mastars yearbook

Yearbook 2014MA[stars]

Front cover image:Sisters From AnotherMister, Man slappedby a fish, 201435 casted multiples,plaster, paint,photograph, tile,vanish & Ice-Cream,cone, plaster, resinCredit:Hongshou Cai≥ F ORE­ 2014 MA[stars]

MAstars reveals the work of some of the most promising artists from MA courses the length and breadth of the UK. Each year we select a number of shows for influential curators, writers and other art professionals to visit. Their brief is simple: choose the student whose work makes the deepest impression and tell us why. At the end of the year we feature all the selected students in this special celebratory yearbook. ≥ Find out more axisweb.org/features/profile/mastarsORE­ W o R D PG ≥2

C O N TE01T h o m as 02M e g a n 03EveAitchison Broadmeadow Brode06S o r s h a 07C h r i s 08Ra j s Ga l v i n Graham Gup11J e n n i e 12La u r a 13R o sa Howell Johnson M c La c16Ka t r y n 17Xin 18S i s t e r Saqui Shen Another2014 MA[stars]

TE N TS lyn 04Emma Lee 05E l i z a b e t h - A n n e Curistan03e r i c k Cracknell 10L i a m Healy hree 09Ka t e 15A n n e l i ss e Ha y w o o d Pf e i f e r08pta PG ≥3 lind 14P h i l i p McAthey13c h l a n rs From 19D o m i n i c Wa t s o n18r Mister

MFA Contemporary Art PracticeEdinburgh College of Art Th o A i t ch Select S t acy B2014 MA[stars]

ma s We break and remake images every day, selecting, collectingch i s o n and storing some while discarding others. ted by All of us look at images in oldrick different ways; a painting or ad might be scanned in a flash or carefully studied, inciting feelings of anger or profound sadness, or no feelings at all. Howsoever we might perceive anything visual, we remake what we see when we imperfectly remember the fragments or caricatures of the original. Perception and cognition are intimately tangled. ≥ Read more PG ≥4



Thomas Aitchison Tim DoddsThe Brown Scale, Stella Octangula,2014. Oil on old 2014decorator’s Inkjet printdust sheet 8 x A046cm x 91cm x 2cm In Musée withNude, 2014 Tim Dodds,Oil on old 2014decorator’s Steel, founddust sheet panels, polythene46cm x 92cm, 20cm 9m x 9m

MFA, GoldsmithsUniversity of LondonStepping gingerly through a black Megcurtain, we plunge into darknessand enter the 'Pleasure Prison'.A burly bouncer, arms crossed,stares you down, blinking rarelyas though a sleepy sentry guardingthe gates of Hades.The whirling drone of drum andbase pounds whilst cascading lightbeams rebound: heady, throbbingdisorientation.≥ Read more B r o adm Select J ud i t h C2014 MA[stars]

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Megan BroadmeadowThe Amen Beat,2014, Still from video,9 mins 42 secsCredit:Jan Vrhovnik

MA Fine ArtLiverpool John Moores University Eve Brode Select Em i l y2014 MA[stars]

Standing in a fairly dark corner Atop the structure sat a Sorsha Galvinof the old Glass Factory spacewatching a performance during perfect, hand-turned woodePFalnallsetne,r2a0n1d4wax,the first graduating exhibition ball, perched right on the led50gcm ex 45cm x 80cmfrom the MA Fine Art at LJMU, I and seeming as though it mighCrtedit:became aware of a large wooden be set in motion at any momeDonmitni.c Tschudinstructure looming over me. ≥ Read more l ynerick ted by Sp e e d PG ≥8



Evelyn BroderickSculpture - Leanagí ar aghaidh, 2014Paper, pencil, sand-paper, pallets122cm x 122cm





Emma Lee CracknellII, 2014Oil on canvas,183cm x 183cmCredit:Marzban Kapadia



MFA Fine ArtUniversity of Ulster Select Matt P Elizabe Curi2014 MA[stars]

You could smell Elizabeth-Anne Curistan’s 'Neither' (2014) from the corridor of the MFA University of Ulster degree show. It was a particular smell of burnt wood – a smell that might conjure up images of a bonfire or an arson attack. Fire seems to have that unique power of simultaneously representing playful adventure and evil destruction, the energies of life and entropy in equal measure. ≥ Read more ted byP ac k e r t h - A nn e s t an PG ≥12



Elizabeth-AnneCuristanNeither, 2014 Found andoffcuts of various typesof wood, hinges, screws,burnt interior,213cm x 243cm x 195cm& 124cm x 134cm x 243cmCredit:Paul Marshall

S o r s ha Select G r an t2014 MA[stars]

Ga l v i nted byGibsonMA Ceramics & GlassRoyal College of ArtIf you’re reviewing a piece of art and you find yourselfseeking references from the first chapter of Genesisas well as googling information on a cult eighties horrormovie then you know its maker is on to something.Sorsha Galvin’s work pulls off the wonderful trickof being both primal – in 'Fallen' (2014), for example,she covers parts of her body with earthenware before pouring plaster into the mould she’s created,subsequently the clay is peeled away leaving thefinished result – and vaguely horrific at the same time.≥ Read more PG ≥14









I don't normally expect to be so confronted by jewellery, or in this instance jewellery-cutlery, but in the case of Annelisse Pfeifer's 'Surrealist Banquet' (2014), I came away from the MA show at the School of Jewellery in Birmingham feeling mildly distracted. Over the subsequent week I found my mind returning to the work - so much so, I went back for a second visit. ≥ Read more Selected by F l iss Q u i c k A n n e l iss e Pfeifer2014 MA[stars] PG ≥32

Annelisse PfeiferThe Surreal Banquet2014Various materials& dimensionsCredit:Mia Pfeifer