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The Middle Place
Malt Cross Gallery, Nottingham
25 February - 4 March 2013
Review of ‘The Middle Place’, featuring Lauren Halford The act of doing often works towards an outcome, yet there are times where the outcome emphasises and reveals more about the process taken in order to get there. Read on…
Reviewed by: Vivienne Du
Posted: 2013-02-27
Fine Art
Nottingham Trent Univeristy, Nottingham
12 - 17 February 2013
Process & Produce: Surface Gallery Hannah Florence Cresswell & Paige Ockendon. Critical Review: Upon walking into the exhibition, the relationship between both artists' context was apparent. The way in which the show was curated, Read on…
Reviewed by: Alexander Nicholas
Posted: 2013-02-18
The Coming Community Series: [Process and Produce: Promotion]
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
12 - 18 February 2013
'THE COMING COMMUNITY' SERIES @ Surface Gallery [Process and Produce: Promotion] The Coming Community exhibition series kick started with Process and Produce: Promotion, a collaborative partnership between artists Hannah Cresswell and Read on…
Reviewed by: Vivienne Du
Posted: 2013-02-17
BA Fine Art
Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
5 - 28 October 2012
When I visited the Nottingham Castle Open 2012, I was intending to see Alex Pain's work as I saw a film of his work and was interested, I did not think that I would stumble across a piece which took my inspiration and shook it all up. When entering Read on…
Reviewed by: Alisia Wilkins
Posted: 2012-11-02
Erik Kessels: Album Beauty
FOAM Gallery, Amsterdam
29 July - 14 October 2012
Walking into Erik Kessels exhibition; Album Beauty, I felt as though I had stepped into a giant photo album. I was immediately greeted with an array of larger than life images taken from Kessels vast collection of family photo albums. These Read on…
Reviewed by: Rachel Fenwick
Posted: 2012-10-31
UCA Farnham Fine Art BA
UCA Farnham, Surrey
8 - 15 June 2012
On the final day of the show, when it was quiet, I allowed myself a proper look around. The bright and airy Hockey Gallery serves as the showcase arena displaying selected work from the artists collections whilst the rest Read on…
Reviewed by: Jo Farnell
Posted: 2012-06-26
BA Fine Art: Contemporary Practices and BA Writing
University College Falmouth, Falmouth
13 - 17 June 2012
Contexture is the degree showing of work by the final graduating cohorts of the awards BA (Hons) Fine Art: Contemporary Practices and BA (Hons) Writing at University College Falmouth. The work in Contexture is distributed between two Read on…
Reviewed by: Mark Leahy
Posted: 2012-06-19
BA Fine Art
Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
25 May - 3 June 2012
Miami Slice (Mixed Media) Bombarding (bombastic). How very bombastic. Fantastic, in the more formal use of the word: bizarre or exotic, alluding to somewhere else; in this case a diner, nothing finer. An American diner: a no-grease, Read on…
Reviewed by: Beth Kettel
Posted: 2012-06-12
MA Fine Arts
University of Bolton, Bolton
18 May - 17 June 2012
‘Encompass’ It’s difficult to isolate one element in this interim exhibition of University of Bolton MA students work (they will be showing at the University in September) as the key Read on…
Reviewed by: Tracie Shaylor
Posted: 2012-05-24
BA Fine Art
Coleg Menai, Bangor
20 September 2010 - 7 July 2011
What’s Blogging Ever Done For Us? – Antonia Dewhurst To say that at the beginning of September 2010 I didn’t know what a blog was would be a bit of an exaggeration, but not much of one; I had never read one, let Read on…
Reviewed by: Antonia Dewhurst
Posted: 2011-09-26
Degrees Unedited Review
Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham
10 May 2010 - 17 July 2011
I tried various things whilst trying to write this review of my experiences blogging with Degrees Unedited; I tried to write about what a great community of young artistic talent it is, I tried to write about how it helped me become aware that the Read on…
Reviewed by: Ryan Hughes
Posted: 2011-09-13
BA Fine Art
Coleg Menai, Bangor
11 June 2011
Degree shows are not remotely the first port of call for someone looking to develop some critical writing. They come with all the messy realities that attach to practices in development. There are no incremental public validations over time. No Read on…
Reviewed by: Anders Pleass
Posted: 2011-07-15
BA Fine art Painting
University of the Arts London - Wimbledon, London
17 June - 23 July 2011
Darius Lambert Miniscus. oil on linen. 177 x 127.5 cm These beautiful paintings by Darius Lambert of potted plants were beautiful. Typically familiar to us as house plants, in this painting they are unnaturally planted into a very fake earth. Read on…
Reviewed by: Theresa Bruno
Posted: 2011-07-12
Summer Show 2011 // Bradford School of Arts & Media.
Bradford College, Bradford
17 - 23 June 2011
Review by Bhavani Esapathi. Bradford School of Arts & Media – that’s what it’s called, simple and neat. Entering the Lister Building, which looks nothing other than a monument by itself you realize the magnitude of using the Read on…
Reviewed by: Charlotte A Morgan (COPY)
Posted: 2011-07-11
One Eye See // MA/MFA Show
University of Leeds, Leeds
1 - 6 July 2011
Review by Aymee Smith. A degree show is a peculiar phenomenon; something all artists must pass through, a rite of passage into the art world; it is also, for most artists, the only time when they will have such control over the exhibiting of Read on…
Reviewed by: Charlotte A Morgan (COPY)
Posted: 2011-07-11
Create 11 // BA (Hons) Theatre
York St John University, York
19 May - 4 June 2011
Joanna Loveday talks to David Richmond, Head of Programme BA (Hons) Theatre at York St John University, about Create, the degree show festival at York St John University, where theatre graduates present work alongside visual arts, design, and film Read on…
Reviewed by: Charlotte A Morgan (COPY)
Posted: 2011-07-11
White Sky Thinking // BA Fine Art/Contemporary Arts
University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield
18 - 24 June 2011
Review by Alice Bradshaw The University of Huddersfield's BA Fine Art / Contemporary Arts Degree Show White Sky Thinking, housed in the Technology Building of the Queensgate Campus, features 27 new graduates from the former Fine Art BA, now the Read on…
Reviewed by: Charlotte A Morgan (COPY)
Posted: 2011-07-11
Creative Spark // BA Contemporary Fine Art and Creative Art Practice
Sheffield Hallam University and S1 Artspace, Sheffield
9 July 2010 - 25 June 2011
Review by Elizabeth Hardwick. The Creative Spark exhibition boasts everything you would expect from an undergraduate degree show; variety, exploration and keenness to succeed. Split over two sites, S1 Artspace and Arundel Gate Court, it displays Read on…
Reviewed by: Charlotte A Morgan (COPY)
Posted: 2011-07-11
Graphic Design Graduate Show 2011
University of Leeds, Leeds
13 June - 17 July 2011
Review by Rebecca England. Every year the University of Leeds produces graduates in a number of art and design disciplines, culminating in the final year degree shows. These students are just a few out of the activity occurring in Leeds thanks to Read on…
Reviewed by: Charlotte A Morgan (COPY)
Posted: 2011-07-11
Fine Art
Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
2 - 12 June 2011
Transformation of the unethical gestation HYO JUNG KIM I can’t sense the walls; get a steady footing; see a floor. Canal boats. Shipping liners. Reflections seem to ripple. A dim lighting assumes night clubs, Read on…
Reviewed by: Alice Gale-Feeny
Posted: 2011-07-06
ba(hons) fine art
southampton solent university, southampton
10 - 17 June 2011
Siting the degree show in a deserted shopping mall placed it in the now - the use of ‘empty spaces’, particularly retail units, places the work in a political arena, commenting on the climate in which these new art makers need to find Read on…
Reviewed by: Sarah Filmer
Posted: 2011-07-05
RCA Show 2011 - Fine Art Battersea
Royal College of Art, London
24 June - 3 July 2011
The 2011 RCA Show has all the trade marks of an old hand at play, featuring the Sculpture, Print Making, Painting and Photography departments showing for the first time together in Battersea. It didn't suffer the sometimes disparate display’s Read on…
Reviewed by: Heidi Kayla
Posted: 2011-07-04
BA Hons Fine Art
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
18 - 25 June 2011
Last week, Stephen Farthing said ‘art school can’t make anyone a good artist. A good artist happens to you.’ Art school can help, of course. But something is required of the individual. The degree show at Chelsea College Read on…
Reviewed by: Jenny Evans
Posted: 2011-06-29
BA Fine Art
Nottingham Trent, Nottingham
2 - 12 June 2011
Half way this year’s Nottingham Trent Fine Art degree show exhibition I came upon the intricate work of Rachel Wing who specialises in pen and ink drawings. Her piece in the show was based on observations she had made whilst on a walk in the Read on…
Reviewed by: Holly O'Meara
Posted: 2011-06-28
GSA Fine Art Degree Show 2011
Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
11 June 2011 to 18 June 2011
Perusing the offerings of tomorrow’s art stars is always overwhelming. The Skinny makes its annual pilgrimage to the Central Belt degree shows, hoping to emerge with some senses intact It’s Degree Show time again at Glasgow School of Read on…
Reviewed by: Jac Mantle
Posted: 2011-06-27
BA Criticism, Curation and Communication
Central Saint Martins, London
20 - 23 June 2011
Defining what to expect from Central Saint Martins’s BA Criticism, Communication and Curation degree show was not easy at all: Fine Arts, or any other visual arts branch, are all about creating and exhibiting, but From Work To Text’s Read on…
Reviewed by: jotta .com
Posted: 2011-06-24
Slade School of Art - MA/MFA 2011
UCL, London
16 - 22 June 2011
The annual art school degree shows throw up some of the most experimental and bewildering art around. True to form, this year’s Slade MA/MFA presents a rambling yet revealing survey of a new generation of artists. Unshackled from curatorial Read on…
Reviewed by: jotta .com
Posted: 2011-06-23
BA Fine Art
Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff
18 - 24 June 2011
In the summer of 1966[1], Cardiff School of Art and Design (or rather, Cardiff College of Art and Design as it was then known) was celebrating the end of its first academic year based at its new Howard Gardens location. The 45 years since Read on…
Reviewed by: Tom Bromwell
Posted: 2011-06-21
EXIT: BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree Show
University Campus Suffolk, Ipswich
8 - 19 June 2011
EXIT: BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree Show, University Campus Suffolk Jo Mayhew How do you enter a show called EXIT? I am exiting from the real world and entering into the realms of this years graduating Fine Art students, arriving just in time to see Read on…
Reviewed by: Jo Mayhew
Posted: 2011-06-20
Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design
London Metropolitan University, London
15 - 19 June 2011
The 2011 London Metropolitan Cass Summer Show, one of the largest showcases of graduates, is on this week until June 19. The exhibition showcases works by 800 graduates from the Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design, from a range of Read on…
Reviewed by: jotta .com
Posted: 2011-06-17