Edinburgh College of Art graduate show 2021 – online and on campus

Dynamic graduate show unleashes a wave of creative talent

The works of art by more than 400 Edinburgh College of Art graduates are to be made available to a global audience in a virtual graduate exhibition along with a smaller exhibition on campus.

The online experience is a celebration of the fresh creative talent of this year’s ECA graduates who show their ingenuity and imagination while mastering the challenge of the limitations of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The exhibition in the ECA main building offers the opportunity from 18.-25. June also to show some of the work of the graduates. Tickets for the week-long exhibition are available on the ECA website.

The student portfolios will be presented on the digital platform from June 18 and pick up on various influences and topics, including climate change, the digital world, identity and belonging.

Pandemic restrictions resulted in many of the students seeking inspiration and value from everyday objects and their homes and adapting their practice by experimenting with different materials and ideas.

The platform builds on the success of last year’s online show, which attracted more than 100,000 views from more than 100 countries.

The Graduate Show website presents more than 4,000 media from 35 courses in 28 subjects, including paintings and drawings, architectural plans and models, animations and digital visualizations, musical compositions and performances, film, photography, textiles, jewelry and interior design.

In addition to the impressive selection of exhibits by ECA artists, filmmakers, designers and architects, ECA sponsors a number of supporting events and workshops, such as a virtual fitting of jewelry, a filmed performance costume show and architecture studios that present their work.

The impressive display of student creativity on the Graduate Show website includes Ellen Blair’s Spectrum photo portfolio, which explores the theme of select families within the LGBTQ + community.

Spectrum examines social perceptions of family and kinship through the re-appropriation of the family photo album. Colorful creations are presented with folds, tears, drawings and letters.

The jewelry and silversmith student Scarlett Bunce focuses on bead embroidery in her work. The complexity of the art form is expressed by colored, clear glass beads that are provided with stitches

The collection is inspired by archival images of decorative lace from museum collections and includes a silk scarf made with bead weaving on a loom.

Harvey Everson’s product design project created Memento Mori, a futuristic exhibition that explores people’s collection of digital memories.

The work is based on the concept that people receive their life as a digital asset through mass data collection. The designs explore the concept that personal data is becoming a new digital commodity.

Master of Landscape Architecture student Benjamin Jones presents an app that enables the public to visualize how a planned public salt marsh park at Glasgow Airport could change the adjacent landscape over the next 200 years.

The app uses techniques such as animation, time-lapse functions and flora and fauna detection to provide communities with a fun and supportive tool for monitoring, managing and maintaining the land.

Muriel McIntyre’s fine art project uses free space in her parents’ hometown in France to exhibit her work and involve the local community.

The project creates an ephemeral installation that fills rooms with elements such as vertical blinds, waiting room chairs, faux fur, small statues and a trench coat.

In her graduation film, illustration student Eilidh Nicoll deals with society’s preoccupation with aging and the changing body.

The animation – created image by image using 2D animation – follows the spiral of a woman in panic after she has discovered a gray hair. The film, which is set entirely in a bathroom, sees ritual self-care transitioning into self-control.

Jamie O’Donnell’s stop motion animation explores the themes of mental health and trans experience.

The magical film was made during the pandemic when the artist returned to his childhood passion for animated videos. The work is inspired by personal experiences and explores the concepts of alignment, the inner voice and the inner child.

Painter Sarah Ogilvie’s portfolio combines the aesthetics of 17th century still life paintings by Dutch artists with contemporary imagery to create works that explore social inequalities during the pandemic.

The painting Free School Lunch Packages combines traditional techniques like candlelight and oil paint with a modern twist to showcase the theme of financial hardship for families in Lockdown.

Nikki Petrova’s landscape architecture project celebrates the potential of neighborhood parks with vivid ideas on how they can be valued and perceived in the community.

Nikki’s portfolio places three parks in different socio-ecological contexts to show how elements such as a use-specific pavilion, a mini library and a bird house or café can help bring spaces to life.

Fashion graduate Nikita Vora describes her collection as a tool to educate people and celebrate the beauty of the South Asian people through illustrated prints and silhouettes.

The dazzling collection of prints and textured garments in bright colors is inspired by Indian culture and the designer’s heritage.

The online show will host other initiatives with ECA students, including the annual Degree Show Purchase Prize. The selected works will be acquired for the permanent collection of the University of Edinburgh.

The virtual show is the result of a fruitful collaboration between students and employees, with the graduates taking the lead in designing their online portfolios.

The promotion of the professional development of the graduates is a central element of the web platform. The portal offers recruiters easy access to the graduates’ portfolio. In addition, the students have access to information on the topics of freelance work, art funding and building a creative network. There are also a number of continuing education events, many of which are open to alumni and the general public.

ECA Senior Professor Juan Cruz said, “The Class of 2021 has shown remarkable tenacity and ingenuity in overcoming the extreme challenges and difficulties of the past year. It is truly extraordinary to see what they have achieved and how they have responded to those circumstances, and I know the shows will allow us all to reflect on our own experiences from that time. The virtual show builds on the success of last year’s online event and opens up new opportunities for our graduates and future study events. The smaller campus show offers us a welcome opportunity to carefully inhabit our buildings again. “

Visitors are invited to the Edinburgh College of Art for the start of the graduate shows and the subsequent livestream after party from the Wee Red Bar with student and alumni DJs and a newly commissioned film collage with archive material from ECA Revel and current moving image works by Graduates participate.

www.eca.ed.ac.uk/graduateshow

The online show runs from June 18 to August 27.

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