Liverpool School of Art & Design present Sync/Disconnected – a diverse and eclectic collective master’s degree exhibition connecting together different creative disciplines in ‘sync’, opening Friday 18 August with a public preview from 6pm to 8pm in the John Lennon Art & Design Building.

This multi-disciplinary and multi-media presentation acts as the end of year show for graduating students from the suite of MA programmes at Liverpool School of Art & Design; a creative culmination of their postgraduate studies.

Featuring work from MA Art in Science, MA Fine Art and MA Graphic Design and Illustration, the exhibition has been organised and curated collaboratively between the participating students. Developing existing, and creating new, connections between the peer group it looks forward to new potentialities and possibilities for their research and practice once disconnected from the university upon graduation.

Work’s on display include:

Gary Lester’s MA Art in Science practice-led research develops from his experiences as a mathematics tutor and challenges the siloing of the disciplines of art, education, mathematics and physics. His INSTANTIATION project comprises four works that engage audiences with complex mathematical concepts including Tria Corpora Motu, which represents the ‘Three Body Problem’.

MA Art in Science student, Libby Robinson, is showing the outcomes of her research project, ‘Underwater Snoezelen’ – a sensory room containing co-designed sensory objects. The objects have been developed over 6 months with neurodivergent children from Crosby High School in a bid to assess the effectiveness of co-design approaches when creating multi-sensory environments or ‘Snoezelens’ in complex needs schools.

MA Fine Art student, James Hurdwell’s practice is diverse in its scope and questions the inter-relational spaces between the artist, artwork, audience and context. His process examines the parameters of visual language and we are invited to take part.

Elena Platt’s MA Fine Art project questions how might the internal world exchange with the external? The known lets in the unknown. Familiarity collides with chance. Routine is interjected by spontaneity. Elena mediates between opposing fields to feed the flow of her daily drawing practice as she captures live fragments of her immediate environment. She evolves an authentic inner voice amongst group settings, eventually channelling her own visual narrative and social commentary.

MA Graphic Design and Illustration student, Carly Childs, exhibits a Toile de Jouy style fabric based on Liverpool Street culture. The design features many of the popular landmarks of the city as well as the day to day activities of some of the residents.

Salma Hafez’s MA Graphic Design and Illustration Major Project has produced an interactive animated AR illustration based on the practice of Khayamia – the traditional Egyptian craft of making tents from panels that feature distinctive design motifs and patterns made using hand stitching, vivid colour and appliqué techniques.

Exhibiting Artists:

Cat Blain

Kieran Brimm

Carly Childs

Aisling Davis

Elen Dixon

Carys Kilduff

Salma Hafez

James Hurdwell

Gary Lester

Helen Lydon

Reece Marais

Oak McLaughlin Barnett

Harriet Morley

Elena Platt

Libby Robinson

Holly Ryan

Megan Sanders

Niamh Smith

Clare Stott

Cylene Yang