Grammar, Nonsense, Imagination: Exhibition 2 [PAVA]


‘Grammar, Nonsense and Imagination’ is an exhibition of second year student work at the University of Brighton Gallery from the Performance and Visual Art programme and Fine Art Printmaking course.

Performance and Visual Art, dance, music and theatre pathways invite you to explore a collection of dynamic and vivid interdisciplinary works in the form of installations, live performance, interactive sculptures, photography, moving image and sound works which challenge discipline boundaries and offer varied ways for audiences to engage with artworks. Fine Art Printmaking student work blurs the edges between old and new assimilating an array of practices including speculations around drawing, collage, the photographic, book-works and digital technologies, to form new approaches to a timeless and evolving craft.  

Dare to take a challenge with River Jade’s hanging installation or confront the live being in Martha Mosse’s performance and moving image installation. Take part in the interactive questioning of the power of surveillance in Lucy Abel’s online narrative. Confront the face of society in Rebecca Mann’s portraits or contemplate how sound shifts our perception of the intricate drawings of Rebecca Davies. Take a journey though Melissa Campbell’s manipulated landscapes or into the private domestic world of Penny Long’s screen and sound installation.  

In response to Wittgenstein’s philosophical ideas Performance and Visual Art and Fine Art Printmaking students investigate the language of their disciplines, exploring the creative act of nonsense to ignite the imagination. 

Wittgenstein proposed that our understanding of the world could be defined by the study of language, illustrating that philosophy was an activity like any other and perhaps closer to the arts and sciences. He places nonsense between grammar and imagination as a creative act, which is distinguishable from mere gibberish. It is language that links thought with reality and imagination, initiating a private language that includes the visual arts going beyond the limit of language and thought.  Barry Barker, Principal Research Fellow, University of Brighton 

Exhibition opening times: Monday – Saturday 10.00am - 5.00pm

Performance and Visual Art, Stephanie Lawerence email: stephiel_19@hotmail.co.uk

Fine Art: Printmaking, Megan Hopkins email: megshopkins@hotmail.co.uk

Image: Emma Denmark