BA in Fine Art
My practice is looking at movement through still photography, this involves putting still photos into videos to give them energy. I am currently looking at movement in sports and specifically the repetition of the rowing stroke. I want to present it broken down and understandable whilst keeping its momentum and energy.
BA in Art and History of Art
My painting practice explores the transition from girl to woman, and how woman mourn the girl they used to be. During coming of age, women can experience the transition as a loss of innocence and joy in favour of succumbing to societal pressures which pushes women into the ideal of what womanhood should be. My inquiry into this takes form through still life paintings, inspired by my own life and that of friends who have also experienced this transition, and reflects how girlhood has left traces within our womanhood as a way to try reclaim the joys of womanhood.
BA in Fine Art
I mainly use acrylic paints as my medium on stretched canvas. My interest focuses on colourful surrealistic paintings with cartoonish portraits that surround the theme of bizarre, whimsical fantasy. The idea behind my art is to explore female sexuality and desire, the perspective of female gazes, and femininity in the forms of symbolic portraits to provoke humans’ expressions and feelings. It is to push and test the boundaries of what feminine representation can be.
BA in Fine Art
I am a painter who explores the ethereal outcomes of the process of printmaking and oil painting. My goal is to create monochromatic works that express the divine relationship and the beauty of human experience. This is through registering the paint marks that remain on the surface as a way of evoking a sense of contemplation and reverence, embracing the aesthetic of the pure monochromatic hues. I focus on the significance of revelation in the creation of paintings, particularly through the strategic deployment of hues in layered compositions. In these paintings, personally a sense of gentleness, delicacy, and tenderness is experienced.
BA in Art and History of Art
Siuli-mo Pal is a Art and Art History student at the University of Reading in her final year. She predominantly works with paintings, occasionally working with film. Her identity plays a significant role as she tries to create art that makes commentary on the British Raj and its effects on the South Asian diaspora. Characteristics of her painting include; dramatic shadows, a limited colour palette and a neon pink underpainting. This is to emphasise the heightened emotions that are inherited with forced mass migration and human suffering at the hands of colonialism. Her paintings often have iconographies of wheels and trains, this is a choice she makes in paintings to show the connection between the ‘legacy’ of the railway systems the British had left behind – but at what cost? These images help Siuli to also represent the constant state of moving, migration and change and how it is ever so present within the diaspora.
BA in Fine Art
I am interested in exploring emerging internet aesthetics and memes as social commentary through social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and Reddit. By creating characters such as Trustworthy Businessman and Barbra the secretary, I participate in ongoing performance art as I aim to create humorous content that exists on their social media accounts, websites and in real-time at exhibitions.
BA in Fine Art with Integrated Foundation
My work subsumes into the boundless, an innate formlessness in which manifests balance. Such that the line that is interwoven through the substance creates a seamlessness within the chaos –
a synchronicity between that of the ugly and conversely, a beautiful.
A network of blood vessels and railroads; the marrow for my questioning of the aesthetic is founded on straight and curved contours – an interlinkage between them, the very anatomy they weave into and their evinced appearance as such.
BA in Art and Psychology
My work explores the detatchment between my current self and my younger self through the use home videos. I explore key themes of nostalgia, coming of age and family. The home videos are central to my practice, they are archives of my childhood through the eyes of my dad. I use screenprinting to recreate and adapt stills from these videos as a way to reconnect with my younger self, whilst distorting and layering images to reflect the idea of a false memory created
by video.
BA in Fine Art
As a multimedia artist predominantly working with video, installation, and poetry, my practice explores the South Asian diaspora, heavily informed by my own Bangladeshi heritage and VHS family archives of wedding footage. Language and translation are key elements of my work, allowing English and Bengali to co-exist with one another. It is a way of reaffirming an intertwined British Asian culture that exists within my identity and navigating both cultures. My films aim to document the presence of South Asian culture in contemporary Britain, through a ‘diaspora aesthetic’.
BA in Art and Creative Writing
My work shows the ways in which capitalism sees femininity as profitable and uses it to command patriarchal expectations and social structures through the significance and iconography of objects and symbols, as well as colours. Decorating and placing mundane domestic objects into what I call a “feminine filter” in order for companies to sell.
