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News 2012

Daniel Preece is among the artists taking part in One Hundred Plus Draw, a show of a hundred artists at The Cello Factory, 33-34 Cornwall Rd, London SE1 8TJfrom Tuesday 2 October - Thursday 4 October, 2 - 6pm. Each artist has donated a work that will be bought through a lottery ticket (tickets are still available at £100 each) and the draw takes place at 6pm on Thursday 4 October. The owner of the first number drawn will have the choice of the entire exhibition and the draw will continue until the number of tickets sold has been reached. See www.thelondongroup.com.

The video London Art in the Jazz Age 1919-1939 featuring work by past alumni is online on http://youtu.be/KlFBqBQ6ttE. Dr Caroline Bressey and Dr Gemma Romain (UCL Geography) are examining what art during the inter-war period can tell us about the experience and identities of Black and Asian people at the time. The AHRC-funded project, Drawing over the Colour Line: Geographies of art and cosmopolitan politics in London 1919 - 1939, will result in a freely accessible database of details of the artworks created which represent Black people and those created by Black people based in Britain during this time. The project wants to find any artwork by inter-war period London artists featuring Black or Asian models. Many Slade students at the time would have drawn and painted Black and Asian models, so please get in touch with the organisers if you have any relevant information. The project is holding an open day on 20 October 2012 for people to bring or discuss this artwork. See
http://drawingoverthecolourline.wordpress.com/london-art-in-the-age-of-jazz/.

Ciao! Compost (Nastja Rönkkö,  Anna Bunting-Branch and Kate Lepper) is the latest in a series of experimental performative encounters between diverse artistic methodologies and aesthetics. Ciao! Compost will present three new works each involving a live video/audio link with Quebec, during which the day will dawn from darkest Canadian night. They are:
4 October 2012, 5 – 8pm: Club 27 by Nastja Rönkkö
5 October 2012, 10am – 2pm: Suomi Missi (Bim Bum) by Anna Bunting-Branch
6 October 2012, 10am – 2pm: A Beginners Guide to Psychic Archiving by Kate Lepper
at Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland. See www.kiasma.fi.

Liz Rideal has contributed the article Golden Years? which is included in the exhibition catalogue for Self-Portrait at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Gl. Strandvej 13, 3050 Humlebæk, Denmark.

Susan Collins is showing one of her Seascape prints at Inter Sections: Science in Contemporary Art, an exhibition about meeting points between science and art at the David Lopatie Conference Centre at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100 Israel from 22 September - 7 December 2012. Included are 60 works by 34 artists, including alumnus Conrad Shawcross, from around the world; each investigates various aspects of science, theory and technology: genetics, alternative energy, research into the nature of the universe and more. See www.susan-collins.net.

Ed Atkins has a solo exhibition Us Dead Talk Love at Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ from 21 September-11 November 2012. There is an artist's talk with Mike Sperlinger, Distribution Manager at Lux on Tuesday 30 October 2012, 7–9pm. See www.chisenhale.org.uk.

Graduate and undergraduate students from the Slade School of Fine Art present sculpture and performance, using a variety of media, to address scale, function, illusion, materiality and temporality. The spaces, features, architecture and foliage of the Square will become sites for large and small scale works that explore the cultural, social and imaginary worlds of the public garden. The exhibition will present works that explore the natural and the synthetic, the public and the private and the peripheral and the absurd. The event takes place at Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AG on Saturday 20 October 10:00-18:00 and Sunday 21 October 11:00-17:00. See www.bloomsburyfestival.org.uk.

Seán Hillen: Photographs from the North of Ireland 1979 - 1990 is showing at National Photographic Archive, The National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2 from 27 July- 30 September 2012. The National Library of Ireland has recently acquired 530 photos from Hillen to be held as a Permanent Collection; The Seán Hillen Collection, which comprises photographs taken in Northern Ireland between 1979 and 1990. See www.nli.ie .

Lisa Smithey is showing Bayou Banana at Hobbs, McLauglin Gallery, Flat 55, Balfron Tower, St Leonard's Road, London E14 0QS from 22 September 13 October 2012 by appointment only. See www.hobbsmclaughlin.com.

Ian Giles is showing Loop at New Gallery, 92 Peckham Road, London SE15 5PY from 19 - 23 September 2012, as part of a five-day programme of exhibitions and events across Peckham organised by Peckham Artist Moving Image. See www.pami.org.uk.

Kieren Reed - Social Sculpture
Kieren Reed - Social Sculpture, 2012

Kieren Reed - Social Sculpture

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Kieren Reed is showing Social Sculputre on Whitstable Beach as part of the Whitstable Biennale from 1–16 September 2012. See www.kierenreed.co.uk.

Social Sculpture will also be shown at UCL, Downstairs Gallery and the National Trust, Mottisfont.

Alumni Richard Bevan and Pip Dickens, staff member Jo Volley and PhD student Henrietta Simson (Simson&Volley) are showing in Brittle Crazie Glasse at Islington Mill, James Street, Salford M3 5HW from 21 September - 4 November 2012. See www.islingtonmill.com.

Martin John Callanan - Wars During My Lifetime
Martin John Callanan - Wars During My Lifetime, 2012

Martin John Callanan - Wars During My Lifetime

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Martin John Calllanan has created a new work for the Whitstable Biennale 2012, Wars During My Lifetime, which lists on newsprint all the wars that have taken place over his lifetime. The newspaper is available from Whitstable Library, Elliotts Coffee Shop, Tea & Times, and Harbour News, throughout the festival. From 2pm on Saturday 8 September 2012 the town crier will read the newspaper for a special one-off event.

Lindsay Seers: Nowhere Less Now, commissioned by Artangel, at the The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, London NW6 5BA from 8 September - 21 October 2012 (booking essential). See www.artangel.org.uk.