UCF students exhibit at the Zweig Exhibition

Four globe-trotting students from University College Falmouth have returned to present a diverse exhibition of work at The Poly this week.

Zweig Exhibition submission from Susan Corke
Each of the students were recipients of the Ferdynand Zweig Memorial Scholarship which enables students to explore the past and present artistic and cultural achievements of other nations.

The exhibition will include work from Sue Corke, who is studying for an MA in Illustration: Authorial Practice who used the Bursary to travel to Amsterdam and work as the Artist in Residence for Amsterdam's Grafisch Atelier Foundation (AGA), a specialist non-toxic printmaking studio. She arrived in the middle of a season of festivities and parades encompassing wonderful, strange and bizarre happenings which inspired her imagination and led her to create her own ghoulish carnival of a street scene with horses, dogs, rats and birds, some living, some dead and some in between, using photopolymer etching plates which were inked and printed on an etching press.

BA(Hons) Fine Art student, Malgorzata Osinska travelled to Spain in search of El Greco's work where it was originally created. However, during her research she realised that her original idea of ‘visiting' the artist as if in his own space and time was impossible as many of El Greco's works had either been altered or destroyed. Undeterred, new ideas began to take shape as she visited the many churches across Spain filled with 19th century religious sculptures and saw how the expressive postures and gestures of the figures suggest highly intense emotions, which the sculptors used to convey religious messages.

Alexandra Zierle and Paul Carter, both students of BA(Hons) Fine Art, found inspiration in Patagonia and Argentina to explore the idea of belonging and identity through the use of live/performance art, body centred video work, sound and video installation. All of their work from Patagonia to Buenos Aires was site specific and was directly shaped by the history, current situation and atmosphere of each venue, audience participation and presence.

The annual Ferdynand Zweig Memorial Scholarship which is open to all University College Falmouth students, was established by Mrs D Zweig in 1994 to commemorate the career of her husband Dr Ferdynand Zweig, a prolific Polish painter, sculptor and former lecturer at the wartime Polish Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford.

The exhibition at The Poly in Falmouth's Church Street is open to the public from 10am to 4pm, Monday to Saturday, until Saturday 19 April 2008. Admission is free.

For further information about University College Falmouth, visit www.falmouth.ac.uk.

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