The above is the original front cover of the catalogue that was produced for the online gallery exhibition. On the following we have reproduced the art students work and the critic that was written. The catalogue was also produced as a 32 page printed version.
Arabella Mitchell
Arabella is obviously concerned about the morality of using the skin of creatures like crocodiles. Skins that are fashioned into the highly priced elite luxury branded products.
The wealthy purchase these ‘products’ from fashion houses such as Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Versace. This artwork visualises the objection and uses the montage technique (first used by Picasso in a Parisian Cafe in the early twentieth century). The artist introduces words to highlight the point and question the validity of skinning animals purely to create an item that provides a false, but currently recognised, added status in Western society.
Benjamin Bramhall
Benjamin examines a few themes with both photography and creative graphical work. His photographs are quiet and soulful, say like the view under the bridge.
Or they are pointed and thought provoking, such as ‘Ocean Dinner’ – One imagines that we are all at sea....at some point in life. That leads to the graphical drawing of a heart which he inscribes the philosophically inspired saying...
Callum Newton
Callum takes nature as his subject line and manipulated photography as his medium.
Here we see the interplay of colour both natural and exaggerated. The overlays create a sort of double ‘take’ feeling and he has skillfully used transparency of the images employing filters in the sophisticated software programs that have been developed over the last two decades.
Much of todays visual content, commercial and fine art presentations employs this creative technology.
Charlie Sangha
Here is another Art student who has elected to use photography with nature as the base theme. Charlie gives us one colour explosion of flower close up. The Focus creates this unreal abstract feel, but we know it is real and its natural.
He explores this idea further by photographing the water droplets on a leaf. This time she supplements the natural colour with deep blue and reds that goes to give the visual a other wordlessness.
Chloe Gleave
The images that we see are real, they exist. They are ordinary and everyday, yet there is something oddly eerie about the scenes t
