Running alongside the Maison/0 Green Trail, This Earth is devoted to graduating work from the Art programme.
From a shortlist of 10 projects from students graduating in Fine Art, Art and Science and Contemporary Photography, Practices and Philosophies, this year's four winners demonstrate the breadth of artistic practice to respond to the contemporary contexts of climate and diversity emergencies.
The jury comprised Carole Collet, Director of Maison/0, Alexandre Capelli, LVMH Group Environment Deputy Director; Alice Audoin, Founder and Chair of Art of Change 21; Ann Caroline Prazan, Head of Art, Culture and Heritage, Guerlain; Fabien Vallerian, International Director of Arts and Culture, Ruinart; Ali Eisa, Education and Participation officer at Autograph; Alex Schady, Programme Director Art Programme, Central Saint Martins, UAL.
Congratulations to the winners, Andie Aylsworth, Eva Dixon, Duong Thuy Nguyen, Daniel Rey Guzman and highly commended student, Elaina Fielding. Read more about their projects below.
Some of the winning and shortlisted work is showing at Central Saint Martins Shows: Postgraduate Art, 28 June to 2 July at Granary Square.
@andie.aylsworth.studio
"The work resembles the decorative wrought iron gates of Victorian England but takes the form of a Mangrove tree, indigenous to South America and Florida; exploring the west’s broken relationship to the land versus the indigenous way of being in harmony with it. The gate acts as the entryway into an ‘ecological mindset’ inviting the viewer to enter an imagined sympoietic future. The boundaries created through European colonisation and the fences they placed on stolen indigenous lands in order to ‘protect’ mirrors the border created by mangroves as they separate land from water."
@evadixon.png
“The work is part of an ongoing practice into experimental methods of making a 'painting'. I am a labourer making the work, I need to understand how to make dove-tail joints, I cannot ‘artificially’ make work. I am drawn to the specificity and simplicity of objects like metal G-clamps, particularly the sleekness and minimalist nature they embody- like the origin of a word, they are the most ‘g-clampiest’ g-clamp.
@duonguyen.thuy
"Broaching themes particularly pertinent to the local community, I investigate questions of origin, memory, and belonging in relation to place and landscape. The domestic and the role of humans in society are also themes probed in my work.My work seeks to decolonise processes of narrative construction by considering both ruptures brought on by colonial histories and the impact of modern-day industrialisation. The inclusion of my personal interpretation of historical documents considers cohabitation as an aesthetic form."
"Broaching themes particularly pertinent to the local community, I investigate questions of origin, memory, and belonging in relation to place and landscape. The domestic and the role of humans in society are also themes probed in my work.
My work seeks to decolonise processes of narrative construction by considering both ruptures brought on by colonial histories and the impact of modern-day industrialisation. The inclusion of my personal interpretation of historical documents considers cohabitation as an aesthetic form."
@danielreystudio
I aim to create work that explores the displacement of communities as a consequence of coastal flooding. Having experienced the loss of my own home due to debris in Venezuela years ago, I am driven to portray a potential future scenario of mass displacement resulting from rising sea levels. "
@elainafielding
"Consumption[s] is of core interest to my work. Over-consumption, products of consumption, the expendable excesses from other things consumed. The objects that are used and how they seek to both penetrate and consume, pronged and fork-like. My most recent body of work employs packing materials, remnants once used to contain something else but being their own things in their own right. Both useful and redundant, they are self-contained and unsure about where they belong."