Opening soon! Buy affordable work by final-year postgraduate students from across the Central Saint Martins Art programme at the CSM XMAS GROTTO. #CSMGrotto2023
Over 100 limited edition A3 prints priced at £50 each. The Postgraduate Art Print Sale presents work by final year students from: MA Fine Art, MA Fine Art Digital, MA Art and Science, MA Contemporary Photography, Practices and Philosophies, MRes Art. Proceeds will go directly to the students, helping fund their graduation projects.
"Photographic capture of airborne dust, poetically assembled based on patterns of the human brain."
“This is an imagination about brain scenarios, I often envisage that my brain is actually inhabited by a number of different 'people' with different divisions of labour, some are responsible for my socialising, some for my independent thinking and so on. I'm assuming that at some point all the various items in my brain fly out, would I recognise their respective divisions of labour? Do I really know what my brain is thinking?”
“Fleshy Matter, flesh matters, matter matters, always playing with itself, within and without, always folding in and upon, cursive and cursing, baroque and whorish is the body of Christ. Blessed be the promiscuous, for they shall inherit the earth."
“This is a photographed UV printed 3D scan of a self- portrait engulfing bananas on an orange slice covered in honey and sugar. This has been transformed into a screen print using 3 layers. The first layer is an orange slice covered in honey dissected in two parts, the outside layer contains the shape of the orange (round circle)and the inward layer contains the pattern of the orange. The third layer is the UV printed 3D scanned self portrait engulfing bananas covered in honey and sugar..”
"Imaginary Dining Table is a series of work that regarded as my self-portrait. I choose the local meat from the wholesale market in my home country and use them to represent my cultural identity. The fact that me being observed, accepting people’s gazes, the desire of being heard and understood, and the loneliness are visualized on the “dining table” that I create."
"In my practice I approach the flesh as a site of bodily horror, comedic relief and intimacy, placing equal value on each factor. The queer body becomes the uncanny; the domestic is challenged and the homely is transmogrified into the unheimlich."
“Memaroma, is a visual representation of my olfactory art practice. Inspired by the works and styles of Rene Magritte and Maurits Cornelis Escher; this scratch ‘n’ sniff print should amuse the viewer and engage their olfactory memory banks to create an experience unique to each individual."
"This reduction linocut print brings together cultural heritage in the form of Kente design, sitting under and through an outline of my body. Culture and the black male body are synonymously aligned so that the breadth of colour, pattern and shape are exposed. Embodying strength, endurance and resilience, I am proud to have incorporated the joy of my Ghanaian and Black Identity as a Black Young Man."
"Fracturing memories shown through portraits experimenting with time and distortion and fragmentation."
“This was borne out of my frustration from working my 9-5 office job. The fact that I would have to do this until I was 5927572928472 years old and that there was no time to do any art or anything I was interested in. A struggle I will hopefully come to terms with or break out of. Wish me luck!”
'It's an interpretation of the relationship between the sea and other manmade objects."
"Raindrops in the real world don't look like emoji symbols, just as tears often conceal their true meaning. Navigating the liminal space between scientific facts, emotions, imaginations, and memories. Laying a parallels between raindrops and tears. We're reminded that tears may hold different significance in the future.
"Memories are manifestations of conscious and unconscious experiences that have the ability to shift and change. This work explores the laborious process of consciously altering a memory, a repetitive building and erosion procedure that blurs our perception of the past."