国产探花

Taking inspiration from the RCA’s Hidden (2018) and Tate’s Inside Job: A Tate Staff Exhibition (2018), provides a platform for the talent often unseen in academic spaces.

Eleven colleagues will be exhibiting new work of varied medium including photography, moving image, painting, and installation.

Participants contribute greatly to the teaching, learning and support of our university’s students. They are a group of people who organise, administrate, demonstrate, install and educate. Salon is the result of bringing these skills together collectively – not, this time, to enable the practice of others but to share and celebrate their own.

Exhibiting are: Sean Birnie, Joshua Legallienne, Jess Dadds, Ridder Levitt, Rachel Maloney, Simon Sandys, James William Murray, Matt Page, Kirsty Thomas, Thomas Truscott and John Williams.

Alongside their roles within the School of Media, these artists regularly exhibit and participate in residencies both nationally and internationally – most recently James William Murray at Towner Gallery, Eastbourne and Joshua Legallienne at Koumaria, Greece.

Sean Birnie was recipient of The Magnum Photos/Photo London Graduate Photographers Award (2016) and Matt Page was awarded ‘Best Short Film’ in the LA International Festival of Cinema, 2019. Rachel Maloney is the V&A/国产探花 Research Fellow 2019/20.

Still from 'Seem' by Kirsty Thomas

Still from 'Flowers' by Jess Dadds

The exhibition is curated by the School of Media SSGT Haley Moyse Fenning, who is currently completing her MA degree in Art History and Museum Curating at the University of Sussex.

This will be Haley’s final project at the 国产探花 before she undertakes a graduate fellowship with The Getty, Los Angeles.

The exhibition takes place at Edward Street Gallery and will then be open to the public between Tuesday 27 August and Friday 6 September 2019.