In July this blog brought you the exciting news of BA (Hons) 3D Design student Gil Muller’s success in being the first student in CCW history to receive the Japanese JASSO scholarship for Seika University.
As a brief update we are now pleased to bring you this photo of Gil enjoying some Japanese sunshine whilst studying on his exchange at Kyoto Seika University! Gil is currently working on a blog/website and we will keep you updated as soon as we have more details.
CCW Foundation Diploma in Art and Design lecturer Laurence Noga and Wimbledon College of Art BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting alumna Nancy Cogswell’s new exhibition ‘Approaching the In-Between’ opens this week at Eleven Spitalfields Gallery.
“The work of Nancy Cogswell and Laurence Noga shares a preoccupation with the in-between. This is not only reflected in the process, but also through emotive and contained feeling for space. This space is explored using colour as a structuring form, activating sensation and emotional specificity.”
Approaching the In-Between
Private View: Thursday 3rd November 2011 / 18.30-20.30
Exhibition continues: 4th to 25th November 2011
by appointment only: 020 7247 1816 or info@elevenspitalfields.com
Eleven Spitalfields Gallery – 11 Princelet Street, London E1 6QH
Create is an arts and crafts market designed to help Camberwell students and alumni promote and sell their work for free over the forthcoming Christmas period.
Create will run on the 3, 4, 10, 11 December from 11.00 – 16.00 on Peckham square in-between Peckham Space and Peckham Library.
The market is made mobile by portable stalls attached to the stall holders, similar to ones used by cigarette girls. Stalls measure 60cm x 35cm.
For more information / if you would like to take part in Create please send 3 images of what you intend to sell including dimensions and prices to -
a.m.j.robinson@camberwell.arts.ac.uk
The deadline for applications is Friday 11 November at 17.00.
Peckham Space is London’s newest purpose-built public gallery dedicated to commissioning artworks made in partnership with community groups. Located on Peckham Square, London SE15 and part of Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, this new organisation seeks to increase access to and participation in contemporary art.
Peckham Space’s successful first year has seen almost 10,000 people visit our exhibitions of commissioned, location-specific contemporary artworks by Harold Offeh, Jessica Voorsanger, David Cotterrell and Sonia Boyce.
What will the internship involve?
Peckham Space is delighted to offer alumni of Camberwell College of Arts the opportunity to apply for an internship which will provide a great opportunity to contribute to the success of Peckham Space as a new arts venue in London. You will play an important external facing role during the venue’s opening times, public events and online and contribute to its programme of free public Art Clubs in school holidays.
If chosen you will be one of 2 interns that will work 50 hours per month spread over a rota of 2 and 3 days per week including alternating Saturdays.
The rate of payment will be set at the minimum wage at time of issue of contract, which will be paid through the University of the Arts’ London payroll system.
What are the benefits?
You will be part of a small, dedicated team working closely with Peckham Space Director and Assistant who offer over 15 years combined expertise within the cultural sector. You will meet established artists and gain unique insights into their practice and the selection policy behind their appointment.
Peckham Space also aim to provide a professional development opportunity in the following areas: Commissioning Socially Engaged Artworks; Installation; Curating; Marketing; Fundraising; Front of House; Project and Event Management.
At the interview they will be keen to know what area of development you are looking for and will do their best to provide this during your internship. On successful completion of your internship they will offer a valuable written reference and where appropriate suggest future career opportunities.
How do you apply?
You will need to send your CV and a cover letter detailing why you are suitable for this post. For further information and to request a job description send an email to info@peckhamspace.com with ‘Peckham Space Internships’ in the subject box. Please note applications by CV only will not be considered.
All applications must be submitted via email to info@peckhamspace.com by 17.00 on 21 November 2011.
What is the application process?
Successful applicants will be invited for interview on 12 December 2011. The successful candidates will be informed by 14 December 2011.
Selected candidates should be available for an introduction day on 16 December 2011 and to start w/c 4 January 2012.
On the 11 October Peckham Space hosted the artist talk for the current show ‘Network’. The event was a special ‘in conversation’ with artist Sonia Boyce and cultural critic Bonnie Greer.
Taking as its starting point the specially commissioned film work by Sonia Boyce, the talk explored the theme of migration in Boyce’s work to date, and how her investigation of social networking connects with changing concepts of community.
Greer also investigated the development of Boyce’s socially engaged practice and Peckham Space’s unique commissioning process which invited project partners Southwark Council’s Visual And Performing Arts (VAPA) Young Women’s Group to draft the project brief and join the selection panel to directly commission Boyce for the work.
‘Network’ looks at how forms of communication such as mobile phones and social networking sites like Facebook have become the most popular ways for young people to maintain their relationships with friends and family.
The exhibition is comprised of four screens, each showing a different element of the film and choreographed in the gallery space as an installation: a set of dialogues featuring the young people in front of as well as behind the camera. Shot in cinematic high definition, the ‘Network’ film charts the nature of the relationships between four young women from Peckham, south London and the languages that have formed around the technologies they use to stay in touch.
Sonia Boyce said: “I was particularly interested in the type of conversations that are generated and amongst groups of young people. I wanted to explore their inter-connected micro-communities, and that boundary between the public and the private that is bridged online and through personal mobile phones. It’s fascinating to me that young people’s communities can reach geographically and culturally distant areas through the use of new technology, and how this can challenge traditional notions of the concept of “community.”
The discussion will be available as a podcast via the Peckham Space website very soon. ‘Network’ continues until 19 November.
Earlier this month we posted about Peles Empire. Here are a selection of photos from the Peles Empire ’3D 2D 3D 2D’ show at Camberwell Space.
Work from top to bottom: Andrew Mealo – ‘Stay Vertical’, Karl Orton – ‘Classic Construction Cleavage’, Shannon Bool – ‘Twisted Sister’, Giles Round – ‘A Serra Falls’.
Further information can be found in our Events section. Show continues until Friday 4 November.
www.pelesempire.com / www.camberwell.arts.ac.uk/camberwellspace
Photos: Nicki Szlovak
A really strong piece of animation from Camberwell BA Illustration alumnus Jens Blank for Greenpeace. The animation is part of their ongoing campaign against the illegal fishing practices that take place inside the European Union. If you want to find out more visit – www.greenpeace.org.uk/oceans
See more work by Jens – www.animateme.me.uk
Peckham Space Director Emily Druiff is featured in the Art PowerLyst 2011: ArtLyst’s Alternative 100.
ArtLyst’s Alternative 100 celebrates those with the creative power and ability to influence and augment the British and international art scenes through merit alone.
See the full list – www.artlyst.com
The current show at Peckham Space is ‘Network’ – Sonia Boyce. Show continues until 19 November 2011.
LuckyPDF TV is back! Over the next four days (13-16 October) LuckyPDF will be broadcasting live from Frieze Art Fair having been commissioned as part of this year’s Frieze Projects. Join them from 16.00 each day at the Fair or online.
Plugs aside the main reason for posting about LuckyPDF is that due to the nature of their practice, which the group’s John Hill (Camberwell BA Drawing alumnus) describes “as being located at the forefront of communication, networking and new methods of production”, it means that a whole slew of Camberwell College of Arts alumni have been and continue to be a part of their projects.
Their Frieze commission will feature 50 established and emerging artists, curators and critics. The list of names includes Cory Arcangel, Jeremy Deller, David Batchelor and Jeremy Bailey. The Camberwell alumni that will be involved are – Daniel Swan (BA Graphic Design), Samara Scott (BA Illustration), Gili Tal (BA Painting), Chris King and Robert Prouse (both BA Drawing).
Happy viewing!
Images top to bottom: LuckyPDF Frieze promo shot featuring new media artist Jeremy Bailey, LuckyPDF portrait.
Daniel Sturgis, Course Director of BA Painting at Camberwell College of Arts has curated a new show at Tate St Ives entitled ‘The Indiscipline of Painting’.
The show is an international group exhibition and ‘considers how the languages of abstraction have remained urgent, relevant and critical as they have been revisited and reinvented by subsequent generations of artists over the last 50 years. It goes on to demonstrate the way in which the history and legacy of abstract painting continues to inspire artists working today.’
‘The show brings together works by British, American and European artists made over the last five decades and features major new commissions and loans. It includes important works by Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Gerhard Richter and Bridget Riley alongside other lesser known artists such as Tomma Abts, Martin Barré, Mary Heilmann and Jeremy Moon.’
Daniel has curated the show alongside Martin Clark, Artistic Director, Tate St Ives and Sarah Shalgosky, Curator, University of Warwick.
The show continues until 3 January 2012.
www.tate.org.uk/stives / www.danielsturgis.co.uk
Image: Detail from Andy Warhol ‘Eggs”, 1982.
Camberwell College of Arts blog - student, staff and alumni news, events, exhibitions and work.
You are currently browsing the Snapshot Blog archives for October, 2011.
