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Marcia Farquhar's Flaxman Exchange 11-16 March 2013
Alumna Marcia
Farquhar's Flaxman Exchange is UCL Art museum's inaugural Flaxman Gallery
artist commission. Artist Marcia Farquhar will lead, or mislead, a tour of
the newly refurbished Flaxman Gallery and other significant spaces of UCL.
Performances are as follows:
Monday 11 March 2013, 6:30pm
Tuesday 12 March 2013, 6:30pm
Wednesday 13 March 2013, 6:30pm
Thursday 14 March 2013, 4pm
Thursday 14 March 2013, BSL performance, 6:30pm
Friday 15 March 2013, 6:30pm
Saturday 16 March 2013, 8pm
The performances are free but booking is required. Book now on Eventbrite as spaces are limited:
Big Egg Hunt - Covent Garden
MFA Painting students Cecily Tattersall and Sarah Cameron and alumna Hannah Luxton have eggs on show in The Big Egg Hunt, which is in St Enoch Square, Glasgow from 15 - 20 March 2013 and Covent Garden, London from 22 March - 1 April 2013. The event, which has toured Britain, features eggs by 100 British artists who have been chosen to design and paint/decorate eggs that will be auctioned in aid of Action for Children.
Works on Nature & Dance/Movement - Riverside Studios
Hiroko Imada has a solo exhibition, Works on Nature & Dance/Movement at Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, London W6 9RL, from 16 March - 7 April 2013. The exhibition forms part of the celebrations for the 400th anniversary of Japan-British Relations. See www.riversidestudios.co.uk and www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp.
Be a Man!
Ali Kazim is showing in Be a Man! at Sumarria Lunn, 36 South Molton Lane, Mayfair, London W1K 5AB, from 14 March - 19 April 2013. See www.sumarrialunn.com.
Zineb Sedira - The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part V
Zineb Sedira: The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part V, is showing at Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr University, 1399 Johnston Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, from 13 March - 21 April 2013. See http://chscott.ecuad.ca/.
Slade Archive in UCL News
There is an article about the Slade Archive Project, between the Slade School of Fine Art and UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, on www.ucl.ac.uk/news.
Transformism: Melanie Jackson & Revital Cohen
Melanie Jackson is showing The Urpflanze (Part 2) in Transformism at John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ from 22 January - 9 March 2013. See www.hansardgallery.org.uk.
Elisa Sighicelli - Gagosian Geneva
Elisa Sighicelli is showing at Gagosian Geneva, 19 place de Longemalle
1204 Geneva, Switzerland, from 12 March - 4 May 2013. See www.gagosian.com.
We Object! - Aid and Abet, Cambridge
Benedict Drew has curated We Object! featuring work by alumni Angus Braithwaite, Nicholas Brooks, Benedict Drew and Rebecca Lennon, plus text by Phil Thompson at Aid and Abet, The Station, CambridgeCB1
from 15 March – 13 April 2013. See http://aidandabet.co.uk/current .
Possession - Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre
Professor Susan Collins and Tintin Cooper are showing in Possession at Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre, 8th Floor Gallery, 939 Rama 1 Road, Pathurnwan, Bangkok, from 14 March - 5 May 2013. See http://en.bacc.or.th.
Annual Conference for the British Association of South Asian Studies - Amna Malik
Dr Amna Malik is giving a paper, Islamic art and modernism, aesthetics as nation building in Anwar Jalal Shemza's paintings of the 1950s and 1960s, at The Annual Conference for the British Association of South Asian Studies at the University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, 3-5 April 2013. See www.basas.org.uk.
Background - David Blandy
David Blandy is showing Background at Seventeen, 17 Kingsland Rd, London E2 8AA, from 20 February - 23 March 2013. See www.seventeengallery.com.
Eva Stenram - Drape
Eva Stenram is showing Drape at Ravestijn Gallery, Westerdoksdijk 603-A,
1013 BX Amsterdam, from 9 March - 14 April 201. See http://theravestijngallery.com.
Drape is also showing at Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography, where Eva Stenram is one of the finalists for the photography prize. The exhibition is at Villa Noailles, Montée Noailles, 83400 Hyères from 26 -29 April 2013. See www.villanoailles-hyeres.com.
Mark Barker at Locomotion
Mark Barker as a solo show at Locomotion, 92 Lower Clapton Road,
London E5 0QR from 9 - 30 March 2013. Locomotion is a new project space in Clapton, London, initiated by Slade Alumni Anna Bunting-Branch, Mark Barker, Alec Kronacker, Nicole Morris, Terence McCormack and Edward Thomasson.
Lisa Milroy - Geisha Grooming
Lecturer Lisa Milroy is showing a short animation, Geisha Grooming, which she made with film-maker Paul Bush, at the Paul Bush Compilation at 4pm on Sunday 10 March 2013 at the ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH. See www.ica.org.uk.
Black Maria Showcase
Holly Slingsby is among the artists performing in the Black Maria Showcase, an evening of of seven different performances ranging from video art, performing and music, urban and folk musicians, from 9.00 - 11.30pm on Wednesday 6 March 2013 at Black Maria in the The Crossing, 1 Granary Square, King's Cross, London N1C 4AA. Black Maria is a major new commission by Richard Wentworth and the architectural practice GRUPPE. See www.kingscrossevents.co.uk.
Joe Bampton
We are saddened to learn of the passing of Joe Bampton who graduated from BA Fine Art Media in 1996. A tribute can be found on www.telegraph.co.uk.
A Conversation with Lorenza Mazzetti - EVENT FULLY BOOKED
A Conversation with Lorenza Mazzetti, including rare screenings of her two London films K (1954) and Together (1956) is taking place at Birkbeck Viewing Theatre, 46 Gordon Square, London WC1 0PH, from 3.00 - 5.30pm on Thursday 14 March 2013. Please note that the event is fully booked.
Skin in the Game
Alumnus Sean Hillen has participated in Donald Taylor Black’s new Irish Film Board-funded documentary, Skin in the Game, which examines
the current financial crisis through responses of a number of artists
who are using it as subject matter for their work. The film will be screened at the Irish Film Institute, 6 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 at 6.30pm on Tuesday 12th March 2013. See www.ifi.ie/film/skin-in-the-game.
Provost's Portrait Competition
Martine Poppe is the winner of the Provost's portrait competition, to commemorate the end of UCL Provost Malcolm Grant's term of office, funded by UCL alumnus Mr Vincent Cheung. The result was announced on 25 February 2013.
The competition, which was open to students and recent graduates of the Slade School of Fine Art, took the form of a sketching session last summer, from which five finalists were chosen: paintings by Martine Poppe, Ishai Rimmer, Sorcha Williams, a photograph by Thomas Jenkins and embroidered panel by Tom Worsfield.
See https://twitter.com/SladeSchool for photographs of the finalists.