"My approach to teaching has always been about the shared experience, a two way process of questioning, learning and understanding what it means to be human. Our collective experience through Covid 19 has been exactly this. The Foundation virtual classroom has been a space to share these extraordinary times and creativity… this has been the driving force to help us through."
Fiona Donald: Tutor
"Our students have been a joy. Being part of such creativity, kindness and inclusiveness has made my job a pleasure."
Lou Oliva: Tutor
FIONA BLELOCH
In these times I'm finding it even more important to be able disentangle one day from another and find a sense of interest, humour and beauty in each day. The arena may be smaller and more humdrum, birds building nests, yoga in the garden, tadpoles growing into frogs, by they present little stories which I like to document remember and share.
@fionableloch
JUDITH SHACKMAN
'Counting the cost of Covid 19
Each covid strand is a person, grouped in 10's all leaving a hole in peoples lives, but we have to look through the hole into the future.
Paper corset
Foot restriction, 6.56 feet are equal to 2m
Restricting the Feminine
@mogwaimoments
ISABELLE CHARNOCK
These landscape photographs with their dark contrast are quite representative of feelings I’ve had in lockdown; clouded over... but the people I’ve been surrounded by have allowed the light to come through.
PESACH FRANKS
WHO AM I
Coming to terms with personal mortality that impact ones actions for better or worse. Subliminally permeating the way civilisation has evolved through the complex daily decisions made by the human psyche: A3 Mixed media Collage on paper using original Victorian photographs of deceased.
DAVID STEWART
Lockdown drawings
CAROL LAVIN
Through the lockdown I have been inspired by nature. Walking daily with my dog I enjoyed watching spring arrive with a vengeance, because of the fine weather. Leaves are amazing and I have enjoyed learning how to eco print with them.
The delicacy of nature and the fine balance to protect it, influences all of my work. I enjoy working with different materials in 3Dimensions.
MOLLIE QUINNEY
Bottle top sculpture:
I took something that would be classed as rubbish or unwanted and turn it into a body related sculpture, so people would look and think WOW. As I work at a bar I had a lot of materials that get thrown away each night, for example, hundreds of bottle caps, so I decided to save them each night for a couple of days.
Train Typology:
I used my old trains tickets collected from my journey every day, I had roughly over 150 tickets. I picked apart and drew out the different parts of the train ticket to create mini sketches of the text, logos and other shapes that were on the tickets. Using the print room, I experimented with my ideas and thoughts.
HOLLY MORAN
A selection of sketchbook work relating to my experience of lockdown
LISA BLAKE
Still life studies
‘I want to explore paint primarily by using still life and myself as a vehicle for my explorations’
Self Portraits
Selected for the Future Creatives exhibition @ Manchester Art Gallery
@lisa.blake.10297
FREYA DURKIN
A series of drawings that capture conversations with Elderly people who are suffering from dementia. As a care support worker I was able to gather primary research from dementia patients I had taken care of. Although I was unable to capture images or sketch due to the fast pace environment, I was able to write down what dementia patients said. I wanted to convey to effect of bleeding memories with ink- creating a monochromatic image to push the reality of dementia being unpredictable and frightening to the person and their loved ones.
DANIEL HARRISON
'A use of blended mediums and materials to create visually rich paintings and sculptures. In this new selection Harrison focuses on the fragility of attachment and the relationship between memory and material objects. The horror and decay found in his latest work ask us to question our attachment to clothes, technology and excess.'
LILY LIGGETT-WRIGHT
A selection of sketchbook ideas
ALMAS SABIR
A selection of sketchbook ideas
ALEXANDER GATTI
Artwork in Lockdown
Dark light In the middle of the walk of our life. The straight road was everlasting and I found myself in a dark forest.
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JESSICA HILL
A selection of sketchbook work
Inspired by fungi and decay, I experimented with fabric manipulation, dissolvable fabrics, textiles, images transfer. The ideas just kept
flowing and I could have kept going with this brief...
MO BAZAEI
City Scapes
A journey through drawing, printmaking exploring the City in Lockdown
LOV-EL NIPADADE
A selection of artwork
MARCIA HARDING
Lockdown artwork
Cracks in the Road
Connections
Where is the Leadership - Shocking Deathtoll
Daily Walks
MOLLIE-MAY MANLEY
A selection of artwork
@molmayart
OLIVE YOUMBI
Tropical Tuber Skins
My designs have evolved from research in to African foods Yams, Cassava, Sweet potato, Eddoes and Plaintain. I wanted to include these vibrant staples of life along with the colours and patterns of African culture in my work.
SARAH STEER
A mini concertina book based on the poem 'A summer Day' by Mary Oliver. Incorporating handmade stencils & stamps, geli printed papers and mark making using acrylic paints & found materials
This piece explores the fragility of relationships and the connections that hold us together. I made lace from dried teabags which I embroidered together & hung on a reclaimed copper wire frame
@sarahsteerstitches
ALISON WHITEHOUSE
The fragility and strength of what lies beneath
AMY HARVEY
Lockdown art
JASMINE THEOBALD
Out of Sight out of Mind
@jasminetheo_artanddesignf
NATALIE BELL
Lockdown sketchbook
VIRGINIE NJIOMOU
Transformation and Change - Covid 19 surface patterns
LORCAN FARRELLI
Black lives matter protest Manchester 2020
BONNIE RIDGLEY
My Artwork
SOGANDI ZAHRA
Lockdown drawings– reclaiming the female body
MISHARY AL SAGAR
Lockdown test ideas
MOHAMED JAMA
Red card to Racism
'Kick Racism out of Football'
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