Chelsea Space Director Donald Smith is featured in the Art PowerLyst 2011: ArtLyst’s Alternative 100.

ArtLyst’s Alternative 100 celebrates those with the creative power and ability to influence and augment the British and international art scenes through merit alone.

See the full list – www.artlyst.com

The current show at Chelsea Space is ‘Idea Home’. Show continues until 22 October 2011.

www.chelseaspace.org

CCW (Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon Colleges of Art and Design) AMII Film Fund and Screening

Date: Thursday 27 October, 16.00

Venue: Wimbledon Space – Wimbledon College of Art

After the success of funding 10 new artists films and having them premier at South London gallery, CCW AMII film fund will be available to all students across CCW.

We are inviting applications for up to £500 to make a new, single screen moving image work. Applications are invited from individuals and groups, but those projects with an emphasis on cross college, cross discipline and/or cross year work will be looked upon more generously.

Please come along to the launch event of the film fund on Thursday 27 October at Wimbledon College of Art, where we will present a selection of films from graduate students and some of the funded films. Film makers will be there a long with a panel. Along with the screening and launch will we have a discussion about curating and presenting moving image work in the gallery context.

Those applications selected will receive funding, production support, mentoring and their work publicly exhibited at South London Gallery.

Anyone wishing to enter is advised to attend the launch event, for more information please visit:

www.ccwartistmovingimage.wordpress.com

Deadline for submissions: Friday 16 December

Clash and Converge II

Private View: Wednesday 23 November

Venue: Camberwell Space, Camberwell College of Arts

Last year CCW AMII were invited to hold an exhibition at Camberwell Space which took the temperature of the moving image work being made across the three colleges, This year we are going to do the same. All work submitted will be shown, we will show anything from tests and experiments, first tries to finished pieces, all we ask is that it is no longer than 3 minutes, is a .mov file so it can be included on a showreel and is clearly labelled with name or work, artist, length, contact details and technical specifications.

Deadline for submissions: Friday 11 November

Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ)* present the  CCW Graduate School Writing Prize

All CCW students are invited to submit a 1500 word review of any current moving image art exhibition, screening, conference or publication, originating in the UK or abroad. The review should propose a central idea or thesis argued through a discussion of the work or book under review.

The best article will be published in the Reviews Section of MIRAJ and the winner will receive a prize of £500 to be presented at the launch of the journal in the New Year.

Submissions will be judged by a panel including Professor David Garcia, Dean of CCW Graduate School and Enterprise Development and Pryle Behrman, Reviews editor of MIRAJ.

Please send all submissions as attachments to: miraj@arts.ac.uk

Deadline for submissions: 5 January 2012

*MIRAJ is the first peer-reviewed publication devoted to artists’ film and video and its contexts. It is published twice a year in print by Intellect Books in collaboration with the CCW Graduate School, UAL. MIRAJ offers a wide reaching international forum for debates surrounding all forms of artists’ moving image and media artworks. The journal is supported by an AHRC Network.

www.movingimagenetwork.co.uk

This week the Chelsea Arts Club Trust announced awards of £3000 to Rosie Farrell as a contribution towards her MA Fine Art fees and £10,000 to Caitlin Smyth as the CAC Trust/Chelsea Space Fellow, matching the award from the Ashley Family Foundation for Manca Bajec. Anna Moderato, a recent Chelsea graduate, also received the Acme/Chelsea Arts Club Studio Award of a year’s free studio and mentoring. Congratulations to all!

TH.I.W.H by Gloria Zein

A cross-section of a two tonne bronze bell and a sculpture inspired by the dark history of Chelsea College of Art and Design are the joint winners of this year’s CASS PRIZE for emerging artists.

The £10,000 prize was established in 2010 by the Cass Sculpture Foundation, Cass Art and University of the Arts London. It is awarded this year to Aaron McPeake and Gloria Zein, both graduating postgraduate students at Chelsea. Their work will be exhibited in the College’s Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground before going on display as works for sale at the Cass Sculpture Foundation at Goodwood in mid November.

Some Cuts Resonate by Aaron McPeake

Aaron’s work, entitled Some Cuts Resonate, was inspired by cuts to arts funding. The sliced bronze bell will be hung alongside a soft mallet, inviting passers by to strike it to produce a sound similar to a large church bell crossed with a plate gong. It will hang in one of the Parade Ground’s archways, which will act as a loudspeaker, and the sound produced will resonate for well over a minute – perhaps signalling opposition to funding cuts, though Aaron does not want to prescribe viewers’ response to the installation.

The bell was cast in bronze at the world famous Whitechapel Bell Foundry, using the same techniques used for casting church bells and Big Ben.  Aaron says:

“It’s very important to me to create works that are interactive, especially since listening is as relevant as looking when it comes to understanding. This gets right away from the ‘do not touch’ signs you see in so many galleries; this piece isn’t complete until people do touch, play and experiment with it.”

Chelsea College’s history as the site of the notorious London prison Millbank Penitentiary, completed in 1821, inspired TH.I.W.H. (This Is What Happened), the work of joint winner Gloria Zein. The 3.1 meter high tent-like sculpture creates a confined, inaccessible space. Half brightly coloured and half dark, it reflects the history and changes of the area and cities in general. Gloria comments:

“There is a sense of absurdity that an arts school was installed on the site of a former prison – as the latter can enhance criminal careers and the art college can foster artistic careers.”

Up until 1868 everyone sentenced to transportation was processed through Millbank, and the theme of passage and movement is also replicated in the two 3.5 meter I-beams on which the sculpture sits.

Mark Cass, Managing Director of Cass Art and Trustee of the Cass Sculpture Foundation, says:

“The CASS PRIZE seeks to celebrate creative excellence. This year the standard of entries was so high we decided to award two prizes. Altogether the submissions were an incredibly diverse selection of new and vibrant contemporary sculpture. Ultimately our winners, Gloria Zein and Aaron McPeake, were chosen for the high technical and creative calibre of their proposals.”

Cass Art will be hosting an evening talk by the winning artists at its flagship store in Islington, London on Tuesday18 October, www.cassart.co.uk.

Poetic paving stones are among a selection of new public artworks going on display at British Land’s Regent’s Place in central London. The concrete slabs engraved with poetry and created by Chelsea College of Art and Design student Emma Hunter will join a film by fellow student Ami Kanki playfully looking at how the public interact with art.

The works by the Chelsea College students, part of University of the Arts London, are the result of a British Land competition to create an original artwork for the site. The winning works were selected for the way they integrate artworks and architecture at the Euston Road site with the public and local community.

Ami Kanki’s film Regent’s Place Museum investigates how the public engage with the artworks already on site. Despite the outside setting, passers-by tend to treat the artworks as if they were in a museum; looking for clues as to how much participation is allowed. The film shows Kanki playfully testing the rules surrounding interaction with the artworks, placing knitted hats on Antony Gormley’s figurative sculptures and consequently turning the site’s security guards into characters in the film itself. 

Called Set in Stone, Emma Hunter’s paving slabs are inscribed with poems composed by teenagers from Samual-Lithgow Youth Club in West Euston. She was keen for the work to involve the surrounding community and bring something from local young people into what is largely a corporate space, allowing them to feel an increased sense of ownership. Set into the very ground beneath which visitors walk, the poems quietly provide a private escape into the imaginations of the passer-by without disturbing the existing architecture.

James Danby, Director of London Leasing at British Land said “The creation of a fun and attractive environment that people can work, shop and live has been a priority for Regent’s Place. Public art enhances the communal areas of the estate and provides both members of the public and occupiers a chance to sit and reflect during their busy days. The addition of these exciting new pieces of art will complement our existing collection on the estate including pieces from Antony Gormley, Julian Opie.”

 Set in Stone and Regents Place Museum will take up residence at Regent’s Place until the end of the year. The competition was set up by property developers British Land to nurture new undiscovered talent from the MA Interior and Spatial Design course at Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, and to further enhance the Regent’s Place estate.