Funf was a mid-term show for the students
of the HND Public Art Course at Edinburgh's Telford College.
Below
are the original artists statements.
Eilidh Gordon
My work intends to raise issues relating to the belief that ‘Everything
happens for a reason and that everyone’s life path is already
plotted out for them’ but it also questions my fears of
mortality and when my time will be up.
Within the work there are also questions about the role of suffocation
in auto-erotic asphyxiation and the parallels it brings with mortality
in the context of suicide.
Lyndsey Hunter
My exhibition piece came from my interest in environmental issues
and the damage that we as humans are causing to our own environmental
surroundings.
As part of research into the effects of sulphur dioxide emission
and increasing acid rain damage on woodland areas, I carried out
a series of tests on natural materials removed from the Calderwood
site.
These tests were carried out to show the damage of varying acidity
levels and the damage threshold of a variety of substances. The
tests were monitored daily and results logged.
Holly McArthur
My work deals with the cultural obsession with beauty and the dramatic
increase in plastic surgery. It looks at the process of modification
to achieve an idealized image of perfection.
Gemma Prentice
To have trust is to have a firm reliance on something or in someone.
Nothing is trustworthy, you just have to have faith and believe
it wont let you down, trust is therefore a learned behaviour, whether
it be through your own past experiences or due to recommendations
from those you have come to trust, there's no full proof certainty
for anything. A condom is 98% effective, there is no guarantee
that your condom will not break or fail to do its job. A condom
is therefore a symbol of trust. A simple object that can prevent
life and also prevent death. My work conveys purity, innocence
and cleanliness, everything that a condom has come to stand against
because of social perceptions of sex. Feminism is a strong theme
within this piece, it portrays activities common to the stereotypical
housewife, showing the use of sewing and household duties.
Kirsty Ross
Dyslexia-/ dis.lek.sia/ Abnormal difficulty in reading and spelling
caused by a condition of the brain.
This work is about perception and ways of seeing. The graphs and
photos show my sight being both improved and distorted by glasses
whilst drawing the graphs. The brain scans show the normal brain
in red and the dyslexic brain in green. The coloured acetate acts
as a theoretical way of improving dyslexia with different colours
working for different individuals.
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