Goldsmith Postgraduate Exhibition 2011

 GOLDSMITH 

University of London

Department of Art Postgraduate  Exhibition

This weekend the prestigious Goldsmith University is holding its Postgraduate Exhibition. In the past a lot of the Artists that has graduated from here has turned into big names. These days they do get picked up directly from their graduation shows (sometimes perhaps even earlier) to be presented at Galleries, "The Goldsmith effect" it has been named. Saatchi is one who is famous for spotting them early. Artists that has gone here are among others: Anthony Gormly, Damien Hirst, Lucian Freud, Sarah Lucas, Marcus Harvey, Tracey Emin, Michael Landy etc. 

The opening last night had been packed and buzzing. I ended up going there today instead, and it was calm as after a storm (with redundant beer bottles placed around the space and few students...).

The first part of the exhibition is inside a large gorgeous but run down building that was formerly a Bath. Here the students share "cubicle" spaces in threes, where they work on their art and studies (after what I understood). 

Here comes a few glimpses of what I viewed today:

Elsa Margues

Las Deilicias

Luna Jung-eun Lee

Untitled (from Beam series)

Pencil and gloss paint on aluminium

Lisa Selby

unfired porcelain and mixed media

Lee Leane

Interesting with this exhibit is also how professional these students are. Business cards with their information and web sites is available at nearly every cubicle. Some even had beautiful catalogues made.

Noam Edry

Eun Hye Shim

Smoke

Jihyun Jeong

Radihika Agarwala

(Series from "The Indian Summer Delight)

Watercolour, oil and gold leaf on panel.

Radihika Agarwala

(Series from "The Indian Summer Delight)

Watercolour, oil and gold leaf on panel.

These two paintings by Radihika Agarwala are stunning.

Megan Romey

Megan Romey

Modern Bitch Sculpture

Lots of humor in this piece, with the wigs in the mirror.

Hirofumi Isoya

Ideas of Ignorance

(Close-up of detail) Ideas and Ignorance

This piece does better when you see it in reality, quite a jewel.

The Second building is contemporary and you have a complete different feeling when you walk into these bright rooms with a fabulous view. I was thinking to myself, wonder how they divide who is going to be where in which buildings...

Nicholas Wootton

A video installation where you see yourself...

E.H. Cocker

The Duel

E.H. Cocker

The Theft

Not sure about the artist here, but you can have a sense of the space.

(if you know, send me a hint)

Francis Hilhorst

Colleaguse

Soheda Sokhanvari

The Shah of Iran October 1973

Soheila Sokhanvari

Moje Sabz June 2009 (2011)

Hans Diernberger

Put in the floor of a room was this video screen with a trampoline jumper. I thought the piece was quite inventive, it also felt calming somehow to sit and watch it.

Ji Hye Yeom

Portrait project

A mysterious adventurer´s face

Ting-Tong Chang

Free Range 2011

We stood there for a while expectantly to see his complicated machine shoot out eggs... but unfortunately Ting Tong said it would take the whole morning for him to fix it.

The Exhibition is only up until Monday, so you better hurry to catch it.

Have a wonderful weekend

With Love

Kristin