First Year Show 2011

So it was time for the first years to have their end of year show. There was some good pieces, some conceptual and some well..foundation-like work. Some of them are quite young and just leaving formal education and starting life within a more extreme and open affair like university. I thought some pieces should've been used as sketch-book work and less work shown. One piece should have been used to present their best efforts because confusion followed with how the progression travelled. I may be a little judgemental here though as this was their first evr show within a more educated system.

Some at least had the nerve to showcase their more constructed work. The work was varied this year as opposed to last years and showed a more animated feel. There was the obligatory mood sheets and piantings but only a few photography based work even though photography was used.

I particularly enjoyed M. Fowdrey's work were he worked with children's electronic instruments and manipulated them to create new sounds and his work should have a good progression, Darren Murphy's work involving language was thoughtful and I enjoy syntax related work, Bella Rae made an action painting based video where she dripped paint onto herself and cavorted in front of the movie camera..very Yves Klein and there was two Black and White paintings made on reversed glass which was my favourite exhibits..I want these in my living-room.

The most surprising piece was a sublime kinetic sculpture entiltled..How Long is a Piece of String. This consisted of a deconstructed clock and a reel of cotton. With every second there was a rotation which wround the cotton away from the reel onto the time-piece. This was done by someone called Lewis. He also showed two more pieces but should only shown the aforementioned one. It distracted from the minimal simplicity of it.

There was also another work that consisted of graph paper and geometric shapes that evoked Dan Ferns and his Works With Paper series and book. I forgot the artists name but his work will be followed though.

Of course more work was evident but the above stood out as accomplished work and they were the ones who had just one piece to show with the exception of Lewis. I did really like this work and equally enjoyed it due to beinbg the only purely sculptural piece within the exhibition.