Global Creative Graduate Showcase '24: Vote for Sophie Ferrier

Name: Hereford College of Arts
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8th October 2024
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ARTS THREAD's Global Creative Graduate Showcase is one the world's most prestigious grad competitions. Thousands of entrants are cut down to a shortlist that spotlights emerging artists and designers from hundreds of the top BA and MA courses from Rotterdam to Cape Town.

For the second year in succession HCA is represented in the fine art / photography / craft / jewelry shortlist.

You only have a few days' left to vote for Sophie Ferrier, and her brilliant collection Urns of Restoration which repurpose a non-native, invasive plant species to produce a series of vessels that comment on the circular nature of materials and the importance of native biodiversity.

The urns in Sophie's collection are bound together with biodegradable binders, resulting in a material that exhibits the adaptability of clay when wet and the durability of wood when dry, and the plant material used (Himalayan Balsam / Impatiens glandulifera) is a species that needs to be removed from our local environment. As such the process underlying this practice is inherently ecologically restorative.

CDC graduate Sophie Ferrier holding the plants which would be used to create her urns.

Symbolically, the urn represents death, yet it also embodies the ecological truth that nature knows no true demise—only the perpetual recycling of nutrients. As stewards of the Earth and artisans, we are called to embrace the principles of material recycling and reuse.
Sophie Ferrier - BA(hons) Contemporary Design Crafts

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To vote for Sophie's project in the Global Creative Graduate Showcase, follow the link below and simply tap/click 'Vote for this project'. Voting closes this Friday (11 Oct).

Vote here on Arts Thread

Sophie follows BA(hons) Artist Blacksmithing graduate Rowan Lickerish who was shortlisted in last year's showcase for his collection of sculptural forged metalwork Brutalist Sound.

This year the competition, which is run in collaboration with coloro and WGSN, received more than 5000 entrants from across 450 institutions making it the biggest online graduate showcase of of creatives anywhere in the world.

Winners will be determined by public vote, and by a panel which includes judges from the likes of the World Craft Council, Freize Studios, FAD Magazine and Google.

You can vote for Sophie here - just follow the link and click or tap Vote for this project - or watch the video below to find out more about her project.

For more about our BA(hons) Contemporary Crafts course, visit our course page here.

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