e-briefing
12 January 2007
Naagla Walker, BA Photography, LCC, For further information about this piece or any other aspect of the University Art Collection, contact ext. 6448 or e.maxwell@arts.ac.uk
Best wishes to colleagues
observing the following events or religious festivals over the next fortnight:
Shinran Memorial Day; Honen Memorial Day; Week of Prayer for Unity; Makar
Sankrant; Vasanta Pancham/Saraswati Puja; Al-Hijra; Ashura; Basant; Holocaust
Memorial Day.
To find out
more about any of these celebrations or festivals visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/
The University will shortly be implementing a new facility to assist staff and students who have forgotten their passwords. Rather than contacting a member of IT staff to change your password, you will be able to change your own password online by answering a series of Challenge Questions. A Challenge Question is a personal question to which only you know the answer. For example, ‘What is your Mother’s maiden name?’. You will be required to enter your own choice of Challenge Questions and Responses for this facility to be available to you. You will be prompted to enter your Challenge Questions and Responses when using PCs, and there will be links available to set them from the Webmail and Blackboard login pages. PC, Webmail and Blackboard login boxes will display a 'Did you forget your password?' link for use when you have forgotten your password.
Xhibit
Xhibit is an annual exhibition organised by the Students' Union giving
all students the opportunity to get their work seen at The Arts Gallery,
Davies Street this March. It's an eclectic exhibition and is unique within
the University in that it includes works from all artistic disciplines
and all levels of study. Call for Entry Forms are available from SU Bars,
SU Offices and will be downloadable from www.suarts.org or contact xhibit@su.arts.ac.uk
or 020 7514 6270. Any type of gallery displayable art is welcomed as a
submission.
Caroline Evans, Professor of Fashion History and Theory at CSM, has been awarded a three year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for her project, " The Mathematics of Fashion: Early 20th Century Fashion Shows". This prestigious award will enable Caroline to develop research into the history of early 20th Century fashion shows, situating them in the context of modernism, and relates them to the rationalisation of the body in that period, not only in the cultural sphere, (fashion, cinema, theatre, visual art) but also in the realms of economics, industry and business.
Former Jerwood Drawing Prize winner and current Wimbledon PhD researcher Paul Ryan will be in Residence at the Centre for Drawing until 9 February. His PhD investigates Peirce's semeiotic and the implications for aesthetics in the visual arts. It is an extemporary case study concerned with the sketchbook and its position in the hierarchies of collecting and exhibiting. This residency will ask 'What Are Feelings For?' presenting some of the answers various theorists and philosophers have given over time. To arrange a visit to the residency or for more information contact Claire Foss ext 9706 or centrefordrawing@wimbledon.arts.ac.uk Read more at www.aionarap.org www.paulryan.co.uk
Following the publication of 'Basics Illustration: Thinking Visually', Camberwell's Mark "Wigan" Williams will be launching three new books in 2007. 'Text and Image' in March and 'Sequential Images' and 'Global Contexts' this summer. Published by AVA, this series of handbooks feature work by hundreds of international contemporary illustrators including many Arts London students, staff and alumni. If you are interested in contributing any thoughts or images for this series contact Mark Wigan at markwigan@hotmail.com. Mark is also launching a new multipurpose project space with video artist Kerry Baldry, called House of EAR (experimental art research). The space will function as a gallery, arts club and school of Graphic Arts. They are looking for proposals from artists, illustrators, designers, video artists or animators working in any media for their exhibition programme 070/8.
University of the Arts London's Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN) and the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Germany are collaborating on a dual-funded artist-in-residence exchange project. Photographer Götz Diergarten is currently in the UK as TrAIN Artist in Residence working on a project which systematically explores the underground railway stations of 22 European capital cities. His photographs of these public yet anonymous spaces extract the unique from the banal; concentrating on colour and form, they expose and identify difference from country to country. The completed series will be exhibited on city billboards across Europe, and published as a book.
The Deutsche Bank Pyramid Awards gives students the chance to win £8000 to get a brilliant business or project idea in the field of fashion or photography off the ground, as well as the support of a business mentor. The awards are open to all final year students of FdA, BA, MA or PGDip courses related to Fashion or Photography at Arts London. At an Introduction on 1 February at 5pm, in the RH Space East at LCF, there will be a short informal presentation by Deutsche Bank, followed by a question and answer session, and refreshments. To book or for more information contact Emily Dzelzainis at db@arts.ac.uk or ext. 6268.
Sound Arts and Design at LCC have started a fantastic new collaboration with the London Sinfonietta that invovles the entire second year of BA Sound Arts and Design, in a composition project which takes Benedict Mason’s ChaplinOperas as its inspiration. The London Sinfonietta's performace of the ChaplinOperas at the Coronet Cinema in Elephant & Castle will feature compositions and installations by Sound Art and Design students as well as the inaugural performance of the new Laptop Orchestra.
More good news is that the Laptop Orchestra has also been commissioned by the Guild of Psychoanalists for a piece of electronic music, inspired by an aspect of psychoanalysis, to be premiered in the Guild Hall at Nelson Square, SE1 in June.
Hans Brinker winner
Naim Meqadonci, Wimbledon BA Painting third year student, looks suitably abashed to learn he has won the Hans Brinker Trophy / Prize in Amsterdam in December. He won 5,000 euros for an exhibition of his paintings in the Hans Brinker Hotel, with a popular vote.
The LearningZone is a Library wannabe.
Myth: Although the LearningZone provides a limited stock of core textbooks for reference, it is primarily a resource centre that provides PCs, Macs, WIFI, scanners, printers, photocopiers, trimmers, lightbox, cutting table, flexible/group study space, presentation rooms, state of the art A/V equipment and comfy chairs. The LearningZone also lends laptops for use within the space. It's extended opening hours (Mon-Sat 10am -11pm and Sun 12pm - 6pm during term time), flexible study space and informal atmosphere complement the services offered by the Libraries.
The Great Escape
Sarah Bargiela, currently studying on CSM's Graphic Design course, specialising in Illustration, was pleasantly surprised to have been selected as a runner-up for the V&A Student Illustrator of the Year Award 2006, for her screen-printed book La Fuga (The Escape).
The future's bright, the future's neon
The Evening Standard's Hot List for 2007 has selected recent CSM alumnus and fashion darling Christopher Kane as one to watch. Their prediction of fashion trends for 2007 included neon which they attributed to Kane.
Hannah Martin's enviable coverage includes Tank, ID, Another Magazine, Sunday Times Style, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, FHM, GQ, Japanese Vogue, German Elle, WWD and Elle. More impressive are the recent CSM Jewellery graduate's 2006 successes: she has been working on a collaboration for new British menswear label Licentious; producing of her own collection for stockists in London, Glasgow and Tokyo; obtaining £35,000 investment from NESTA; holding a solo exhibition at Cavendish Square, and an installation exhibition for ON/OFF at London Fashion Week; at Paris Fashion Week her collection was well received; she's collaborated with shoe designer Georgina Goodman... and worked on some pieces for Morrissey's guitarist.
LCF
Student In Project Catwalk Final
Project Catwalk is returning to Sky One for a second series and features
Product Design and Development LCF student, Luke Youngblood. Luke, who
is currently in his second year, hopes to battle it out for a place in
the final against 11 other contestants. Judges include Julien Macdonald,
mentor Ben De Lisi, and Paula Reed, Fashion Editor of Grazia. The judges
will also be joined by a guest judge each week who will present contestants
with a specific challenge.The winning designer will receive £20,000
cash, an exclusive deal with Designers at Debenhams and a full fashion
feature in Grazia magazine. For more info go visit www.skyone.co.uk
Aired: Mondays 9pm on Sky One: Repeated on Sky Three (Available on freeview)
on Thursdays at 9pm.
This
Dress is Killing Me
2006 graduate from LCC's FdA Journalism course, Erica Crompton has already
worked with Flux, Nylon, the BBC and more. Now she has landed a deal to
write a book: called This Dress is Killing Me, it's a story about a large
newspaper-based fashion assistant who descends into a psychotropical abyss.
It's Devil Wears Prada meets Knut Hamsun's Hunger - the fashion industry
through the eyes of psychosis and a bizarre eating disorder. It's being
published by Chipmunka, a charity who specialise in mental health related
books, poetry, rap and film and is due for release April 2007.
Ian Homerston, a 3rd year BA painter at Wimbledon, has won the £7,000 first prize in the national Lowry's One Love: The Football Art Prize. Creatives were asked demonstrate their passion for football through art, and Ian was presented with the prize by Newcastle striker Michael Owen for his piece 'Mimic', a crumpled subbuteo pitch left to gather dust.
The winner of UK-wide fashion competition Can U Cut It?, which aims to promote creative and technical skills, was revealed at a catwalk show during Clothes Show Live on December 1. Chelsea-based student Akari Fujimoto, a Production Tailoring student at LCF, was awarded up to £3,000 towards professional development and won £1,000 for LCF. Fujimoto's work was chosen from 40 finalists' work by judges including British designer Tristan Webber and the Daily Telegraph's Fashion Director Hilary Alexander, who chose Akari for her design and technical abilities, including pattern cutting, grading and garment construction.
Until 12 January
Daily 11 - 5pm
Byam Shaw School of Art, 2 Elthorne Road, Archway
17 January
Rootstein Hopkins Space, London College of Fashion
Key Themes: Work-based learning; Employability; The student experience; PPD; Significance of language; Using new technology
To reserve your place: email: clipcetl@arts.ac.uk
19 January, 7.30pm
LCF, John Princes Street
As part of LCF's Centenary celebrations the Students' Union are inviting all LCF students to a masked ball. There will be live music with a £500 cash prizes for the best masks. For tickets contact the SU at www.suarts.org
22 January, 7pm
Cochrane Theatre, Southampton Row, Holborn
Premiere screening of Janis Pugh's graduation film Blue Collars and Buttercups.
RSVP to pughjan@yahoo.co.uk
25 - 26 January, 5pm and 7pm
The Innovation Centre, Procter Street, London WC1
Experimental adaptation of Aristophanes' classic by an international collective of theatre designers and practitioners in their final year of BA (Hons) in Theatre: Design for Performance at Central Saint Martins and Jeremey Catterton, co-founder of Collision Theatre (USA), stage two and three BA (Hons) Fine Art students (CSM) and as stage 3 LCC BA (Hons) Sound Design students.
Box office 020 7269 1606 or www.cochranetheatre.co.uk, tickets £3 (£1 concs)
Götz
Diergarten
Tuesday 30th January, 5.15 - 7pm,
Lecture Theatre, Chelsea College of Art & Design
Part of the TrAIN Open Lecture Series
TrAIN Artist In Residence, Photographer Gotz Diergarten will be discussing
the development of the METROpolis project,
and the relevance of the Becher school to his practice. All welcome.
RSVP/Enquiries: www.transnational.org.uk/contact
11 January - 9 February
Gallery talk, 18 January, 1.30pm
Monday to Friday 9am - 8pm
Foyer Space, Camberwell, Peckham Road, SE5 8UF
An exhibition of works investigating the juxtaposition between personal experience, medium and form, by three artists connected with Camberwell College's Sculpture Department.
10 February, 7:30pm
Cochrane Theatre, Southampton Row
Sakoba, one of the country's leading African dance companies, are celebrating their twentieth anniversary with a national tour. Choreographed by one of the leading spirits and creators of world dance Bode Lawal.
Price, £14 (£12 concs), Box Office 020 7269 1606 or www.cochranetheatre.co.uk
15 January University of East London: Elizabeth Anderson, Tim Devlin, Magda Fabiancyck, Alice Richards, Aaron James, Jun Yan, Richard Millward.
22 January Ruskin:Victoria Chantler, Joel Dever. Nicola Dunkelman, Ben Glean, Rebecca Harrison, Sadie Hough, Dan Irons, Lucia Morris.
29 January Middlesex: Estaban, Hatice Ali, Emily Auckland, Sam Ayre, Emily Ballard, Andreina Atias, Faye Caldwell, Emma Price.
5 February Wimbledon: Mel Blackwell, Kate Brewer, Mark Bryant, Erin Cheng, Rowan Durrant, Tom Gillespie, Rachel Greaves, Lisa Mutan.
12 February CSM: Nelly Curtis, Martha White, Tilly Fowler, Spandana Gopal, Rachel Wood, Jason Lindley, Minerva Huerta, Amy Neill, Polly Holland
19 February Chelsea:
Duncan Lofty, Rosanna Manfredi, Jessica Mello, Bella Perry, Louie Rice,
Dave Stearn, Zoe Traynor, Luke Newton, Charlotte Wales.
26 February Brighton: Zoe Cartwright, Lisa Jones, Nick Roberts, Liam Smale,
Ed Fuller, Diana Smith, Kate Martin, John Tapsfield, Gulperi Seyitcemaloglu
5 March Post Grads
Mon 12 March M.A.
22 January - 17 March
Lethaby Gallery, CSM, Southampton Row
Until 20 January
Dagmar de Pooter GalleryDagmar de Pooter Gallery, Antwerp
A group exhibition of video art and photography with work by Cian Quayle who completed a practice-baesd PhD in March 2005 and is currently teaching at Camberwell as an Associate Lecturer. The work opposite is part of a series of interiors of everyday spaces of work, retail and leisure, which is ongoing.
Celco, Clapham Junction, London 2006. Lightbox and transparency
Until 26 January
The Chapman Gallery, Chapman Building, Peel Park Campus, Salford University
A solo exhibition of new video work by CSM alumna Ellie Rees that elevates domestic routine to inspired performance. Velociraptor, the fierce flesh eating dinosaur is used as metaphor to illustrate human relationships and the consumption of self.
Until 30 January
GALLERIA CONTINUA BEIJING
#8503, 2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang Dst., Dashanzi 798, Beijing 100015, CHINA
Ph. +86 10 64361005 Fax +86 10 64364464
OrtaWater, research first initiated by artists Lucy and Jorge Orta during the last Venice Biennial at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa. Lucy Orta is the University's Chair of Fashion. The artworks feature a mixture of playfulness and dramaturgy, practicality and utopia. The exhibition will include an installation of objects, sculptures and machinery referencing the dilemma of the world’s diminishing supplies of pure water and the loss of public control to this vital resource.
Until 4 February
Tate Liverpool
This is the first time such an in-depth collection of Moore's work has been presented in Liverpool and focuses on his most abstract sculptures and drawings and their relationship to natural form.
Until 8 February
Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, W11 3JQ
Hey Man Hattan! is a series of breath taking drawings by Chris Dent who recently graduated from Camberwell College of Art with a First Class honours degree in Illustration. Dent found himself at the top of the World Trade Center only four weeks before 9/11 and these drawings represent his personal view of a city which, despite the devastating events of five years ago, continues to grow, obsess, inspire and baffle. He explores the visual beauty of New York City with an artist's keen eye, balancing emotion and energy within his work, and helping to create a sense of freshness and intrigue for which New York City is known.
25 January - 25 February
Wednesday - Saturday, 11-6pm
MUSEUM 52, 52 Redchurch Street , E2 7DP
CSM alumna Lee Maelzer's first solo show since her exhibition at the Arts Galley in 2005.
Audrey Tan's photo is one of the 125 prints that has been selected from over 1900 prints submitted from around the world for the touring exhibition, which opened on 9 June at the Durham Light Infantry Museum's Art Gallery.
View the catalogue here
Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Until 20 January
Penglais Hill, Aberystwyth SY23 3DE
Royal United Hospital
31 January – 4 March
Combe Park, Bath BA1 3NG
Until 22 April
Daily, 10am - 5.50pm
Tate Britain, Clore Gallery, Millbank
Drawing from Turner, a display of new drawings by leading artists and art students inspired by the work of JMW Turner is the culmination of a two-year collaborative project initiated by University of the Arts London between neighbours Tate Britain and Chelsea College of Art and Design. Leading artists and architects including Allen Jones, Tom Phillips, Bill Woodrow, Christopher Le Brun and Will Alsop have worked alongside art students at Tate Prints and Drawings Rooms investigating the drawings of Turner and taking inspiration from his working methods to create 30 new drawings.
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Corporate
Resources Pro Rectorate
Kamran Ali, Finance Officer, International
Centre, Davies Street, January 2007
Matthew Errington, Booking & Admin Asst, London Artscom, CSM, Back
Hill, December 2006
London College of Fashion
Diana Aronstam, Head of Study Support, January
2007
Ann Meacher, Acting Dyslexia Co-ordinator and Disability
Rep, January 2007
Justine Head, Senior Lecturer, December 2006
Hina Akhtar, PA to Dean of Quality Assurance and Academic Development,
December 2006
Tessa Piggott, Course Admnistrator, December 2006
Research and Enterprise Pro Rectorate
Christian Stathon, Web Project Assistant, Communications
and Development, December 2006
leaving
Design (University of Salford).
Many of you will have heard the sad news that Sheila Soul-Gray died on Thursday 7 December after fighting a very courageous battle against cancer.Sheila made a huge contribution to art and design education in the UK as a lecturer, inspector, college principal and, most recently, through her work as the initiator and Director of the National Arts Learning Network. She will be sorely missed by us all.
The University is
planning a memorial service in the new year to which everyone will be
welcome.
Michael Bichard, Rector
National Arts Learning Network message:
http://www.naln.ac.uk/sheilasoulgray
The annual BP Portrait Award is the most prestigious portrait competition in the world, providing a fantastic opportunity to artists working in the portrait genre. In
2006 the resulting exhibition of fifty-six selected works was seen by over 197,000 people in London alone. This year, for the first time, the competition will be open to everyone aged 18 and over. If you would like to enter, and have your chance to win the £25,000 first-prize, visit www.npg.org.uk and register online.
Kitty by Andrew Tift, winner 2006 BP Portrait Award © the artist
Don't Panic is launching an exclusive poster design competition, inspired by the release of The Science of Sleep by Michel Gondry. Step 1: Produce a poster interpreting Dreams. Use any means at your disposal, whether its photography, illustration or anything which we can print. Step 2: Upload artwork to http://www.dontpaniconline.com/designaposter. The poster with the most votes wins. Step 3: 80K posters of the winning entry will be printed and distributed in the Don't Panic Pack. The top 20 runner up designs will feature in the Dreams - Science of Sleep competition exhibition at The Curzon Cinema Soho London. There will also be the opportunity for entrants to watch the film at an exclusive preview screening. Deadline for entries is 20.01 but don't delay as voting starts on 10.01
Your chance to win an Olympus digital SLR camera: read the brief below and upload your photos onto the Shoot Experience website. Entry is free. Please register before uploading your photos. The brief: Take a photo representing the theme "PEARL". Think mollusc like oysters. think drum kits, think mother-of-pearl, think your granny's necklace, pearly whites, think Pearl Jam. Get creative! Deadline for entries is 29 January and winners will be announced in the first week of February.
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