BA (Hons) Fine Art: Sculpture, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL
A look back at BA Fine Art: Sculpture class of 2022
- Written byGrizelda Kitching
- Published date 10 July 2022
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BA (Hons) Fine Art: Sculpture, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL | Photograph: Kristy Noble
This June, BA Fine Art: Sculpture opened their doors to showcase 2022 graduates' work as part of the Undergraduate and Graduate Diploma Show, where the spacious studios occupying the top floor were filled with bold and ambitious installation pieces.
Here, we take a closer at work by our BA Fine Art: Sculpture class of 2022.
BA (Hons) Fine Art: Sculpture, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL
“In The Space Between Two Trees (2022), I ask why there is such seriousness around maintaining pillars of order, such as gender roles. I visualise this maintenance using metaphors of a smooth, well-trodden path and a shiny, polished spaceship. The path represents a sense of ease for those who profit from its destination the most: white, straight, CIS gendered, men. The shiny, chrome properties of the ship represent a preservation of this hierarchical structure.”
- Matthew Thurgood, BA Fine Art: Sculpture, 2022
BA (Hons) Fine Art: Sculpture, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL | Photograph: Kristy Noble
BA (Hons) Fine Art: Sculpture, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL | Photograph: Lola Baert
“The process of making work - Het leven is te intiem om met anderen te delen (Life is too intimate to share with others) - involved an investigation into materials by creating a bond with the materials. Feeling where the clay wants to go, going on a search for stones by the Thames, building incomplete metal structures. The last step was creating and searching for a balance and tension between all the elements. Balancing stones and ceramic pieces on the corners of the metal structures and feeling what feels right. My final installation includes elements curated together. The elements include a various amount of stoneware fired terracotta ceramics, iron slag stones found at the Thames around Deptford, rusted steel tube and sheet structures.”
- Lola Baert, BA Fine Art: Sculpture, 2022
BA (Hons) Fine Art: Sculpture, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL | Photograph: Kristy Noble
BA (Hons) Fine Art: Sculpture, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL | Photograph: Joa Blumenkranz
“Homo Philanimus – a mixed media sculpture portraying a tender moment shared between two humanoid creatures. The inspiration behind the sculpture came from my personal relationships and what they have taught me about intimacy and love. This sculpture was an attempt at visualising an alternate human species that is more loving, kind, and spiritually evolved than Homo Sapiens, and lives within a different social structure and with a different biology.”
- Joa Blumenkranz, BA Fine Art: Sculpture, 2022
BA (Hons) Fine Art: Sculpture, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL | Photograph: Shaanthi Rajah
BA (Hons) Fine Art: Sculpture, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL | Photograph: Shaanthi Rajah
“My practice explores nostalgia by creating playful structures that reference my childhood and cultural identity. Within 行行企企 (Hangin’ Around), this concept is further investigated through the creation and embedding of replicas of culturally specific and personal nostalgic objects within my work to create a sense of place. Through experimentation at the foundry and metal workshop, I create sculptures that appear ‘ready-for-use’ but have no intrinsic purpose. I manipulate steel rods intuitively to create drawing-like structures, which I build onto by attaching other disparate elements.”
- Shaanthi Rajah, BA Fine Art: Sculpture, 2022
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