quite esoteric at first. there are strong social ideas within.
‘My mule was inspired by an exhibition I attended in Cologne.’ says Coyle. ‘It was held in a space below a bridge which was specifically meant to house explosives to destroy the bridge in times of war. At the same time I found a novelty exploding donkey in a toy shop. and the humorous violence of it made me consider the immaturity of some reactions to terrorism and violence.‘ (DP)
Future Coyle plans to expand Fizzy Milk. her Fife- based alternative art group for children.
JONI KILMURRY Textiles, Glasgow School of Art
‘This is the most satisfactory method.’ say cute little
stitches at the corner of some vintage cami-knickers.
Above. a girl thrusts into the back of a rooster. Kilmurry is a cheeky girl. She has always loved Vintage fabrics and is fascinated by sewing books from the 20s to 503. "When I started reading them in isolation they became quite sexual.' she says. While celebrating the skill of hand-stitching. Kilmurry uswps the deferring prettiness. She works on vintage fabric. slips. linen bloomers and blouses. always on the reverse side where the original stitching exposes its raggy edges and ends — combining texts taken from sewing books with risque images like a dominating Bo-Peep and begging dog or a Majorette raising her leg — 'A little bit of what you fancy'. (PH)
Future To work in fashion in some way. 'I hope I have the bravery to go somewhere else. I think unfortunately it's hard to make it happen here.‘
PAUL MACINNES
Environmental art, Glasgow School of Art
becoming MECCA for a week has just won the Scottish International Educational Trust award. He proposes to tape up the Mackintosh building for his degree piece. protecting it from the sudden influx of visitors over the degree show period. Maclnnes. 35. worked in sales jobs. insurance and lobster fishing before starting the four year degree and he says his work's bound up in the relationship between employment and the standardisation of time. He has had two shows at Circus Circus this year. went on a
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ETTIE SPENCER Sculpture, Edinburgh College of Art
Degree Shows
If creating controversy is the first calling card of an artist on their way to becoming established. then Spencer has already made her mark. At last year's degree show at ECA she presented 25 finches in an imposing black arrow-shaped cage as a comment on man's subjugation of nature in favour of progress.
Now Spencer's graduation work 'Skin' continues such sooal concerns. its video and sound proiection of horrible weather conditions inside a tent referring to the transient and uncomfortable life led by the home'ess. The subject will be expanded on with 'disPLACE'. an instal'ation of 100 white tents in Ednburghs Royal
Botanic Garden on Friday 24 June. lDPi
Future Spencer will be creating an installation entitled 'PLACE' in London this August. erecting ‘.'."‘- te refugee
tents atop the pillars of the old Blackfriars Bridge.
three month exchange to MelbOurne and had two children with his partner. Vanessa. in the four year period. (RH)
Future Applying for a Florence residency and dOing some fathering. 'Even if I'm working nine~to-f.ve jobs. I've got this learning behind me. I feel I've got this other window into Iife.‘
STEWART SWAN Illustration, Edinburgh College of Art
'l'm inspired by intense personalities' explains Smith. 22. from Bath. 'And I'm also interested by the look of urban landscapes. so characters who look like the environment they inhabit are perfect subiects for me.‘ Influenced by the work of Peter Howson and other hard-bitten Glasgow artists. Smith's mixed media paintings — usually oil and charcoal on board — stem from his love of football. and of the craggy Govan characters who congregate around lbrox of a Saturday afternoon.
'You can be inspired by people when you start off.’ says Smith. ‘but it's really important to find your own
voice once yOu mature as an illustrator.’ Like Howsop's w0rk. though. the people who (loii‘inate Smith's distinctive series of portraits aid landscapes have their own distinct pers0nalities. theEr caricattired facial expreSSions meshing COH‘v’if'lCIT‘lg'y \-.‘:h more realistic phySicaI expression. iDPi
Future Smith plans to continue postgraduate studies in Glasgow.
DOMINIC FLANNIGAN Graphic design, Glasgow School of Art
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These are no ordinary Geishas. Made up on their delicate kimonos are the patterns of hundreds of tessellating body parts out from men's niagaZines. Flannigan is printing up one of the designs onto a full-size fabric kimono for his degree show down in the Centre of Advanced Textiles. He started th.nking about the idea after looking at a book of hand-iiiade Japanese paper-dolls. ‘The body is veiled in these very beautiful fabrics. but sex underpins it.' he says. 'In the West in magazines it's ali externalised — there's no subtlety.’ Flannigan is also making a book With a photographer on degrees of trespass and has developed a campaign for green spaces in C'asgow. IRHI
Future Picked to exl‘vbit in the D&AD's Young Bloc show in London and is considering moving down there for work.
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