Unrest

Selected works from the UN 2008 Fine Art BA

Fri 05 Sep 2008 - Sat 18 Oct 2008

The Fishmarket Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of new work by 9 emerging artists, graduating in 2008 from the University of Northampton Fine Art BA course. The Fishmarket has long seen the importance of making strong links with the University in order to provide a platform for new artists, to support their development and offer an inspiring context for their work within the community and further afield.

For the first time The Fishmarket has invited students to exhibit in the main gallery and create an exhibition that forms part of the 2008 programme. Very much a progression of the degree show, Unrest brings together artists working in a range of media including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and video. Many of the artists have chosen to create new work for the exhibition and several will be creating site specific pieces that respond directly to the space, Unrest offers a unique opportunity to see new work by these artists, charting their development since graduation.

A vibrant diversity of styles exists within the selection but the show is bound together by the multiple meanings of its title. “Want of rest or repose; unquietness; sleeplessness; uneasiness; disquietude” These themes are most starkly represented in the grotesque surreality that underpins the work of Stuart Southwell, Jack James and Simon Kitchin working in photography, video and painting respectively, but also through the energetic, brash action of paintings by Gareth Haynes and Nosheen Muhammad. A quieter interpretation is evident in the intense, restless details of drawings by Hilary Stone and Roz Inett, the sense of fragility and impermanence in the sculptural work of Mary Ahmadi and the search for rest and repose in photographs by Lesley Anne Churchill.

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