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As a multi-disciplinary artist, I create contemporary, mixed media illustrations and collaged utopian landscapes bursting with technicolour and drenched in candy-coated hues. My work explores the concept of the intimate and shared spaces we inhabit. Inspired by the urban environment and contemporary graphic design, my work merges the abstract with the figurative and seeks to balance juxtaposing elements with an archive of textures and patterns to visually communicate a world that is better than how we might initially view it, perfect and shiny and sprinkled in acid pink sugar.

www.rheums.me

Rheums is an archaic word for tears

Rheums are rooms

Rheums is a space for feeling it all

Home can be a treacherous place full of painful reminders and traps. Simultaneously it’s a cocoon, safe packaging, within which to sift, restore and build.

This work explores heartbreak and fear, and most of it isn’t pretty.

But if you fancy exploring motherhood, domesticity and abandonment with a few pairs of knickers, some shit, a crow or two and a bit of DIY for good measure, then come on in…

Rheums is a body of work which was conceived, performed and produced in each room of my home and documents the grieving process in the aftermath of two significant events. The work is a collection of video performances presenting various spoken monologues and songs on a specially designed website. The written work has also been produced as a small, printed book. I have begun work on adapting Rheums for live performance.

@clownratz_

When first joining the MA Creative Practice course I had a strong focus on escapism through the use of make up. During my time studying on the course, I heavily researched the link between art therapy and makeup, through the sense of touch we can use makeup as a therapeutic medium. I began to approach makeup as a medium holding similar properties to paint, which led me to create my Emotions as Colour workshop, where the use of different colours of makeup can visually communicate our emotions, easing difficulty around verbal conversations of emotions.

In my further research I began to explore Judith Butler's Gender Theory, where instead of being a fixed notion, gender is seen as an everyday performance forced onto us by society. Through the use of my alter-ego (pictured) I could delve into the idea of gender as a performance with notions of Queer theory, which celebrates living outside of social binaries, including societies beauty standards. Through alter-egos, we as a society can learn to reject societies binaries and live in a free and open state of mind where we fully accept ourselves and others.

Photography by Lucy Fradley. 

Katey is an experienced singer with a passion for vocal coaching. Proud to be helping advanced and beginner vocalists to become the best that they can be, Katey has a plan to help you achieve your full potential.

In her lessons, Katey will use a variety of vocal warm-up techniques that are played on the keyboard. This will concentrate on diction, diaphragm control and general control of the voice. Katey also teaches the knowledge of microphone techniques and will encourage singers to work towards singing exams, if they are interested. Finishing lessons, vocal warm-down exercises are played on the keyboard. Furthermore, Katey is music teaching at East Riding College's Music Academy.

Katey will individually tailor each lesson to her pupils, enabling them to learn to sing and learn music with confidence and speed. She has achieved multiple certificates - including A levels, singing and music theory exams, undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and is studying for a professional graduate certificate in education; she is researching the components of educational theory, so beneficial lessons and outcomes can be created for learners - such as students' achieving their desired goals in music and singing. Katey is a freelance, vocal coach.

@lucyfradleyphotography

Lucy Fradley is interested in using her creative practice to investigate identity, and in her most recent project has been working on a collaborative participatory project with a lifelong friend, Jaxon. Fradley focused on Jaxon who is currently in his own transitional period of his life, going through big changes since he started taking testosterone and in the lead up to his top surgery. These are big things to navigate, which is why Fradley wanted to work on this project with Jaxon by using her experience in photography as a method of support along this journey to help him in expressing himself creatively in a reflection of his own journey. The outcome of this project resulted in the creation of a zine that compiled photographs, screenshots of Skype calls, conversations, and an interview in a carefully constructed piece documenting the process of transition. This was the work of her Masters in Creative Practice, which she hopes to help others realise how they can use a creative process to understand their own journeys.

www.daisymaenorthern.com

Daisy Mae Northern is a brand that celebrates the realism in northern culture and dialect. I use these inspirations to create playful designs and objects as art and soft sculptures.

All my sculptures are handmade in Yorkshire and only available in small amounts, meaning you can have something a little extra special made with love by me, Daisy Mae.

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I am a Leeds-based filmmaker and writer. My favourite thing to do is writing stories about badass women heroes and warriors that go on adventures, in the hopes I can help inspire other women and young girls to be the heroes of their own stories. I was surrounded by independent and grafting women, who weren't afraid to be themselves. They're the ones who inspired me to write the epic journeys that women weren't allowed or were too intimidated to take. 

@nqm.rgb / @nqm.cmyk

The multi-faceted nature of my work has led me to explore the intimate relationship between sound art and moving images. Having being inspired by the work of late 20th century female electronic noise musicians and experimental filmmaking, I wanted to apply a queer lens to the creative rituals and blurring the line between the process of making and playing, which enforced through mindfulness practice and sensory plays.

My films are heavily influenced by the magical realism genre and I incorporated this through the dreamlike mood of my film and the unstructured narrative. ‘You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It’ is a short film that looks into the struggles of bisexuality which let us glimpse into the main character’s perspective and their toiled emotions. By subverting the traditional filmmaking process instead of starting with a script. I began first by composing the sound pieces, which set the tone of the film and served as a foundation for improvisational plays throughout the piece.

@overexbosed

'Finding Wabi-Sabi' is the final art film of Anais Pan’s MA Creative Practice exploration. Through Wabi-Sabi, she combines impermanence and imperfection into her interdisciplinary practice, including photography, moving images and wood carving. In her art film 'Finding Wabi-Sabi', she placed her gaze at the serenity within nature and her spiritual world via various tree texture photos projected back onto trees at night time. Woods can be meditating yet eerie, which Pan tried to capture in her moving image. During the film recording, she improvised all her moves according to her visions and feelings towards the tree projections. By adding lighting experimentations and long takes, she depicted her interpretation of Wabi-Sabi with nature tranquillity, abstraction and movements.

Anais Pan has grown a strong passion for photography and moving images through her commercial practice as a creative director of her own fashion footwear brand. After the MA Creative Practice course, she is prepared to embark on her personal artistic exploration journey alongside her commercial practice.

@queenie_my_ass

Greg Pshybyshevsky, also known as 'Queenie My Ass', is a Polish/British performance artist and comedian.

The main areas of theoretical and practical research:

a) relations between art and comedy

b) the organising function of a narrative in a project consisting of multiple elements such as images, videos, live performance, writing, and 3D objects

c) how distancing from national identity context influences a creative practice

The project was based on a script, initially written as a stand-up act, about a Polish immigrant in the UK, who convinced by the anti-immigrant propaganda blaming Eastern Europeans for almost every British problem, starts believing in his overwhelming influence on social, political, and economic realities of the UK. As an effect of his delusions, he turns himself into the Queen.

The outcome of the project consisted of two elements: one, submitted as a final project resolution in a format of an oversized children book which uses digital collage, text, sculptural interactive constructions, performance, and video, and second, a stand-up act performed at the end of year show at Assembly House, Leeds.

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EMbodiment (A Mime-Based Performance Process).

ABSTRACT. Mime sees subject. Observe intricate mechanisms of subjects objective existence. Carry weight of subject’s being. (Knees/Elbows/Hips). Trace lines of subject’s space. (Arms/Spine/Legs). Breathe in/out subject’s rhythm. (Lungs/Heart/Eyes).

EXPRESSIVE. Mime in body of subject. Recognise the effect of subject on self. Connect physical e-motional response. Direct e-motional response into action. Develop Hybrid-Self/Subject through constraint experimentation. Extract primary physical e-motional experiences.

BEHAVIOURAL. Full corporeal and e-motional connection: mime+subject. Body of subject. Experience of subject. Consciousness of subject. Circumstance of subject. Step of subject. Touch of subject. Voice of subject. Eye of subject. Blood of subject.

Maxwell Sly is a mime practitioner. Using EMbodiment he explores the internal experiences of non-human objects (physical objects, conceptual objects, event objects, and living objects) and devises narratives from his discoveries. By exploring the internal experience of everyday objects, he is able to develop uncanny and dreamlike narratives which are shrouded in a fog of mundanity, distant-familiarity and exposed realities. He shares these narratives through a variety of performance mediums ranging from short-films to theatrical productions. He currently teaches EMbodiment to actors and theatre-makers across the UK.

@katestockwellart

'Menopause Bodies' (2021)

The work explores the multiple meaning and agency of objects. The context of my practice is the museum environment. The art objects are made in response to collection objects and reference them directly either visually or by using the same materials and techniques.

This body of work looks at issues around women’s health through the medium of medical museums and collections. It references anatomical waxes and historical representations of women’s bodies in medical discourse. The subject of the work is menopause. My practice challenges prevailing narratives and strives to create new narratives to inform, inspire and empower.

The sculptures 'Menopause Bodies' explore women’s lived embodied experience of menopause. Concepts of wonder and the uncanny are drawn upon to create interesting and arresting wax sculptures. Each “body” expresses a dominant theme which emerged from an extensive survey of perimenopausal, menopausal and postmenopausal women. Evocative objects are used to express thoughts and feelings while selected hand written quotations from survey responses give direct testament to the experience of individual women.

The accompanying panels incorporate quantitative data from the survey to give context to the sculptures. They anchor the work in the context of historical anatomical illustrations while subverting them.

www.amystringer.co.uk

Amy fuses industrial and precious materials to create bold, one-off jewellery and artworks. Amy primarily combines cement with striking metalwork, nature and gemstones to challenge society’s perception of 'precious'.

With architectural undertones running throughout Amy’s work, contrasting with recognisable fine and historic jewellery elements, her designs are anything but ordinary.

Amy Studied at BA level at Sheffield Hallam University where she developed her signature use of cement. Since moving back to Leeds, Amy has continued to champion contemporary jewellery through her own work, teaching, mentoring and curating.mAmy has exhibited her collections locally and internationally and worked with many galleries across the UK.

www.artofficialleeds.com

I started out as a graffiti artist 20 years ago. Since then I have become interested in different art media and have been experimenting with all kinds of art forms. I have completed large scale commissioned artwork and more personal private commissions. I decided to study Creative Practice at MA level and have researched different artists and drawn inspiration from them. My art has taken me in lots of different directions and I’m particularly enjoying texture and abstract works at the moment. I’m looking forward to seeing what the future holds for me.