I AM PRESENTS - INTERIM SHOW
13th - 15th December 2013
Press Release:
This December sees the beginning of the lead up to the School of Music and Fine Art’s 3rd year Degree Show with an Interim Show. Bringing together the works of 42 upcoming artists, I AM exhibits their approach to contemporary art, working in a variety of mediums, the exhibition provides an exclusive insight into their current practice and development.
Over the course of their time at the University of Kent, a process of research and experimentation has resulted in an exhibition of engrossing installations, evocative films and a diverse display of painting, photography and sculpture.
The exhibition will take place in a former retail environment in ‘Intra’, a space between Rochester and Chatham; the space, previously occupied as “Featherstone”, is saturated with history. The building has now been given a new lease of life, as IAM reinterprets the space, transporting it to the present. After Christmas the space will be redeveloped by the Coal Shed Press as a printmaking centre for Medway, opening the space up for the community, through a shop and a programme of printmaking courses.
Work in progress...
Claire Orme experiments in the workshop in preparation for her performative piece about investigation and narrative
Camila Karimova works with sunflower seeds to create a sense of awareness of the Uyghur culture
Stephanie Rondel's work, which uses paint to experiment with the juxtaposition between the natural and the man-made within the landscape
Gurdeesh Nandra works with materials which are socially classed as rubbish to give them meaning and value
Hana Lharri prepares her maps, which document where she has been over 30 days
Julia Moyes work, in which she makes vessels signifying the histories of rivers in a metaphor on time
One of Nathan Hawthorne's paintings, which explores an unknown kingdom
A preview of Rachel Foster's work for the Interim Show
Veronica McGeehan's work, looking at the theme of control in relation to the 'Serial Killer'
Hayley Wareing experiments with different ways to capture fog to simulate weather
Sophie Brown & Hana Lharri working collaboratively on their individual pieces for the show
Claire Orme getting into character for her performance installation
Preparing artwork for exhibition
Tom Pilcher's work, in which he looks at the dissonance between the past and present, transforming indexes of time.
The sign for our exhibition
