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Amazing stuff! UEL student Adele selected 4 New Sensations

Friday 17 October 2008

Adele Morse, who graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Fine Art from the University of East London (UEL) this summer, is one of just 16 young artists in the UK selected to show her work at the prestigious 4 New Sensations exhibition, on this week.

4 New Sensations was launched in 2007 by Channel 4 and The Saatchi Gallery to find the most imaginative and talented artists graduating in the UK and to support students leaving art college.

Adele creates installation art and has taught herself taxidermy to create bizarre animal-human hybrid heads and body parts. Her exhibition piece ‘Home Sweet Home’ consists of a phantasmogoric Gothic-horror garden shed full of taxidermy books, knives, tools, pickled bits and mutant trophy heads nailed to the walls.

Adele Morse said: “I'm really pleased to have be given such an amazing opportunity so early on in my career and I hope to make all my tutors at UEL proud. "I’ve been busy working on my exhibition lately and UEL have been very supportive of my work, it's made it a fantastic experience being here."

Alison Winckle, Programme leader in Fine Art at UEL’s School of Architecture and the Visual Arts, said: “We are all really pleased for Adele – she has worked hard and thoroughly deserves her success. Her work is original, disturbing and very well produced!”

UEL’s School of Architecture and the Visual Arts is among the UK’s leading centres for architecture, and highly rated for research in art and design. Adele’s work is on show at the Truman Brewery, Whitechapel, until Sunday 19 October.

Notes to Editors

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