Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries (CCI)
New Creatives
Sixth-Form and further education students lead Cultural Olympiad artist exhibition .
| Date: | 15 -30 March 2010 |
| Time: | 10.00 - 16.00, Monday to Friday |
| Private Viewing: | 12 March 2010, 16:00 - 17:00 (meet the artists and free refreshments) |
| Admission: | Free; open to the public |
| More information: | Check out the New Creative blog |
You are invited to New Creatives, an artist-led joint exhibition of creative works by students from six local Further Education and Sixth Form colleges: Havant, Highbury, Fareham, Portsmouth, South Downs and St. Vincent.
The new partnership project will showcase an exchange of ideas and 'visual correspondence' between the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries and the colleges co-working as part of the Cultural Olympiad. It is funded by Creative Campus Initiative, a new consortium of thirteen Higher Education Institutions in the South East delivering a dynamic programme of cultural events and artworks in response to the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics [for more information, please visit the Creative Campus Initiative official website].
There will be a variety of creative works including visual arts, photography, video, 3D and installation, and performances including live music and dance at the preview on Friday 12th March.
Simon Claridge, Dean of the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries, said:
"This is a significant partnership exhibition within our community with an opportunity to meet the creative talent of our future. With the Faculty hosting the work, I see this project continuing and developing in the future where new creative collaborations between colleges can develop or where existing ones are strengthened. The show will allow young people from local colleges to experience university and gain the thrill of exhibiting their work, as part of an ongoing exhibition programme in the faculty".
Images and footage from the exhibition will be broadcast on the BBC Big Screen in the Guildhall Square at a later date.
Commissioned artists working with the colleges are David Dixon and Suzie Darcel. This is one of the first showcases of a series of exhibitions performances, research and debate in Phase one of the Creative Campus Initiative continuing into the summer of 2010. There may be scope for developing the project/model for Phase Two of the Creative Campus Initiative. This involves new art works and performances that emerge from the Creative Campus Initiative exhibitions in South East venues during 2010 to possibly then go on to tour the UK and internationally in 2011.