Past Present.

Welcome to our shows from 2020-2023.

This is a showcase of work by students in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University, who graduated from 2020 to 2022.

It's all of us, together, in a digital show you curate for yourself - not pre-arranged into rooms, courses or disciplines. You do the arranging. Want to see all the red things we made? Or all the work about identity, nature or isolation? Look at what you want to, when you want to, whether it's all the illustration, all the writing, all the movies or performance. You get the idea.

This exhibition is yours for the making. Go explore.

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Stepanka Facerova

MA Fine Art

I am interested in exploring what is seemingly uninteresting, overlooked or forgotten. This includes questioning our social habits.

Recently, I focused on the deconstruction of a traditional painting and creating a collec6on of artworks revealing the hidden, unseen side of canvas painting. To me, paintings are objects made of different materials and it is a shame to only see the surface that may or may not represent something. The painting itself is only a small part of the story, there are often marks or other paintings on the back of the canvas. I question the decision about what I am not welcome to see and why. Since then I have been trying to find a way of showing the traditionally wall-based art form from all possible sides and angles,
blurring the hierarchy of which part is more important and thus on display.

I graduated in 2020 with a (First Class) BA (Hons) Fine Art at Cambridge School of Art, ARU, and am currently studying on their MA Fine Art. I received the Sustainability Art Prize 2020 and took part in numerous group exhibitions. My work can be found in a number of private collections.

ART?, 2022 is a kind of a portable gallery, my own solo show that includes works that helped me to find answers to some questions. Questions that I have been tackling within the past five years spent mostly by studying contemporary art. I certainly do not have all of the answers but I learnt that creativity and working with artists is an area where questioning and finding answers are encouraged. I especially appreciate the freedom of getting it wrong and being able to learn from it. Imperfection is not a failure. It is a new, different way of seeing and understanding. Just like everything else around us, the individual pieces in this installation are closely linked. I am happy to share what connections I made but I am more interested in finding what others will see in these back-to-front dressed canvas stretchers assembled together mimicking a wall. Having a blank wall that we want to forget about is where it all really started - as Georges Perec says: “There are
pictures because there are walls.”

This mixed media installation is here because it was a pleasure to make and it is a pleasure to show others. That’s what art means to me.