Venue:
Birmingham School of Art
Dates:
16-06-2022
to 25-06-2022
BA Fine Art Degree Show 2022
The root of the word control is the Latin contrarotulus meaning a register, counter, or record of something. CTRL, an abbreviation of control, is synonymous with a digital key which when combined with other keys, carries out an instruction, a shortcut, an action.
The 2022 graduating BA Fine Art students are a group who are full of ideas and things to say – the issues they are dealing with are both complex and important. Their exhibition CTRL is the result of a series of commands, manifest through creativity, technical skill, and an understanding of the potential functionality of art practice in what it can say and how it comes to be. Many of the student’s individual practices explore issues of identity, memory and loss, culture, heritage, environment, communication, and the foregrounding of marginalised voices. Their outcomes are in many ways connected through a sense of being and belonging – to personal, social,...