Explore the profiles of this year’s graduating class.
Mark McLeish
My work is about following each piece and being intuitively open to an unspoken dialogue that spans a breath of choices and unknown exit points. My interest in memory is the makings of the complexities of a souvenir. The moments captured with an object that creates a personal language. For me being a jeweller is an artist that makes heterogeneous artefacts that confront the real world, curated by movement of life that allows the work to be witnessed in challenging surroundings. I see my work as an anthology of objects, each being a unique incomplete tangible question that collects personal provenance. What stimulates my work and research is the ongoing amassments of stuff I collect and own. Obsessions happen without acknowledgement and my inventory shows no boundaries to objects, just an attraction that I find it hard to explain other than: we find each-other.
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