Joining the Dots

Student exhibition: Art & Design with Tara Axford

"‘To understand something by piecing together clues or other bits of information’. And so it can be, when pursuing something creatively! It is a delight to share these works with a broader audience. For this exhibition, participants were asked to consider what their work meant to them as artists and their personal experience of how art and design had come together through gel plate printing. It was not an easy task!

The Art & Design course shines a spotlight on artists from the past and present. Using the versatile gel plate as our primary tool, we harness those inspirations to create starting points (or dots). Equipped with various techniques, participants explored multiple themes, from reducing waste and reuse, to the changing seasons in nature, the interplay of shapes, colour, the wonder of a layered print, or places visited and enjoyed.