Kristina Cranfeld

An ongoing photographic and poetic work which documents current art-educational settings in the UK. 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, are kept unstained, unspoilt, untouched, where artists deprived of personal corners, book these desolate suites by appointment only.

This work critiques corporate aesthetics transcending educational art institutions, while asking what future creative minds and works will stem from these neoliberal environments.

Corridor, 35mm, Once an art school

Yellow and Blue, 120mm, Once an art school

Bars, 120mm, Once an art school

Window cleaner, 120mm, Once an art school

By the window, 120mm, Once an art school

Behind the glass, 120mm, Once an art school

A Single chair, 120mm, Once an art school

Behind the glass, 120mm, Once an art school

The screen is the king here, 35mm, Once an art school

Empty chairs, 35mm, Once an art school

Take your seat, 120mm, Once an art school