A lot of the work on aestheticedge is culminating toward my degree show Glass and Ceramics 2012. Here are a few of the others students featuring in this exhibit. Click here to see the Glass and Ceramics 2012 Blog.
Alice Thatcher
Alice is an artist currently working with ceramics to express her ideas and concepts. She also works in a range of other media, including glass, paper, drawing and photography. Her recent work derives its inspiration from her twin interests in origami and paper-craft. Her porcelain paper clay work reflects, in a contemporary style, ideas of fragility and material transformation through the human hand.
Photography by Josh Cockroft
Mike Holden
Through his work, Mike takes an analytical standpoint, questioning the experience of a conscious moment and how this can determine an individual’s perception of reality. Using space, form and movement his work sets out to provoke the preconceived ideas of the individual, inviting them to question both themselves and the world around them.
Photography by Josh Cockroft
Leah Dennis
Leah’s ideas are inspired from the development of the history of tattoo art. In her recent work, there is a rapid progression towards the ideas of capturing life by encapsulating something which was once alive, preserving the essence of living and perfecting visual beauty.
Photography by Josh Cockroft
Julie Cox
Contemporary art plays a role in our understanding of current opinions and issues, the interpretation of our society in the future will heavily rely on the works which have stood the test of time. The importance of preserving contemporary art is something which Julie explores throughout her work. She explores elements of destruction and the need to prolong an objects’ mortality.
“I believe the beauty is in the care and attention taken to repair objects in a way which does not hide the damage that time has inflicted on our artefacts.” Julie Cox 2012
Photography by Josh Cockroft
Kathryn Baxter
Through her love of handmade processes, Kathryn explores how extravagant, skilled and flamboyant items can be the expression of power and wealth for some, or the economic survival of others.
Kathryn’s current works delve into the irony of cultural status within a community and the objects used to illustrate this.
Photography by Josh Cockroft
