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Best of Degree Show: Daniel Donelly
Daniel Donelly has spent the last year of his four year Contemporary Art Practice degree specialising in painting. He wanted to explore conceptual ideas in his coursework. Daniel created digital experiments in Photoshop as a starting point, painting the results of this process. He primarily uses Artisan water based oil paints on paper treated with linseed oil. Daniel has had…
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Best of Degree Show: Lesley Conlan
As Lesley Conlan has progressed through art school it has allowed her to realise her potential and what she wants to pursue in the future. It took her till the start of the last semester of her final year to realise she loved using CAD to create her work. Her inspiration has always stemmed from her family and the sense of heritage and…
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Best of Degree Show: Kaela Hogg
Kaela explores a sense of belonging in her identity culture where she creates movement within her jewellery to represent the transitioning of her cultures; Scottish and Thai. Kaela combines traditional techniques alongside modern technologies to help aid her design process in which she uses silver, acrylic and aluminium as the main materials in her work.…
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Best of Degree Show: Mauri Ann Beardshaw
Mauri Ann Beardshaw is a recent BA graduate of Jewellery Design and Related Products from the Birmingham School of Jewellery. She was encouraged to take an experimental approach to designing and making contemporary jewellery and objects. Beardshaw has always been interested in science and the natural world. Her current collection is inspired by diatoms that…
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Best of Degree Show: Kim Simpson
Graduating from the City of Glasgow College with a BA (Hons) Photography, Kim Simpson’s dissertation presented a visual exploration of the visual norm and highlighted the inequality present in the west. These ideas form part of her ongoing personal project entitled Exottish. Exottish deals with themes of exoticism, identity and visual stereotypes faced by non caucasian individuals…
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Best of Degree Show: Elena Mary Harris
Elena May Harris gets to know the places she lives in by situating her art practice in relation to the history of the city. She makes objects that reminisce to the familiar: the domestic. Harris works with communities and social groups as a way to build relationships through skill transfer and conversation and uses materials and…
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Best of Degree Show: Georgia Galloway
Using vibrant colours and various media Galloway creates atmospheric works which provide cultural and social commentaries. Her style is varied, sometimes refined and at other times more abstract and expressive with the idea to incite and encourage contemplation and rapport. The rich and varied course the City of Glasgow College presents allowed Galloway to grow…
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Best of Degree Show: Lesley Finlayson
Lesley Finlayson has been developing her body of work by looking at the landscape in non representational ways and by breaking free from traditional conceptions. She abstracts the imagery to create something new, which requires the viewer to engage with the work – challenging them to look at and interpret it individually. Her time at the City of Glasgow…
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Best of Degree Show: Joanne Dawson
“The best thing I learnt from art school is to value your peers and be a support network for one another. You’ll end up learning thorough them.” Joanne is interested by the ‘things’ we engage with in ordinary situations. Everydayness being subverted by foregrounding its support – how it is encountered contextually and in the…
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Best of Degree Show: Sue McMillan
Graduating as a degree student of Contemporary Art Practice, Sue McMillan found her time at the City of Glasgow College rewarding, exciting, and at times rather challenging. She believes that the vast experiences she has gained, with the support and guidance from her peers and tutors, will continue to aid her future creative practice. McMillan’s…
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