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POSTMA
in Creative Practice
Opening NightThursday 29 October
6pm - 9pm
Public View30 October - 13 November
10am - 5pm
Holy Trinity ChurchBoar Lane
LeedsLS1 6HW
www.leeds-art.ac.uk/postgraduateshow
The diverse range of media on display in this exhibition demonstrates the breadth of work produced by this year’s talented graduates of
our MA in Creative Practice.
The MA Creative Practice, the first postgraduate course delivered by Leeds College of Art, has completed its second year. Along with our first full-time international student the artists, designers and craftspeople exhibiting this year have studied the programme on a part-time basis. They have successfully managed their learning alongside life’s other commitments.
The College and staff are very proud of the group of artists who have successfully completed their projects and are presenting their work in this exhibition. We thank them for trusting us with the facilitation of their postgraduate education in creative practice and research. The feedback from the external examiner has endorsed their achievements saying: the graduates are good lifelong researchers; they are ready either to enter industry as designers or they are in a strong position to work as independent artists.
The engagement and resilience of the students have contributed to the postgraduate culture that is growing at Leeds College of Art; particular to a small, specialist art and design institution. However, I must also thank the wide range of staff who are an invaluable part of the team, including those who work in admissions, estates, support, workshops, management, academia, research and the library. We would like to wish the students exhibiting in 2015 the best of luck in their future endeavours and we look forward to seeing them build on their current successes.
Sam Broadhead MAHead of Research Programme Leader, MA Creative Practice
Introduction
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Rebekah Caputo
Helen MacKenzie
Letty McHugh
Ailsa Read
Hilary Readman
Cameron Reid
Carol Sorhaindo
Richard Storrow
Jon Vogler
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Rebekah CaputoAs a puppeteer and theatre maker, my practice encompasses all elements of performance - from the design and construction of the puppet, to the choreography content and presentation of the final performance.
Working primarily in rod puppetry, object manipulation and shadow, my work offers a dark reflection of the world and human behaviours. HAG was created as the culmination of my MA Creative Practice, exploring a life drawing to a close, a score created from the found sounds within the puppet and the potential of the uncanny in live performance.
My ongoing research explores the animism placed on objects through the synergy of manipulation and sound, and the audience’s desire to see the inanimate live. This is not only demonstrated in the object/puppets/performance I create, but also through extensive improvisation and collaboration with dancers, musicians, theatre makers and other interdisciplinary artists.
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Helen MacKenzie‘Symbiosis’
We humans share this world with many other precarious souls and the anti-anthropomorphic: art for animals project ‘Symbiosis’; influenced by philosopher Judith Butler and artist Lynne Hull aims to give to animals. Animal as the audience/consumer rather than, as is typically human; animal to use, consume, manipulate, or contain. This consideration is termed as a neo-conscious aesthetic .
Symbiosis features multi-sensory work including a concert: 400953 and friends, intuitive, un-sophisticated, un-practiced methods and processes with found/ reused sublime natural, often woven materials and aims to achieve some fleeting sensory benefit for more sensitive souls.
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Letty McHugh‘This is Your Inheritance’ is a project I was inspired to start after I inherited my great grandmother’s treadle sewing machine.
As the project developed, I had contact with more than 130 women to find out what textiles meant to them. In an overwhelming majority of cases, stories of women and textiles meant hard work, determination and love.
I wanted to create a project that would celebrate and commemorate the everyday triumphs of the women of the project. So I made ten, seven metre long banners, printed with hand-made textile objects.
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Ailsa ReadThe scope of my creative practice is an enquiry into the dominance of male hierarchies in religious, political and social culture, the relationship this has with the persecution and sacrifice of women and how this can be interpreted in a contemporary art practice.
My investigation has led to the development of visual images of persecuted women using the technique of laser cutting. This destructive process forms a metaphor for the subject matter, highlighting the connection between female persecution and vulnerability.
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Hilary ReadmanI was born in Durham in 1960 and enjoyed a childhood that allowed me to engage with fields, forests and folklore and this forms the basis of my art.
I aim to create a sense of the archaic, utilising a visual language that speaks of our primordial sensibility and unites us with the forces of nature and the human spirit.My work references both the mythical and metaphysical to connect our modern day experience with our collective unconscious.
My work is unbound by medium, creating sculptures and installations in burnt wood, wax, ceramics and lighting.
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Cameron ReidThe body of work I developed over the course of my MA began in print, using photo intaglio techniques. I soon after began to push my images along the medial spectrum by repurposing and re-presenting them in different media. This intermedial practice creates a breakdown of visual language as imagery becomes re-treated ad nauseam.
As a result, these series of images become timelines. Relationship between media and the affects they have on images comes to the fore, informing what it means for an artist to exist in a landscape that is becoming more and more post-medial, where images move freely across narrowing borders and along the shrinking schism between the analogue and the digital.
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Carol Sorhaindo‘The Nature of Ruins’
British born with an African Caribbean heritage, my formative childhood years were spent in Nature Isle of Dominica in the Caribbean. This entangled experience informs my practice, which explores reflective responses to nature, culture and heritage. ‘The Nature of Ruins’ investigates bio deterioration, suppressed and entangled narrative threads revealed in two mill buildings in contrasting geographical locations: Temple Mill, Leeds, a 19th century flax mill and Castle Bruce, a British owned sugar mill ruin in Dominica.
Historic narratives stimulate creative processes, which involve dye extracts from site related plants. Fine line stick and ink drawings, print and deconstruction processes facilitate textile and natural dye applications for conceptual and commercial applications.
This MA research journey has led to a Textile Society Bursary Award and commissions through Pavilion at Wentworth Castle and Calder Space Hepworth.
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Richard StorrowMy objective for my MA course was to produce a board game, and to develop my current skill set to encompass game design, illustration, digital design, 3D sculpting and digitization, self publication and marketing. Multiplayer gaming in the mainstream is a largely solitary experience, at least in the physical sense (online gaming) and I wanted to produce a game that could capture the real time frenetic action of online multiplayer but with a return to a tangible “around the table” experience.
My game The Enemy Within reflects a pastiche of cultural references to the Red Scare in the USA during the 1950s and the science fiction movies reflected the fear of a nation under the perceived threat of invasion. This can be played as an untimed game, or an hour long timed game with a specially composed soundtrack by Merouac with audio triggers, for up to 12 players.
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Jon VoglerI am an engineer and began sculpting in my retirement. I work in stone, wood and metals and cast small bronze figures of animals and athletes in my garage. My two degree pieces are exhibited here.
Skywards (left) is a 5 meter high abstract structure fabricated from aluminium tube and inspired by myths and folk tales such as the Tower of Babel and Jack and the Beanstalk.
Station 11 (right and below) was made for the Stations of the Cross exhibition at another Leeds church. The 11th station depicts the crucifixion. I wanted to show how, for the Roman soldiers, executing this man in such a cruel fashion was just another job of work. I was inspired by W H Auden’s poem Musée des Beaux Arts which meditates on Breughel’s painting of the Fall of Icarus.
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