Anglia Ruskin University exhibition provides Platform for success

The end-of-course exhibition, entitled Platform, brings together artists and designers graduating from the MA Fine Art, MA Printmaking, MA Illustration & Book Arts, and MA Graphic Design & Typography programmes.

Running from 4-11 September at the Ruskin Gallery in Cambridge, Platform marks an important stage of the students’ personal and professional development, and includes a diverse range of final projects.

One example of the work on display is Flashback by Dr Lorna Collins.  Lorna, an MA Fine Art student, suffered a serious brain injury in a horse riding accident 14 years ago but has since gained a PhD in French Philosophy from Jesus College, Cambridge, and has recently returned to the saddle.  With two new horses, Lorna hopes to begin eventing again in the near future.

Flashback features film clips of Lorna riding in her youth, which she had forgotten due to the amnesia she suffered in the accident.  Lorna said: “The film shows different fragments of an arrested memory, as flashes of time jump out, dissolve and disintegrate.

“Flashback is an impossible attempt to grasp hold of sudden, involuntary, slippery recollections, in order to secure and place the history and meaning of my life.

“The resulting experience sparked by this installation combines elements of a life that has been so abruptly destroyed, and beautifully restored, by my relationship with horses.”

In addition to her studies at Anglia Ruskin, Cambridge-based Lorna is an arts critic and arts educator, and is the author of Making Sense: Art Practice and Transformative Therapeutics, and co-editor of Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Visual Art, both published by Bloomsbury.

To view Flashback, visit    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJAgNXj3v_Q

 

The exhibition is free and runs from 4-11 September, with a private view on Thursday, 4 September (5pm-8pm).  The Ruskin Gallery, on Anglia Ruskin’s East Road campus in Cambridge, is open from 10am-4.30pm, Monday to Saturday.


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Notes to Editors

Anglia Ruskin University

Anglia Ruskin University is passionate about the advancement of knowledge and the education of students, and we pride ourselves on taking university education in imaginative new directions.  Our key contribution is to the enhancement of social, cultural and economic well being.  We have three main campuses, in Cambridge, Chelmsford and Peterborough, with around 31,500 students and 1,000 academic staff.
 

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Jon Green on t: 0845 196 4717, e: jon.green@anglia.ac.uk

Jamie Forsyth on t: 0845 196 4716, e: jamie.forsyth@anglia.ac.uk