If you have visited any of the recent Camberwell Space exhibitions you will no doubt have come across the accompanying publications. Designed and published by Camberwell Press, these together with a selection of other printed material are now available to view online at camberwellpress.org.

Camberwell Press is a forward-thinking, research-oriented publishing organisation based at Camberwell College of Arts.  Combining the energies and experiences of recent graduates and academic staff, the Press aims to support the practice of its members, the College, the University and its affiliates. Publishing printed matter and online output that reflects the range and diversity of work carried out within the contexts of creative practice, the Press encourages discourse and creates a platform for new approaches to research and the cultivation of ideas.

The Camberwell Press team -

Darryl Clifton – Design Programme Director and BA Illustration Course Leader.
James Edgar – runs the Letterpress and Typography Workshop at Camberwell.
Paul Hardman – founder of Available in Response.
Alex Hough – BA Graphic Design alumnus.
Jake Hopwood – BA Graphic Design alumnus.
Natalie Kay-Thatcher – BA Illustration alumna.
Billie Muraben – BA Illustration alumna.
Rosie Eveleigh – BA Illustration alumna.

www.camberwellpress.org

From 23 – 27 November onedotzero will celebrate 15 years of championing the progression of global digital culture and innovation in motion, serving up the very latest in moving image and interactive arts.

Hosted by BFI Southbank, this special anniversary will present short films and animation, music videos, interactivity, digital art and everything in between.

With the festival just around the corner we thought it was worth highlighting a few connections Camberwell College of Arts has with onedotzero and the festival.

First up this year’s onedotzero festival identity has been designed by UVA (United Visual Artists). UVA was co-founded by Camberwell alumnus Matt Clark alongside Chris Bird and Ash Nehru.

www.uva.co.uk

Secondly, all the print related material for the festival has been designed by Camberwell Press.

www.camberwellpress.wordpress.com

Thirdly, Derek Yates – Camberwell FdA Graphic Design and FdA Illustration Course Director worked on onedotzero_cascade, which is onedotzero’s award-winning education platform that aims to develop a new model for creative collaboration and innovation across diverse disciplines to foster personal and professional development.

This year 40 creative graduates participated in the 5 day workshop led by some of onedotzero’s most innovative partners, creators and featured artists: kin design, mother, the spring project and guardian digital. You can get an insight into what they got up to on Thursday 24 November (17.00 – 18.30).

For information about the festival visit – www.onedotzero.com

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

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 BA Painting tutor Hew Locke has been appointed Lead artist – curator for the Deptford X Festival 2011 – 2012, alongside Indra Khanna.

‘For the past 13 years Deptford X has provided a creative platform for its community promoting the best in contemporary visual art and celebrating unique thought provoking displays across the thriving area, which has one of the highest artist populations in London. ‘

Camberwell BA Painting alumna Kate Forshaw will also be taking part in the festival. She will be showing her piece ‘I Need Pop Like I Need God II’ at the Arch Gallery.

Deptford X 2011 runs 23 September – 2 October.

www.deptfordx.co.uk

Images: Deptford X logo, Indra Khanna and Hew Locke, ‘I Need Pop Like I Need God II’ – Kate Forshaw.

Derek Yates – Course Director of both the FdA Graphic Design and FdA Illustration courses at Camberwell College of Arts has recently worked as one of the lead tutors at the at the D&AD Graduate Academy.

The D&AD Graduate Academy, which took place at the Rochelle School in Shoreditch from the 22-26 August set out to bring the education-based skills of 80 graduates into a work setting.

Derek chaired a number of discussion seminars with Sanky, the President of the D&AD and wrote one of the project briefs together with Sophie Walter from onedotzero and Kevin Palmer from Kin. The project delivered a condensed version of the onedotzero Cascade education programme.

Responses to the brief were presented to a panel of leading practitioners from agencies such as Mother, AMV, Dave, Iris and the Partners. Derek and Sophie then helped select 50 students for placements at some of the UK’s leading creative companies.

Derek has also been asked to talk at the annual St.Brides Library conference, which takes place on the 10 – 11 November 2011. The conference entitled ‘Critical Tensions’ aims to “embrace history, education and design practice, providing a space for meeting and voicing concerns, for collectively exploring ideas, sharing strategies, consolidating knowledge, and for challenging and reaffirming values.” The conference has an impressive line-up of speakers including Jonathan Barnbrook, Vaughan Oliver and Alan Kitching.

You can find out more about these events and read an excellent series of interviews with industry practitioners including Matt Wade (Kin), Matt Rice (Sennep) and Glue on Derek’s Learning with Industry blog – www.learningwithindustry.blogspot.com

The following text is taken from the 2011 Camberwell College of Arts BA Illustration catalogue, which was produced to accompany the OVO Show:

In a world where the image is becoming the prime means of communication the subject of Illustration is growing in popularity and the role of the Illustrator becoming increasingly critical. This years graduating cohort from BA Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts describe all the ambition and energy that is required to meet the challenges that an image heavy world presents. In that spirit of enquiry and broad engagement a number of burning questions on what their subject is, and what it can be, have been put to Adrian Shaughnessy, celebrated educator, author and designer and Darryl Clifton, Design Programme Director at Camberwell College of Arts.

What is the role and place of education in a society that values training and explicit skill over more implicit personal development and transformation?

AS: Depends what sort of education you are talking about. If someone wants to become a doctor, they must study medicine – and related sciences – with a view to becoming an expert. Same with engineers, dentists and computer scientists. The problem arises when we talk about a general education. In my view, the role of education is to teach people how to learn. The reason for this is that few of us will end up doing the same job for our entire lives, and many of us will be required to retrain at some point in the future. With this in mind, I can see a move to a sort of ‘perpetual university’ model. In the future we may still go to university, but for shorter periods with a view to continuing our education at later stages.

DC: It’s reasonable to suggest that ‘learning’ is a form of personal, intellectual and behavioural transformation and that the processes of education deliver situations, experiences and stimuli that are enabling. I would wholeheartedly agree with Adrian that developing the capacity to continue learning, adapting and transforming – in short to cultivate intelligence – is something that all educators should aim for through those processes. The practical implications of not being able to do that are challenging for the reasons stated above.

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onedotzero cascade is onedotzero’s award-winning education platform that aims to develop a new model for creative collaboration and innovation across diverse disciplines to foster personal and professional development.

Now in its fourth year, onedotzero is offering 40 top talented and collaborative graduates to take part in cascade this October 2011.

This is also an opportunity to be a part of the onedotzero_adventures in motion festival at the BFI Southbank. Cascade is open to all UK and international recent graduates from all creative disciplines.

How to apply: deadline – 29 July 2011 / 17.00

If you are interested in being considered for this year’s cascade programme apply now! In previous years onedotzero has received a huge volume of applicants so to help them distinguish you please email education@onedotzero.com answering the following questions (no more than 750 words in total).

• A bit about you and what course you studied?
• What would you like to get out of cascade and what will you bring to the project?
• An example of your best project?

Download the cascade brief 2011

*Free to apply and participate although you will need to arrange London accommodation and travel. By applying to this programme you agree to commit 100% to the dates of the workshop and the festival presentation.

www.onedotzerocascade.com

Photo: onedotzero cascade 2010

Thingness is currently on at Camberwell Space. The show co-curated by Maiko Tsutsumi (MA Designer Maker Course Director) and Karen Richmond (BA 3D Design Course Director) looks at the renewed interest in what the act of making does to humans and our understanding of ‘the object’. Maiko and Karen have brought together a small, but highly influential group of designers under one roof.

The show is also accompanied by a limited edition booklet published by Camberwell Press, which is available to buy from Camberwell Space, The South London Gallery, Review, Marcus Campbell and Book Art Book Shop. The show is on until 10 June.

Find out more via the Thingness blog.