‘I’m thinking of going home for a couple of days.’ Titles a collective of final year BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martin’s student-led exhibition.

Interlocked by their uncertainty and emerging artistry, this exhibition plays host to ideas of transition and discovery. Playing to clumsiness; ‘I’m thinking of going home for a couple of days.’ is a vessel for these artists to have a conversation with the work they make outside the art school walls.

Through thematic influences of English folk, family, tradition, and the unfamiliar, this multi-media exhibition is a exciting, messy, personal exploration. From traditional crafting practice to the use of video and sculptural installation these works are entirely individual and yet collectively felt.

About the Artists:

Willow McKenzie:
Willow McKenzie’s work is an exploration of tradition and shared experiences. McKenzie seeks out patterns in the human condition and opens boundless personal narratives that exist alongside them. Through the thematic reference of jewellery, family and the natural world McKenzie uses film, photomontage, and delicate film photograph to unveil personal, individual narratives.

Lara Whatmough:
Lara Whatmough’s practice investigates the relationship between alien objects and familiar spaces. Through the use of sculptural installation and film photography Whatmough’s uncanny spaces are reflective of personal transition. More recently, Whatmough’s alien objects have moved from purpose made sculptural to more intuitive found objects. Favouring the spontaneity of foraging and re contextualising objects through delicate arrangements. Using bones, dried flowers, and other natural material, Whatmough’s work is a space of contradictions. 

Jess Revell:
Jessica Revell’s painterly practice situates itself in the beauty of mundanity and repeated action. Revell’s work exists in series tied to personal temporal spaces, the works change dependent eternally on if the spaces themselves decide to change. Revell situates herself away from the variables of her work letting her subject make the first move.

Maisie Mitchinson:
Maisie Mitchinson’s work is intrigued with the relevance of ancient practice and storytelling in a space of new digital era of making. Favouring contrasting practical processes of crotchet, knit, felting