Hello fellow exchangers!  My name is Kirsty and I graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with an MA in 2010.  I am interested in the contrast between the indeterminate results of patina and the controlled process of workmanship.  My work focuses on transient beauty and impermanence; combining shards of decay with contemporary structure.  Here are some images of my degree show work:

Intrigued by the effects of time and decay, especially places and objects that have fallen into a state of disrepair I explore this condition of neglect in enamel, playing with both control and unpredictability. The resulting work is unpredictable and unexpected; a product of a process deliberately out of my control. Undetermined paintings of rust-coloured patterns, created by nature and left to chance, are trapped within liner frameworks. By isolating sections of a surface, much like the viewfinder of a camera, or the framing and judgement of the photographer, the viewer is compelled to focus on the unusual natural beauty framed within.

This collection of jewellery focuses on the beauty of surface decay and the resulting work appears as a series of snapshots of surfaces frozen in time.