Farnham : UCA Farnham Fine Art Exhibition

UCA Farnham Fine Art students have taken over the campus to utilise 5 exhibition spaces that showcase their work. Students from across Further Education Foundation Diploma, BA (Hons) Fine Art and MA Fine Art had work selected for the exhibition.

This week the course blog will look at the exhibition with today's post focusing on the Foyer Gallery work that greets all visitors to the Farnham Campus.

Press Release

Futurity is panoply of ideas expressed in film, sculpture, painting, photography and installation. In Futurity, the future is considered not in perpetuity, but more as a site of anguish and concern. The future is history, tradition and ritual. The appropriation of objects, moments, and the materiality of the 'everyday'; a body of flesh, diseased, surveyed, violated. A body of thought: Modernism. TCP/IP, a network of networks, a gallery of the world. The macro and the micro. From life unto death. Consumerism and opportunism. Ecology and waste. Despair and repetition. Ornamentation and contemplation. Psycho-sexual drama. The incidental and the monument. There are no binaries, in futurity. No definitive answers, to what the future holds. Fragments. Here, art functions as a continuum as well as a rupture of time and space. Futurity Is an open submission exhibition selected and organized by UCA's Fine Art department and CulturalProgramme, Surrey at Farnham. Selected from over sixty applications. this grouping of twenty five undergraduates, postgraduate and foundation students offer both a dynamic and fascinating cross section of work and ideas.

Richard Hylton

Julia Keenan
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Year 3

Julia's Comments about the exhibition

"As a student on the Fine Art course at UCA there are many opportunities offered to you. All students across the school of Fine Art from Foundation through to MA were invited to propose work for the show 'Futurity' to be installed within the Gallery spaces of Farnham campus.This was a great chance to experience the work outside of the studio spaces and in the public areas.

My methodology consists of creating 'objects' and images in the studio, these are then manipulated and subverted to create new context ,the images are suggestive of something which is suspended between a sculpture and an image. The objects as assemblages and collages, I position myself as a time travelling anthropologist presenting these things in the context of relics from a civilisation that no longer exists - from the past or the future - there is no linear timeline.

I create ambiguous 'sets' within which the objects are animated - virtual transmitted spaces in which the assemblage exists as a free floating signifier. There is a narrative element to the work, but this is part of my creative process and is not revealed, just suggested through the choice of title.

My interests lie around ideas of repression, inhibition and the unspoken through the context of psychoanalysis, this is reflected in my choice of materials.

I hope to make thought provoking work which could be viewed as a comment on contemporary cultural issues.

I was delighted to have two proposals accepted for' Futurity', it has been a great chance to see the work in the gallery context and has informed decisions about my upcoming degree work which is in the final stages of preparation. I used the opportunity to try a new way of showing the images as large vinyls reminiscent of advertising campaigns. Through this I have 'owned' a new process and it has been a good reflective exercise showing in a different way."

Joslyn Hobbis
Foundation Diploma Fine Art

Joslyn's comments about her work:

"I have been exploring going beyond the superficiality of the physical body and looking deep within. I am interested in people’s life experiences, memories and how they can leave traces on the constantly evolving landscape of the Soul - changing it, enriching it.

My work is influenced by my own life experiences, the stories of others and my love of small details, texture and the need to get to the bottom of things, making the invisible, visible.

I am so excited to have the opportunity to exhibit my work to the public. I wonder what story my image will tell the viewers and what traces they will take away with them."

Charlotte Baker

BA (Hons) Fine Art

Year 2