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Review May 25 2009 « | »
This Week! At long last the summer degree shows are starting to open across the city, showcasing the next generation of......

Dean Kissick

At long last the summer degree shows are starting to open across the city, showcasing the next generation of future artists. If London is supposed to provide the world's best art colleges, and recessions are supposed to inspire the best culture, then this summer should hopefully be a golden age for exciting young art... or maybe not! But whatever occurs it will be fascinating to see what sort of art emerges from the degree shows this summer, and whether it's an improvement on previous years.

One opening I missed last week was the BA show at the Slade School of Fine Art in Bloomsbury, which is open until Thursday evening. I had a quick look around yesterday and was rather underwhelmed, but out of the 28 artists exhibiting I was most impressed with the hallucinatory abstract/figurative canvases by Luey Graves. All in all the show is dominated by geometry and brightest colours, so perhaps this is the new look... for more information, do see the show {website}.

WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY

The first MA exhibitions of the year open at the Royal College of Art this week, with the Sculpture private view on Wednesday evening in Battersea, and the Fine Art/Applied Art private view on Thursday evening in Kensington. Both of these openings are invite-only but you could probably find a way in!

The Sculpture show will be beautifully presented in the vast spaces of the Howie St studios; conversely Fine Art/Applied Art will be a crowded, cluttered show including Painting, Printmaking and Photography alongside the decorative arts (Ceramics and Glass, and Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery). Both Painting and Sculpture have particularly strong classes graduating this year, so they should put on a brilliant show! More details are available on the {RCA website}.

FRIDAY

At the end of the week, nomadic artist-run space The Centre of the Universe will open THE BUNKER, described as: "not quite an exhibition, but a deep challenge to an environment. In an abandoned and unidentified post-war bunker, spreading out underneath Dalston, East London, this show is a response to the space it inhabits, and to the history it recalls".

The project is curated by Catherine Borra, who'll be graduating from the Curating MA at Goldsmiths this summer, and also includes a couple of Fine Art MA students from the same college, Justin Gainan and Jenny Moore-Koslowsky, alongside Area 10 artist-in-residence Pim Conradi. It all sounds really good, so please visit {The Centre of the Universe} or the {Facebook event}.

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