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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: Critical Writing Collective (C.A.Morgan)
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: Critical Writing Collective (C.A.Morgan)
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: Critical Writing Collective (C.A.Morgan)
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: Critical Writing Collective (C.A.Morgan)
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: Critical Writing Collective (C.A.Morgan)
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: Critical Writing Collective (C.A.Morgan)
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
BA Design
Goldsmiths, University of London, LONDON
1 January 1970
Degree Shows: Future Folk - Goldsmiths BA Design 2011 An extremely varied, thought-provoking and challenging show from the Goldsmiths BA Design and BEng/MEng Design Innovation 2011 graduating year. What initially struck design writer Rachel Read on…
Reviewed by: jotta .com
Posted: 2011-06-10
Fine Art (BA Hons)
Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
2 - 12 June 2011
Mark Lowe, 'Untitled' The striking element of Mark Lowe’s work is the ability to make an audience attentive to the details of a medium to which they are no doubt accustomed, but had previously ignored. Readily available white Read on…
Reviewed by: Charlotte Siddley
Posted: 2011-06-08
BA (hons) Fine Art
Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
2 - 12 June 2011
The Nottingham Trent University Fine Art Degree Shows repeatedly display a wealth of artistic talent yearly, with media ranging from technological and immersive audio visual pieces to clinical, process driven painting works. The scope in medium and Read on…
Reviewed by: Jolie Maidment
Posted: 2011-06-08
Fashion Business
Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow
26 May 2011
New York, the city that never sleeps. With countless songs written about the Big Apple, big Hollywood films shot there and thousands of pages of literature talking about the place, no wonder so many travel to see what it is about New York Read on…
Reviewed by: Shelley Queen
Posted: 2011-06-05
BA Fine Art
Slade, London
28 May - 2 June 2011
The Slade BA degree show really gets off on materials, room after room of playful responses to cement, scent, stuffed textiles, rotting timber: enjoyed for their own sakes, rather than exploited to render any particular ideas. Playful: vapid, even. Read on…
Reviewed by: Fiona Flynn
Posted: 2011-06-03
BA Hons Fine art
Northumbria, Newcastle
8 August 2010 - 16 January 2011
Ah the art of the post war era. A time when art was as caught up in rebuilding as the rest of the world. Currently, at the Baltic centre for contemporary art in Gateshead, is showing work from Anselm Keifer. One of the most foremost artists Read on…
Reviewed by: charlotte holmans
Posted: 2010-12-16
Fine Art BA (Hons)
Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
5 - 10 June 2010
Everything has exploded at Nottingham Trent. In a glorious culmination of three years blood, sweat and tears, artwork has erupted into all manner of manifestations. Like plumes of seeds dramatically fired from a bulrush, what has been Read on…
Reviewed by: Susie Cochrane
Posted: 2010-09-15
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Birmingham School of Fine Art, Birmingham
12 - 20 June 2010
There was an exciting range of art on show this year at the Birmingham School of Fine Art. There were artworks with a real sense of completion and others which had a delightfully playful sense of experimentation. Amongst this catalogue Read on…
Reviewed by: Gavin J R
Posted: 2010-06-20
Fine Art
Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
5 - 10 June 2010
A vast array of work graced the walls of the Nottingham Trent University studios-turned-gallery space between the 5th and 10th of June 2010. Graduating students staged an accumulation of well curated video, installation, painting and Read on…
Reviewed by: Hayley Boba
Posted: 2010-06-10