2020 Ual Mead Fellowships and Final Project Awards Announced
University of the Arts London recently announced the winners of this year’s Mead Fellowships and Final Project Awards:
Mead Fellowships 2020
Emre Kayganaci, Jade Bruce Linton, Masha Wysocka, Natasha Hughes & Lucy Malone, and Zula Robikowska.
Mead Final Project Awards 2020
Joseph Boultbee, Joshua Brand, Charlotte Dack, Dominic Green, Isha McCulloch, Alessandro Perchiazzi, Ezrah Roberts-Grey, Gus Skottowe, Emi Tanimura and Toraigh Watson.
Congratulations to everyone, we look forward to seeing their interesting projects and careers progress.
Read further details about the awards and see previous winners here.
Mead Fellowships 2020
Emre Kayganaci
BA Product and Industrial Design, Central Saint Martins (graduated 2020)
Project: ShootingBack
ShootingBack, is an innovative physical support designed specifically for wheelchair athletes who play basketball, both for professional and non-professional use. Utilising various technologies, ShootingBack provides enhanced support to the athlete. It ensures comfort plus efficiency and enables athletes with disabilities to perform at their best.
Jade Bruce Linton
BA Fashion Design, London College of Fashion (graduated 2020)
Project: Birthright
Birthright conveys an immersive experience exploring feminine identity expressed through ritual practices, performed intuitively to reinvent an individual ritual language that is read by the body. The theme is explored by a sculpture, a short film, and a series of eight podcasts. In this project, Jade examines her paternal ancestral connection with the practices of Yoruba people.
Masha Wysocka
MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography, London College of Communication (graduated 2019)
Project: Jardín de Naturalización (The Garden of Naturalisation)
Jardín de Naturalización is a photography project about naturalisation of immigrants in Spain or how the natural sciences can define a national identity. People who come from the former colonies represent a significant part of naturalised citizens in Spain. However, they are not always considered as an integral part of Spanish culture like tomatoes or potatoes are. People with a migration background are often depicted as “invasive” plants. This project uses photography and research to deconstruct these stereotypes and broaden understanding of Spanish identity. The photographs will be shown at the open-air exhibition, at the Acclimatisation Garden of La Orotava, the Canary Islands (Spain).
Natasha Hughes and Lucy Malone
MA Culture, Criticism and Curation course at Central Saint Martins (graduated 2020) Project: Enshrined: Creating Space for Grief
Natasha and Lucy explore non-hierarchical curatorial methods. Their work with everyday stories and shared experiences of grief have brought them together for this project, which will reframe grief as a source of creative energy and connection, within a society that typically ignores it. The project will host a series of workshops by creative practitioners working in six different mediums (including writing and visual art). Participants who have experienced grief, can navigate their loss through making and sharing. This will culminate in a collaborative exhibition where participants will curate and display the work they have made. Enshrined seeks to open a vital conversation during the time of COVID-19, when the subject of death and grief is painfully relevant.
Zula Rabikowska
MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography, London College of Communication (graduated 2020)
Project: Inter Alia
Inter Alia is a photography documentary research project about contemporary female identity in Eastern Europe. Zula will travel along the former Iron Curtain, the former political barrier (erected in 1946) which divided the Soviet Union from the West, during the Cold War. She will document how a communist past has shaped female identity. This project will combine analogue photography, moving image, and written testimonies to engage with the question: What is contemporary womanhood in post- communist countries?
Mead Final Project Award recipients
Joseph Boultbee
BA 3D Design, Camberwell College of Arts
Project Title: Architectural Arboretum
Joseph will be making an ambitious piece of sculptural furniture, utilising found timber. Joseph will slice pieces of branch wood from different British tree species, to show a range of grain patterns. He will explore the traditional uses of each type of timber and use each woods according to its strength.
Joshua Brand
BA Animation, London College of Communication
Project Title: The restaurant at the end of the world
Joshua and team will create an animated short film about a mysterious traveller in an apocalyptic wasteland, searching for the last restaurant in the world. Still open despite the collapse of society, this restaurant is home to some very unusual characters, but can their way of life continue to survive when this traveller tries to take the place for himself?
Charlotte Dack
BA Performance: Design and Practice, Central Saint Martins
Project Title: Independent Project
Charlotte will be creating a costume-led performance, about living after rape and how to lift yourself up from the trauma. In her performance her costume starts as an arm around the performer, representing the rapist.
Dominic Green
BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins
Project Title: Con La Muerte De Abrigo
Dominic will produce an immersive video installation, exploring the current situation of Mexico-US migration. He will show the study of migrants’ lives, as they traverse the migrant trail of Mexico which is “the single largest flow of migrants in the contemporary world”.
Isha McCulloch
BA Photography London College of Communication
Project Title: 104 Hope Road
Through research, videography, photography, and the making of ceramic artefacts, Isha will trace her family’s histories and identify the legacy of the British Slave Trade on the histories of Scotland and Jamaica.
Alessandro Perchiazzi
BA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography, London College of Communication
Project Title: In Limbo
Alessandro will photograph the everyday lives of three internally displaced families who are currently living together in an abandoned cinema in the city of Sumgayt, Azerbaijan. The 1988 conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia caused the displacement of over 600,000 Azeris.
Ezrah Roberts-Grey
BA sound arts and design, London College of Communication
Project Title: Rendering physical spaces through sound
Ezra’s installation will surround the physical space via the use of sound; through various audio recording, and playback techniques – specifically, a technique known as Wavefield synthesis. It will involve a Wavefield synthesis speaker array and computational setup.
Gus Skottowe
BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins
Project Title: Temple of the Technium
Gus will be creating an immersive and experiential technology-based installation. It will re-appropriate familiar technological objects, infrastructures and interfaces in a way that presents them as living entities that form part of an unfolding technological ecology.
Emi Tanimura
BA Fashion Design & Development, London College of Fashion
Project Title: The Survivalist Collection
Emi will be making 4 final looks for her collection (4 jackets, 4 tops & 4 trousers), inspired by how garments can maximise a person’s ability in challenging environments. The collection will feature dual purpose clothes – such as a jacket which transforms into a backpack, or a coat which becomes a portable tent. It will incorporate technology such as wearable solar panels to make the wearer self-reliant on energy.
Toraigh Watson
BA Fine Art Print and Time- Based Media, Wimbledon College of Arts
Project Title: Unit 9 final project
Toraigh is producing an interactive sculpture and sound-piece, with which she will perform. The piece is a 3D metal hexagonal frame, with suspended musical strings, tuned like an instrument. Three contact mics attached to the frame amplify the resonance inside. A multichannel soundscape of field recordings surrounds this, continuously creating a different aural environment.