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News 2012

Her Eyes and My Voice: A Relationship in Ekphrasis' is a self published 71 page publication by Vanessa Visual and Virginia Verbal, distributed by Slade Press. It includes poems, images and essays by emerging and international artists, including Sharon Morris, responding to the relationship between the visual and the verbal in art making. See www.youtube.com.

Lecturer Jayne Parker, Professor Emeritus Bruce McLean and alumni David Blandy, Laura Cooper, Amy Cunningham, Mikhail Karikis and Dante Rendle-Traynor are showing in The Voice and the Lens, a festival and exhibition exploring the treasures of the human voice, conjured up for our eyes through film and performance, curated by alumnus Sam Belinfante (who is also exhibiting) and Third Ear.  The Voice and the Lens is at the Ikon Gallery, 1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham B1 2HS from 8 – 11 November 2012. See www.ikon-gallery.co.uk.

Amna Malik has contributed an essay on Kobena Mercer's writings on photographic artists of the African diaspora in Fifty Key Writers on Photography (ISBN-10: 0415549450 and ISBN-13: 978-0415549455) which is published by Routledge on 14 December 2012. See www.routledge.com.

Emma Hart - To Do is showing at CIRCA Projects, Stephenson Works, South Street, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3PE from 4 October to 1 December 2012. See http://circaprojects.org.

Breathe by Dryden Goodwin will be projected from the roof of St Thomas’ Hospital, London SE1, 6.30pm - 1am from 9 - 28 October 2012. The best view of this large scale outdoor video projection, which explores how air sustains us but also insidiously corrupts and damages our young, is from Westminster Bridge. See http://invisibledust.com. There is a talk, Turner Updated, by Dryden Goodwin from 2-4pm Tuesday 16th October, at Attlee Suite, Portcullis House, House of Commons, London SW1. For further details about the talk, see http://invisibledust.com.

The Slade MA/MFA Interim Show 2012 is showing at the Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB from 3-12 October 2012, weekdays only 10am - 5pm.

Thomson and Craighead - October
Thomson and Craighead - October, 2012

Thomson and Craighead - October

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Jon Thomson (Thomson and Craighead) are showing October, an artwork about the early rise and fall of the global Occupy movement in 2011, at the Brighton Photo-Biennale, Space @ Create, New England House, York Hill, Brighton
BN1 4GH from 6 October - 4 November 2012. See www.bpb.org.uk and www.thomson-craighead.net.

Aaron Angell, Benedict Drew, Sophie Michael and Jack Strange are showing in Young London at V22 Workspace, F-Block, The Biscuit Factory, 100 Clements Rd, London SE16 4DG from 23 September - 11 November 2012. See www.v22collection.com.

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.