Fine Art Degree Show 2008, University of Lincoln

Private viewing 16th May 6–8.30pm.
Exhibition open to public 17th–28th May
10am–5pm (excluding Sundays)

Greestone Building, Lindum Rd, Lincoln LN2 1PF

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The Fine Art degree teaches students to observe the environment around them and to find a visual language with which to speak their own unique vision of the world that we inhabit. This emerges in an infinite variety of forms and media, but what is common to the work in this exhibition is a desire to find and express a truth seen and examined by the artist.

The poet Carol Ann Duffy wrote that she was trying to be truthful in her poem ‘Valentine’. Her choice of metaphor, and her very visual and physical, language is not embodied in a red rose, nor a pink heart, but in something far more potent and strange. Duffy writes:

I give you an onion.
It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
It promises light
like the careful undressing of love.

This is a short excerpt and I encourage you to read the full poem, which is more rounded and subtle than an extract can indicate.

Visible, in this exhibition are a great variety of encounters with the now, in which we live, and also with the past from which, as artists, we gain permission to work in an infinite variety of modes. Sometimes this emerges as a thing of beauty sometimes it becomes something which is far more difficult to look at, or to be in the same room with. Sometimes, the art, the artefact is both of these things together, at once.

Like an onion.

It is with pride and great pleasure that I introduce the 2008 Fine Art Degree Show to you.

Catherine Burge
Programme Leader BA (Hons) Fine Art