The School of Fine Art
Fine art at Kingston encourages dialogue between traditional and emerging genres. Priority is given to individual and collaborative artistic practice; the making of works; and the understanding of this within contemporary art. The school provides dynamic production-based and studio programmes for students who wish to develop their professional practice within a range of Innovative courses at undergraduate, taught postgraduate and research levels.
Open Road 3rd – 21st March 2010 In October 2009, the three artists resident at the Toilet Gallery launched a campaign to name the anonymous side-street where the gallery resides. Just four months later, they are proud to announce the council-approved creation of Nipper Alley, named in honour of the dog made famous in the HMV trademark, [...]
Fine Art graduate Catrin Davies is soon to exhibit at the Standpoint Gallery in London as part of the exhibition Beast, a dialogue between the known, human, and the animal (the Other) world. Davies presents The Beast of Bont 2009, the latest of her documentary videos based on alleged ‘big cat sightings’, combining the use of [...]
Fine Art: pilot projects/background research The initial project and background research began in March 2007, with a dialogue being opened up by two groups of researchers from Kingston University and Shanghai University. In July 2008, Louis Nixon, Head of the School of Fine Art led an international multidisciplinary team to develop a project with Shanghai University [...]
The first works have gone on show in a new exhibition and foyer area at Knights Park. Images by 31 photography students were unveiled at the official launch on 25 November. The exhibition space is one of the key features of the remodelled central ground floor area at the campus, which is home to the Faculty [...]
The photographs collected within the book, Pioneer, are by the first cohort of students on the new BA Photography coruse at Kingston University. If ‘their tracks can be traced’ as Flusser suggests, the photographs that form the main body of the book reflect very varying positions and intentions, but are united as a collection by [...]