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Online Foundation Art & Design

Exhibition of student artwork

Year 1 - OFCAD show / Foundation Certificate course
 Year 2 - OFDAD show / Foundation Diploma course
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Morgane Pairain


Sculpture, collage and painting.
20cm (W) x 26cm (D) x 27cm (H).
Title: Behind closed windows

Windows shape how we experience both private and shared spaces, symbolise both connection and separation, and frame our outlook while simultaneously defining our boundaries. Reflecting on the growing need for suitable housing, this project aims to explore how windows, as crucial architectural elements, can either support a sense of belonging or contribute to feelings of isolation.

Inspired by Matisse and Chagall’s use of colour and form to soften harsh architecture, Kerry James Marshall’s critique of social housing design, Edward Hopper’s portrayal of urban isolation, and the aesthetic of Barbara Hepworth’s large works, my final work aims to interrogate the effect of windows on human psyche by initially putting the viewers as voyeur on the outside of a building, gradually bringing them inside people’s lives, culminating in them becoming the ‘observed’ who look through a window into the outside of their own space. It is my attempt to celebrate the variety and complexity of people’s lives and backgrounds within social housing, and breakdown perceived barriers.

“My OFCAD year taught me a range of techniques which opened a completely new way of using art to explore an idea. Whilst primarily a painter, this final project help reinforced my understanding of how contrasting materials can communicate emotional and psychological experiences, and it enabled me to deepen my engagement with materiality as a core element of my artistic practice.”
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