Category: Exhibition

The MA Design Showcase served as the culminating stage of study for MA design courses at Camberwell and Chelsea, showcasing the innovative designs achieved by our talented students throughout their academic journey. The showcase featured artworks by students on the following courses: MA Designer Maker, MA Textile Design, MA Graphic Design Communication, MA Illustration, and MA Interior and Spatial Design.

Language is a potent tool that forms our perceptions of the world including the female body. Just as language constructs complex meanings with words, bodies, too, are constructed; instead of words they are constructed by society through power dynamics. In this exhibition, the body is activated and takes centre stage, in a way that is not bound by the structures of patriarchal society; a poetic language in which multiple meanings prevail. Mother Tongue features a divers range of works across media of painting, sculpture, photography, video, text, textile, performance and sound. Mother Tongue invites viewers to participate in a multi-faceted dialogue that goes beyond spoken or written words, encouraging a new contemplation of the relationship between language and the body.

Millbank Tower is located beside the River Thames, opposite MI6, with Tate Britain to the right and Westminster within walking distance to the left. The second floor of Millbank Tower, a Grade 2 listed building designed by Ronald Ward, will be infiltrated with conceptual art from 1 – 5 November 2023. The building, formerly the office of the United Nations, and the Labour and Conservative political parties, still appears as a gatekeeper and mystery space where secret government decisions were made. The exhibition will present a site-embedded political space – that formulates a critique on institutional power structures.

The group show will present varying artistic positions that dismantle and question the role of borders, security and economic policies, power and class systems, the consequences of societal norms and human-made conditions – starting from the history and political topicality of the space itself, Millbank Tower.