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Sarah-jayne Holmes
(44 years old. Born in United Kingdom. Lives in: Lincoln)
University of Lincoln

I have just completed a three year media course and am a single mum with two children wishing to start my own business. The installation I am submitting was one of my final degree pieces. It dealt with child abuse and used silk, billowing on a washing line for projecting a film on to. The washing line was set in a garden, not only made by myself but the children of a primary school also, to portray the naievety and vibrancy of ...[more]
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I would like to develop this installation further by investigating adults twenty five years on from their struggle through an abusive childhood to show how abuse does not just affect the child at that particular time but his /her whole life. Through emotional problems to physical problems, it is something that we as adults turn a blind eye to and it is a worldwide problem that shouldn't be be brushed under the carpet. I would like to do this by pricking the viewers subconscious , as I did with the project I am submitting, making them think about what they have seen. Covering subjects from a variety of ethnic backgrounds, which would hopefully touch upon the fact that it is a global problem and not just something that happens at home.
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