WatchMePivot is a new multidisciplinary platform founded by BA (Hons) Graphic Design student David Hinga, for young creatives to showcase their work through an online blog and quarterly magazine.

David says “We showcase work from every area of the creative industry, from graphic design, illustration, product design to conceptual fine art, sculpture, painting, photography, film, sound and music. We hope to provide our viewers with more than just great work but to showcase the unseen talents hiding in their bedrooms and classrooms. Hopefully by doing so we can inspire more great work and connect a wide selection of work with a greater audience of art lovers and artists.”

Mid-February saw the launch of the first ever WatchMePivot magazine issue, featuring work from a number of up-and-coming artists, as well as hosting four exclusive to print interviews with four artists from around the world who they believe are ones to watch out for this year!

Visit the WatchMePivot website to find out more about how you can get involved.

The Big Egg Hunt was set up by Elephant Family and Action for Children to raise money for these two causes.

Over 200 uniquely crafted eggs, created by leading artists, designers, architects and jewellers, will be hidden across London this Easter.

There are a number of eggs with Camberwell College of Arts connections!

Look out for eggs by BA Painting tutor Claude Temin-Vergez (pictured above) and alumnae Yuki Aruga (BA Painting), Kate Moross (BA Graphic Design) and Clara Lacy (BA Illustration).

Join the hunt!

www.thebigegghunt.co.uk

Video by Daniel Swan for Jam City aka Jack Latham. ‘The Courts’, which is taken from Jam City’s forthcoming album will be out on 27 February on Night Slugs (a label co-founded by Alex Sushon).

Daniel, Jack and Alex are all Camberwell College of Arts BA Graphic Design alumni.

www.danielswan.co.uk /  www.nightslugs.net

Video directed by Camberwell College of Arts BA Graphic Design alumna Kate Moross.

www.katemoross.com

Photo: artists’ book ‘Baring Antebellum / Bishopsgate Within, City A.M.’

Susan Johanknecht, subject leader of MA Books Arts (Visual Arts) at Camberwell College of Arts, has won first prize at the 9th International Book Art Festival ‘Correspondence 2012-2014′ currently touring Poland. The book was initially made as part of a collaborative project with The Baring Archive and CCW Graduate School, researching themes of personal and public relationships between finance, politics and the arts.

Last month in our post about BA Illustration student Daniel Clarke we mentioned his forthcoming animation based on Chronopolis by J.G Ballard. Well here it is!

www.daniel-clarke.com

Last month we announced the opening of a new gallery space in Peckham called Public House Projects. This month’s show features the work of Camberwell College of Arts BA Painting alumnus Paul Gallagher.

‘The Third Mind’ is a reference to the William Burroughs’ book of short stories, devised using his experimental “cut-up” technique, literally cutting the pages up and then combining and re-arranging the pieces to form new narratives and often-surreal imagery. Burroughs describes the feeling of paranoia induced by ‘really looking at what is before our eyes on an everyday level as the “naked lunch” of consumption.

Paul works with collage and found imagery. His practice raises questions regarding accepted notions of beauty and identity. The large-scale compositions featured in the exhibition move the work into a more sculptural, architectural area, where the abstracted forms escape the picture plane and threaten to spread out into the space.

Paul graduated from Camberwell College of Arts in 2011. ‘The Third Mind’ is his first solo show.

You can also read an interview with Camberwell College of Arts BA Photography Associate Lecturer and Founder of Public House Projects Neil Drabble on the FAD website.

www.publichouseprojects.org

Leading London production company Nexus has recently signed Camberwell College of Arts BA Graphic Design alumna Kris Hofmann.

Chris O’Reilly, Co-Founder and Executive Producer at Nexus, said, “Kris is a really exciting young talent. She’s helped us in recent months with the creative development of some projects and has shown fantastic design skills, a very clear thought process, and a tremendous amount of energy. We’re big fans of her previous work and think she will be a great addition to the Nexus team.”

Having moved to London from Austria in 2004 to take up a place at Camberwell Kris subsequently went on to study animation at the RCA. Her graduation film ‘Breakfast’ caught the eye of the film-making industry and has since toured film festivals throughout the world. This in turn helped her to gain funding from the Austrian Film Council to make ‘Screwed Up’.

You can listen to an interview with Kris talking about her work, influences and time at Camberwell in a podcast over on Directors Notes.

www.nexusproductions.com/directors/kris-hofmann

Camberwell College of Arts – BA Graphic Design: Year 1 Exhibition

Private View: Thursday 9 February, 18.30 – 21.00

Dates: 9 – 10 February 2012

Venue: House Gallery, 70 Church Street, Camberwell, SE5 8QZ

This Thursday sees the opening of ‘The Shape of Things’ an exhibition of publications by Camberwell College of Arts 1st year BA Graphic Design students.

On display will be 12 group publications each containing a different essay taken from ‘The Shape of Things’ by Vilém Flusser.

The project is the culmination of a three week project run by Camberwell BA Graphic Design alumni Jake Hopwood, Alex Hough and Charlie Abbott.

About ‘The Shape of Things’:

The book contains an array of essays on design by the seminal media critic and philosopher Vilém Flusser. It puts forward the view that our future depends on design.

In a series of insightful essays on such ordinary ‘things’ as wheels, carpets, pots, umbrellas and tents, Flusser emphasizes the interrelationships between art and science, theology and technology, and archaeology and architecture.

Just as formal creativity has produced both weapons of destruction and great works of art, Flusser believed that the shape of things (and the designs behind them) represents both a threat and an opportunity for designers of the future.

Following last years success of funding 10 new moving image works by students across CCW we are pleased to announce the following awardees of the CCW Artists Moving Image Initiative (CCW AMII)  2011-12 film fund.

Camberwell College of Arts

Stella Stabbins – BA Illustration

Chelsea College of Art and Design

Katriona Beales – MA Fine Art
Rosie Farell – MA Fine Art
Rafal Zajko – BA Fine Art

Wimbledon College of Art

Joseph Curran – BA Print & Time Based Media
Rob Davies – BA Print & Time Based Media
Giorgio Garippa – BA Print & Time Based Media
Billy Paul Rosseau – BA Print & Time Based Media

Their new work will be funded and supported by the CCW AMII and screened at the South London Gallery at a special screening on Wednesday 23 May.

www.ccwartistmovingimage.wordpress.com

Image: Rafal Zajko – BA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design.