Student sculpture on show
13 July 2011
Sculpture students at the University of Canterbury will hold their 18th annual group show in the School of Fine Arts next week.
Sculpture students at the University of Canterbury will hold their 18th annual group show in the School of Fine Arts next week.
Heavy Pattern, which opens with a preview from 5pm on 19 July, will run from 20-22 July in The Casting Room gallery.
The exhibition will showcase a diverse range of approaches to sculpture. Tim Middleton re-examines traditional materials and casts a baleful gaze over masculine subcultures like heavy metal fandom and boxing with his fragile and monumental plaster punching bag, Phallic Tantrum, while Alissa Gilbert will operate a fully functioning curio store during the show's run, taking a quirky look at the vogue for vintage and the difficulties involved in making it as an artist.
Other students involved in the group show are Philip Aitken, Lana Burtenshaw, Marela Glavas, Ana Iti, Sophie Jones, Keir Leslie, Mat Logan, Lucy Matthews, Thomas Reveley, Rebecca Scott, Jenny Valoric, Steve Walsh, Jason Ware, Charlotte Watson, Liv Worsnop and Greg Yee.
The annual group show is an opportunity for students to show their work to the public.
Student Rebecca Scott said “being an artist is all about having a conversation with the public and this show is a great chance to kick-start that conversation”.
“It has been hard finding spaces to show post-quake, so we're all really happy to have this happen.”
The show is entirely organised by the students of the School of Fine Arts’ sculpture department.
The Casting Room can be found in Block 3 of the University of Canterbury’s School of Fine Arts. Access to the School of Fine is via Arts Road, off Clyde Road (http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/theuni/maps/). Gallery hours are 11.30am-4.30pm.
For more information please contact:
Keir Leslie
keir.leslie@gmail.com
More information on the exhibition can be found at: http://www.sofa.canterbury.ac.nz/sfa_upcoming.shtml.
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