Catherine Hobbs

Catherine Hobbs
MA Fine Art
catherine.hobbs@eca.ac.uk

I seek to relegate the eventful and elevate the forgotten and present them side by side, as equal and inseparable.

Aleksandra Zawada

Aleksandra Zawada
Ba (Hons) Painting

zawadka_ol@op.pl

My work touches on appropriation. Similar by its means, it is more personal and attempts to challenge the reproduction as taste forming. I am interested in the paradox: whether it is possible to profane a copy, does it have value and can it still be classified as art.
By conscious choice, I am trying to bring back art to the reproduction. The artist’s choice is deliberate. The pieces are carefully selected. I consider them significant in my practice from various reasons. Very often it becomes a comment, a tribute, a dialogue.
I work in not extending 7 series, using the same starting point. Each peace is unique and exists on its own. The materials are very minimal and fragile. Putting them next to each other removes reassuring comfort zone and reveals their origins.

Phyllis Smith

Phyllis Smith

MA Drawing and Painting

My work is about trying to hold onto a past memory, here from a day spent walking in the park. Through photos, sketches and memory I try to create an image of the mind's eye.

Geri Loup-Nolan

Geri Loup-Nolan

Painting BA(Hons)

www.geriloupnolan.com

Recently I have opened up my main practice in drawing and painting to include installation work. This has enabled eclectic displays that provoke open narratives about memory and identity from within a dynamic framework of time and place. My work uses objects and materials that directly reference domestic, artistic and commercial cultures to explore relationships between painting, literature, printing, architecture and poetry. A loose storytelling process, which unifies the fragmented towards a coherent documentary style.

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.