For the fourth year, Maison/0 This Earth Award works with the CSM Art Programme to celebrate the power of artistic practice to advocate for nature.
Nearly 50 students submitted work through open call submissions across Fine Art, Art and Science and Contemporary Photography, Practices and Philosophies.
Winners
Chloe Farrell, BA Fine Art
Pedro Resendez, BA Fine Art
Poojan Gupta, MA Art and Science
Highly commended
Jimin Lee, BA Fine Art
Chloe's project Flock brings home how species suffer due to rapid human-induced environmental change, combining casting, sculpted forms, augmented reality and performance and using the recurring form of a bird to connect us to the more than human world. Pedro explores trust, cultivating visions that question the parameters of identity, territory, and myth. Poojan 's empty pill packets chained into a large-scale hanging installation bestow health wishes on observers, metamorphosing their material condition into a sacred one. Hwado returns six canvases to their original locations, symbolising traces of the artist's presence and records of inhabited spaces.
See the work
Poojan's project is showing at CSM Shows: Postgraduate Art, 26 to 30 June at Granary Square. All projects are exhibited online via the UAL Showcase.
Chloe Farrell, BA Fine Art, Flock
@Chloe_farrell_ | @fine_art_csm
The work crosses digital and physical realms, including casting, sculpted forms, augmented reality and performance. Chloe encourages the audience "to touch and engage with the work wherever relevant, to facilitate a personal and reflective dialogue on collective mourning and generate an urgent sense of responsibility."
My practice is concerned with the human-nature connection. It examines the emotional toll of species decline in the Anthropocene - an era marked by rapid human-induced environmental change. Central to my work is the recurring motif of a bird, which represents more-than-human ecology. I use texture and tactility to explore ways in which we can become closer to non-human animals and mend the human-nature relationship.
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Flock, by Chloe Farrell, BA Fine Art,installation view. Photo: Belinda Lawley
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Flock, by Chloe Farrell, BA Fine Art
Pedro Rezendez, BA Fine Art, CHOROMNIGRAPH/ANTIPHONOS
@pedroresendezz | @fine_art_csm
“My body of work centres on the construction of relationships grounded in trust, embodying methodologies where steps are taken collectively, and voices overlap one another. I engage with factual events and historical occurrences through poetic compositions, speculation, and collective action. The apparent blurring of distance through a globalised conception of reality, alongside the establishment of complex commercial trade networks, calls for the construction of transient spaces dedicated to exchanging, re-drafting, and re-imagining together, cultivating visions that question the parameters of identity, territory, and myth.
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CHOROMNIGRAPH/ANTIPHONOS by Pedro Resendez at CSM Shows: 2024. Photo: Belinda Lawley
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Pedro Resendez, BA Fine Art.
Poojan Gupta, MA Art and Science, Wished - an empty blister packet
@created_poojangupta | @artsciencecsm
As a contemporary Indian artist I am motivated by everyday human actions that, through ritualistic behaviour, appear to be transcendent and divine. My project Wished is an interactive hanging piece for a gallery space large enough for viewers to walk around its columnar structure in a circular motion. According to Hindu mythology, circumambulations (pradakshina) connect you to the divine. Given that the column encouraging this movement is wound in chains of empty blister packaging, there is an unmissable reference to present-day pharmaceutical industries and the enormous amount of waste they produce (300 million tonnes every year). If each pradakshina represents a wish, then encircling this sculpture makes each empty foil pocket an offering to improved health.
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Process shot, Wished by Poojan Gupta, MA Art and Science.
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Process shot, Wished by Poojan Gupta, MA Art and Science.
Highly Commended: Jimin Lee, Hwado
@min.nlee |@fine_art_csm
Jimin uses natural materials such as Hanji (Korean Paper) and sand, utilising techniques like layering and scratching to imbue depth and texture. Delicate layering of Hanji symbolises the fleeting nature of memories, while the textured sand evokes the enduring quality of the landscape. A reinterpretation of traditional landscape painting, this series emphasises the dynamic interplay between painting, space, and time.
'Hwado' consists of a series of medium-format photographs. The project involves a performative act of temporarily returning six canvases to their original locations, symbolising traces of my presence and records of inhabited spaces. When I revisited these locations, I arranged the landscape canvases to embrace unpredictability. Despite being influenced by natural elements such as light and wind and having limited control over planned compositions and colour schemes, these imperfections contribute to visual storytelling, which authentically captures the essence of each moment.
This Earth recognises graduating work from the Art programme and runs alongside the Maison/0 Green Trail.
Jury
Alexandre Capelli, LVMH Group Environment Deputy Director
Carole Collet, Director Maison/0, Central Saint Martins
Fabien Vallerian, International Director of Arts and Culture, Ruinart
Ali Eisa, Education and Participation officer, Autograph
Alex Schady, Art Programme Director, Central Saint Martins
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Lucas Parfitt, Tim Huckle, Rafi Elmahal,
