GET YOUR 5-A-DAY
York St John University’s Create ’13 degree showcase is fast approaching, and in our usual spirit of camaraderie (and general concern for your wellbeing) we offer you this ‘5-a-day’ of artist splendor.
For the next few days, we will be giving you nice little sneak peek of some of the artists you’ll have the pleasure of seeing at ‘This Is Who We Are’, the Fine Arts Degree Show in York.
Alice Harvey
P – over – P
Combining photography and painting, my work focuses on the human form within different environments. P – over – P is a series of small paintings manipulated and altered with paint. Each photograph is a moment captured in time, a snapshot, a freeze frame, which is then changed into something different by introducing paint. P – over – P reconfigures a moment in time, and tweaks social constructs of identity.
Amy Mckevitt
Inside Am Young, Outside I Am Not
My practice is based around elderly people in society. I use performance to highlight matters that I care about. In this case I am concentrating on the elderly who are lonely and who might want some company. We have all seen an elderly person sat on a bench haven’t we? In this performance, I want to show people REALITY; the elderly should not be forgotten!
Andrew Leigh
Utopian Dystopia
My work looks closely at society and the ways in which we live, particularly in relation to social spaces and structures. I have been most recently researching architectural ‘utopianism’ relating to visions of cities for a future, perfect mode of living. My current project intends to consider monuments and obelisks, as well as designs for living space.
Ash Sagar
The Stasis Of Consciousness In A Forever Shifting Inner Space
I explore the act of improvisation as a compositional tool within the fields of sonic and visual arts. Taking influences from composers such as Le Monte Young, John Cage and Steve Reich, I create temporally based sonic works using a variety of technologies, which in turn become performance pieces of indefinite duration. Working as a solo artist as well as in various collaborative projects I seek to find the line between improvisation and composition.
Bonnie Powell
Poirot Never Did Leave A Stone Unturned
My work deals with the ability to assume beyond fact or physicality. Using the banality of everyday materials, I explore the role of ritual as a vice in contemporary society. Resulting in formal compositions that evoke an absence of presence, an interruption in function or a metaphysical impossibility.
