MA show UCA Canterbury 2013

MA Show UCA Canterbury 

30th August to  3rd September 2013

10am to 4pm

The MA in fine art at UCA Canterbury culminates in a showcase of work, which also includes fashion and photography MA students.

After submission of the critical evaluation paper, the installation part of the final project commenced. For those with installations it required lengthy preparation. Fortunately film after the lengthy process of editing, required transfer onto DVD and then a few practice runs in the theatre.

My film titled, 'Fugitive Reflections' is the outcome of sourced film footage of Dreamland, Margate. The archiving of film and its selection has enabled me to produce and edit a film that I hope will not only reflect the existence of the site, whilst enabling the viewer to recall memory of a similar place or time. The title of the film reflects my aim to explore the boundaries of traditional film, that mostly contain a linear narrative or story. The editing process creates both pauses and tension, with the intention that the repetition not only creates new meanings but allows for scrutiny of the image and perhaps the trigger for recall. Alongside the visual image it was vital that the soundtrack incorporated the same theme. Through use of original soundtrack taken from the films and their repetition caused by editing, I worked in collaboration with Ollie Girvan BA(Hons) Commercial Music student at the University of Westminster aka DJ Bill Motion, his expertise and creativity pushed the possibilities of the sound editing process, creating a soundtrack that not only adds to the visual experience of the film, whilst also creating echoes of time.

The film is available to view during the MA show in the Cragg Lecture Theatre.

below is a short excerpt of the film,

Photographs show work installed prior to Private View,

Helen 

Carol-yvonne (Cazzie)

Cherie

Sue

Gigi

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'Passenger' exhibition at BR Margate Station

'Passenger' 10th August to 24th August 2013
 10am - 5pm at Margate Railway Station.

An exhibition curated by Clare Beattie, with the support of South Eastern Rail. It features a mix of work, including sculptures, video and photography and will be on display from Saturday August 10 – Saturday 24 August 2013. It’s a culturally inclusive exhibition featuring works by locally- based artists:  Victoria Fountas, Gigi Ngan, Helen Poulteney, Angela

Stocker and Clare Beattie.

This was a unique space to exhibit and a great opportunity to show site related films in Margate. The railway station booking hall is a passing place for those visiting Margate allowing the public to view work while waiting for or meeting trains. 

Consideration was given to the placement of work and its interaction with other works. I choose to use 3 TV monitors to play 3 films, shown previously under the heading experimental films. Clare, Angela, Gigi and Angela exhibited sculptures within the hall, whilst Victoria lay a path of manipulated postcards depicting an imaginary scene.

The staff at the railway station were great, helping to install work and also keeping it safe.

The comments from both BR staff and the public were very positive, and on seeing my films recounted memories of Dreamland and visits to Margate. It was really interesting to hear their stories and I was pleased that it had this intended response. 

Pictures taken during Private View

Helen with work

Ticket Office

Helen and Sir Roger Gale MP

Clare, Angela, Helen, Victoria, Gigi and Angela

Angela, Helen and Angela

Link:

http://www.turnercontemporary.org/news/passenger-arrives-in-margate

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Diary

Me and Cazzie, painting our studio space in preparation to hang our work, it got pretty messey, for me anyhow, Cherie :-) ;-)

Diary

Hi, This is the last painting in the series of The Grandmother's tale, which I have produced for the MA show, although I have worked to keep the previous works ambigious, this works is more literal of a Red Riding Hood connection. The difference is that this image is not following the story & plot but is an added scenario, I have created my own digetic realisation of the narrative. I'm really looking forward to finishing my Master's, I feel as though I have grown in my work and out look in life, should I feel this excited about completing, well it has been 8 years study part-time, yippee, may miss it later ;-) now preparing walls and hope to hang my paintings in the studio tomor, by the way if my lecturers read this I have a bad back from up and down the ladders ouch!.......who said Art is therapeutic.   Bye for now, Cherie

Cazzie Marsh 6/8/2013

I am preparing now for my final MA paper, so lots of work to complete before I hand everything in for marking.
Shown here are some of my ink sketches which I draw most days. Many of these drawings are about me and the situations I find myself in; mostly they are about Objects.
In my antique shop known as 'Grandma's Attic'   I am surrounded by things, stuff, bits and bob's, and I  am fortunate having a plethora of objects at my disposal.

Cazzie Marsh 8/7/2013

 Objects to discard, Objects to keep. A dichotomy, as a collector one can ask oneself.
In a continuing strategy from my previous works, my paintings further analyse my autobiographical association with collecting. My methodologies firstly involve selecting objects and textiles that are inherited through an ancestral route; further, a relationship to my past through worn textiles and found objects that remain sentimental to me and finally and importantly, given objects received as gifts from loved ones.
My paintings are individual transient reflections of the time, the place; in relation to objects; an autobiographical history (although not chronological) of my life and my collections; fragments of things,stuff, and bits and bobs.
This platform for a broader framework allows me as an artist to expand and question the polarities of why we chose particular items and why we keep others and centrally this allows me to depict in paint, my own preferences.What would you keep, What would you discard?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diary

Hi, these are two paintings I have completed since my last visit on here and I'm just about to complete my 6th in this series. The above one is enamel on safety glass, 65 x 102 cm. Which I smashed to give a shattered broken effect but perfectly safe. The enamel I distressed by adding water to the image, deconstruction.  The second image is oil on canvas, 151 x 151 cm.
 I believe my last visit here was when I was just about to start my critical evaluation paper, which mentally I found very difficult to do, personal and difficult to reflect on my drives to produce art or what my unconcious thoughts are reflecting on before I conciously construct an image, perception. I am now at that same stepping stone, the last reflection I learned alot about myself. I came to an understanding of myself within. Nearing the end of my course, one more painting, a folio and another crit on myself.

Collaboration with 'Bill Motion' DJ/Music Production

I have recently collaborated with music production student/DJ 'Bill Motion' aka Ollie Girvan on an album cover for his final major degree project at University of Westminster. The brief was to create an image that depicted a futuristic London, which was still very much in the process of construction. My initial methodology in creating a design was to source images via the internet, as London was the main subject of the work the images consisted of London landmarks, construction sites, then obscure film stills were identified that would help to produce the futuristic element. Once a number of images had been sourced I chose my base image and then layered up to eight further images. Using PhotoShop I alter opacity, colour saturation, colour definition, brightness and contrast until I achieve the desired result.

Initially I produced several designs, see below:

 Although Ollie liked the concept, he suggested that he wanted more definition and colour, from this I retained elements of the designs, but sourced more imagery and decided to experiment further with PhotoShop, pushing the possibilities of what could be achieved. The following are a set of revised images:

I was really pleased with the results, but still felt that further definition was required, so adjusted further:

The Final image is the design that Ollie felt best visually illustrated his music, it then just required his logo.

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14/ 6/13 Cazzie Marsh

The following images are from December 2012 and January, February 2013. Referring to D.W. Winnicott's grief, mortality and the baby's comfort blanket, my paintings capture an essence of my personal recollections related to time and place with the use of painted fragments of cloth.

 

 

14/6/2013 Cazzie Marsh

 Recently fellow MA cohortee Carole Day organised a 'Stefani' weekend at 'Limbo' in Margate, Kent. Unable to attend Carole's communal art workshop I decided to participate in a collaboration involving Barbara Maddison producing a 'Stefani' from my premises in The Strand.

14/6/2013 Cazzie Marsh

The potentiality of objects bedecking our homes and place of work represent a need for comfort and familiarity.The necessity for collecting is generally a cultural trend in the Western hemisphere. Objects or Relics whether meaningful or functional play an important role in accessing the past, present and future through museums and galleries around the World. My work derives from an appreciation of these items and now determines the concepts in my work.
My paintings are often depicted as fragments of  objects or textile; personal objects, that are sentimental and have a significant relationship to the past ( I use the term past, even to refer to the yesterday).The chemistry between myself and the object or textile is an attachment deep rooted in ancestry and the antique.
 My choice of selecting particular objects and textiles and fragmenting the photographic image is a methodology imbued with ambiguity; fragments from many photographs that I have personally taken of 'my' objects relies on narratives formed from the exchange of giver to recipient.The gift or inhertance of an object from a loved one strengthening an emotional bond with myself and the item. Furthermore, I hope to instil to the viewer of my paintings a moment of reflection, regression and suggestion of their own memorie. However, some objects remain on a transitory pathway, only to pause for a short moment in my hands before engaging again on their route to a more permanent destiny.

Displayed here are some recent images of my paintings,

Experimental Film

Continuing with my documentation of Dreamland Margate through my own and appropriated imagery, I am seeking a method of introducing archive film footage within current photographs of the site. Through a continuous methodology of assessment and review I place the found fragments of archive film on to photographs that show their original location within the site.

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Time - Place - Space Research Student Exhibition April 2013

As a group the MA fine art students from Canterbury UCA visited the Research Student Conference at UCA Farnham. There we listened to presentations given by Research Students with UCA, the conference lasted the day and included question and answer sessions with a keynote speech by Dr Claire Pajaczkowska, Senior Research Tutor in the School of Material at the Royal College of Art.

Following the conference a Private View was held for the Research Student Exhibition

'Time - Place - Space'

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