Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
MA Art and Design Students showcase work in The Other Way Round exhibition
The 14 full and part time students have drawn inspiration from seeking to answer a series of questions addressing individual practice. How can art and design present novelty by a simple rethinking of the ordered universe of causes and effects? What creative possibilities are realised in seeing things from ‘the other way round’?
Course Leader for MA Art & Design, Peter Lewis explains:
“The programme develops from an assimilation of certain radical episodes in British art education, notably taught at St Martins and Glasgow Schools of Art and Design (1970-1990). Our students begin their academic studies with a task, to erase the worn ideas of tradition, art history and even to question the presumptions of their own work, before consideration of practice. Under the direction of myself, Alan Dunn, and Chris Bloor, the MA Art & Design course at Leeds Beckett University asks students to respond to a re-conceptualisation of art and design practice in the undertaking of curatorial and collaborative projects.”
Senior Lecturer in Art, Architecture and Design, Alan Dunn says: “Our 2016 cohort of MA Art and Design students have had an amazing range of opportunities to work with artists such as Stewart Home, to develop an exhibition for Another Vacant Space in Berlin, to work with the Henry Moore Institute on Gordon Matta-Clark’s ‘Garbage Wall’ project and to attend the British Art Show lectures and numerous &model, BasementArtsProject and East Street Arts exhibitions. They have taken all this energy in Leeds and transformed it into a series of exciting installations, along with their experimental digital screenings inside Leeds Market."
The exhibition launches on Friday 2 September, 18:00-20:00 for a private view which is free to attend and open to the general public.
From 16:00- 17:00 that day there will be the opportunity to view an exclusive screening of new text works by our MA students curated by Dr Alan Dunn and Peter Lewis alongside international artists and musicians including Turner Prize winners Douglas Gordon and Gilbert & George and The Pop Group. This will be presented on the new digital screen inside Leeds Kirkgate Market, in collaboration with Pop Art Media.
The exhibition runs from 3-10 September at Leeds Beckett University, Broadcasting Place.
The full list of students exhibiting are: Tosin Balogun, Courtney Brewer, Hui-Yu Chen, Pippa Eason, Patricia Hewitt, Nicola Knight, Muhong Lui, Kieran May, Petra McCarthy, Letizia Moricca, Bethan Patterson, Josh Robinson, Samantha Thornhill and Jack Wolff.
A catalogue design by students Jack Wolff and Letizia Moricca is available with Peter Lewis’ essay ‘The other way round’.