Surface Gallery Hand out
Transition 1 – 5 May
Nine MA visual artists from Nottingham Trent University have been selected by curators Lucy Stevens and Cat Preston in response to the theme of transition. ‘Transition’ meaning to change and evolve is used in the exhibition to express the notion of making and breaking rules that present the viewer with a series of ominous and amusing games.
Owen Baxter
Sonic Washing Machine
Owen Baxter explores making sonic art using interactive technology. Recorded sound of his washing machine is transformed into a virtual instrument that can be played and synthetically altered using different control devices, producing original compositions that sound interesting and fun to play.
Joon Kwon
Her Game
This animation examines the process of a power game played between a school student and a strict school system. The character overcomes the obstacles that have stood in her way and we witness her changing from victim to winner.
Tetsuya Fukushima
Untitled
He strives to create imaginary space using his memories and dreams emphasizing mood and atmosphere by exaggerating shapes and colours. In this exhibition paintings are projected on the wall to represent the transitional processes from real to unreal and convey an atmosphere that emphases a sense of fading presence.
Soo Kwon
How Do I Look?
Soo plays with the audience’s perception of her by using herself as a vehicle to project alter egos, which portray female domesticated stereotypes.
Cat Preston
Awaiting Transition -Consciousness Continued
Cat Preston uses process art as an exploration into the evolving of arrangements and metamorphoses, transformations and changes of state. In this piece the work is given away to the audience, disrupting the concrete understanding and becoming a personal perception, leaving only a trace of the process behind.
Sandrea Simons
Sandrea Gets a Date
The rules of the dating game are all apparent to Simons who is constantly updating her views on as an artist and a single woman. ‘Sandrea Gets a Date’ is created in favour of the artist; she wins a date every time and presents the player with the same conclusion.
Joe Wong
Untitled
The lenticular photographs continuously change as the viewers move around creating a sense of playful illusion. Wong wants the viewer to determine their own experience based on where they chose to stand or move.
Lucy Stevens
Spy hole
Lucy Stevens is an ‘experiential’ artist, as the title suggests she wants the viewer to experience rather than observe the artwork. Spy hole uses CCTV cameras and monitors as a vehicle to explore the fear and pleasure in watching and being watched.
Leif Arwen Gifford
Transition into Outer Space
Her practise incorporates the exploration of dualism, dichotomies, contradictions, dreamy romanticism, positive nihilism and sci-fi. A short animation with an original soundtrack, a transition between a sci fi future and an imagined reality.
