SUMMER SHOWS 2009

Passersby walking past should think twice before calling the fire brigade as billowing smoke may well be Henry Byrne's project as he attempts to ask the public to question what they are seeing.
Third year drawing student Henry Byrne will be pumping dry ice from the college’s sunken recesses, as part of his project on perception.
Henry already had a dry run last week, prompting some to fear that a fire had broken out in the Peckham Road College.
http://www.southwarknews.co.uk/00,news,15378,185,00.htm

ARABA OCRAN

MONUMENT TO COOL

Araba Ocran has created the most amazing sculpture for her final degree show. It is made from polystyrene, and she has carved her friend Godwin sitting in a chair, ala Abraham Lincoln. It is absolutely incredible and is a must see at this years Summer Show which opens on June 22 at Camberwell College of the Arts. Dealing with issues of coolness, identity politics and traditional sculpture. Even though it looks heavy, monumental, its so light.

CAMBERWELL'S DRAGONS DEN

Camberwell College of the Arts is currently producing its very own Dragons Den scenario, as the students from 3D design get ready for their degree show in June several of them have made incredibly innovative and original designs. Including Marcelo Barbosa's fridge that does not need continuous electricity, Tomoko Yamada's sleeping bag for insomniacs, Shaun Vollenhoven's contemporary bus shelter, amid calls from the artist to stop the council profiting from advertising and focus on design and Nazly Serna's new type of 'plastic', made extraordinarily from a vegetable, cassava, which is currently being used to make lights.

Ellie Fawcett

I went on a (lone) camping trip on the loch ness

to meet the monster hunter who has lived there for 18 years. For the degree show I am parking a caravan outside uni and recreating his living space, complete with fimo monsters and a video.

DAN JAMIESON KIM JONG IL

Tomoko Yamada's says,
"For my final project i am designing sleeping
space(sleeping bag). Because living in the city or just
being part of society can be hard and arduous. We find it
difficult to live without feeling tired, stressed by
pressure of everyday life. It is said by some scientists,
that we are in "AGE OF INSOMNIA". Being asleep is the only
time we can heal our brain. It is also said that one of
the most important things for the human brain is sleep. WE
NEED MORE SLEEP.

Moreover we dream properly only when we sleep. Therefore
in Age of insomnia is is very rare to have dreams. We do
not dream as adults, like when we were children. We have
no dream world as a result of this. WE NEED MORE DREAM.

My sleeping space(sleeping bag) offers you an
extraordinary sleeping opportunity for adult to dream the
imaginative type dream of their childhood."

TOMOKO YAMADA

NIK JONES

my name is NIk Jones
I have worked and lived in London my whole life.
My current practised is based around idea of the individual self
within society and their special relationship to "the other". I feel
in London especially, being surrounded by so many people can leave you
felling irritated and lost. I believe that how we understand and
perceive those around us, helps us to fill and create an existence of
our own.
Through painting i hope to encourage the viewer to consider there own
position within our media image dominated world. Drawing on the use of
celebrity culture to outline ways in which we percieve those around
us. Raising questions such as do we ever really know someone? and how
we can relate this to the inexplicable nature of our own lives.

CHRIS KING...3RD YEAR DRAWING

HOMEMADE RADIO

GRAHAM REID.....3RD YEAR DRAWING

"ZER-ZER-ZER-ZER-ZER--ZER-ZER-ZER--ZER ZER ZER ZER ZER ZER ZER"

FOUNDATION...James Neville..Georgina Norris

DAN JAMIESON

KIM JONG ILL

LET US BE YOUR GUIDE

KIMBOL HINKS

Catrin Wyn Owen

photo by Hannah Fitzpatrick

"What would Andy Warhol do?" I always ask myself this before embarking on a new painting. I make work about popular culture, and felt influenced by the media coverage of Jade Goody's final days to paint her portrait. The colour pink is part of my identity, a colour which has the power to both infuriate and create calm.

Catrin Wyn Owen

photo by Hannah Fitzpatrick

JESS BLANDFORD

What am I doing for my degree show? It’s the question that consumes me day and night at the moment.

I am making a film, or a series of films, to create an installation about a hamlet in Suffolk called Easton Bavents which is suffering from one of the fastest coastal erosion rates in England. 14 houses out of 28 have been lost to the sea since the war. An 80 year old man who lives there called Peter Boggis has been making his own enormous (and controversial) sea defenses to try to keep the sea at bay.

I’ve been there a number of times and spent a week there filming the place and the people. I’ve collected hours and hours of material, and am now fully embroiled in the process of sorting out what to include and what to leave out. The leaving out is the hard bit. Mostly because I love all the stories people told me. Stories of the sea. Stories of their families. Stories of the land. Stories of their homes.

But I know I have to decide which themes to focus on.

I’m interested in the precariousness of everyday structures that we usually think of as certain and solid (“safe as houses” or “the land beneath our feet”), and how that relates to our notions of home. But I also have lots of stories about the whims of the sea, which I see as a metaphor for our relationship to the unpredictable in our lives.

Maybe I should focus on the themes of fighting the inevitable? Exploring whether it’s about futility, or whether it’s the struggle that matters.
Or perhaps the strongest work would be about value. Which things we decide are worth preserving and which we let go of. How we decide what matters and what doesn’t.

This of course all echoes the creative process that I’m trying to go through to decide what to make. How do I decide which bits are valuable and which ideas get discarded? How much do I structure my approach or how much do I allow something to just happen? Is it a struggle and something to battle with? Or will it somehow just naturally emerge?

Time I guess will tell.

THE DEAN OF CAMBERWELL

CAMBERWELL'S DRAGONS DEN

Camberwell College of the Arts is currently producing its very own Dragons Den scenario, as the students from 3D design get ready for their degree show in June several of them have made incredibly innovative and original designs. Including Marcelo Barbosa's fridge that does not need continuous electricity, Tomoko Yamada's sleeping bag for insomniacs, Shaun Vollenhoven's contemporary bus shelter and Nazly Serna's new type of 'plastic', made extraordinarily from a vegetable, cassava, which is currently being used to make lights.