Welcome to the Waterfront Gallery, an innovative and exciting exhibition space for UCS. Last year the gallery hosted a wide range of exhibitions, we started 2011 with an exhibition by Desmond Brett featuring site specific sculpture. The diverse programme continued throughout the year with a range of exhibitions including paintings, photography, drawings, installation, projection and the launch of a new initiative Solo offering a solo exhibition to an emerging artist. We ended the year with a retrospective exhibition by Russell Walker that chronicled 35 years of Illustration and design.
In 2012/13 our dynamic programme will continue to provide local audiences with the opportunity to engage with contemporary art.
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School of Arts and Humanities
End of Year Show 2013
The School of Arts and Humanities are proud to be hosting the annual End of Year Show in the Waterfront Gallery, Waterfront Building and the Arts Building at UCS. The following courses will be presenting work:
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BA (Hons) Computer Games Design
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BA (Hons) Dance in the Community
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BA (Hons) English
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BA (Hons) Film
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BA (Hons) Fine Art
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BA (Hons) Graphic Design
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BA (Hons) Graphic Design (Graphic Illustration)
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BA (Hons) History
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BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design
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BA (Hons) Photography
The BA (Hons) Photography course and BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design will also be exhibiting their Degree Show at Free Range, The Old Truman Brewery in London;
Photography will be at Free Range from 13th – 17th June.
Interior Architecture and Design will be at Free Range from 11th – 16th July
Chrissie Harrington, Head of School says, "I really look forward to our degree show! I love to see the range of exciting work that marks the culmination of a learning journey with us. Year on year, students are exposed to increasingly challenging skills and processes. They develop and explore new techniques and technologies, tackle problems, investigate issues and ideas, engage in critical debate, take risks, create and innovate. At the same time our students are introduced to a range of employment scenarios through opportunities created in collaboration with our partners from the educations, cultural and business sectors.
At our show we will observe this year’s graduating students proudly sharing the fruits of their dreams and energies with their friends and families. On their behalf, I thank tutors, technicians and administrators for their commitment, enthusiasm and patience - and ability to inspire, support and facilitate.
Our show is an opportunity to celebrate, reflect, and anticipate! We wish our graduates the very, very best of futures and every success on their continuing creative journeys".
The Waterfront Galleries are proud to present work from:
BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design
7 June – 27 June Waterfront Gallery,Grondfloor Waterfront Building
For the first time Interior Architecture and Design students are exhibiting their work in the UCS Waterfront Gallery. This is a fitting and prestigious location for the impressive range of creative outputs from our first cohort of graduating students. Projects on display will range from exhibition design through to design proposals for social housing. Some of the work on display emerges from collaboration with external or professional partners.
Students were involved in Social Engagement by developing concepts for a visitor Centre at Landguard Fort, an intended recreational and educational facility at the peninsula. Partners from the Landguard Trust and the Port of Felixstowe praised the students, highly, (Evening Star February 3, 2013) for their sophistication in creative interpretation and excellence in the execution and presentation of work.
In Heritage Conservation, there are ideas on display for the regeneration of Trimley Station, a historic piece of railway architecture which is currently undergoing a transformation assisted by the efforts of an IA&D student.
Major Events in Manchester and London engaged IA&D students in the production of a diverse range of ideas for the 2012 UCAS exhibition. The winner of this competition built the UCS stand. This 6x3 metre stand was constructed at both fairs and secured a high level of engagement from visitors on both venues.
In Urban Regeneration, the show features exciting proposals for housing schemes which respond to a variety of purposes and locations. Whilst these designs are, in some cases, hypothetical they are based on real-life contexts with ‘realist’ analysis of human factors to the fore.
This collection of innovative designs is represented through a wide range of media, including sketch books, sketch models, computer visualisations, production drawings, image capture and high quality presentation models.
Fidel Meraz
Course Leader
BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design
BA (Hons) Photography
7 - 9 June Waterfront Foyer Gallery, Ground Floor Waterfront, Waterfront Building
The Old Truman Brewery, London 13 - 17 June
The BA (Hons) Photography team are very proud to present ‘Double Infinity' - a range of 3rd year graduate work, investigating themes such as memory, landscape and identity. The exhibition will start off in Ipswich at UCS, and on 13th June will re-open in London as part of Free Range – the UK’s largest graduate creative showcase.
Our students work across a broad range of contexts – both inside and outside UCS - including commercial, arts and editorial practices. Over the three year programme students take advantage of state of the art analogue and digital facilities, international field trips including New York, access to a wealth of experience via freelance photographers, international photographic artists, picture editors, skilled technicians and knowledgable academics and practitioners.
This year we have teamed up with METRO Imaging London to offer our graduates a year long mentorship scheme. In addition we run our own 12 month graduate Photo Development Award. Both of these awards are designed to aid the transition between student and professional
Matthew Andrew
Course Leader BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design