お知らせ

Nagoya University of the Arts Award 2022 for Brighton Graduate Show ’22

In June 2022, the jury for the selection of excellent works for the graduation exhibition at the University of Brighton, which continues the academic exchange with Nagoya University of the Arts, was held via online.
The judges were Professor GOTO Norifumi from Design Division and Associate Professor TAMURA Yuichiro from Art Division.
The online links to the 11 nominations presented by University of Brighton were used to select each award, in consultation with Prof. Goto, Design Division.
This was the third year of online Graduate Show and its judging during Covid-19 situation. 
It seems to have been most rewarding that the online development of the works has fostered certain skills everywhere to change things for the better, such as functioning as a sort of archive of the works. It was interesting to note that the nominated works shifted from the Corona-related stories that were common last year and the year before to personal narratives. All the works showed a solid research trail, and the quality of the work itself was very high, as if supported by this research.

Associate Professor TAMURA Yuichiro　
Design Division, Department of the Arts, School of the Arts

【Grand Prix】Imogen Donegan, BA(Hons) Illustration

The works that add movement to the paintings are more reticent than the moving images, but one can feel the sunlight and wind. Perhaps that is why they are so comfortable.
Looking at her series of works, I was impressed by her attitude as a creator who always tries something new. Looking at her works in chronological order, we can see that the level of her works is increasing, including trial and error with various materials, many methods of expression, and techniques to combine digital and analog elements in a small way. The COVID-19 pandemic seems to have made for a creative period for creators. (Design, Professor Goto)

https://idonegan1.myportfolio.com 
https://exhibitions.brighton.ac.uk/courses/about/bahons-illustration/

Animation showreel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoBa32NygGU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hNYNbX8p58

【Award of Excellence】Jin Yu, Graphic Design

Even after more than 100 years since the end of the 19th century, when Eadweard Muybridge succeeded in filming a sprinting horse, an episode that can be regarded as the beginning of the birth of moving images, horses continue to fascinate humans. The reason is uncertain, but it may be something that gives some nostalgia to the accelerating development of media, such as the moving images we touch on a daily basis. The multi-layeredness of the series of projects by Jin Yu, which is symbolized by the thickness of the sketchbook, gave me an experience reminiscent of the primordial media when I touched the footage of turning the pages of the sketchbook for horse. I would like to commend her work for her poetic visualization of the exchange between humans and horses. (Art, Associate Professor Tamura)

The project is featured on the blog:  Jin Yu 
The project Padlet is here:  

【Award of Excellence】Shaun Yates, 3D Design and Craft
Although it's a futuristic project, there is a whiff of lost nostalgia that comes from the universality of Shaun's point of view. His work on "Re-" in the sense of re-imaging is supported by vast area research, tracing site and physical walking. However, it is a paradoxical, time-paradoxical process of tracing the future. It is also interesting to create high quality objects from such thrilling thoughts and practices. I would like to give praise to his unquestioned talent. (Art, Associate Professor Tamura)

https://exhibitions.brighton.ac.uk/students/shaun-yates/

【Incentive Award】Michaela Davies, Moving Image
As she points out, "emptiness fills your home", the emptiness brought about by the death of a close human is certainly filling the inside of our body with that. What fills Michaela's camera with her mother traveling to her hometown due to the death of her grandmother is also empty. As in the metaphor that the camera is a dark room, such an image that does not involve gravity, and such an emptiness may resonate with each other. The sound that resonates in a dark room eventually becomes the voice of Michaela's mother leaks through the room, which is a major factor that gives this work universality. I would like to commend her work, which skillfully composes the essential elements of travel and room, movement and camera when considering the media. (Art, Associate Professor Tamura)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2TN7ZOdLao

【Incentive Award】Ellie Pike, Photography
What does the performance of a person becoming one with a tree while living mean? I could not be certain from the photographs cropped as images, but the idea is very interesting. In her collection, the layout with large margins adds imagination to the images. The visuals, which do not say much, make one feel as if one is playing hide-and-seek in a forest. (Design, Professor Goto)

https://exhibitions.brighton.ac.uk/students/ellie-pike/

【Incentive Award】Lara Coassin, BA (Hons) Fashion Communication with Business Studies
It is interesting to see the experimentation of creators with the same vision. By consolidating their extremely personal orientation into this web magazine, a style is gradually being developed. The creative activity spreading like a fungus is interesting as a method. This collaborative work evokes the image of some new framework that is different from conventional brands. (Design, Professor Goto)

https://exhibitions.brighton.ac.uk/students/lara-coassin/

www.mycowerks.com