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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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Best of Degree Show: Rosanna Lee
Rosanna Lee arranges and manipulates objects in order to create abstract sculptural compositions that draw attention to the detail and formal qualities of the materials and their dialogue with the architectural features of the site. She explores how sculpture can be understood in terms of the human body, gesturing towards the possibility for the work…
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Best of Degree Show: Euphrosyne Andrews
The power of form standing alone as an artwork is and idea key to Euphrosyne Andrews’ practice. Her work is concerned with the history of ornament, it’s circulation in relation to the multiple and the domestic connotations of ornamentation resulting from the materials that are commonly associated with it. Printmaking processes underpin her work, exploiting the traditional relationship…
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Best of Degree Show: Evie Cooper
Evie Cooper’s work comes from the process of walking and exploring the Ayrshire countryside to encourage thought, using photography and drawing as her main means of recording these journeys. Later on she think about her experiences, and condenses them into her studio work. Thus begins the process of abstraction, taking from walks and breaking down the experiences to push…
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