‘Pleasurewood Thrills!’ is an interim show of MA Contemporary fine art students. The exhibition brings together a diversity of artistic practice, ranging from video, text-based, photographic and sculpture. Starting with familiar or overlooked aspects of everyday life all six artists express a desire to connect with and reinterpret the world around them. The resulting work is a journey into the quotidian, the nostalgic, the kitsch and the magical.

Paula Kirby

Video & Photographs



Fred Inglis outlines ten maxims for the perfect holiday including the notion that a holiday experience must be luxurious and beautiful. Luxury is frequently synonymous with kitsch leading many holidaymakers to reject the real for the hypereal. Perhaps Disneyland and Vegas illustrate Baudrillard’s maxim that the hyperreal supersedes the real.