Kristina Cranfeld

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.