Boiling Point: Practice Post Art School
6th - 11th April 2023 // Openhand Openspace // 571 Oxford Road Gallery // Reading
As part of Openhand Openspace’s FRESH programme of postgraduate opportunities, Boiling Point Artist Collective are pleased to present a week of exhibitions, workshops and events. Boiling Point are a group of recent graduates from Winchester School of Art, revealing how their practices have evolved after art school.
The exhibition features video works, sculptures, paintings, printmaking and installation. The show will include work generated while travelling the world, or while holding down part-time jobs to support post-grad studies.
‘Practice Post Art School’ consists of prints exploring the materiality of the ruination of historic castles and the environmental urgencies surrounding open-pit mining, films using archived footage to critique heteronormativity and traditional gender roles, sculptures using 3D printing to investigate bodily balance, and paintings investigating what a portrait can mean in the digital age. Through the many subjects and issues highlighted within the artworks, this exhibition offers insights into each artist’s personal experiences of navigating a practice post art school in today’s climate.
Boiling Point was formed as a collective by the artists to support each other in their first years of practice after graduating. Boiling Point is the moment when things change, energy is released and transformation can happen. The artists are keen to share their experience with young people considering a career in the arts - and to demonstrate that artists from diverse backgrounds can collaborate to create cultural events.
Boiling Point Artist Collective: Eleanor Brown, Holly Davis, Olivia Fotheringhame, Julie Fox , Hans Lam, Anna Marris, Adanma Grace Nwankwo, Signe Pook , A J Roberts , Annabel Tennyson Davies, Mollie Timpson, Ben Topping, Jet Treacy, Lydia Wooley
This exhibition has been organised by Peter Driver. It is generously funded by a project grant from Arts Council England and benefits from support from Winchester School of Art and Reading Borough Council.
