Lock-Up Gallery

Sky above me, Earth below me, Fire within me, Water around me.

A collaborative film produced remotely in Lockdown by students from Year 1 Postgraduate Programme in Creative Practice:

Rachel Burchell 
Jo Cockrell
Rachel Duffield
Caroline Mayers 
Gill Munn
Rachel Wright

Lockdown 0.1

Work on show is from our current cohort of students and made during Lockdown, click on the thumbnails to view artworks in full format.
Some works are for sale, information can be found on each thumbnail. Should you wish to purchase a work, please contact us.
Paula Smith
Art Direction 

Shadows Movie is part of a collection of work which started with three close up photographic images of everyday glass objects. 
The aim of the collection of work was to produce art which represented the qualities shown in those images by using different media. As part of the collection, a physical representation of the qualities of the glass was created in the form of a sculpture.
I wanted to examine the effect of light on this work. The light, and therefore the shadows it created, added a further dimension by altering the sculptures form (from the purely physical and static), to something capable of movement. 
Colour has been added to enhance how the viewer sees the changing opacity. Yellow in particular to echo sunlight (as in The Weather Project - Olafur Eliasson).
Paul Levy
Postgraduate Programme in Creative Practice, Year 1

These pictures are from a series of prints about the idea of sacred mountains.  They are pictures about mountains, rather than of mountains.  They embody my idea of high places as portals, in time as well as place, into the transcendent and timeless present.  Making pictures is central to who I am and what I believe is important and my work is a form of research into meaning and reality.  The essence of my pictures is in the process of making things real, about ideas, and the influence of one idea on another, the modulation that ideas undergo through the agency of being brought together in a pictorial field.  I want my artwork to give people the suggestion that the everyday, phenomenal world and the transcendent world are equally real and separated only by a hairsbreadth.
Carrie Clarke
Art intensive 

My work is concerned with the hidden layers of emotion we choose to keep buried within. Resulting from traumas and negative experiences, creating a filter through which we perceive the world. The spiritual journey can take us within to access and transform these emotions as a process of empowerment.
Rachel Burchell
Art Intensive 

The natural world is my initial attraction through which I explore my inner conflicts, emotional landscape and spirituality through a variety of media, drawing on poetry, literature and folklore. 
​I look to find hope amidst the conflict as I layer, conceal and reveal while exploring the symbolism of colour and form. 
Dave Cassell
Postgraduate Programme Programme in Creative Practice

​​As a Mathematics teacher for much of my adult life I have had a long term fascination with infinite
fractal geometry stemming from Chaos Theory and this has featured in much of my work recently.
Having a view of infinity has strong spiritual meaning for me. In the last few months I have been
juxtaposing more natural images onto the fractal patterns to bring them into a more earthly realm.
As a further exploration of the spiritual affinity I have with trees I have been exploring the image of the Woodwose, this is a hirsuit man that appears in many churches in Suffolk. I saw the tree as a totemic symbol that people might attach items of significance. The abstracted form of the tree developed from a series of exploratory pieces.
Sarah Ellis
Postgraduate Programme in Creative Practice

Prior to lockdown I was exploring my relationship between objects I have acquired from others, especially my parents. Exploring questions such as  are they a burden? Am I the custodian of others lives? How do the objects bring them closer and link to my relationship with them?
When lockdown happened, I quickly realised I had no desire to do that any more and different things became important. So I have worked on two strands. How I experience my small environment during lockdown,  and my emotions. The pieces I am exhibiting are about Norwich as I see it in lockdown. Some quite surprising views, when there were no cars and you could stand in the middle of the street.  Beauty and restriction. I have created these through Lino and Collograph print making.
Mary Littlefield
Postgraduate Programme in Creative Practice, Year 2

I work with mixed media, often incorporating found objects and collage in my work . The objects have meaning from my life sometimes they themselves take over and inform what happens . Nothing is junk . What we throw away or what we chose to keep has relevance to who we are.
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Lynda Waterson
​Postgraduate Programme in Creative Practice, Year 2
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My work is an attempt to make visible the workings of my mind. The neural networks that fire inside my brain are like maps of thoughts and actions and are strange and colourful. What is it that animates me, what spirit is at work guiding my hand and eye? It is my job to allow that spirit to move me and surprise me as it leads me on. The emotion is joy, a joy I hope I share.
Rachel Wright
Introduction to Arts & Wellbeing
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I’ve long been drawn to exploring the everyday through my art practice. Since lockdown, I’ve become even more fascinated than usual in documenting the ordinary, exploring the minutiae that make up our day-to-day existence, and how concepts of ‘ordinary’ and ‘extraordinary’ have been somewhat turned on their heads. Experiences that once would have seemed very ordinary, like a walk on the beach, have become exceptional and rare, and I’ve found myself drawn to documenting them as I would have once recorded an exotic holiday, photographing intricate details and collecting keepsakes, creating my own personal record of how this time is passing.
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Janet Cranness
Postgraduate Programme in Creative Practice

​Passing of time
"Like a speeding train
I am passing by...
I dont know
where i'm heading
with whom or why
all that i know is that
i will never, ever
pass from here again
all that I know is i'm skidding forward
on this track of life"   
 - Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest
Heather Guthrie
Postgraduate Programme in Creative Practice
Caroline Roberts
Postgraduate Programme in Creative Practice
Sarah Morgan
Art Intensive

I am a mature student with a background in fashion retail and personal styling. Garments tell our story, and my work is inspired by the contents of our wardrobe.
Adorn Wisely is my mantra - I like things to have a use. 
I inevitably see my designs as a scarf, bag or cushion.
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