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Detours
Opening Event: Wednesday 2 May, 17.00 – 20.00
Dates: 3 – 25 May 2012
Times: Monday – Friday, 10.00 – 17.00
Venue: Wimbledon Space, Wimbledon College of Art, Merton Hall Road, London SW19 3QA
Laura Braun | Jonathan Gildersleeves | Danny Greaney | Nick Hornby | Carolyn Lefley | Kate Lyddon | Ryan McClelland | Emma Neuberg | Tom Smith | Laura Taylor | Willem Weismann
Eleven established artists have gone back to art school and taken up residencies at Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon (CCW) Colleges, as part of the Artists Access to Art Colleges (AA2A) project.
For each artist the return to working within an art college for the past six months, surrounded by students, technicians and excellent facilities has been a considerable change; a detour from their familiar, often isolated studio surroundings. For some of the artists, their time spent in the college has helped them develop new ideas and form new strands to their practice; for others it has been an opportunity to further their practice in the presence of enthusiastic student practitioners.
This exhibition brings all 11 artists together to display the resulting work from their respective residencies within CCW. While representing the varied methods of production present in contemporary art practice and acting as a showcase for emerging and mid-career artists, DETOURS will highlight the importance of organisations like AA2A in developing artists’ careers.
The Artists Access to Art Colleges (AA2A) project provides placements for visual artists and designer makers in Higher and Further Education institutions across England. In 2011/2012, AA2A schemes will run in 32 institutions, providing 128 placements nationally. In the last 12 years, over 1,200 participants have had the opportunity to undertake a period of research or realise a project, using workshops and supporting facilities in participating fine art and design departments.
Curated by Chelsea College of Art and Design MA Curating students – Grazyna Dobrzanska-Redrup, Courtney Griffiths, James Harper and Daisy McMullan.
Image: Willem Weismann
Posted on 1 May 2012
Switch/Over
Opening Event: Wednesday 18 April 2012, 17.00 – 20.00
Dates: 16 – 20 April 2012
Venue: Wimbledon Space, Wimbledon College of Art, Merton Hall Road, London SW19 3QA
Open: Monday to Friday 10.00 – 17.00 (closed: weekends and Bank Holidays)
Matthew Bamber | Savinder Bual | Annie Carpenter | Rosie Farrell | Dave Griffiths | Nicky Teegan
Conceptualised by Taneesha Ahmed and Holly Black and organised collectively by MA Curating at Chelsea College of Art and Design, SWITCH/OVER brings together six artists who explore the current divide between analogue and digital technologies.
The exhibition will coincide with the final deactivation of analogue television on 18 April 2012, marking this significant moment with an evening of performance, commissioned for the show.
Due to rapidly changing technologies, sizable shifts are continually experienced regarding the ways in which we record, process, store, and preserve forms of audio and video. The resulting dialogue between analogue and digital media has lead to conflicting concerns with regards to the preservation of both formats.
The analogue is disregarded and fetishised in equal measure, with an increasing sense of nostalgia towards older, tangible technologies such as film photography and the evocative sound produced by tape and vinyl recordings. Fluctuating attitudes towards technologies alternate between apathy or contempt by those whose lives it has transformed.
SWITCH/OVER offers a perspective from which the audience can experience these continual shifts prompted by the imminent death of analogue broadcasting. Binary opposites such as materiality and immateriality, virtual and reality, analogue and digital are amongst the themes communicated by the presented artworks. These works activate and encourage ongoing discussions surrounding the disposability and preservation of technologies within contemporary society.
Posted on 16 April 2012
The Perfect Nude
Curated by Dan Coombs and Phillip Allen
Dates: 13 January – 9 March 2012
Opening event: Thursday 12 January 2012, 17.00 – 20.00
Opening times: Monday – Friday, 10.00 – 17.00
Venue: Wimbledon Space, Wimbledon College of Art, Merton Hall Road, Wimbledon SW19 3QA
In recent decades the idea of the nude has been in decline in art-school: life drawing is no longer practiced widely, ideas and research are currently preeminent. The tradition of teaching painting in British art schools has grown out of non-referential painting, abstraction and formalism; and the objective, realist tradition of painting the figure died with Euan Uglow. Would it not be apposite then, to take a look at this neglected genre? The nude seems ripe for a reawakening; it is an implicitly psychological genre, tapping directly into the artistic psyche.
This show is an aesthetic experiment presenting a comprehensive range of responses to the subject. In part, Coombs and Allen’s interest lies in the idea of imposing a subject onto the participating artists, or taking away the normal responsibility the artist necessarily has for their subject. Or, giving to particular artists a subject they perhaps not normally deal with, as many of the participating artists are abstract painters.
Phillip Allen and Dan Coombs have asked over 100 artists to make paintings of the nude. Many of the paintings will be unseen before the hang, and the artists hope the show will create a rich network of images that will establish a context for representation of the body in contemporary painting.
Posted on 21 December 2011
CCW AMII Film Fund and Screening
Date: Thursday 27 October 2011, 16.00
Venue: Wimbledon Space, Wimbledon College of Art, Merton Hall Road, Wimbledon, SW19 3QA
Launch event of CCW AMII film fund featuring presentation of films from graduate students and some of the films that were funded last year. The evening will include a panel discussion about curating and presenting moving image work in a gallery context.
For more information about how to enter this year’s competition visit -
www.ccwartistmovingimage.wordpress.com
We are inviting applications for up to £500 to make a new, single screen moving image work.
Deadline for submissions: Friday 16 December 2011.
Those applications selected will receive funding, production support, mentoring and their work
publicly exhibited at South London Gallery.
www.wimbledon.arts.ac.uk/wimbledonspace
Posted on 24 October 2011
Drawing: Interpretation / Translation
Drawing: Interpretation / Translation
Curated by Paul Coldwell and Stephen Farthing.
Dates: 3 November – 9 December 2011
Private view: Thursday 3 November, 17.00 – 20.00
Venue: Wimbledon Space, Merton Hall Road, Wimbledon, SW19 3QA
Jordan Baseman, Paul Coldwell, Mark Dunhill & Tamiko O’Brien / Mark Fairnington / Stephen Farthing / James Faure Walker / Rebecca Fortnum / Paul Ryan / Chris Wainwright.
An exhibition presenting a range of approaches to drawing, demonstrating how the medium can be used to explore ideas from the conceptual through to the observational.
Events – Thursday 8 December 2011
14.00 – Panel Discussion: Dino Alfier, Eleanor Bowen & Paul Ryan. Chaired by Paul Coldwell.
16.00 – 19.00 – Manuel Setting: A Sketchbook Performance. Artists hand over their sketchbooks for you to look through with them, including Dino Alfier, Eleanor Bowen & Paul Ryan. Originated at Danielle Arnaud.
www.wimbledon.arts.ac.uk/wimbledonspace
Image: Paul Coldwell
Posted on 22 August 2011
Difference
Difference: Contrasts, Distinction, Variances, Variations, Divergence, Deviation
Dates: 29 September – 21 October 2011
Opening Event: Thursday 29 September, 17.00 – 20.00
Venue: Wimbledon Space, Merton Hall Road, Wimbledon, SW19 3QA
Reflections on Performance Practice and the collective influences upon it. Work by Wimbledon College of Art theatre staff.
Critical reflection on practice is an essential part of the process of creative work in the Theatre and Screen industries. This exhibition of over 30 professional practitioners, full and part time tutors together with technical staff, shows the broad range of practices and the richness of experience that underpins our teaching in Theatre and Screen at Wimbledon.
Posted on 22 August 2011
Hiraku Suzuki – Glyphs of the Light
Dates: 8 August – 16 September 2011
Opening Event: Wednesday 10 August 2011, 17.00 – 20.00 (Live Drawing Performance at 18.00)
Focusing on ideas of memory and excavation, the work of Hiraku Suzuki centres around an expanded notion of drawing; encompassing works on paper and panels, installation, murals, frottages as well as live drawing performance. Much of his work hinges on the vast library of signs and glyphs he has developed by focusing on the shapes, forms, rhythms and materials of his immediate environment.
For this exhibition Suzuki will exhibit around 40 new drawings together with sculptures produced during the Tokyo Wonder Site residency at Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon (CCW), University of the Arts London. These works, referencing the Rosetta Stone, are an exploration of his ideas on the genesis of language and drawing itself. Inspired by the residual images from the transformation of sunbeams streaming through leaves on the road, the work encapsulates the memory of the first glyph or drawing; and by using everyday materials such as silver markers and spray paint, graphite and stones that he has picked up in front of his residence, alongside cast aluminium, he pursues an alternative archaeology which links past, present and future.
www.wimbledon.arts.ac.uk/wimbledonspace
Posted on 1 August 2011
Sonia Boyce – The Future is Social
Sonia Boyce – The Future is Social
Dates: 3 May – 31 May 2011
Private View: 5 May / 17.00 – 20.00
Venue: Wimbledon Space, Wimbledon College of Art, Merton Hall Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 3QA
The exhibition presents collaborative work, arising from a two-week experimental residency between artist Sonia Boyce and post-graduate students and researchers across Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges of Art.
Posted on 5 April 2011
The Drawing
Private View: Thursday 24 March 2011 / 17.00 – 20.00
Open: Friday 25 March – Friday 8 April (Mon – Fri 10.00 – 17.00)
Venue: Wimbledon Space, Wimbledon College of Art, Merton Hall Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 3QA
‘the drawing.’ show reveals the extensive efforts of four aspiring curators on a mission to purchase their first collectively owned artwork. Operating as ‘The Drawing Collective’*, the four members have fully embraced the spirit of collaboration by eating, working and practically living together. Like the first clue in a prolonged treasure hunt, the starting point given for the exhibition was “to reflect on Wimbledon College of Art’s focus on drawing and expanded notions of the archive.”
Over the last five months, every attempt at coming closer to acquiring the elusive artwork, has been categorically recorded and filed. Hundreds of emails, photographs, receipts, books, catalogues, letters, statements, arguments, unfortunate and happy accidents, every detail, nailed to the wall.
Curators, artists, archivists, collectors, interviewers, managers, negotiators?
‘the drawing.’ An exhibition about exhibiting.
*The Drawing Collective was formed in November 2010 by four students on the MA Curating course at Chelsea College of Art and Design. The four members are Manca Bajec, Michele Drascek, Emma Moore and Milia Xin Bi. For more information on the collective please visit - www.forthedrawing.blogspot.com or email - forthedrawing@gmail.com.
Posted on 18 March 2011
Footprints Across Fresh Snow
Footprints Across Fresh Snow: Drawing and Mark Making Across Disciplines
Private View: 27 January 2011, 17.00 – 20.00
Dates: Friday 28 January – Friday 4 March
Venue: Wimbledon Space, Wimbledon College of Art, Merton Hall Road, SW19 3QA
Footprints Across Fresh Snow explores drawing for a purpose. It focuses on process, ideas, and cross-disciplinary dialogues that centre on communicating ideas to an audience, client or user. The exhibition brings together drawings by practitioners from the disciplines of facial reconstruction, ceramics, jewellery design, architecture, illustration, graphic design and performance. In doing so, it stimulates connections between practices and subjects through drawing. The exhibition of diverse drawing practices will set the context for the new MA Drawing (subject to validation) course at Wimbledon College of Art.
Live events programmed for the opening event include Katherina Radeva’s ‘Fallen Fruit – now here, now gone’ and Jeremy Radvan’s ‘Theatre Optique’.
The exhibition is curated by Simon Betts, Kelly Chorpening, Stephen Farthing RA, Trevor Hewett and Michael Pavelka.
Posted on 17 January 2011
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