I caught the postgraduate degree show just before it closed on Saturday and I’ve picked out a few artists that I liked. My selection doesn’t pretend to be representative and it’s influenced by the ideas I formed on the open day last year, where I saw more easel painters than I expected. There weren’t so many among this years’ graduates, and Rodrigo Arteaga‘s installation (below) is more typical of the graduating students of 2018.
Antonia Showering referenced Gaugin and Munch in her ambiguous, painterly images.
Elisa Carutti‘s quasi-abstraction recalled Bacon, more in her brush work than her subject matter, though the tortuous forms suggest Bacon as well.
Yijia Yang made a grid of quirky, faux naive drawings that don’t indicate fully what she does in her paintings .
MARSHALL COLMAN 