Manchester
School of Art
MA Show
2013
Fri 27 September —
Sun 13 October
10.00—16.00hrs
An exhibition of work
by postgraduate
students of —
- Architecture & Urbanism
- Art As Environment
- Design
- Design & Art Direction
- Filmmaking
- Fine Art
- Landscape Architecture
- Media Arts
- Photography
- Textiles
- Three Dimensional Design
- Visual Culture
Alan Baker
For the past 3 years have been the issues that surround the relationships between humans and animals. The work I have been producing on the MA Fine Art course explores our unlikely encounters with animals in our everyday urban environments, through methods of sculpture and drawing. In my previous work, I based my research around this particular quote which is "to consider the boundaries of what it means to be human rather than animal" (O'Reilly,2009,p.149.) which I have used to develop a project based around the residual traces left by the animals that inhabit our urban environments and turning them into sculptural forms. However, in my more resent stage of my practice, I have found myself taking a different approach to my previous work.
For this new project, I particularly wanted to explore the idea of the animal as practitioner and how animals shape, frame and make space; for example, by leaving footprints or other clues as to how they create their habitats. With this in mind I have been inspired to actually create a works witch are in fact habitats or some form sculptural spaces, which could have some form of animal interaction for an encounter between species.
