Camberwell BA Drawing alumnus Caspar Rock, who works under the name Ultimate Eye Pain is responsible for this insane video for Pseudo Nippon. The video clip is a promo for the 30 minute DVD the pair have collaborated on. They will be launching the DVD at Off Modern this Friday 27 May at Corsica Studios in Elephant and Castle. Pseudo Nippon will be playing live and copies of the DVD will be available to buy.
‘Sandy the Golden Retriever’ is the creation of Camberwell 2nd year BA Drawing student Nicki-Joe Baxter. Shown as part of Peek Show at the Biscuit Factory the ‘little fella’, as Nicki-Joe affectionatley refers to him now, has been causing quite a stir. Infact he is becoming quite the celebrity having appeared in the South London Press and on BBC London radio!
Nicki-Joe said “Sandy is a dog I never got the chance to meet in my lifetime. I found a photograph of Sandy the Dog (who used to belong to my great aunt) within a box of old family photographs. I chose to enlarge the image of the dog in order for me to then be able to interact with Sandy, who I have no memory of. I am bringing memories back to life so that one can experience even more happenings: physically engaging with a once, frozen fragment of time.”
Find out more about the project on Nicki-Joe’s homagenarrative blog.
Images top to bottom: ‘Sandy the Golden Retriever’ at Peek Show, ‘Nicki-Joe takes Sandy for a walk in Peckham’, ‘Sandy spents 3 nights at CDPOM World boarding centre.’
‘Konsept’ is by Camberwell BA Photography 2nd year student Jon Maguire and was shown as part of Peek Show at the Biscuit Factory. Having picked up an instruction manual at the show we were curious to find out more about Jon’s piece. Here’s his reply:
“This particular installation for the Biscuit Factory is a response to the industrial surroundings of the exhibition space and a culmination of the past few months of research into my previous projects. It consists of a large cardboard box, presented on a wooden pallet, containing seemingly random articles. Each piece inside the box represents different elements of other artists’ work, drawn from my research into site-specific installations in the Tate Modern and including some references to my own previous work.
I hope that the work offers a simple reflection of the eternal questioning of the role of art in society and also offers a gentle nudge in the back of our current governments attitude towards the funding of arts education. The process of creating art is broken down into its bare ingredients and presented without the creative input from the artist, yet because of it’s association with an exhibition, it’s function is still fulfilled by the collective experience of the viewer.
The work is supplemented by an external, misleading and nonsensical instruction manual for the construction of the elements inside the box, relying on a shared cultural experience of modern, flat-pack homeware outlets. These well known stores supply basic, shrink-wrapped furniture skeletons and reduce the craftsmanship of furniture makers into simplified two-dimensional illustrations, devoid of sentiment, authenticity and heritage; a fate which may well befall the the future of modern art, if we allow it.”
Part 2 of our series showcasing work from Peek Show.
Top: Finnley Elliott – BA Drawing.
Bottom: Cat Smith – BA Drawing.
See more work from Peek Show on Flickr.
Here’s the first in a series of posts of work from Peek Show, which took place at The Biscuit Factory in Bermondsey. The exhibition featured work by Camberwell 2nd year students from BA Ceramics, BA Drawing, BA Painting, BA Photography and BA Sculpture.
Top: Ruth Annett – BA Sculpture.
Bottom: Sam Pullen – BA Painting.
See more work from Peek Show on Flickr.
Peek Show
Camberwell 2nd year BA Fine Art Show at The Biscuit Factory in Bermondsey. Showcasing work from BA Drawing, Photography, Painting, Sculpture and Ceramics.
Private view: Friday 6 May / 18.00 – 21.00
Open: Saturday 7 May – Sunday 8 May / 11.30 – 17.30
Venue: Block E, The Biscuit Factory, 100 Clements Road, Bermondsey, London, SE16 4DG
www.biscuitfactoryse16.co.uk/community
Peek Show on Facebook.
Descent of Life
Dates: 19 January – 18 February 2011
Open Evening: Thursday 20 January / 18.30 – 20.30
Venue: Art Work Space, Lower Ground, The Hempel Hotel, 31-35 Craven Hill Gardens, London W2 3EA
Descent of Life is the debut solo exhibition by Katie Brookes.
Katie is a recent graduate of the BA Illustration course at Camberwell College of Arts. The show features a new series of vast pen and ink drawings, which take their inspiration from Flemish Renaissance artists, notably Pieter Brueghel.
The drawings are a response to seemingly small details and stories, which have caught the attention of the artist. Katie takes these details and creates work that contains expansive meaning and symbolism. Within the landscape of the images there are multiple narratives that compose a scatterlogical discourse on the meanings of existentialism.
See more of Katie’s work – www.katiebrookes.com
Image: ‘Outside World’ – Katie Brookes.
Camberwell BA Illustration alumnus Chris Dent currently has an exhibition at SuperSuperficial’s Gallery 7 in Covent Garden, London. The show features a series of his New York cityscapes. The show runs until 16 October.
His drawings often of the modern metropolis have gained him a client list which includes; American Vogue, Pernod, Xbox, ASOS, Red Bull, Dazed and Confused, Wallpaper*, Time Magazine, Mazda,The Sunday Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Warner Music, The Economist, Mazda and Jones Lang Lasalle.
Images: Private View invite, Chris live drawing at private view, NY drawing.
BA Drawing alumnus Caspar Rock has a show opening at Bearspace in Deptford this Friday 25 June. The show is a collaboration between Caspar and his sister Isabel. The pair have created a series of large scale drawing works, collaborative pieces, animation and sculpture.
‘The pair site their influences broadly; these include comics, Japanese animations, Gothic architecture, gangsta rap, mythology and Dantes Infernoe.
Isabel and Caspar Rock feel that reality is boring. The works in Eye Pain offer a parallel world that is anything but tedious. In the artists quest to bring their audience into their world, they are hosting a number of interactive events, such as a ‘zine workshop and lecture, and a drawing battle.’
Open: 25 June – 24 July 2010
Private View: Friday 25 June / 18.30 – 20.30
Venue: Bearspace Gallery, 152 Deptford High Street, London, SE8 3PQ.
This image is from a series of work by BA Drawing 3rd year student Sophie Noonan.
“Using body pieces as a metaphor for emotional concealment Sophie explores the inner turmoil and contrasting external aesthetics people pursue everyday. Through the use of constructed and staged photographs, the ambiguity of what is seen makes the subject more compelling. The disturbing sci fi effect created by the body pieces and poses enhances the emotions the viewer sees is both seductive and repulsive. The awkward, yet familiar and vulnerable positions gives the viewer a way in, allowing them to sympathise and understand those emotions present in the work.”
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