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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Here’s a selection of images from the Chelsea BA Fine Art Show.

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Third interview in our series documenting the build up to the Chelsea Summer Shows. In this video we talk to Ralph Hunter-Menzies – BA Fine Art 3rd year.

Find out more about the 2010 Summer Shows -

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As part of the build up to the Chelsea College of Art and Design 2010 Summer Shows we go behind the scenes and talk to students, staff and technicians to find out how preparations are going.

In this video we talk to Bridget Harvey – BA Textile Design 3rd year.

Find out more about the 2010 Summer Shows -

www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk/summershows2010

As part of the build up to the Chelsea College of Art and Design 2010 Summer Shows we go behind the scenes and talk to students, staff and technicians to find out how preparations are going.

In our first video we talk to Dr. Mo Throp – BA Fine Art Course Director.

Find out more about the 2010 Summer Shows -

www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk/summershows2010

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.

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www.hannahbarrygallery.com

Self portrait with skin

‘Self Portrait with Skin’ is an example of my recent series of self-portraits where I am considering fragmented nature of a preceived image and multitude of layers which compose my perception of myself. The portraits speak about the inability to see oneself as others see us. For myself I am never a complete, whole being but rather a moving, changing network of lines, angles, thoughts, expressions, tensions, gestures. There are so many aspects of myself that I can not see it all despite twisting and turning my body and mind.

‘What we are dealing with here is the negative link between visibility and movement: movement equals blindeness; it blurs the contours of what we perceive.(…)The person who has stopped being alive exists more fully than when actually alive, moving around before us’. Slavoy Žižek The Plague of Fantasies.

Joanna Wodzicka is a 2nd year Fine Art student

Contact the Artist: jwodzicka@yahoo.com

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Work by Fine Art student, Amelie van Moorsel Orssich

In her final year at Chelsea, Amelie has been invited to exhibit her work with 4 other artists, at the town hall of Founex, in Geneva, Switzerland. The exhibition was held on the 2nd of October. Undergraduates go Global!

Contact the artist: swissame@gmail.com

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Event Flyer

Presenting Obsess(us), a group exhibition that explores ideas surrounding the consumption of oneself by one’s own personal or interpersonal desires. Investigating what it means to obsess or be obsessed, these artists create a contorted beauty; whether this comes from a tension of absence, of boundaries, of sensory perception or even of identity.

Each artist brings to the exhibition what they think of as their Obsess(us). Shared qualities and ideas in their work, such as social and self, body and space, physical and mental, reality and imagination, all play a part in each of the works. Some of the artists deal with ideas surrounding their identity, opening up a dialogue with the viewer and questioning their own identity in turn. The boundaries that the individual and society create are challenged both passively and actively. Other artists tackle obsession through the senses, by creating serenity, or a sense of haunting or liberation.

The anxiety that obsession brings with it is present in all of the works, leading the viewer into a state of ambivalence and contemplation. The artworks engage the viewer into the consuming nature of this exhibition.

Contact: SylviaNicolaidou@hotmail.com

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Work by year one student, Ruben Cardeira Ferreira

This work reflects how society reflects apreciation towards its own efforts and hard work.

Chelsea’s BA (Hons) Fine Art