Jo Stockham on Shelagh Cluett
Currently on show in the Sculpture Study Galleries at the Henry Moore Institute is Shelagh Cluett: Drawing in Space. This exhibition celebrates the recent acquisition by Leeds Museums and Galleries (Henry Moore Institute Archive) of the Shelagh Cluett archive.
Cluett (1947-2007) taught at Chelsea School of Art, where she influenced generations of artists, leading the postgraduate sculpture programme from 1980 to 2007. Drawing in Space brings together sculptures, drawings, sketchbooks and photographic documentation of Cluett’s work from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, when she was a student at Hornsey College of Art and Chelsea School of Art, and first emerged on the London scene.
On the occasion of the exhibition, Jo Stockham (artist and Professor of Printmaking, Royal College of Art) and Donald Smith (Director of Exhibitions, Chelsea Space) join Sophie Raikes (curator of the exhibition), Claire Mayoh (Henry Moore Institute Archivist) and Cluett’s friends and former colleagues to discuss her work and this display.
The exhibition is on show until 11 March.
This is no charge for this event but booking is essential as places are limited. Please contact Kirstie Gregory – kirstie@henry-moore.org
http://www.henry-moore.org/hmi/events/jo-stockham-on-shelagh-cluett

Calling all jewelry and fashion accessory designers!

Boticca.com, currently the fastest-growing online platform for the world’s most talented up-and-coming independent  designers of of unique jewelry and fashion accessories would like to invite the students and alumni of Chelsea College of Art and Design to take part in its very first competition to find Britain’s top new design talent!”

Brief
Design a collection (3-5 pieces minimum) that would be suitable for sale on Boticca.com (be sure to acquaint yourself with the site and what Boticca is all about).

To be in with a chance of being successful, your design must be truly unique and embody Boticca’s brand style and ethos.Send the photo(s) of your designs by 31 May 2012, to curators@boticca.com with a description of your inspirations and your background.
A shortlist will then be selected to be voted on by the public in early March with the winner to be announced shortly thereafter.

This competition is open to students and alumni.

N.B. The winning designer will be given a designer profile on Boticca.com for two months. However, if the 3-5-piece capsule collection is expanded to 10 or more suitable pieces within that 2-month period, Boticca will opt to feature the designer permanently on the site.

George Tsioutsias – Graphic Design Communication graduate
Director of new promo, ‘If this ain’t love’.
Skunk Anansie’s fierce lead vocalist Skin, teams up with house gurus
Erick Morilloand Eddie Thoneick to deliver this banger. Envisioned in
a futuristic setting erupting with colour and otherworldly visuals,
the video is charged with psychedelic motifs coming at you in full
force. 

http://vimeo.com/35878318

As part of Clyde & Co’s ongoing long term project to support graduating students from three London Art Colleges, they made available a stunning site with enormous creative potential at their new offices situated in St Botolph’s, Aldgate to show graduate work.

The project was open to final year graduating students from Central St Martins, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges of Art and Design for competitive selection by way of submitted proposals and visualisations, individuals or groups of artists can apply. The form of the work can be various, from drawing through to painting, to low relief, and can be made/constructed with any appropriate materials. The commissioned artwork remains in situ for at least a year.
Recent Chelsea BA Fine Art graduate Barbara Tong’s work is currently being show. Barbara talks about her work below.

Title:  100 Miles Away
For this piece of work, I want to bring a bit of the outside to the inside and to remind us the beautiful environment we are in. Root is the main material for this work. It is strong yet resilient; it creates intricate network; it is probably the most important part of a tree. It is a celebration of life.
Most of the roots and logs in this work came from a woodland near Everton (New Forest), 100 miles away from the Clyde & Co. offices.

You can read more about the project here:
www.workplaceart.co.uk/projects/education/clydeco2/index.html

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

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

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

On 1st December, DocHouse presents a special screening of THE ARBOR + Director Clio Barnard In Conversation at Riverside Studios. Clio is a Chelsea Fine Art graduate is delighted to invite current students and staff at Chelsea College of Art and Design to this event.

As a special introductory promotion, DocHouse are offering Chelsea students a special FILM FOR A FIVER discount.

The Arbor has been hailed as a ‘remarkable film: conceptually acute, brilliantly realised, impossibly sad’ (The Daily Telegraph). A multi award-winning film, The Arbor has received five star-reviews from Timeout, The Guardian and The Telegraph to name but a few.

 We hope you can make it along to this unique screening and would be very grateful if you could share details of the event with your students via email or post on your website. For full details and to book tickets see here: http://www.riversidestudios.co.uk/cgi-bin/page.pl?l=1318586269

 DocHouse is the UK Centre for Documentary in the Cinema. If you would like to know more about us and/or the screenings then please take a look at our website www.dochouse.org or contact charlotte@dochouse.org

 Charlotte Balnave ~ DocHouse
Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London W6 9RL
020 8237 1220 ~ www.dochouse.org

We would like to invite you to the private view of Chelsea College of Art and Design BA Fine Art graduate Alice Mendelowitz’s first solo show at Inland, En Dos Partes. We look forward to seeing you!

Private View: 25 November, 18.00 – 21.00

Open to public: 26 – 27 November, 12.00 – 15.00

Address: Inland, 25a Camberwell Church Street, London SE5 8TR

Inland is a gallery and studio space in Camberwell set up by 5 Chelsea College of Art and Design BA Fine Art alumni – Lauren Houlton, Keira Greene, Benji Jeffrey, Bella Marin and Alice Mendelowitz.

Twitter @InlandStudios

www.inlandstudios.co.uk

Following our introduction for Chelsea MA students to the Chelsea Salon Series on November 8th in the Triangle space at 5.00 pm we are holding an event in a space that we hope to be using in the future.  All CCW students are welcome.

Brunswick House is just over Vauxhall Bridge on the right and only a few minutes walk. It is a great venue with a wonderful bar and a zany collection of antique furniture. Jackson Boxer who runs the bar has incredibly generously donated the space to us exclusively on condition that everybody buys a drink which doesn’t sound too onerous!
It also has a stage. We are looking for volunteers who would like to do some performance with Chelsea Alumni and indeed for anybody who has ideas for performances which they would like to put forward to us.

http://chelseasalonseries.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-call-for-performance-brunswick.html

IT SHOULD BE FUN so do all come along!

 Monday 14 November  6-9 pm
Brunswick House
30 Wandsworth Road
Vauxhall
SW8 2LG

Laura Carew and Josh Y’Barbo

lacarew@gmail.com
joshuaybarbo@gmail.com