HND Fine Art Graduation Exhibition

The HND fine Art Graduation Exhibition took place this year at "The Arches project" space in Digbeth. After the the mid -year show at "The Works" gallery, a white cube space, "The Arches project" presented a completely different challenge to the first and second year students.

The venue lies underneath two railway arches which provided three spaces for exhibition. One is a  traditional gallery space, another is a huge warehouse space and for the third we created a darkened passageway linking the two. The lit archways at either end emphasising the nature of the space and the theme of the show, "Arch", a bridging from where they are now to the future at Birmingham City University.

The exhibition was a spectacular success with over 200 people attending the Private View.

The event was another "live" opportunity for the students, in keeping with the Outline philosophy of giving students real creative industry/ fine art experiences. The students formed a partnership and assigned the different roles and responsibilities to ensure the exhibition took place, exhibition spaces were researched, funds were raised to book the venue, publicity and marketing was taken care of and ultimately the work was packaged and transported to the venue.

A huge well done to all the students, some of whom appear in the photograph above, outside the entrance to the venue. Interestingly the venue is part run by one of our ex-students Antonio Hernandez Fernández. He is studying in his second year at Birmingham City University. Antonio organised a second year show for the university students at the Arches continuing the entrepreneurial attitudes encouraged by the HND team at  Outline, Birmingham Metropolitan College.

HND Fine Art 2nd year Roman Malinowski in association with Saltley Baptist Church

HND fine art 2nd year student  Roman Malinowski in front of his site-specific installation for the Saltley Baptist Church. Roman designed and produced seven paintings on plastic, acting like stained-glass windows, and five paintings on canvas which have all been installed in the church.

The  transparent paintings depict the story of Genesis whilst the  paintings on canvas illustrate episodes from significant texts provided by the pastor of the church.

The installation was unveiled following a special service at the church where the congregation could view the project for the first time.

Pastor Andrew congratulates Roman on the installation of his successful site-specific/ commission artwork piece.

HND Fine Art at "The Works" gallery in Birmingham.

HND Fine Art students from both first and second year displayed their work at the mid-year  exhibition, Entitled "Pioneers: Breaking Boundaries." The exhibition was extremely well attended and was thought to be one of the best mid-year shows of recent times due to the wide range of experimental work and high quality outcomes on display.

The two week experience at the gallery space giving the students a week to experiment with site-specific work and display methods and then requiring  a professional exhibition proved enormously beneficial again. The event underlines the Outline philosophy of giving students experience in the real world working in the actual settings and circumstances that they will encounter as professional fine artists.

A huge well done to all the students who took part for their hard work in producing the work and the professional way in which they went about displaying the pieces to their best advantage.

HND Fine Art experimentation at "The Works" Gallery as part of the mid- year show experience

 HND Fine Art, first and second year, students engaged in their two week experimentation at "The Works" gallery in Birmingham which culminates in the opening of their mid-year exhibition. This year it was branded as "The Pioneers: Breaking Boundaries."

As can be seen from the photographs a great deal of experimentation took place, from traditional abstract painting, three-dimensional drawing, drawing as a performative activity to students using aspects of the space to inspire new work that was site-specific.

Whilst the show branding "Pioneers: Breaking Boundaries" might seem ambitious many students broke through boundaries of their own as they significantly advanced and developed their personal fine art languages.