13th Sep 2014 - 19th Sep 2014
University Gallery
Exhibition
Sequential Design/Illustration, and Arts and Design by Independent Project
Private View – Friday 12 September 2014, 5:30 – 9:00 pm
MA2014 showcases diverse new work by students graduating from the MA courses in Sequential Design/Illustration, and Arts and Design by Independent Project at the University of Brighton. Students come from a wide range of disciplines with backgrounds in architecture, textiles, graphic design, art therapy, languages, illustration, publishing and abstract mathematics.
The highly acclaimed Sequential course attracts new and established illustrators, designers and makers keen to explore the principles of sequence within their chosen field. The Arts and Design by Independent Project course encourages experimentation and innovation within a specific area on a central project. Areas of study and possible outcomes are hugely varied.
Work featured in the exhibition, ranging from a quietly subversive study of Maltese Catholicism through an implied private collection of banned books to an illustrated theory of relativity for four-year-olds, demonstrates the diversity of individual research. Picture books consider Chinese idioms, space travel, the fear of darkness and the presence of absence. A museum of narrative collections reveals the hidden scenarios embedded in an archive of inherited sewing box remnants while a series of embroidered yellow dusters examines domesticity and the deeply complex personalities of principal female fairytale archetypes. A series of comics designed for a teenage Taiwanese audience uses animal characters to highlight human experiences of gender diversity.
These internationally recognised postgraduate courses support self-initiated individual projects and help students to develop an informed, critical and imaginative view of their subject. This exhibition is a testament to their unique creative inquiry.
MA Photography Degree Show
Private View 12th September 2014 6pm - 9pm
13th - 19th September 2014
Gallery open 10am - 5pm
Photography’s relationship to storytelling has conventionally been understood through its relationship to narrative, text, and the linguistic sign. Photographs can tell stories, be put into sequences to tell longer stories, be incorporated into textual narratives and can even exceed those textual narratives, operating as enigmatic hieroglyphs that draw us into some deeper level of the unconscious. Contemporary photographic practice is so various and eclectic and draws on so many different visual traditions: we might indeed ask whether there is anything that can be seen to hold such different practices together, any set of ideas that might help us to understand the way in which photographic technologies have become incorporated into the culture of contemporary storytelling?
Visit the MA Photography 2014 website for images and information about the photographers.
Read the mYTHOPOESIS catalogue
Location:
University of Brighton
Grand Parade
Brighton,BN2 0JY
