© Kristina Cranfeld 2024
Once an Art School is an ongoing photographic work which documents our current art-educational settings. Pristine façades, brilliant white walls, opaque glass, sealed windows, climate controlled rooms, clinical lighting, commercial carpet edge-to-edge. Clean designs, resembling corporate settings, eclipsing past creative environments. These purpose-built, supposedly spectacular spaces, must be kept unstained, unspoilt, untouched where artists, deprived of personal corners, can book these desolate suites – by appointment only.
This work critiques a spiralling trend leaning towards corporate aesthetics transcending educational art institutions, while asking what future creative minds will stem from these neoliberal environments.
By the window, 120mm, Once an art school
Bars, 120mm, Once an art school
Behind the glass, 120mm, Once an art school
Behind the glass, 120mm, Once an art school
Cleaner, 120mm, Once an art school
Post it notes, 120mm, Once an art school
Hi office people r u ok, 120mm, Once an art school
Take your seat, 120mm, Once an art school