Graduating students from the School of Music and Fine Art (SMFA) will present their Fine Art Degree Show at the Historic Dockyard, Chatham from 24 May to 1 June.
The degree show forms part of SMFA’s aim to encourage audiences to explore the potential of Medway as a dynamic hub for the creative arts.
Featuring 40 graduating BA and MA Fine Art students, exhibited works will include an installation imagining a future Kent submerged beneath the sea and a psycho-geographical exploration of Rainham marshes and the communities along the Hoo peninsula.
Found Objects by Clarinda Tse
Visitors will also be able to discover art installations revealing acoustic experiments in an abandoned psychiatric hospital, human ‘hosts’ dispersing half-remembered childhood smells, a personal archaeology of colonialism in South Africa and bizarre kinetic feeding machines.
Degree show exhibitors include student artists from Japan, Latvia, Malta, Nepal, Italy, Cyprus, Poland, Hong Kong and Sudan, as well as the UK.
The show, which is free and open to all, begins on 23 May from 2-6pm, when there will an introductory speech by award-winning artist Lindsay Seers at 3pm. It is then open from 10am-5pm on 24-25 May and at those times from 28 May-1 June. Visitors will be able to attend a wide range of educational activities, including talks and mini workshops with some of the exhibiting artists. For more information on the School of Music and Fine Art Graduate Show 2015 see: School of Music and Fine Art
On Monday 1 June local schools and colleges are being invited to attend an Education Day. Attendees will be able to view the exhibition and hear talks from the artists. Students will be encouraged to produce their own artwork in response to their experience of the show. For more information on arranging a school or college group visit (all ages welcome) contact Kathryn Sansom email: kms@kent.ac.uk