‘Pleasurewood Thrills!’ is an interim show of MA Contemporary fine art students. The exhibition brings together a diversity of artistic practice, ranging from video, text-based, photographic and sculpture. Starting with familiar or overlooked aspects of everyday life all six artists express a desire to connect with and reinterpret the world around them. The resulting work is a journey into the quotidian, the nostalgic, the kitsch and the magical.

Claire Lount

As a photographer i am particularly fascinated with how souvenirs and ornaments function in our everyday lives, with a specific regard to nostalgia. By collecting together "lost" souvenirs I use them to personify scenes from gothic literature. The images invite the viewer to become lost inside the scene depicted and the otherwise overlooked objects are given a status as visual subjects within art's lexicon. Whilst also pushing the boundaries of their imaginative possibilities beyond their otherwise nostalgic function.