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.

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

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.

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.

www.danieldavidfreeman.com /  www.rankslondon.com

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.

www.daniel-clarke.com

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

www.publichouseprojects.org

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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):

• Geoff Bartholomew – BA Photography
• Martha Lewis – BA Painting
• Joanna Mires – BA Ceramics
• Alexander Small – MA Fine Art
• Chieh-Ting Huang – MA Designer Maker
• Karin Soderquist – BA Illustration

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.

http://futuremap.arts.ac.uk/

Camberwell College of Arts 2nd year FdA Graphic Design students have been working on a project with Tara Hanrahan from Thinkdo Studio and Sophie Thomas, one of the founders of Thomas Matthews.

The project involved students creating communications strategies aimed at having a positive effect on people’s behaviour.

Ideas included tea parties on the Circle line, an online space to share overlooked places and activities designed to encourage students to log out of Facebook for a week.

www.learningwithindustry.blogspot.com