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DEGREE SHOWS are the climax of every art student’s college life. The last four years have been building to this showcase of ideas, application and talent. Ruth Hedges and David Pollock meet students from Glasgow School of Art, Edinburgh College of Art and Napier University to find out what they’ve been up to and where
they’re going.
DEE CUSTANCE
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Future Currently applying for the Edinburgh TV
magazine.
ADELE BRERETON
Silversmithing and jewellery,
Festival's fast track lVYP scheme. she plans to stay in Edinburgh and has some work lined up for Noise
Edinburgh College of Art
Londoner Brereton. 26. has already made such an impact with her work while studying that she's been awarded two commendations in the prestigious Goldsmiths Annual Competition — a contest open to
has had her w0rk chosen by jewellery designer Ortak for manufacture.
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ROSEMARY HOGARTH Painting, Glasgow School of Art
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students and professionals in her chosen industry — and
- different surface textures of my pieces and l incorporate
lots of natural elements into them as well. For example. I embed seeds on the Surface. I'm trying to bring a natural look to what are essentially man-made materials.‘ Although she is inspired by the traditionally hand-raised pieces she has found in museums and natural forms such as flowers. she describes her work as organic. the finished shapes only coming to her as she raises them. (DP)
Future Brereton hopes to continue with further postgraduate study.
NICK BEST Photography, Napier University
These sci-ti looking silver rooms are BAE Systems' Environmental Testing Chambers. Best has spent the last seven months getting access to photograph the spaces that test components for military defence systems near the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh. The clinical look of these chambers with
wires and tubes is in tension with the potential havoc 5 the products can wreak. 'I want people to get a
sense of the process as a meeting point between scientific research and actual physical reality.’ he says. (RH)
Future Exhibiting at the 128 Gallery in Edinburgh and in Norway; talking to Formula 1‘s McLaren in Surrey where. apparently, it's ‘chamber heaven'. and to a company near Oslo that produces electronic warfare technology.
GEMMA COYLE Drawing and painting, Edinburgh College of Art
The work of drawing and painting student Coyle. 23. is almost entirely sculpture-based. And although her degree show pieces. ‘Don't Mind the Mule'. a hollow toy donkey filled with novelty toys which chain react to blow the mule apart. and ‘Climate Control'. a hypothetical miniature rain-creating device. appear