Private View: Fri 26th Sept, 6pm - 9pm
Open Daily: Sat 27th - Wed 30th Sept, 11am - 6pm
UWE MA Fine Art students present: SKIN. Rachael Kennedy, Claire Taylor, Shula Soleman, Tom Price, Akasha Dryden, Charlie Lockwood, Nicolas Schneider.
Rachael Kennedy
Image 1: ‘The Internal Alchemist’ (copper sculpture)
Instagram: rachael.k_art
As an artist who uses the natural world as inspiration, and natural materials to highlight how we gain insight, knowledge and power by interacting with and caring for our environment, I consider my art to sit within the environmental sphere.
Recent research has involved the notion of regeneration, the circle of life, and the interconnectedness between humans and the natural world. Re-connecting with nature during the pandemic reinforced the importance of protecting our ecosystems against environmental challenges in a bid to preserve the landscape for future generations.
In my practice, I have been particularly intrigued by the way some materials gain agency and control as they seemingly come alive through manipulation, necessitating a level of resistance in my response. The control and connection between nature and humans was literally playing out in my hands and provided a tangible and phenomenological experience.
Claire Taylor
Images 2&3:’Render’ (hanging latex pieces)
Instagram: claire.j.t
website: www. Clairejt.com
Shula Soleman:
Image 4: ‘What the skin remembers’ (ceramic sculpture)
Bristol-based multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, ceramics, sound, installation, and text, explores the layered themes of womanhood, cultural identity, and diasporic memory. Her practice gives form to the emotional complexities of displacement, translating pain, fragmentation, and resilience into material language.
Navigating the shifting spaces between unconscious and reality, her work reflects the psychological duality of living between worlds. Informed by lived experience across linguistic and cultural borders, she evokes a sense of dislocation and suspended belonging. Text becomes a final, fractured expression, stories and secrets of unspoken pain, blending into the work as a poetic, fictional language that speaks through silence and form.
Instagram: @Shula_Soleman
Akasha Dryden:
Image 6: QIII:TÂN (still from performance)
I am a multidisciplinary artist whose practice excavates memory, embodiment, and archive through process-driven and iterative practice. My work stems from personal and cultural histories, relating them to political movement, and seeking to understanding them through interactions of materials and body.
Tom Price:
Image “Whoops I slipped/ is that Aston from JLS” (5: 2.5m x 1m oil on canvas)
Queer artist currently exploring the complexities that come with queer living in the digital age.
Instagram: tomprice_art
Beth Pearson
Image 7: ‘Seer’ (glass wall sculpture)
I am a Devon-based artist working with mixed media who uses drawing and masking making and shadow-work to explore self and the subconscious.
Charlie Lockwood:
Image 10: ‘ma cartography’ (still from performance)
Her practice is both site responsive and experimental with a pivotal focus on presence, movement, and process.
In her performances, Charlie uses her body as a conduit to navigate the threshold between physical and conceptual boundaries. She is interested in the generative flow of energies that reveal a dynamic interplay, between the material and the immaterial, resulting in multiple unpredictable outcomes, transformations, and new possibilities. The physicality of her process coincides with research led methodologies concerning transcendental philosophy, transitional spaces and sociocultural liberation.
@charlielockwoodart
Nicolas Schneider:
Image 11: ‘Aeon’ (hanging wax sculptures, soundtrack)
Nick Schneider is an artist and designer whose practice investigates the thresholds of consciousness across machines, organisms, and speculative life forms. Working primarily in sculpture and installation, he creates hybrid structures that fuse synthetic technologies with organic forms, inviting viewers to question where intelligence begins and whether it can truly reside in non-human systems. His work oscillates between the biological and the artificial, seeking to portray both the wonder and the dread that accompany the possible emergence of non-human intelligence.
Insta: crunchtimeartist