Introducing our Fine Art MA (Online) class of May 2024
03 June 2024
Work: Kamar Daboul
Our latest cohort of Fine Art MA (Online) graduates have just completed their Final Major Projects; staging public-facing exhibitions, publications, live events and performances all over the world to mark the culmination of their two years of study.
The graduate showcase – entitled Dark Illuminations – brings together the work of these five artists from across the globe; projects rooted deeply to bodies and places here on earth. Meet our class of May 2024.
Meet the graduates
Work: Michelle Louise Carter
Michelle Louise Carter
Norfolk, UK
"I draw upon lived experiences of disability in my work. As an artist with a disability I’m aware of being more vulnerable to darkness and sorrow, both which can go undetected by the less creative or sensitive person. I use the language of figuration and landscape to reproduce feelings of isolation, grief and trauma in physical disability.
"My work addresses these representations in the natural world to convey the relation to grief and trauma unintentionally caused by misunderstanding how disabilities affect daily living. In my practice I work with sculpture, painting, drawing, poetry and music. I also use materials from my own made pigments and charcoal from locally foraged natural elements."
Kamar Daboul
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
"I am a visual artist, specialising in abstract figurative paintings that capture the essence of the urban environment and human interactions within it. My work delves into specific visual moments, revealing the intricate interplay between light, nature, and the industrial backdrop that surrounds me. I’m interested in capturing social intersectionality and research around topics of social power dynamics, representation and feminism within the domestic realm.
"Central to my practice is a commitment to storytelling and narrative representation. Through various mediums, including oil painting, portraiture, and mixed media, I strive to capture the complexities and nuances of individual experiences.
"Ultimately, my goal as an artist is to create work that inspires dialogue, reflection, and action. By harnessing the power of art to amplify marginalised voices and catalyse social change, I hope to contribute to a more just, equitable, and compassionate world."
Work: Kamar Daboul
Work: Charlotte E. Johnson
Charlotte E. Johnson
Auckland, New Zealand
Charlotte E. Johnson is a British-born artist, currently living and working in Auckland, New Zealand. DWELL was Charlotte’s second solo exhibition and her final submission towards her master's in Fine Art.
Charlotte has exhibited across Aotearoa – the Māori-language name for New Zealand – as part of solo and group exhibitions, and pieces are held in the New Zealand Maritime Museum, the McGregor Museum, and private collections. Charlotte’s multidisciplinary approach produces emotional artworks inspired by her own thoughts, feelings and experiences.
MC Kirby
Ireland
"I am a multidisciplinary artist interested in working with aspects of rural life, agriculture, nature, and farming communities. My practice investigates the unruliness of the natural world within the developments of the contemporary farmed landscape while I look for otherworldly qualities within this environment. The artwork aims to find a balance between the physical role of farming in people’s lives and the immaterial quality of the landscape.
"I work with site-specific locations within nature, agriculture, and the in-between moments beyond time, space and locations. Nature has an energy and power that can be experienced physically through the weather, plants and landscape but the uncanny quality of the natural environment cannot be measured or quantified."
Work: MC Kirby
Work: Andela Tucakovic
Andela Tucakovic
Bosnia and Herzegovina
"Marina Abramovic’s term 'Balkan Baroque' is the core of my practice and affects my perception of the surrounding world and I accept wholeheartedly that a particular internal struggle has arisen from Balkan dissonance, shame, and uncertainty, and I will not cease from gazing upon it.
"In my artistic and academic practice, stepping along the inglorious Balkan path is the inevitable step in addressing issues of identity and cultural belonging."
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