Then Again (exhibition)
This year's Graduate Artists present their work.
About the exhibition
Then Again is a collaborative exhibition from Loughborough University’s Graduate Artists, Coral Shaw Jackson, Lily Rees, and Aimee Mitchell. Following their 2024 graduation, this exhibition showcases the progression of their practices since returning to Loughborough.
Then Again alludes to this exploration into alternative ways of thinking and making and captures a moment in the development of their emerging art practices. The show invites viewers to experience the coming together of distinct mediums where a new arena is created that explores process, chance and new beginnings.
Launch event - Thursday 10 April, 6-8pm (all welcome)
Please note that the exhibition will not be open on Friday 18 April, Monday 21 April and Tuesday 22 April due to Bank Holidays and University closure days.
About the artists
Shaw Jackson’s practice is concerned with narrative and image making, inspired by folklore, place and ancient stones. Her photography and printmaking explore bodily engagements with landscape as the point of departure of our understanding and experience of objects and the world. The work presented here delves into an ‘imagined aftermath’ of a previous body of work, situated in conversation with both Rees’s and Mitchell’s outcomes.
Rees’s work explores time, memory, and place through mixed media. Rooted in patience and process, her work is both meditative and meticulous - an exploration of how we preserve time through art. The work showcased here investigates our understanding of time perception. Using her own brain shown through magnetic resonance imaging, silk and cotton has been stitched by hand directly into the scans.
Mitchell’s practice is a continual interrogation of the materiality and autonomy of paint, and its interaction with the surface of various materials in creating the illusion of light. The work is underpinned by an understanding of empiricism and Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology; an understanding of the artist’s own consciousness and experiences, and how these manifest into gestures and intuitive marks to create emotional landscapes. The paintings exhibited here present her continued experimentation with materials, including a more recent use of polycottons and a recurring use of unprimed canvas.
Accessibility
There is step-free access into the gallery via a ramp and side door, which the exhibition invigilator can open for you. If you require the invigilator’s assistance, then please alert them on arrival by calling to them or waving at them – the entrance to the gallery is fully glazed and the main entrance door should be open to make this possible.
For more information about the venue, including photographs, view the access guide for Martin Hall on AccessAble.
If you have any specific access requirements, then please contact LUArts@lboro.ac.uk in advance of your visit and we will do our best to accommodate them.
Facilities
There are toilets located on the ground floor of Martin Hall including an accessible toilet. There is step-free access into this building.
Martin Hall Cafe serves light refreshments and is open from 8.30am to 5pm Mon-Fri. It is located behind the gallery, accessed through the main entrance to Martin Hall.
Parking
Please note that visitors are now required to register their vehicle and pay to park on campus. There are various ways in which you can register and pay (both in advance and on arrival).
More information on visitor parking
Public transport
If you are travelling by public transport, you can take the Sprint Bus from Loughborough railway station or the town centre (Ashby Square) and alight at Loughborough College. Cross Epinal Way at the pedestrian crossing and keep going straight ahead to enter campus. This brings you onto Shirley Pearce Square with Martin Hall on the left.