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Xanthe Hutchinson – MFA Graduate
“The Yellow Steps navigates with notions of visibility and change; primarily how the construct of gender is determined by what is visible. The work is a conceit for the way in which the trans body acts in opposition to this trope and moreover, as a site of cultural resistance.”
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Tamas Kovacs – MFA Graduate
“Kovacs’ current work The 8th Letter of the Alphabet explores the subjective perception of a divided Northern Irish community. The Northern Irish people are distinctly aware of the territories that surround them and the markers and symbols that define those boundaries.”
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Samantha Obman – MFA Graduate
“Don’t Air Your Dirty Laundry is concerned with transgressions of home. By provoking the intangible aspects of home through constructed everyday scenes, it examines the façades and uneasiness that comes with the disruption of symbolism within the domestic space.”
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Sam Hadfield – MFA Graduate
“By combining new imagery and archival material, I hope for the variant opinions of this place to become visible and to ruminate on the multifarious ways this estate has been experienced and recorded.”
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Michelle Moloney – MFA Graduate
“Lost is grounded in my experience of living with grief since the death of my daughter. It draws on the practice and language of photography to interrogate the concept of grief and confront its sanitisation in 21st century Western culture.”
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Lucy Jarvis – MFA Graduate
“Spring Calling navigates a compulsive nature to control and manage the land as a result of the detrimental impact to it caused by permanent land use. The work focuses on a beaver rewilding project as well as two areas of managed coppiced woodland.”
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Kerstin Maria Lehmann – MFA Graduate
“In the streets of Hong Kong, the clamour of a call to freedom from Chinese rule echoed for several months of turbulent social unrest in 2019. My project titled ‘Handover’ documents the past events in a personal way and depicts freedom in its various notions.”
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Aoife Herrity – MFA Graduate
“Sleeping Dogs Lie explores the darker sides of memory, the suppressed narratives and the vacuum of knowledge surrounding insidious experiences and their aftermath.”
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Alan J. Wilkinson – MFA Graduate
“In Kingdom I document the biker subculture, deconstructing the masculine rites and rituals and challenging the hypermasculine representation portrayed in its history.”
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Brian Hamilton – Volunteer
“Volunteering at Belfast Exposed, Brian enjoys meeting and networking with others in the local art/photography community in Belfast and from further afield, and helping with exhibitions and events.”
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David Copeland – 2020 Futures Artist
“This fantastic opportunity will help me achieve my future goals; a possible PHD, teaching, exhibiting internationally and getting my work published. This will be the perfect chance to see how my work is perceived outside the context of the University, and I believe that Belfast Exposed is the perfect place to achieve this.”
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Samantha Johnston – 2020 Futures Artist
“It can be intense and sometimes feels like you are on your own in trying to develop your practice and to have this support network through Future Artists will be vital to my practice and myself. I have so much work and energy to give and I am excited to see how my research and work will progress.”
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Milo Lethorn – 2020 Futures Artist
“Being awarded a place on the Futures programme represents a lot to me not simply for the various immediate benefits that it offers but also the organisation behind it. Belfast Exposed’s approach to photography, as a medium for reflection, information and cultural contribution, is something that I recognise and look forward to aligning myself with.”
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Manon Ouimet – 2020 Futures Artist
“I am delighted to be awarded a position on the Future Artists programme. My work is about the evolution of relationships between subject and observer, challenging the idea of the audience, evolving our understanding of the gaze and its transformative power, using photography as a therapeutic tool…”
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Graeme McCormick – 2020 Futures Artist
“Joining the list of Futures Artists is both a humbling and inspiring experience. As my inspiration often emerges from the collaboration and conversations with others, I hope that being part of the ‘Belfast Exposed Futures’ programme will help me to create emotionally resonating narratives.”
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Ioanna Sakellaraki – 2020 Futures Artist
“I see ‘Futures Artists’ as an ambitious initiative for facilitating part of my photographic journey throughout the next 12 months. I look forward to working with leading experts and curators in the industry while growing as a photographer.”
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Natasha Longridge – Volunteer
“The art of preservation and interpretation that a photograph holds has always drew me in, even glancing through old images that are not of my own; I’ve always questioned the story behind them.”
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Ben Malcolmson – Futures Artist
“His practice further deals with the communication of the landscape, looking at the familiar and psychological complexities of the self with performative-based elements as an undertone.”
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Linda Conroy – Futures Artist
“Her interests lie in the psychology of the human experience with a particular curiosity for how we form objects, traditions, beliefs and value systems.”
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Mike Bors – Futures Artist
“His work is mostly autobiographical and uses images from the family album and newly made photographs. Mike’s practice uses personal narratives to speak about broader social issues.”
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Jane Cummins
“The intention is to uncover the ambivalence of the self and awaken a psychological reaction to help her process and move forward from difficult or uncertain periods in her life.”
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Jacqueline Douglas – Futures Artist
“By focusing on the impacting details within second-hand photographs, the work deconstructs the original images through the use of cropping and manipulation.”
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Aisling McCoy – Futures Artist
“She’s particularly interested in the ideological aspect of inhabitation and the role of both architecture and photography in constructing the ideal.”
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Yvette Monahan – Futures Artist
“In recent years, Yvette’s practice has changed from looking at stories held in the landscape to looking at stories held within. Her current practice looks to further her understanding of three main ideas, namely intuition, transcendence, and narrative.”
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Andrew Rankin – Futures Artist
“Andrew’s practice is guided by everyday life and how we use escapism within it. He finds it intriguing how escapism often seems to bridge a gap between the real and ideal self, liberating our minds and perceptions of our self for brief periods.”
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Ruby Wallis – Futures Artist
“She often blurs the line between fiction and reality, public and private, drawing on subjective experiences and relationships.”
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Peter Evers – Futures Artist
“Peter’s work attempts to highlight our misplaced trust in systems and our conventional thinking about of our lived experience. Our shared delusions of identity and progress.”
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Jill Quigley – Futures Artist
“She finds it fascinating to investigate, and then to challenge, her own and others’ notions about the places they encounter.”
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Jan McCullough – Futures Artist
“She is interested in the role photography plays in the construction and expression of individual and collective identities in contemporary society.”