Wednesday, May 25–Friday, May 27, noon–8pm
Saturday, May 28–Sunday, May 29, noon–6pm
Central Saint Martins
University of the Arts London
The Granary
1 Granary Square
London NIC 4AA
Sponsored by MullenLowe NOVA award
Years in the making, the future is here. We open our doors to share the boundary-pushing work of our graduating students: from the next Turner Prize winner and the fashion innovators of tomorrow, to the designers and thinkers who will change our lives. Come and meet the future.
Show One presents Fine Art in all forms from painting, photography and installation to work we don’t have the right words for yet. From undergraduate to postgraduate, here is art at its broadest and boldest.
The work on display spans a wide variety of disciplines across the art programme—BA (Hons) Fine Art, MA Fine Art, MA Art and Science, MA Photography, MRes:Art—Exhibition Studies, MRes:Art—Moving Image and MRes:Art—Theory and Philosophy.
The Fine Art programme has hosted many exciting events over the year including the global launch of Gustav Metzger’s Remember Nature project and Metaphonica II, an experimental music festival that celebrates the culture of music and performance in art schools.
Artists such as Grayson Perry, Martin Creed, Susan Hiller, Gail Pickering and Bein Cain have taken part in the Monday lecture series over the year.
Students participated in collaborations with artists and institutions including Ai Wei Wei, The London Sinfonietta, Largo das Artes in Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo Geidai and exhibited in Palais de Tokyo’s experimental Do Not Disturb festival in Paris.
Major prizes have been won by Central Saint Martins people in 2015–16. All four of the 2015 Turner Prize nominees were alumni or staff of Central Saint Martins. The winner, Assemble, included Associate Lecturer on MA Architecture: Cities and Innovation, Maria Lisogorskaya. Other members of the group teach across the spatial practices courses. Lecturer, Emma Hart won the 2016 Max Mara Art Prize for Women and a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award. Hannah Rickards, CSM graduate, BA Fine Art tutor and 2007 Max Mara Art Prize for Women winner, won a Phillip Leverhulme Award.
This is the sixth year of the MullenLowe NOVA Award and we have been keeping an eye on previous shortlisters and winners. 2015 MA Photography graduate and NOVA finalist, Dario Srbic founded his own production company and had several exhibitions in the UK, Europe and China. 2012 winner, Conall McAteer, was nominated for the Picton Art Prize in 2015 and has forthcoming exhibitions in Paris and Italy.
The future of art is showing at Central Saint Martins Degree Show One—don’t miss it.
Show 1: Art
May 25–27, noon–8pm, and May 28–29, noon–6pm
For more information about exhibiting courses, access issues and suitability for children, please visit: CSM Degree Shows 2016
Supported by the MullenLowe Nova award for fresh creative talent.
Show 2: Design
June 22–26
CSM is part of University of the Arts London,an international centre for innovative teaching and research in arts, design, fashion, communication and the performing arts. The University is made up of six Colleges: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Art.
