Helen Ingram, ''Disillusion'', Digital Print, 2010. The graduate exhibition pieces of work demonstrate the themes of masks and disguises through the shattered effect of the composition. This goes to break the character the composition is trying to form without losing the identity of the character. The characters shown int he middle image represents a blackbird with some of the segments having black and grey lines straying outwards whilst the other two represent a diva and a mistress. The mistress being the last one as the gesture of the hand lifting the dress bottom gives off an erotic vibe whilst the diva being the first one is striking a pose like someone famous and someone of importance this sis shown through one hand on the hair and one on the hips.The shattered effect also gives off the impression of being like a mirror with it's fragmented segments contrast between different imagery such as collage, paintin
Sacha Foster.
Recent BA (Hons) Applied Arts graduate from Plymouth College of Art.
'Oriel Scala'. Photo: Susie Liddle. Part of the Oriel Scala gallery space at the August exhibition in which member artists invited recent graduates to show with them
James Fickling, 'If it wasn't for him...', Digital Photographs, glass case with found objects, large-format camera &high grade polythene, 2010. Photo: James Fickling. Courtesy: James Fickling. Installation view of my Graduate Show
Keith Hope-Lang, 'untitled'.
Hope-Lang will graduate in July 2010 from the MFA (Painting and Drawing) course at West Dean College.
annie harrison, 'undercover exhibition shop front', bed sheets and pillowcases. Photo: annie harrison. My installation in the shop window of Nexus Art Cafe, as part of 'Undercover', work by recent Embroidery graduates.
Adrienne McStay, '"Boulder"', wood. Photo: Ann Shaw. Adrienne, a recent graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone Art College, Dundee with one ofher two sculptures pieces I own in my garden "The Plaka", Bridge of Allan.
Martha Todd, ‘Dog Pigeon’.
Todd graduated in 2008 from MMU: Cheshire.
Emily Kydd, ‘You missed everything’, still from tape-slide photographic projection, 2007.
Graduate from The Nottingham Trent University 2004, one of the participating institutions.
Tetsuya Fukushima, ‘I still believe I can fly’, mixed media, 29x24cm.
2007 Nottingham Trent MA Fine Art graduate. www.tetsuyaf.com
Ben Sadler, ‘Art School Graduate’, NME advert.
Katie Pratt, ‘The Plough’, oil on canvas, 230x201cms.
Katie Pratt, winner of the 2001 Jerwood Painting Prize, graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1998. Although she has won a number of smaller prizes and has exhibited often, she considers gaining this £30,000 prize her greatest achievement to date. The exhibition of shortlisted artists is showing at Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art from 6 July.
