UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Cheryl Simmons

UCA Farnham Fine Art student, Cheryl Simmons who graduated in 2011 has work in the group show Articles of Evidence at Broadway Studios in Tooting, London. The exhibition opens today and runs until 30th August.

https://www.facebook.com/events/697882776971624/

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Flo Yapp

UCA Farnham Fine Art student. Flo Yapp who graduated this summer, has co-curated an exhibition of contemporary fine art at APG Gallery in Sheffield. The exhibition "Fresh is More" opens this week and was curated by Flo with UCA Farnham Fine Art 2011 alumni Timothy Holt. 
Flo will continue her studies with an MA in Participatory and Community Arts.

http://www.freshismore.co.uk/

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Lizy Bending

UCA Farnham Fine Art recent graduate, Lizy Bending is a finalist for the NeoPrint Prize 2014.

!Having already gone through 2 rounds of selection, Lizy has made it to the final round and her work will be displayed throughout August until November at the NeoGallery in Bolton. 

We find out when the winners are at the end of the month for the prize itself, so fingers crossed for Lizy! 

http://www.neoartists.co.uk/printprize2014.asp

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UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Kwei Eden

Kwei Eden, who recently successfully completed her first year of student at UCA Farnham, has an interview about her practice in "Outside In" as artist of the month following an earlier exhibition at Palant House Gallery.

http://outsideinpallant.wordpress.com/2014/08/11/outside-in-artist-stories-qa-with-kwei-eden/

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Isaac Willis

UCA Farnham Fine Art student Issac Willis, who graduated this June has curated a group exhibition at Transition Gallery, London entitled "Language Fails'. The group of artists met in Vienna whilst Isaac was taking part in the UCA Farnham erasmus exchange programme for semester 2 of year 2 at the Academy of Fine Arts.

Transition Gallery

Language Fails

Laura Hinrichsmeyer / Anna Rettl / Anna Schachinger / Issac Willis

23 August – 14 September 2014
Preview: Friday 22 August, 6-9pm
Gallery Open: Fri-Sun 12-6pm

Language Fails examines painting’s intrinsic qualities where written language falls short. Offering up different modes of production, Language Fails explores the way we see images in the advent of screen technology, and how painting fits into this world.

Isaac Willis uses painting as a method of research and enquiry directly into the relationship paint has to on-screen technologies. His paintings stand as part visualized research and part painterly paintings, reflecting this new age of image culture that is dominated by screen technology.

www.transitiongallery.co.uk

http://cargocollective.com/isaacwillis/ 

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Charlotte Johnson

UCA Farnham Fine Art student Charlotte Johnson, who graduated this June has her first solo exhibition from 19th until 30th August at What if...? Gallery in Dartford, Kent.

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Julia Keenan, Laura Olohan, Denise Walsh & Lizy Bending

Three UCA Farnham Fine Art students who have just successfully completed their 2nd Year, have been selected to collaborate with the Roche Court Educational Trust based at the New Art Centre and Aspex Gallery in Portsmouth.

Julia Keenan, Denise Walsh and Laura Olohan will collaborate within a group of 19 undergraduates from other universities in the South studying creative subjects. The 'Someone and Something' project is an opportunity to explore contemporary art practice supported by research workshop development days at the New Art Centre and Aspex Gallery. 

The outcomes from the project will be exhibited in a month long show at Aspex Gallery in September. The show opens on 3rd September until 5th October.

Julia speaks about being selected for this opportunity

It has been a great experience and something to keep the creative flow going throughout the long summer break. At the New Artist Centre we were shown around the fantastic grounds littered with important works by Richard Long, Rachel Whitread etc, and a collaboration between Bill Woodrow and Richard Deacon in the gallery space adjacent to the main house. The grounds of this beautiful stately home have been turned into a public space where these huge fantastic works are displayed - all are for sale I think! 

We came together as a group and discussed what does the project title 'Someone and Something' might  mean to us as an idea relevant to the research days. The brief for the work was completely open- which was liberating - they wanted us to use the project as a framework which we could further develop our practices within - but the outcome was completely up to us. Fantastic! 

It was a good networking opportunity too - we met students from Southampton, Bournemouth and Winchester. 

The second day at the gallery space Aspex in Portsmouth we were given a small talk from the artist who had a show up until quite recently - she made beautiful small intimate paintings exploring the idea of isolation.  We then 'isolated' our selves and made some drawings in response to this idea. Another good day - all of the days were supported by Jonathan Parsons who is the artist adviser for this project.

The final day was in the form of small group crits with Jonathan at Aspex Gallery where we discussed our ideas and where the work was at. I have loved having this running through the summer. We are to deliver the final outcomes by the end of the month and they will be curated by the gallery and presented in the space. Cant Wait to see it!! 

You will have to come to the celebration evening on the 12th September if you are free!

2014 Graduating UCA Farnham Fine Art student, Lizy Bending is also participating in the project.

http://www.aspex.org.uk/blog/someonesomething2014/ 

Grant Petrey in Terrace Studios & Gallery Open 2014, London

UCA Farnham Fine Art tutor, Grant Petrey has work in the 9th Terrace Studio & Gallery Open, "Off the Wall" 2014. 

The exhibition is curated by Karl Bielik and includes work by; 

Kiera Blakey, Boyle & Shaw, Annabel Dalby, Matt Golden, Adrian Galpin, Yifat Gat, Julia Hamilton, Ross Hansen, Ron Levin, Vibeke Luther, Danka Nisevic, Emer O'Brien, Madeleine Strindberg, Clair Undy, Marijke Vasey, Julian Wakeline, Tobias Wenzel, Elizabeth Wright.

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Dayo Adesina

UCA Farnham Fine Art student, Dayo Adesina who recently successfully completed her 1st Year is 1 of 14 selected participants working with artist Barby Asante called "Sorry you feel uncomfortable" at INIVA, the Institute of International Visual Artists at Rivington Place in London. The project explores identity race, gender, sexuality and colonialism in relation to the 1969 Horace Ove film "Baldwin's Nigger".

http://www.iniva.org/

https://twitter.com/BNReloaded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryuAW_gnjYQ

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Amy Wood

UCA Farnham Fine Art student, Amy Wood who has just successfully completed her 1st year has work in the "Community in the eye of the artist" exhibition in Hertfordshire over the summer. 

"The work is within the Lowewood Museum for two months and has a large opening event day, this therefore will be the longest any of my work has been displayed and I am therefore very honoured to have received this opportunity during the summer. 

Whilst at the opening event for the exhibition, I was approached by the head of Hertfordshire county council who had shown an interest in my work, and asked for a private commission, and also discussed further exhibitions. I have a meeting with him early August in order to discuss his requirements and further work and exhibitions."

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Carl Gent

UCA Farnham Fine Art student, Carl Gent who graduated in 2009 has work in the Fourth Moscow Biennial of Young Art. Carl has site specific works and will perform his work "Bad Truth". 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1391227004450240/