Paint as a fluid material and painting as a responsive activity enable artists to explore personally their relationship to all things physical, cerebral, intellectually proposed and imaginatively summoned.

Our graduating artists are wonderfully tenacious and engaged, utilising painting as a responsive activity and restlessly pursuing its potential to celebrate, confuse, reveal and surprise. The 2010 SHOW will showcase paintings, films of paintings, paintings as objects, projections, photographs and paintings projected on to objects as the basis for films, film stills, photographs or future paintings. These intense and demanding levels of enquiry are supported by staff and visitors, who offer experience and energy spinning out from their own creative practices.

Our new building has become home to different ways of thinking and making, creative studio cooking smells, yelps of frustration, outbursts of laughter, clangs, sawing, singing, splatters and the sounds of sustained reflection. The students, staff and many visitors – and the space and light – welcome everyone into the company of ideas and the continuous journey of experimentation, invention, mess-making and forever new ways of thinking about painting.