The future of progressive art in Jersey looks bright as a result of recent exhibitions held by the students of Highland's College. The past four weeks has thrown open the School of Art and Design's doors and displayed the varying bodies of work. Artists ready to explore the mainland, as well as those based in Jersey, have put their creations on display to the public. What has excited me the most has been the quality of the work produced and the sophistication of ideas form the youngest artists. This suggests an increasingly rich pool of talent which will grow if individuals return to the island. The coherence and quality of the Highland's College Degree show, based in the temporarily converted Spectrum buildings, was a group exhibition which would have been comfortable in any major contemporary gallery space. All exhibitions have given me reasons to return to works and gaze thoughtfully. I've noticed the diversity in materials, techniques and themes and a dwindling of images produced in response to sunday sunsets at St Ouens. Quirky kinetic sculptures, highly charged fashion installations, atmospheric collaged environments, fantastically slick animations, moving image projections onto the detritus of human life and mixed media 3D crafts only skim the surface of the wealth of creative exploration. What has been clear from this intense month of artistic viewing, and number of other exhibitions listed here, is the energy inserted into each idea compared with the short fragment for which the final response is seen by any extensive audiences. I understand that an artworks can be the result of a need to express or compulsion to create. Often the ideas explored can have more value to an artist than the monetary reward provided by audiences and consumers.