An online exhibition produced by art students of Suffolk New College, Ipswich.
TRANSITION (Noun) the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another.)
TRANSITION is an online project providing young artists the tools to adapt and be resilient to change with the current climate.
For this project, students have worked independently within a varied range of media and workshop sessions including: printmaking, fine art, painting, fashion and textiles and photography. The resulting new work has been digitally documented to produce images and gifs of their work that are presented to the public through this virtual exhibition, giving the students exposure and live work experience.
These images were created to bring awareness to three different topics, which are NHS and care workers and the hard jobs they do, body positivity and giving second life to old clothes. The reason why I chose these topics is because of how we need to appreciate the NHS and care workers more for how important they are to our society. Also with the body positivity, I wanted to show every generation that there isn’t a set body type that you have to be and that every body type is beautiful. Then the reason why I choose to use the topic of giving second life to old clothes is because how it will help the environment if we reuse clothes that people don’t want and repurpose clothes that we don’t want and sell on.
Instagram: @bethanys_artphotography
The mixture of digital and traditional art to create in a style of the pre digital era that will stand time despite changing current trends. The use of halftone and handmade textured paper layers made from real paper, enhance the effect of the traditional style. More of this art work can be seen from my website https://interlaced.myportfolio.com
Morpho and Friends is about a group of plasticine characters coming to life and finding out they are alive. This was all animated spontaneously, so there is no actual plot or summary to the storyline. It is just characters walking around and doing either nothing or just doing small things, such as presenting slapstick humour.
Some of the characters were either based on the robot characters from Portal 2, tribbles from Star Trek, skutters from Red Dwarf, Catdog, American TV show Big Mouth, James Huson’s merry Christmas claymation and many other projects. I chose to do this, because they are my favourite kinds of TV shows, movies, video games, books and others, either as an adult now or when I was a child.
One of the characters is called Morpho. He is the orange shape-shifting character and he is based on British plasticine model Morph. Morpho has the ability to shape-shift into different shapes and sizes. He is also the main protagonist of the entire group, hence the title, Morpho and Friends.
I was trying to create an animation for young adults and older children, to expand on my audience range, because I sometimes have ideas just for young adults or older, but I was also trying to show I can have ideas both for adults and children, even if they are separate.
I hope you enjoy and/or enjoyed this project.
I also have a YouTube channel for animations and videos, where I create my own sort of shows, pilots, movies or drafts. I have a lot of past projects I did in college when I was working in Media and Art.
Thomas Burrows
I also have another YouTube channel, where in the Comments, I create paragraphs called “In A Nutshells”, where I use funny words and bad grammar to humourise any plot line of any movie, show, video game, book or other.
Tom Burrows
Creating work on the theme of TRANSITION these young artists have explored a new found reinvention of self within local, wider and global communities.
In this unique year artists have been unable to exhibit and share work in a physical space. One of the greatest challenges that the creative industries and artists have had to cope with during the pandemic is how to reach an audience. This means being adaptable and changing how we think and approach reaching them.