You knew something was wrong when Jason Donovan released his Greatest Hits album in 1991, only two years after his debut. It must have been hard for him to say no, being caught up in the machine already. It must have been similarly hard for the young graduates who were invited onto the AVA's Greatest Hits show, a compilation of the 'best' work from Michaelis School of Fine Art, Ruth Prowse School of Art, Stellenbosch University and Stellenbosch Academy.

Academic art training focuses on producing a body of work, a coherent group of works that sort of say something together. It's a challenge to do that well. It's another challenge altogether to have work strong enough to stand alone. Many of the graduates achieved that too. But the curating was messy, and everything blurred into one mass for me. In fact nothing made much of an impression on me at all. This is hardly the exciting challenging show one would expect from young graduates. Nor did it particularly reflect discourses in contemporary art.

So although this could have been a good idea, it needed to be done better. And young graduates beware, you might just end up looking like Jason Donovan. Without Kylie.