Points of View

Courtyard gallery exhibition

Some of last years then level 1 Fine Art students at the University of Lincoln - now level 2 - were asked what it might mean to be with an artwork for an extended period of time, 3 hours minimum. Most people spend minutes, if not seconds looking at what surrounds them. Perhaps the intensity of slowness, the sheer concentration required to stick with it, fills people with horror, provokes some premonition of dread, perhaps even an awareness of their own mortality. At any rate, few people seem up to the task. This is a great disappointment, not to say missed opportunity: to look and breathe is a miracle; it can change your life.
The students work here in this exhibition stems from a provocation to make work in response to The Collections fascinating show Viewpoints. The imperative was not necessarily to make work ‘after’ the artists on show in the Viewpoints exhibition but perhaps to respond with oblique inclinations, to become conscious of the spaces between artworks and to open themselves out to an intimate encounter with an artwork, its context and to very ground of being.

Below is the list of students exhibiting -

Maya Busby
Elena Boldina
Charlotte Simcox
Molly Maria Venner
Natasha Monfared