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Millais Off-site presents:

Sorted!

Work from BA (Hons) Fine Art, BA (Hons) Photography and BA(Hons) Illustration, Southampton Solent University

8 July – 1 October 2010

 

Steve Wight, Landscape

Foyer and Windows, Sir James Matthews Building, Southampton Solent University, Above Bar Street, Southampton, SO14 7NN

 

Ben Evenett, Blue Racoons

This exhibition presents a diverse range of the most current and original ideas from graduating students at Southampton Solent University.  Sorted! is the culmination of the three-year degree programme which presents a selection of work including artist films, photographs and drawings, as well as painting, printmaking and sculpture and is an opportunity to see innovative and creative work from talented individuals. The courses have a growing international reputation for teaching students strong practical skills and providing the critical framework needed for future careers in the creative industries.

 

Jessica Ross, Portrait

Ian Kirkpatrick – Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

2 July – 1 September 2010

Michael Andrews Building Concourse Gallery, Southampton Solent University, East Park Terrace, Southampton, SO14 0YN

 

Contemporary society produces vast quantities of visual material including paintings, sculptures, prints and photographs, much of which is reproduced in books, television and on the internet. These images develop histories of their own and become part of our collective understanding of the present and past.

Ian Kirkpatrick’s works draw these visual artefacts together into reflections on the mythologies of the contemporary world. Inspired by classical Greek vases, he frequently uses cardboard boxes as modern-day ‘vessels’ upon which to examine Western society’s master narratives.

This is Ian Kirkpatrick’s first solo exhibition. It features a selection of his recent work, including a new large-scale artwork. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger uses the subject of Olympic sport to explore our modern obsession with progress and human achievement. This participatory project involved members of the public and local schoolchildren from Waterside Primary School in Hythe.

Ian Kirkpatrick is a Canadian artist and graphic designer currently living in Southampton. Since 2008 his work has been exhibited at several UK galleries, and is on permanent display at the University of Southampton’s Archaeology Department.

This project is supported by the Creative Campus Initiative, a consortium of South East universities working together to support the Cultural Olympiad.

Links:www.creativecampusinitiative.org.uk

www.iankirkpatrick.wordpress.com|

NEWS

Jane Kilford

PARK LIFE

All life is here - capturing culture across Southampton’s city parks with contemporary media.

East Park, Watts Park, Palmerston, 15-18, 24-26, 28, 31 May and 3 June 2010

For 10 days in May 2010, artist Jane Kilford spent time in Southampton’s great city parks as part of an interactive exploration into the culture of Park Life .This highly succesful event is finished but continues on web, intranet, blog and twitter and facebook. 

You can contribute to this developing archive in the parks or online – access any of the following media to join in Park Life:

http://parklifesouthampton.blogspot.com||  

Text 0795 7515 548 .

www.janekilford.co.uk||

www.solent.ac.uk/millais||  

www.artspace.co.uk| |

Jane Kilford is an artist who works with sourced materials, producing hand worked sculptural objects, drawings and installations using the history or memory of an experience or site to feed the work. A significant element in her work interacts with people, talking, gathering stories and information providing an interface between public and private activity. Recently her work has moved into the public domain devising and delivering conceptual projects to extended schools; 1000 words 1000 birds for The Big Draw; Random Art with Inspired? youth culture project event in Victoria Park, 2008; The Matchbox Manifesto Project, Havant Schools Federation event.