Oct 23-Jan 24 Ana Maria Pacheco Remember (2022)
Thanks to the generosity of Pratt Contemporary, Studio 3 Gallery were able to show a major work by Brazilian artist Ana Maria Pacheco during Autumn Term 2023. Remember features twenty polychrome wooden figures inspired, in part, by the plight of refugees.
Emerging from the shadows, Pacheco’s moving characters invited the audience to find their own stories in their lyrical passageways.
Dec 23- Jan 24 Women Artists Jarman Building
A fantastic exhibition by first year Art History students on the Women Artists module. Diverse women artists, across time and space, offered powerful inspiration for student work.
Ari Kamara, You have eclipsed yourself – inspired by Lois Mailou Jones 2023
Hannah Alsford, ‘In Response to Berthe Morisot and how Women’s Spaces have evolved with Time’ 2023
The students curating Women Artists chose to include sketches ‘in the rough’ giving the audience powerful insights into their creative process.
Ten minute sketches of women artists 2023
June 2023 Diving Deep: A Journey through the Intersection of Water and the Human Body
An extraordinary new exhibition of work by: Allegra Hicks, Anita Klein, Eileen Cooper RA, Golnaz Jebelli, Hugo Hamper Potts and Wilfrid Wood curated by MA Curating students.
The artworks invited us to dive deep into our own relationship with water and reflect on how it shapes our existence both physically and metaphorically.
April-May 2023 Where Are You From, From? Black British Culture in Print 1800s-Now
This multi-layered exhibition explored Black and Black British experience through brilliant, thought-provoking work by: Sonia Boyce, Tam Joseph, Kamlah Kew, Lubaina Himid, Yinka Shonibare, Saint Akua, Olivia Twist, Kemi Oloyede, Houria Niati, Yvadney Davis, John Lyons and Maëlle. This extraordinary exhibition was only made possible through the generosity of multiple artists, galleries and vendors – a massive thank you to all of you. Further details about the exhibitions and its contributors is available here: whereareyoufromfrom | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree
The exhibition was sourced and curated by 3rd year UG Art History students, accompanied by a multi-forum event series that responded to aesthetic, political and cultural exigencies in the prints.
April 2023 John Wills – GAmerica: Explorations of the Pixel Frontier
Since the inception of the digital age, computer programmers have transformed the American experience into interactive entertainment, turning all kinds of U.S history, culture and politics into entertainment and play. Featuring a mixture of curated posters, digital art, and playable machines, GAmerica catalogued America as depicted in modern video games. Visitors played the vintage titles and considered the implication of GAmerica.
Dec 22-Jan 2023 Women Artists
Honor Roberts, Responding to Jenny Saville 2022
A wonderful exhibition of work by first year Art History students inspired by women and non-binary artists. Some students took inspiration directly from a single artist. Others used the work of many artists as a springboard for expression. Students responded to the works through image, audio, touch and text.
Visitors to Women Artists, Studio 3 Gallery
Aug-Sept 2022 Keith Robinson – Younome
Keith Robinson, a renowned portrait artist, produced 25 portraits representing the 24 human chromosomes (plus mitochondria DNA) by altering his self-image. YouNome is a unique science-art collaboration designed to engage, educate and inspire the general public about ‘personalised genomics’.
April -May 2022 Moyra Derby ‘room plan’
In Derby’s site-specific work a series of painting based components configured as a room plan, actualising and imagining the space of the painter and mathematician.
As the artist set out, the works status as paintings was interchangeable with their potential as tables, shelves, screens and storage, or their readability as a number system or mathematical diagrams.
‘Room plan’ elicited hands-on engagement.
Dec 21 -March 22 Exhibition: Invisible Squares
The exhibition was an initiative of Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and was shown at the University of Kent thanks to the generosity of the Italian Cultural Institute in London.
The show told the story of twenty-one Italian squares through words and photographs by Italian authors, taken during Covid-19, when Italy, like much of the rest of the world, found itself in confinement.
Feb 2022 Curating Art History
The exhibition inspired a series of events that responded to ideas of space, inclusion and common practice.
Tactile workshop inspired by David Medalla’s A Stitch in Time
March 2022 #Earbox Concert, String Sinfonia
Italian piazzas provided the perfect backdrop for string orchestra, including John Woolrich’s Ulysses Wakes, as #EarBox returned to Studio 3 Gallery with the University String Sinfonia.
Oct 21-Dec 21 Emma Robdale Wombinescent
The vagina/womb, its ovarian structure, and menstruation are generally only witnessed in clinical settings. Wombinessent invited the audience to celebrate their aesthetics in more natural surroundings.
Robdale’s painted ‘feminstrations’ and interactive installations illuminated the science surrounding female anatomy, while incorporating abstract imagery to convey a personal, more figurative perspective.
August 2021 Exhibition: Playing A/Part – WOW Welcome to Our World
WOW showcased objects, masks, light, sound, installations etc. that awesome autistic girls from Kent and Surrey created in the Playing A/Part project.
Other events
If you would like to hold an exhibition or event at the gallery, or have any other queries, please contact Dr Catherine Hahn, Administrator of Studio 3 Gallery and Lecturer in Art History at Kent c.hahn@kent.ac.uk