Posts tagged: Poetry

Artist: Jack Jameson

Title: Arcadia; Queer by Nature

Year: 2023 – 2024

Medium: Sculpture and accompanying video

Duration: 4 minutes, 44 seconds

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Foraged from scrap,
Yet forged into treasure,
Here floats Arcadia.
A harmonious sanctuary.
Where water seeps,
rock weathers,
And minerals scatter,
Sprouting life.
Retold in this virtual realm of broken binaries and unbridled fantasy,
We prosper in imperfect harmony.
Here… We are one.

Jack Jameson’s work presents a model utopia, inspired by mythology and folklore. In this world nature prevails, and the ‘forest nymph, water siren and rock troll dwell in in harmony – free to be’. The work combines craft, costume, 3D scanning, printing and rendering, photography, and animation.

Jameson is a queer multidisciplinary artist who works across physical and digital mediums to depict ‘unworldly narratives of the queer form… with fantastical narratives or comic depictions’. They see their work as a form of gender performance, and draw inspiration from across sci-fi, fantasy, technology, fashion and queer culture. Previous projects include direction, production design and costume for local film projects, music videos, and commercial campaigns.

Artist: Meg Woods

Title: Condescending Order 1-5

Year: 2015

Medium: Paper Zines.

Dimensions: Multiple, A5

Accession Number: US2015-10

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Condescending Order is a series of zines produced on a monthly basis, reflecting current political themes.  Usually produced in an A5 booklet format, each zine has a variety of formats including poetry, collage and illustration.

This work was gifted to the University Collection at the culmination of the artists Graduate Scholarship residency programme.