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University for the Creative Arts Farnham. MA Degree Show 2019

Exhibition  /  SchoolsDegreeShow2019   EmergingValues  /  27 Aug 2019  -  31 Aug 2019
Published: 24.08.2019
Mihaela Coman. Brooch: Concrete Head Old Lady, 2019. Bronze, brass, concrete.. 8.2 x 6.5 cm. Photo by: Mihaela Coman. . Mihaela Coman is a narrative jeweller, she’s interested in people and she’s inspired by literature and history. She retells stories through figurative and sculptural jewellery. . Empowered by the freedom of expression that jewellery can offer, she hopes that her work is an authentic, sincere and honest expression of her ideas and emotions. . Her Major Project consists of a collection of narrative jewellery made with conventional techniques and tools, which describes the atmosphere and the daily life during communism as she experienced and researched it. . Mihaela recreates the communist atmosphere using symbols of the daily life: the queues for goods, the bags as permanent accessory, the buildings, the concrete apartment blocks, the books, which would act as an escape at the time and the people, in their most common hypostasis, randomly walking down streets carrying a bag, obsessed with finding some food. . Making jewellery that stands for people’s life stories makes sense to her.. Mihaela Coman
Brooch: Concrete Head Old Lady, 2019
Bronze, brass, concrete.
8.2 x 6.5 cm
Photo by: Mihaela Coman

Mihaela Coman is a narrative jeweller, she’s interested in people and she’s inspired by literature and history. She retells stories through figurative and sculptural jewellery.
Empowered by the freedom of expression that jewellery can offer, she hopes that her work is an authentic, sincere and honest expression of her ideas and emotions.
Her Major Project consists of a collection of narrative jewellery made with conventional techniques and tools, which describes the atmosphere and the daily life during communism as she experienced and researched it.
Mihaela recreates the communist atmosphere using symbols of the daily life: the queues for goods, the bags as permanent accessory, the buildings, the concrete apartment blocks, the books, which would act as an escape at the time and the people, in their most common hypostasis, randomly walking down streets carrying a bag, obsessed with finding some food.
Making jewellery that stands for people’s life stories makes sense to her.

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Intro
Our shows are a great way for you to get a sense of the type and level of work our students produce and feature a selection of the best work from each course giving you the chance to spot the creative talent of the future.

Artist list

Mihaela Coman, Samantha Dewar English, Shuo Gao, Yusang Guo, Yingxi Ji, Sijia Li, Zihyin Lin, Anna Pegg, Wallace Regelous, Xuecheng Wang

Hours

Tuesday - Friday 9.30 am - 5 pm.
Saturday 10 am - 4 pm.

Opening

29th of August, Thursday, (invites only).
Anna Pegg. Sculpture: Changing Perspective, 2019. Steel. Photo by: Anna Pegg. From series: Changing Perspective. . Anna works with metal to create a range of pieces inspired by nature, pattern and movement. She is fascinated with metal and how it transforms when heated from a cold, hard material into a malleable one that allows her to create organic, free flowing forms that bring the metal to life. She mainly uses hand-forging techniques as well casting and fabrication to create functional and sculptural pieces for the home and garden. . Anna’s current work is experimenting with space and the landscape, creating sculptural pieces that are designed to intrigue the viewer and play with their perception.. Anna Pegg
Sculpture: Changing Perspective, 2019
Steel
Photo by: Anna Pegg
From series: Changing Perspective

Anna works with metal to create a range of pieces inspired by nature, pattern and movement. She is fascinated with metal and how it transforms when heated from a cold, hard material into a malleable one that allows her to create organic, free flowing forms that bring the metal to life. She mainly uses hand-forging techniques as well casting and fabrication to create functional and sculptural pieces for the home and garden.
Anna’s current work is experimenting with space and the landscape, creating sculptural pieces that are designed to intrigue the viewer and play with their perception.

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Samantha Dewar English. Vessel: The Fragility of Memory, 2019. Brass, copper, silver, silver plate.. Photo by: Samantha Dewar English. From series: The Fragility of Memory. . Memories are scattered and frayed at the edges, they are at the mercy of our emotions and desires. They carry the complexity and weight of our own narratives.  Exploration can be laboured, fractured and fragile.  It brings forth glimpses of a past eroded by time and emotion. . Through the making of the Memory Vessels and the treatment of the metals, Samantha explores and captures the fragility, decay and preciousness of memories. . The vessels are made through a practice of forming and etching, selective cleaning, sanding and polishing before the introduction of oxidisation, plating and entombment with wax. . Differences in the scale, grouping and the complexities of the treatment of the metals reflect the hierarchy and importance we place on our memories. . The vessels, through both the process of making and their final form, wane between the uncontrollable and the controlled; they are both captured and destroyed.. Samantha Dewar English
Vessel: The Fragility of Memory, 2019
Brass, copper, silver, silver plate.
Photo by: Samantha Dewar English
From series: The Fragility of Memory

Memories are scattered and frayed at the edges, they are at the mercy of our emotions and desires. They carry the complexity and weight of our own narratives.  Exploration can be laboured, fractured and fragile.  It brings forth glimpses of a past eroded by time and emotion.
Through the making of the Memory Vessels and the treatment of the metals, Samantha explores and captures the fragility, decay and preciousness of memories.
The vessels are made through a practice of forming and etching, selective cleaning, sanding and polishing before the introduction of oxidisation, plating and entombment with wax.
Differences in the scale, grouping and the complexities of the treatment of the metals reflect the hierarchy and importance we place on our memories.
The vessels, through both the process of making and their final form, wane between the uncontrollable and the controlled; they are both captured and destroyed.

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Shuo Gao. Brooch: Relationship Between Emotional Expression, 2019. Ceramics. Photo by: Shuo Gao. From series: Emotional Expression. . My work is about the complicated relationship between emotional expression and the external world, which are interdependent and conflict with each other. . I use hard and cold materials to make an emotional "container." This container can be seen as an external environment or a person's inner world, and can also be thought of as a unified ideology and social norm. It is the power to confine emotions and shape emotions. The emotions inside are eager to be expressed but have to be partially hidden. There is a conflict between them. The wearer's body can feel the confrontation when the work is worn.. Shuo Gao
Brooch: Relationship Between Emotional Expression, 2019
Ceramics
Photo by: Shuo Gao
From series: Emotional Expression

My work is about the complicated relationship between emotional expression and the external world, which are interdependent and conflict with each other.
I use hard and cold materials to make an emotional "container." This container can be seen as an external environment or a person's inner world, and can also be thought of as a unified ideology and social norm. It is the power to confine emotions and shape emotions. The emotions inside are eager to be expressed but have to be partially hidden. There is a conflict between them. The wearer's body can feel the confrontation when the work is worn.

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Zihyin Lin. Brooch: The Trace of Life, 2019. Brass. Photo by: Zihyin Lin. From series: The Trace of Life. Zihyin Lin
Brooch: The Trace of Life, 2019
Brass
Photo by: Zihyin Lin
From series: The Trace of Life
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Wallace Regelous. Pendant: Golden Thimble Tears, 2019. Silver, bronze, copper.. 2 x 0.2 x 5.6 cm. Photo by: Wallace Regelous. From series: Once upon a Thimble. . Wallace Regelous creates unique designs that often have playful and tactile elements combined with subtle movements to engage active contact with the pieces - adding hidden visual elements, creating a duality in adornments encouraging interaction and tactile experience to connect to the wearer. As an artist-jeweller, Wallace’s work explores a mixed media approach through traditional handmade processes.  These methods enable the artist to create individual textures, layers and kinetics in each design.  Wallace enjoyed focussing on found objects, specifically thimbles to create small scale adornments for the final project.  Wallace enjoys the practical aspects of creating, being at her workbench, and seeing the results as they materialise. . Viewing her work as tiny beacons that shine and keep some of the darkest days at bay, she finds it a real joy to share the light they inspire.​. Wallace Regelous
Pendant: Golden Thimble Tears, 2019
Silver, bronze, copper.
2 x 0.2 x 5.6 cm
Photo by: Wallace Regelous
From series: Once upon a Thimble

Wallace Regelous creates unique designs that often have playful and tactile elements combined with subtle movements to engage active contact with the pieces - adding hidden visual elements, creating a duality in adornments encouraging interaction and tactile experience to connect to the wearer. As an artist-jeweller, Wallace’s work explores a mixed media approach through traditional handmade processes.  These methods enable the artist to create individual textures, layers and kinetics in each design.  Wallace enjoyed focussing on found objects, specifically thimbles to create small scale adornments for the final project.  Wallace enjoys the practical aspects of creating, being at her workbench, and seeing the results as they materialise.
Viewing her work as tiny beacons that shine and keep some of the darkest days at bay, she finds it a real joy to share the light they inspire.​

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Yusang Guo. Ring: Stamp, 2019. Brass. Photo by: Yusang Guo. . The designer wants to find a way to tell stories with jewelry. People may not have time to get a story that needs a rich background to support it in a fast-paced life, so designer wants to create and record short and interesting moments. . Comics have a strong narrative and a sense of humor, and the work uses comics to show a lot of short and interesting stories. works combines the Visual language "emoticons" with short stories. Emoji is the emotion displayed in the story, and the Story is the context of the emoji. They are a proper match. . The designer defines the work as a "seal" for printing these stories, which can possible interact with the audience, and when people use it to print the story on paper, these interesting little stories can make them smile.. Yusang Guo
Ring: Stamp, 2019
Brass
Photo by: Yusang Guo

The designer wants to find a way to tell stories with jewelry. People may not have time to get a story that needs a rich background to support it in a fast-paced life, so designer wants to create and record short and interesting moments.
Comics have a strong narrative and a sense of humor, and the work uses comics to show a lot of short and interesting stories. works combines the Visual language "emoticons" with short stories. Emoji is the emotion displayed in the story, and the Story is the context of the emoji. They are a proper match.
The designer defines the work as a "seal" for printing these stories, which can possible interact with the audience, and when people use it to print the story on paper, these interesting little stories can make them smile.

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