Graduation exhibitions Utrecht

Last week I've been to three graduation exhibitions. At first I went to the exhibition in my own city Utrecht. This was divided between two buildings several kilometers apart from each other. The first day and for the first day I had an abundance of time to watch and to speak to the students.
A graduation exhibition usually lasts four days and the student artists are usually around and willing to talk about their art. The first day I talked to a few photography and illustration graduates. Two graduates peaked in my eyes. Natascha Boel made her graduation work around intensiveparenting (she has two childeren)She made beautiful drawings of childeren. You can see them on her website here. (Click on the lower part of the suitcase to see her "eindexamenproject" (graduation project))
In the section photography made her project about a less soft subject.
She photographed machines for slaughtering animals. Very clean stainless steel machines, which seem to have been used in a movie like Terminator.
You can see the pictures here

Soon I will blog about the graduation exhibiom from the Rietveld academy (Amsterdam)and AKV/St Joost (Den Bosch)




As I haven't bought yet from any graduation student this year and I usually only show pictures from works of art I own.

Below two pictures form Martine Derks I bought through an auction site. She graduated in 2008 from the Rietveld Academy.
She made an installation for the Naarden photography festival. This festival is world famous in the Netherlands. You can see yth installation on her site.

She will have her next exhibition in the Amsterdam center of photography.