VSForeword to the Visual Studies Degree Show 2011

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We do things a little differently around here.

We are not just sculptors, painters, photographers, designers, curators and

filmmakers; we are problem solvers, innovative,

persistent and resourceful. We are communicators.

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This year’s graduating students began as first years in September 2008, in the last three years there have been many significant world events in politics, economics and the environment, from a worldwide economic crisis to the recent earthquake in Japan and its aftermath.

This backdrop to their time of creative development as students on the Visual Studies course has been part of what forms their ideas and practices, they have learnt and understood how to look at the world with all it’s complexities and contradictions, and to understand the importance of creativity in a world that needs ideas and solutions and to see solutions in challenges. There is a confidence which comes from recognising that uncertainty is the status quo, but we hope to equip students with the adaptability and versatility to view this with ambition, optimism and hope. They have supported each other and sought and demonstrated a range of creative possibilities and outcomes, during the course they have organised events, collaborative projects, been proactive in the community and exhibited widely.

They have been a pleasure to work with, motivated, professional, enterprising, innovative and spirited. We wish them every success for their ongoing careers; this is after all not an end but a beginning.

The Course TeamKimberley Foster, Peter Martin, Paul Grace and Kelly Large

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Extended Program

Events taking place in Norwich throughout June organised by Visual Studies students.

11th June - BROTHERS, gig at Norwich Arts Centre, St Benedicts Street, 7.30pm

20th June - A talk with Kelly Large, Friends Meeting House, Upper Goat Lane, 6.30pm

21st June - Emma Brough Peformance, VS Degree Show, 7pm. Also 22nd, 23rd and 24th at 12pm

22nd June - Emma Brough Peformance, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 6pm

22nd & 25th June - Victoria Burroughes Readings, VS Degree Show, 2pm

27th June - Screening Room, Hollywood Cinema, Anglia Square, 7pm

Visual Studies Degree Show

22nd-28th JuneSt Georges Street

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Brittany Bathgate

Patience Boggis

Emily Haynes

Jemma Boyd

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Sarah Mooney

Victoria Burroughes

Ben Rowley

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Claire Gledhill

Isabel Gylling & Matthew Ferguson

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Jane Graham

Lara A’Court

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The medium does not limit the work; the ideas dictate

the medium. However, as undemanding as it sounds,

art without walls is not easy. Unique transitory boundaries appear, and they take discipline and

imagination to manage. Our interdisciplinary training

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Jamie Chopping

Lucy House

Billy Sayer

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Grant Ley

Laura Harris

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“The denial of lower, coarse, vulgar, venal, servile-in a word, natural- enjoyment which constitutes the sacred sphere of culture, implies an affirmation of the superiority of those who can be satisfied with the sublimated, refined, disinterested, gratuitous, distinguished pleasures forever closed to the profane. That is why art and cultural consumption are predisposed, consciously and deliberately or not, to fulfil a social function of legitimating social differences.” (Pierre Bourdieu,1986).

Music provides a coding, which allows for an intellectually stimulating experience, on the grounds that the “lower, coarse, vulgar, venal, servile” noises are sublimated. So the noise, such as that which confronts the music in this work represents the carnal and unpredictable. Noise is the eruption of the sublimated. It is carnal in the sense that it exists outside of the borders of structured music, and therefore music academia. It is not based on intelligence, or knowledge of symbolism or craft, but it is closer to a primitive instinct that cannot be taught or learned. It is the sound which would usually be left out or erased, and therefore it is not associated with any sense of intellectual hierarchy. It does also seem to escape particular social coding, so it cannot easily be placed, justified, or categorised. However, its carnal qualities gives noise an almost animalistic quality, and its destructive features form a correlation with anarchy…

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Making work is a wayfor us to engage with and exist in the world.

We have a desire to pose questions, offer solutions

and in some way make things better. Through

making and thinking we can improve our understanding of ourselves and the world

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Lynne Harlock

Esther Lyons

Mathew Parkin

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John Colahan

Natasha Lloyd

Mimi Wong

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Alice Freear

Cecily Nowak

Christina Taylor

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Melanie Tilford

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William Downes

Jill Sharpe

Siobhán Fitt-Stirling

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We take different perspectives, bridge the

gaps, locate what is appropriate and consider the audience. We are, wethink, exactly what the creative industry needs right now. By the way, welcome to our show.

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Keziah Hackett

Sarah Pitcher

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Emma Brough

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Dorothea Curry

Rachael Barrett

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Claire Doughty

Caroline Duff

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Where we are

Third floor of the St. Georges building on St. Georges Street, Norwich as part of the NUCA Degree Shows.

Opening Tuesday 21st June 4pmContinues: Wednesday 22nd - Tuesday 28th

10am-4pm Daily (Closed Sunday)

TrainNorwich is less than 2 hours from London and there is an intercity link with the Midlands, the North of England and Scotland via Peterborough. Trains from London Liverpool Street run approximately every half hour. The University College is ten minutes walk from the train station.

CarFrom London take the M11/A11. Norwich University College of the Arts is situated in the city centre. If you are driving from the North or the Midlands, you can use the A47 via Kings Lynn or the A14 to Newmarket and then the A11 to Norwich.