The Newcastle University MFA & MA Fine Art Degree Show is at the Hatton Gallery this August.

There is a distinct, electric energy inside a Fine Art Degree Show that you simply cannot get anywhere else. It is the sound of absolute creative freedom, raw experimentation, and years of intense, hyper-focused research finally breaking out of the studio walls and into the public eye. When you walk through the doors – if you forgive my hyperbole – you are stepping directly into a living map of contemporary culture’s next direction. It is a snapshot of the exact questions, anxieties, and triumphs of the next generation of artists, captured at the very moment they stand ready to alter the landscape of the art world. Imagine! This show brings together work from first and second-year MFA, MA Fine Art and PHD students.

Newcastle University MFA & MA Fine Art Degree Show, 15-29 August, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, northeastmuseums.org.uk/hatton