This year’s Masters Show features portfolios from a number of programmes including MA Design for Change; MA Interior, Architectural and Spatial Design; MA Illustration; MA Graphic Design; MA/MSc Design Informatics; MA Film Directing; MFA Glass, MA Contemporary Art Practice, MA Material Practice and ESALA – Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape.
Works to look out for include Dette Allmark’s illustration project Lines of Inheritance, that weaves together stories from myths and personal biographies to play out a strange and mysterious tale. The work uses a variety of printmaking techniques such as etching, linocutting and monoprinting as well as drawings, illustrations and paintings.
Filmmaker Sam Bassett has created a short documentary featuring a father and son attempting to navigate the turbulence of parenthood and youth. Atur shares the story of their common identity, which both blossoms and isolates them as people.
The work of Contemporary Art Practice student Hannah Cash uses choreography, moving image and sculptural installations. Working with her twin sister Jasmine, the artist questions how the body is viewed and explores its potential for choreography. The terrain and landscape of North Wales inspires the work called, Draw the body back in to me / Dod â’r corff yn ôl imewn imi’ (Welsh title).
Elizabeth Finley’s Design for Change portfolio, Freshened Waters, offers a solution to help people engage with freshwater ecosystems when feeding waterfowl. The design proposes a food stall located at St Margaret’s Loch at Holyrood Park, Edinburgh, to share eco-friendly bird feed and freshwater health information with the community.
Student portfolios
Zhipeng Han’s Architectural and Urban Design project, Proximity Theatre, is a collaboration with a four-person design team called Close Studio. The project explores the relationship between people, the city and nature, revealing a design concept focusing on Edinburgh closes – the small alleyways and courtyards typically found in the Old Town.
Karla Spahic’s Interior, Architectural and Spatial Design project, harmoneED, scrutinizes how objects and people move in relation to each other. It explores the strategic placement of structure, openings, lighting and furniture to provide opportunities of interaction and inclusivity, as well as creating spaces that harmonise company and privacy.
Jiarong Yu’ s Design Informatics portfolio is based on a group project called Crowd Reality, which takes inspiration from the distinctions between the digital world and the physical realm. The project combines a virtual game with a physical garment that provides users with the experience of being in a crowd. Other student collaborators on the project are Root Cai, Philip Han, Jiatong Liu, Sihong Liu, Honya Rara, Thomas Stewart and Rui Wu.
Yi Zhang’s Architecture and Urban Design portfolio is part of group project with fellow student’s Zhang Yi, Chen Lu, Wang Tzuyen, Wang Weilin. Sporadic Ecologies uses a daily object – a dining table – to represent multi-ecologies interwoven in human life. The table represents the potential crisis of Edinburgh’s food ecology, with excessive reliance on imports and increasingly long food miles, exposing the city to a potential food crisis.
ECA’s postgraduate study programmes give students the opportunity to engage in an intellectual and personal challenge in their chosen field of enquiry, while working with research-active academics.
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