Gallery archive

Kawaii: Crafting the Japanese culture of cute

• 31 October 2015 - 12 December 2015
• James Hockey Gallery

The culture of ‘cute’ or Kawaii is a highly successful commercial tool, associated with ephemera and fashion, and as such is very attractive to the young. It is the exact opposite of the slow, highly crafted artefacts associated with traditional Japan. The most famous manifestation of Kawaii, ‘Hello Kitty’, has become a global brand with its own theme park in Tokyo.

Agency without intention

• 16 October 2015 - 8 November 2015
• Herbert Read Gallery

An exhibition inspired by the actions and interactions between the purposeful individual, the “smart” object, and the social body.

Julia Keenan - Vermillion Hue

• 1 September 2015 - 15 October 2015
• James Hockey Gallery

Recent UCA Fine Art graduate, Julia Keenan has been invited back to present a new installation.

Barbara Walker - Sub Urban: New Drawings

• 1 September 2015 - 8 October 2015
• James Hockey Gallery

UCA’s Cultural Programme has invited Barbara Walker to create a series of new site- specific wall drawings for the James Hockey Gallery.

Despite Efficiency: Labour

• 21 November 2014 - 12 December 2014
• Herbert Read Gallery

Gustav Metzger. Facing Extinction

• 17 October 2014 - 15 November 2014
• Herbert Read Gallery

Facing Extinction is an ambitious re-working of Gustav Metzger's seminal work Mass Media: Today and Yesterday. Thousands of newspapers stacked in a rectangular mass in the centre of the gallery space collected and sourced by staff and students from UCA and partner institutions.

Swandown With Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair

• 9 December 2013 - 19 December 2013
• Herbert Read Gallery

Iain Sinclair is a poet, film-maker, performer and phsychogeographer but is perhaps best known as one of the UK’s greatest living writers. Renowned for his walks in the edgelands of cities, derelict sites and urban redevelopment zones, he has an insatiable appetite for collaboration and innovation. In 2013 he became a visiting Professor at the University for the Creative Arts.