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Glenys Shirley
MA Fine Art
Contortion and displacement of the familiar are central themes in Glenys Shirley’s work, which when applied to chosen objects, conspire together to question perceptions of art and taste. Boundaries imposed through established ideas of value, status and artistic merit are altered, notions of high-art and low-art and art world hierarchies become blurred. Discarded ceramic figurines, abandoned collections of pottery birds, and poor-quality display tables sourced from charity shops provide a plethora of materials with which to explore these ideas. The amalgamation and fusion of forms, shapes and paintwork, creates ambiguity, an almost uncanny disruption of a once comfortable status.
A conflicting system of value has arisen, originating during the 18th century, the quality of collectable ceramics has diluted downwards to the falsely representative, affordable and mass-produced imitation of the original, emerging mid 20th century. This decline is manipulated and emphasized through re-combination and alteration. Ideas of demarcation, placement of the precious and decorative within a domestic context, are dismantled. A sense of movement, growth, and pliability between figures and surface suggests a re-generation. A malleability between solid forms develops, a seemingly organic growth, a new state reflecting on the continuous cyclical nature of value existing within the art system.
MA Fine Art
Stephen Andrews / Kirsten Archer / Clare Chennells / Caitlin Doherty / Niki Gandy / Aaron Griffin / Rachael Kara Heath / Lisa Holden / Lauren Kate / Edward Kemshell / Sarah Parker / Jessica Pope / Glenys Shirley / Stephen Shirley / Rupert Smithson / Cheryl van Goethem / Emily Williams
MA Art and Design by Research
Wolverhampton School of Art Graduate Showcase 2021
We are delighted to announce our end of year graduate showcase highlighting the work of our final year students in Art, Design and Screen based subjects.
Over the last few weeks we have had a film crew on site in the School of Art recording student experiences and their work. The last year, has undoubtedly been a huge challenge to students and staff in the School of Art. We have found ourselves working at home in make-shift spaces and often with limited materials and kit. Our staff and students have been hugely inventive in finding opportunities and outlets to keep learning live - and this, in itself, is a testament to our creativity and resilience as a sector.
British Art Show 9
22 January - 10 April 2022
We are delighted to announce that the Wolverhampton School of Art has been selected as one of the venues for the prestigious British Art Show 9! In what is a major boost and sign of recognition for arts and culture in Wolverhampton, we are proud to be hosting this prestigious touring exhibition in January 2022.
FEINART Lecture Series
The FEINART LECTURE SERIES will discuss the role, impact, and theoretical implications of socially engaged art. This series of public talks is organized by the Innovative Training Network FEINART (The Future of European Independent Art Spaces in a Period of Socially Engaged Art) jointly led by the Universities of Wolverhampton (coordinator), Zeppelin University (direction of the training programme) University Iceland, and University of Edinburgh.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 860306
