Festus: Festival of Sculpture

FESTUS is an annual happening and one of the most significant in our programme - a series of collaborative projects between MA Sculpture and a host of external partners: galleries, museums, councils, communities where students have an opportunity to meet and work with curators, artists, activists, archivists, makers to learn skills, make connections, make, work, think and present their ideas in all their forms to each other, to invited guests and to new publics. It may involve going towards the dark, publishing a book, working out for peak fitness - wilding genders, making a pavilion or thinking anthropologically. 

Festus is an exhibition where gather our forces and the dynamic range of approaches students and staff bring to sculpture in the 21st century and the partnerships and networks we make. Students work intensively with a range of galleries, museums, public arts trusts and cultural organisations to develop new ways of working, thinking and making together.