BA(Hons) Fine Art Second Year Exhibition

The Poly, Falmouth, is host again this year to the second year exhibition by BA(Hons) Fine Art students. The student curatorial committee worked with Falmouth alumni Cat Bagg and Rosie Thomson-Glover of Field Notes, to set up the show and make any necessary changes to the curation.

The student curatorial committee share their experience of putting up the first half of the show, as they prepare for the launch of the second half this evening:

‘Students found the Poly enormously supportive in allowing us to use space and their equipment; for example, allowing one of our artists to use the grand piano in the upper space, and giving us a library room we hadn’t seen before, adding a wonderful new dimension for us to work with in order to take advantage of the space’s antiquated atmosphere and natural light.

Transporting work from the university in the pouring rain didn’t particularly hinder the set-up, and by lunch time the following day the show was basically completed and preparations for the Private view began. By 5:30 we’d already had 100 people through the door, and there was a real buzz to the evening, with an estimated 250-300 who came along. The wine and nibbles were gone very quickly, but the Poly allowed us to work alongside them and use their bar to serve extra drinks.

We’re now preparing to do it all again for the second show, which will contain more work with sculpture and audio-visual content, so we’re excited to see how we can shape the show differently in order to accommodate this’.

 

The second half of the exhibition is open to the public 10-5 on Wednesday 14 and Thursday 15 March, and 10-1pm on Friday 16th, at The Poly, Church Street, Falmouth.

Staff and students from BA(Hons) Fine Art take part in Goonhilly Village Green

Staff and students from BA(Hons) Fine Art recently took part in Goonhilly Village Green an event supported by Arts Council England and led by artists Sara Bowler, Elizabeth Masterton, and curators Field Notes to celebrate the unique landscape, history and culture of the Goonhilly Downs on the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, UK.

Goonhilly has no central village and most of its residents live around the edge of the Downs. The aim of Goonhilly Village Green was to draw together this diverse range of people and interests to meet, talk, learn and play on a temporary village green on the Downs; to find common ground on the common land of National Nature Reserve. The event opened with a musical procession from Cornish dancer ScootsKernow and continued with workshops in writing, bushcraft and natural craft; a guided archaeological walk; the Village Green Society Lecture programme; film screenings of Ian Helliwell’s ‘Practical Electronica’ and Liminal’s ‘Of This Parish’.

Throughout the day, bells rang out from a bell-tower created by artists Liminal, on a village green specially created for the event by Natural England. Liminal is a partnership between architect Frances Crow and sound artist and composer David Prior. Frances works as Senior Lecturer, Architecture at Falmouth University and David is Associate Professor in Music and Sound Art. For more about the project see here: 

A solar furnace created for the event by artists Andy Webster and Darren Ray was a focal point for discussions around renewable energy, tribute d.i.y. acts, and the ad-hoc as a dissenting practice. Andy works as Senior Lecturer, Fine Art in the School of Art. Darren graduated from BA Fine Art in 2015.

Replication of Arlene’s Solar Furnace 2009, Darren Ray & Andy Webster

On Friday 25th September, the event hosted a special day for children from the primary schools of the Keskowethyans Multi-Academy Trust, who took part in workshops, devised by artists Liminal and supported by the National Trust Wild Lizard Rangers.

This was the fifth project that Sara Bowler and Lizzie Masterton have developed at the Goonhilly site and aimed to lay the groundwork for a larger village green event to take place in 2016. For more information please visit: Goonhilly Village Green