ReCollection
9 July - 17 August 2011
James Hockey & Foyer Galleries, UCA Farnham
The UCA Collection, totalling over 260 works, contains an historical record of artwork donated to the university in the latter half of the twentieth century, initially consisting primarily of etchings and engravings. Photography by prominent artists, lecturers and graduating students has gained prominence as a recently strand. Originally a repository of disparate works, the collection was centralised in 1998, under the supervision of Christine Kapteijn, Galleries Manager and Curator, and Professor Norman Taylor OBE, then Director of the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College.
During the summer of 2009, window replacement work in the James Hockey Gallery, UCA Farnham, was completed ahead of schedule, allowing annual maintenance of the UCA Collection the rare opportunity to take place in this vast space. Out of storage, the latest photographic additions to the collection were seen alongside longstanding and familiar works for the first time. While being re-measured and re-photographed in the gallery over the course of a week works took on a new meaning by being viewed together in a wider context.
'ReCollection' is intended to act as a springboard towards launching a formal collecting policy, bringing together an established focus on photography and exploring accidental relationships between works regardless of subject matter or medium. Curated by Lee Broughall and Phoebe Gardiner, the exhibition considers contrasting topics: of merriment and melancholy, the delicate and the rudimentary, the old and the new. This is a rare opportunity to view around 50 works from the UCA Collection, exhibited in pairs and groups that inform and influence each other.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to unexpected maintenance work in the Foyer Gallery, the main public entrance to the Galleries will be out of use from Monday 8 August.
'ReCollection' will still be open in the James Hockey Gallery until 17 August and visitors will still be able to access the James Hockey Gallery through the University Entrance, which will be signposted a little further down Falkner Road.
Any queries, please call the Galleries Office on 01252 892671
James Hockey & Foyer Galleries, UCA Farnham
The James Hockey & Foyer Galleries are public exhibition spaces. The aim is to present work of lasting educational importance, which will invite participation and contribute to the public and professional debate. Respect for the specialist appreciation of disciplines, media and techniques remains vital to the promotion of the arts at the Galleries.
Opening Times
Monday - Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm
Closed Sunday & Bank Holidays
Admission free.
There is full disabled access to the galleries.
Artists exhibiting in ReCollection
Mick Aslin
Charles Bartlett
David Blackmore
Colin Booth
Harold Cheesman
Alessia Chiappino
Adam Chodzko
Jane Clarke
Gregory Coates
Richard Cole
Jack Coutu
Barbara Crowe
Fleur Davies
Tacita Dean
Lizzie Espinoza
Nooshin Farhid
Stephen Farthing
Stephen Ford
Dicky Graham
Grennan & Sperandio
Matt Hamid
BJ Harrison
Mona Hatoum
James Hockey
Jan Hunter
Dr. Mark Ingham
Charlotte Jonsmyr
John Joyce
David Kefford
Peter Kennard
Ronald King
Leszek Muszynski
Damien O'Connell
Ben Parsons
Jonathan Parsons
Ben Rowe
Tim Savage
Mark Seiltz
Seamus Staunton
Ed Thompson
Ina Dorthea Thuresson
Matthew Topham
Susan Trangmar
Natalie Waite
Andrew Whamond
Edmund Whitaker
Caroline Woowat
