CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART - ARCHIVE AND PROJECT SPACE

The Archive section of the Centre houses a permanent collection of documentary materials relating to staff research. Box files containing catalogues, press cuttings, journal essays and book extracts, invitation cards and brochures, are assigned to each member of the Fine Art staff as well as some staff from other areas of Art and Fashion including Fashion/Fashion Promotion, Music, Performance, +Audio Visual Media.
There are also audio and video tapes and slide transparencies available to view.

A section on Associate Artists - a selection of Fine Art Graduates documentation of work is also continuously developing.

The Archive also houses files on every project initiated by Professor Lubaina Himid over the past three years. These include exhibitions at the university, projects in collaboration with other art institutions and student initiated projects.

Projects are wide ranging and include work in progress residencies and displays, conventional exhibitions of small and large two and three dimensional works either shown at the Centre or in Victoria Building Gallery.

We have shown time based work, launched art books and been a venue for national touring exhibitions. Staff are encouraged to curate exhibitions and to exhibit, to build the work at the Centre into their teaching and to participate in discussions around the programme.

Students, mostly from Art & Fashion visit the Archive and find the research material useful in a variety of ways.

The work shown both in the Project Space and Victoria Gallery often provides a small insight into contemporary culture on the doorstep and can help to make links to work on show in other venues.