Student Series 2025
Breathe. Draw. Hold. Release
Claudia Du 新竹
Opening 5pm, Wednesday 13 August
Artist talk 12pm, Thursday 14 August
Welcome to the psychospatial pressure chamber.
Archery as ritual — Precision. Control. Surrender.
Power as relation —- Intent. Agency. Tension. Trust.
Perception. Objecthood. The porous line between observer and observed.
Tension as structure. Exposure as design.
Stand between action and consequence, gaze and impact. The space between screens is not neutral; it is a field of consent. You do not see both presence and aftermath—not at once. Looking is loss. Choose your position.
The arrow does not touch you. Or does it?
Hyperreal. Staged. Perceived.
Artist, work, viewer, this statement — no one is neutral.
What is not seen is not lost. It is enforced.
Objective and symbolic violence, disguised as form.
Stand in the gaze.
Decide whether to flinch. Or don’t.
Oscillate.
The Ilam Campus Gallery Student Series is an annual showcase of some of the current practices at the Ilam School of Fine Arts.
2025 Student Series Exhibitions:
16 Jul - 23 Jul - 'SQUELCH', Virginia Ferguson and CJ Maglaqui
30 Jul - 6 Aug - 'Re-earth' , Bella Macdonald and Rory Mainwaring
13 Aug - 20 Aug- 'Breathe. Draw. Hold. Release', Claudia Du
10 Sep - 17 Sep - 'Heaven and the Hard Shoulder', Marie Lawrence, Fionn Walker, and Lucinda Tennent
The Ilam Campus Gallery is generously supported by Three Boys Brewery, Murray and Co, and the University of Canterbury.
