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The Silence that Lives in Houses - Cooke Latham Gallery
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Francisco Rodriguez has a solo exhibition, The Silence that Lives in Houses, at Cooke Latham Gallery, 41 Parkgate Road, SW11 4NP, from 9 September - 15 October 2021. See the Cooke Latham Gallery website.
The Auguries - Informality Gallery
Images from left to right: Diane Chappalley, I cannot carry this body with me, it is too heavy, 2021, oil on flax, 170 x 220 cm, Anna Reading, Feeding Frenzy (part 3), 2020, Concrete, shells, sand, bitumen, wire, chip forks, gloves, board, metal, 128 x 70 x 45 cm
Diane Chappalley and Anna Reading are showing in The Auguries at Informality Gallery, 11 Market Place , Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire RG9 2AA, until 26 September 2021. See the Informality website for further details.
Images from left to right: Diane Chappalley, I cannot carry this body with me, it is too heavy, 2021, oil on flax, 170 x 220 cm, Anna Reading, Feeding Frenzy (part 3), 2020, Concrete, shells, sand, bitumen, wire, chip forks, gloves, board, metal, 128 x 70 x 45 cm
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021
Congratulations to alumni Frances Aviva Blane, Euan Gray, Roland Hicks and Sheila Gaffney who have been shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021. See the Trinity Buoy website.
Praying for Tokyo - Well Temperament - Tokyo Biennale 2020-21
Praying for Tokyo - Well Temperament by Shino Yanai is showing at the Tokyo Biennale, Yushima Seido (17th century Confucian temple, national historic site), from 2 August - 5 September 2021. See the Tokyo Biennale website for details.
Kirin Crooks - Ones to Watch, Elephant
Kirin Crooks
Read the feature on recent graduate Kirin Crooks, "Ones to Watch: Elephant’s Pick of This Year’s Most Exciting Art School Graduates", Elephant, 23 July 2021.
Image: 155 BC, Kirin Crooks, 2021, charcoal and acrylic on canvas, 100 x 80 cm, © the artist
A Resonant Chamber - springseason
installation shot, springseason, London
Gillies Adamson Semple has a solo show, A Resonant Chamber at springseason, Arch 5, 47 Martello Street, E8 3PE, from 24 July - 15 August 2021. See the springseason website.
Served - Sarabande Foundation
Alumnus Arthur Poujois is showing in Served, The Sarabande Summer Group Show 2021, 12 August - 2 September 2021.
This is an opportunity for the public to see what the artists-in-residence have been creating in their year at Sarabande.
Arthur Poujois' Artist Takeover with Evie O'Connor takes place on 2 September.
See the Sarabande Foundation website for further details.
Hyperobjects: Episode II - Year 0- online
Alumna Sophie Jeong has a solo online show, Hyperobjects: Episode II - Year 0, from 7 - 31 August 2021.
Hyperobjects: Episode II Year 0 is the second episode of
See: www.year0.art
Modern Conversations - Tate St Ives
Tacita Dean and Hayley Newman are showing in Modern Conversations at Tate St Ives, Porthmeor Beach, St Ives, Cornwall TR26 1TG. See the Tate St Ives website.
Slade Summer Show September 2021
James Keith
Our second summer show, featuring our 2020 graduating artists takes place from 4 - 14 September 2021, Monday - Saturday, 10am - 5:30pm, at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. Booking essential via UCL Ticketing.
Exhibition website: www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/events/shows/september-2021
Close To Home - JGM Gallery
Maria-Theresa Ortoleva and Hannah Luxton are showing in Close To Home, JGM Gallery, 24 Howie Street, Battersea, London SW11 4AY, 11 August – 11 September 2021. See the JGM Gallery website for details.
Michael Armitage in the Piccadilly Art Takeover
Michael Armitage's hanging canvasses are part of the Royal Academy of Arts and Art of London's 'Piccadilly Art Takeover', a free outdoor show along Piccadilly, London, from 21 July - 31 August 2021. See the Royal Academy of Arts website for details.
Art for Life: An exhibition made with key workers - Firstsite
Hayley Newman is showing in Art for Life: An exhibition made with key workers at Firstsite, Lewis Gardens, High Street, Colchester, Essex, CO1 1JH, from 17 May - 5 September 2021. See the Firstsite website.
vɛkst - SET New Cross
Alumnus Jos Nyreen is showing /vɛkst/, a one day exhibition on Sunday 1 August, 12-6pm, at SET New Cross, 52-54 New Cross Road, London SE14 5BD.
The exhibition includes work made with support from Svenska Kulturfonden (FIN).
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists 2021
Congratulations to Imran Perretta and Carey Young, who are amongst the recipients of 2021's Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists. See the Paul Hamlyn Foundation website for further information.
Testing Ground - UCL Art Museum
Testing Ground, part of the Slade's 150 celebrations, is showing at UCL Art Museum, South Cloisters, Wilkins Building, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, from 28 September 2021 - 10 June 2022. For further information see the UCL Art Museum website .
Phyllida Barlow: act - Highgate Cemetery
Installation view at Highgate Cemetery, London, A Studio Voltaire commission, Image courtesy of the artist
Emeritus Professor Phyllida Barlow's act, commissioned by Studio Voltaire, can be seen at The West Cemetery, Highgate Cemetery, Swain's Lane, London N6 6PJ, from 24 July - 30 August 2021. See the Studio Voltaire website for further details.
Phyllida Barlow studied at The Slade from 1963-66, and after joining the staff in the late 1980s, taught here until 2009.
Image: Phyllida Barlow, act, 2021, Installation view at Highgate Cemetery, London, A Studio Voltaire commission. Image courtesy of the artist.
Into Focus / RGB East in collaboration
Four Corners Into Focus projects and RGB East are delighted to present a collaborative exhibition of experimental photo works and animations at Four Corners Gallery from 28 July - 7 August 2021 at Four Corners Gallery, 121 Roman Road, London E2 0QN. See the Four Corners website for further details.
This intergenerational project enabled twelve younger and older Tower Hamlets residents to produce traditional black & white and colour photographs, alongside inverted digital colour prints. The process was supported by local artist Sarah Ainslie, plus artist Jo Guile (Slade School of Fine Art) and scientist Dr Emily Patterson (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) who set up RGB East to engage East London communities in the exploration of colour concepts.
Current Participants
Catherine Tuitt, Cheneil Campbell, Fatima Ali, Henry Kenyon, John Fowell, Kayra Jariby, Lena Nawrocka, Marie Sleigh, Sebastian Garraway, Sophie Baker, Tiannah Samuel, Veronika Casarova
Into Focus
Into Focus (2019-2023) is an intergenerational photography programme, FREE for Tower Hamlets residents aged 14-25 and over 50. The programme consists of seven 12-week projects, supporting 84 local people to foster positive connection across age groups.
Four Corners
Four Corners is an arts charity that believes in film and photography for all. We champion creative expression, education, and empowerment, and have been based in East London for almost 50 years.
RGB East
‘Red Green Blue East’ is a project featuring East London based artists. Working through a scientifically engaged photographic practice they explore their relationship with Tower Hamlets through colour. Using the RGB East website below, Jo Guile (Slade School of Art, UCL) and Dr Emily Patterson (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) have sought to engage East London communities in an exploration of the concept of colour. In a series of participatory curatorial workshops, the artists worked collectively as co-curators, coming together to craft an event that explores the scientific basis of colour and shares their subjective interpretations of colour in the local landscape.
Website: https://rgbeast.co.uk/
Partners
Into Focus is generously supported by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Local Community Fund, and Red Green Blue East is generously supported by a Beacon Bursary Grant from the Engagement Team, UCL Culture and UCL East.
BSR Online Lecture: Sustainable art practice for a sustainable world
BSR Online Lecture: Sustainable art practice for a sustainable world, on Friday 16 July 2021, (15:00-18:00 BST).
This event will take place via Zoom and requires advance registration. Please click here to reserve your place.
Organised by Susan Collins (UCL), Harriet O’Neill (BSR; RHUL) and Marta Pellerini (BSR)
How can artists flag the importance of political action on climate change? Leone Contini, Emma Critchley, Holly Hendry (Slade), John Gerrard and Onya McCausland (Slade) will discuss the power of art to draw attention to environmental degradation and ask how its production can be both sustainable and engage with wider sustainability initiatives, in relation to communities and place. One vital question will be whether it is the proper role indeed responsibility of the artist to draw attention to the importance of political action on climate change and do policy-makers listen?
James Leahy
We are sorry to hear of the passing of James Leahy, who was director of the Slade film unit from 1971 - 1983. See The Guardian (13 July 2021).