1/1/2024 0 Comments Mass production eva art![]() Religion also features in the work of Lily Smith, whose functionless chalices are among the stand-out pieces in the show. With a nod to the theories about the psychedelic roots of Christianity, Kelly recreates the anatomy of fungi in a design that is both tender and palpably calm. In Interior and Environmental Design, Eve Willis Kelly’s ‘design for the future’ project seamlessly interweaves the modern and the medieval in the ‘Isle of Alucinari’ a holistic psilocybin-inspired medicinal retreat located on the Island of Lindisfarne. Work by Anna Lamb from the DJCAD Degree Show. Drawing on her Scottish heritage, Lamb’s use of mainly Scottish spun wool references the history of the nation’s textile industry with a distinctly contemporary nod to abstraction, as if the Bauhaus were in fact located in Portsoy. Coursing down a plinth are Anna Lamb’s elegant knitted wall-hangings which visually combine the neatness of a distant landscape with the subtle, close-up messiness of soil horizons. ![]() The playful sentience of the ball (is it trying to escape us? Or does it represent us and our Sisyphean efforts to dominate nature?) complements a large sprawling spider diagram which simply, yet effectively, charts interspecies entanglement. In one corner, a video shows a large ball of wool created by Miller, rolling endlessly downhill. From Art and Philosophy, Eve McGovern Miller’s moving multidisciplinary work captures the ‘strained’ relationships between humans and the ecologies they attempt to control. The Anthropocene was a big theme across the school. ![]()
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