
Student Show
UK Degree Shows 2019
08 May 2019 – 22 Sep 2019
UK Degree Shows 2019
London, United Kingdom
Free entry
Exhibited throughout our historic building, the Degree Show is a great opportunity to view or buy work from today’s emerging contemporary fine artists, wood and stone carvers and object conservators. The interim work of our current Artists in Residence is also exhibited.
Exhibition highlights
Fine Art
This year’s Degree Show features work from an eclectic range of practices and subjects. Installations include an exploration of death, loss and memory with subterranean exhibits of fur and bones encased in glass mouldings and a swarm of almost 300 individual ceramic vessels that draw on the Delftware tradition, combined with expressions of gender transformation.
Materiality is explored in sculpture and participatory art that focuses on objects or materials, particularly those in the domestic sphere, that spark interest for their formal qualities and for their potential in carrying meaning as the embodiment of ideas.
Spray paint and highly-coloured acrylics are used on large-scale canvases, depicting a fetus-like imaginary character representing the artist’s childhood, inspired by the iconic work of Charles M. Schultz. Meanwhile themes of nostalgia, temptation, seduction, consumerism and deception are explored through paint in works where photorealism sits next to a painterly brush mark and trompe l’oeil is used to challenge the viewer.
Historic Wood and Stone Carving
The exhibition features an interpretation in stone of Charles Sargeant Jagger’s bronze Royal Artillery Memorial depicting WWI Officers, fine examples of drapery carved in stone and lettering carved into a large roof slate from the Palace of Westminster.
Meanwhile, woodcarving and gilding students are exhibiting a range of breath-taking pieces from an ornate, gilded wall mirror inspired by a Rococo Chinoiserie Girandole design to an intricate cupboard in English Oak depicting the four seasons. Other exhibits include a colourful coat of arms honouring the Prime Warden of the Fishmongers Company Her Royal Highness, Princess Anne, and an imposing gilded wood and metal installation which depicts cycles on wellness and juxtaposes a medical aesthetic with organic elements, drawing on the maker’s own experiences.
Conservation
Conservation students exhibit their final year conservation projects that they have managed independently, with cultural objects loaned from private and public collections. The show features, amongst a range of exhibits, a Pietre Dure table top that has had its many loose and missing stone pieces reinstated to bring the piece back to its original splendour and an Italian, polychrome wood sculpture of St Gerard Majella that has been treated with algae to consolidate the flaking paint and significant losses have been restored.
Student Show
UK Degree Shows 2019
08 May 2019 – 22 Sep 2019
UK Degree Shows 2019
London, United Kingdom
Workshop
Behind the Scenes with the Conservators
15 Jul 2019 – 17 Jul 2019
City & Guilds of London Art School
London, United Kingdom
Workshop
Lettering in Stone
15 Jul 2019 – 19 Jul 2019
City & Guilds of London Art School
London, United Kingdom
Workshop
Observational Drawing: Focus on the Figure
15 Jul 2019 – 19 Jul 2019
City & Guilds of London Art School
London, United Kingdom
Workshop
Bas Relief Modelling in Clay
15 Jul 2019 – 19 Jul 2019
City & Guilds of London Art School
London, United Kingdom
Workshop
Introduction to Ornamental Woodcarving
22 Jul 2019 – 26 Jul 2019
City & Guilds of London Art School
London, United Kingdom
Workshop
Stone Carving for Beginners
22 Jul 2019 – 26 Jul 2019
City & Guilds of London Art School
London, United Kingdom
Workshop
Calligraphy for Beginners and Improvers
22 Jul 2019 – 26 Jul 2019
City & Guilds of London Art School
London, United Kingdom
Workshop
Etching Fundamentals
22 Jul 2019 – 26 Jul 2019
City & Guilds of London Art School
London, United Kingdom
Workshop
Gilding and Verre Églomisé
22 Jul 2019 – 26 Jul 2019
City & Guilds of London Art School
London, United Kingdom
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