Influence of Mars
The short film Influence of Mars by Susannah Gent employs filmmaking to reveal hidden instinctual behaviour.
Human Animal (This Moment Here)
This strand of Chloë Brown’s research investigates a particular use of animals as substitutes for human experience, questioning notions of anthropomorphism and through this, narrative fictions. The resulting work makes specific references to animal characters found in children’s narratives, cartoons and films highlighting the use of the animal as a signifier of human emotion and experience.
How Deep is Your Love
Becky Shaw's research project explores Calgarian’s emotional attachment to their man-made and industrial water infrastructure
Future bathroom
This research study adopts creative design strategies to enhance quality of life
Foghorn Requiem
Commissioned by The National Trust in 2011, Foghorn Requiem is a landscape-interactive musical composition for the Souter Lighthouse Foghorn, highlighting the passing of the foghorn from the British coastal landscape. Foghorn Requiem is performed by the ship horns of a flotilla of sixty vessels on the North Sea, three onshore brass bands and the Souter Foghorn itself.
Objects in Purgatory
The Campaign for Objects in Purgatory is a creative research project that collects the stories of uncherished gifts, which despite their negative associations for the owner, are still kept
Mind Sets
Mind Sets is an innovative use of design which utilises the medium of six picture story-making to enable children in care to share their stories. Three-dimensional illustrated environments created a backdrop to help children to frame stories and to engage in active problem-solving using a series of character and challenge cards.
Looking for Hyperborea: A search for a mythical North
This strand of Chloë Brown’s research considers notions of ‘Northerness’, specifically that found in the most Northern parts of Norway above the Arctic Circle and revolves around Hyperborea, a place in Greek mythology behind the north wind, where the sun never sets
Northern Light: Proximity and Distance in Northern Landscape Photography
This body of work investigating photography in the Northern Landscape consists of two book chapters, two book editorials, and two exhibition co-curations.
ASUNDER
ASUNDER tells the story of what happened to an English town during the First World War, with almost all of its men abroad fighting and its women and children left behind.