Graduating Masters students from Arts University Plymouth will showcase a variety of exciting and dynamic postgraduate projects at the MA Graduate Show 2024, exhibiting work that includes painting, ceramics, photography, jewellery, sculptural installation, printmaking, moving image and virtual reality works, all undertaken within a specialist postgraduate community of practice.
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The MA Graduate Show exhibition will take place in MIRROR gallery at Arts University Plymouth’s Tavistock Place campus, and at Studio 11 on Regent Street, just a two minute walk away. The exhibition will be open from 10am to 5pm on Friday 30 August, from 10am to 1pm on Saturday 1 September, then from 10am to 5pm on Monday 2 September to Thursday 5 September. A preview evening will be held from 6pm to 8pm on Thursday 29 August. Spaces at the preview are limited, with tickets bookable in advance on Eventbrite.
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On Saturday 31 August, Arts University Plymouth will be open from 10am until 1pm for a Postgraduate Open Day, which will include opportunities to see work from the MA Graduate Show and to speak to postgraduate academics and find out what it’s like to to study at the South West’s University of the Year (as ranked by students in the Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2024). Come along to see work by graduating MA students, some of whom will be available to discuss their research and experience of the MA programmes. This is an ideal opportunity to explore a community of makers and thinkers, ask questions and visualise what it’s like to study at Arts University Plymouth.
Some highlights from this year’s MA Graduate Show that will feature in the exhibition include:
- MA Painting graduate Dr Paul Clark, a palliative care doctor who previously curated a collaborative exhibition at Torbay Hospital’s HeArts Gallery, delving into the interface between art and medical science.
- MA Fine Art graduate Jane Sharkey, a walking artist whose creative practice is shaped by social-engagement practice on Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel.
- MA Painting graduate Karina Eibatova, a visual artist whose work has featured in Juxtapoz, New York Times, Wired and The Verge.
- MA Illustration graduate Samuel Grotzke, a multidisciplinary artist working in digital moving image production, who also acts as an Research Affiliate in Arts University Plymouth’s StudioLab for Embodied Media, building on the university’s body of experimental research into wearable technologies and adaptable and responsive biomaterials.
- MA Fine Art graduate Kelly Bryant, a multi-disciplinary visual artist who was awarded the status of Artist in Residence at Paignton Picture House, celebrating the history of the cinema through her unique practice of film projection art.
- MA Painting graduate Victoria Mardon, an abstract artist who creates precise and complex chromatic, hard-edged, geometrical paintings.
- MA Drawing graduate Naomi Batts, an illustrator and lecturer who works with traditional mediums such as acrylic paint, wax crayons and collage, drawing intuitively to create imagery often inspired by nature and organic forms.
- MA Illustration graduate Charlotte Leadley, an award-winning illustrator who was previously shortlisted for the New Designer of the Year award.
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Dr Tom Milnes, Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for Postgraduate Studies at Arts University Plymouth, said: “The show is a once-a-year opportunity to see the fantastic diversity of postgraduate talent at Arts University Plymouth. Our students have worked incredibly hard to present an energetic, challenging and beautifully crafted exhibition that demonstrates some of the breadth and depth of what it’s possible to achieve when you undertake an MA to further develop your creative practice with us.”
The MA Graduate Show 2024 will feature work from nearly 40 postgraduate students across programmes including MA Ceramics, MA Craft & Material Practices, MA Creative Education, MA Drawing, MA Fine Art, MA Illustration, MA Jewellery, MA Painting, MA Photography, and MA Printmaking.
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