MA Craft & Material Practices

Rebecca's processes are influenced by ideas of pressure, force and layering as viewed through the lens of geological time.

Niamh's fort is hand-embroidered with flowers, each with individual significance. The embroidery has been created collaboratively, with Niamh stitching in cafés and pubs, inviting friends and strangers to sit, make and talk with her.

Ceramic and Steel Sculpture by Alan Braidford

Glass and laser-cut leather combine to create a series of wearable neckpieces, featuring digitally designed ball and socket joints. This clever feature allows the jewellery to mould to the wearer's body contours. Materials include blown glass, recycled bicycle rubber and 3D printed PLA plastic.

Holly Wales is an Illustrator whose MA project explores surface design for interiors – investigating all forms of print through a process of mixing & remixing; relinquishing and re-establishing control across a range of mediums & employing chance as a tool for image making. Her work sets out to define more firmly a sense of ‘continuous exchange’ within her practice; where projects are process-­led & invite an external dialogue to take place. Her output includes print & pattern for textiles, ceramics & paper, and draws upon the skills of other specialists to produce unique limited edition collaborations. The rug Holly has designed has been handwoven in Nepal by rug-makers Kumbeshwar who are a founder member of Fair Trade Nepal. Employees are taught literacy and skills. In addition to fair wages their work supports a school of 260 children and an orphanage of nineteen. The two prints are a result of a collaboration with Exit Press, a Risograph publisher in Norwich. Risographs are produced using a Japanese high-speed digital printing system similar to a photocopier, but which uses real ink, as in traditional offset printing. Holly’s work celebrates the handmade and deliberately avoids a digital aesthetic whilst simultaneously pushing all available technologies to their limits to see what is possible when different techniques are combined to deliver unexpected results.