{"id":4769,"date":"2026-05-29T13:18:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schoolofdesignleeds.com\/ds26\/?p=4769"},"modified":"2026-05-29T13:18:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:18:34","slug":"grace-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schoolofdesignleeds.com\/ds26\/grace-kennedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sitecontainer\">\n<div class=\"pagecontainer\">\n<h4 class=\"homepage-heading-h4\">Degree Show 2026<\/h4>\n<div class=\"postcontainer\">\n<h1 class=\"thestudentpostname\" id=\"studentpostname\">Grace Kennedy<\/h1>\n<h3>BA Art and Design<\/h3>\n<p class=\"studentstatement\">My work specialises in textiles and handcrafts, focusing on the intersection of community art practices and social justice as recurring themes in my practice. Alongside my final year studies, I have volunteered and attended several community workshops, giving me invaluable experience in collaborative making and moulding me into a conscientious creative with a deep commitment to ethical making. Subsume the Labour is an immersive, hand-stitched tapestry installation that integrates stop-motion and process video projection to directly confront the audience with their individual relationship to labour, materiality, and sustainability within a hyper-fast consuming world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"socialstack\"><span class=\"material-icons md-24\">handshake<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/artgracekennedy?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&#038;igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Connect with <span id=\"withme\"><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--FILE01 IMG--><\/p>\n<div class=\"mediafileviewer mfvimages\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading =\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.schoolofdesignleeds.com\/ds26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/grace-kennedy-AD-01_Grace-Kennedy.png\" width=\"100%\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1194px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1194\/760;\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mfv-caption\">Subsume the Labour confronts the deep alienation between modern consumers, global makers, and material processes. Constructed from discarded textile scraps, the hand-stitched tapestry serves as an active resistance against the disposable mindset of fast fashion. Overlaid onto this physical screen are two distinct projections: true-to-time process footage capturing the rhythmic labour of stitching, and a stop-motion animation that transforms evocative text into something palpable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--FILE04 VIDEO--><\/p>\n<div class=\"mediafileviewer mfvvideos\"><video width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/www.schoolofdesignleeds.com\/ds26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/grace-kennedy-AD-02_Grace-Kennedy.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\">Your browser does not support the video tag.<\/video><\/p>\n<p class=\"mfv-caption\">The visual layer is enveloped by an intimate soundscape that blends the micro-acoustics of needlework with my recorded breathing, sonically humanising the textile and blurring the boundary between maker and material.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--FILE03 IMG--><\/p>\n<div class=\"mediafileviewer mfvimages\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading =\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.schoolofdesignleeds.com\/ds26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/grace-kennedy-AD-03_Grace-Kennedy.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1484px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1484\/948;\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mfv-caption\">By rendering the slow duration of craft entirely visible and audible, the piece challenges individual consumer complacency. It invites the audience out of convenience culture and into a visceral, empathetic confrontation with the human time and energy embodied within our everyday garments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\ndocument.getElementById(\"withme\").innerHTML = document.getElementById(\"studentpostname\").innerHTML;\ndocument.addEventListener(\"scroll\", function(){\nvar sitedescription = document.querySelector(\".site-description\");\nvar studenttitle = document.getElementById(\"studentpostname\");\nif(window.pageYOffset > 100){\nsitedescription.classList.add(\"highlightstudentname\");\nsitedescription.innerHTML = studenttitle.innerHTML;\n}\nif(window.pageYOffset < 100){\nsitedescription.classList.remove(\"highlightstudentname\");\nsitedescription.innerHTML = \"School of Design, University of Leeds\";\n}\n});\n\/*Heart a submission\nlet theheart = document.getElementById(\"heartsvg\"); \/\/ assign the SVG class to a variable called theheart\nlet lsheart = localStorage.getItem(\"onheart\"); \/\/ access a key called onheart in LS, and assign it to a variable called lsheart\nlet heartmsg = document.getElementById(\"heartmessage\");\nconst enableheart = () => { \/\/ create a function to colour in the SVG when the SVG is clicked\ntheheart.classList.add(\"activeheart\"); \/\/ tell the function to add a class to the SVG that will add colour\nheartmsg.innerHTML = \"You liked this submission\";\nheartmsg.classList.add(\"addpinkcolor\");\nlocalStorage.setItem(\"onheart\", \"enabled\"); \/\/ activate LS with the key and a value, hereby called enabled\n};\nconst disableheart = () => { \/\/ create a function to remove colour from the SVG when the SVG is clicked\ntheheart.classList.remove(\"activeheart\"); \/\/ tell the function to remove the class from the SVG that added colour\nheartmsg.innerHTML = \"Like this submission\";\nheartmsg.classList.remove(\"addpinkcolor\");\nlocalStorage.setItem(\"onheart\", \"disabled\"); \/\/ activate LS with the same key but a new value, hereby called disabled\n};\nif(lsheart === \"enabled\"){ \/\/ if the LS key has a value of enabled then...\nenableheart(); \/\/ ...run the enableheart function, which adds the class to the SVG\n}\ntheheart.addEventListener(\"click\", function(){ \/\/ when the SVG is clicked...\nlsheart = localStorage.getItem(\"onheart\"); \/\/ ...I think the LS needs to run on itself\nif(lsheart === \"enabled\"){ \/\/ if the LS key has a value of enabled...\ndisableheart(); \/\/ ...run the function that changes the LS value to disabled\n} else { \/\/ otherwise...\nenableheart(); \/\/ ...run the function that changes the LS value to enabled\n}\n});\n*\/\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Degree Show 2026 Grace Kennedy BA Art and Design My work specialises in textiles and handcrafts, focusing on the intersection of community art practices and social justice as recurring themes in my practice. 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