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
Gemma May Latham
My practice is rooted in process, responding to objects and stories in the development of pieces and interventions. Using both traditional and new technologies, I am interested in combining both digital and physical processes in my work and I aim to invert traditional craft practices by imposing actions of the hand onto the digital.
Through the participatory and social elements of my practice I am concerned with engaging people in craft and reconnecting people with materials. Through interventions I enlarge and magnify processes and impose a craft aesthetic upon structures and surroundings. This creates a dialogue between myself and the environment and opens up opportunities for conversation with the public.
"Latham helps to dispel the myth of the lonesome struggling artist, and inspires us to find inventive collaborative and social means to encourage the continuation of craft as an intrinsic part of our daily lives."
(Kettle, Langhorst & Wahl. 2013. Making Stories. Online: Electric Imprint. 8.)
