Francis Young

Francis Young

BArch (Hons)

Wilhelms Wharf, Berlin

52.31.21N 13.23.13E

Harvesting aquaculture from the fertile waters of Brandenburg and wider continental region, Berlin is at the heart of a rich network of waterways that have a vast untapped potential. Responsive to the harvesting of its waters, the needs of Berliners can be fed sustainably by an unlimited supply of fresh, healthy food. Harvested farm stock is stored in tanks in a state of hibernation and transported by barge from the farms to a central fish market at Wilhelms Wharf. The stock is then euthanised humanely using anesthetic and brought to market as fresh as possible.

In the built environment of Berlin, we find restraint in a framework of legislative limits; within, we predict and nurture the growth of a city. The limits of growth are scarcity and need; scarcity is dissolved through diversity, need is eliminated through sustainability. This project is an exercise in nourishing a city as Wilhelms Wharf aims to connect with a Berlin which matures with a sense of restraint.

Berlin is a hard city of statistics, facts and legislations; Berlin is a soft city of experience, myth and aspirations.

Both are ideals; both are constantly growing.

The limits of growth are imagination and fear.

Joseph Pielichaty

Joseph Pielichaty

BA (Hons) Graphic Design

http://www.josephpielichaty.co.uk/

The Stars Are Made of Ink, 2010

This illustrative piece pulls together all the various drawings and thoughts which are scattered amongst the sketchbooks I kept during my last few weeks as a student in Edinburgh. I wanted to showcase all the individual notes, doodles and contemplations within a new context and remove them from the privacy of my pages. Suddenly the smallest of messages are showcased with a sense of importance, and results in a chaotic scribble of the mind, pieced together like a jigsaw.

Fiona Jarrett

Fiona Jarrett

MA (Hons) Painting

http://www.fionajarrett.com/

My work addresses the ethereal properties of semi precious stones and crystals and tries to communicate their supposed powers or auras. I wish to challenge my audiences’ perceptions of reality and spirituality whilst inducing meditative states and feelings of positivity, happiness and open-mindedness.

David Cass

David Cass

BA (Hons) Painting

http://www.davidcass.co.uk/

As of January this year my work significantly changed. Though I am still drawing inspiration from the same subject matter, my completed articles are on a much smaller scale, and are far less polished than the large-scale abstract paintings I had been creating for the majority of 2009 and beginning of this year. After embarking upon a personal film project in December, I intended my practical work – which held no physical relationship with my film work – to become much more personal, honest and raw. It has now become almost impossible to identify one primary medium within my current practice, which encompasses painting, sculpture, film and writing.

My degree show at ECA this year was an installation of paintings and sculptures composed of found materials: small detailed gouache paintings on found wooden boards, alongside found material sculptures, tied together by a film projection and book of writings. These are the types of works I intend to continue creating: works that I can make on location, that are almost sketches – but that add up to create a large body of work. This display is a small collection of these found materials, aiming to provide an insight into my work.

Magda Boreysza

Magda Boreysza

MFA Animation

http://www.magdaboreysza.com/

On The Line

The WOT proudly presents On the Line, an exhibition of five graduates selected from Edinburgh College of Art's 2010 Degree Show.

On the edge of the next step, each artist uses line for dynamic and intense expression and function in their practice, whether through the use of black marker pen on cardboard, the jutted join of wooden blocks or paper cut to express the form of a building, the gradual build-up of animation or delicate expressions of serenity.

Magda Boreysza - MFA Animation

David Cass - BA (Hons) Painting

Fiona Jarrett - MA (Hons) Painting

Joseph Pielichaty - BA (Hons) Graphic Design

Francis Young - BArch (Hons)

Exhibition running from 1st July - 22nd July