Students given the run of The Rodd

1:59pm Thursday 7th August 2008

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FINE art graduates and final year students from Hereford College of Arts were invited by the Sidney Nolan Trust to The Rodd and given the run of the ancient farm buildings, the tudor manor, Rodd Court, and the 250 acres of the trust’s organic farm and woodlands to create new work.

The students were accompanied by the college’s degree course supervisor, Alison Neal, who was delighted by the opportunity afforded to the students and hoped that it would become an ongoing collaboration.

She encouraged her students to take full advantage of the chance to work in as many media possible and on a scale not always possible within the confines of the college building.

From 1983, The Rodd was the home of the artist Sidney Nolan, who used the open plan quality of the ancient buildings to paint, using spray cans, on canvasses of immense size.

The students’ work, encompassing film, audio, painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography and installations will be on exhibition in the Tithe barn and the grounds of The Rodd until August 16 from 11.30am to 5pm daily.