In June, students from BA Fine Art: Drawing exhibited their graduating work as part of the Camberwell College of Arts Show 2022. Among the huge talent unveiled across the Show, we zone in on 2 students whose works shows singular vision.
We begin with the work of Denni Waterhouse: “My project is based upon the little moments in everyday life that are overlooked. Spending time on these moments allows me to feel close to the people I spent those moments with and the way I was feeling at that point.”
“My work is inspired mainly by the loss of a close family member; the thought of these moments mean so much to me, along with the fact they aren’t here to be able to experience the tiny moments we tend to overlook.”
“The use of cross-hatching in my work allows me to create a soft, textured environment that aim to make an audience resonate with the moment and the feelings I’m trying to portray. The intensity of creating the cross-hatched marks, and re-visiting the same technique over and over again, is what allows me to really revisit the moments.”
We now move on to Isabelle Morton’s work. “My graduate show piece 'As with the ground, so too the skin' explores subjective perceptions of physical space and forms of intimacy within structures of dwelling. Such experienced forms of intimacy, in conversation with contextual writing, have informed my practice over the years and evolved with my own phenomenological understanding of space.”
“This work specifically takes on themes of structural impermanence and the subjective duality of this intimacy within a place - through every individual experience of living and moving, as limitless space is domesticated and reintroduced as an inhabitable background for life.”
“The materiality plays a role here, as every 'thing' in every space exists within the continuum of time and contains and collects cultural memory throughout. In reflection of the contextual framework, the materials chosen for this project intentionally show a stark progression from previous work, with a focus on the refabrication and casting of objects through the use of machinery.”
Find out more about BA Fine Art: Drawing at Camberwell College of Arts.