Masters Show at Plymouth University showcases emerging and established talent

A selection of artwork from 3D design to film, fine art to architecture, photography to graphics will be exhibited at the 2010 Masters Show at the Plymouth University. The work can be seen at the Peninsula Arts Gallery, Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building and Scott Building, from Saturday, October 30 to Thursday, November 4.

Some of the postgraduates are emerging young talent, while others are established artists and designers who returned to education to widen their creative horizons and career paths, in the third Masters show since the Faculty of Arts moved to the Plymouth Campus.

Among the works are large photographs by MRes Photography student Laurie Reynolds, in which he uses potassium sulphide to react with various sliver compounds, to make the ‘previously invisible visible’. Laurie works in partnership with the elements, materials and place to produce enigmatic and unnerving imagery.

MA Fine Art student Sue Deakin works with the natural environment and exhibits a vast drawing that maps the 431 rings of an oak tree. Sue uses ink for the drawing made by the traditional method of soaking oak galls. She also shows a delicate circular book made from prints of oak leaves using their natural pigmentation, chlorophyll and tannin.

MA Fine Art student Sarah King shows a sculptural and sound installation, which creates intriguing visual and aural sensations for the viewer.

Architecture postgraduates James Lingard and Anthony Hobbs showcase their designs for a community centre and a sustainable technology centre respectively, whilst MA Design Communication student Darryl Westly’s graphic analysis of 185 buildings in Plymouth is revealed through a large format digital print and a series of books.

MA Design students from a suite of programmes, including Service Design, Spatial Design and Sustainable Futures, show how diverse and absorbing design can be, from social enterprise, to new materials, to interactive design and sustainability. Much of the work is about innovation, creating a lot from very little, refocusing on the importance of sensible sustainable product lifecycles. This is informed with clever design thinking and a bit of humour. Katy Gallant has engaged big business and the individual to work together on the future legacy of production and consumption in an enthralling and thought provoking design scenario, while Helena Dowsett has created a speculative art centre in Ghana, using the signs in ancient Ghana textiles as her inspiration.

Other works on display include an interactive video installation, feature films, bookworks, sound installations, animation, projections, photographs, objects, and paintings.

• The Plymouth University Masters Show is at the Peninsula Arts Gallery, Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building and Scott Building, from Saturday, October 30 to Thursday, November 4.