08.08.06
University College Falmouth launches MA show: 'at this point'

University College Falmouth's collective showing of work by graduating students from the College's portfolio of art and design-based Masters degrees – MA Contemporary Visual Arts, MA Illustration: Authorial Practice, MA Interactive Art & Design and MA Photography – opens to the public on Friday 8 September, at the College's Woodlane Campus in Falmouth.

Entitled at this point, the exhibition will comprise an eclectic mix of both traditional and non-traditional media, created during an intensive year of study, and runs until Wednesday 13 September, between 10am and 5pm daily (excluding Sunday and Monday).

The MA in Contemporary Visual Arts – led by award-winning practitioner, Dr Daro Montag – focuses on the development of individual artistic practice. The two key concepts that inform the course are the significance of location and the extension of practice through collaboration.

In MA Illustration: Authorial Practice, 'authorial illustration' is used to describe work in which the personal 'voice' of the illustrator plays the major role, either individually or collaboratively, in the production of work. The course, which has already produced rising stars such as Christopher Crump (illustrator of 'the new Harry Potter', The Valley of Secrets), Viviane Schwarz (who is a successful Walker Books author) and Barnaby Richards (whose first book, The Funeral, has already achieved national publicity), is led by Steve Braund, who is both a successful practising illustrator and director of Atlantic Press Ltd, an innovative publishing initiative that aims to help illustrators explore and develop their authorial voices.

"The course encourages a personal approach to illustration in which the individual 'signature' of each illustrator can be felt in the work," says Course Leader, Steve Braund. "Authorial illustration is usually associated with medium to long-term projects, literary subjects, narrative and storytelling. 'at this point' will showcase illustration work for which students have developed their own ideas and concepts; authoring their own material."

The MA in Interactive Art & Design – led by internationally-renowned net artist, Kate Southworth (www.gloriousninth.com), and supported by other practitioners at the cutting edge of interactive art and design – focuses on the new relationships between art, design and emerging technologies, and their creative and commercial potential.

MA Photography – led by Deborah Baker and Dr Nancy Roth – enables the exploration of social, environmental or cultural issues, which are of relevance to the wider community, through creative practice.

"Students on Falmouth's MA Photography course are asked to reflect on a medium that is constantly affecting everyone," says Nancy Roth. "This year, visitors to at this point will be able to view some of our students' reflections, including one example of work that fuses landscape images with ghostly biological traces such as skeletons and shells."

Gallery & Events Administrator, Carol Worth adds: "This MA show highlights the College's continuing contribution to the cutting edge of creativity, and our commitment to developing innovative opportunities for students at postgraduate level."

University College Falmouth is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall, a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through higher education. The CUC is funded mainly by the European Union (Objective One), the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall County Council.

Through our Creative Enterprise Cornwall project, which is part-funded by the European Social Fund, eligible students can receive a fees discount of up to £1000 on postgraduate study at University College Falmouth. For further information, visit www.falmouth.ac.uk/cec.

For further information about 'at this point', visit www.falmouth.ac.uk/events. For further information about MA courses at University College Falmouth, please visit www.falmouth.ac.uk/courses, email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 213784.

For further information please contact Jilly Easterby, Public Relations Officer, University College Falmouth on 01326 213792 or email: jilly.easterby@falmouth.ac.uk.

The Objective One Programme for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly has invested in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC) project, both Phase 1 and Phase 2 through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the European Social Fund (ESF). Cornwall College is a partner in the CUC.

Editor's notes:

Clare Morgan
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