Next Blood event

© Siobhan Bohnacker, Untitled (from the series 'Lore'), lightbox, 2007

Blood members will have a special opportunity to take part in a tour of the University of the Arts Collection by its curator Eamonn Maxwell. The collection comprises over 600 pieces of work by graduates of the University across many disciplines and includes a variety of mediums such as painting, photography, digital work, sculpture, mixed media, ceramics and design.

left: © Lee Maezler, Here’s Your Pretty Street, oil on canvas, 2004; right: © Dan Holdsworth, Motorway Vista, C-type Photograph, 1999

The collection seeks to capture the energy of practices across the many disciplines of the University and supports the work of artists after they have left College.  Amongst others the collection includes work by Tom Hunter, Dan Holdsworth, Graham Hudson, Greg Rook, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Layla Curtis, Ben Carpenter, Tim O'Reilly, Andrew Grassie, Hiroshi Suzuki, Isha Bohling, Shezad Dawood.

left: © Oliver Perkins, Aviary, oil on Linen, 2005; right: © Neri Kamcili, Searching for Home, C-type Photograph, 2007

Members will also be able to see From Dusk Til Dawn, a new exhibition in The Arts Gallery which features selected works from the University Art Collection exploring themes around darkness, dreams and dramas from the sinister to the sublime.