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a-n Degree Shows Guide 2017 Something to say Class of 2017 on art, meaning & making a show Elizabeth Price Degree shows, art education & becoming an artist Do you remember degree time? Caroline Achaintre, Nicolas Deshayes, Lawrence Lek, Laura Oldfield Ford, Rosalie Schweiker & more + Listings: more than 70 shows across UK Image: Sheree Naqvi, The Peg, BA Fine Art Painting and Drawing, a-n.co.uk Swansea College of Art CARBON Oxford Brookes Fine Art Degree Show 13-18 May 2017 Richard Hamilton Building & The Glass Tank OX3 OBP Find us on Facebook at: @ArtistsothBrookesFind us online at: // WWW.AOTHB.COMFind us on Instagram at: http://tde.bz/aothb2017 @artistsothbrookes @artistsothbrookes We are pleased to invite you to the Oxford Brookes School of Architecture O End of Year Exhibition 2017 X Address: Oxford Brookes University A Abercrombie building Headington Campus Oxford OX3 OBP E Exhibition Locations: Glass Tank Gallery Y 3rd and 4th floor of Abercrombie S Preview Evening: Friday 26 May 2017 (6pm - 9pm) 1 Architecture Exhibition dates: 27 May - 6 June 2017 7 Find us online at: Find us on Facebook at: Find us on Twitter at: http://tde.bz/soaeoys2017 @OBUarchitecture @OBUarchitecture Swansea College of Art UWTSD 2017 uwtsd.ac.uk/art-design May th /20 th Opening 19 20th May nd 2 June Fear Image: Adrian dundee.ac.uk/degreeshow Exhibition Preview Venue Friday 19 May Duncan of Jordanstone 6pm–9pm College of Art & Design University of Dundee Exhibition Continues 13 Perth Road Monday – Friday Dundee DD1 4HT 10am–8pm Saturday and Sunday 10am–4pm Artwork by Rachael M Robertson, 4th year Fine Art Welcome www.a-n.co.uk #andegrees17 Editor: Chris Sharratt Advertising: Matt Roberts Production: Stephen Palmer Listings: Richard Taylor Publisher: Gillian Nicol Design: wearefounded.com © writers, artists and a-n The Artists Information Company 2017 ISBN 978-1-907529-17-7 Published by a-n The Artists Information Company Registered in England Company No 1626331 Issuu ANartistsinfo Download the Issuu app for IOS or Android for best reading experience on phone or tablet. an_artnews ANartistsinfo anartistsinfo 1 In these changing, uncertain times degree shows, while final-year 1 Glasgow School of ideological conflict and fast- students honestly and eloquently of Art, BA Fine Art degree tracked opinions, the role of artists share their process and ideas. show, 2016. and art education feels more Photo: McAteer; “There’s the same excitement as Courtesy: Glasgow important than ever. School of Art going to any exhibition,” is how While art rarely offers answers, Christine Borland sums up her the slow-burning questions artists own enjoyment of degree shows. so often raise can and do provide We hope this guide captures the kind of intellectual food for the buzz of ideas and activity thought that can help us all look that this time is all about – and afresh at the world. we’ll be sharing more views and And it’s artists that are at the pictures from this year’s shows via heart of this year’s a-n Degree social media, using the hashtag Shows Guide. #andegrees17. Turner Prize-winning video maker Jeanie Scott, Elizabeth Price discusses at length a-n Executive Director her own BA and MA experiences, her views on art education today, and what students should be aiming to get from their show. Ten artists including Laura Oldfield Ford, Nicolas Deshayes, and Lawrence Lek remember their 5 Degree Show 2017 ART EXHIB- ITION May 26 - Official Opening 7pm - 9pm May 24, 26, 27, 31 & June 2, 7, 9 9.30 am - 4.00 pm May 25 & June 1, 5, 6, 8 9.30 am - 7.30 pm ADDITONAL GRADUATION EVENTS:- London Graduate Fashion: The Truman Brewery, London - 4th to 7th June | Picton Castle: Pembroke SA62 4AS, BA Sculpture - 1st April to October 31st | New Designers: Business Design Centre, London N1 0QH Part 1 - 29th June to 1st July, BA Textiles: Knit, Weave & Mixed Media & BA Ceramics & Jewellery Part 2 - 5th to 8th July, BA Digital Illustration & BA Graphics Carmarthen School of Art at Coleg Sir Gâr, Jobs Well Road Campus, Jobs Well Road, Carmarthen, SA31 3HY /Carmarthen School of Art @ Coleg Sir Gâr @CarmSchOfArt carmarthenschoolofart 01554 748201 [email protected] DEGREE SHOW City Campus Creative Industries Arnolfini| Bower Ashton | Spike Island 2–8 June 2017 uwe.ac.uk/theshow degree show , Joanna Wickham, (Hons) Painting BA 2017 2017 Lonely Peaks FREE ENTRY ART & DESIGN ARCHITECTURE & LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Saturday 3rd to Edinburgh College Sunday 11th June of Art Campus Minto House & Adam House 11.00 – 17.00 74 Lauriston Place Chambers Street EH3 9DF EH1 1JZ Late nights Wednesday 7th June www.eca.ed.ac.uk/degreeshow & Thursday 8th June #ECADegreeShow 11.00 – 20.00 Slade Shows 2017 Undergraduate Graduate Saturday 20 – Thursday 8 – Thursday 25 May Sunday 18 June weekdays weekdays 10am–8pm 10am–8pm weekends weekends 10am–5pm 10am–5pm Slade School of Fine Art UCL, Gower Street London WC1E 6BT www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/shows/2017 8 Contents 11-13 ELIZABETH PRICE The Turner Prize-winning artist and academic reflects on her own BA and MA degree show experiences, and shares her views on what’s good and bad about art education today. 17-24 CLASS OF 2017 Ten students from different art schools across the UK explain their degree show process, exploring how their ideas and confidence 1 has developed during their final year. 27 Q&A1: THE WOON PRIZE The Scottish artist and Northumbria University lecturer Christine Borland talks about the Woon Foundation Prize for final-year students working in painting and sculpture. 29 Q&A2: COLLECTING & DEGREE SHOWS Manchester-based art collector Connal Orton describes how he got into buying student work and shares some dos and don’ts. 2 3 31-37 REMEMBERING DEGREE TIME Ten artists including Caroline Achaintre, Nicolas Deshayes, and Laura Oldfield Ford remember how degree show time felt and what they did and didn’t get out of it. 43-44 ART SCHOOL FOCUS Presented in partnership with Bath School of Art and Design, Falmouth University, and The Cass at London Metropolitan University. 49-57 LISTINGS A selection of more than 70 degree shows from across the UK, from Aberdeen in north- east Scotland to Falmouth in Cornwall. 60-61 Q&A3: ONE YEAR ON Newcastle-based artist and 2016 fine art graduate Sheyda Porter discusses the significance of her degree show and what she’s done since. 4 1 Elizabeth Price, The Woolworths Choir of 1979, 2012, video still. Courtesy: the artist 2 Caroline Achaintre, MadCap, 2017, hand tufted wool. Courtesy: the artist 3 Chloe Milner, Tongs, 2017. Courtesy: the artist 4 LJMU Liverpool School of Art and Design, 2016 degree show. Photo: Andy Jones, a-n Instagram degree shows takeover 5 Sheyda Porter, 5 Idea Generating Machine No. 8, detail, 2017. Courtesy: the artist 9 www.falmouth.ac.uk/summer-shows/2017 27 May - 2 June 2017 Summer Show 2017 Cardiff School of Art & Design Cardiff Metropolitan University Llandaff Campus, Western Avenue Cardiff CF5 2YB @CardiffMetCSAD www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/csad 12:00 - 18:00 Saturday 12:00 - 16:00 Sun - Mon 10:00 - 18:00 Tues - Weds 10:00 - 21:00 Thursday 10:00 - 12:00 Friday See website for details of Private View, Fashion Preview and Recruitment Open Day Image: Adam Musitano BA (hons) Fine Art 10 1 FIRST THOUGHTS Elizabeth Price: “Students are faced with a really difficult proposition” The winner of the 2012 Turner Prize was a student at Ruskin School of 1 Art and the RCA in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She reflects on her Elizabeth Price, The Woolworths own BA and MA degree shows, as well as sharing what she’s learnt as a Choir of 1979, 2012, video still. lecturer at numerous art schools over the past 20 years. Courtesy: the artist I remember my BA degree show really well. I was God knows what I would think now, but at the working in the painting department and I was making time I felt pleased with my degree show. It was the these strange tablets of wax. They were embedded with first time I’d made a serious, simultaneous body of work. systematic grids based on lace, so they were geometric It was the first exhibition I’d ever done. but elastic. The BA degree show [1988] I put together I took the degree show incredibly seriously. But was an intensive month of work. I made four or five large I would demure from saying that this meant I was pieces that were about a metre by 70cm, maybe bigger. deferent towards it. I worked with all these chemicals, latex, wood The degree show was, I guess, the end of being dye and other spirit-based varnishes, and smoked part of what was a particularly intense peer group. throughout it all! I was in this studio in the basement I was one of those people, as were many of my friends, of the art school and I used to put out cigarettes on the who was in the studio all of the time – we really lived palette. I don’t smoke now and I’ve only ever smoked there, it was where we spent our days. I knew I was on and off, but I got quite into it at that particular time; going to miss the intensity of that experience and the sitting back, having a cigarette, looking at your work, pleasure of it as a working environment, and I did. playing out the anxieties of putting on a show. I’ve never in any of my subsequent experiences had I was enjoying it, the jeopardy of it, making a quite that intense context.