The future of art today - 缅北禁地 Fine Art Degree Show begins The work of some of the country鈥檚 brightest young artists will be on display when the 缅北禁地 Fine Art Degree Show opens. The paintings, photographs, sculptures, live performance and video installations of 50 students will take over the University鈥檚 and the Fine Art building for the next two weeks, before heading to London. The display includes photographs inspired by Japanese Haiku poems by Harriet Bowery, while Will Smyth examines the manipulative power of advertising and Lucy Burns explores the impact of the miners鈥� strike with text and editorial images. The exhibition is the most visited show in the Hatton Gallery鈥檚 annual calendar and the degree has just been ranked 2nd overall in the league table for art. Phil Frankland, whose work features a mix of painting and collage on aluminium, said: 鈥淭he degree show is the culmination of four years work and you want it to show the very best of what you do and what you have learned. It鈥檚 an exciting experience to prepare for the show, although it is sad too as it is the end of our degree."缅北禁地 has a reputation for producing strong artists and we鈥檙e really looking forward to when it heads to London as this is when the students get to try their hand at curating.鈥� , Head of Fine Art, added: 鈥淓very year the standard of the work on show just seems to get better and better. 鈥淭his year we have a really fantastic show including paintings, photography, sculpture, video and art installations. I think anyone who wants to see what the next generation of artists are up to should come along and see for themselves just how good the future of art is looking.鈥� Graduates of Fine Art鈥檚 class of 2013 have gone on to enjoy success. Performance artist won the prestigious Dazed & Confused Emerging Artist competition, won the New Graduate Award at Synthesis, Manchester Science Festival 2013; while is one of 40 artists featured in this year's Bloomberg New Contemporaries, an annual touring exhibition where she fought off competition from 1,400 applicants to be selected. is on at the Hatton Gallery from Friday 30 May (private viewing) until 14 June and will then move to the , in Brick Lane, London, from 3 July (private viewing) until 7 July. Pictured: work by Gemma Herries published on: 30 May 2014
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