Terra Nova II

Terra Nova II provides an excellent opportunity to revisit some of the best Degree Show work from the School of Fine Art by this year’s graduating students, selected in association with Ruth Hedges, Art Editor of The List. In their work the graduates address and respond to many of the trends in 20 th Century art in different ways. Both direct and indirect references to movements such as Surrealism, Pop Art and high Modernism are evident. Mediums reflect the range from the Fine Art school and include painting, photography, sculpture and video installations. Recurring themes identifiable throughout this exhibition include landscape, identity, memory, process and the impact of technology on creativity.

Lucy Stein, David Galloway, Lee Muir, Andrew Margolies Mezvinsky, Alistair Frost and Trine Kristensen, Gemma Parsons, Thomas Bangstead, James Muir Wilson, Evan Wood and Gemma Crawford have produced works which respond to the subject of landscape. Through a huge variety of approaches these young painters and photographers demonstrate a mature understanding of the dark, lyrical and surreal aspects of their chosen landscapes. Aoife McKim’s self-referential wall installation creates a galaxy of meaning from chaos. Olivia Gürtler and Flora Parrott are both primarily concerned with environmental issues, explored through complex and decorative layers of abstract pattern. Timothy James Roberts demonstrates his interest in the transience of screen imagery in his film-based compositions of highly worked paintings. Neil Clements paintings show an interest in the formal aspects of art he addresses and dissects in what he identifies as the Romantic Fatalism of early modernism. Frederikke Frederikson and Katrine Kristiansen explore themes coming of age, the assertion of identity and family using photography, while the lurid bodily references and formal aspects of Billy Teasdale’s bold sculpture evince their roots in Pop Art. Traditional sculptural issues of monumental architecture are under scrutiny in Ulf Holbrook’s elegant geometric installation Working in the medium of moving image Charlotte Bosanquet and Inga Streich explore similar themes, which highlight and question the role of viewer-as-performer in their strikingly different video installations. All exhibited works are for sale. Please contact the Exhibitions Department or The Mackintosh Shop for details. Pressetext

Terra Nova II
Mackintosh Gallery & Studio 40

mit Lucy Stein, David Galloway, Lee Muir, Andrew Margolies Mezvinsky, Alistair Frost and Trine Kristensen, Gemma Parsons, Thomas Bangstead, James Muir Wilson, Evan Wood, Gemma Crawford