Exhibitions

‘I’m thinking of going home for a couple of days.’ Titles a collective of final year BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martin’s student-led exhibition.

Interlocked by their uncertainty and emerging artistry, this exhibition plays host to ideas of transition and discovery. Playing to clumsiness; ‘I’m thinking of going home for a couple of days.’ is a vessel for these artists to have a conversation with the work they make outside the art school walls.

Through thematic influences of English folk, family, tradition, and the unfamiliar, this multi-media exhibition is a exciting, messy, personal exploration. From traditional crafting practice to the use of video and sculptural installation these works are entirely individual and yet collectively felt.

Davies, Monaghan and Klein address themes such as loneliness and isolation experienced by many people alongside a sense of being captive in a world which neither acknowledges nor addresses individual struggle, and the creaking of institutions such as the health and judicial system. This contrasts with the occasional glimpse of joy, and a celebration of diversity and community. Although the subject matter is serious, the issues are dealt with in a tragi-comic way and the use of animation lends an air of absurdity to the characters.

Land, Loss and Womb explores feelings of eco-grief for our dwindling natural world. Summer’s practice looks at the importance of having access to wild spaces and the impacts new build developments are having on communities and the environment.

Summer Auty is a Frome based installation artist predominantly working with photography, print and text. Her practice explores the importance of people having access to wild spaces and undeveloped land, whilst investigating the impacts new builds are having on communities and the environment.

seam collective presents A Visible THREAD; an exhibition which explores the visibility and invisibility of thread. Through their unique perspectives and a diverse range of textile disciplines, eleven seam artists have created new works to stimulate thought, connection and conversation.

The exhibition aims to encourage viewers to rethink their relationship to thread, be aware of its materiality, its sustainability, its possibilities, and limitations. Thread, as cloth, is woven through our lives. It surrounds us like a second skin. Yet, precisely because of these close connections, it becomes almost invisible to us.