UCA is UK's Highest Ranking Specialist Creative Arts University 2015!

University for the Creative Arts has been named the UK's highest ranking specialist creative arts university by The Complete University Guide 2015.

Image: UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Exhibition; "Futurity", James Hockey Gallery. 2015

http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/news/2015/april/UCA-becomes-highest-ranking-creative-arts-university#.VVW_4xYhEds

UCA Farnham Graduate Campus Show 2015!

May 22nd sees the opening of the University for the Creative Arts graduate exhibition 2015. The exhibition at the Farnham Campus will showcase the range of creative honours degrees that includes BA (Hons) Fine Art.  Ambitious Fine Art students will be holding another exhibition in London in June.

http://graduationshows.ucreative.ac.uk/event/farnham-graduation-show-2015/

UCA Farnham Fine Art Year 3 Dissertations

Year 3 Farnham BA (Hons) Fine Art students give a brief synopsis of the dissertation topic research and process.

UCA Farnham Fine Art Year 3 Dissertations

More Year 3 UCA Farnham BA (Hons) Fine Art students give an outline of their dissertation subjects and the research that informed their work.

Mathew Weir & Sigrid Holmwood at UCA Farnham Fine Art This Week!

This week sees two visiting artists Mathew Weir and Sigrid Holmwood, who specialise in painting come to UCA Farnham Fine Art to talk about their practice and approach to making, as well as support students with individual tutorial.


Mathew Weir

Artist Profile

http://www.alisonjacquesgallery.com/artists/38-Mathew-Weir/overview/



Sigrid Holmwood

Artist Profile


http://www.annelyjudafineart.co.uk/artists/sigrid-holmwood

Cecilia Bonilla at UCA Farnham Fine Art Today!

Reader's Wive's Bedsheets (Small Broken Airplane) 2006

Artist Cecilia Bonilla is at UCA Farnham Fine Art today to talk about her practice and also support students in the development of their work. 

http://www.ceciliabonilla.com

What Are Students Reading in the Studios?

A selection of just some of the reading material that students are engaging with in the studios to inform the development of their practice across UCA Farnham Fine Art.

Gustav Metzger - Facing Extinction, Serpentine Gallery & UCA Farnham Fine Art Students

An ongoing project started in 2012 between UCA Farnham Fine Art and the artist Gustav Metzger, continues this weekend with a collaboration between the Serpentine Gallery, London and UCA Farnham Fine Art students.

Gustav Metzger, James Hockey Gallery UCA Farnham. 2014

Gustav Metzger was a visiting artist at UCA Farnham in 2012 and then worked closely with the fine art team to initiate the Facing Extinction project. 

Metzger's participatory work, "Mass Media: Today & Tomorrow" was exhibited in the James Hockey Gallery in Farnham earlier this year. Metzger came again to speak to UCA Farnham Fine Art students about the importance of Walter Benjamin's work and talk about the importance of art with an agenda of cultural critique and political change.

Gustav Metzger. Mass Media: Today & Tomorrow. 2014. UCA Farnham

Following the exhibition UCA Farnham Fine Art lecturer, Andrea Gregson worked closely with curator Rose Lejeune and Gustav to convene and curate the Facing Extinction Conference at UCA Farnham.

This week "Mass Media: Today & Tomorrow" returns to UCA to take a digital form as Fine Art students from Farnham will engage with the artwork for that will be then streamed live to the Serpentine Gallery as part of the 2 day Facing Extinction Marathon event.

gustavmetzgerucafarnham.wordpress.com

http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/gustav-metzger-mass-media-todayandyesterdaycouk 

UCA Farnham Fine Art Year 2 Student Work in the Studios

In their second week of this term, here is some of the work being developed by year 2 students in the studios, ahead of their first exhibition that will be curated next week.

UCA Farnham Fine Art Year 1 Students in the Studio

UCA Farnham Fine Art students in Year 1, have now spent their 1st week in the studios developing work for their 2nd exhibition this semester in a few weeks time. Here is just some of the starting points of work that has been produced this week.