UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Anna Garrett

UCA Farnham Fine Art student, Anna Garrett who graduated in the class of 2014 has recently had work the Angus-Hughes Summer Salon 2015 in the Angus-Hughes Gallery, London.

This is Anna's 12th exhibition since graduation.

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UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Salad Days Exhibition

UCA Farnham Fine Art student, Anna Garrett who graduated just over a year ago, has recently curated an exhibition of alumni fine art called Salad Days at the Farnham Maltings. 

Anna, who has worked in London with Zeitgiest Arts Projects and Oxford House Gallery and exhibited 9 times in the past year, now turns her skills towards exhibition management.

The exhibition is open now until September and includes the work of this years graduates from Fine Art; Julia Keenan, James Johns and Asia Pettitt. 

https://www.artrabbit.com/events/salad-days-uca-graduate-summer-showcase 

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Anna Garrett

UCA Farnham Fine Art student, Anna Garrett who graduated a year ago has work in the Zeitgeist Summer Exhibition 2015 at Bond House Gallery, ASC Studios, New Cross, London. The private view is 5-8.30pm, Saturday 4th July. It should be a busy evening, over 60 artists are taking part in the show.

This is Anna's 9th exhibition since graduating last summer.

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Anna Garrett

UCA Farnham Fine Art student Anna Garrett, who graduated almost a year ago has work with the London based gallery Lubomirov Easton in an exhibition called A5 that is taking place in Athens, Greece this week.

This exhibition is Anna's 8th exhibition within the past year.

http://www.lubomirov-easton.com/A5-Art-Athina-Athens-2015

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Lizy Bending, Anna Garrett, Louise Scillitoe-Brown, Flo Yapp

UCA Farnham Fine Art students, Lizy Bending, Anna Garrett, Louise Scillitoe-Brown & Flo Yapp who graduated in 2014 all have work in the group exhibition Pretty in Pink that opens on 27th February at Bath Artists Studios Project Space.

Lizy Bending 

This exhibition marks Lizy's 14th since graduation last summer and coincides with a project at Lubimirov Eastern that opens on the same night. Lizy is also currently Artist in Residence at Orchre Print Studios.

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Anna Garrett

Anna has work from her Louis Vuitton series and this exhibition is Anna's 7th since graduating 8 months ago.

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Flo Yapp

Flo is currently in postgraduate eduction and this marks her 4th exhibition project since graduated, that includes curating for APG Gallery, Sheffield and at the prestigious Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol.

http://www.floyapp.com


Louise Scillitoe-Brown

Inclusion in Pretty in Pink marks Louise's 6th exhibition since graduating from UCA Farnham Fine Art last summer.

http://www.louisesb.com

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Signature Art Prize 2015

Five students who graduated in the UCA Farnham Fine Art class of 2014 who have gone on to have success disseminating their practice have made it through to the long list for the International Signature Art Prize 2015. 
Anna Garrett, Peter Hanmer, Stephanie Hadingham, Morwenna Lake, Louise Scillitoe-Brown have continue the success and are joined by current final year student Julia Keenan who will graduate this summer in the class of 2015.

Anna also has work in an exhibition that opens at the end of February, whilst Julia currently has a piece causing a stir in the Linear Gallery exhibition "Interruptions". Julia also has work in another exhibition that opens in February too.


Julia Keenan

Anna Garrett

Peter Hanmer

Stehanie Hadingham

Morwenna Lake

Louise Scillitoe-Brown

We wish all our students the best of luck for the final round of judging.


http://www.signatureartprize.com

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success at the Lightbox Gallery, Woking

UCA Farnham Fine Art students, Anna Garrett and James Brown who graduated in the summer of 2014 have work in a group exhibition at the Lightbox Gallery in Woking. 

The exhibition includes the work of current performance based MA Fine Art student, Alison McFadden. 

Anna Garrett

Within 6 months of graduating from UCA Farnham Fine Art, it marks Anna Garret's 6th exhibition, and for James Alexander Brown his 5th.

James Alexander Brown

The exhibition opens on 6th January and is open until 1st February.

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Ranger House Exhibition, Guildford

A selected group of UCA Farnham Fine Art class of 2014 graduates currently have work exhibiting at Ranger House Art Prize in Guildford, Surrey. The exhibition opened this week and it will be on exhibition until the summer. 
The students selected from UCA Farnham Fine Art encompass abroad range of approaches to making. Louise Scillitoe-Brown, Isaac Willis, Anna Garrett, James Alexander Brown, Esther Thomas, Rachel Day, Anna Jones were selected with the latter three receiving a cash prize for their work.

Louise Scillitoe-Brown

Isaac Willis

Anna Garrett

James Alexander Brown

Esther Thomas

Rachel Day

Anna Jones

Make Believe - Selected Graduate Exhibition in James Hockey Gallery

UCA Farnham Fine Art 2014 Graduates, James Brown, Anna Garrett, Peter Hanmer, & Joe Presland have work in the exhibition Make Believe, curated by Richard Hylton for the James Hockey Gallery. The work exhibited represents a small part of the dynamic contemporary practice produced by UCA Farnham Fine Art 2014 Graduates.

Joe Presland

Peter Hanmer

Anna Garrett

James Brown

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Anna Garrett

Anna Garrett, who graduated a couple of weeks ago from Farnham Fine Art, has work exhibiting in the summer show at ZAP in London. The show opens this week on Thursday 10th July. 

This is Anna's 7th exhibition of work within the past year.


http://www.zeitgeistartsprojects.com/news.html

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Profile - Anna Garrett

Tell us about your work and what informs it

 ‘advertising plunges us into this stupefied, hyperreal euphoria that we would not exchange for anything else, and that is the empty and inescapable form of seduction.’

          Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 1981

Evaluating the falsity of the advertising image is the core to my artistic practice. By ‘breaking’ the perfect media photograph, I am exploring the illusion and ‘reality’ of the image within my painting. What continues to interest me is advertising’s power to create pseudo desires: consumers are aware of the manipulation but are drawn in by a seductive commercial dream. The fake image is placed in the media as an escape from everyday reality and to incite emotion. Through appropriation and intervention, my work questions the construct of the image and disrupts the false window in the spectacle. 

In my recent paintings I address the symbols and semiotics within the media image, which psychologically transport the viewer into daydreams and nostalgia. More specifically, I am questioning the illusory travel and holiday advertising image. The false paradises created in the idyllic brochures and adverts are almost a hollow façade to the reality of the destination. The fabricated image is too perfect, almost giving a sinister feeling as fake as consumerism’s promise. Painting itself is a falsity which the viewer seeks to believe in, an unreal surface existing in the world: and the dripping physical marks pushed around the canvas in tropical fluorescents echo as this dislocation from reality.

I began Third Year with an exploration into the ‘perfect’ and illusory nature of fashion magazine and perfume adverts. Creating drawings, collages and paintings derived from performative photo-shoots, I explored the empowerment vs. vulnerability of the model in the eyes of the media. Having resolved this train of thought, I maintained interest in ‘breaking’ the perfect media image. I began to ‘break’ the photograph as an act of destruction: ripping, scraping or painting gesturally over the picture. However, I felt a more subtle intervention would speak more clearly about the perfect unreal image to which I was addressing.

A series of photographs I took of Farnham town inspired the juxtaposition of ‘real’ vs. ‘fake’ which exists in my final paintings. I made a series of collages appropriating the ‘perfect’ picturesque landscape of the holiday brochure, and the mundane and ordinary ‘reality’ of the elements gleaned from around Farnham. This included rubbish bins, pylons, electricity boxes and skips, for example; elements that would never be seen in an idyllic travel brochure image. The collages became a developmental journey for me regarding colour and composition: bringing in the imperfect aspects into the tropical paradise.

The illusion is amplified with the heightened, toxic fluorescent colours in the final paintings. Saccharine and sickly, the colours allure but repel. The artificiality of the trashy loose brushstrokes over a primed flat neon create incandescent scenes of empty contemporary landscapes that do not exist. ‘Non-place’ and inconsequential, the added elements in the paintings are not picturesque. The obvious fakery in the new image creates an unsettling feeling: a gesture towards the man-made world we live in as well as the deception of the image.

 

Where there any issues you encountered with the development and how did you overcome them or make use of them? 

I suppose the issue of scale in my work. My collages were A3 or smaller, yet I wanted to create paintings which were all consuming in colour and dimension, like Chantal Joffe or Makiki Kudo’s paintings. I did not leave enough time towards the end of the term to spend up-scaling my work to the size I wanted. However, even though I would have wanted paintings emulating billboard advertising, I hope the colour is bright and intense enough to still be all consuming to the viewer. 

Theory I have been influenced by over my time at UCA are writings by Jean Baudrillard and Guy Debord: theories of hyperreality and the spectacle.Their cynical (and at times quite depressing) accounts of society being overcome by consumerism, the image-based world and advertising, is powerful and resonates with me. However their exaggerated tone has left them with many critics. Other theorists include Roland Barthes, whose writings on the image and the lies of photography have recently become of increased interest to me, and I want to read more of his works in the future. His concepts of semiotics and signs were very relevant to me this term in regards to the reading of the media image. Moreover, I am consumed by the train of thought reflecting the concept of ‘reality’: how everything around us is socially constructed.

Contemporary painters like Chantal Joffe, Makiki Kudo (as I have already mentioned), whose raw juxtaposition of colour on a surface is work which excites me most. Also, Joan Mitchell’s paintings, Monet’s waterlillies and Rauschenberg’s combines are very influential. Seeing the work in museums and galleries is highly important to me, as works can have an effect on you which you will not expect until you have witnessed them in real life. Moreover, seeing paintings by Armuld Jalut in Paris on the Fine Art Paris trip really confirmed my desire to paint, and gave me confidence in my final works.

What do you think is the most significant thing that has helped you during your time a UCA Farnham?

Being in such a creative environment, having conversation and debate with peers about art was significant. The opportunity to see people’s work develop as their knowledge and confidence grew. I think as well having my own knowledge develop from lectures and tutorials- when tutors encourage your processes, believe in you and your work it is important as a Fine Art student. Also when visiting artists come in and discuss your work with you was key, as well as having an insight into their journey as a practising artist from artist talks.

What did you learn from the process of producing your Farnham exhibition?

In the hanging of the degree show I learnt that less is more, to really consider the space, light and surroundings of the work, as the key in decision making. I learnt that to put on a degree show is a lot of work and teamwork is important!

What are you planning next?

Apart from exhibitions with UCA I have had two exhibitions this year so far, one in London and Amsterdam.  I am in a show called ‘doors in the wall’, at BEARSPACE gallery and Number 3 gallery London, Deptford, in June, which a group of us from Fine Art are organising. I am also currently applying to several open call competitions to show my final paintings. I am in the process of writing applications for residencies, one of which is in Melbourne for 2015 which sounds very exciting. In the long term I would like to do an MA in Fine Art, but I will need to work on my practice for a few years before I apply.

60 Second Interview from earlier in the year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQGRRl0FAdM

http://www.annagarrett.co.uk/