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Consumed: Stilled Lives plays with the traditional concept of still-life painting, which grew in popularity in the 16th and 17th centuries. Often featuring silver plates, ornate glassware and expensive foodstuffs such as shellfish and exotic fruit, still life paintings became a fashionable way for t...

The output is a creative project involving a light projection titled “Dawn Chorus” exploring environmental impact and consumerism. The five-minute looped, spectacular narrative and sound track used fantastical found footage to explore human relationships with the natural world using digital film and...

The output is a series of exhibitions, created as part of collaborative research, consisting of 26′ audio work by Esther Johnson and Debbie Ballin, a photographic series by Esther Johnson, a selection of artefacts, from the People’s History Museum and NCCME archives curated by Johnson and Ballin and...

Elegies in Grey attests to an exploration of concerns pertinent to Palin’s recent practice, including the relationship between the object-aspect and picture-aspect of painting. This series of works was developed over eight years. Research process: The process of reconfiguring paintings – as units wh...

'Consumer' examines the influence of capitalism on the visual landscape. During March – May 2015 Woolley purchased advertising space around Cardiff city centre and populated it with artworks that critique capitalism. The artworks employ the methods of enticement that are often found in adverts but i...