Students from The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art are showing works in varying media that explore the theme of perception, at The North Wall Gallery, in Summertown. The exhibition, entitled Morph, offers a splendid opportunity to see what young students working at the cutting edge of today’s artistic world are producing and thinking about now.

One of the most impressive and thought- provoking works is Emilie Pugh’s Traces, a large creamy-white canvas featuring mixed media which makes its impact by virtue of the many faint details that cry out to be viewed close up. Emilie obtained this effect by continually sanding down the paint, then over-painting with thin veils of watercolour, then scratching the canvas with silverpoint or an etching needle.

Her aim has been to produce layers of interwoven time with iridescent details, objects and faces that you may notice and remember or pass and forget. It is a superb piece that simply vibrates with life. Kinga Lubowiecka‘s One Step Forwards, Two Steps Back, consists of four bold and very colourful canvases painted with oils that appear to celebrate the colour purple juxtapositioned against a confusion of greens.

A weathered cargo box containing nine steel conical forms is Kira Freije’s untitled contribution. This very effective piece, which sets the worn, aged wood of the box against the sparkling steel forms which protrude with grid-like regularity, is simply splendid, and commands our attention immediately. You will find this piece in the small gallery upstairs.

Rebecca Logan has placed two sets of five photographs together to produce her offering, entitled Divis Flats, Gateway to the Falls Road, Belfast 2009 and Rangers Supporters Club, Shankill Road 2009. The first shows a tower block of flats on which the words such as ‘Stronghold’, ‘Lost Bastion’ and ‘Home’ are printed. The pictures of a boy standing outside the red brick clubhouse in the second collection are decorated with words such rivalry, bigotry, hatred and sectarianism.

All in all, this exhibition, which continues until April 11 puts together a fascinating collection of works that suggests today’s young artists have much to offer.