The Third Degree will bring together six creative individuals who all started their artist careers on Weston-Super-Mares foundation course. After graduating from this course each went in separate creative directions in various different location. Three years on the standard length of a university course they will come back together to exhibit side by side.
The Third Degree will show work by a group of artists who are expected (by timescale) to be entering into the art world and creative industries. How things did or did not go to plan, the effect of art schools and institutions, and the beauty of individuality of six people of started in the same place but continued into different creative areas.
The show will include a ceramicist, textile artist, a textile printer, a fine artist and illustrator.
......or that was the idea anyway.......
unfortunately two people dropped out of the exhibition very last minuet, but the show must gone on. Ashlea, the textile artist and I, the painter took on the space creating a discussion between two very different styles of work made on very different university courses.
Setting up The Third Degree at Centre space Gallery. A big space with good lighting. In my opinion Centre Space is becoming more well known and popular with each exhibition, which is good as it is hidden down a small alley off Corn Street in Bristol.
I was aware of the trap of being obvious putting work together purely because of colour. Ashlea's work being print and textiles is big on pattern, playing with the abstract elements with my own work when partnered together.
Whilst setting up I was kept company by various noises upstairs from the artist studios. Sadly I don't think all that many artists from Centre Space studios came to look at the show.
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