Chelsea Snapshot

Commonplace is launching a competition with cycling fanatics Milltag to design a London cycling jersey that truly celebrates London’s diverse history, culture and general brilliance! download full brief here.
The competition is open to all UAL students and starts today (Wednesday 25th Jan) and the deadline for submissions is Monday 5th March (but you can submit any time before then, with a final crit on the 7th March at High Holborn’s top floor Boardroom with Ed Cowburn (Milltag director) me, Siobhan Clay (commonplace co-ordinator) and three keen cycling UAL staff.
Prizes
Winner
The winning jersey will go on sale on Milltag with a percentage of profits going to the designer (they’ll also receive a £50 voucher plus two jerseys).
3 runners up
Will each receive 2 jerseys and a £20 voucher. We’ll hold an exhibition in early summer of the best and winning designs (venue to be confirmed, but it’ll be somewhere cycle fab).
What to do next
• You’ll need to have a look at the full brief here for design and submission details.
• Download the Milltag cycle jersey template
• Submit your design to commonplace by Monday 5th March (no bigger than 2mb – you’ll have to shrink your design!)
• Keep the crit time and date Wednesday 7th March 10.30-12pm free
If you’ve any questions, email us at commonplace@arts.ac.uk
GOOD LUCK!

Bosco Verticale Chorale – Benji Jeffrey

Date: Thursday 26 January 2012, 18.00 – 21.00 (with a performance starting every 30 minutes)

Venue: Inland, 25a Camberwell Church Street, SE5 8TR

BA Fine Art graduate Benji Jeffrey’s first solo show ‘Bosco Verticale Chorale’ is a serialistic composition for a small choir. The piece finds unexpected origins in a diagram describing the proposed organisation of plant life within the Bosco Verticale or Vertical Forest model. This model, conceived by the architect Stefano Boeri Architetti, consists of two eco-compatible residential towers that are currently under construction in Milan.

The project proposes the vertical densification of nature within the urban space to combat ongoing environmental collapse. Function becomes fantasy as Jeffrey’s piece deals with a conscious misunderstanding of the diagram and plays it out to the full.

A series of dialogues, found on the Inland website, accompany the performance, providing a fictional clarification of the artists intention. The diagram transforms to become both theater and fiction.

www.inlandstudios.co.uk

2012 Part-Time Job Fair

Wednesday 1st February, 12-4pm

The Blue Print Bar, 272 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EY

2012 is going to be a big year for London, with the Olympics and the Queens Jubilee, many events are going to be taking place across the capital. We’ve been working with Podium, the official FE & HE unit for the 2012 Games to create an Olympic themed 2012 Part-Time Job Fair. This year’s fair is focused on helping our students and graduates find part-time or temporary work running up to the Olympics and during the event.
At the fair you’ll have the opportunity to talk to over 15 employers and find out what type of jobs they have available and during the afternoon you can attend talks by Podium about volunteering at the 2012 games.

Come along to the 2012 Employment talks. Find out what’s available for you during and after the Olympics.

Hear from Podium, the HE unit of the 2012 games and CREATE jobs the creative industries legacy organisation. Book your ticket online

http://ual2012employmenttalks.eventbrite.com/

Cara

BA Textiles alumni Jennifer Rose will be exhibiting at the Foundry Gallery early next year with a show called Suture.

Foundry Gallery
39 Old Church Street
London
SW3 5BS

Private view: January 12^th 6.30-9.00pm
Exhibition continues: January 13^th – February 28^th 

Jennifer Rose Norris’s Textile Designs take inspiration from bone formations combined with deconstructed flower buds. The process uses stitching, fabric manipulation and a range of cutting techniques to transform long flat pieces of material into structural forms.

Her work reflects the qualities that are represented in today’s urban landscapes, through the friction of architectural surroundings and nature’s constant presence.  She therefore chooses a range of natural and synthetic fabrics to work with, which allows her work to demonstrate the contrast found between the materials used as harsh and angular in appearance while remaining soft and tactile in texture.

The designs reflect how textiles can be used sculpturally with a space and also as an extension of the body as a fashion piece or adornment.

Jennifer Rose Norris is a Textile Designer and a recent graduate from the Chelsea College of Art and Design. She is currently exhibiting at the Foundry Gallery, Chelsea. She lives and works in London. 

Prio

Lauren Maun (left) and Elena Shvab (right)

Alicia Nader (left) and Alexandria Coe (right)

Egle Jauncemaite (left) and Alicia Robinson (right)

Harrison Butterworth (left) and Federica Corbetta (right)

Jen Cheema

Kazusa Takamura

Lou Ran (left) and Wangui Wanjau (right)

Maria Nuottajarvi

Mariana Giraldo (left) and Liv Petterson (right)

Textile design students will next be exhibiting at Indigo Paris in the spring of 2012.

The Henry Moore Institute in Leeds is currently showing Shelagh Cluett: Drawing in Space from 1 December – 11 March 2012, in the Sculpture Study Galleries and ‘Nice Style: The World’s First Pose Band’  (14 December 2011 – 12 February 2012), in Gallery 4.

Both exhibitions were first shown in CHELSEA space and Lisa le Feuvre, Director of the Institute has acknowledged that these shows were inspired by the gallery

‘Drawing in Space’ marks the recent acquisition by Leeds Museums & Galleries (Henry Moore Institute archive) of the Shelagh Cluett archive, donated by the Shelagh Cluett Trust. Shelagh led the postgraduate sculpture programme at Chelsea from 1980 to 2007.

CCW Graduate School

MRes Arts Practice Symposium 2012

‘Art and Design Research: Where Do I Start?’

Wednesday 25 January 2012, 10.00am to 1pm

Green Room, Chelsea College of Art and Design
16 John Islip Street, London  SW1P 4JU

Keynote Speaker: Dr Sophia Lycouris, Reader and Director of Graduate Research School, Edinburgh College of Art

MRes Arts Practice students presenting are:

Sophia Demetrious   

Katie Elliott                           

Jinah Lee                   

Emily Ludolf             

Lydia Parusol                       

Sharon Phelps                      

Shabnam Ranjbar    

Loredana Todor                  

Helen Turner

All welcome. Please rsvp to Paul Moore p.moore@arts.ac.uk

The nominees for Future Map 11 have been announced. Chelsea College of Art and Design graduates included this year are (from top to bottom):

•  Jo Gibbs – MA Textile Design
• Jon Anders Gulbrandsen – MA Graphic Design Communication
• Holly Stevenson – MA Fine Art

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.

www.futuremap.arts.ac.uk

Consume Peckham proudly presents its third edition, co-ordinated by Kieron Dennis. This year sixteen short films have been made by Stage 2 Graphic Design Communication students from Chelsea.

Subjects include an evangelical church, a dog grooming salon, and a Christmas decoration company. Together they reflect the diversity of commercial activity in Peckham. The documentaries also reveal the resilience of a community tested by recent riots and budget cuts and shows how Peckham supports, inspires and provides chances for its young residents.

Consume Peckham presents a truly authentic portrait of the varied and occasionally bizarre cultural mix that is to be found in South London’s most infamous postcode. 

Consume Peckham 2011
Thursday 8th December 6.30pm @ PeckhamPlex
95a Rye Lane Peckham SE15 4ST
Admission: £2.99
Running Time: 75 mins

Followed by drinks reception at the PeckhamPlex – all welcome.

After Party @ CLF Art Cafe, Bussey Building, 33 Rye Lane
9pm – 3am