2022 Manchester Metropolitan University graduate Rhianna Mone makes hybrid wall hangings. In her process the artist uses chance to foreground the interrelations of shapes and colours. As artist Elsworth Kelly said of using chance to make his collages of colourful squares: “I want to eliminate the ‘I made this’ from my work.” The title of many of her works, ‘Blorenge’, refers to a hill in the Brecon Beacons National Park of the artist’s native Wales.
2022 Manchester School of Art graduate Newton Self creates reflective dialogues, or a dialogue through reflections. He excerpts and transposes his research from talking with Facebook moderators, screen printing their words and experiences onto mirrors. These face the viewer as statements, or as questions. The sheer insight they hold into virtual realities is fascinating: a distinctive take on ‘the writing on the wall’.
And introducing Joanne Wheeler, a Northern Irish artist who graduated from Manchester Metropolitan in 2005. Her textile works are a brilliant array of interwoven colour, myth and pattern. The intricate vibrancy is achieved via the centuries-old technique of punch needle embroidery – bringing Celtic design into its fantastical best. These works are incredibly bright and floral; colours pop and tufted yarn pirouettes.
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