Is This Thing On?

Thanks to a particular student in my year 14 of us are exhibiting in the Dreamspace Gallery in East London in a months time. VERY excited about this, as it's a first step out in to the real art world outside of the university and Kingston in general. It's a showcase of work by us to show the response of artists at this time to the times we live in, not for a particular audience, or an institution, purely for the passion behind the work. So the private view is on 2nd December 6.30 til 8.30, and the exhibition will run for a week from 29th Nov - 3rd Dec. Hopefully it should be a good turn out!

Manifesto for the exhibition by Adam Jones:

With budget cuts, high intakes of students and an underwhelming amount of prospects it’s becoming an increasingly daunting prospect to start a career within the art world. With artists such as Hirst and Emin achieving such fame and recognition and making London once again the art capital of the world there is massive pressure on the new young artists to step into their shoes.

By showing different responses to the current post-recession climate, work is produced that speaks for a new generation of artists. This is how art is today, right now, not how the art market likes to tell us its supposed to be, not what the collectors are buying and certainly not what you would find in a commercial art shop. Instead this is art that is created with a passion, motivated by the possibility of success and most of all a focus on creating work most relevant to current issues facing contemporary culture.

What is vital for the artists involved is that who they are or where they come from should no longer matter; instead the art can speak for itself and for the individual who created it.