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Deepan Sivaraman: National School of Drama, Delhi

CCW PhD student Deepan Sivaraman is currently showing his final research project at the National School of Drama in Delhi. The theatre performance, based on Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi premiered on 14th of May followed eight consecutive shows open to the public.

Deepan was also recently nominated and received an award for Best Theatre Direction by the Keralan Government for his contribution to the field, the award ceremony took place on 8th May.

 

The Bar-Tur Award 2012

Submissions deadline extended to 9 May.

The Bar-Tur Award is open to all current Univesity of the Arts students and alumni who have graduated in the last ten years. Students and graduates will be able to submit up to four images to this year’s award theme.

The selected theme for 2012 is ‘Olympian’. The judges will be looking for entries that demonstrate the breadth, depth and diversity this may mean to individuals, communities and society.

www.barturaward.com

Chelsea Alumni Collaborate on Simian Mobile Disco Video

Chelsea College of Art and Design BA Graphic Design Communication alumni Jack Featherstone and Will Samuel have recently collaborated on this moving image piece for Simian Mobile Disco.

www.jackfeatherstone.co.ukwww.willsamuel.tv

Template Collaboration at Front Room Gallery

Jack Featherstone & Max Parsons Front Room Gallery ShowJack Featherstone & Max Parsons Front Room Gallery Show

Back in April two Chelsea College of Art and Design BA Graphic Design Communication alumni; Jack Featherstone and Max Parsons worked on a collaborative exhibition entitled “Template” at the Front Room Gallery in Cambridge.

The exhibition centred around a “space specific, hand painted, wall drawing which was digitally designed to the exact proportions of the room. This drawing was accompanied by three individual risograph print compositions, which played with the same scale and grid forms that were used to create the wall drawing.”

If you are interested in buying one of the limited edition prints head over to the Front Room Esty shop.

www.jackfeatherstone.co.uk /   www.maxedmundparsons.co.uk

Images: Template exhibition. Photos by Max Parsons.

BA Textile Design’s “Transition Fashion Show” held last week

Our BA Textile Design students were extremely busy last week putting together a fashion that took place in the Banqueting Suite here at Chelsea. See the flyer below and a few pictures, showing some of the fantastic designs.

Well done everyone!

Chelsea MA Fine Art Interim Shows 1 May – 12 May

Very soon our MA students will be having their interim show here at Chelsea. You are warmly invited to all three private views.

Hope to see you there!

SWAP SHOP here at Chelsea next Tuesday 24 April 12-3pm

There will be swap shop happening here at Chelsea next Tuesday 24 April 12-3pm. We want students to come along with 3 items, books, clothes, equipment to swap or just come along to have a look.

Hope to see you there!

Chelsea Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art Interim Show

 

Our Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art Students will be having their interim show very soon in the Triangle Space  here at Chelsea. We hope to see you at the private view on the  April or if you cannot make that April 24-25 instead.

Check the website for of recent work by students. It will be continuously updated throughout the course.  www.chelseapgdip2012.com 

Chelsea Foundation Degree (FdA) Interior Design awarded a CSD Recognised award.

 We have now with been awarded a CSD Recognised award for our Foundation Degree (FdA) Interior Design programme.

This is the first vocational training programme to successfully gain the award from the professional body for design and the industry expert panel were particularly impressed with the strong creative focus and links with industry on project briefs.

Course leader Tomris Tangaz said “we are very pleased that our work and efforts to provide strong vocational and academic training for designers has been awarded professional body recognition and we are looking forward to working with CSD in the future”.
Tim Jennings TTSP Architecture and Design, and panel member for the Chartered Society of Designers stated “the panel were impressed with the balance of creativity, professionalism, skills and knowledge the course delivers throughout its’ 2 year programme and with such a strong vocational focus it challenges students, providing them with an excellent foundation for their future design careers”

The course, is equivalent to the first two years of a BA (Hons) programme and is primarily interested in fostering the relationship between academic study and the contemporary practice of interior design. It features live projects and industrial collaborations and provides strong technical, personal and aspirational skills.

Have a look at our course page here: http://www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk/courses/coursesbylevel/undergraduatecourses/fdainteriordesign/

Interior and Spatial Design Lecturer Janey Sharatt in ‘Pots of Colour’ Exhibition

Janey Sharratt   ‘Pots of Colour’
Exhibition:  18th April – 5th May
Private View:  Wednesday 18th April   6-9pm
(Janey Sharratt will be exhibiting with Patrick Smith)

Peter Stickland wrote this about Janey’s work:
“An age spent directing paint to play upon canvas, hours in ecstasy over the pigment
and the texture, spells just scratching and scoring the surface; then a stretch of time
frittered,finding names for pots.
She’ll remove the paint to make the subject clear then she’ll add a few layers for the
same reason.
She’ll remove the paint to increase the ambiguity then she’ll add a few layers for a
similar motive.
Gradations of tones obscure sharp edges, inviting dance in the mind’s eye by
tantalizing suggestion…”

Peter Stickland

We are delighted to have Janey Sharratt showing at the gallery two years after her first
successful show with us. The unique character of these soft, gentle landscapes and of the
ethereal floating still lifework, is hugely appealing.

Laurie MacLaren

Highgate Contemporary Art
26 Highgate High Street
Highgate Village
London  N6 5JG
www.highgateart.com

Janey lectures on Spatial Design part-time  at Chelsea School of Art and Design.