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Convergence celebrates an apt concept within the creative professions; moving and joining together. This photography degree show represents a diverse, passionate, and thoughtful group of image makers who care, reflect and comment on the world around them.
To be heard and make waves in the Arts, as in life, they cannot do it alone. Collaborating, cooperating, and communicating is the seed bed of a fertile career and these creatives are growing away strongly. They address a complex world through their personal vision, always critically engaged with the human condition. The images span a vista of human experience: The environment, our gender, our appearance, our communities, our perceptions and prejudices, our well-being, our behaviours, our ethics and our relationship to each other; a wide gamut which challenges and engages equally. This work is original, not artificially generated and it will undoubtedly enrich and add to new cultural landscapes. |
Rob Sara
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CJ Pitcher
Website Cj Pitcher is a multidisciplinary, installation artist. Their practice led research currently investigates the natural world, environments and how humanity's relationship feeds and challenges through these. They use a range of mediums including sound, sculpture, photography, video, text and found objects. Incorporating these elements to create dynamic, thought-provoking works that engage the senses, spark conversation and consider new ways of thinking about art. |
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Kara Ashurst
Kara Ashurst is an ecologically minded photographer based in Cumbria, whose work commonly investigates the impacts of the current climate crisis. Kara enjoys exploring the intersection of where science and photographic art overlap. To do this, she uses technology to expand the capabilities of human senses and develop our understanding of the natural world. Her work aims to educate people on the impact human behaviour has on the planet and encourages people to share her admiration for the weird and wonderful evolutions that have made a home in the British countryside. |
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Mark Paterson
Website Mark is a mature student who has been interested in photography for over 10 years. Initially drawn to the glamorous locations of fashion photography and the wonderful images that were created, he began on this journey to learn more about his new passion. Specialising in Social Documentary photography, Mark spends time in an environment to ensure that the best images are captured that helps tell the story of what he is photographing. Having spent 30 years in customer facing roles, his range of skills in talking to anyone is one of his strong points. |
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Niyah Oselton
Niyah is a photographer with a passion for fashion and fine art photography. In addition to her photography skills, she is also a creative writer and poet. She is a self-taught dressmaker, and her knowledge of fashion and textiles adds to the complexity of her work. As a keen feminist theorist, Niyah uses her art to challenge societal norms. |
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Rhys Thomson
Website Rhys Robert Thomson is an analogue photographer based in Scotland. Rhys tends to shoot social documentary that focuses on working class and family themes. Growing up in a challenging and often hard environment he has always had the drive to work hard and confront his past through his chosen medium. Rhys utilises colour negative and darkroom colour printing in his practice as he feels like the images are more earned and capture an experience more traditionally. He hopes to further explore his past and future with photography and develop his skill further. |
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Ryan Yare
Website Ryan Yare is an artist immersed in humanity's relationship with its nonhuman neighbours, utilising research-based artwork to explore themes of environmental pollution and industrial actions on a geological timescale. His work often weaves the passing of time to visualise concepts that are beyond the limited vision and perspectives of being human, using long-exposures and experimental techniques in processing, image capture and printing to create photographic objects that encapsulate the concepts of their practice. |
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Steven Todd
Website A derelict factory by a beautiful loch, the gleaming grille of a classic Buick, a searching portrait of a worker at rest… My photographic practice is varied but always contains a personal component, informed by nostalgia and memories. Rather than capturing wholes, I tend to point my camera toward the unobserved details and hidden facets of everyday events and mundane objects. I work primarily using digital technologies and use post-production techniques to enhance the captured image to deliver my final photographs. |
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Thomas Swegsda
Website Photographs fascinate me, they display the world around us and are windows into the past. An image has the power to inform or to enthral, it can be a source of exoneration or even condemnation, by embracing the potential of photography I hope to capture beauty and knowledge wherever I find it. A picture paints a thousand words, thinking in pictures comes naturally to me, by expressing myself in a pictorial medium like photography I feel unburdened by the limitations of speech or writing and am better able to convey feelings and ideas. |
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The University of Cumbria Institute of the Arts | Brampton Road | Carlisle | Cumbria | CA3 9AY | UK
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