Current exhibition
Gill Thomas, Paintings and Drawings, 1950 - 2010
7th September - 24th September
Gill Thomas winner of the UCS 2009 Alumni Award will be presenting an exhibition of her paintings and drawings during September 2010 at the newly located Waterfront Gallery on the waterfront.
Gill trained at Birmingham College of Art in the early 50's and worked initially as an illustrator in advertising and publishing in London. After combining a career in education with bring up her family she took her B.A in Fine Art /History and Theory of Visual Art at Suffolk College, graduating in 2008 as part of the first graduating cohort of UCS.
Oil portraits have become the main focus of her recent work and she recently held a successful exhibition at Peter Peers Gallery in Aldeburgh and is now represented by the Re + New Gallery in Woodbridge.
The School of Arts and Humanities is delighted to support the UCS 2009 Alumni Award and looks forward to an exciting future of creative events at the newly located Waterfront Gallery.
We are committed to offering our alumni opportunities to exhibit, participate in the life of the School and develop their careers in all areas of the arts and humanities.
If you would like to know more about studying Fine art at UCS please contact David Baldry on 01473 338000 or d.baldry@ucs.ac.uk
Opening times;-
Monday - Thursday 9am - 7pm
Friday - Sunday 10am - 6pm
Up coming exhibition
Wendy Brooke - Smith, Landfall
1st October - 18th October
Low Water 2010
This exhibition entitled Landfall, showcases the work of Wendy Brooke-Smith, a BA (Hons) Fine Art graduate of UCS who draws her inspiration from the docks, rivers and beaches of Suffolk and north Essex.
Wendy says “I’m often intrigued by the contrast and incongruity of man-made structures in the landscape - the strange drama of Felixstowe cranes or the Orwell Bridge - but also mindful of the transience of our achievements in the face of natural elements. I’m more likely to be interested in the abandoned hulk of a boat or redundant concrete pill boxes than conventionally aesthetic scenery”.
The Waterfront Gallery is a particularly appropriate venue for this artist’s first solo exhibition. Wendy graduated with one of the first cohort of UCS Fine Art students in 2008 and the demolition and regeneration of the area was the inspirational subject matter for her Degree Show paintings, as well as further commissions for Bidwells Property Consultants and UCS- some of which can be viewed in this exhibition.
If you would like to know more about studying Fine art at UCS please contact David Baldry on 01473 338000 or d.baldryucs.ac.uk|
Opening times;-
Monday - Thursday 9am - 9pm
Friday - Sunday 10am - 9pm