We’re very pleased to announce that the design and curation of the pavilion will be undertaken by CSM students and staff. There will be two animations by students from MA Character Animation and two films by MA Communication Design students.

Each will be 129 seconds long, the average time a visitor spends in a Biennale pavilion. The theme of the films will be based on the proposal submitted by Jeremy Till, Head of College:

We live, Zygmunt Bauman tells us, in an age of liquid modernity. Labour, capital, time and commodities have achieved an unheard-of sense of fluidity as global flows of people, money, the virtual and goods dissolve previously stable conditions. And yet against this socio-temporal liquidity, space has apparently hardened, throwing up ever more rigid boundaries as the production of space is increasingly codified and commodified. The proposal for the UK pavilion at the Shenzhen Biennale investigates how a new generation of British architects, spatial agents and activists are challenging the fixity of boundaries and the regulation of space.

About the Shenzhen Biennale:

Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB) is currently the only bi-annual exposition in the world to be based exclusively on the set themes of city and urbanization. Co-organized by the two neighboring and closely interacting cities of Shenzhen and Hong Kong, UABB situates itself within the regional context of the rapidly urbanizing Pearl River Delta, concerns itself with globally common urban issues, extensively communicates and interacts with the wider public, is presented using expressions of contemporary visual culture, and engages international, avant-garde dimensions as well as discourses of public interest.

Find out more:
- Call for proposals
- Shenzhen Biennale website

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Cascade, Noemie Goudal. Lightjet Print, 168 x 210 cm, 2009

Noemie graduated with a degree in Graphic Design from Central Saint Martins in 2007 and has been awarded the coveted Prix HSBC pour la Photographie 2013, writes CSM BA Graphic Design graduate Susanne Bresges.

In just a few years Noemie has forged a very successful career as a photographer, exhibiting widely in Europe, the Americas and Asia and her work is being held in various collections, among them the Saatchi Gallery. Her evocative, dream – like images have been featured in many publications in the UK and abroad, among them The Sunday Times, Elle, The Creative Review, The World of Interiors, The Independent, Time Out. Noemie has also done shoots for Artworld, the Sunday Telegraph and Wallpaper.

Noemie recalls:

“at St Martins I was using the colour and black-and-white darkroom all day long and when I graduated … I only had pictures in my portfolio. I think that was the moment when I decided to go fully into photography; it appeared to be quite an obvious decision at the time.”

In the CSM photography department she is remembered for her conceptually interesting work, which grew more and more sophisticated as she progressed through the course and for her commitment to the medium of photography as a way to express complex ideas. The critical dialogue and support at Central Saint Martin’s paired with the necessary freedom allowed her to successfully navigate her own path and individual visual language. She is inspired by other people’s stories and recreates their narrative in singular, highly choreographed, large format images which steer along the intersection of action and reality.

Noemie, who was born in Paris, lives and works in London since 2002.

Find out more:
- Noemie Goudal’s website
- BA Graphic Design course page

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A dress from Rebecca Lefevre’s Oasis collection. Image courtesy Oasis.

Rebecca graduated from the Weave pathway of BA Textile Design in 2012 and was spotted by high-street fashion chain Oasis at New Designers exhibition.

Oasis have developed Rebecca’s fluorescent jaquards into a capsule collection, now available in stores and online. Oasis have interviewed Rebecca about her collection in a feature on the Oasis website.

Find out more:
- BA Textile Design course page

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Third year BA Textile Design Knit students Celestine Vinci, Danni Fairchild and Kate Anis have won the Wool School competition and will have their designs developed and manufactured by Lyle & Scott.

Wool School is an initiative from the Campaign for Wool, supported by the Prince of Wales. More than 100 students submitted designs for woollen sweaters to be manufactured and sold in stores to celebrate Wool Week, which runs from October 14-20. The competition is in it’s second year, with this year’s theme being “knitwear traditions of the British Isles”.

For this year’s competition, Christopher Raeburn, Margaret Howell, Barbour, Brora, Albam, Folk and Topman joined Marks & Spencer, Pringle of Scotland, Lyle & Scott, Topshop, Hobbs and Jigsaw as the labels who will work with the winning students to produce the sweaters.

Congratulations to Celestine, Danni and Kate!

Find out more:
- Wool School on Women’s Wear Daily
- Wool School on Vogue.co.uk
- BA Textile Design course page

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