News 2012
Grace Schwindt - Whitechapel Gallery
Grace Schwindt is showing Tenant at Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX on Thursday 28 June at 7pm, followed by a Q&A with artist and curator Ian White. See www.whitechapelgallery.org.
Transformation and Revelation: Gormley to Gaga. UK Design for Performance 2007 - 2011
Antony Gormley's design for Sutra is on show in Transformation and Revelation: Gormley to Gaga, UK design for performance 2007–2011 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL from 17 March 2012 – 30 September 2012. See www.vam.ac.uk.
Graham Gussin - Animated Environments
Graham Gussin is showing Animated Environments at Siobhan Davies Dance, 85 St George's Road, London, SE1 6ER from 4 May - 1 July 2012. He is in conversation with architect David Copperfield on Sunday 24 June at 2.30pm as part of the London Festival of Architecture. See www.siobhandavies.com.
CEL / Animate Projects Prints
Susan Collins, Simon Faithfull and Thomson and Craighead have contributed prints to the CEL/Animate Projects fundraiser aiming to keep the Animate Collection archive online. See www.animateprojects.org.
Melanie Jackson - Novel Forms and New Materialities
Melanie Jackson is speaking at the event Novel Forms and New Materialities at The Arts Catalyst, 50-54 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1M 5PS on Friday 22 June 2012. See www.artscatalyst.org.
Paulina Michnowska - Lost in Space Forever
Paulina Michnowska is showing Lost in Space Forever at George and Jørgen, 9 Morocco Street, London SE1 3HB from 8 - 30 July 2012. See www.georgeandjorgen.com.
Jana Bercelova - Institute of Making Studentship
Jana Bercelova, 1st year undergraduate sculpture, has been selected for an UCL Institute of Making summer studentship with Susanne Kuechler and Melanie Jackson as supervisors.
Dae Hun Kwon - Chalna
Dae Hun Kwon is showing Chalna at Rachmaninoff's, Smith/Arnatt, 25 Dalston Lane, London E8 3DF 7 June to 14 July 2012. See www.rachmaninoffs.com.
Lauren Godfrey selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2012
Graduating undergraduate Sculpture student Lauren Godfrey has been selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries. The exhibition is visiting Liverpool for the Liverpool Biennial in September and the ICA, London in November 2012. See www.newcontemporaries.org.uk.
Jon Thomson (Thomson and Craighead) Image Counter Image - Munich
Jon Thomson (Thomson and Craighead) are showing 'A short film about War' in 'Image Counter Image' at Haus der Kunst, Prinzregentenstraße 1, 80538 Munich from 10 June – 16 September 2012. See www.hausderkunst.de.
Julia Vogl wins 2012 Catlin Art Prize
The winner of the 2012 Catlin Art Prize is Julia Vogl, a 2011 graduate of the UCL Slade School of Fine Art. She is the sixth winner of the annual Catlin Art Prize, a competition showcasing the work of recent graduates of UK art schools. The award was in respect of her ‘social sculpture’ titled ‘Let's Hang Out’. The work invites visitors to create a communal area by selecting and affixing coloured carpet titles that colour-correspond with Julia's suggestions of various pastimes (such as ‘call Mum’, ‘tweet’, etc.). The work will evolve throughout the duration of the Catlin Art Prize exhibition while encouraging visitors to interact – and hang out. See www.artcatlin.com.
Turning Landscape into Colour - Provost's UCL Small Research Grant in Arts & Humanities
Jo Volley PI with Onya McCausland as Research Assistant have been awarded a UCL Small Research Grant to work in collaboration with Dr Ruth Siddall, Earth Sciences UCL and Dr Spike Bucklow , Senior Research Scientist, Cambridge University and author of The Alchemy of Paint. The research proposes to establish a unique physical connection between landscape, pigment and painting.
Degree Shows 2012
MFA/MA Fine Art Degree Show, Open to the Public: Saturday 9 - Sunday 10 June 10am - 5pm, Monday 11 - Thursday 14 June 10am-8pm
www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/degree2012
Grace Schwindt at Collective Gallery
Grace Schwindt is premiering her new film Tenant at Collective Gallery, 22-28 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1NY from 21 - 27 May 2012. She will also present a new live performance Glass and Honey on Sunday 22 April at 8pm. See www.collectivegallery.net.
Move on Up at Canary Wharf Screen
Susan Collins, Simon Faithfull and Dryden Goodwin are showing films in Animate Project's Move on Up programme at Canary Wharf Station, London E14 from June - August 2012. See www.animateprojects.org.
Martin John Callanan - London Open
Martin John Callanan is showing two works will be in the Whitechapel Gallery's London Open, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX from 4 July - 14 September 2012. See www.whitechapelgallery.org.
Tim Head nominated for Charles Wollaston Award
Recently retired lecturer Tim Head has been nominated for the prestigious Charles Wollaston Award for ‘The Most Distinguished Work’ in the Royal Academy
Summer Exhibition. The winner will be announced on The Culture Show, BBC2, on 15 June. See www.royalacademy.org.uk for further details about the Summer Exhibition.
Red Mansion Art Prize 2012
Teo Ormond Skeaping has been selected as the winner from Slade of the 2012 Red Mansion Art Prize.
Paul Winstanley - Lifelike
Paul Winstanley is showing in Lifelike, which is touring the New Orleans Museum of Art 10 November 2012 – 27 January 2013; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, from 24 February - 26 May 2013 and Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin from 23 June – 29 September 2013. See www.walkerart.org.
Paul Winstanley - Red T Shirt Grey
Paul Winstanley has a solo show, Red T Shirt Grey, at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, 6 Heddon Street, London W1B 4BT from 31 May to 30 June 2012. He will be in conversation with David Campany on Wednesday 20 June 2012 at 7pm. See www.houldsworth.co.uk.