00:00The students are from a variety of different levels of courses, so we have pieces of sculpture,
00:04we have photography, we have installations, we have animations, we have some very thought-provoking
00:10pieces, some very emotive pieces, some interactive pieces, so there's a really wide variety of work
00:15here on show. Why do you think it's important that we have these exhibitions on the aisle to showcase
00:20students' work? It's really important for the students to have a voice, it's important for
00:26our students to feel that they can express themselves, for other people to understand
00:31what other students may be going through, or have a voice themselves, or even find a connection
00:36with somebody else, and maybe it still sparks an interest in them to start something.
00:41For my final major project for this course, I made a four-song EP, and my goal this time
00:46was to write, record, and produce, and finish the entire project myself. And of course, it's here.
00:53So we made it, we made it. How did you go about doing the project?
01:00Well, it's difficult to describe my process, to be honest. I've been doing it for a while.
01:05I love writing songs, but this time, for this particular project, I wanted to try and make
01:12something as if I was in the industry, from start to finish, to a deadline, to a specification.
01:19How would you describe the music that you've made?
01:22Well, I like to make sort of old-fashioned style music, as if I was in a rock band, you
01:30know, with guitars and drums. But recording everything myself, it's quite psychedelic,
01:35actually, to be fair. Quite modern.
01:37And where did you make it? Did you make it up at the college?
01:40Yeah, using their resources and their studio equipment.
01:43So this is sort of an abstract concept art piece. The theme was labyrinths, and it's basically
01:53a big, scattered story set within a labyrinth that tells the story of girlhood for four different
02:01protagonists.
02:02My piece explores the use of colour in architecture, and my intentions were to kind of create a positive,
02:07human-focused space, using colour and light.
02:10I think it's awesome. I think everything, everyone's just done so well this year. It's like so colourful
02:15and vibrant in here.
02:16I think it's a great opportunity for everyone to display their work.
02:21I've submitted a series of ceramic pieces to do with the theme of Wabi Sabi, which is finding the beauty
02:29and the imperfect.
02:30My piece is, well, pieces. It's an assemblage of mixed media pieces about humans and AI and
02:38the interactions between them.
02:40And where did your inspiration come from for both of your pieces?
02:47Mine came from the idea of now people just throw things away and don't take care of the
02:55things that they have or try and repair them. And I found the Japanese art of Kintsugi, which
03:04is repairing pottery and pieces like that with gold to make it stand out more and show the imperfections.
03:12My inspiration was just from, you know, watching the world around me and sort of being estranged
03:19out by the weird new world that includes AI with us. So I kind of wanted to really look
03:27into what that means and how that manifests in the world.
03:31So my piece is all about the connection that you share with the earth, especially as a woman.
03:38And I made all the paints myself with earth-derived pigments. So rock, soil, clay, vegetables,
03:48balls, and plant matter.
03:50So my piece is based on critical illness and the sort of cycle of infusions with my health.
03:58So the piece is 84 links. So each link represents a day in the cycle of the period. And over
04:08the
04:08time when the piece becomes collared and toned different, it's to resemble the sort of symptoms
04:15and stuff that you get with until I get my next infusion. So it's sort of like that cycle
04:20of my health declining before my next medical procedure. But that's what it's representing.
04:25My piece is about recycling textile material, especially from the textile fashion industry.
04:32So I've used donated materials from Albion Knitting Company to create a quilted garment that can turn
04:40into multiple items. So it's kind of like reducing the amount that you have all at once, just having
04:45it all in one product. And with it introduces to the customer a sense of mending and repurpose
04:54your clothing.
04:56So my project is called The Mother Thread and it is a collaborative quilt, kind of going into
05:02forms of care. It was just originally for mothers, but it's extended to all forms of care.
05:09So there's all different kinds of people that have contributed. A lot of them were anonymous.
05:14So I've done the artwork myself for a lot of them. But yeah, it's been really fun to stitch.
05:21And the stitching together is kind of like a metaphor for rebuilding the village.
05:27Because my dissertation was about it takes a village to raise a child.
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