Past exhibitions and events

By Churchill Ongere, 21, Kisumu. Animation by Emily Clarkson

Transformation / Mabadiliko

  • Zandra Rhodes Gallery

Where Computer Animation Arts at UCA & the MASK School for Creativity and Innovation in Kenya Collaborate
©University for the Creative Arts 2016

Transition II: A glass installation by Magdalene Odundo

  • James Hockey Gallery

UCA is proud to present a major solo exhibition by one of world’s leading contemporary ceramists. Transition II is Odundo’s ambitious large scale installation of one thousand hand blown glass vessels suspended across the gallery.
From Rochester with Love

From Rochester with Love. Conversations in the Midst of the Syrian Conflict

  • Herbert Read Gallery

A project by the artist Hala Georges

Spin: 360?

  • Link Gallery

The Spin: 360º project has manifested itself in different ways. It is a book, a website, a series of Spotify playlists and, most importantly, an exhibition.
Aggregate exhibition

Aggregate

  • UCA Farnham

Aggregate: New work by School of Fine Art & Photography, UCA Farnham

Artificia, Herbert Read Gallery, UCA Canterbury

Artificia

  • Herbert Read Gallery

Artificia has its roots in the Latin term artificium - Ars, Art (which in its original sense meant ‘to put together, join or fit’) and facere, to make. The philosopher Plato interrogated the role of art in conveying understanding through appearances, especially through mimesis, and the artificial is still a slippery term that can easily undermine the foundations of practices to which it is adhered.
Cut to suit exhibition

Cut to Suit

  • Zandra Rhodes Gallery

Exhibition organized by Fashion Design course, UCA Rochester

Susan Fletcher in dialogue with Alain Urrutia

  • Herbert Read Gallery

Displaying Fragments is not the title of this show, yet it could have been. I am borrowing it from a recent commemorative exhibition in Beijing in which the heading alluded to the impossibility of capturing any complete version of the past in the exhibition format. It seems to me that the combination of “displaying” and “fragments” is also a possible way of describing the inevitably incomplete visual dialogue happening at the Herbert Read Gallery between the sculptures and installations of Susan

Sorcha O'Raghallaigh

  • Zandra Rhodes Gallery

O'Raghallaigh is a bespoke independent Irish designer based in London. With a focus on craft and hand-made objects, Sorcha produces one-of-a-kind and limited-edition pieces.

Kawaii - Crafting the Japanese culture of cute - image by Mina Okuhata

Kawaii: Crafting the Japanese culture of cute

  • 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.