This week, we’re featuring the artwork of Rachel Ashenden, a second year English student… “Currently I am filling a sketchbook with pencil portraits of people that have inspired me. The pages alternate between drawings of loved ones to famous figures. Both sets of figures have had integral influence on my development. This side-project is extremely different from […]
landscape
Contemporary art on campus: Land-Sea-Self
In a small seminar space in the Queens building, performance artist and director Tess Denman-Cleaver is talking about a much wider sense of place, evoking the receding shore, cold waters, and broad skies of the North Sea. The description of her experience of sea-swimming and island exploration off the coast of Northumberland, which has formed […]