Summer Show: MA Contemporary Dialogues

MASH-UP

Abstract image in crimson and white with lines like shattered glass.

MA Contemporary Dialogues Exhibition

MASH-UP is the interdisciplinary exhibition that celebrates the developing work of the MA Contemporary Dialogues students who are working towards their final graduate exhibition which opens in December 2024. 

This ‘work-in-progress’ exhibition, gives a taste of the varied creative practices being explored for further development towards the confirmative phase of the programme. 

The work presented in the exhibition is sourced from the specialist areas of MA Fine Art, MA Design Crafts, MA Photography, MA Illustration, MA Graphic Design, MA Glass, MA Surface Pattern, MA Product Design, MA Textiles and MA Moving Image.

MASH-UP Gallery

Diverse pieces on display at the exhibition.
A humanoid figure made of newspaper bulging out of a frame.
Plaster cast of a hand in the middle of the paper disc with scraps of text reading: The hand that signed the paper – and halved a country – felled a city.
A large carnival doll hanging in a hoop from the ceiling and other exhibits beneath the words MA Contemporary Dialogues.
Diverse items on display including a patchwork tuxedo and a sculpture made of plastic.
A poster showing a fish-headed human carrying a suitcase and wearing a red-and-white-striped shirt; a second poster shows a man in a kilt wearing a cardboard prawn head and large cardboard claws.
Papercut work in pale blue on dark blue; rectangles display cutouts of hearts, hares, a teapot, a flower and other familiar icons.
A shining white futuristic mask in a glowing blue display box surrounded by a black frame; a fanged mouth snarling on a plain white background; a beast-like shape on a black ink background set under a sheet of broken glass.
Three photographic framed images overlaid with planes of blue light.
Three photos of ivy, branches, and dead leaves on a forest floor.
Five artworks on display united by a blue theme.
A model of a run-down Victorian-era house including a barred gate, boarded-up windows, and writing scrawled on the front reading Wars Rock.