UWE Bristol Students' Peripheral Responses to Stephen Gill's Photography, Schemes and Mind Maps of Art

Download UWE Bristol Students' Peripheral Responses to Stephen Gill's Photography and more Schemes and Mind Maps Art in PDF only on Docsity! GALLERY GUIDE Arnolfini are excited to share new work by students from UWE Bristol’s Art, Design and Photography courses, in response to the major exhibition: Stephen Gill: Coming up for Air - A Retrospective. Gill’s interest in ‘the periphery’ - the outer limits of an idea or environment, is the focus of students’ responses to Gill’s rich and expansive photographic career. The work spans an eclectic variety of media, presented through a series of independent projects. Responses explore Gill’s own method of working, which often involved pursuing an idea over a sustained period of time asking how we might view the world around us from different perspectives. *Exhibition open to the public except: 31 January, 12.30pm to 4pm; 7 February, All Day; 8 February, 3.30pm to 6pm; 10 February 11.30am to 3pm. The Periphery is a collaboration between Arnolfini, The School of Art and Design and ACE Faculty Technical Learning at UWE Bristol. GALLERY GUIDE Artists included in this exhibition: BananaFish (BA Photography), Isabelle Bedevian (BA Fine Art), Lea Belz-Koeling (BA Photography), Rebecca Blackmore (BA Graphic Design), Mims Bonnici (BA Fine Art - Art and Writing pathway), Marnie Caulson (BA Graphic Design), Caspar Day (BA Photography), Callum Fiddler Matthews (BA Photography), Molly Ford (BA Photography), Adam Gettinby (BA Photography), Sarah Harding (BA Graphic Design), Meg Harrison (BA Graphic Design), Eddy Hubble (BA Photography), Dee Jackson (BA Fine Art), Harry Judge (BA Fine Art - Art and Writing pathway), Tori King- Blake (BA Photography), Simmygirlz (BA Graphic Design), Ruth McKeand (BA Photography), Morton Moss (BA Photography), jorba (BA Photography), Toni Parham (BA Photography), Julia Ruszal (BA Graphic Design), Isabel Salmon (BA Photography), Arthur Sheppard (BA Graphic Design), Joshua Sibley (BA Photography), Aleskandra Tsvetanova (BA Graphic Design), Guy Undrill (BA Fine Art), Enzo Xenakis-Serra (BA Graphic Design). GALLERY GUIDE experience community on this outer ring. This has provided a space to belong - where differences are to be celebrated and provide a scope to connect. The vagueness of my figures shows how every single person can relate to outsider feelings, the uniqueness of this - as well as the hardships. My sculpture highlights the need for inclusivity to be integrated in the fabric of our society. “ Marnie Caulson (BA Graphic Design) “There is this idea of periphery within this image due to the content that can be inferred. The initial evaluation could be stargazing, hence the title, The Pretend Stargaze, which in a way is the peripheral vision we see when looking up at the night sky. However, the image portrays the sunset’s reflection at sea. Periphery to me is the outer limit of an object and a limit to the world, as when the sky joins the sea. It creates a sense of a continuous never-ending.” Caspar Day (BA Photography) “I took the idea of using a motion-detector camera normally used to take photos of wildlife and wondered if I could apply it to humans. I set it up in my flat and it took hundreds of images of my flatmates. The idea was capturing moments of solitude whilst going about daily mundane tasks in the kitchen. My images show the things we do in our day-to-day life that are not particularly exciting, but are all part of being human. These things are not central in our time, which is why it relates to the theme of periphery.” GALLERY GUIDE Callum Fiddler Matthews (BA Photography) “These works are taken from my current work in progress Bothsidesing, which is an algorithmic investigation into where my flatmates and I are at with our own masculinity. My images explore this middle ground of masculinity that we occupy through different approaches and subject matters. These images alongside relevant excerpts of text and personal notes that I’ve written are then fed into an AI algorithm, that I’ve altered, which is used as basis to interpret and comment on our form of masculinity.” Molly Ford (BA Photography) “This series is screen printed, which is a new method of printmaking for me. However, I combined it with a kind of photography I have a lot of experience with - still life. The series focuses on two types of naturally occurring patterns, fractals and spirals. These both can be found all around us in nature. Both shapes have subconscious psychological effects on humans when observed. Fractals reduce stress and have a calming effect, while spirals can cause dizziness and confusion and can represent a loss of control. Considering the difference viewing each pattern can have on a person’s mood, I find it interesting that our brain still takes interest in the image that ignites a negative reaction.” Adam Gettinby (BA Photography) “The work is an inverted two-tone version of an image of a golf ball on a course, I had taken in response to The Periphery. To me, the ‘periphery’ that I wanted to show is about boundaries and extremities in contrast, which have been created using different textures and shapes of the image.” GALLERY GUIDE Sarah Harding (BA Graphic Design) "Photography isn’t something I have explored in detail, so using this medium and approaching a concept this way was outside my usual creativity. The concept comes from focusing on parts of everyday life that we aren’t encouraged to look at. Look Up was developed from a piece of advice that has stuck with me from when I was young, to ignore modern and commercialised visual life, and pay attention to the detail and design that has a historical life of its own.” Meg Harrison (BA Graphic Design) “This letterpress print is made in response to when I found myself both physically and mentally on the periphery, exploring how memory and physical spaces can interconnect. These feelings allude to when you are within a dream, where you are able to experience yourself from behind your eyes as well as from a birds-eye view simultaneously.” Eddy Hubble (BA Photography) “This is a selection from a larger body of work observing the south- west ‘car meet’ culture. Over the course of the last few months I have spent every Sunday night following this group of what would stereotypically be called ‘Boy Racers’. This group of people are forced to meet up in the outskirts of cities or industrial estates, tucked away from the authorities due to the questionable legality of their activities. They remain in the periphery of our society, only choosing to share their location with a select few.” GALLERY GUIDE Toni Parham (BA Photography) “This is an ongoing project exploring the process of healing from trauma. When unrecognised, trauma can grow like a parasite; it begins to change how a person sees and experiences reality. Healing can be like pulling teeth, it’s slow and painful and sometimes more difficult than denial. These images explore the idea of periphery as they delve into the process and feelings that are happening constantly in front of those around me, but are often unseen. Moments that hold great significance to us - whether we’re making a breakthrough or being reminded of pain, may be fleeting to those we share them with.” Julia Ruszal (BA Graphic Design) “I chose to travel to Moto Severn View Services which is on the periphery of Bristol. I took a series of photographs of lorry drivers and the surrounding area. I wanted to bring attention to their industrious characters and to capture the loneliness that comes with this profession. Lorry drivers are most often underappreciated and underpaid.” Isabel Salmon (BA Photography) “In this work, I begin to document my mother’s experience with having labyrinthitis and PPPD (Persistent Postural-Perceptual Dizziness). Finding ways to explore this through experimental techniques with the intention of combining sound and considering the other senses affected. We reflect on the relationship we share with one another and the transitions that take place as we are both getting older. I hope to create an installation in collaboration with my mother from a series of conversations with her, and to produce work from this.” GALLERY GUIDE Arthur Sheppard (BA Graphic Design) “This photo is a result of looking at how the idea of the periphery sits alongside virtual spaces and the internet. The images sourced are from the deep web and will never be able to be found again. They are from blogs, shops, forums. Outside of the internet, I also think many of these objects are also commonly ignored items. We phase them out of our peripheral vision, leave them unconsidered.” Joshua Sibley (BA Photography) “My project hopes to touch upon the ‘peripheral stigma’ of skinheads, which has dominated since the 1980s. I use ‘peripheral stigma’ to mean the judgement people place upon others based on outward appearance alone, or popular opinion, rather than the character of the individual or history of the wider movement. I hope that, by offering these photographs to a wider audience, people will be able to reflect upon their own biases on skinhead culture and question their current outlook.” Aleskandra Tsvetanova (BA Graphic Design) “Bring your hand close to your face, then look at everything that is happening around it. This video aims to direct the gaze from the centre to the periphery and change our selective focus. Presenting the endless elements and details of the world around us that we often don't notice in our daily life.” GALLERY GUIDE Guy Undrill (BA Fine Art) “Ben Day dots are an obsolete method of producing tone in prints from the early twentieth century. They are somewhat between a technology and a craft process: in the hands of skilled printers, very fine gradations of tone could be produced, as the dots forming the tone could be heavy and pronounced or light and irregular. Under magnification, the tone breaks down and the pattern of the dots becomes visible in itself. I am interested in how the changing technologies of image making leave traces at their periphery, which can sometimes only be noticed in particular circumstances or under magnification.” Enzo Xenakis-Serra (BA Graphic Design) “I wanted to photograph people whose faces one might know, for example the man who runs the corner shop. He's someone you may know fairly well but you'd only think of him when you see him. When you're not seeing these people, they're on the periphery of your mind.”