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 2009 with a computer generated images exhibition entitled 'CGI – photo realistic Visualisation', which showed student work from the University of Applied Sciences, Nuremberg and Blackpool & The Fylde College. We ended the year with an exhibition of BA (Hons) Graphic Design students' work inspired by and entitled 'The Boat Trip'.
This year we hope to provide local audiences with the opportunity to engage with contemporary art and discover an array of surprises through our diverse and dynamic program of exhibitions.
Current Exhibition
Install & Print
Cab Weal, Sally Jane Webster, Jane Southgate, David Symons
AA2A Artists exhibition 5th May - 19th May
This is the fifth year that UCS has hosted the AA2A scheme. Each year four artists are selected from an open submission to use the facilities of the School of Arts. Each artist is given 100 hours of access time within the school and a small bursary towards materials, which is funded by UCS, and supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
The activity of these artists within the studios and workshops brings a valuable extra dimension to the work of the Fine Art course, giving students a useful insight into the working practice of more established artists. 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)
David Symons
Scarecrow is an artist's reaction of moving from the bright lights of the city to the pitch black of the country, a blackness so dark all you can see is your imagination, like in an immergence tank.
The scarecrow stares out of the blackness, startled by the presence of a flash, awakened and intrigued, it waits to be asked, but what do you ask? Are they stuck in a moment of time, discarded completely from the mind of the maker, whose only purpose of build is function, trapped in that one state of being until release comes in the form of destruction? The infinite blackness of the past, the invisible vastness of the future, the scarecrow stands forever in that single moment, watching, absorbing, wondering when will it be me? From the city to the country, an observation of everyday life, placing new meaning on to old tradition, empathising with the static and traditional; what is new is old.
Cab Weal
My work on the AA2A programme has a starting point within sketchbooks, creating drawings and collages describing the objects and cultures that surround me. These collages tend to use the form of people from magazines, shapes seen in commercial environments and with heavy influences from graphics and illustration. Usually sketching in an automatic way, using fast and rough primary marks I feel I capture unexpected positions in juxtaposing image with the text and collage media.
A perfect ideal is what I'm trying to oppose putting images through printing techniques and other elements in a strange placement but still trying to hopefully create an aesthetic quality.
Jane Southgate
My work usually concentrates on life cycles, from pregnancy in humans to nesting in birds and even pollination in orchids. For this body of work, however, I was looking more at the aspects of mothering. – creating and nurturing, both in the life of ones children and ones work, and similarly being mothered, receiving this love and care oneself. By producing an installation that hides nothing about its construction I am enhancing the idea that nothing is being hidden, there is openness, revelation, in approaching the subject. Being a mother is a great honour but there is still a yearning to be mothered oneself.
Sally Jane Webster
My artwork explores actual, fabricated and psychological "skins". "Marsyas in Afghanistan" expresses my sorrow and ambivalence about the situation in Afghanistan. Marsyas in Greek mythology was challenged by the god Apollo to an impossible musical duel and as a result was hung in a tree and his skin removed. It is said that a river formed where he was killed, flowing from the tears of his friends. In this installation I am working with the idea of different protective "skins" encountering one another. Other work in the exhibition also investigates protection and threat. The photographs show inner and outer worlds meeting through reflections - suggesting something disturbing has happened.
5th May - 19th May
Waterfront Gallery
University Campus Suffolk
Waterfront Building
Neptune Quay
Ipswich, IP4 1QJ
01473 338000
Open to All 9am to 8pm including weekends
For more information see:
www.aa2a.org|
www.davidsymons.org|
www.cabweal.blogspot.com|
www.keyarts.org/index.php?title=Sally_Jane_Webster|
Upcoming Exhibitions
School of Arts and Humanities Degree Show 2010
Final year students from the School of Arts and Humanities at University Campus Suffolk (UCS) will be exhibiting their work in the annual degree show from 3 - 17 June. Works from graduating students in Fine Art, Graphic Design, Interior Design, Photography, Computer Games Design/Programming and Film and Media will be on display throughout the two weeks across the Ipswich Campus.
Chrissie Harrington, Head of School of Arts and Humanities at UCS, believes that the courses at UCS have ensured that the students have all the skills required for future employment. "Our aim is to create employable, capable and creative individuals, able to respond to the challenge of the workplace with imagination and integrity. We are now working in our newly re-furbished spaces and have re-defined our degree programmes to address cutting edge practice that will impact on the students' potential as developing professionals."
"Key to these developments is our relationship with employers. We are in the process of developing significant relationships with employers, whose professional opinions and expertise continues to inform our course design and contributes to programme delivery. We wish our graduates every success on their professional journeys and we hope to see them as future advisers, advocates and sponsors of our new and developing programmes."
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Venue: R Block, Campus North
Dates: 3 – 17 June
Time: Weekdays 10.00am - 6.00pm, Weekends 11.00pm - 3.00pm
This years Fine Art graduate show is entitled 'Freefall'. Senior Lecturer and Course Leader David Baldry says, "In this years show you will see a range of ideas and reactions to the world in which we live. On the surface contemporary art can appear to be both baffling and challenging. The process of formulating and articulating ideas is a difficult one. Equally demanding for the audience, can be finding ways to unravel and understand this work. As a viewer of the work in the studios here in the School of Arts and Humanities at UCS, you may be challenged, uplifted, amused or bemused."
BA (Hons) Graphic Design
Venue: R Block, Campus North
Dates: 3 – 17 June
Time: Weekdays 10.00am - 6.00pm, Weekends 11.00pm - 3.00pm
The Graphic Design show is an exciting and professional collection of applied design. The work investigates a diverse range of commercial themes and concludes with a display of highly polished and imaginative solutions executed through print-based and motion-based media.
BA (Hons) Interior Design
Venue: R Block, Campus North
Dates: 3 – 17 June
Time: Weekdays 10.00am - 6.00pm, Weekends 11.00pm - 3.00pm
Interior Design students will be presenting projects which they have worked on with clients from the East Anglian region, exploring how to address their design needs. This collaboration is the culmination of the students' degree experience and illustrates the focus and philosophy that underpins this course. These will include domestic interiors and conversions, commercial design, hotel, restaurant and retail design as well as community design projects.
BA (Hons) Photography
Venue: Waterfront Gallery and Foyer, Waterfront Building, Neptune Quay
Dates: 3 – 14 June
Time: Weekdays 10.00am - 6.00pm, Weekends 11.00pm - 3.00pm
Earlier this year, the Photography course took ownership of their new facilities, containing spacious studios and state of the art technology. The course integrates practice and theory to inform and define the making and production of work. This years graduate show, entitled 'Velocity', will be presented in the Waterfront Gallery before travelling on to the prestigious 'Free Range' art & design festival in London.
Senior lecturer and Course Leader Heike Löwenstein says, "We are proud for the second cohort coming out of a young course to be staging two major exhibitions this year. It is a major achievement for all 16 graduates."
BA (Hons) Computer Games Design / BSC (Hons) Computer Games Programming
Venue: R Block, Campus North
Dates: 3 – 17 June
Time: Weekdays 10.00am - 6.00pm, Weekends 11.00pm - 3.00pm
Graduates from BA (Hons) Computer Games Design and BSC (Hons) Computer Games Programming will be displaying work that includes projects completed for commercial games companies as part of a design brief set by Sony Entertainment, and games developed for the Nintendo DS.
Course Leader Rob Kurta says, "We are really excited about the work our final year students are producing. The ability to collaborate together to produce engaging game play is a key feature both of the degree itself and our relationship with our industry partners."
BA (Hons) Film and Media
Venue: R Block, Campus North
Dates: 3 – 17 June
Time: Weekdays 10.00am - 6.00pm, Weekends 11.00pm - 3.00pm
There will be work exhibited by final year students on the BA (Hons) Film and Media Studies course in a rolling sequence of excerpts from their individual show reels. This will include a combination of work produced as part of their academic study, as well as from extra-curricular film making projects. The common thread running through the 'on-module' work relates to the use of a plethora of digital techniques to support a variety of narrative devices. The students will be exhibiting in the R007 film studio space (affectionately known as the Bond Studios) on the ground floor.
2nd June Private view
3rd June - 17th June General View
Open to all weekdays 10.00am - 6.00pm and
Upcoming Exhibitions| Past Exhibitions Solo 2010 |
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