CHECKOUT - Year 2 Student Collaborative Weekly Exhibitions - 5

As part of the ongoing schedule of collaborative work that utilises the year 2 exhibition project space, this week students produced a sound piece.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gH1X5dP6ZQ  

GUSTAV METZGER AT UCA FARNHAM FINE ART

The BA (Hons) Fine Art course at  the University for the Creative Arts, based at it's Farnham campus, is very please to announce that it is working with the artist Gustav Metzger. The James Hockey Gallery at UCA Farnham will host an exhibition of Gustav Metzger's work and is developing other activities for students and the public in conjunction with this event. 

 

For the past six decades, Gustav Metzger’s art has responded to political, economic and ecological issues in the UK and around the world. 

From 7th March – 5th April 2014, he will be exhibiting a work built from a colossal stack of newspapers, ‘Mass Media: Today and Yesterday’, at James Hockey Gallery, UCA, Farnham. 

For the duration of the show, the public will be invited to interact with the work, selecting articles in response to the subject of extinction and pinning them to the gallery walls. To realise this work, we need thousands of newspapers – so we are asking you to collect papers from home and work and bring them to UCA’s Farnham campus.

Gustav states: 

“I want this work to be useful, to emphasise the dangerous environment in which we live - events of life and death that can lead to extinction. We don’t need big machines to move newspapers if you can help. To propagate this show we need as many students and staff to participate as possible.”

Links

http://radicalart.info/destruction/metzger.html

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/nov/26/gustav-metzger-null-object-robot

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/sep/28/gustav-metzger-auto-destructive

The Artist's Sketchbook

Some artist's sketchbooks grow to have monumental status such as those of Leonardo Di Vinci or Marcel Duchamp and the recent publication of Derek Jarman's sketchbooks. Some artists such as Francis Bacon claimed not to use them as part of their process (but secretly did). What is intriguing about the sketchbook is that is offers an insight into the artist's process and thoughts. The form the sketchbook takes, as a way of collating information and processing ideas is multifarious. 

At UCA Farnham all students are expected to develop research practice, whatever the form it takes; from a digital blog, to a place for taking notes, documenting process or trialling ideas and materials, to drawing.

Here are some of the pages from year 3 students studying Fine Art and Arts & Media at UCA Farnham.

Anna Milo

Miranda Harrison

Jasmine Rogers

Heidi Mellish

Eliel Jones Rando

Freya Morter