LPA Futures / Josh Adam Jones / MA Final Show
QUOTE UNQUOTE is the 2020 MA Photography graduate show for the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol). Investigating an array of concepts, from the mythical to the personal, each individual offers a striking view and an insight to their creative process.
Featuring the work of 15 Visual Artists and Photographers, the graduate showcase is supporting No! Wahala Magazine by sharing 100% of print sale profits to help print their first edition later this year.
Josh explains his project ‘Sometimes A Silence Will Cut Through Sound’ below…
‘Last year, my paternal Grandfather passed away. It was the first personal experience of death and the grief that followed. I needed to process this life event somehow, and making this work acted as a form of therapy, helping to alleviate ongoing issues too; our family has a history of mental health problems that have come to the surface in various ways over the years. I have watched first-hand the ways in which it has affected my own Father.
‘Mental illness’ carries the connotation that it can be cured, but I think this to be slightly inaccurate. Rather, it is something that can be helped, made more bearable and easier to manage, but it never really goes away.
This ongoing work is a meditative response to personal struggles of the day-to-day and is a way of therapeutically dealing with problems which usually remain undisclosed. It’s a way of visually and physically making sense of my own inner turmoil, whilst also hoping that others can relate.’
Take a look at the beautiful online exhibition here and exhibition prints are available here too!
Well done Josh! We wish we could have come and seen it in real life!
© Josh Adam Jones. Sometimes A Silence Will Cut Through Sound.
© Josh Adam Jones. Sometimes A Silence Will Cut Through Sound.
© Josh Adam Jones. Sometimes A Silence Will Cut Through Sound.
© Josh Adam Jones. Sometimes A Silence Will Cut Through Sound.
© Josh Adam Jones. Sometimes A Silence Will Cut Through Sound.