei, held at the historic Bauhaus School.

Students also had the opportunity to attend several graphic design conferences throughout the year, including AGI-Open London, OffSet Dublin, and Liverpool’s increasingly popular, Designival.

As ever the professional awareness and development of the students has been supported by our visiting lecture series. This year’s lecture series has been dominated by the return of some of our best and most loved alumni, including Jimmy Turrell (illustrator with Heart Agency), Jeremy Coysten (partner of highly rated design studio North), and super-illustrator Al Murphy. Keynote lecture of the year came from Sam Arthur of Nobrow Press. There have also been creative workshops from Graphic Arts studio NousVous and digital agency UsTwo.

The Graphic Design and Illustration teaching team includes:

Ian Mitchell – Programme LeaderChris BrownAntony EllisCecilia GarsideMatt JohnsonChris JacksonBen JonesMike O’ShaughnessyCarole PotterJim QuailChris RodenhurtJon Spencer

Congratulations to the following BA (Hons) Graphic Design and Illustration students who have presented their work at this year’s Degree Show.

Leigh BartonAlice BoltonDonald BrowneJamie BryanMarc BurnettThomas BurnhamEilish BurtonDavid CannonStevie CavanaghNaomi ChevannesEilis ColumbRebecca CorlettDaniel CrowneyDavid DoddPatrick DuffyKeiron GarrityDaniel GoodwinElla GreysonRyan GrimshawJack HaleKevin HalpenTheo Hardwick-SlackRobert HeadleyJessica HeatonRachel HineJames HortonJames HoughLisa JonesWilliam JudkinsDavid KellyAlice KiteleySteven LeaheyAdam LenzEliza MallenderCurtis MarshNiamh McGeeLouise McGuinnessSonja MckinnonCharlotte MuddSean O’DonnellSilvia Oliveras BagueAlexander PearsonAndrew PinkLucy RobertsMerle RowanCallum Rush-WilliamsJessica SampsonMatthew SharpLaura SimpsonAmy SlaterRobyn SurbutsLaura SutcliffeMaral SvendsenMalik Thomas - SmedaDaniel ThompsonAngus VasiliMario VazVictoria WallWilloughby WarnerStacey WilliamsIlid WilliamsJoanne WrightAlexander Wright


MRes Art and Design

Students studying for the MRes work on a 14,000 word thesis which aims to make a ‘significant contribution to their specialist areas of research’. The findings of the research are prepared as a paper, which is then delivered during a symposium in April at Tate Liverpool to an audience of fellow students, academics, guests and the public.

This year’s symposium, titled ‘Lines of Enquiry’ featured four speakers talking about divergent topics, ranging from the Mechanics’ Institute movement to a guide to the uncanny – exploring the everyday strange.

Eve Hartley, a 2013 History of Art graduate, presented her work on ‘The Mechanics Institute Movement: Industrial Revolution, Art Education and the Working Class’. Eve’s paper explores the important Mechanics Institute Movement, with a specific impact on art and design culture in North West England. The research charts the development of art and design education within the institutions from their initial courses in draughtsmanship to their radical instruction in landscape painting for women. Eve touched on the influences the US had on the movement, particularly in Liverpool, where books, flags and messages of support were regularly sent across the Atlantic from New York when the Liverpool Mechanics Institute (now LJMU) was first opened.

Sasha Spyrou, whose paper, ‘A Guide to the Uncanny: Exploring the Everyday Strange’ is a component part of a practice-led investigation entitled ‘Another Realm’. Sasha explores notions and theories of the uncanny and strange in fictional places and otherness, in the context if illustration, juxtaposing the strange and everyday. Sasha explained that the term ‘uncanny’ comes from the German word ‘unheimlich’, which can be literally translated as unhomely. It is both familiar and strangely unfamiliar, a blurring of the lines between homely and unhomely. The paper examines its early routes and the significance of Freud’s essay ‘Unheimlich’ in latter art forms, from novels, comics and contemporary cartoons such as the Regular Show, to illustration and animation, cinema, television and blogs.

Rebecca Adams presented, ‘Capturing a Moment: the Power of the Hidden Narrative in Fashion Illustration and Photography 1970-1990’, an extract from her practice-led research exploring how fashion illustration and photography evolved to reject the idea of the ‘product shot’ in favour of introducing a more surreal, atmospheric hidden narrative into imagery, setting about the change from a disposable product into a collectable art form. Rebecca’s research begins in the early 1970s exploring how young practitioners engaged with club culture influencers to reconstruct how they saw fashion, particularly those experimenting with their own identities. The paper later explored popular illustrators and photographers from the 1980s and 1990s, such as Guy Bourdin, Helmet Newton and Serge Lutens, examining the evolution of their work and what inspired them.

Scott McDonald’s paper, titled ‘The Disney Effect: the Ethical Conundrum of Global Art Museums’, defines the ‘Experience Economy’, a term associated with multinational corporations, such as Disneyland and McDonalds, and the similarities between the Guggenheim Foundation’s partnership with McDonalds and other participants of the experience economy than a simple desire to franchise.

Scott suggests that more research must be carried out to establish whether the current agenda of multinational galleries can be considered ethical. It covers controversial topics such as the concept of universal collections, exploring the legitimacy of trading in sensitive objects, exploring museum standards, agreements and self-regulation of International Council of Museums Code of Ethics.

History of Art

Rather than showing at the Degree Show, History of Art students create projects throughout the year including symposia, pop-up curated exhibitions, websites and projects within schools and hospitals. Our students have also helped curate a number of this year’s Degree Show exhibitions including Fashion.

History of Art at LJMU is a vocational programme, and students gain credits and marks for their real engagement with museums, galleries and other art historical organisations. Students take an active role in curating real art exhibitions at museums and galleries such as Tate Liverpool. All students are also required to undertake a life-changing placement at an arts organisation and these can include long-term placements at those museums with which we have a special relationship - such as the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. For further details of the course activities and this year’s symposium booklet, please see the course blog: ljmu-history-of-art.tumblr.com

This year’s two-day research symposium at Tate Liverpool, marked the conclusion of studies for our Level 6 students. The symposium, titled ‘Angles: Degrees of Perception’ was developed and delivered by students to fellow students, staff and members of the public.

Angles are present in our everyday lives and can be applied to many different subjects. As preliminary discussions went on, it became apparent that there were many angles to be explored within the realm of Art and Design being channelled through our individual research and papers. This led on to a collaborative exchange of ideas that moulded into four sessions or the four fractions of our symposium.

The first session, ‘Her-Story of Art’, explored the changing identity of women within art and investigates how this has allowed artists’ stereotypical and ideological values to influence the artworks they create in representing the female gender.

The second session, ‘Shifting Boundaries’, explored the perceptions of boundaries within and around the art world. This session considered deconstruction, reconstruction, the observer and the angle from which they perceive art, exploring themes as diverse as youth, politics, war, identity and the public realm.

The third session, ‘Contra-banned: Life on the Fringe’, examined the convergence of culture and investigates angles of debate and perspectives within a variety of art forms. Each paper explored negative stigma and discusses the fear surrounding the ‘threatening culture’. All papers portrayed the rebellion of subcultures and their non-conformist nature against society, which subsequently lead to their misconception. Today we see that so-called ‘degenerate art’ has triumphed against the Nazi regime and Punk Rock is celebrated. However, tattoo art, football fans and burlesque are still controversial subjects with disparate perspectives of what is indecent and moral.

The fourth session, ‘Off Piste: Discovery - Progression - Evolution’, investigated the ways in which discoveries have led to momentous changes in the way we view the world and society. Each paper provided obtuse angles on how art and artists have recorded and uncovered developments in expeditions, land, travel and technology.

The History of Art teaching team includes:

Dr Emma Roberts – Programme LeaderProfessor Colin FallowsProfessor Julie SheldonDr Antony Hudek

Congratulations to the following BA (Hons) History of Art students who have presented their work at this year’s Degree Show.

Rowan BellKayleigh DaviesZoe DoddsRose Foran-ParkinsonCharlotte FrenchBarbara HedleyIsabelle HetheringtonSophie HillStephanie KehoeBillie KirbyRebecca LittleAlexandra MartinNikki MillerKyle PercyRebecca SmithSusan SumnerBeatrice ThwaitesChloe ToddSamantha WardJennifer WelchAlice Wilde

The MRes Art and Design teaching team includes:

Professor Colin Fallows – Programme LeaderDr Emma RobertsDr Suzanne May


Congratulations to the following BA (Hons) Interior Design students who have presented their work at this year’s Degree Show

Omer AhmedSintija AntinaLucy BeeverAshleigh BigginsNatasia CavaliereYasmeen ChaudharySophie ConnollyGemma CrockettJennifer CrosslandVictoria DixonPhilip DoranEleanor FairwayKaja FilipiakMarc GerbiczFiona GoreEllis JeacockHannah JohnsonKatherine KearneyClaire LambKimberley LawlerAlphonse MaskiniLauryn Mills-BainesFaye MooresMaryam Naghdi ZarchiLauren RadfordDaisy RigbyLaura RileyJulia SbyrakisNatalie SchumannElizabeth ShawJekaterina SkenevaSarah SteeleLaura StewartLeila ToddKerrie ToshJessica ToshEmili TrypatsaJessica WalkerGrace Willis

The Degree Show is a celebration of both the variety and depth of our students’ work. The dedication and ambition demonstrated by all the students in reaching this final stage of their undergraduate studies is a great achievement. It may be the end of the student journey but for many the Degree Show heralds the starting point of their design career.

The final major project on display during the Degree Show acts as a conclusion to the Interior Design programme and as such enables all the students to continue in the development of a more personalised direction of study, supporting personal career aspirations.

The essential nature of the project is to create a framework within which students can explore and exhibit the knowledge and skills they have accumulated over the duration of their study. The major project is delivered over 20 teaching weeks, including formative assessment points which act as design milestones within the design process.

To facilitate a range of individual responses, five separate site locations were established for students to select from:

Site 1 - the city centre Copperas Hill sorting office recently acquired by LJMU

Site 2 - the Florence Institute, a grade II listed Victorian building in Toxteth

Site 3 - the Elevator Studios, a 19th century warehouse building based in the Baltic Triangle area of the city

Site 4 - St Luke’s Church based in the heart of the city, also known as ‘the bombed out church’

Site 5 - the Smithdown Road area of the city, including residential, retail and communal areas

The variety of spatial formats within the five sites lend generous structure for students to continue and deepen their involvement with particular types of space which incorporate a number of functions, including collaborative work spaces, accommodation, leisure, exhibition and retail spaces for a diverse range of clients. Each of these sites provided students with differing design parameters to consider, while creatively exploring opportunities for redevelopment.

The Interior Design teaching team includes:

Jon Spruce – Programme LeaderAdele Anderson Richard Eastwood Martin Gee Caspar JonesAnthony MaloneLori Shelbourne Jeanette TunstallClare Wrigley

Interior Design


Master of Architecture (MArch)

This year’s students studying on the Master of Architecture programme explored the possibilities offered by decayed urban areas in central Porto and Liverpool, combining group urban studies and individual thesis propositions to respond to the specific physical, spatial, functional and social conditions of the two cities.

The work takes its inspiration from a theoretical position founded in the identity of place and time, developing a detailed analysis of how this can be used to formulate a response through the medium of Architecture.

Group urban studies explored both the UNESCO protected historic core and its surrounding decayed industrial areas in Porto and the eastern edge of the Baltic Triangle in Liverpool. These studies were brought together in a public exhibition, ‘Edge’, held in January 2014 at the John Lennon Art and Design Building – more information about Edge can be found at urbandesignljmu.wordpress.com

The thesis explorations of final year students have been extrapolated from these group propositions and range from experimental theatres on Stanhope Street, Liverpool to new housing districts in Porto.

The differences and similarities of working in Liverpool and Porto created the opportunity to challenge students’ understanding of the nature of context for two cities with a strong architectural heritage. Both cities have suffered from economic decline and urban decay with students exploring the role of the built fabric and its possibilities to direct investment tourism and regeneration.

Much of the urban work on display at this year’s Degree Show has been influenced by a number of events and extracurricular activities that have taken place within the School in the past year, some of which warrant particular mention here.

An intensive week-long workshop abroad in Porto took place in October 2013 where students surveyed urban districts that became sites for some of their thesis project.

The ‘Future City’ conference and forum which took place in September 2013, was a collaborative project between Liverpool Biennial and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, supported by LJMU and Tate Liverpool. This programme of interdisciplinary conversations investigated the connections and asymmetries between various cities and considered optimistic agendas for urban transformation. Speakers included, Lindsey Ashworth, Deena Chalabi, Hamid Dabashi, Joseph Grima, Werner Hofer , Francesco Manacorda, Claire McColgan, Andrea Phillips, Nasser Rabbat, Philippe Rahm, Irit Rogoff, Saskia Sassen, Noura Al Sayeh, Payam Sharifi and Imre Szeman.

We would like to congratulate Jakub Rosanski and Luis Lopez Suarez for winning the £10,000 Deutsche Bank for Architecture 2014.

The MArch teaching team includes:

Ian Wroot – Programme LeaderDr Stephen BoweMark DoyleBrian HattonJamie ScottDr Charlie SmithDominic Wilkinson

Congratulations to the following MArch students who have presented their work at this year’s Degree Show

Suzanne BowmanMichael CampbellCarl ChallinorBrian ChristopherEmma-jane DawsonAlison DoranMawumefa DotsePhilip DudleyElizabeth EdwardsAshley FranklinDavid FriendAdam GranbyAimie GriffithsSavvas HadjimarcouRoss HarrisonMark HryncyszynIan KarlingWioleta KreczmerKatharine LangJade LedwidgeAlexander London-smithLuis Lopez SuarezLee MockLyndsay MortonMohamed MuseDean RobertsJakub RozanskiWilliam SalgadoAdam SargeantSameer SialEmily SimpsonAndrew SmithPatrick TaftFiona Worrall


LJMU’s School of Art and Design runs two annual travel awards - the Susan Cotton Travel Awards and the Susan Dunthorne Travel Bursary which both offer students amazing opportunities to go travelling, broaden horizons and develop skills and ideas. Both prizes offer the opportunity for students to explore foreign cultures and landscapes, paid for by family funds which give their long-term support to the School and its mission to develop artists and independent creative professionals of the future.

The application processes for the two awards are very similar, so there is no stopping students applying to both, as one student found out last year. Albina Kourmirova was awarded two prizes – the £500 bursary and the £2,200 international award. Albina organised a trip to Barcelona and another to Sakhalin – an island located on the opposite side of Russia in the North Pacific Ocean, approximately 4,955 miles away from Liverpool.

Susan Cotton Travel Award

This award is available to LSAD students studying at level 5 and postgraduate level.

The awards consist of three European Awards of £1,400 and two international awards of £2,200.

The awards are intended to ‘help students undertake significant domestic or international travel in support of their work and personal development.’ The awards aren’t necessarily about academic study, more about the spirit of travel and adventure especially if you’re comfortable travelling somewhere new on your own.

The application is a two-step process. First, students will have to complete a simple form, which will be reviewed by the Cotton family, and if successful, will then progress on to the second step – a more detailed proposal which will be assessed by a distinguished panel which will select the five winners.

Susan Dunthorne Travel Bursary

This bursary is available to Level 5 students only. Three £500 awards are on offer each year for students to travel in connection with academic studies, exploring the visual arts, such as a specific city, gallery or theme.

The application process involves writing a rationale of no more than the equivalent of two pages of A4, explaining why they would like the award and how they would use the money. The successful applications will be asked to submit a brief report or illustrated diary of their travel, one month after returning.

Jade Collin, a final year Fine Art student who was awarded a Susan Dunthorne Bursary visited Venice for the 55th Bienniale. Commenting before her trip, Jade said: “I’m travelling to Venice in July for a week to explore the 55th Venice Biennale, entitled: ‘The Encyclopaedic Palace’. The award has given me the chance to experience a prestigious, exciting and contemporary art biennial, which will undoubtedly influence, shape and inspire my own art practice. Without the award I would not have been able to do this, and so I am so grateful for such a fantastic opportunity.”

Deadline for both awards is January 2015 and students will be notified in advance to encourage them to apply.

Postgraduate study awards

The Michael Pugh Thomas and Julia Carter Preston Legacy awards are open to full-time and part-time home and international students who wish to study for a postgraduate qualification in art and design with LJMU. A number of £1,000 scholarships are available which can be applied for as part of the application process to study on an MA programme at the School of Art and Design.

To apply, applicants are required to write a 500 word letter alongside their application to study stating why they should be awarded the scholarship, the benefits it will bring to their studies and any exceptional circumstances they face in studying for a postgraduate qualification.

Contact [email protected] for further details.

Travel awards and study bursaries available in 2015

This year’s Popular Music Studies Degree Show exhibition takes an eclectic and interdisciplinary approach to showcase the various ways in which popular music can be mediated: sonically, visually, textually and materially.

The students’ work on show encompass a range of creative media, including music records, written works about popular music, music video, pop music art work, event management and musical instrument making. Our Popscript book publication, edited by Dr Ron Moy and Dr Simone Krüger, features outstanding scholarly essays and dissertations to illustrate students’ research and writing skills; student portfolios give a flavour of the various live music events organised; music video illustrates our students’ creative interaction with visual media; EPs showcase our students’ musicianship and production skills; while the instruments on display show not only the creative sculptural dimension but are also striking examples of our students’ craftsmanship.

Some of the exhibited work results directly from the final year module ‘6009POP Creative Music Project’, which involved the making of a creative artefact and was informed by specialist guidance and supervision by a guest tutor.

Students’ work has been informed throughout the year by numerous opportunities to experience popular music in real live environments; notably during Liverpool Sound City and a live performance in the Philharmonic Hall, alongside student participation during Sound City’s UK Innovation Award in 2013.

The Popscript book publication was informed by an intensive research training programme delivered by the programme leader during our students’ second and third year of study.

Students’ show work was also informed by the completion of work-based learning placements in the music and creative industries, either with music organisations including; Sound City, Low Down Magazine, KCC Live Radio Station, Skiddle, Knotty Ash Community Centre/UK Music, or in an entrepreneurial capacity as instrument repairers/makers, record label owners, promoters, music therapists in hospital settings. Students’ work-based learning also involved an intensive programme of symposia with speakers from LJMU’s World of Work Careers Centre and music industry professionals, including Phillip Rogers, Becky Ayres and Steve Levine. Moreover, one student, Ramena Fahari has been supported by a LJMU World of Work Award of £500.

Commenting on the award, Ramena said: “The £500 was awarded for my placement at The Promoting Art in Aintree (Partia) Project. It provided us with the materials and resources my team and I needed in order to make our activities as professional and effective as possible. These activities were used in the wards of Aintree University Hospital for the ‘Arts to Health’ programme.”

Popular Music Studies

The Popular Music Studies teaching team includes:

Dr Simone Krüger – Programme LeaderDr Danijela BogdanovicAlex GermainsDave MonksDr Ron Moy

Congratulations to the following BA (Hons) Popular Music Studies students who have presented their work at this year’s Degree Show

Zoe AinscoughFrederick AndersonThomas AstburyChris BehanWilliam BestLuke BewickRebecca BirchallJames BlackmoreLarissa BolligChristopher CawthorneChristopher ChadwickPaul ChavalierKyle CrooksJason DaleyMichael DurkinRamena FarahiNina FianPaul FosterElliot HutchinsonJonathon InglesbyBrian JonesSindy KavanaghJames KevanRichard KiernanJoseph LawrenceCharlotte LuceySean LynnSiena MayhewRobert McBreenJennifer MeliaMatthew MorganAndrew MorrisonSarah O’HaraTheodore PrudenAdam RowlandsRebecca SandersMark TeasdaleJonathan TugionoJack TullyAnthony TurrellJoe WalmsleyKevin WitheRebecca Woods

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Studying Art and Design in 2015

Liverpool School of Art and Design offers a broad range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, covering a variety of disciplines all taught under one roof – the fabulous, RIBA award-winning John Lennon Art and Design Building in Liverpool city centre.

Undergraduate

ArchitectureFashionFine ArtGraphic Design and IllustrationHistory of Art

Postgraduate

All programmes are available in part-time and full-time routes.

Architecture (Master of Architecture – MArch)Art and Design (MRes)Exhibition Studies (MA)Fashion Innovation and Realisation (MA)Fine Art (MA)Graphic Design and Illustration (MA)Urban Design (MA)

All courses are taught by dedicated and committed subject specialists who have relevant industry experience, specialist research knowledge or run their own professional practices. Our academics are friendly, approachable and place excellence in teaching and learning at the heart of their work.

Students will be expected to take advantage the School and University’s fantastic facilities, and the School’s strong collaborative ethos. Many students across a range of disciplines enjoy working on joint projects together, many of which receive critical acclaim and make excellent portfolio builders.

The School also boasts strong collaborative relationships with local arts organisations, in particular Tate Liverpool, FACT and Liverpool Biennial. Many of our students experience the benefits of these close working relationships and receive plenty of opportunities to work on live projects, visit exhibitions and hear guest lecturers from key individuals from each of our partner organisations. Students will also receive the opportunity to work with other organisations, such as local agencies, retailers, arts organisations and manufacturers to build a vital portfolio of professional experience.

Liverpool is the perfect place to study art and design, regardless of the discipline. The city and the School have a long and proud heritage in the arts and Liverpool’s vibrant and infectious creative culture makes the city an exciting and inspiring city for you to follow your dreams.

To find out more about the courses on offer at the School, visit ljmu.ac.uk/courses, email [email protected], call 0151 231 5090 or visit us at our open days which are running throughout the year.

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