UCA Farnham Fine Art Exhibition - FUTURITY

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

Gianna Grassi
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Year 3 

Jake Vella

BA (Hons) Fine Art

Year 2

Beth Reed
Foundation Diploma Fine Art

Carlie Simpkin

BA (Hons) Fine Art

Year 3

Erna Hulstein

BA (Hons) Fine Art

Year 3

Edison Ma
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Year 1

UCA Farnham Fine Art Year 2 Student Professional Practice

More UCA Farnham Fine Art students talk about their professional practice experiences whilst in Year 2 in this ongoing series of posts.

UCA Farnham Fine Art - Futurity Preparation Begins!

Today students from across UCA Farnham Fine Art from courses spanning Further Education, BA and MA worked together with curator Richard Hylton and a team of dedicated technicians to start the installation of their exhibition Futurity. 

This exciting opportunity for UCA Farnham Fine Art students utilises 5 exhibition spaces across the campus and builds upon their previous exhibition experiences of the past year. It enables students to also further test and strengthen their ideas in advance of their final year campus and external London exhibitions. 

The exhibition Futurity opens later this week.

Chris Jones & Matt Gee at UCA Farnham Fine Art This Week

This week as students enter their final term, they have artists Chris Jones and UCA Farnham Fine Art Alumni Matt Gee to support the realisation of their work.

Chris Jones

https://vimeo.com/50928559


Matt Gee

Currently has an exhibition of new work at Husk Gallery & Project Space, London.

http://www.mattgeeartist.com

Grant Petrey in Experiments in Cinema International Film Festival 2015, New Mexico, USA

This week UCA Farnham Fine Art tutor, Grant Petrey, has work screening at Experiments in Cinema 2015, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. The festival of experimental moving image and installation is screened throughout venues in Albuquerque and organised by Basement Films, the Department of Cinematic Arts at the University of New Mexico and the National Endowment for the Arts, USA.

http://experimentsincinema.org

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - RAW ART

UCA Farnham Fine Art student, Julia Keenan, who is currently in her final year, has work in the group show RAW ART from 14th - 18th April at the Menier Gallery, London. 

Julia Keenan

Aside from exhibiting on 5 separate occasions within UCA Farnham's gallery & project spaces, this is Julia's 3rd external professional exhibition this academic year.


Peter Hanmer, Lizy Bending & Charlotte Johnson who graduated last year from UCA Farnham Fine Art are also exhibiting work.

Peter Hanmer

This is Peter's 6th exhibition within the last year.

http://www.peterhanmer.com


Lizy Bending

English Disco Loves Installation

This is Lizy's 16th exhibition since graduating last summer!


Charlotte Johnson

This is Charlotte's 4th exhibition since graduating last summer.

What Are UCA Farnham Fine Art Students Reading in the Studios?

As students enter the final all important 3rd term of this academic year, we take a look as some of the things they are referring to to inform the development of their work.

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Alison Carlier

Alison Carlier the winner of the national touring exhibition the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2014, graduated from UCA Farnham Fine Art in 2002. Alison currently has work exhibited in the Drawing Biennial 2015 at the Drawing Room gallery, London until May.

http://drawingroom.org.uk

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Adam Kelly

UCA Farnham Fine Art student, Adam Kelly who graduated in 2012, recently had work in the show of painting "Citrus Lush Bongo Salon" from February throughout March in Tan Like That, Gospel Oak, London.

http://www.adam-kelly.com

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Pursuit of Perfection Exhibition at Darnley Gallery

As part of ongoing professional practice studies at UCA Farnham Fine Art, a collective of stage 2 students have curated an exhibition of artist's works at the Darnley Gallery, East London.

The exhibition features, amongst others the work of Austrian artist Klaus Pinter and Puerto Rican artist, Jennifer Kaplan-Ortiz and is open from 10th until 17th April.

UCA Farnham Student Success at Galleria Esodo, Italy

UCA Farnham Fine Art students currently studying in their final year have work in a group exhibition "Of the Everyday Wondering" at Galleria Esodo in Italy.

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7 students comprised of; Sophie Crisp, Gianna Grassi, Clair Griffin, Bridie Mason, Laura Olohan, Tayla Pilgrim, Henry Pucknell are exhibiting work from 4th April until 11th and is part of ongoing professional practice developed at UCA Farnham Fine Art that all students engage with.

http://www.bridiemason.co.uk

https://lauraolohan.wordpress.com

UCA Farnham Fine Art Exhibition - FUTURITY

Students studying Fine Art at UCA Farnham across Foundation, BA (Hons) Fine Art and MA Fine Art, submitted exhibition proposals for an open call exhibition to showcase their talents.  

70 applications were received proposing 140 words in total, and from these high quality submissions the curatorial panel had the difficult task of putting together the exhibition. 23 works were chosen and the  exhibition will open on Thursday 17th April, utilising 5 exhibition spaces across the Farnham campus.

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Sally de Courcy

UCA Farnham Fine Art student, Sally de Courcy has work exhibited in Funny Ha Ha at Burghley House, Hertfordshire. The exhibition is open from April until October. 

http://www.burghley.co.uk

http://www.sallydecourcy.webeden.co.uk