Jewellery Collection

Chelsea Techinician Steff Willis has been keeping a blog called ‘The Art of Making’ documenting his work and the work of others produced in the workshops at Chelsea College of Art and Design. The blog features images of beautiful,
hand made, one off pieces that Stef makes, mainly from wood and ranging in size and complexity. These include items from his jewellery collection, bespoke wooden shoes and images from past exhibitions. It also gives an insight into life and the activity taking place in the workshops.

You can visit the blog here: http://www.stefwillis-theartofmaking.blogspot.com/

SALT is a student-led collaborative group currently based at Chelsea, which aims to provoke and provide platforms for discussion and criticism, through lo-fi publications and discursive interventions. We are taking part in Cartel Gallery’s forthcoming exhibition, The Long Avant-Garde, curated by Dave Beech, which is drawing together a contemporary Avant-Garde of collaborative practices.

For more information, visit: www.cartelgallery.com

A part of SALT’s contribution to this event will be to compile a publication around the subject of the future of the avant-garde and socially-engaged practice, which we will then use as a starting point for a wider discussion. These discussion will hopefully lead into a follow-up edition, building on questions arising from the first publication.

If you have any concerns, questions, artworks or articles etc., relating (explicitly or otherwise) to the future of avant-garde practices, inside or outside of the specific context of art practice that you would like to submit to this publication, please send submissions to us at salt.chelsea@googlemail.com, before the 22nd of July.

The exhibition runs from 29th of July to 10th of September; we will host a discursive event at some point during it, the date of which is to be confirmed, and we will contact you when we have more details.

If you would like to know more about SALT’s past projects, then visit the slightly outdated blog we have, www.saltchelsea.com. For more up to date information, follow us on Twitter, @salt_box.

We look forward to hearing from you!

SALT

This week Christopher Bailey, Design Director for Burberry Fashion House, took time out to talk to Textile Design students at Chelsea College of Art and Design and to answer questions about his views, ideas and experience of designing for Burberry.

During the hour session Chris spoke about the Burberry philosophy and their approach to design. He answered students’ questions regarding their different lines, the concepts behind the designs and their origins; describing how the colour, texture and attitude of a fabric can inspire a whole collection.

Chris also talked about the democratic origins of the company, describing how their founder Thomas Burberry (C19th) gradually became adopted by the nobility to the point where the King would simply ask for his ‘Burberry’ yet still continued to serve the needs of all levels of society. Chris explained the challenge this brings to their design team and the different ways that they have attempted to maintain and promote this sense of heritage while ensuring that the brand remains relevant and contemporary.

This session provided a great opportunity for students to get a valuable insight into the workings of a major fashion house and Chris answered questions on the company’s approach to sustainability, how design teams work together and are recruited and gave tips on forging a career in the industry. He encouraged students to develop their own point of view, individuality and attitude and stressed the importance of being able to communicate all these aspects through their work.

The link between Chelsea College and Burberry Group plc is the Millbank location in London and a deep commitment to the development of innovation and quality in the design and use of textiles. For the past two years the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground has also played host to the seasonal fashion shows.

A series of lectures, workshops, processes and materials have been offered to students to extend their practice with a grant from Burberry plc, under Christopher’s direction. In addition to this week’s visit, Chris will continue to engage with the project by responding to student questions on a blog and offering a professional context and eventual work-placement.

Recently a project was devised to connect the central theme of sustainability project for Final year BA and MA Textile Design Students during the Autumn Term 2010.  In response to the project brief ‘Inside/Outside’, students will design a collection of beautiful fabrics to inspire fashion designers, which make the most of the fabrics’ qualities in stitch, weave, knit, print and digital production. Using models of production, valuing craft skills and awareness of new technologies, the project emphasis on sustainable luxury offers a model for students to translate their ideas into action.

The work will be judged by the Chelsea textile staff team and Christopher with the winning designers receiving a Burberry Sponsor’s Prize and internship in Burberry’s studio.

You can read more about this project as it evolves and also find out about other innovative live projects currently being developed by Chelsea textile students and staff.

http://chelseatextilestudents.blogspot.com/

Come along and enjoy clowns, acrobats, tight-rope walkers, jugglers and more on the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, as part of SouthWestFest 2010.

When: Thursday 8th July – Saturday 10th July

Show Times: 11.30am, 2pm, 4pm. Each show last approx. 45 minutes.

Workshops: There will also be a series of circus skills workshops each day for children.

UAL Staff members are invited to participate in special tightrope walking workshops on Saturday 10th – there are 3 places for the morning workshop, and 2 places for the afternoon workshop. Please contact SWF to book.

Tickets: UAL STAFF MEMBERS GET IN FREE BY SHOWING THEIR STAFF CARD. Otherwise, tickets are only £2 for concessions, £3 adults (2 adults free for groups of 10 or more concessions).

Booking; advance tickets on sale by email info@southwestfest.org.uk or text/call 07746 263 843.

You can also buy tickets on the day.

SouthWestFest is Westminster’s biggest community-led festival – www.southwestfest.org.uk

Our Textiles Environment Design section (TED) have been beavering away and now some of their designers will be displaying their latest work  at Camberwell Space from Wednesday 7th July as part of AA2A 2010 Exhibition.

Go along and feast your eyes on these tasty textiles.

One of the the designers Clara Vuletich has been exploring the idea of 

How can digital print be used to enhance and celebrate old heirloom fabric pieces? 

Can a ‘digital craft’ process, using sustainable base cloths, help to reinvent the traditions of quilting and patchwork?

For more about her work and her use of digital printing go to her blog at http://www.loveandthrift.com/

The pavilion is located at the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground which is opposite to the Tate Britain on Atterbury Street, SW1. It was part of this year’s Chelsea College Undergraduate summer show and will feature in the London Festival of Architecture 2010.

Chelsea Xpo Pavilion Project is directed by Cyril Shing, Senior Lecturer of BA Interior Spatial Design (ISD) in collaboration with Yiching Liu (Platform 2 Tutor), Daniel Piker (Visiting Tutor) and Platform 2 final year students. The pavilion marks the achievements of Platform 2’s idea of digital creativity and addresses issues of sustainability through consideration of the use of materials and the development fabrication processes.

Story about the Pavilion – A talk about the making of the pavilion.
Time: 12:30pm everyday until 25 June, 14:30 on 26 June
Location: In front of the pavilion

Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon/AGENDAS and the Bartlett School of Architecture present: Utopics in Art and Architecture

Saturday 5th June 10.30 – 3.45

This free, one-day conference is the first in a series of events led by Dr Dan Smith (Chelsea College of Art and Design) and Dr Robin Wilson (Bartlett School of Architecture) that will explore the relationship between art and architecture through the consideration of a common ground in utopian expression and utopian impulse.

Speakers:
Daniel Baker (Chelsea College of Art)
Eric de Bruyn (University of Groningen)
Gordon Cheung (artist)
Matthew Cornford (artist)
Richard Noble (Goldsmiths)
Postworks (Matthew Butcher and Melissa Appleton)

For more information:
contact at d.j.smith@chelsea.arts.ac.uk
utopianimpulse.blogspot.com

Admission Free

Lecture Theatre
Chelsea College of Art and Design
16 John Islip Street
London SW1P 4JU

Critical Practice would like to invite you to Parade. This landmark event will explore the diverse, contested and vital conceptions of being in public and will take place in the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground at Chelsea College of Art and Design as part of the CCW Graduate School programme of events. Set in a bespoke structure designed by Ola Wasilkowska and Michal Piasecki, with a host of international contributors including staff and students from across the Graduate School. Parade will challenge the lazy, institutionalised model of knowledge transfer. Our modes of assembly, our forms of address and the knowledge we share will be intimately bound.

Friday 21 May – Launch event 5pm —7pm
Bring things to share in our Pot-Luck of snacks, while Eileen Simpson & Ben White of the Open Music Archive play music from the commons.

Saturday 22 May – A day of consecutive Barcamps 10am — 6pm
These open, participatory workshop-events will explore publicness,
past, present and future. Come and contribute.

Sunday 23 May – Market of Ideas 2pm — 6pm
These open, participatory workshop-events will explore publicness,
past, present and future. Come and contribute.

Stall holders include: Abundant Amelia (designers: Dallas Pierce Quintero), Larisa Blazic and startx, Malgorzata Bochenska / Salon 101, Chelsea MA Interior Spatial Design students, Musashino Art University (Tokyo), Geoff Cox and Rui Guerra, Ian Drysdale and ThinkPublic, Roman Dziadkiewicz, Joanna Erbel, FLAG, Angela Hodgson Teall, The KNOT Team, Owen Hatherley, Brandon Labelle, Wojtek Kosma and Dwayne Browne, Michal Kozlowski, Ewa Majewska, Lidka Makowska, microsillons, Krzysztof Nawratek, The People Speak, Satelite Project of Politicised Practice Research Group, Dr Malcolm Quinn, Mike Ricketts, Anatomy of the Street (Levente Polyak and Eszter Steierhoffer), Eileen Simpson & Ben White of the Open Music Archive, George Shire, Dr Dan Smith, Bogna Swiatkowska / Bec Zmiana, TangentProjects, Textile Environment Design (TED), Wojtek Kosma and Dwayne Browne, Chris Wainwright and Cape Farwell, Joanna Warsza and Nuno Sacramento and many more besides.

Parade is at:The Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art and Design, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU.

Critical Practice is a cluster of artists, researchers and academics and students and is hosted by the CCW Graduate School.

Read more about this event on the Critical Practice website.

Watch the development on the Parade Flickr page.

We Cluster and We Stick

An exhibition of works by Rosie, her family and friends.

December 15 – 17
The Triangle Space
Chelsea College of Art & Design
16 John Islip Street
London, SW1P 4JU

www.rosiedwyer.co.uk

Culmination of the live industry project with City Inn hotels

Students from Chelsea’s Graduate Diploma in Interior Design have designed the Christmas Tree for the London branch of the contemporary hotel chain City Inn. The culmination of a live project with the hotel group, the students have shown versatility as well as an original approach to the brief.

Read more about the Graduate Diploma Interior Design