e-briefing
23 February 2007
Polly Burton, Runners, 2006, Hand dyed and printed silk using
acid dyes and pigment, Chelsea, BA textiles. For further information
about this piece or any other aspect of the University Art Collection,
contact ext. 6448 or e.maxwell@arts.ac.uk
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Best wishes to colleagues
observing the following events or religious festivals over the next fortnight:
Magha puja; The Women's World Day of Prayer; Holi; Hanamatsuri; Purim;
Hola Mahalla; St David's Day.
To find out
more about any of these celebrations or festivals visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/
LCC's Marketing School has been renamed the School of Creative Enterprise. This is being celebrated with an exhibition titled Apples and Pears, which displays the individual creativity of students within the School. The exhibition features fruit as a metaphor for creativity. It’s title ‘apples & pears’ also refers to ‘cockney’ rhyming slang – ‘stairs’ as a progression of learning through the courses offered by the School. Examples of the diversity of students individual creativity from Access courses to Phd research are displayed.
LCF Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Fashion, Professor Lucy Orta, and her husband the artist Jorge Orta, are about to install their latest body of work 'Antarctic Village' in Antarctica. The installation has been commissioned as a special project by the 1st End of the World Biennale (bienalfindelmundo), in partnership with the Argentine Antarctic Institute and the Foundation Patagonia Arte y Desafio. This ambitious artwork will be situated in various locations on the icecaps, forming an ephemeral exhibition reflecting upon a symbolic land that welcomes all, a 'Community of Mankind'. Read more at www.studio-orta.com
Clickanywhere
An online gallery dedicated to the sonic arts was launched at LCC
this week, with an inaugural exhibition entitled Clickanywhere, which
brought together work from ten diverse artists to produce a series of
sonic experiences. Clickanywhere forms the first of a series of online,
curated exhibitions to be commissioned by CRiSAP, a research unit dedicated
to the exploration of the rich complexities of sound as an artistic practice,
and can now be viewed online at http://clickanywhere.crisap.org.
The research centre aims to produce, commission and curate new work and
invigorate the interpretative context that surrounds sound art and performance.
For more information contact Nadine at N.Ishani@lcc.arts.ac.uk
Vogue's Fashion Director Kate Phelan is on Vogue.co.uk's live coverage of London Fashion Week giving her review of Central Saint Martins' MA Fashion catwalk show. Kate enthuses over Harrod's award winning graduate Tatiana Katinova's "defined, sophisticated" collection and comments on CSM's reputation "the world over for producing talent". According to the Fashion Director, CSM's show is now "a must on the calendar of London Fashion Week". See the live broadcast at Vogue.com View all the catwalk photos at Vogue.com
© Marcio Madeira/VOGUE.COM
24 February, 5.30pm
Mandrake Bar, La Cienaga Blvd, Los Angeles
Afterall presents a talk by Hamburg-based writer, curator and editor Roberto Ohrt on Akademie Isotrop, an art academy that was founded by Ohrt and around twenty-five other artists, authors and musicians in Hamburg in 1996, and which ran until 2001. Artists such as André Butzer, Jonathan Meese, Birgit Megerle, Nina Könnemann, Daniel Richter and Abel Auer took part in this school, The school published a magazine, Isotrop and, with its eight-square-metre gallery Nomadenoase (Oasis of the Nomads), placed inside the famous Pudel Club, it made a virtue of the lack of space.
26 February, 6pm
Chelsea Lecture Theatre, John Islip Street, SW1P 4RJ
Translating an idea into built form is a delicate and skilled operation. It relies on a tacit expertise that goes beyond the drawing, one that is familiar with the tactile and the physical and one that many designers cannot claim to fully possess or practice. If architects cannot make buildings to acquire this expertise what can they make? Bob Sheil is Director of Diploma at The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL
GDR
Trend Seminar
26 February, 5 - 6pm
Rootstein Hopkins Space, LCF, John Princes Street
A complimentary trend seminar outlining GDR's worldwide retail and hospitality
research from the past year. This presentation will be based on the content
of GDR's quarterly publication, the Global Innovation Report, which showcases
innovation across environments, point of sale, visual communications,
packaging, technology, new marketing and service design, set withing hte
context of emerging consumer trends.
RSVP to Roma Vaccaro
at r.vaccaro@fashion.arts.ac.uk
27 February, 5.15 - 7pm
Lecture Theatre, Chelsea, John Islip Street, Pimlico
For art, the implications of sustainability are felt in the preference for sustainable forms, the critique of unsustainable art world structures, and the reassessment of art history from the point of view of our relationship to the natural world. This presentation will discuss the ways and extent to which a concern for sustainability has passed into the mainstream of contemporary art.
Read more at http://trainopenlectures.wordpress.com/
28 February, 4.30pm
Film and Video Room, Wimbledon, Merton Hall Road
A talk about the relation of drawing to painting in Lisa's own work. Lisa is a painter of everyday life - shoes, light bulbs, postage stamps, getting dressed and going shopping. She employs a variety of fast and slow styles, which represent the myriad ways of looking.
Laser
Cleaning of Paintings: an investigation of the depth-profile of aged oil
and natural resin coatings
28 February,
5.30 - 6.30pm
Podium Lecture Theatre, LCC, Elephant & Castle
A lecture by Dr Charis Theodorakopoulos from Birkbeck, University of London.
For more information contact Amy Hellerman on 0207514 6544 or a.hellerman@lcc.arts.ac.uk
Atrium Gallery, LCC, Elephant & Castle
Until 1 March
College opening times
Displaying personal collections from the staff, researchers and interns from Photography and the Archive Research Centre, this socially-orientated exhibition provides possibilities for collector and audience to consider new ways of viewing their own collection. Work in the exhibition ranges from abanondoned photographs found in the Brussells' Flea Market to a set of black and white photographs of Fifties' caravan interiors, plus idiosyncratic studio portraits of dogs in colour and mountain scenes.
Until 2 March Private View - 15 February Talk - 21 February, 6.30pm
Foyer Space, Camberwell, Peckham Road
An exhibition of portraits alongside the publication of a collection of dialogues with woman artists by Rebecca Fortnum and Richard Elliott.
Name_____
Until 7 March
Monday - Friday, 10am - 8pm
The Arts Gallery, 65 Davies Street, W1K 5DA
Celebrating the high
profile triumphs of recent London College of Fashion graduates, Name_____
demonstrates that modern fashion education teaches far more than just
frock making. The work on display includes: challenging and exciting photography,
journalism, styling and production, alongside menswear, womenswear and
footwear design. Collaborations on show include the industry's biggest
names: from high profile fashion magazines such as Dazed and Confused
and Tank; to luxury brands Burberry, MaxMara and Jill Sander; to plays
and films, His Dark Materials and the Harry Potter adaptations; and music
videos by artists Oasis, The Streets and Lily Allen.
Girl
In The Forest
9 March
Cochrane Theatre, Southampton Row, Holborn
Costume Technical Effects and Make-Up for the Performing Arts theatre
show directed by Emma Bernard. Inspired
by Angela Carter’s dream- like ‘coming of age’ interpretation
of Red Riding Hood, the performance explores the choice between the safety
of the family and the excitement of the adult world, through the eyes
of a teenage girl. The costume and effects recreate the tribal atmosphere
of the play using weaving, recycling and knitting of fabric and hair.
To request a
free ticket for Friday 9 March please contact the Cochrane Box Office
on 020 7269 1600
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.
Until 17 March
Lethaby Gallery, CSM, Southampton Row
Design
For Dance and Theatre: Design for Performance Spring shows
22 - 23 Design for Dance, 7.30pm - London Studio Centre
1 - 2 March Design for Dance, Central School of Ballet
26 - 27 March
Design for Back Hill, Back Hill, TIME TBC
26 - 28 March
Design for Opera, 7.30pm - Theatre: Design for Performance
All at Cochrane Theatre,
Southampton Row, Holborn except 26 and 27 March. Box office 020 7269 1606
9 - 30 March
Monday-Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 10am-4pm
Eckersley and Lower Street Galleries, LCC
Founded in New York in 1920 as the first creative collective of its kind, The Art Directors Club (ADC) is a self-funding, not-for-profit membership organization that celebrates and inspires creative excellence, connecting visual communications professionals from around the world. The ADC's mission is to promote the highest standards of excellence and integrity in visual communications and to encourage students and young professionals entering the field.
15 March – 13 April
Monday - Friday, 10am - 8pm
The Arts Gallery, 65 Davies Street, W1K 5DA
The tenth annual Students' Union show of work by current students across Arts London, Xhibit is an open submission exhibition covering all disciplines, levels and courses, creating an eclectic mix of styles and mediums, from sculpture to fashion photography, from ceramics to graphic design.
Until 12 April
Monday - Friday, 9.30am - 5pm
Research Gallery, 12th Floor, Tower Block, LCC.
An exhibition by Wiebke Leister, Senior Lecturer in Photography at the LCC. Images from the PhD project "Unjoyful Laughter and the Non-Likeness of Photographic Portraiture", completed at the RCA in December 2006.
15 May, 6 - 7.30pm
Rootstein Hopkins Space, LCF, 20 John Princes' Street
Helen Storey and Tony Ryan are working on a huge collaboration between art and science – one that’s finding new ways of thinking about the problems that face our planet. They’ll introduce you to their project, called Wonderland, and the science behind it. Wonderland will provoke debate on the use of throwaway products, and will highlight the opportunities for creative solutions for sustainable living. A key feature is their dissolving dress - a metaphor for our throw-away society - beautiful objects that people will hate to see destroyed. Free. To book email r.vaccaro@fashion.arts.ac.uk
26 April – 18 May
Monday - Friday, 10am - 8pm
The Arts Gallery, 65 Davies Street, W1K 5DA
Ninth annual exhibition highlighting innovative work produced by sedondary schools throughout Greater London. The exhibition will be complemented by a series of events for school groups, and gallery workshops to tie in with Museums and Galleries Month in May.
Until 26 February
Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Belgium
London Assembly brings together artists who teach on undergraduate painting degrees at University of the Arts London. Celebrating the quality of breadth of the teaching staff of those courses and providing an insight into the diversity of current painting practice in the UK. The painting departments within Wimbledon and Camberwell do not prescribe painting as a medium for their students, rather staff and students engage with painting traditions to find new and interesting ways to relate contemporary practice to the subject specialism.
Until 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.
28 February
The Coronet, Elephant & Castle
Students from the ‘laptop orchestra’ at LCC make their public debut at a London Sinfonietta performance.
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
Until 4 March
Combe Park, Bath BA1 3NG
Until 6 March
Monday - Friday, 10am - 6pm
Cochrane Theatre Bar, Southampton Row, Holborn
An exhibition of interim work by students of PgCert Professional Studies in Glass and Architecture
Contact the theatre/box office for other opening times
Box office 020 7269 1606 or www.cochranetheatre.co.uk
Conmen
Felting Tip: Tom Fleming & Edwin Pennicott
Until 11 March
Saturday - Sunday 12 - 6pm or by appointment
The Tram Depot Gallery, 38 - 40 Upper Clapton Road, E5 8BQ
Tom and Edwin are former Chelsea BA students (RCA MA).
The Tram Depot gallery is co-run and curated by Adrian
Scrivener, sculpture tutor at CSM Foundation. The gallery promotes a variety
of practices, including recently graduated students, allowing the opportunity
to develop ambitious works in relation to a large, non commercial site.
Tom and Edwin are the first to complete the Tram Depot residency.
The gallery is partly supported by CSM Fine Art (ICFAR) Applicants for
both the residency and the gallery can access TheTramDepot.org
Until 18 March
Monday – Saturday, 10am – 8.30pm, Sunday 5.30 – 8.30pm
Plymouth Arts Centre, 38 Looe Street, Plymouth, PL4 0EB
Exploring the idea of ‘slowness’ as a critical method and metaphor for contemporary art and curatorial practice.
The term Slow is a curatorial analogy that is referenced from the slow movement; by slowing down critical reflection is made more possible in contrast to the uncritical speed of change in society. This group exhibition has been curated in reflection of current preoccupations of mass production in contemporary art and the subversion of culture into mass entertainment. Includes work by alumna Jemima Burrill.
Until 23 March
Box 38 Gallery, Rogierlaan 38, 8400 Ostende, Belgium
Arts London staff Catherine Elwes, Susan Trangmar, William Raban and Chris Wainwright exhibit.
2 - 30 March
Eagle Gallery, 159 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3AL
Camberwell Postgraduate Programme Director Paul Coldwell's new publication Kafka's Doll and images from other works are exhibited . The exhibition will feature a new suite of screen prints and series of small unique bronze sculptures that develop the concerns and language of the bookwork.
28 February - 15 April
MODERN ART OXFORD, 30 Pembroke Street, OX1 1BP
Recent Camberwell PhD graduate Raphael Vella has an exhibition opening called Raphael Vella: Reading Cabinets as part of the ARRIVALS>NEW ART FROM THE EU series, at Modern Art Oxford, introducing the work of artists from the expanded European Union.
Read more at www.modernartoxford.org.uk
3 March - 1 April
Friday, Saturday, Sunday 1 -6pm
Fieldgate Gallery, 14 Fieldgate Street, E1 1ES
A group show including work by Wimbledon MA lecturer Amanda Beech and BA Painting course leader Dereck
Harris (see right). Each of the artists included in the exhibition make image based work derived from a second-order popular cultural source: tv / magazines / advertising which also engages with a level of abstraction (or non-signification). Adopting a technique of sampling and collage these works reflect on our media-saturated environment to reach a stark conclusion: We can’t get no satisfaction.
26 February - 4 April
St Pancras Parish Church, Euston Road, NW1
An open exhibition and walking meditation for Lent. Featuring work by local artists including Chelsea students.
2 March - 5 April
Monday to Saturday
9.30am-5.30pm
The Old Sweet Shop, 11 Brookwood Road, SW18 5BL
This group exhibition explores the creative potential of trees and their main components - roots, trunks, leaves and paper. Includes recent Camberwell graduate Alex Gough.
1 March - 6 April
sheppard fine arts gallery, university of nevada, reno
art dept 224/reno, nv 89557
An exhibition of five international artists working with video which is part of a long-term research project between Dr. Amanda Beech, Director of MA Critical Writing Curatorial Practice, Chelsea and Wimbledon, Dr. Jaspar Joseph-Lester and Matthew Poole. A site-specific environment transforms the gallery into a space of disorientation and spectacle. Reclaiming the design work of Kurt Schwitters’ “Merzbau - Cathedral of Erotic Misery”, 1923-43, and the mechanics of the moving but essentially static stage sets of classic Hollywood and postmodernity, the exhibition manifests video as parts of its architecture and vice versa.
Until 13 April
National Art School, Forbes Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia
A survey exhibition of contemporary British drawing.
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.
12 May, 1.30 - 6pm
Clore Auditorium Tate Britain
AHRC Research fellow at CSM, Ian Breakwell, who died in 2005, was an artist who utilised most visual media throughout his 40-year career. The written word was central to much of his work and he is perhaps best known for his Diaries, which have been exhibited in galleries, broadcast on radio and television, and published in book form. This study session brings together a few of the commentators and collaborators who worked with Breakwell to discuss his legacy. Tickets including drink £20 (£15 concessions) £5 in advance for Arts London students, advance tickets from Tracey Whelan, School of Art office 6th floor Charing Cross Road.t.whelan@csm.arts.ac.uk 0207 514 7203 For further information about this event contact nic@nicolapercy.com
Until 28 May
Wolfson Gallery, National Portrait Gallery
Curated by Susan Bright, Research Fellow at the Photography and the Archive Research Centre at
LCC, independent curator and writer, author of Art Photography Now, Face of Fashion is a major exhibition focusing on the portraits of five outstanding fashion photographers from Europe and America: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott, Corinne Day, Steven Klein, Paolo Roversi and Mario Sorrenti. It is the first exhibition of its kind, celebrating the innovation and diversity of current fashion portraiture.
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This year's ISF is taking place in Leicester 16 - 18 March and tickets are now on sale. As Arts London's Students' Union are sponsoring the festival our students are invited to a VIP evening on the Friday night, and receieve a £5 discount on the ticket price. For more information, visit http://www.suarts.org/display/linst/Festivals Any interested students can collect the application form from Samantha Allflatt in the Students' Union Office at Davies Street, or through the website.
8 March, RIBA, 66 Portland Place, W1B 1AD
The Design Business Association, the trade association for the UK design industry, celebrates its 21st anniversary year with a series of discussions and interviews between those who have been in the design industry for over 21 years and those who plan to be in it in 21 years. Wally Olins is recognised as one of the world's most experienced practitioners in branding. He has pioneered the branding of nations, regions and places and written extensively on the subject. The 2007 series will also include events from other leading figures of design such as Rodney Fitch, Michael Wolff, Daniel Weil, Michael Peters and Bill Moggridge. Special student rate of £10 + VAT. To book your place go to http://www.dba.org.uk/events/Pastpresentfuture2007.htm
Galapogos Conservation Trust has launched the Galapagos Artist Residency Programme, providing artists with a unique opportunity to engage with a subject matter of great natural beauty and unparalleled scientific significance. The programme will be managed by highly regarded arts curator Greg Hilty of plusequals. plusequals is a joint venture between Arts London and Greg Hilty, and is funded by the Higher Education Innovation Fund and managed by the Enterprise Office at Arts London.
Read more at www.gulbenkian.org.uk
Agora Gallery of New York City hosts the Chelsea International Fine Art Competition. Awards include: exhibition at the Chelsea gallery, cash awards, Internet promotion and review in ArtisSpectrum magazine. Deadline: March 8, 2006. To download the submission application go to www.Agora-Gallery.com/2006
Quark are offering all Arts London staff and students the opportunity to purchase a full liscenced copy of Quark 7 which includes Quark Interactive Designer and two hours of video training for £65 inc. VAT and delivery. Please visit www.jigsaw24.com/quark-education and prove staff or student status. Limited period only. For more information contact Geoff Forster at g.forster@chelsea.arts.ac.uk
A new report and events programme highlights the scope to reduce emissions, energy consumption and costs in UK and European R&D facilities. Two new events have been set up by the Labs21Europe initiative to help achieve more sustainable laboratories. The two new events are: 23 April - a conference at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, near Brussels; 26 April - a one day benchmarking workshop and event at the University of Warwick. Read more at www.heepi.org.uk or www.labs21.org.uk for more details of the report, the events and the Labs21 initiative.
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