LCC Camberwell University!

 

During the end of year 12, as well as visiting Elephant and Castle university, we also got to visit Camberwell university for their open day. We had an option of two universities that we could visit, the other option was Wimbledon university which is also a partner of Elephant and Castle, Chelsea and Camberwell. The reason I chose to visit Camberwell's open day is because they specialize in sculpture which is one of the subjects that I am most interested in studying at university, where as Wimbledon specialises in fashion and costume design.
During my visit to Camberwell university I got to see a lot of work done by the students studying there and I especially got to see a lot of sculpture work that I was really impressed with; I felt that there was a very wide range of ideas which made me optimistic about my future and what I hope to produce.

Here are some photographs that I took at the open day !!

 



This piece was one of my favourites from the open day; when you look really closely you realise that the contents on the clear box is in fact a vast amount of money torn up into the tiniest pieces. At first I was quite shocked by this because I felt that nearly no one in their right mind would destroy that amount of money; I think especially as I am a student myself, money is something that is much valued and what most people live their whole lives trying to earn. However once I realised what this piece of art really was I found it really refreshing to look at and was quite amazed, I think this is something that everyone will look at and have some sort of reaction to because money means something to everyone. I also found myself smiling at it because the student who created this piece probably doesn't have a lot of money and may be scraping by like most students out there and yet they've gone and torn up all their earnings which I found quite pleasing to think about because its probably the best way that you can say "Money means nothing".

 

This is another piece that I especially enjoyed looking at throughout the exhibition. What I liked most about this piece and what really stood out to me was the texture of the sculpture; without even touching it you can see exactly how it would feel and all the individual layers and markings were very visually pleasing, I felt that just by looking at it, it brought out my other senses. I observed that a lot of people didn't quite understand the sculpture but for me it wasn't about the finished piece it was about the process of it and the journey and the movement of the artists hands that have gone into creating it and the pure build up of this mound of clay. I find that physical creating something out of near enough nothing gives me great satisfaction and knowing that its something you have produced and can never be repeated identically again is one of the things I really love about art.