UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Flo Yapp

UCA Farnham Fine Art student, Flo Yapp who graduated just over a year ago has relocated to Somerset now that she is working for the prestigious international gallery Hauser & Wirth, who have galleries in London, New York, Zurich & Somerset.

Over the past year since graduating Flo has curated the exhibition Fresh is More at the APG in Sheffield, completed an artist residency at 44AD Studio and curating the exhibition Pretty in Pink at the Roper Gallery as well working with the prestigious Arnolfini Gallery in Bath and having work in the Bath Arts Open 2015.

http://www.floyapp.com

http://www.hauserwirth.com

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Timothy Holt

UCA Farnham Fine Art student Timothy Holt, who graduated in 2011, has an exhibition in Bristol at The Gallery, The Island entitled Bags for Life. The exhibition encompasses performative sculpture in response to household items. The exhibition opens on 22nd August.

http://www.theislandbristol.com

http://www.timothyholt.co.uk/bagsforlife/

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 - Peter Hanmer

UCA Farnham Fine Art student, Peter Hanmer who graduated just over a year ago has work currently being exhibited in London at in a sculpture exhibition "Double Tree" at Hilton Docklands. 



Peter has 2 works "Regressive Flight" and Impending Desolation" being exhibited for the next 6 months.
This is Peters 9th exhibition since graduation.

http://www.peterhanmer.com

UCA Farnham Student Success - James Johns in BBC Float Art London 2015

UCA Farnham Fine Art student, James Johns, who graduated last month in the class of 2015, is another student who has reached the final of Float Art  London 2015, that is part of the BBC Arts Get Creative Project. 

James along with Julia Keenan and  Max Leach is 1 of 50 finalists from graduate entries across the country with his bronze sculptures. The exhibition will take place in October at OXO on London's South Bank. By being shortlisted James, Julia and Max have the chance to win the £3,000 Float Art London Prize as well as exhibit their work and gain increased exposure.

This is James' 4th gallery exhibition within the past year.

http://www.floatart.co.uk

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Mervenil Emiroglu

UCA Farnham Fine Art student, Merve Emiroglu who graduated just over a year ago in the class of 2014, has her first solo exhibition. The exhibition of multi media work that encompasses object, painting and drawing, takes place at the Boundary Road Gallery at Studio 3 Arts in Barking, London.

http://www.mervenilemiroglu.com

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Julia Keenan in BBC Float Art London 2015

UCA Farnham Fine Art student, Julia Keenan, who graduated last month in the class of 2015, is another student who has reached the final of Float Art  London 2015, that is part of the BBC Arts Get Creative Project. 

Julia along with Max Leach is 1 of 50 finalists from graduate entries across the country with her bronze sculptures. The exhibition will take place in October at OXO on London's South Bank. By being shortlisted Julia has the chance to win the £3,000 Float Art London Prize.

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

http://www.floatart.co.uk

Grant Petrey in ACM Siggraph 2015 at the Los Angeles Convention Centre, California

UCA Farnham Fine Art tutor, Grant Petrey has work screening at Siggraph 2015 - The 42nd International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques,
at the Los Angeles Convention Centre, California, USA from the 9th - 13th August.

The video work, Filament (2014) was curated by Kathy Rae Huffman for Enhanced Vision taking part in conjunction with ACM Siggraph 2015 & Digital Arts Community.

http://s2015.siggraph.org

http://enhanced-vision.siggraph.org/wp/curators-statement/

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Global News Coverage for Hilde Krohn Ruse

As reported earlier UCA Farnham Fine Art student, Hilde Krohn Huse who graduated on 2012 has been selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015 from a very competitive field. Hilde's work "Hanging in the Woods" will be exhibited at the ICA London and then tour the UK.

The story of Hilde's work broke last week and went viral, but this week sees her gaining coverage in over 200 publications world wide!  Including being interviewed by The Times, BBC Radio and closing the BBC's flagship current affairs review programme Newsnight.

Just some links to this viral story are included below.

BBC Newsnight
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0643lj4 

BBC Radio 5
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02y2b7v

The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/naked-artist-left-dangling-from-tree-by-foot-wins-prize-for-performance-piece-10407156.html

The Mirror

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/naked-artist-left-hanging-upside-down-6112693

The Daily Record

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/weird-news/naked-artist-left-hanging-upside-down-6112693

and  The Daily Star

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/455157/Film-student-naked-accident

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Max Leach in Final of BBC FloatArt London 2015

UCA Farnham Fine Art student, Max Leach, who graduated last month in the class of 2015, has reached the final of FloatArt  London 2015, that is part of the BBC Arts Get Creative Project. 

Max is 1 of 50 finalist from graduate entries across the country with his artist film Chit Chat (2014) that was exhibited in the exhibition Consume in the Foyer Hockey Gallery earlier this year. By being shortlisted Max has the change to win the £3,000 Float Art London Prize.

http://www.floatart.co.uk

http://www.max-leach.com

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Julia Keenan

UCA Farnham Fine Art student, Julia Keenan who graduated in the class of 2015 last month is working with V & P Tassis Art Foundry in Athens. 

A representative from the Art Foundry approached Julia during her campus graduate exhibition at UCA Farnham and invited her to work with them for the the production of new work. 

Julia's post media installation included bronze casts that were made in UCA Farnham's excellent casting facilities.

http://www.vptassis.gr

http://www.degreeart.com/abstract-photography/signature-art-prize-2015/sake-species-julia-keenan

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Menier Gallery Exhibition

UCA Farnham Fine Art students, Lizy, Bending, Charlotte Johnson, Peter Hanmer and Morwenna Lake have work in the Summer Exhibition at the Menier Gallery in South London. The students who graduated 1 year ago have all gone on to have success with residencies and exhibition opportunities. 

Lizy has exhibited 20 times since graduating and completed 2 artist residencies within the past year!
Charlotte has exhibited on 9 occasions since graduating.
Peter has exhibited work in 8 exhibitions, including at The Discerning Eye at the Mall Galleries, London.
Morwenna has exhibited in 9 exhibition within the past year.

The exhibition opens on 28th July

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Mario Varas Sanchez

UCA Farnham Fine Art student, Mario Varas Sanchez who graduated in 2014 has work exhibited in the group exhibition "Office Sessions" in Beak Street, Soho, London. 

The exhibition takes place with a collective of creative practitioners who utilise disused spaces and transform them into galleries to exhibit work and make site based work in response to the location.

The exhibition opens on 28th July, 40 Beak Street, Soho, W1F 9RQ

Over the past year since graduating Mario has worked extensively with ArtHouse1 gallery in Bermondsey and built up a network to assist and work with a range of successful artists in London.

http://www.mariovarassanchez.com

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Richard Goold & Lottie Jackson Eeles

UCA Farnham Fine Art student, Richard Goold who graduated in 2012 and Lottie Jackson Eeles who graduated in 2010 have been selected for the Griffin Gallery 2015 Open. 

The exhibition is open from 23rd July until 21st August in London. Richard was also put forward for the Winsdor & Newton Painting Prize 2015 as part of the exhibition and was highly commandant with 2nd place. Lottie was put forward for the Conte a Paris Drawing Prize and also received a highly commended 2nd place.

This is Richard’s 13 exhibition or residency since graduation and it is Lotte’s 10th, as well as being included in the finalist for the Jerwood Drawing Prize touring exhibitions on two occasions.

https://griffingallery.co.uk/exhibitions/griffin-gallery-open

http://www.richardgoold.co.uk

http://www.lottieje.com

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Alison McFadden Wins Ingot Prize 2015

UCA Farnham Fine Art student, Alison McFadden who is currently studying in year 2 of the MA in Fine Art has won the Ingot Prize 2015. 

Alison's work has been selected by a panel that included artist Daniel Silver to be 1 of 2 recipients of the prize who will have their work fabricated in bronze and exhibited at Robert Bowman Sculpture in Mayfair, London.

http://www.londonbronzecasting.com/ingot-prize/4588419502

UCA Farnham Fine Art Year 2 Interview - Jake Vella

UCA Farnham Fine Art student, Jake Vella from Year 2 outlines his experiences in the studio this year.

UCA Farnham Student Success - Hilde Krohn Huse

UCA Farnham Fine Art student, Hilde Krohn Huse, who graduated in 2012 has been selected for the Bloomberg new Contemporaries 2015. 

Her film Hanging in the Woods is currently causing a stir online with many news sites including The Observer and rather bizarrely The Daily Mail, reporting on Hilde's film and her success.

http://observer.com/2015/07/girl-interrupted-art-piece-traps-naked-student/

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Iklectikartlab Exhibition

A collective of students currently studying at UCA Farnham Fine Art and former graduates from 2015 and 2014, have work exhibited in London at Ikelectiartlab. 

The exhibition DISRUPTIVE includes the work of Alison McFadden, Ella Trouwee, Chloe Napier and Morwenna Lake and is open from 14th until 19th July

http://iklectikartlab.com

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Eliel Jones

UCA Farnham Fine Art student Eliel Jones, who graduated just over a year ago has returned to the UK after spending a year at Dallas Museum of Art in an education and interpretation role. Eliel returns to work on a project at The Atkinson for a few months before heading off to Edinburgh for postgraduate study.

http://www.theatkinson.co.uk/events/sea-change/


https://twitter.com/elieljonesr

Paul Vivian in Plymouth Contemporary Open 2015

UCA Farnham Fine Art course leader, Paul Vivian has work in this years Plymouth Contemporary Open 2015 at Peninsula Arts Gallery. The exhibition opens on 11th July until 29th August.

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/your-university/peninsula-arts/plymouth-contemporary-open

http://www.paulvivianstudio.com

UCA Farnham Fine Art Year 3 Interviews - Max Leach

UCA Farnham Year 3 BA (Hons) Fine Art student, Max Leach outlines what his time has Farnham has given him in this short clip.

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Laura Olohan

Laura Olohan Performing for artist Paul Kindersley, 2014

UCA Farnham Fine Art student, Laura Olohan who graduated last week as part of the class of 2015, moves into an assistant curator role at the prestigious Oriel Davies Gallery in Cardiff. 

Laura's success comes after building a network of experiences linked to professional practice throughout her time at UCA Farnham Fine Art where she worked continuously with Transition Gallery and worked with a host of artists and other UCA external projects.

http://www.orieldavies.org

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 - Timothy Holt

UCA Farnham Fine Art student, Timothy Holt who graduated in 2008 has work exhibited at Bloc Projects Gallery in Sheffield in the exhibition Up, Down, Side to Side.

http://www.updownsidetoside.co.uk

UCA Farnham Fine Art Student Success - Cathryn Quail

UCA Farnham Fine Art student Cathryn Quail has been accepted to study an MRes at the Lux, Artist's Moving Image. Cathryn's achievement is impressive given there studentships are limit to just 7 places.

"LUX is an international arts agency for the support and promotion of artists’ moving image practice and the ideas that surround it. LUX exists to provide access to, and develop audiences for, artists' moving image work; to provide professional development support for artists working with the moving image; and to contribute to and develop discourse around practice."

http://lux.org.uk/about/about-lux