Meet the Ripe Plums #01
Posted: 20/07/2022
Ripe Plums #01, the first of our RIPE graduate showcase exhibitions, launches in just a few weeks time and we’re delighted to introduce you to the talented Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton) and Solent University graduates who’ll be sharing their work in the upcoming exhibition. Read on to find out more about the artists featuring in Ripe Plums #01.
Anjella Stevenson
Anjella is a photography graduate from Solent University. Anjella’s practice is driven by a deep concern for global issues such as food insecurity and deforestation. She is a photographer interested in raising awareness about climate change and promoting sustainable practice. Her work often contains art historical references or delicate depictions of the natural world.
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Daisy Steed
Daisy is a fine art graduate from Solent University. Daisy’s paintings depict barren landscapes and bare interiors, haunted by unidentifiable figures and distorted faces, drawn onto paper with oil pastels and paints. The work is informed by her research into folklore, voyeurism and body horror. It is surreal, unsettling, uncanny and macabre.
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Michele Waldron-Cooper
Michele is a fine art graduate from Solent University. Michele is primarily a painter. Her work is figurative, depicting faces and bodies, often contorted and disturbing, with elements of magic realism. Michele’s practice is driven by socio-political concerns and contemporary issues. Sometimes her paintings are centre pieces in larger installations or assemblages.
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Maria Valaitis
Maria is a fine art graduate from Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Maria makes poetic, considered films about her everyday experiences and familial relations. She is interested in the relationship between sound and image, often working across multiple screens or projections. Her practice is autobiographical and experimental, it also encompasses photography and installation.
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Erica Cannon
Erica is a photography graduate from Solent University. Erica is interested in representations of women and the female gaze. Her work is a mix of planned, posed shots in the studio and unguarded intimate moments at home between her closest friends and family. The images document a shared experience, they tell a collective story of female empowerment and positivity in the 21st century.
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Alexandra Holland
Alexandra is a fine art graduate from Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Alexandra makes casts and copies of her own body. Her practice is an attempt to dissociate and objectify herself, so that others can’t. She is interested in construction and destruction, experimenting with a variety of materials and processes to create sculptures that explore two contradicting ideas – vulnerability and resilience.
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Signe Eliza Pook
Signe is a fine art graduate from Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Signe is a multi-disciplinary artist interested in the process of thinking through making. Her work stems from everyday experiences and observations, contextualised by research in Philosophy, Visual Culture and Architecture. These ideas take shape through large-scale, site-specific sculptural installations that disrupt the space they occupy and embody the artist’s current contemplation. (Signe was also recently chosen in a public vote to have her banner installed at the back of the Alfred Arcade which you may have spotted on your travels, whilst on the train coming into/leaving Southampton Central)
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You can meet the artists and see more of their work at Ripe Plums #01. The exhibition is on display at the Alfred Arcade from Friday 29th – Sunday 31st July. Find out more by heading to the RIPE website. We are also hosting a RIPE Live launch event on Friday 29th July from 6pm – 10pm at Old Northam Road. Book your free ticket on Eventbrite