MA Fine Art x South Hill Park - RESIDUAL

RESIDUAL is a site-specific art show by current MA Fine Art artists studying at University for the Creative Arts, Farnham. Curated by Andrea Gregson, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, the show includes a range of fine art media including drawing, painting, sculpture, print, ceramics, installation, film, digital media, photography and performance, sensitively responding to the buildings and gardens. The artworks expand upon themes responding to the residence as a former home, public space and place of creativity, offering new and imaginative interpretations of the house, geographical location and its visiting audiences through time.

RESIDUAL considers South Hill Park as a container of residing knowledge, matter and experience of a private country estate (1683-1940), WW2 hospital (1940-45), conversion to flats (1945-51), BBC Studios during Cold War (1952-62), Ferranti’s Aircraft Equipment Department (1965-72) to a public arts centre from 1973. The artists bring individual practices to the context of this place, finding…