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.
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.
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 12th 6.30-9.00pm
Exhibition continues: January 13th – February 28th
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):
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.
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
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
Belle Gunnes by Kristian Evju
MA Fine Art graduate Kristina Evju will be exhibiting at the Islington Arts Factory alongside 9 other 2011 graduates in a show called Metamorphose.
Metamorphose
4 – 25 November 2011
Preview: Friday 4 November, 7-9pm
Islington Arts Factory
2 Parkhurst Road
London
N7 0SF
Some of London and the South East’s most talented graduates present works in drawing, painting, site-specific installation, large-scale print, photography and sculpture.
David Cutts, Kristian Evju, Joseph Goody, Jonathan Kelly, Jessica Piddock, Chloe Precey, Jennifer Price, Dylan Shields, Katharine Tolladay, Simon Veis.
The unique nature of Islington Arts Factory has inspired site specific installation work from Katherine Tolladay, as she references the multi-arts nature of the centre in a new collaboration with performance artist and choreographer Antje Hildebrandt. Simon Veis has created a new drawing installation inspired by the fascinating history and architecture of the building.
Sculptor Dylan Shields has created a new large scale cardboard piece based on The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Bernard Strozzi. Also on a grand scale is Jennifer Price’s mono print of a shopping trolley on to fabric.
Just-us is a challenging series based on Jessica Piddock’s correspondence with criminals awaiting execution on death row in the USA; from this she has developed an installation especially for Metamorphose featuring a portrait of Steven Woods who was executed on the 13th September this year.
Deer Girl by Kristian Evju
Kristian Evju has created two new drawings fro metamorphose; his enigmatic imagery evokes limbo states, where animal and human protagonists are frozen in dramaticjuxtaposition. David Cutts presents key works from his series exploring early childhood and memories of the Fairground. Other exhibitors include photographer Chloe Precey and painters Joseph Goody and Jonathan Kelly, who will exhibit highlights fromtheirdegree show presentations.
Curated by Eleanor Pearce
Islington Arts Factory
The Drawing Collective, made up of four students from the MA Curating course 2010/2011, has donated The Drawing Archive and the all important Drawing to the Special Collections at Chelsea College of Art & Design Library.
The Drawing Archive is the result of a five month, intense collaboration between Manca Bajec, Michele Drascek, Emma Moore and Milia Xin Bi. The aim of the project was to collectively purchase one artwork. What seemed from the outset as a pretty straight forward task, turned into an intensive journey riddled with surprises, arguments, late night correspondences, early morning coffees and unexpected outcomes. Every detail, each interview conducted with artists, gallerists, professors, auctioneers and collectors, every idea was carefully archived. The resulting exhibition in Wimbledon Space in March 2011, originally thought of as the perfect opportunity to display the acquired drawing, instead became the site of a delicate installation: a visual representation of the complex string of events which took place. This exhibition is the focus of the artist book produced, which was printed in an edition of twenty, and made as a gift for those who supported the project. The first edition of this book can also be found in the Special Collections.
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