Southampton Solent Fine Art

Coming up next week: visiting artist Chris Sav, here to present his work and give tutorials. Can't wait…

News and pics from our recent trip to Amsterdam!

Our third years are selling these hand made Christmas gifts in the uni's Andrews building foyer! You can find them anytime between 10.30 and 4.30pm on Wednesday 4th, Friday 6th, Monday 9th, Tuesday 10th, Wednesday 11th and Friday 13th December. All proceeds go to the third year degree show :)
Images courtesy of Libby Russell

'The Shed' - Student Exhibition Space, Coming soon

We are very pleased to say filmmaker John Burgan is giving an artists' talk for us today!
Among his numerous works, Memory of Berlin was screened recently in the British Film Institute at Southbank Centre in London. John was born in the UK but lived several years in Berlin, Germany. Memory of Berlin confronts an issue of one’s split identities, much like the city of Berlin, divided into East and West Berlin before the unification. Through a form of an autobiographical essay f...ilm, Memory of Berlin shows how one’s personal life is interwoven into a larger dynamics of collective memory and history.
Students will have the chance to ask questions and speak to the artist after his presentation.
Today (Wednesday) at 3.00pm in HC024. (Over on main campus, behind the main building)
'Memory of Berlin' John Burgan, 1998'
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The professional development unit takes place throughout the second year of the Fine Art course. The unit is lead by associate lecturers Daniel Crow, Sarah Filmer, and Alys Scott-Hawkins The sessions are help on and off campus at art galleries, artists’ studios and project spaces within the city. The aim of the unit is to give students a professional experience and prepare them to progress their careers after the course is complete. The outcome is a student produced, installed and publicized group exhibition, accompanied by an online portfolio, exhibition proposal and a reflective journal.

Associate lecturer Emma Tod has been making a treat for the Third years, who have just handed in their dissertations!
The pinata is full of goodies, and the students will be let loose on it at this terms studio party!
The Fine Art course regularly holds social event to bring together staff and students alike. Today there will be food, drinks and even a ukulele band!

We are very pleased to have Dr Ricarda Vidal coming to talk to the Fine Art course on Friday 8th November. She will be speaking about her work and the students will be able to ask questions they have after her presentation.
Ricarda holds a PhD in Cultural Studies (London Consortium/ Birkbeck). For her first book, Death and Desire in Car Crash Culture: A Century of Romantic Futurisms (Peter Lang, 2013) she researched the fascination with speed and the car crash in cultural pr...oduction. Currently she is co-editing a collection of essays on contemporary approaches to death (Berghahn, 2014) and a collection of essays on Alternative Worlds (Berghahn, 2014). Before joining King’s College London, Ricarda was Lecturer in Visual Culture at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London.
Apart from her academic career she also works as translator and curator. Together with the artist Sam Treadaway she runs the bookwork project Revolve:R, and together with Jenny Chamarette (Queen Mary) she directs Translation Games, a research and exhibition project around the theme of translation in literature and the fine arts.
Further information: www.ricardavidal.com
Friday 8th November, 11.30 am , Fine Art Meeting Room, All Welcome!
'Death and desire in Car Crash Culture, A Century of Romantic Futurisms' Dr Ricarda Vidal, 2013
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On Wednesday 6th November, we have filmmaker John Burgan giving an artists' talk.
Among his numerous works, Memory of Berlin was screened recently in the British Film Institute at Southbank Centre in London. John was born in the UK but lived several years in Berlin, Germany. Memory of Berlin confronts an issue of one’s split identities, much like the city of Berlin, divided into East and West Berlin before the unification. Through a form of an autobiographical essay film, Me...mory of Berlin shows how one’s personal life is interwoven into a larger dynamics of collective memory and history.
Students will have the chance to ask questions and speak to the artist after his presentation.
Wednesday 6th November at 3.00pm in HC024.
'Memory of Berlin' John Burgan, 1998'
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unit11studios, formed predominantly from Southampton Solent graduates, take their cultural offer up to London's Sluice Art Fair

We are pleased to announce we have a new artist in residence.
Susan Francis is a Belfast born artist now living in South West England. She will be in the studios making work and engaging with students throughout the year.
Susan has shown work in solo and group shows, both nationally and internationally.... For a full biography and to view her work you can visit her website.
www.susanfrancis.com
Alternatively, you can connect with her via Facebook or Twitter
www.facebook.com/susanefrancis
www.twitter.com/susanefrancis
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The course take an annual trip to Frieze art fair in London. The trip allows students to see a different side of the art world in a contemporary way.

The course regularly hold workshops to expand practical skills. Today was printmaking in the print workshop.

www.playbackprojects.tumblr.com/statement
A showcase of recent works made by the Fine Art team at Southampton Solent University, including Nicola Chamberlain, Daniel Crow, Alexa de Ferranti, Sarah Filmer, Atsu Ito, Lee Mackinnon, Greg Palmer, Alys Scott-Hawkins and Emma Tod. The inaugural exhibition runs from Friday 5th June to Monday 8th June at Peacock Projects, an artist-led space in Southwark, London before travelling to other exhibition venues over the coming year. The... term ‘playback’ came from discussions around the feedback loop of teaching and pedagogy, by inverting the usual student-tutor roles in order to explore the notion that for all of us, learning is an integral part of creative practice. As tutors we encourage risk-taking, experimentation, vulnerability and playfulness, to celebrate failure as an integral part of process, and to expand definitions of work and play – and as artists, we aim to put ourselves in the position we ask of our students. Playback« will act in part as an arena for discussion about Fine Art education and our place within it, drawing attention to the diversity of disciplines practiced by the team, and the variety of ways in which such work intersects with wider contemporary practice. As well as being a platform for staff development, the show aims to ignite interest in the Fine Art course and more generally in Southampton Solent University as a center for creative enterprise and originality. There will be a publication following on from the exhibition, including essays by former students, critics and theorists as well as the artists themselves.
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Here's a preview of what's in store on the Southampton Solent Fine Art & Art Enterprise course!

The Fine Art course is located in the Southampton Solent School of Art and Design, which was opened by Sir Peter Blake in June 2012.