Errant Currents
MA Fine Art Online Graduate Showcase, September 2023
MA Fine Art Online is a flexible new postgraduate course at Falmouth School of Art for innovative and sustainable contemporary art practice in the UK and internationally. This showcase, Errant Currents, celebrates our very first graduates – twelve student artists who have produced ambitious public-facing exhibitions, live events, performances, publications and new collaborations this summer. These projects are the culmination of two years of study across five modules. The academic team, and the whole course community, are excited to see how these artists continue to develop their work and engage communities all over the world.
Josie Cockram, Course Lead
Throughout their MA journey, the artists whose Final Major Projects are presented here have demonstrated their capacity to experiment, take risks, adapt and respond to a range of challenges and concerns relevant to the world we now live in. The nature of the course means that students are generating a global ecosystem of practices, dialogues and meaning making across online and offline networks, decoupled from the notion that knowledge production sits within one particular seat.
This graduate group have made projects across multiple time-spaces; their work has been shown and situated in places across the world, including Plymouth, Toronto, Singapore, New Jersey and London, and in spaces online. They have engaged with notions of sustainability, interdisciplinary, participation, intimacy and connectedness, amongst others, to tell complex stories and create worlds within worlds addressing how humans and non-humans relate to and with each other. Their work has generated new ways of thinking about how we learn and work together as artists practicing in these contingent times.
Errant Currents, the title of this showcase, refers to the ways materials, in the broadest sense, the things we make and do as artists, are processual and relational, as Tim Ingold puts it, ‘caught up in these currents of the lifeworld’. The students on this course, though the assemblage of practices, dialogues and encounters with audiences across the world have reflected on these connections; their own lived experiences, situatedness and entanglement with the spaces, places and people with whom they practice, both online and offline. These connections have manifested themselves in often unpredictable and unexpected ways to generate a compelling network of practice that we are privileged to share with you through this showcase.
Kate Fahey, Final Major Project Module Lead
Special thanks to the following for all their work and support over the first two years of our programme:
Academic team: Ian Monroe, Iñes Bento Coelho, Caitlin Shepherd, Mohini Chandra, Flora Bowden, Srin Surti, Elizabeth Hodson, Evan Ifekoya, Luke Dowd and Rachelle Knowles
Student Support & Digital Learning: Rachael Burhouse, Rachel Tor, Aideen Gibson, Sam Cole and Roo Pescod
Organisational partners and supporters: Four Corners Gallery, London; The Art Station, Suffolk and Emily Richardson; Mulan Gallery, Singapore; Daylight Studio, Toronto, Canada; One Paved Court, Richmond, London; Volcano at The Seaside Gallery, Swansea, Wales; Pavillion Dance SouthWest; Melin Llynon, The Isle of Anglesea; Haye Farm, Saltash, Cornwall; Remote Gallery, Toronto, Canada; Highly Flammable Studio, Shrewsbury, UK
The friends, family and support networks of all graduating artists!