News
13 May 2008
Secrets and Sofas at Brookes Fine Art Show
These are just some of the elements of Brookes Fine Art 2008, this year’s degree show which will showcase some of the best emerging talent in Fine Art at Brookes.
Following on from the huge success of the recent Obsessions show at Modern Art Oxford, Brookes Fine Art 2008 celebrates the exploration, freedom, and a particular, personal response to contemporary art and life that forms the basis of the Fine Art degree at Brookes.
Installation, painting, photography, performance, sculpture, sound and film all play their part in this year’s degree show, which will be open to the public from Saturday 17- Thursday 22 May.
Throughout the exhibition Lucy Phillips will invite us all to join The Secrets Agency. As members we are entitled to anonymously deposit secrets that we no longer wish to keep, or apply to look after the unwanted secrets of others.
Jane Wafer’s Journey with a Sofa (pictured) documents a journey undertaken by Jane and members of her family and community, in which they transported a sofa through the streets of Oxford and over the River Cherwell.
Harriet Maule’s Livestock Diseases explores the growing problems in the livestock farming industry, and specifically Blue Tongue, BSE and Bird flu, through photography and installation.
In The Object Museum Loredana Faraon explores the way in which even the most mundane and every day objects absorb different memories. Throughout the exhibition Loredana will be in workshop creating new latex objects as the 'artist', and also giving tours of the museum as the ‘curator’.
'In our image saturated culture can works of imaginative art have any impact?' *
This is a fundamental question facing these emerging artists, and the show is their response to the 2008 cultural environment, in which they find themselves.
Oxford Brookes University is grateful for the support of O3 Gallery, Platform 1 Design, Nuffield Press, Storm Fine Art and Manches, as well as individual sponsors.
Brookes Fine Art 2008 runs from 17 - 22 May 2008, in the Richard Hamilton Building, Headington Hill and is open weekends from 10am - 4pm and weekdays from 10am -6pm.
*The eminent Professor of Media Studies, Johanna Drucker posed this question in her recent article ‘Making Space: Image Events in an Extreme State’ Cultural Politics, vol 4, no. 1, march 2008, pp 25-45
