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| X Elaine Ang, Charlie Cook, Raphaella Davies, Xinran Du, John Flindt, Devon Forester-Jones, Amy Gough, Jaron Hill and Angelina Jesson, Rene McBrearty, Grace Woodcock 12/01/2017 – 27/01/2017           Circle Time Angelina Jesson and Jaron Hill, 2017 video installation 00:20:16  Hoist! (The mark of the millennial) Grace Woodcock, 2017 mixed media 100 × 1 × 70cm  Stand John Flindt, 2017 microphone stand, lamp, electrical tape dimensions variable  Turn Xinran Du, 2016 video 00:01:32  Backflip Charlie Cook, 2016 cls, plywood, rope, chair 318 × 192 × 158cm     Part 1 / Irving Berlin Elaine Ang, 2017 video, text, reading   Taut (in eight parts) Rene McBrearty, 2017 clay, bitumen, performance   Today has been Ruff Raphaella Davies, 2017 dog hair installation, performance  Blue Angel II Amy Gough, 2016 Single channel video 00:05:03   Under the thumb (diptych) Grace Woodcock, 2016 oil on board and printed fabric 85 × 55.5 × 10cm [×2]  Slide to open Grace Woodcock, 2016 Screen print on board, mesh and steel 35 × 47 × 53cm   Hold Grace Woodcock, 2016 Oil on board, wax, mesh and steel 112 × 49.5 × 35cm  Inside (Version 2.4) Devon Forester-Jones, 2016 – ongoing HTML file theoretically infinite, in reality nonexistent  Microphone John Flindt, 2017 microphone, cable dimensions variable For the tenth installment of the long standing ex, an annual exhibition profiling a selection of artists at the beginning of their careers, we are pleased to have now opened out the selection to be made from all 2016 graduates from all Fine Art BA courses throughout the country. Nominations were made by course leaders and teaching staff in order to compile a long list of some of the best artists graduating that year. From this list we invited Sally Tallant (Director of the Liverpool Biennial) and Juan Cruz (Dean of Fine Art at the Royal College of Art) to select their top ten. Elaine Ang (b. 1984, Singapore) recently graduated from Sculpture and Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art. Recent exhibitions include Transmission Members Video Show, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow; Hand Luggage, Steambox, Dublin; and 2TOUGH2CHEW, Good Press, Glasgow. Other projects include ADD2CART, a platform for live performances in free, alternative, non-gallery spaces. Charlie Cook (b. 1993, Hemel Hempstead) recently graduated from Sculpture and Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art. Recent exhibitions include Parallel Dimensions, WAVEparticle 'Open Spaces', Glasgow. Raphaella Davies (b. 1994, Newcastle Upon Tyne) recently graduated from BA Fine Art, Liverpool John Moores University. Recent exhibitions include In Motion, New Art Spaces, Bolton; How much are they paying you?, The Royal Standard, Liverpool; and Live Import/Live Export, Toxteth Resevoir, Liverpool. Currently directing A Particular Act, a performance project space, as part of her residency at Crown Building Studios, Liverpool. Xinran Du (b. 1991, China)recently graduated from BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London. John Flindt (b. 1993, Manchester) recently graduated from Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art. Recent exhibitions include Parallax #2 an exchange exhibition between ASP Katowice, Poland & Chelsea College of Arts, UK, Triangle Space and Cookhouse, Chelsea College of Arts, London; and Open16 Peckham Platform, London. Devon Forrester-Jones (b. 1993, Shrewsbury) recently graduated from Fine Art, Liverpool John Moores University. Recent exhibitions include Up Until Now, The Trophy Room, Liverpool; The Great Unanswered Questions Project Vol. 3, Scaffold Gallery, Manchester; and How Much Are They Paying You, The Royal Standard, Liverpool. Other projects include: Counsel, a project encouraging artists in Liverpool to engage in critical dialogue about their practices; Surtsey Projects, a project space for artists and creatives to collaborate and take risks with their practice; and Hush, an on-going piece where the artist must whisper at all exhibition openings she attends for a year. Amy Gough (b. 1992, Leamington) recently graduated from BA Art and Visual Culture, University of the West of England. Recent exhibitions include The End, 123 Space, Bristol; Spike Open KINO, Spike Island, Bristol; and Rundgang, Universität der Künste, Berlin. Angelina Jesson (b. 1995, London) and Jaron Hill (b. 1994, Huddersfield), both recently graduated from BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins. Recent exhibitions include So Many Steps, So Little Time, De Bond, Bruges, Belgium; OVNi Video Art Festival, The Windsor Hotel, Nice, France; Recreative Screening (Under the Same Sun), South London Gallery, London; Show One - Central Saint Martins, London; and London to Berlin (Brits Abroad) - State of the Art, Berlin, Germany. Rene McBrearty (b. 1992, Birmingham) recently graduated from BA Fine Art, Newcastle University. Recent exhibitions include, Hiatus, Holy Biscuit, Newcastle; and World is Sudden|CIRCA Projects, Berwick Film and Media Festival, Berwick-upon-Tyne. Other projects include UnstapledPress, a publishing house based in Newcastle that makes artist books. Grace Woodcock (b. 1993, London) recently graduated from Painting BA (Hons), Edinburgh College of Art. Recent exhibitions include Best of Degree Show, Six Foot Galery, Glasgow; FLUX, Whitespace Gallery, Edinburgh; and Asbestos Rest Stop, ECA, Edinburgh. She was recently selected as a Scottish New Contemporary and awarded the George Jackson Hutchinson Memorial Prize (2016). Other projects include working towards RSA: New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy and TH4Y at GENERATORprojects, Dundee, both 2017. |
