A Walk on the Wild Side

Often I go around art degree shows out of a sense of duty expecting, and often getting, a tired re-hash of academic theory, or work that I have seen many times before. Only better.
 
So a visit today to the graduate Design Department at Glasgow School of Art’s in the new Reid Building turned out to be a series of very pleasant surprises.
 Here it was “new stuff” and, as you would expect of GSA students, finished to a very high degree of professionalism.
 
Too many pieces to mention but I particularly liked this orange figure by Laura Thompson made from redundant material. Placed in the window of the Reid Building it was a showstopper and these new students clearly think so too.
 
An innovation since my day is the medical visualisation and anatomy course where students
  create visual imagery to explain what is going on inside the body (see extra photo) in this case inside a dog’s head. (Did you know that a dog’s brain is 2 per cent of its total body weight?).
 

In the Fine Art section it was this painting by French student Estelle Fournier, big, bold and expressive that clearly stole the show.