Artists Access to Art
16 April - 11 May 2011
Private view: 15 April 2011
Open to all: 16 April - 11 May 2011
Monday - Friday 9.00am – 8.00pm
Saturday 11.00 am - 3.00pm
*Subject to change
For the sixth consecutive year, UCS is pleased to support professional artists to realise ambitious and ground-breaking new work through Artists Access to Art Colleges (AA2A). This is a national initiative that allows artists access to studios, workshop and technical expertise at Higher and Further Education institutions in England. The AA2A artists contribute to a vibrant network of creative studio practice. Their presence at UCS allows our students to gain first-hand knowledge of different artists' approaches and offers additional formal and informal opportunities to discuss contemporary art practice. This also provides a further dialogue regarding process and gaining access to an extended knowledge base of techniques and ideas.
We are pleased and proud to present this exhibition.
David Campbell Baldry HDFA (Slade)
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For more information about AA2A, past and present artists at UCS see www.aa2a.org/
Amy Louise Nettleton
Amy graduated in 2009 from Essex University. She is a professional visual artist with a strong concept lead practice, typically in the form of Installation, assemblage and sculpture. She has a studio in Needham Market, Suffolk. and runs workshops across Suffolk, working with high schools students as a visiting artist . She also spent a year on a Curatorial Internship at Smiths Row, a public contemporary art gallery.
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Rhoda Webb
Rhoda’s career as an artist has included residencies, workshops for artists and members of the community and commissions for limited-edition photographs. She also taught photography to undergraduate and postgraduate students for a number of years.
In recent years, she has mainly worked in east London where she completed a number of large-scale public art commissions and has had a number of exhibitions.
Lately, she has become very interested in using analogue photographic techniques – pinhole photography, toning, hand tinting and using photo emulsion on watercolour paper and fabric.
Rhoda enjoys exploring the imperfections that some of these ways of working bring – and the meaning that it gives to her work. She is also interested in combining photography and sculpture, taking a more tactile approach to the media - using the photograph as object rather than just image.
Valerie Irving
Valerie was born in Suffolk and went to Northgate School in Ipswich but moved away to take a Degree in Fine Art at the University of Reading, where she was taught by Claude Rogers and Terry Frost. She had her first solo exhibition at the Haste Gallery in Ipswich soon after graduating.
Valerie lived and worked for many years in London mostly in graphics and textiles, designing fabrics for Bill Gibb and Kaffe Fassett. She took a further degree in Philosophy and History of Art at Birkbeck College, London and an MA in Art History at the Courtauld Institute and University College while teaching part-time at various art colleges.
Valerie moved back to Suffolk with her partner and young family in 1979 and began painting full-time, exhibiting work in galleries around the country and in London.
From 1995 to 2007 she taught History and Theory of Art on the Degree course at Suffolk College. During this time she practised less, but she feels that the opportunity to evaluate her practice was valuable. Valerie has been working professionally again as an artist for the last three years.
John Fazakerley
In his time as a mental health worker John found face-to-face, meaningful relationships and communications were essential to the well being and on-going health of his client group.
Through the AA2A project John hopes to explore the nature of digitalized short-hand messaging (potentially meaningless) versus face-to-face (potentially meaningful) communications. By doing this he hopes that the viewer of the work will be challenged and able to enter into a ‘meaningful’ communication.
