Current Exhibition

An exhibition showcasing the work of the first and second year students on the Fine Art degree programme at the University of Chichester has opened at the Otter Gallery. Across highlights the diversity of work students undertake across their chosen materials and disciplines, from burned clothes to photography, beaten metal to felt, and reclaimed objects to paint.

Students following the Fine Art degree programme research a personal choice of medium by exploring current processes and critical theory, developing a context of relevant thinking across what they do practically in the studio. The exhibition demonstrates how students’ ideas and approaches progress through an individual journey towards a knowing and engaged outcome in their final year. 

The work of more than 30 students will be displayed in Across, which runs at the Otter Gallery until May 22. The exhibition runs alongside the Fine Art department’s Degree Show in which individual students present a selection of their work at artOne, from May 14 – 22.

Steve McDade, head of the Fine Art department, said:

It's great to be able to present a cross-section of what it is to study Fine Art - a glimpse across the bones and muscles, blood and all, of what we do on the degree. Some things are highly finished, some things are still groping for a new insight or way of working – there’s sense of the adventureof the enterprise. And it's great to see this in relation to where students end up at the end of the programme in the degree shows.

For the complete exhibition programme download Otter Gallery Programme