Fva Degree Show - 2023

About

The students presenting their work in this show are from nine departments, namely Painting, Sculpture, Visual Communication Design, Printmaking, Multi-disciplinary Design, Ceramic Art, Textile and Wearable Arts, Multimedia Arts, and History and Art Theory. The works mostly portray the subject stream and its identity, but most of them depict crossing boundaries.

Some of the most current and innovative works here explore the fertile arena in crossing over from traditional to contemporary creative practice. For instance, painting students who showcase their work here are eager to establish their visual investigations within the domain of the traditional media and methods creating mostly wall-based artwork to convey their conventional academic training. In the same manner, the works of printmaking students displayed here are tied to the traditional printmaking practice but in contrast, the Sculptural objects and installations displayed in this show open up more contemporary visual and conceptual avenues for its viewers. Their materials, concepts, presentations, visual languages, and influences challenge the conventional sculpture practice. The students of art history have created work focusing more on conceptual aspects of art making rather than focusing on skills of making aesthetically appealing art objects. So the work conveys their training in art history and theory, art movements, and its current position.

Applied Art Education is another main focus of the Visual Art Faculty. This year Textile and Wearable Arts students focused on the creative aspect of fashion design rather than focusing on the current marketing trends in fashion industry. Their projects have been greatly influenced by the early twentieth-century French art movements such as Avant-Grade. To a similar extent, the Ceramic Art students’ main focus was learning to explore the aesthetic properties of ceramic practice. The Multi-disciplinary Design, Multimedia Arts, and Visual Communication Design projects focused on the current industry-based creative requirements which is the most demanding area of the contemporary creative economy. The projects are a testament to the ethical design practice and they exemplify the power of design to do better.

Dr. Priyantha Udagedara

Lead Curator