INTRODUCTION Leeds College of Art is proud of being one of the few remaining independent specialist art & design institutions in the UK. The college has a culture of engaging with ‘live’ external events
promoting a professional and outward looking ethos amongst its students. Students on the course explore drawing, painting,
sculpture, lens-based media, installation, performance, social and public art through a series of critically positioned modules.
This exhibition houses the final projects of this year’s 44 graduates studying BA (Hons) Fine Art at Leeds College of Art. From the outset
the degree programme recognises that the individual character of each student matters and it makes the personal development from passion to profession possible for them. On viewing the overall group show we are engaging with a consolidated body of tacit knowledge (which we regard as ‘know-how’) over their time on the course.
For an art student tacit knowledge also means unspoken trust, a
passing of knowledge between staff and students not described with words but implicit in the group studio situation. The exhibition
forefronts this unspoken knowledge and its evocation in the act of
making. By definition, making means material, and thus these artists have approached their work through a dialogue with their materials that is informed by this ‘thinking through making’.
We would like to introduce you to these new artists graduating in 2011 and warmly invite you to explore their work.