Solihull College

2 Weeks until the show! Received our posters and invites today!

Amanda Elliott Fine Artist – Sculptural Installation

My work deals with the often anxious, tentative and fragile side of humanity. As an artist I am fascinated by the affect that ‘others’ and the world has upon our sense of ‘self’, how we respond to, what we feel is normal and how we respond to what we feel is lacking within ourselves. It is those threats of vulnerable exposure that create the sense of anxiety within us. My work considered this often-demonic state of anxiety; the sculptural forms reveal an honesty regarding such emotion by responding to the ‘symptom’atic and rhythmic undertones within the body in which anxiety creates.

Essentially my work explores the undertones of our innate response to the world rather than the language we attach to it, in order to create and understand its meaning. I see my art practice as a visceral contextualisation of an inner truth, therefore exposing and in my view our more inherent perspective of life.

Natalie

What if there isn’t a happy ending?

Three weeks today until the private view of our show! Its all going so fast.

We had our dissertation results back yesterday; hope everybody was pleased with their results!

I think everybody is just focusing on getting the work finished so that we can begin setting up for the show. The final touches are being added to the catalogue and things are slowly coming together.

We spent some time proof reading our statements for the show in our meeting yesterday. With dissertations being one weight off our shoulders we can now all just focus on making the show one to remember!

Carly Withers – Performance Art/Film

As an artist, I am concerned in seeking the opportunity to celebrate the physical and psychological side of making art exploring ones unconscious thought process.

I like to think of my body as an art tool to create abstract bed-sheets, expressing the representation of time and movement shared by the per-formative body.

My work tells the story of my body in ‘action’ on a level of subconscious, exploring ones psychoanalytic mind through the process and method of automatism, understanding that a thought is made manifest in the mark as a trace, freed from rational control