Fine Art Research
space/socialspace
`space/social space¿ provides an
overarching
framework
for the range of research activity currently
on going within Fine Art at U of S. Research here has increasingly focussed on
issues of space in relation to a public audience, and space ( types of space )
encountered as physical or
immaterial space.
Eric Bainbridge¿s research has two
trajectories, firstly continuing his long standing interest in ways to continue
and re-evaluate modernist languages in sculpture, and a rationale for
continuation. A more recent focus has been on the contemporary experience of
the popular magazine page post digital technology, through the technique of
collage. Bainbridge has also led a two year (continuing ) project developing
billboard images related to `a public message¿, (with James Hutchinson )
Bainbridge has had recent exhibitions in UK Italy Denmark, and forthcoming
exhibitions at New Art gallery Walsall, and Camden Art Centre London.
James Hutchinson¿s research sits in the territory
defined as `digital¿. His output has origins in the physical processes of
drawing, painting and printmaking. His preference is to draw with a mobile
phone or construct `sculpture and objects¿ through the use of
appropriate software. He has also taken imagery from digital
sources into the physical world , through commissioned work in schools and
businesses. Hutchinson has had recent exhibitions in UK France Germany Sweden
and USA, and forthcoming exhibitions UK and France.
Ralf Broeg¿s long standing project using the
format of the magazine as an experimental alternative exhibition space for art/art
projects, engages with space as both private and public , as well as it¿s
impermanence. His paintings and sculptures refer to immaterial space whilst
remaining resolutely physical. In addition to the magazine exhibition space his
research also considers the potential for a sculptural object to be also a
gallery. Broeg has had recent exhibitions in Germany and USA and has
forthcoming exhibitions in Germany.
Lothar Goetz¿ research examines the effect of
colour in the form of large scale `wall painting¿ on existing or planned
architectural spaces. He is interested in the legacy and reinterpretation of
modernist idealism. As well as projects for domestic living spaces Goetz has
carried out large works in public buildings and amenities such as hospitals
underground stations and businesses, where the experimental use of colour is employed to articulate architecture. Goetz has
had recent exhibitions in UK Spain, Switzerland, and Germany, and forthcoming
exhibitions in Germany and UK.
