GET YOUR 5-A-DAY … Part Deux!
Hello all! Here to provide your next installment of your 5-a-day of artists!
Iit’s been a hectic day here at York St John, the degree show build is well underway now (at both venues!) and the stress is definitely getting to us now. To say that we feel the pressure would be a criminal understatement. But, regardless of how much we’re feeling torn in all directions possible and pressed for time, we can still manage to give you your next peek at the artists to come! Feast your eyes on these tasty morsels.
Catherine Wood
The Secret Art League
The Secret Art League is a developing comic book series initially created around final year York St John University Fine Art students. It is an invitation to create an alter ego and imagine how life would be if one had some kind of superpower. Escapism vs. control and reality vs. imagination is the centre of the Secret Art League’s interests.
Charlotte Salt
You Decide To Stay A While
My sculptural installations combine found objects with works I make in the studio. In these staged arrangements I create a space between ‘fact and fiction’, where everyday objects lose their original functionality and find themselves embedded in new stories, new histories, new discourses; evoking memories and exploring the transient nature of life concurrent with the longevity of cultural memory.
Cherisse Brown
Narnia
Textiles have a phenomenal ability to adapt to various shapes and sizes when drawn together with thread. When combined with vibrant colors and children’s fairytales this enables me to draw links to the illogical worlds created by Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland and the magic, which lies beyond the wardrobe in the stories of C.S. Lewis. Embracing these peculiar ideas I explore the world of child’s play and imagination through the portal of the wardrobe. So what will you find beyond the door?
Eleanor Banks
Falling Is Flying
My work is autobiographical and focuses on personal memory through exploring the site of an event which shaped and changed my life. I use video and performance to acknowledge, understand, and come to terms with trauma and the loss of another.
Emily Whistlecroft
Fiction Masquerading As Truth
My work explores and responds to how beauty is presented through mass media. I work with images in magazines, billboards and television which create desire for the ‘perfect body’ to investigate what impact these images have on our imagination. The piece contains natural materials cut to shape, painted yet baring little resemblance to their original state. It also includes manmade elements reflecting the harsh, brittle and artificial nature of beauty.
