M.U.D Majority Under Division
An Artist Collective
Challenging Perceptions of the Visual Arts
M.U.D are a collective of 11 artists who are coming together to express themselves through a
variety of artistic media including paint, print, photography, installations, animation and
three-dimensional sculpture. They have explored an array of themes delving into issues and
subjects from life to death and in between.
Ganhao’s canvases are a commentary on the more modern version of the portrait. Looking particularly at
youth culture, and the rise of sharing the ‘selfie’ through social media sites, Ganhao aims to link this
contemporary portraiture with traditional self-portraits which were the preserve of the rich and powerful.
Warsop explores alternative photography techniques such as photograms, cyanotypes, and photopolymer
intaglio printing. Her prints of members of the Grantham Cage Bird Society using black and white
photographs as the starting point for painting on acetate using Indian ink and salt as media, are seeking to
express the wealth of character found in the mature human face. Owen’s portraiture depicts split
personalities and how people attempt to hide their true selves behind their public persona. He wants to show
people the multiple facets of a person and convey, through his photographs, that sometimes the way
someone looks or appears is not always a true representation of their inner self.
Through her installation, Shipley, a photographic artist with a keen interest in fine art, seeks to explore the
realms of fear, phobia and night terrors; expressing through her photography, the intensity of the emotional
challenges experienced by so many. Continuing the dark theme, Sobczak’s work exposes the innocent
looking faces of the young killers who have been cruel enough to kill another human being, showing the
public that even a gentle child can commit terrible actions if provoked by jealousy, curiosity, hate and even
love.
Latham's animation involves light art where a figure explores the world. The conscious figure knows it only
has a short time to live and wants to make the most of it by exploring through adventure. The figure is a
reflection on Latham’s younger self - as a child he spent a lot of his time venturing into the fields and woods
around him. Also on screen, and dealing with opposite subject matter, Storey’s series of video art interprets
a wide range of mental health issues across an emotional spectrum varying from angst, frustration, sorrow
and her self – perception of her deteriorating sanity. Storey’s video art is displayed from the sleek and
contemporary to the grainy and scratched, each holding a representation of moods.
Halstead creates three-dimensional structures using paint, ink, recycled magazine cut-outs, wood, metal and
coins. ‘Seeing The Unknown’ is an artwork through which he seeks to engage the audience to stop,
contemplate and generate their own narrative. Stewart’s work combines large scale ceramic vessels with
carved wooden forms utilising discarded elements of the manufacturing process to explore texture and scale.
Echoing this theme from a different perspective, Hughes addresses the global problem of disposable objects
and their effect on the future landscape. His mixed media piece encourages the audience to enter into the
debate about landfill and garbage; pushing the viewer to formulate an opinion on the matter. Freeman
creates work that the audience are able to pick up to feel the texture of marks made by the grittiness of
industrial crank clay to the smoothness of polished porcelain. Therefore, she wants everyone of different
abilities and ages to experience and interact with her work, not just by sight but also through touch.
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