Slade School of Fine Art
Slade Interim Showcase 2023

Tuesday 12 - Thursday 14 December 2023.

  1. Three sequenced paintings on paper, attached to a wall with bright green bits of tape. All include bold, abstracted, cartoon-like geometrical shapes in dark colours, with some animated details in red, sage green and light blue.
    Alien Echoes, Signe Eliza Pook, 2023, acrylic on tinted Bockingford paper, 76 x 56cm

    Signe Eliza Pook

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  2. circular forms painted in varying blue tones on an organically shaped fragment of slate.
    Cycle, Rose Shuckburgh, 2023, watercolour on linen covered slate, 4 x 9cm

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    Rose Shuckburgh

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  3. Black and white, installation, painting
    Diffusing Linear Body, Mei To Man, 2022, installation, painting, dimensions variable

    Diffusing Linear Body spans across painting and other mediums. No longer in their original supple state, the threads are stretched into sharp straight lines presenting a clear threat and invasion of the site. The image is taken from the Japanese film Oh! The Nomugi Pass which depicts the tragic fate of female workers at the Nagano Textile Factory in the early 20th century when Japan was in the early stages of its capitalist development. In this classic scene, groups of female workers must trek through an icy mountain pass to access the long road to the silk factory, recreating the image with teams of workers progressing in lines that drift and float like spider silk on the wind.

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    Mei To Man

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  4. Installation of multi-screen work
    Tomato Egg Noodles, Xiya Wang, 2023, multi-screen video

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    Xiya Wang

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  5. A silver-haired woman rides through the air on the back of a half-bird, half-man over a vast landscape.
    A Heart's a Heavy Burden, Ruth Speer, 2023, oil on wood, 24 x 30 inches

    I work with human-animal hybrids a lot, and fantasy feels like it can itself be a two-headed beast, peering from one world into the other while sharing a single internal system. As Ursula le Guin wrote, “It is by such statements as, ”Once upon a time there was a dragon,” or ”In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit”--it is by such beautiful non-facts that we fantastic human beings may arrive, in our peculiar fashion, at the truth.”

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    Ruth Speer

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  6. Interactive installation: arcade machine, decorated with stickers and filled with black toy guns.
    Playland, Varvara Uhlik, 2023, arcade grabber machine, stickers, fabric, toy guns, 197 x 115 x 100cm

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    Varvara Uhlik

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  7. The three different levels of metamorphose shapes of sleeves got fossilified. Fragments of clothing mimic some shells of insects in nature blending into a tree branch which became part of living beings in nature.
    Parasitic grafting sleeves, Hansol Kim, 2023, tree branch, polyurethane, leather, beeswax, 93 x 156 x 34 cm

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    Hansol Kim

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  8. Photograph of a close up of sheet metal that has been folded to form a non-explicit shape.
    Untitled, Tobias Gumbrill, 23/11/23, sheet metal, boots

    Feel free to look inside/outside/behind/below/above/within.

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    Tobias Gumbrill

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  9. "I can see a vague impression reflected back in the screen. The screen's brightness turned way down. Specs of dust. Silver strands. A smear marks the centre of the frame and catches the light."
    Second Sight (Vair, CK, KL) , Jess Heritage, 2023, moving image & performance 

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    Jess Heritage

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  10. A short video depicting two hands holding a small flick book. They grip the book and begin to thumb the pages revealing the speckles of videotape snow or static found at the beginning and end of old videotape. We see the timestamp of the footage go up as the pages turn. The hands repeated thumbing through the pages varying the speed but the contents of the book never changes.
    untitled, Roman Sheppard Dawson, 2023, moving image from a larger installation

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    Roman Sheppard Dawson

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  11. This work is a triptych piece that is made up of three canvas’ of two shades of blue denim. The canvas’ are hinged together and fold mostly inwards. The inward folding of the canvas shows the back of the denim that has been sewn and stapled. On the left-hand side is a piece of string rapped around the dividing line of the denim. On the right-hand side is a LED strip light lighting up a line of the denim. Around the piece is a charcoal drawing of a wooden frame directly onto a white wall.
    Pre-wash, Chloe Beddow, October 2023, denim, string, charcoal, LED strip light, 100 x 120cm

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    Chloe Beddow

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  12. Impressions of a cliff is an image recreated by juxtaposing seven A4 photographic expired papers. The image of the cliff is lost through the different papers and the grey quality of the old paper.
    Impressions of a Cliff, Mercedes Balle, 2023, analogue photography on expired photographic paper, 40 x 60cm

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    Mercedes Balle

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  13. silver acrylic paint on plywood panel with a small aluminium plate with a greyscale inkjet transfer of a rose bud. On top of this are some red diamanté gems in an 'M' which spread over the rose bud. There is a plane sticker stuck to the bottom right corner of the metal.
    Untitled, Isabel Mills, 2023, acrylic and aluminium plate with inkjet transfer, gems and sticker on plywood panel, 30 x 41cm

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    Isabel Mills

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  14. A drawing depicting a block which prevents leaning blocks from falling.
    Untitled, Ya Luo, 2023, pastel on paper, 119 x 84cm

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    Ya Luo

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  15. An arch across the board that centers a charcoal drawing with two hands touching, one rested on top of the other. on each side of the drawing there is a smaller size drawing of insects. On the right there is a drawing of a fly and on the left, there is a more ambiguous insect, both isolated and bigger than life.
    A Beloved Memory During a Feast, Hannah Cosac Naify, 2023, woodstain on panel, paper on charcoal and nails 61 x 122cm (24 x 48 in)

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    Hannah Cosac Naify

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  16. A garden spider building a web outside a first floor window, houses and car in the background.
    Untitled, Victoria Grenier, still from video, 14 minute loop

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    Victoria Grenier

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  17. Installation of steel, cable, wood, leaf fan (on wall)
    Room, Wei Xiong, 2023, steel, cable, wood, leaf fan, mechatronics, motors, sensors, and microcontrollers, 400 x 400 x 300cm

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    Wei Xiong

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  18. This project, Stream, is related to the trash on the canal, presenting a chaotic sense of subjectivity in the manipulation of analogue and digital signals through visual and audio, to create a poetic narrative space in the body of water.
    Stream, Iris Su, 2023, oil pastel on inkjet print, multigrade resin coated film print, acrylic board, A4 PP sheet, headphones, and bubble wrap, 23.4 x 33.1 in. (59.4 x 84.1 cm) (each inkjet print), 8 x 10 in. (20.32 x 25.4 cm) (each film print), dimensions variable (sound installation)

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    Iris Su

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  19. Spiral rope made of hair, undulating thickness
    Rope, Madeleine Bender, hair of artist, Rope is 3.5 metres 

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    Madeleine Bender

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  20. An architectural model in a shape of a Kalashnikov rifle.
    Monumental Threat, Julia-Anna Simonchuk, 2023, foam board, modeling clay, 153 x 46cm

    One of the concerns in my practice is the decommunisation of ideological monumental art of the Soviet period in Ukraine. The Palace of the Soviets - a utopian megalomaniac project that was never realised, is being deconstructed, altered and transformed into a Kalashnikov rifle (AK-47). This way I’m emphasising the formal likeness of the architectural structure with a weapon. Also, I’m reflecting on official art and architecture being an aggressive and harmful instrument of propaganda.

    ©the artist

    Julia-Anna Simonchuk

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  21. Close up of aluminium 2 rectangular cuboids with bean wedged between them resting on yellow woven polypropylene sandbag
    ‘Strata I’ (detail shot), Natalya Marconini Falconer, 2023, woven polypropylene sandbags, aluminium, wax lupini beans

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    Natalya Marconini Falconer

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  22. Painting of a person's torso, wearing a t-shirt
    Hundstage, Lexia Hachtmann, 2023, oil on linen, 65 x 55cm 

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    Lexia Hachtmann

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  23. Eve Stotesbury
    Eve Stotesbury, Fountain, 2023, Site specific / photographic c-type print, site specific / photo  210 x 297 mm

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    Eve Stotesbury

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  24. Photograph of a UK residency card.
    OK! Immigrant, Ziyi Wang, 2023, video installation, dimensions variable

    Ziyi Wang applies humour as method to tickle the existing systems, borders, and bureaucracy. Her works are mostly video installations, involving elements of documentary, comedy and ready-made props. This ongoing work OK! Immigrant is a video installation series, about a farce around losing and replacing the UK resident permit, which involves missing a flight, debating with aircrew and the ambassador's office, and how she self-directed a fake "smuggling" to come back to my temporary "home", recomposing an Asian female contemporary version of the Odyssey.

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    Ziyi Wang

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  25. Abstract colourful painting
    Harry Whitelock

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    Harry Whitelock

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  26. A monitor is hanging in the corner of a room, it shows a white horse lying in the middle of an enclosed garden surrounded by flowers and a pomegranate tree.
    The Beloved Tamed, Rebekka Homann, 2023, 3D-animated video

    The animation is a reimagined version of the tapestry "The unicorn in captivity" from a series of tapestries from the late 15th century called "The Hunt of the Unicorn".

    Image credit: Selin Acarbas. ©the artist

    Rebekka Homann

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  27. Within a manufacturing aluminium frame is a composition made up of green tiles on the left hand side and cardboard on the right. The cardboard is engraved with the image of a car revealing the interior fluting below. On top of the cardboard and with a toe entering the space of the green tiles is a mosaic. The mosaic depicts a cartoon of Toad of Toad Hall, from the book The Wind in the Willows.
    Untitled, Joe Moss, 2023, mixed media, 60 x 80cm

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    Joe Moss

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  28. Installation photo of draped cut newsprint fabric.
    Cut! Remade and Revived, June Jiyoon Hong, 2023, print on fabric, 500 x 250cm

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    June Jiyoon Hong

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  29. A fantastical landscape scene with a lake surrounded by alien-like plants and large flowers.
    Untitled, Shona Waldron, 2023, inkjet prints on cut paper, 68cm x 45cm

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    Shona Waldron

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  30. Painting of person with their head resting on lap of another figure, both golden-skinned.
    Bulb, Sophie Smorczewski, 2023, oil on canvas, 100 x 120cm

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    Sophie Smorczewski

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  31. Painting with abstract green figure in foreground reclining
    Recline, Ross Head, 2023, oil paint on linen, 50 x 60cm

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    Ross Head

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  32. A single page, yellow from age with small black printed text, a diagram, and footnotes printed on it, with one ripped edge, sits a few centimetres above the floor, as if levitating.
    p.187, VI: Establishing Elam chronology2023, Davide Gibson, 2023, print on paper, 15 x 23 x 3cm

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    Davide Gibson

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  33. Cream fabric embroidered with aerial landscape of blue and beige thread and fabric
    Flow, Flow Like There's No Land, Yulin Song, 2022, fabrics and threads, 146 x 200cm

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    Yulin Song

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  34. Image of wall with blue and green screenprint of water overlaid across the left side of the wall. On the right-hand side of the wall is one screenprint depicting arrows moving across the paper from bottom left to top right. On the right of the screenprint is a black and white image of water. Below are abstract cardboard forms and additional drawings on paper, all taped to the wall.
    Studio - Stiwdio, Gwenllian Davenport, 2023

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    Gwenllian Davenport

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  35. This painting shows two silkscreened envelopes in perspective above a corner molding. Hanging from the envelopes is a rope. Below the corner is a handprint on top of a striped grid over a green background. There is a pearl in front of the grid and one behind it.
    Scale, Maya Pearl Böröcz Silverberg, 2023, silkscreen and oil paint on unstretched canvas, 160 x 132cm

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    Maya Pearl Böröcz Silverberg

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  36. A black and white image of a boy.
    Tolstoy’s children, Veronika Peat, 2023, video still

    Veronika Peat

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  37. Photograph of a concrete tunnel - stones, a bare branch and square piece of wood(?) with the corners cut off, a sunlit rocky landscape can be seen at the end of it.
    Untitled 3, Raquel Yago Boj, April 2023, archival pigment print

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    Raquel Yago Boj

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  38. Two plaster casts of a moon cake tin with detailed and intricate patterning cast into the plaster. The words 'Hong Kong Mooncakes are printed backwards'
    Double Negatives, Yang-En Hume, 2023, plaster, 30cm x 30cm x 20cm

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    Yang-En Hume

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  39. The structure of sculpture is like a male reproductive organ with black and shine colour. The shape of sculpture is look like one pair of abstract high-heels.
    Dick high-heels, Ben Qi, 02/03/2022, clay, black gloss spray, 22cm x 13.7cm

    Here are some sculptures based on some gender considerations. This is one of my early works which tries to break the boundary between female and male. It is also a resistance to gender stereotypes and patriarchal society. I totally respect traditional binary identity, and I also stand with the concept that gender should not be assigned at birth. Nowadays, gender presents a variety of possibilities in discursive social practices, so in an open society, how comfortable can we be with this?

    Photo credit: Hongyu Liao. ©the artist

    Ben Qi

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  40. Three hanging and interlinked denim toilet seat shaped chain links with leopard satin covered tubes with beads, rope and festoons hanging from them, with Christmas decorations draped over the whole and gold handmade jewellery added.
    Guyrope, Bella Bradford, 2023, Denim, cardboard, ribbons, airdry clay, acrylic paint, Christmas lights, Christmas decorations, rope, silk, beads

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    Bella Bradford

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  41. Khadija Niang

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  42. The bright yellow PH paper stripes are carefully sewn onto the canvas using deep-red strings, simulating the rainfall scene. After sprinkling the collected rainwater in Chengdu (where the artist grew up), the PH paper turned into a vivid green colour. When the rainwater evaporates, there are still greenish water marks left on the PH paper, the “form” of the homeland rain is retained.
    Rain Series-Untitled 1, Wanci Xie, 2023, PH paper, collected rainwater from the homeland, thread, calico

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    Wanci Xie

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  43. An other worldly levitating figure floats among swathes of blue, red and beige. Abstract shapes, identifiable objects and scenes intersperse the canvas.
    Coordinates Ape Four, Jon Gabb, 2023, acrylic, oil, pencil and charcoal on canvas, 165cm x 100cm

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    Jon Gabb

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  44. Sculpture, installation photo: small mound of earth with twigs, shell and small stones, on floor, 3 "flying" shapes, one above the other, above
    the angels are cumming!, Gabriel Kidd, 2023, silk, cotton, faux pearls, ribbon, stone, feather grass, peat soil, seed, bone, branch, shell

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    Gabriel Kidd

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  45. A paper cut-out with rounded edges. Abstract, oval shapes, hidden faces, feet, a bone and portal like environments entangled into each other.
    Three of Swords, Teodora Nitsolova, October 2023, acrylic, Pencil, Soft Pastel and Charcoal on Paper160 x 140 cm

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    Teodora Nitsolova

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  46. Print of map of Chusan Archipelago
     Ship Mountain - Map of Chusan Archipelago, Bowen Zhang, 2023, digital prints, 1.1x1.1m

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    Bowen Zhang

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  47. A man wears a device on his face, up his nose, that limits his peripheral vision.
    The Assuming Device, Jack Kinsman, 2023, balsa wood, glue, wire and foam ear plugs, 1.25m x 0.75m x 0.15m

    A device for assuming the role of a prey animal.

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    Jack Kinsman

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  48. Photo of perpetually-chilled beer, Pingu Ice, galvanized metal pail.
    “One beer job” (Pail Ales: Tribute), Liam Mullen, 2023, perpetually-chilled beer, Pingu Ice, galvanized metal pail, dimensions vary 

    “If I had to guess, I would say that’s about a one-beer-job,” the expression and valuation tacked to the task of the ‘quick fix.’ Both a unit of measure indicative of the time it takes to achieve a job, as well as a proximate fiat, or currency, for one’s labour, “one-beer-job” (pail ales), sees the installation of perpetually-chilled beers as a mode of amplifying publics’ awareness to the precarious, and inconsistently regulated, economies endemic to the arts. 

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    Liam Mullen

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  49. A sculpture consisting of a a metre squared piece of plywood. In front of the plywood, leaning against it, on the floor is small painting and a bronze sculpture. The revesrse side of the plywood is not visible but some acrylic plastic can be seen peeking out. This plastic is touching a mental rod balanced on small blocks of roughly hewn wood.
    Untitled, Danny Pagarani, 2023, plywood, acrylic, steel, bronze, acrylic on paper, 1200 x 1000 x 1000mm

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    Danny Pagarani

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  50. Beatriz Santos

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    Beatriz Santos

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  51. On the dark riverbank, there are some white Chinese characters. The text is difficult to make out, but one can faintly discern, 'I can’t tell.'
    I Can’t Tell, Luo Qianxi, 2022, PLA, variable

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    Luo Qianxi

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  52. This painting depicts two motorbikes speeding through heavy rain. The painting is painted with different acts of painting, gives viewers a sense of movement.
    Shifting Gears, Xinyu Han, 2023, oil on canvas, 150 x 210cm

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    Xinyu Han

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  53. Image of Henry Hoover, missing hose attachment. Henry logo has been replaced with the word Howard in the original font.
    Untitled, A. Howard, 2023, Henry Hoover, acrylic paint, H34.5, W32, D34cm

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    A. Howard

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  54. Screenshot of virtual world with 3D scanned latex character walking through club bathroom.
    OCCLUDE, Freddie Sanders (made in collaboration with Chaney Diao), 2023, screenshot of interactive virtual world

    Working primarily with video game engines, Freddie Sanders explores contemporary understandings of collective mythology, individual agency and speculative worldbuilding. Often recreating existing real-world locations virtually, his work questions the perceived boundaries between the physical and the digital, and of reality and fantasy.

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    Freddie Sanders

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  55. Colourful Abstract image of a flower depicted through various coiled lines. The flower is positioned in front of a brown and light blue sky. The flower has a yellow circle in its centre. The bottom of the image is dark, green, and full of red and orange circles that reflect seeds or fruit.
    In Bloom, Eilen Itzel Mena, 2023, acrylic and oil on paper 47 cm x 38 cm 

    Flowers are a symbol I’ve painted in the past that I have a personal connection to. Flowers represent beauty, healing, growth, and a diversity of self and community in my practice. In Bloom is a work part of the series titled, Floral Arrangement, where I depict different emotional states of growth through colour relationships, different forms of mark making and the flower motif.

    Photo Credit: Eilen Itzel Mena ©the artist

    Eilen Itzel Mena

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  56. Curved sculpture, brown chicken skin surface.
    Detaching, Shiyue Li, 2023, chicken skin, clay, plaster cast bandage

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    Shiyue Li

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  57. A small tapered pole covered with pink latex petals, topped with pink thread holding a partially inflated orange balloon
    Keeping It Up, Anna Candlin, 2023, clay, latex, cotton thread, balloon, 38 cm x 14 cm x 8 cm

    Photo: Thomas Jenkins. ©the artist. 

    Anna Candlin

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  58. oft fabric container with an open top filled with blue pigment and small yellow ball inside.
    Blue flower on carpet, Cat Madden, 2023, open chalkball filled with blue soft pastel dust and yellow plasticine ball, 7 x 7 x 7 cm (approx.)

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    Cat Madden

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  59. Installation photo of moving image, installation, reel to reel tape recorder, sugar, tapes, sound pickup equipment
    The Whisper You Hear Is Not the Wind of This Moment, Fan Bangyu, moving image, installation, reel to reel tape recorder, sugar, tapes, sound pickup equipment, 2.5 x 2.5m

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    Fan Bangyu

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  60. This work demonstrates today’s aura-less face, which has been objectified as a product on showcase and conquered by exhibitionism. The term ‘face’ is used as a meaning of the ‘surface’ opposite to얼굴(ulgul), face in Korean, which means ‘shape of one’s spirit’. Audience can participate by taking the edible candy faces.
    Faces, Hyeejin Bae, 2023, Installation, faces, isomalt, variable size

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    Hyeejin Bae

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  61. Sculpture
    Fire Lily, Natasha Burton

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    Natasha Burton

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  62. Shadow of tree
    Shadow of tree, Mengmeng Zhang, 2023, oil on canvas, 101 x 71cm

    ©the artist. Photo credit: Lam Pok Yin

    Mengmeng Zhang

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  63. An abstract oil painting featuring circles and lines intertwining amidst a pale pink background with layered textures. The circles, in varied colors and transparency, appear in pursuit of each other. Red lines intermittently emerge at the canvas edges, hinting at constraints. This dynamic interplay evokes both a sense of serene calmness and an underlying tension, portraying a captivating contrast of pursuit and restriction within the composition.
    Wondering, Xi Liu, 2023, oil on canvas, 160 x 120cm

    They chase each other, they undergo deformation, bending, tilting; they appear and disappear intermittently, they resist each other, they are turbulent, they hover and immerse themselves in this.

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    Xi Liu

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