This body of work explores and questions the conventional longevity of the exhibition and the categorisation of the exhibited object, influenced aesthetically by the Dazzle camouflage techniques of the early twentieth century, and conceptually by Dazzle’s historic precedent for the functional instrumentalisation of contemporary art.

MA Design Product student Jyoti Dash had the opportunity to show his portfolio to his dream employer

I am an artist currently based in Manchester. I make art using a variety of media and methods including drawing, photography, video and sculpture, employing the strategies of performance and participation to engage with both professional and amateur artists, invited and public audiences.

In this project, supported by funding from Arts Council, ACJ, and The Goldsmiths Company Maria Hanson and Chris Knight have investigated the role contemporary artefacts have within both identified rites of social passage and ritual acts found within domestic contexts.

This research recovers and re-historicises the suffragette as a militant artist in order to infuse and sharpen contemporary interest in the relation between art and politics through the inspiration of suffragette tactics and rigour.

Simmond’s work exhibited in ‘Pile’, a comprehensive sculpture show that questioned the conventions of group exhibitions, explores the relation between pattern and decoration and formalist abstraction, questioning if painting can establish a visual pulse, and enabling a re-interpretation of a previous painting and a body of new paintings/drawings.

The Research output builds upon a long-standing interest and fascination with Greek and Roman Classical sculpture from a scholarship at the British School at Rome

‘Process made Visible: In and Outside the Object’ ‘explores the contemporary visibility of manufacturing processes in industrially produced objects, in particular, glass.

The publication Brutalist Speculations and Flights of Fancy is based on six buildings from the period of Brutalist architecture commissioned for Sheffield in the 1960s. Park Hill Flats, Castle Markets, Moor Street Substation, Holy Cross Church Gleadless Valley, Norton Water Tower and the now demolished Psalter Lane Art School.

This project analyses how biographical narratives are employed within the heritage discourse. I am interested in unravelling the dialogues in this representation, particularly in the presentation of a historical person in a museum context.