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You are cordially invited to a student-led exhibition event concluding the project ‘Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Ancient Technologies – Bloomery Iron Smelting’. The event will be taking place on
Thursday 25th April, 5.30-7.30pm, The Long Gallery, Fine Art Department, King Edward VII Building.
Refreshments will be served.
Archie Ogus | Ardra Nair | Brandon Pearce | Elizabeth Oughton | Frank Pretorius | Kitty McKay
Preview: Thursday 24 April, 6 – 9pm
25 April– 4 May 2024
Some Assembly Required brings together the work of six Newcastle University MFA students at Slugtown, Newcastle upon Tyne. Featuring new works by Ardra Nair, Frank Pretorius, Elizabeth Oughton, Brandon Pearce, Archie Ogus and Kitty McKay the show makes visible the collaborative nature of group exhibitions, and considers what might be achieved when artists embrace their differences and produce work in divergence.
Eschewing tight thematics, Some Assembly Required explores contrasting relationships towards the purpose of exhibition building and meaning making. The works in this exhibition span a range of media and references; including painting, urban cartographies, and class and queer politics. Through bringing these diverse practices together in this exhibition, the show aims to both flatten the hierarchies of prescribed value, and to adopt the position of a playful experiment into the messiness of curation as creative practice.