2013/7 2013
21st Century: Graduate Screening - Chisenhale Gallery
Lucy Beech, Jenna Bliss, Ren Garden, Michal Rubin, Marianna Simnett and Sophie Cundale are showing in 21st Century: Graduate Screening at Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ, at 7pm on Thursday 29 August 2013. See www.chisenhale.org.uk.
Jo Volley wins Provost's Teaching Awards 2013
Congratulations to Senior Lecturer Jo Volley one of the winners of this year's Provost's Teaching Awards. The
Awards were set up to celebrate the best of
pedagogic prowess at UCL and to reward staff who are making outstanding
contributions to the learning experience and success of our students. See www.ucl.ac.uk.
Larry Achiampong and Brian Shimkovitz - Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern
Larry Achiampong and Awesome Tapes From Africa founder Brian Shimkovitz will be in conversation about their recent projects and approaches to collecting, producing and presenting music from Africa at the Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG, at 6pm Friday 2nd August 2013.
Laura Cooper - A Hunt NYC
A Hunt NYC, an intervention by Laura Cooper, is happening in Soho, New York City, from 10.30pm - midnight on Saturday 3 August 2013. See www.lauracooper.co.uk/index.php/project/a-hunt-ny for instructions.
Benedict Drew - The Onesie Cycle
Benedict Drew is showing The Onesie Cycle at Two Queens, 2 Queen Street, Leicester, LE1 1QW, from 9 - 31 August 2013. This coincides with a newly commissioned exhibition and online artwork at Phoenix, 4 Midland Street, Leicester LE1 1TG, from 9 August - 7 September 2013. See www.2queens.com and www.phoenix.org.uk.
Sinta Tantra - The Eccentricity of Zero
Sinta Tantra is showing The Eccentricity of Zero, a new sculpture to celebrate the work of female sculptors, marking the second year of the collaboration between the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the Royal British Society of Sculptors. The sculpture is on display in Napoleon Garden, Holland Park, London W8 6LU, from 20 May - 4 November 2013. See www.rbs.org.uk/exhibitions.
Booking now open for Slade Summer School Courses
Booking is now open for Slade Summer School Courses from July - September 2013. See www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/shortcourses.
New British - The Lloyd's Club
Ernesto Canovas, Yun Kyung Jeong, Alec Kronacker and Nadine Mahoney are showing in New British 2013 at Lloyd's Club 42 Crutched Friars, London EC3N 2AP, from 5 July - 12 September 2013. See www.lloydsclub.co.uk.
William Coldstream Memorial Prize 2013
The Slade School of Fine Art is delighted to announce that Motoko Ishibashi and Mariana Simnett are recipients of this year's William Coldstream Memorial Prize. This is an annual purchase prize which enables UCL Art Museum to acquire work by Slade School of Fine Art Students, recognizing a student's particular excellence in any medium.
Case Study #1 - Taipei Contemporary Art Center
Yva Jung is participating in Case Study #1, at Taipei Contemporary Art Center, No.19-1, Andong St., Da’an Dist., 10666 Taipei, from 2 - 6pm on Saturday 27 July 2013. See www.tcac.tw/?p=2447.
KALEID 2013 - The Art Academy
Artist's books by Oona Grimes and Sophie Lascelles, Vanessa Visual and Virginia Verbal (Connie Butler and Lauren Godfrey) and John Walters are on sale at KALEID 2013 at The Art Academy, Mermaid Court, 165A Borough High Street, London, SE1 1HR on Saturday 20th July, 11am-7pm. See www.kaleideditions.com/eshop/.
Hatchepsut's Handbag - Vitrine at Shortwave Cinema
John Walter has curated Hatchepsut's Handbag at Vitrine at Shortwave Cinema, 10 Bermondsey Square, London SE1 3UN . The screening will include a film by alumna Anna Bunting-Branch. See www.vitrinegallery.co.uk.
John Walter - Arch Studentship
John Walter has been awarded an AHRC Studentship in the department of Architecture and the Built Environment at Westminster University; his research project is titled ‘Alien Sex Club – How architecture affects the mind and body in cruising and alternatives to antiretroviral therapy’. See www.openresearchwestminster.org.
«A Tri«Lick» - Peer Gallery
Sarah Bowker-Jones is showing in «A Tri«Lick» at Peer, 97 & 99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL, from 20 July - 14 September 2013. See www.peeruk.org.
Ceri Hands Gallery Summer Fete
Sarah Bowker-Jones, Rebecca Lennon and John Walter are showing at the Ceri Hands Gallery Summer Fete on Saturday 17 August 2013, 12noon - 6pm. See www.cerihand.co.uk.
Will Schneider-White
Will Schneider-White has been made a fellow of Hamiltonian Gallery, 1353 U Street NW, Suite 101, Washington, DC 20009. He will be showing alongside four other new fellows in new. (now) in August 2013. See www.hamiltonianartists.org.
The Golden Boys - Latitude Festival
The Golden Boys, a nine-piece band, including alumni Tom Clark and Dante Rendle Traynor, are playing at Latitude Festival, Henham Park, Southwold, Suffolk, from Thursday 18 - Sunday 21 July 2013. See www.latitudefestival.com.
The Golden Boys AAA Side EP is coming out soon... as previewed on YouTube.
Holly Hendry wins Woon Tai Jee Art Fellowship
Holly Hendry has won the Woon Tai Jee Art Fellowship,
funded by art collector Wee Teng Woon and hosted by Northumbria University, for her artwork R255 G145 B175. She will use the £20,000 bursary to fund her fellowship at the BxNU Institute for
Contemporary Art at the Baltic Arts Centre, in Gateshead, for the coming
academic year. See www.northumbria.ac.uk.
Carey Young - Let the World Speak for Itself
Carey Young has a solo exhibition, Let the World Speak for Itself, at Le Quartier, 10 esplanade François Mitterrand, 29000 Quimper, France, from 25 May - 15 September 2013. See www.le-quartier.net/Carey-Young,904.
Leverhulme Arts Scholarship awarded to Maria Teresa Ortoleva
Slade student Maria Teresa Ortoleva is one of only 15 students to be selected as a Leverhulme Arts Scholar. The residency which will take place this year at Wysing Arts Centre near Cambridge runs from 15 July - 23 August 2013.