FAT BABY – MA Fine Art Degree Show 2024
- Date: Tuesday 3 September 2024, 10:00 – 16:00
- Location: Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
- Interval: Every day
- Until: Sunday 8 September 2024
- Cost: Free
MA Fine Art students from the University of Leeds are pleased to announce the birth of their Degree Show, Fat Baby.
The show celebrates the work of eight graduating students, ranging through all mediums of contemporary practice.
FAT BABY showcases all forms of plastic arts, including fim and video art; painting, performance and sculpture; printmaking, drawing and installation.
The exhibition has been independently organised and curated by the graduating students. It features a group show in the downstairs Project Space, with individual Solo Shows across the first and second floors of the building.
A Private View of the exhibition will take place from 5 to 8pm on Thursday 5 September. All welcome! If you would like to attend, please RSVP to fincomms@leeds.ac.uk.
Artists
Astrid Butt
Em Eve
George Storm Fletcher
Baiyun Jiang
Qin Liu
Ruolin Wu
Yiwen Yang
Jinlu Zhang
Find out more about the artists.
About FAT BABY
“We are a group of eight artists, none of us are men. We have been nourished by the past year of study, and given birth to a FAT BABY. This exhibition relishes its own fleshiness, its own weight and matter. FAT BABY is feedback to the social structure. Born under a series of systems, fat piles up on our bodies, fat symbolizes culture, fat is ideas taught by teachers. these things should not be trimmed away. FAT BABY takes joy in its own conception, it is compacted and refined, unctuous and alive. This baby’s genealogy is untraceable, but it is collectively parented.
“Like lipids, the subject and materiality of our show is all encompassing, it can be found all over our world, in our drains, our bodies and hospitals; in our fridges and cupboards. Despite the exertion of birth, we will emerge, nourished and well fed.”
Venue
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
University Road
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
More information
See the FAT BABY website for further details about this year’s MA Fine Art Degree Show and the artists taking part.
Follow the show on Instagram @bat_faby
Find out more about the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies.
Image and poster
Artwork courtesy of Em Eve and Astrid Butt. Design by George Storm Fletcher.