Fine Art

Studio Art 01: We, the Contemporary

Andrea Medjesi-Jones and Karen David

What is ‘Contemporary’ about painting? That's a question this 2D studio tackles from multiple directions.

Studio Art 02: Art and Non-Art

Galia Kollectiv and Joseph Noonan-Ganley

Allan Kaprow described non-art as “whatever has not yet been accepted as art but has caught an artist’s attention with that possibility in mind”.

Studio Art 03: The Black Box

Patrick Ward and Dr Jonathan Whitehall

Increasingly artists are confronted with technologies and systems whose internal operation appears mysterious to its users.

Studio Art 04: The Thingy World

Rosemarie McGoldrick, Olga Koroleva and Jessie Flood-Paddock

The critic Viktor Shklovsky's striking words a few months before the Russian revolution over 100 years ago were against the attrition of routine.

Studio Photo 05: UN/staging the UN/staged

Heather McDonough and James Cant

UN/staging the UN/staged considers image making through a critical lens of the constructed and unconstructed image. It sets out to challenge the binary distinction between photographic works that are considered staged and those works that are considered unstaged.

Studio Photo 06: Disrupting Borders: the Personal to the Universal

Ania Dabrowska and Yiannis Katsaris

Disrupting Borders: the Personal to the Universal, responds to timely contemporary issues supporting students in making works that embrace speculative visions, deconstruct cultural and political myth-making and forecast new contemporary photographic subjectivities.

Studio Photo 07: Shifting Glances

Paola Leonardi and Lee Brodhurst Hooper

A fleeting stream of images passes on our screens: everyone has a camera, we snap photos on our phones, we upload them to the cloud, we like them on Instagram, we search them on online platforms, we send them to friends, we snapchat them to strangers.

Fine Art studios 2019-20

The Fine Art cluster of studios covers the Fashion Photography BA, Fine Art BA, Painting BA and Photography BA courses.