UCMK Gallery

UCMK Galleries

A public gallery was opened in September 2008 at the University Centre. Its opening times are 08.00 - 21.00 and the gallery is located on the ground floor, next to the coffee shop, with additional exhibition space on the 1st floor. 

UCMK Galleries seeks to create or mount exhibitions of artists of local, national and international standing .This will offer collaborative possibilities between the exhibiting artist and our FE and HE students; a relationship which offers up new challenges for student growth and development.

Student experience of the Galleries forms a key component in preparing students for a professional life as it incorporates learning opportunities through a combination of exhibitions, events and artist talks. The integration of professional practitioners into the curriculum builds student learning. The experience as a whole offers students a vision of new possibilities and chances that open to them.  

A key feature of the Galleries is to collaborate directly with businesses, the Milton Keynes Community and to foster national and international connections to help prepare our students for the dynamic and challenging nature of the creative fields. 

UCMK Galleries Schedule 2011/2012


Ground Floor

When Artist Exhibition Preview
Sep/Oct Alison Goodyear Cell

 
Nov/Dec Amanda Hottinger    
Jan/Feb Marsha Dunstan Photography  
March/April Hilary Manhua  Sculpture  
May Daphne Fisher Painting & Sculpture  
June, July & August MK College students    

 

Upper Floor

When Artist Exhibition Preview
Sep/Oct Alison Goodyear Experimental paintings   
Nov/Dec Jason Duggan Printmaking    
Jan/Feb Marsha Dunstan    
March/April Tom Bree Mosaic images   
May Daphne Fisher    
June, July  & August MK College Students    
     
       

 

Please contact Gino Ballantyne, Art, Design & Media: gino.ballantyne@mkcollege.ac.uk for more details.

 

Featured Exhibition

Marsha Dunstan Exhibition

Marsha Dunstan Exhibition

"Threshold"

From Feb 1st until February 29th 2012

The threshold project is about the extraordinary range of different spaces we move through in the course of our days and years, often effortlessly and without thinking but sometimes with trepidation. It also raises questions about the nature of individual choice.

Marsha Dunstan's practice is lens-based, mostly using photography however more recently she has been creating short videos. Her work is often (but not exclusively) concerned with the feminine experience, and the tactics - physical, emotional and temporal - that individuals use to negotiate space in their everyday lives. Whether in photograph or video, she is making ambiguous narratives that draw on both staged fictions and found situations - they are inquiring and suggestive, not conclusive.

Born in Australia, London has been her home for many years and where she has worked as a newspaper journalist. The balance of her life has tilted inexorably and irreversibly in the direction of art following her first drawing class in 1998. She now lives in the East End of London where she has a studio. 

Frank Kermode: said "Fictions are for finding things out" , Marsha echoes these words in her work.