News
Friday 7 September 2007
Making - The Future (exhibition of graduates' work, 17 September - 9 October)
A collection of work by recent Nottingham Trent University graduates is being exhibited to showcase innovation and excellence in the creation of art and design. The university’s School of Art and Design and School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment are showing the work as part of its Making - The Future exhibition, from 17 September to 9 October.
The exhibition, in the university’s Bonington and Waverley buildings, will explore how craft skills, the innovative use of media and materials, and expertise in 21st century technologies, link all practices in art and design. The best work from 40 students from a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate courses will be on show – including fashion design, fine art, product design, furniture design and photography.
Work includes that of Textile Design graduate Naomi Barber, who has created silk-screened and digital designs for fashion and interior textiles. Her bold colour palettes are combined with decorative, intricate imagery to form graphic prints that draw inspiration from an eclectic range of sources, including historical art styles, organic forms and personal experiences.
Decorative Arts graduate Claire Fitch will be showing illustrative drawings expressed through a series of narrative storyboards. Much of her work, which is heavily influenced by line quality, perspective and colour placement, is drawn from her experiences of watching how people socially interact.
Rebecca Royce, who has just completed a degree in fashion knitwear design, has produced a display entitled Plumage from Paradise, which draws on the influences from the use of feathers in burlesque performance at Art Deco embellishment in 1920s costume.
Photography graduate Steven Poxson exchanged his camera for a scanner in a bid to capture images in such detail and scope that viewers feel they can reach out and touch the subject. Abnormal Beauty is a series of images that uses detail to depict at a distance something which looks visually pleasing. As the viewer begins to take in the detail, however, the image appears far different. The digital layering of the objects allows the artist to create a wallpaper appearance which conflicts the beauty and the grotesque.
University lecturers Peter Lester, Derek Sprawson and Helen Beswick will curate the exhibition.
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Notes for editors: Making - The Future is open to the public from Monday September 17 to Tuesday October 9 (Closed Sundays and Saturday October 6) from 10am to 5pm. Admission is free.
For more information or artist enquiries please contact exhibition administrator Helen Garrigan on +44 (0)115 848 8234 or email Helen Garrigan or Making the Future or visit the Making the Future website.
Press enquiries please contact: Dave Rogers, Press Officer, on +44 (0)115 848 8782, or via email.
Or Therese Easom, Press and Media Relations Manager, on +44 (0)115 848 8774, or via email.
