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
Val Jackson
This body of work explores identity as it develops and changes. I am interested in the ways in which circumstances prevailing during an earlier phase can influence developing identity in the future via conduits such as memory and learned behaviours, whilst an identity of the future can affect the past through activities such as planning, daydreaming and imagination.
This series of pieces utilises layers of identity to produce installations in different depths. As within identity, each layer is different, using a range of methods and media to illuminate the merging of former and developing personas in a variety of ways. Digital stitch, digital print, dressmaking and machine embroidery are combined to produce layers of textile exploring the influence of older and newer identities on each other in different ways.
The subject of the research is my late mother who left a journal and many letters illuminating her wartime experience in the WRAF and her dreams and ambitions for the post-war period. Original garments have been a major influence and their use as a source of inspiration contributes to the production of work carrying a powerful message from a former identity.
