Forest

Dates: 20 January – 17 March 2011
Private View: 20 January / 19.00 til late
Venue: Dreams Bags Jaguar Shoes, 32-34 Kingsland Road, London E2 8DA

Forest is Arran Gregory’s second solo show since graduating from Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2009 where he studied Graphic Design Communication.

Heavily Inspired by discernible forms of nature, Arran’s work offers an alternate insight into the animal kingdom.

The exhibition will be a mixed media installation on the ground floor of DreamBagsJaguarShoes and will feature a collection of his latest illustrations, collages and his newest sculpture – ‘Black Wolf – All That Was’.

Alongside his personal work Arran has been steadily building an impressive commercial career. Perhaps best known around London for his T shirt designs and work for Slam City Skates, Arran’s work within the skate community has become the backbone of his portfolio. His client list include Emerica, The Story store, Penfield, Coca Cola and Pointer Footwear.

See more of Arran’s work – www.arrangregory.com

www.jaguarshoes.com

Thanks to all who came along to the Foundation Diploma Summer Show private view on Friday. The exhibition will remain open until Thursday 3rd June so come and take a look while you can!

www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk/summershows2010

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.

At the end of this month the MA Textile Design students from Chelsea College of Art and Design will be exhibiting their work in an interim show entitled ‘Unravel’.  In the next couple of weeks in the run up to the show we will give you a sneak preview of some of their work.

The show will feature a broad mixture of products and concepts ranging from sustainable and ethical fashion and interior textiles, to conceptual artwork and technology applications.

Sustainability in textiles is also a core issue within the work of several of the students. These students are ahead of the curve on the current changes within the markets and their visions of sustainable textile interiors and fashion design will be on display.

Dates and times of the exhibition can be found here.

Unravel on Facebook.

Images top to bottom: Arliyah Hussain, Fiona Walker.

5 Chelsea BA Fine Art alumni – Myles Painter, Matthew La Croix, Sam Autsen, Amy Griffin and Susan Forsyth  will be showing at the Recent Graduate exhibition at The Affordable Art Fair in Battersea. Curated by Jotta the exhibition offers a platform for 18 emerging artists whose practices test new perceptions of the archetypal landscape. The artists selected for ‘Land Without A Map’ reconsider natural and spatial elements, while questioning conventional visual assumptions.

Exhibition open: 11-14 March 2010
Curatorial talk: Saturday 13 March, 13.00

www.jotta.com   /   www.affordableartfair.com

Images top to bottom: Myles Painter, Matthew La Croix, Sam Autsen, Amy Griffin, Susan Forsyth.

Chelsea MA Curating course leader Amanda Beech has a solo show at Spike Island in Bristol. The show runs from 23 January – 11 April 2010 and see her presenting a new body of work entitled ‘Sanity Assassin’.

‘Sanity Assassin’ is a three-channel video installation with a sculptural element; a spotlit mirrored plinth, which displays a series of polished chainsaws. Situated in a custom designed waiting area, this glamorous structure with subliminal horror movie overtones is homage to the corporate lobby of a real Los Angeles showroom. Shot on location in Los Angeles the work is part of Beech’s on-going investigations into the forceful rhetoric played out within neo-liberal narratives of freedom in philosophy, politics, literature and popular culture.

To accompany the show there will be a seminar with Amanda Beech, Mikko Cannini, Bridget Crone, Jaspar Joseph-Lester and Marie-Anne McQuay entitled ’Imploded Action, Dissonant Affects’. The seminar takes place on Saturday 20 March and will address the relation or non-relation between space, image and sound as well as our expectations for art’s effective and affective potential.

For more information visit – www.spikeisland.org.uk

Image: Amanda Beech, ‘Sanity Assassin’ (2010), installation view. Photo: Stuart Bunce.

‘For the Sake of the Image’ is the first show curated by Chelsea MA Fine Art alumna Suki Chan. The show, which runs from the 3 March – 1 April 2010 at the Jerwood Space explores the relationship between moving image and sound, “considering sound not merely as an accompaniment to the moving image but exploring how the force of one multiplies the power of the other.”

The show is part of the Jerwood Visual Arts Encounters series and features work by Asnat Austerlitz, Richard Bevan, Juan Fontanive, Paul O’Kane, Mark Raidpere, Dan Walwin and Suki Chan.

Monday 8 March (18.00 – 20.00) - Curator Suki Chan will be in conversation with exhibiting artists Asnat Austerlitz, Richard Bevan, Juan Fontanive, Paul O’Kane and Dan Walwin. Discussion chaired by Sarah Williams.

Further information -  www.jerwoodspace.co.uk/gal_whatson.html

Image: still from ‘Interval II’, Suki Chan, 2008.

Chelsea MA Fine Art alumnus David A.Smith has been chosen as one of the Catlin Art Prize finalists.

“The prize is unique in providing the artists with the time and opportunity to develop their practice. They are each commissioned to produce a brand new body of work to be exhibited one year on from their respective degree shows, encouraging them to explore new ideas in a large and modifiable space.

As with The Catlin Guide, the chosen artists are considered to be producing high quality work which demonstrates their capacity to make a significant mark in the art world during the next decade. Based on this criteria, a panel of judges will award one of the artists with the prize of £3,000.” An exhibition of the eight finalists will take place at Village Underground, London in May 2010.

www.davidasmithart.co.uk

Image: Shuck, Anatomical canine skeleton, glow wire, enamel paint, 2009 – David A.Smith

James Capper is a Chelsea BA Fine Art graduate. The ‘Ripper’ was the sculpture he made for his final show in 2008 and was also shown at the Hannah Barry Gallery ‘Bold Tendencies’ exhibition later that summer. The piece is now part of the Cass Sculpture Foundation collection.

James describes the ‘Ripper’ as a ‘floor marking’ machine and ‘a tool for making art’; the structure being the cross between a ‘tower crane ‘ and a ‘drag hoe.’ The marks that it makes are the effect of the viewers’ active participation.

As part of Shaping Sculpture 2010 the cafe at Chelsea College of Art and Design currently has a small show of drawings by James. The drawings are for a machine called ‘Chimera’. ‘Chimera’ was shortlisted in 2009 for the Jerwood Sculpture Prize. James also has shows later this year at the Hannah Barry Gallery and Royal Society of British Sculptors.

www.shapingsculpture.com

www.hannahbarrygallery.com

Chelsea has two graduates; Cindie Gottlieb Cheung (BA Fine Art) and Celine Fitoussi (MA Interior and Spatial Design) exhibiting at Future Map.

Future Map is an annual 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.

The selection panel for this year are:

Alasdhair Willis – CEO of Established & Sons.
Matthew Slotover – Publishing Director of Frieze magazine and Director of Frieze Art Fair.
Caroline Daniel – Assistant Editor of the Financial Times.
Fatima Maleki – Art Collector.

Future Map will be held at 20 Hoxton Square Projects and runs from 25 November – 23 December 2009.

Images top to bottom – Cindie Gottlieb Cheung, Celine Fitoussi.