BxNU MFA | Graduate Exhibition at BALTIC 39: You Kept Me Vaguely Sane

It is always difficult to create a title for an exhibition of this kind where the exhibiting artists are brought together simply because they are studying the same course, at the same time, at the same institution. You Kept Me Vaguely Sane refers to the thing that kept the students vaguely sane in these unpredictable times, namely creativity.



"In 2016, in his speech before meeting the Queen to relinquish political office, David Cameron thanked his wife Samantha for keeping him vaguely sane. As a group of young artists working together in the two-year period following this event, we find ourselves in a state of flux, living, reacting and adjusting within this aftermath. Responding to this Brexit limbo and the ever-moving political landscape, the thing that has kept us all vaguely sane is the sanctuary of our creativity."




Artists:

KAT BEVAN

ROBERT BOWMAN

ANTHONY CRAMMEN

SIMONE GANDHI

RICARDO LOPES

KITTY MCMURRAY

ALEXANDER NICHOLAS

MURRAY THOMPSON