6 April 2011
Site Specific Art at Lewisham College
This
spring Lewisham College's Visual Arts department are staging a
takeover of the College's Lewisham Way campus.
60 students will be displaying 60 installations at 60 different
locations across the Lewisham Way site as part of the department's
annual Site Specific show.
The show will kick off with a private view on Thursday 7 April
2011 from 5.30pm until 7.30pm where members of the public have the
opportunity to have a guided tour of all of the art works.
The students have been working hard to get their work ready in
time for the show. Art student Laura McConochie said: "The thing
I've enjoyed most about the site specific art show is being able to
make something that not only looks professional, but blends in to
its surroundings and looks like it has always been there."
Fellow Art student Lena Sellemond described her installation, a
disused climbing frame in the College's former nursery that she'd
wrapped up, saying: "It was such a sad looking climbing frame,
because no one was playing on it. I wrapped it up in brightly
coloured paper to bring back some of that childlike
excitement."
Art tutor Cash Aspeek has enjoyed challenging her students to be
creative while facing the same challenges that professional artists
do. She said: "People have got the chance to come and see exciting,
innovative work that is temporary, transient and inspired. You can
also see what fresh, great ideas the students within Lewisham
College's Art Department have got: these are the artists of the
future."
Find out
more about studying Art at Lewisham College here.