Journeys & Gender - Second Year Exhibition

For the first term of year 2 DFSA, the class was given the artistic assignment to make a project following the theme of Maps and Networks. Students took this theme to different lengths, thusly, the output of the unit deemed that the collective has been called Journeys & Gender, covering the mediums of photography, video art and sculpture. The ideas developed over several weeks following individual tutorials, group brainstorming and ending with a peer assessment. The results included feminist creations such as anecdotes from young women leaving university to the world careers and a dual screen piece showing women's powers and experiences. Demonstrations of journeys were presented in multifaceted meanings, including an intrinsic documentation of depression and a photo gallery of a young boy growing up.

These are just a few distilled descriptions of a larger body of work exhibited in the spinal corridor at UCA Farnham. There are sixteen works installed to be viewed before the exhibition ends on February 1st, along with next weeks alumni event when graduates can explore the work alongside the creators.

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"Students explore the metaphor of ‘maps’ and/or ‘networks’ to investigate narrative and non-linear ideas through inventive and imaginative interpretation of conceptual themes. Spanning photography, video, animation, multi-screen film, participatory artwork and installations students explore a host of themes including the expression of sexuality, shifting perceptions of global and social issues and metaphorical travels." Rosie Gunn - Course Leader Digital Film & Screen Arts BA

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Artist Statements

Savina Simmons

Forget Me Not

Forget Me Not is a mixed media piece reflecting upon a journey from childhood to a place of creative development, invoking a feeling of nostalgia. Using elements from the home and replacing items to create an uncanny effect, this piece represents a journey that is not necessarily what it seems. 

Ciara Rose Goldfinch

Four Lives (Varied Colour)

An insight into four individual women’s experiences whilst at turning points in their lives. Told in their own words and represented by different colours.

Alice Ball & Danielle Winter

Avert Your Eyes

This twin screen video installation explores the themes and ideas of women, sexuality, power and experiences.

Suzanne Bellisio

Lost in Communication

A comparison between how we communicated and networked in the 1950s is compared to the modern day. Even though technology is useful, is it bad for us? Do we keep getting lost in communication with each other?

Adelaide Somers

Face Up

This video documentation of my performance was designed to put people on the spot and ask them to confront the choices as to what they say online. I wanted to show that the words you say leave marks on those you say them to. 

Holly Probert

Support Network

Building off the work of artists such as Zawadzka, Rankin and Biennial, I have created this piece to represent the network of support that exists around me and to remind you that everyone is surrounded by the ones who helped build you.

Lorna Moseley
Chanced Impressions 
This installation uses fingerprints to explore identity and criminality. The sound explores the concept of selective hearing; what we choose to hear or not. 

George Pryer

Fuck My Gender

Influenced by Duchamp and his concept of the ‘readymade’, this sculpture attacks the metaphysical idea of gender. In a moment of self-discovery this sculpture confronts societal fascination with the gender and genitalia of the transgender community, in hope that the artist can detach themselves from the ‘psycho-sexual’ and biology.

Jodie Lambert

De.personalisation

An exploration of losing a sense of yourself and trying to find your emotions again. 

Jack Gunn

Frownland

Frownland is a dystopian world where everything seems broken. The blues of lingering misery interrupted by an overwhelming wave of red lines. The gloom lit night is long when in sorrow, but the morning always comes like a switch.

Luca Balivio

Light trails are formed into a journey through familar spaces in Farnham and London to create a metaphorical map that joins places of personal significance. 

Paige Armstrong

Joseph Palmer & Nina Sayuri Noreiga Sato

Turn Around

This is an experimentation of perspective and the representation of unspoken communication, where we break the boundaries between language and understanding.

Oliver Wilshaw

Emotion’s World

Four characters express their emotions and behave as opposites to each other but the story isn’t one that has a defining narrative. It is set in a fictional dream world full of symbolism, of ideas and of possibilities.

Jacob Howard & Ben Manning

Mind Out

Delving into the human brain to explore the creative right side and academic left side and how our thoughts and emotions are affected by the two working together.

 

  

Gareth Loughlin (in the stairwell at the end of the Spinal Corridor)

Boundless and Bare

Inspired by poetry by Percy Shelley, this piece documents the admiration and exploitation of nature. An observational work that investigates mother nature as its own entity, and human interaction with it.

Written by Gareth Loughlin and George Pryer