Birth of a cell or death of a star?

What does this remind you of?  

That is part of the beauty of Alicia Gledhill’s ‘Trilogy’ collection.

Alicia has recently completed her  MArt in Creative Art Practice, and we’re pleased to say that her work will be in the new exhibition at Collegiate.

Alicia has given us some insights into her work, and more details will be on display alongside the collection – we loved this paragraph in particular:

“I explore how everyday media can be worked into textile imagery, such as Blu Tac. While not a textile, the ways it falls when manipulated has a fabric nature. When size, scale and colour are withdrawn from Blu Tac it becomes a completely different material. There are similarities between the very small on earth and the very large of the universe:  the birth of a cell looks very similar to the death of a star. When these are made into an image the perception of size is lost. This effects how the viewer sees things: when the size of the image is lost then the mind becomes open to different options. But the mind will always try to find something in the work that it recognises. People often say ‘you know what this reminds me of’ in relation to my work…”

Creative Connections – collaborative work with fellow students in Georgia

Creative Connections presents the results of a collaborative project between Mart Photography students from Sheffield Hallam University and Studio MFA students from Georgia Southern University in the USA.

 The project grouped six photographers studying at Sheffield Hallam with twelve 2D and 3D artists from Georgia Southern University to share ideas, influences and work in the creation of a collaborative grouping of cross media artwork for exhibition.

 Students communicated by email, Skype and social networking before finalising their work and shipping it to Sheffield for exhibition. After exhibition in Sheffield the finished work will travel to Georgia Southern University for a matching exhibition on American soil.

Take a look at some of the photos here or on our Facebook gallery – more details of the exhibition in the learning centres will be published soon, along with interviews with some of the exhibiting students.