Past Present.

Welcome to our shows from 2020-2023.

This is a showcase of work by students in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University, who graduated from 2020 to 2022.

It's all of us, together, in a digital show you curate for yourself - not pre-arranged into rooms, courses or disciplines. You do the arranging. Want to see all the red things we made? Or all the work about identity, nature or isolation? Look at what you want to, when you want to, whether it's all the illustration, all the writing, all the movies or performance. You get the idea.

This exhibition is yours for the making. Go explore.

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Mara Ivan-Mohor

Illustration - BA (Hons)

I am in a constant journey of exploring new visual languages and creative fields. Having worked in the traditional medium since 11 (when I started my apprenticeship as a Romanian fine arts college student), my university training has allowed me to specialise in freehand digital illustration and animation that I currently handle confidently across several forms, from editorial to book and music cover artworks, from poster to social media design or video animation.

Decoding different types of texts and reimagining them visually in meaningful stories is what entices me most, at the same time as which I continually strive to accommodate a passion for myths and fairy tales with my interests in character design, tonal atmosphere or motricity, and a concern for social themes pertinent both to contemporary practices and to my own cultural background. This partially attunes my work with that of contemporary artists like Hayao Miyazaki, Tadanori Yokoo, Simon Prades, Kotaro Chiba or Sophie Lee, whom I find inspirational.

The following projects undertaken during the final degree year may prove the versatile nature of my visual language. They include: a cover artwork and a music video animation made in collaboration with a Romanian music producer, Village; an editorial illustration for Oliver Sach’s ‘The Dog Beneath the Skin; a Facebook sticker pack; a set of t-shirt designs for a personal clothing brand, “YUKI”, which I intend to develop in the future, in addition to working as a freelancer in this challenging and ever-evolving field of illustration.

Animated music video for the song “Lights Out” by Village. The thematic metaphor of the story is the creator-creation relationship.

Main character’s walking cycle from the animated music video for “Lights Out” by Village. The character is holding an orb in its hands, symbolizing a forceful power in a latent stage.

T-shirt designs, part of my personal brand project, “YUKI”. Through YUKI I was looking to visually showcase my major passion for the Japanese culture. I turned to a Romanian creative printing company (which I also worked as an intern for) in order to print some of my design ideas.

Editorial illustration based on “The Dog Beneath the Skin” by Oliver Sacks

One sticker design, part of my Facebook Sticker Pack project depicting the main characters Chi (left) and Saki (right). Represented action: kiss.

One sticker design, part of my Facebook Sticker Pack project depicting the main character Chi. Represented action: crying.