Way Out East - Exhibitions
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VAC & AVA 2023
25 May - 3 June and 8 June - 28 June | All welcome
We are proud to be sharing the work of graphic design, illustration photography and fine art students at our VAC Showcase 2023.
Join us for the private view on 25 May, AVA Building, Docklands Campus, from 6pm-10pm for the chance to view the incredible work produced by the next generation of talented individuals during their studies at UEL, as well as prizes, speeches and live musical performances. You’ll also get to network with the students, as well as alumni and staff from the School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering (ACE).
The show will be up for 2 weeks, and is open to all, so do come down and take a tour, and show your support to all our hard-working Art and Creative Design students!
We are proud to be sharing the work of student from architecture, architectural design technology, interior design, product design as well as graphic design, illustration photography and fine art students at our AVA Showcase 2023.
Join us for the private view on 8th June, AVA Building, Docklands Campus, from 6pm-10pm for prizes and speeches, live musical performances, and the chance to view the incredible work produced by the next generation of talented individuals during their studies at UEL. You’ll also get to network with the students, alumni and staff from the School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering (ACE).
This show will be up for 3 weeks, and is open to all, so if you can do pop down to take a tour, and to show your support for our all our hard-working Architecture & Physical Design, and Art & Creative Design students!
Past EXHIBITIONs
COSMIKNOT
30 March - 15 April
The exhibition featured international artists from inside and outside University of East London.
The works all seek to contribute to the idea of proliferating a capacity for cultural shift through art practice. The artists all reveal that the seemingly private process of creative expression is simultaneously a part of a speculative plurality.
In the art exhibited, the problem becomes woven into the solution of creative process.
Ork-Shun
30 March
Ork-Shun was the 2023 Visual Arts Auction event fundraiser. The funds raised from this event will help promote our students Degree Showcase; the culmination of three years of study at UEL. Historically, bidding is competitive as well as affordable and we hope to build on past success by showcasing numerous works from our students, teaching/supporting staff, and invited guest artists.
The event raised a combined £8000, with 108 pieces of work going under the hammer, including paintings, photographs, drawings, garments and books - as well as a custom gavel. Read more about the evenings here.
Way Out East Ork Shun catalogue
pdf, 11.57 MB
Colour + Light
20 - 25 February
Way Out East Gallery presented 'Colour + Light', an exhibition of BA Interior Design students from Level 4, 5 and 6. The work shown presented a large 1:1 cubic room, painted by year 01 to reflect on their studies of the colour wheel. Illuminating this were 40+ lamp prototypes (as seen on Dezeen) showcasing Year 02 + 03 lighting designs from large mobile glowing dressing screens to intricate 3D printed anatomical body parts sprouting lightbulbs.
A private viewing on 21 February was opened with a lecture by Susie Rumbold, the Founder and Creative Director of Tessuto, a successful, multidisciplinary design studio based in London, and a Past President of the British Institute of Interior Design. Established in 1993, Tessuto is an award winning, technically advanced, full service, architectural interior design studio with experience across a broad range of industry sectors.
Tutors: Dr Keith Winter, Susan Ginsburgh, Pol Gallagher, Nayden Hadzhiev, Andrew Wright, Carlos Torres, Dominic Eley, Liliane Nguyen, Karen Byford.
RUIN
30 Jan - 19 Feb, 2023
Curated by Richard Roberts
What immediately springs to mind are places, architecture and monuments rendered obsolete and functionless. Ruin is also transitory and the subject is urgent: it is personal, corporeal, environmental- determined by circumstance. And yet within the inevitable cycle of collapse, decline and decay there can be reconstruction and re-invention : spaces where countercultures can thrive...
Central to the Ruin exhibition at Way Out East is a group of 40 or so small works by 30 artists. These were exhibited at the Poola gallery, Croatia in January as 'correspondence pieces' as a way of getting around the uncertainties and eruptions caused by the pandemic. Alongside the postcards are paintings, video and sculpture by fourteen largely London based artists including members of UEL's teaching staff.
Featuring:
Nick Aston, Mike Ballard, Daryl Brown, Jack Condy-Kemp, Jacqui Chapman, Suzana Desnica, Mike Echernier, Geraint Evans, Michael Eyre, Elizabeth Goode, Adam Gre, Olija Grubic, Alison Hand, Alexis Harding Karsten Huneck, Nimmi Hutnick, Marco Jakse, Khaoula Karaweigh, Matt Lloyd, Shaun McNally, Andy O'onnell, Malcom Poynter, Rob Reed, Duncan Reekie, Lara Ritosa-Roberts, Richard Roberts, Tim Ross, Collette Rouhier, Alex Scott-Whitby, George Shaw, John Storey, Simon Stringer, Pierre Toi, Paul Westcombe, Julian Wild, Claire Willberg, Keef Winter.
Read more about this exhibit here.