REMASTERED : MA GROUP PROJECT 2018
ReMastered is the sixth in a series of collaborative exhibitions between MA students in the School of Craft and Design at the University for the Creative Arts and the Crafts Study Centre. In previous years, students selected objects to research and write about, bringing those objects together in an exhibition at the Centre. Gradually, a response component was added, with students making a piece in response to their selected object.
This year, we have done away with the essay component and focused on the making, using the collections at the Crafts Study Centre as a source of inspiration for contemporary craft practice. Traditionally, the Centre has acted as repository, a place where ‘things’ have been catalogued, documented, stored and their history recorded, whilst the active process of making new craft takes place in the studios of the School of Craft and Design. ReMastered brings the two together, making links between the museum and studio settings.
Students were invited to visit the stores to select an object or set of objects which captured their attention – whether it was the material, the technique, the colour, the texture or the maker. They then worked either individually or in collaboration with others working in different media to create responses to those objects and to curate their work in an exhibition at the Centre and online.
As a newcomer to the Crafts Study Centre, it has been fascinating to see which parts of the collection have appealed to the students and why, and to see how they have explored different ways of collaborating with one another. My thanks go to everyone who has participated in the project. It has been a great pleasure to work with such an enthusiastic and professional team.
Greta Bertram
Curator, Crafts Study Centre
DAWN THORNE
MOVEMENT THROUGH PROCESS
Dawn's MA work researches into the movement of the maker, personal actions and motions of rhythms that are created by a maker to fulfil the creation of object . . . READ MORE
HELEN TWIGGE-MOLECEY
MOONLIGHT
Helen was drawn to the sgrafitto lines on a bowl by Lucie Rie and wanted to reflect these in a design for a light. She recalled a photograph, taken by Lord Snowdon, of a diminutive Rie, sitting next to a large Moon Jar . . . READ MORE
HERMIONE THOMSON
FOR THE RECORD
ISABEL GOMES
JUXTAPOSE 'HOTA' FABRIC CONSTRUCTION
Led by the materiality of process, Hermione combines traditional and contemporary textiles. Both the hand and the machine interest her. Currently reflecting themes surrounding loss . . . READ MORE
For her MA, Isabel is researching fabric construction through pattern cutting, origami and sustainability. Her work features the use of fabric remnants to reconstruct garments, up-cycling vintage . . . READ MORE
JANET LINES
ZUFLUCHT-REFUGE SERIES
A ceramicist who has continued her own practice while working in education for the past 25 years. Until recently her work, informed by place and materiality, has related to the vessel . . . READ MORE
JENNIFA CHOWDHURY
MARK MAKING
Jennifa's work researches a craft-based methodology of designing through making that embraces the capabilities of digital technologies in print. She attempts to interpret design by . . . READ MORE
KATIE GREENWOOD
WILD WAVE
LENE RYDEN
VESSEL AND REACHING OUT
Woodblock printing is a technique used for surface decoration where a mark can be continually repeated. In the UK, Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher were known for their printed designs on textiles in the 1920s and 1930s. . . . READ MORE
Lene is a Danish ceramic artist who has lived in England the last 25 years. She gained an honours degree in teaching, specialising in Art and English and has cherished working creatively. . . READ MORE
SAMANTHA DEWAR-ENGLISH
SGRAFFITO TOOL RINGS
Samantha's research explores the human experience of memory. She works within the idea of the fading and degradation of our memories, our embellishment of them and how we borrow . . . READ MORE
SHARON KEARLEY
HIDDEN
Sharon's work researches the concept of line; a line is not always visible or straight, but twists and curves, connects and interconnects. How this line can be manipulated through the application . . . READ MORE
SIAN HIGHWOOD
HIGH AND DRY
Sian's MA work is about how textile art can explore emotion and temperament. Her work involves layers, textures and natural elements. The passage of time and remembering plays . . . READ MORE
SUSAN BLANDFORD
HARMONISING YARN
The use of crochet, knitted and embroidered yarn to embellish artwork, clothing and soft furnishing is demonstrated globally. UK textile artists Holroyd and Pym use yarn colours and textures . . . READ MORE
TRACY DRYDEN-JONES
HIGH AND DRY
As a visual thinker, Tracy usually looks to her environment for the idea that will direct her next piece of work, often seeking the overlooked in both nature and in her riverside surroundings . . . READ MORE
ARVI - YUWEI HUANG
INSIDE AND OUT
Arvi created a wearable object inspired by the work of Lucie Rie. She was drawn to one vessel in particular as it appears different inside and out. Arvi associates vertical patterns. . . READ MORE
YIDA ZHANG
BLOOD VESSEL
Yida was inspired by Audrey Blackman's ceramic figures. Her figures range from dancers, sportsmen and animals caught in action as if by a three-dimensional camera . . . READ MORE
