A group exhibition of four artists, curated by Edward Chell and shown during January 2016 with funding support from the Vice-Chancellor's Award scheme that was running at the time. The show was timed to celebrate one of the recently graduated MA students who was awarded an Artist in Residence position, Chihiro Yoshikura (Kurara) and who was leaving the UK at the end of that month to return to Japan.

The exhibition explored different aspects of the artificial taking its roots meaning from the Latin term 'artificium'. The four artists' practices variously interrogated what it might mean to produce and work with visuals and materials that were by their nature highly artificial.

The exhibition also hosted a symposium on Thursday 14th January in the Herbert Read Gallery that was open to all schools within Canterbury and was very well attended by both staff and students with standing room only. The event was recorded on video and the whole event is to be archived.

The four exhibiting artists were Sean Dawson, Chihiro Yoshikura, Alicia Paz and Yuy-Chen Wand. The exhibition was curated by Edward Chell.