HOME: Craft & Conversation LU Arts worker workshop

Every month is an opportunity to meet new people, as well as explore new places on campus and in the local area. This month, join LU Arts worker Becky Sweet for a walk around campus. Discover hidden gems, and get tips on how to take the best photos. Don’t forget to bring a camera or a charged phone to take photos on. Part of the Chaplaincy HOME series. 

About the photographer:

Becky Sweet is an artist whose work explores figurative imagery to create dialogues between art and viewer on the human psyche.
Specialising in sculpture and painting, Sweet weaves an interest in psychology into her life-like sculptures to comment on psychological experience. Augmented by its placement, viewers must orient themselves in such a way to manoeuvre around her works, giving the audience no choice but to perform and confront in the process.

Sweet’s work evokes themes of identity, physicality, and existentialism. Her recent works explore the boundaries between three-dimension and two-dimension spaces, creating sculptures that interact with the space in which they are exhibited in.
Often uncanny, her use of realism heightens a tangible sense of unsettling presence, confronting what is ‘human’.

In a world that stigmatises topics such as death, Sweet encourages conversation.
Through her art, Sweet aspires to foster comfort and acceptance of both the human body and its ‘life force’, inviting audiences to start understanding themselves both physically and intrinsically.

About the HOME series:

During the Autumn term the Chaplaincy will be hosting a series of events and workshops to help students feel at home at Loughborough. These events are loosely based around research undertaken in the HOME Centre for Doctoral Training at Loughborough University (for more information on their research see: HOME CDT – Harnessing Opportunities for Meaningful Environments (meaningofhome.uk) ). In particular we are seeking to help students reduce and overcome their feelings of homesickness by enabling them to form new emotional connections with their new home at Loughborough, and connect creatively with their previous experiences of home.  Building on the research undertaken by HOME CDT, events will encourage emotional connections by building habits and routines, creating objects with sentimental or practical use and connecting with others through shared activities.