- Venue
- Nottingham Trent University
- Location
- United Kingdom
This year’s fine art degree show expresses some inspiring work, exhibiting a vast spectrum of individual practices. These range from Anna K. Stippa’s giant sculptural work ‘Self Inhibited’ which seems to climb out of the studio floor into this colossal, restrained abstract form, as well as Samuel Minton’s instillation work ‘The Protagonist’, which really makes you feel like you’ve literally just stepped into someone else’s life, this piece really toys with your mind, the attention to detail is amazing, for as soon as you walk in and the door shuts behind you the space is overcast in a kind of wistful melancholy of this persons life that your suddenly immersed in, an almost eerie trip that plays with your mind, a must see for anyone planning on going.
A lot of the work this year seems to rely on the obscure lay out of the fine art studios, as I discovered when viewing Rupinder Billing’s work ‘Untitled’ it isn’t apparent at first what’s going on, I walked through the door to the top studio and I was met with these islands of seemingly abstract shapes and forms made from electrical wire, mounted so that it follows along the obscure shape of the wall. It only became apparent as to what it was when I walked back the other way through the gallery and viewed the piece at a distance that the fractured shapes and forms of faces are revealed as you walk along, an enticing effect that makes you want to step back to find a favourable angle.
Another piece that I was pleasantly surprised with was Kyron Gregson’s instillation ‘Scrabyard’. When I first saw this I took a quick glance and assumed it was just some kind of mini scrap yard until I read the name ‘scrabyard’ and at closer inspection of the work the whole piece seemed to come to life as some kind of mechanical ecosystem that had a new age apocalyptic feel to it, swarmed with rusted metal crabs mining and munching there way through the junk. It makes you want to get closer to the work to look around and find out what’s going on inside this mini mechanical ecosystem.
One of the must see’s for this exhibition is Rob Osborne’s interactive instillation ‘Life’. On approach to this piece you see a series of objects hanging throughout a narrow hall way, as soon as you walk through the hall way the objects come to life all around you. One of the reasons that I feel this piece is such a success is that It’s only when you get close to the objects that they come to life in an electrifying buzz of fits, and because of this it seems to follow you throughout the hall way, creating a slightly un-nerving but exciting experience for any participant.
Overall there seems to be an exciting array of work from the creative minds of the Nottingham Trent degree show artists, Displaying a diverse range of practices, its an inspiring experience that I would highly recommend to anybody.
