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The Never Ending Multi-story
Airspace, Stoke-on-Trent
21 November - 18 December 2009
The Never Ending Multi-Story - Airspace The Never Ending Multi-Story is a collaboration of four artists, each exploring the idea of alternative existences to that which they have become accustom to. With each artist recently graduating Read on…
Reviewed by: Stacey Booth
BA Hons Fine Art
Nottingham Trent, Nottingham
29 - 30 October 2009
Hidden in the white walls at the heart of the Bonnington Building, Nottingham, Caroline Black’s delicate weaves of white cotton hang, motionless. Intricately sewn, these small silhouettes blend into the unwavering white wall from which they Read on…
Reviewed by: Hayley Boba
Contemporary fine art (Mart)
Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield
6 October 2009 - 3 January 2010
Turner prize 2009 Tate Britain Atists:Lucy Skaer, Richard Wright, Enrico David and Roger Hiorns They climbed through the curves of her chairs: Pressed, printed, tacked to the walls, contours of interior space. A mission to recreate the Read on…
Reviewed by: Pippa Lennox
Slowly Through Eden
The Arena, Liverpool
19 - 26 November 2008
Slowly through Eden It was a wet windy day when I set out on my quest to review the works of the recently graduated four artists from LJMU 2009. I have seen their work before and knew the artist by first name, but I was still curious to see Read on…
Reviewed by: Collette Rothnie
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Nottingham Trent, Nottingham
6 - 11 June 2009
Showcasing the delights of 3rd year students, the Nottingham Trent Fine Art Degree Show cumulates what these young artists have been carefully rearing for three years and what a show it is! Loucia Serghiou’s artwork is a prime example Read on…
Reviewed by: Chloe Morley
Marl Hole
Airspace, Stoke-on-Trent
3 - 31 October 2009
The concept of Marl Hole was to challenge the traditional ideas and methods that have been applied to clay, and demonstrate a fresh approach to the material whilst using very primitive techniques. Neil Brownsword, Alexandra Engelfriet, Read on…
Reviewed by: Stacey Booth
Fine Art, Fine Art and History of Art, Textiles
Goldsmiths, London
18 - 22 June 2009
This time last year I wrote of the problems set before the visitor to a degree show; the pitfalls of trying to piece together a show where the work is connected on the shoestring that is the nature of a graduating cohort. This was in reference Read on…
Reviewed by: Dan Green
In hindsight, it was a small piece of me.
Nottingham Trent, Nottingham
18 - 19 August 2009
I will admit that I began the Degrees Unedited blog in a bought of self promotion. The idea was to place my name on a website with some pedigree within the incomprehensibly gargantuan cyber world. This, I considered, was an unmissable Read on…
Reviewed by: Dan Green
Degrees Unedited BLOGS Review
Wirral Metropolitan College, Birkenhead
1 September 2008 - 30 June 2009
Blog – a web log, a shared on-line journal where people can post diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies; postings on a blog are usually in chronological order. In order to write a review about the Degrees Unedited Read on…
Reviewed by: Carol Ramsay
BA (various - Interactive Arts, Photography, Design)
Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester
20 - 29 June 2009
I went to Manchester and I found a large white space, sophisticated degree work, projects which clearly had been loved and laboured and so many instances of students putting themselves into their work and remembering their audience. I visited Read on…
Reviewed by: Bec Garland
BA FINE ART
UNIVERSITY of SUNDERLAND, SUNDERLAND
19 - 26 June 2009
Degree shows are all the same; everyone moving slowly around - lone molecules careful not to bump into one another incase of some uncontrolled natural response. There's an air of pain; the very best work of three years stripped of the magical Read on…
Reviewed by: Rikki Blythe
Ceramics
University of Westminster, London
10 - 15 June 2009
Horses Make a Degree Show Look More Beautiful Harrow Ceramics Degree Show 2009Plagued, first by fire, then by threats of closure and, finally, by tube strikes, Harrow Ceramics marches on undaunted. This was certainly one of the most varied of their Read on…
Reviewed by: Claudia Clare
BA Fine Art & BA Art, Philosopy, Contemporary Practices
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art adn Design, Dundee
22 May - 6 June 2009
Punctuality has never been one of my strongest suits, but even I was surprised when I turned up for the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Degree Show 2009 a day early. Returning for the private view the following evening attributing my Read on…
Reviewed by: John Routledge
Ba (Hons) Fine art
Nottingham Trent, Nottingham
6 - 11 June 2009
Meg TaitWell Hung The performance starts off with the space in which she is given, with this elegantly constructed hoist suspended in the middle of the room, with the title 'well hung' on the side of the wall for all to see. Read on…
Reviewed by: John Harris
BA(Hons) Fine Art
Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
6 - 11 June 2009
Show Off The Degree Show for Fine Art, a chance to exhibit work as it would be presented in a gallery, something you work towards for the three years of your university education. To find a balance between showing off work to its full Read on…
Reviewed by: Victoria Smith
Fine Art BA (Hons)
Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
6 - 11 June 2009
Samuel Minton, The Protagonist(s), Installation My friend told me that he didn’t like to spend any time in Samuel Minton’s artificial living room. Apparently he found it very gloomy, but I didn’t. I found Read on…
Reviewed by: Peter Stonhold
Ba Hons Fine Art
Nottingham Trent, Nottingham
5 - 11 June 2009
Nottingham Trent Degree Show 2009 Nottingham Trent’s graduating Fine Artists exhibited their work this week. Displaying a large number of high quality works. There were a number of successes within the show. Samuel Minton’s Read on…
Reviewed by: Jennifer Ross
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
6 - 11 June 2009
This year’s fine art degree show expresses some inspiring work, exhibiting a vast spectrum of individual practices. These range from Anna K. Stippa’s giant sculptural work ‘Self Inhibited’ which seems to climb out of the Read on…
Reviewed by: Jack Narewski
BA Fine Art
Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
7 - 12 June 2009
Being a first year student, I was filled with a sense of excitement when visiting the end of year degree show; after all, this is where I can expect to be at the end of my educational life at Nottingham Trent University. ‘this is where I am Read on…
Reviewed by: Ross Smith
BA Hons Fine Art
Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
6 - 11 June 2009
There are many illusions about the purpose of art, such as that it aught to fulfil the list of options Microsoft Word's synonyms tool gives you for 'awe-inspiring'. The easy opt is to painstakingly recount emotional or psychological attachments to Read on…
Reviewed by: Ellen Suzanne Green
BA FINE ART
Nottingham Trent , nottingham
11 - 18 June 2009
I felt that the overall degree show had a presents that was professional and imaginative I particularly liked the way in which the pieces were displayed in different areas of the building rather than set to one room. However I felt that some areas Read on…
Reviewed by: kim carroll
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Nottingham Trent, Nottingham
6 - 11 June 2009
68 students exhibit in the Nottingham Trent University Fine Art Degree Show 2009. The quality of the work is varied. There is too much to take in all at once. Highlights include Ben Wheele's 'Untitled' animation and Sarah Duffy's Read on…
Reviewed by: Beth Bramich
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
6 - 11 June 2009
BREAD-THTAKING STUFF So, what’s on at Nottingham Trent’s Fine Art Degree Show? Or just SO WHAT perhaps. If you’re hunting for artistic gems you have to go through a load of mediocre stones to find them here. But trust me, the gems Read on…
Reviewed by: Natalie Mills
BA FINE ART
NOTTINGHAM TRENT, DERBYSHIRE
11 June 2009
Fine Art Degree Show Review 2009 It was hard for me to decide which piece of work I wanted to focus my review on because unfortunately, I was distinctively unimpressed by the fine art degree show as a whole, this year. Walking through the Read on…
Reviewed by: emma swailes
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Nottingham Trent Uni, Nottingham
6 - 11 June 2009
With such a varied array of works and themes it is hard not to be in awe of the creativity and ingenuity that these budding new artists exhibit. Upon entering the BA (Hons) Fine Art exhibition you are first confronted by Self Inhibited, a work Read on…
Reviewed by: Peter Barratt
BA Hons Fine Art
Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
6 - 11 June 2009
Smells Like...Toast?! Okay, so, it's a good job I'd suppressed my hunger before entering this degree show. Unlike the expected sights contained in an exhibition, this was one of work varying to such a degree that, surprisingly, it Read on…
Reviewed by: Hayley Boba
BA Fine Art
Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
6 - 11 June 2009
A dismal rainy Friday evening. Initially stuck in a jam on the M5, half an hour after doors open, I finally arrive, (almost power walking), with my bright yellow invite to the automatic doors of the Bonington building, Nottingham Trent Read on…
Reviewed by: Alexandria Clark
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
6 - 11 June 2009
Nottingham Trent University once again host a wide variety of work by their graduating year of fine artists, & having viewed the previous year's show I was eager to see what, if any, progression of the course was reflected here. One work Read on…
Reviewed by: Susie Cochrane
BA (Hons) Fine Art
University of Teesside, Middlesbrough
11 - 15 May 2009
Art students the world over march towards their degree show from the first day that they set foot in their chosen academic establishment. Fully aware that they have this self-defining moment ahead, they try to carve a path throughout the Read on…
Reviewed by: Caryll Jack Dawber
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Kingston University, Kingston
26 February - 26 March 2009
Kingston University 3rd Year students have recently completed an intense two-week workshop, which culminated in an exhibition in two parts at the KU Knights Park Campus.Upon entering the first space (Project Space) you are confronted with Georgina Read on…
Reviewed by: Turn Hurst