Seventy Feet was an exhibition at the Free Range Graduate Art Show in the beginning of July by 35 Fine Art graduates, recently of Bath School of Art and Design. We have been raising money to fund the exhibition all year and all the effort paid off in the end.
We had a huge space. The curators, Charlotte Bartrop, Emily Cooper and Louise Grant did a brilliant job at making sure 35 mostly unrelated practices hung together coherently. Below are images of a few of my favourite pieces/best images from the exhibition.
Nick Stamp
Beryl Desmond (www.beryldesmond.blogspot.com)
Anna Borowicz (www.annaborowicz.blogspot.com)
Vicki Ley (www.victorialey.wordpress.com)
Jenny Cooper (www.jenny-cooper.co.uk)
I showed the same works as I did for degree show, so won't re-post images (especially as I was spoilt with the amazing light at degree show and the warehouse was a tad dark.) However I did play around with Unpicked and Dipped IV a little more, bringing it completely away from the wall. It seemed very exposed as it is quite a small piece, but really benefited from having more room to breathe.
A live art programme ran throughout the week, with performances and live drawings happening alongside the more static works. I performed 'Unpicking and Dipping'. I've been struggling this year with performances, I think the problem was trying to fit too much into them which became confusing for an audience. This performance was concentrating on the action of unpicking canvas and dipping it into oil medium. It was very simple and seemed to work well.
An exciting part of the show was seeing all the other shows on at the same time. I met two performance artists who had been studying Fine Art at Bournemouth; Claire Prosser and Rebecca Helen Page. I watched Rebecca perform 'Fragile', she began the performance tied to a pillar with the kind of tape put on fragile parcels, white with FRAGILE written in red. The performance was Rebecca trying to free herself from the tape. The work had an otherworldly quality as the artist seemed naive and alien. She broke loose with an air of curiosity rather than desperation; she was quite happy tied to the pillar, but was just seeing if she could free herself (www.rhpage.tumblr.com). I didn't see Claire's work, but her website is worth a look (www.claireprosser.co.uk)
