We thought you might like a peek behind the scenes of last Friday’s MA Fine Art exhibition which was a culmination of 3 days worth of curatorial workshops at Gasworks. The workshops were a great success, giving students the chance to work with curators Jamie Stevens, Naomi Pearce and Robert Leckie alongside Course Leader Rebecca Fortnum.
Today Snapshot is looking back to the October 2011 edition of Elle Decoration. The magazine included the work of BA (Hons) 3D Design 2011 graduate Elin Green in their ‘Beautiful Basics’ (page 58) feature.
” ‘Knot on Wood’ is a reinterpretation of the traditional processes of woodturning and knotting resulting in a series of hand-turned bowls. Each individual piece in unique while the collection is unified by the combination of the two materials.”
Camberwell College of Arts alumnus Ben Long has designed and installed ‘Words Scaffolding Sculpture’ as a window display for Selfridges’ flagship London store. The sculpture is one of four themed window displays commissioned and curated by the team at It’s Nice That for Selfridges Words Words Words campaign, celebrating the power of the written word.
Ben has used conventional scaffolding components to make the uppercase ‘WORDS’, equating the modular building system with the construction of written language and typographic design. ‘Words Scaffolding Sculpture’ can be viewed from Orchard Street and from the Concept Store located on the ground floor of Selfridges from 12 January to 1 March 2012.
Also, look out for the series of four talks curated by It’s Nice That as part of the Words Words Words initiative.
Location: Selfridges, 400 Oxford Street, London W1A 1AB
In December Snapshot brought you news of Future Map 11. Now seven of the University of the Arts London Future Map 11 nominees have been selected to showcase their work in one of Selfridges‘ world famous windows this January and February. The window display has been designed by StudioXAG and curated by the Future Map 11 team and includes work by Camberwell College of Arts graduates: Chieh Ting Huang (lighting design), Joanna Mires (ceramics) and Karin Soderquist (illustration).
A temporary in store shop will sell limited editions of the works in the window, representing a rare chance to buy from the graduates destined to define our visual landscape.
The window residency is part of Selfridges’ Bright Young Things season, which provides a platform for up and coming British artists and designers and launched on 6 January 2012.
Last November Snapshot brought you news of BA (Hons) 3D Design 2011 graduate Roland Beaven’s success at being selected as a finalist for the New Design Britain Awards.
Now Roland has achieved further recognition from Wallpaper* for his work. A video featuring Roland’s Peaucellier Lamp entitled Gd-in01 Roland Beaven can be viewed on the Wallpaper* website.
Roland’s work will be on show at Interiors UK 2012, taking place at Birmingham NEC from 22 to 25 January 2012.
Camberwell College of Arts BA Illustration alumnus Daniel David Freeman has a solo show opening this Thursday 12 January at Beach in London.
The show explores the life of fictional character, Rick Azalea. ‘Azalea’s Amazons’ is an exploration of the character’s inner most fantasies. Using felt tip pens and paper, the artist invites the viewer to engage with a range of abstract and extraordinary characters who live only in the realm of Azalea’s imagination.
The gallery space will replicate the protagonist’s workspace. Showcasing where Rick Azalea worked, lived and loved his many Amazonian lovers. Accompanying the installation will be a biographical piece of creative writing outlining Azalea’s many trials and tribulations.
As a freelance illustrator Daniel David Freeman has worked with a range of clients including Adidas, Nike, Dazed, Vice, I-d, Protein, Blink, Mixpak, Jaguar Shoes and Boiler Room. He also provides illustration for cult DJ collective GETME! as well as designing his own T-Shirt label, Ranks, which is sold internationally online and in-store at the Hideout.
Camberwell College of Arts BA Illustration student Daniel Clarke has been selected as January Student of the Month over on It’s Nice That.
As well as showcasing a selection of his work based on the infamous Heygate Estate in London It’s Nice That have also carried out a short interview with Daniel, in which he waxes lyrical about the ‘power of friends’ and getting feedback from some of his favourite practitioners. He also tells us about some work he has recently completed for Blueprint Skateboards and a forthcoming animation based on Chronopolis by J.G Ballard.
Image: ‘Heygate Windows’ – Daniel Clarke
Public House Projects is a new artist run gallery space above the Gowlett Pub in Peckham supporting the work of emerging and established artists.
Opening on Thursday 12 January the first exhibition will feature a new installation by Camberwell College of Arts BA Sculpture alumna Josie Cockram. Josie was also the recipient of the Acme 2011/12 Camberwell Studio Award.
‘Two Works: Looped’ playfully intertwines the mundane with the absurd. The installation mixes references to current digital techniques with a somewhat nostalgic nod to more traditional analogue methods of capturing images. Projections are looped and allowed to slowly run out-of-sync while the images reflect onto glass screens. The images are accompanied by sound and text, creating a deep collage of audio-visual information.
Public House Projects – 62 Gowlett Road, (above the Gowlett pub), London SE15 4HY
Open: Wednesday – Sunday, 12:00 – 18:00
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Image: ‘Two Works: Looped’ – Josie Cockram.
The nominees for Future Map 11 have been announced. Camberwell College of Arts graduates included this year are (from top to bottom):
Future Map is an annual survey show exhibiting the best cutting edge talent from the graduating year at University of the Arts London. Reviewing all the graduate and postgraduate courses in art, design, fashion and communications, a panel of industry experts chose works they feel best represent the next generation of creativity.
This year’s panel are David Roberts – Collector and Founder of the David Roberts Arts Foundation, Mark Rappolt – Editor, Art Review, Lulu Guinness – internationally acclaimed handbag designer and Matt Stinchcomb – European Director, Etsy.com.
The winner of the Future Map prize – £3,000 and an opportunity to make a commercial edition with the Zabludowicz Collection will be announced in January 2012.
The Future Map 11 exhibition runs from 12 January - 5 February 2012 at Zabludowicz Collection.
Commonplace are starting an online swap shop for students across the University of the Arts London to swap skills, collaborate, swap/sell things (art stuff, books, etc) and house/flatshare information – a kind of online classifieds notice board.
They are launching it with a ‘live swap’, tea and cakes at Cockpit Arts on Saturday 3 December 12.00 – 15.00.
You can find further information on the Commonplace website
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