An opportunity to see and appraise the work of young emerging artists - full time BA undergraduate students in the Fine Art and the Visual and Performing Arts programmes. These students are approximately half way through their visual arts degree course at the University and this, for them, is their first opportunity to exhibit their work in fully professional gallery circumstances. The exhibition is curated and organised by the students themselves.
This second year show gives vital evidence of the strength and health of painting at the University of Brighton. This work of the artists ranges across many mediums and disciplines and yet for all its diversity constitutes an integrated and inspiring show.
See print in its diversity - from traditional etching through to state of the art digital printing. Subject matter and style are equally wide ranging. This show not only will intrigue and amuse but also aims to challenge the possibilities ofprintmaking in the 21st century. This is an exhibition of fourteen contemporaries working on age of visual saturation endeavouring to reflect upon a society driven by convenience and self-obsession. The collection of work is diverse, understandably as print finds itself caught between its traditional stereotypical over use. What is printmaking, what is art and who are all these people anyway?
"The Matchless Show" Critical Fine Art Practice students are constantly searching for new ways to make and present art.
Students of the Visual and Performing Arts courses at The University of Brighton (Dance and Visual Art, Theatre and Visual Art, Music and Visual Art) are showing a variety of works featuring video/audio installations, dance for camera, screen work, installation performance, live art and interactive performance work.
The University of Brighton’s level two Editorial Photography students present a group show bringing together many different styles and approaches to the medium of Photography. A wide spectrum of different genres are shown, from studio based and constructed work to various types of documentary. Through personal discovery and individual personalities this conceptual work comes together as an eclectic mix that takes the viewer on a visual journey. This show reinforces the Universities’ renowned reputation for producing some of the UK’s finest Photographers.
One of the photographers exhibiting is Richard Rowland who is undertaking a three year photographic documentary of the renovation of an old Grade II Regency hotel that for the past 25 years has been run as a hostel for the homeless. Photographically, he is looking at the renovation of the structure and the impact this has on the lives of those living there.
There is a massive physical change to the building, but equally there is a huge cultural change in the way the place is run, support given along with expectations of both staff and residents, as it’s dragged kicking and screaming into the modern era. The building has also had quite a chequered history, which Richard will be charting through research and interviews. Project funding has been confirmed from the English Heritage to the sum of £12,600 for this project.
Free entry, open Monday – Saturday 10am – 5pm (apart from 27 February when the gallery closes at 3pm)
