Explore the profiles of this year’s graduating class.
Paula Smithson
The final MA project has been concerned with understanding how to create a charged space, a space designed to evoke tension mood and atmosphere. Originally trained as a printmaker, Smithson has developed a multi-disciplinary set of skills on the MA through sustained practice-led research combining digital and analogue techniques. Commedia Dell’Arte and performance have been hugely influential on her practice and she has combined this with interests in historical arte-facts. Throughout the MA Smithson has been drawing on location at circuses and carnivals, the performance drawings have been developed into kinetic toys and two-dimensional cut outs brought to life through projection and film. Networking and collaboration have become integral to the practice and she has recently been collaborating with filmmaker Andrew Davies.
Paulasmithson@aol.com
paulasmithson.co.uk
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