04May
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.
04May
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.
23Mar
Award winning design and communications agency SAS (part of MSLGROUP) are launching a £10,000 scholarship programme at Chelsea College of Art and Design, to recognise creative excellence and nurture emerging talent.
The company has created three scholarships totalling £10,000 for students on Chelsea’s BA Graphic Design Communication course. The scholarships will be open to all second year BA Graphic Design Communication students.
Students that wish to apply will be asked to complete a live project in their second year with three winning students being chosen to receive a Scholarship for the final year of their undergraduate degree.
Geoff Thomas Shaw, Chelsea’s Undergraduate Programme Director, hopes that this collaboration with SAS “ensures our new, young designers are more financially confident and feel valued as the next generation of professional practitioners”.
David Stocks, Executive Creative Director at SAS said: “It’s tough for students with the cost of study rising all the time. We believe there is a responsibility on agencies to support and nurture young talent and not just use new graduates as lowly paid interns. The great reputation for creativity that we have in this country will only continue with the support of our industry”.
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14Mar
Press & Bleed proudly presents Eightfold a launch of new publications by second year BA Graphic Design Communication students at Chelsea College of Art and Design.
Co-ordinated by Ben Branagan, Kieron Dennis, and Ray O’Meara the exhibition represents the culmination of the spring terms major project. 48 students have worked in groups to produce 8 creative publications spanning a variety of subjects including Folklore, Pyschology, Adventure and Experiences. Each publication redefines the notion of what a territory is, but also what a publication can be.
Viewing: Wednesday 14 March 18.00 – 21.00
Venue: Russian Club, 340 – 344 Kingsland Road, London E8 4DA
23Jan
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.
30Sep
Inland is a brand new 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.
Inland opens Friday 30 September with Chimera, an exhibition consisting of a short film shot in England and the small Spanish town of Frailes.
“Quimera” was a short film, shot and screened in the town of Frailes, Spain. The intention behind the film was to relocate the town within a hinterland; a frontier space. We were interested in creating a sense of isolation that was both geographical and psychological. Out of this we hoped to construct a fiction around the spaces filmed and so form a new mythology of the town.
The English counterpart “Chimera”, which will be screened at Inland, makes use of the footage and loose narrative structure conceived in Spain, and develops upon the themes of alienation and dislocation. With this second screening in London, the film has been removed from the place of its conception and so the idea of relocation and the sense of a remove have become central. The filming sites of Frailes assume a new alien character. The original footage has been brought together with footage collected elsewhere, and so the idea of location within the film takes on a new complexity; a further degree of abstraction and illusion.
Address: Inland, 25a Camberwell Church Street, London SE5 8TR
Private View: 30 September, 18.00 – 21.00
Open to public: 1 – 2 Oct, 12.00 – 18.00
Twitter @InlandStudios
29Sep
Short film capturing the Chelsea College of Art and Design MA Private View 2011.
Filmed and edited by – www.pundersonsgardens.com
Music – Treasure Teeth
23Sep
The 2011 Bloomberg New Contemporaries includes 6 Chelsea College of Art and Design alumni.
Four alumni from our MA Fine Art – Rasmus Nilausen, Noel Hensey, David Ben White, Hyun Woo Lee.
Two from our BA Fine Art – George Petrou, Tomas Downes.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries is the leading UK organisation supporting emergent art practice from British Art Schools. Since 1949 New Contemporaries has consistently provided a critical platform for new and recent fine art graduates primarily by means of an annual, nationally touring exhibition. Independent of place and democratic to the core, New Contemporaries is open to all. Exhibition participants are selected by a panel predominantly made up of artists and writers by means of a rigorous two-stage process.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011 will be showing at S1 Artspace and Site Gallery in Sheffield between 23 September and 5 November 2011 before travelling to the ICA, London, 23 November 2011 until 15 January 2012.
Images top to bottom: George Petrou, Tomas Downes, Rasmus Nilausen, Noel Hensey, David Ben White, Hyun Woo Lee.
12Sep
Selection of images from the Chelsea College of Art and Design 2011 MA Show.
See more images on Flickr.
Images top to bottom: MA Graphic Design Communication, MA Textile Design, Changda Wu – MA Interior and Spatial Design.
05Sep
Selection of work from the Chelsea College of Art and Design MA Show. You can see more photos on Flickr.
The MA Show continues until Thursday 8 September. Full details can be found on our MA Show event page.
Images top to bottom: Dominik Lazi – MA Graphic Design Communication, MA Interior and Spatial Design, MA Textile Design.
