CALL FOR ENTRIES – New York Photo Awards 2010

Submissions will be accepted until April 30, 2010.

The New York Photo Awards 2010 (NYPH’10) will once again honor talented photographers from all over the world whose exceptional work breaks new ground visually, intellectually, and aesthetically. The Awards will give these visual artists the opportunity to reach key decision makers in the photographic community and the editorial, fine art, and commercial worlds. All winning entries will also be automatically eligible for inclusion in the New York Photo Awards 2010 Annual.

Visit www.newyorkphotoawards.com for more information on how to submit.

Photography Exhibition by UCA Student Valerie Idowu

 

Valerie Idowu,  BA Hons Photography and Media Arts, will be showing her work  at the Innovation Centre Medway in Chatham on the 9th April between 6-9 pm.

Innovation Centre Medway , Maidstone road, Chatham, Kent, ME5 9FD

Time – an exhibition by Jane Padgham showing at the Georges House Gallery in Folkestone

Time – an exhibition by Jane Padgham

2nd – 14th April

10 – 5 Monday to Saturday

UCA staff member Jane Padgham will be presenting her BA (Hons) Art & Design graduation show in the form of a time-lapse film showing at the Georges House Gallery in Folkestone. 

Georges House Gallery, 8 The Old High Street, Folkestone, Kent, CT20 1RL

MetalkingG and Abbott/Wright/Lambert at Cafe Oto

8 pm Saturday 3rd April 2010

Small But Perfectly Formed and LUX present the UK premiere of two performances fuelled by an equal interest in improvisation, film, video and music.

MetalkinG:

Richarles Bronson – electric bass + toys and Riojim – 16mm films + projector manipulations

As well as:

Abbott/Wright/Lambert

Paul Abbott – video, Seymour Wright - saxophone and Ross Lambert - guitars

Riojim will also lead a 2-day workshop in no.w.here on flat printing, hand processing & creative projection. More info on the no.w.here website.

Cafe Oto
18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston Junction, London, E8 3DL

Tickets: £5 advance / £6 on door
Book online at www.cafeoto.co.uk

Stour Valley Arts and ArtSway are seeking to commission a UK based artist

Deadline 23 April 2010

Super Kingdom, 2008

Stour Valley Arts and ArtSway are seeking to commission a UK-based artist, working in any media, to produce a new body of work resulting from research undertaken in the locations of both commissioning partners. The artist will be given time and financial resources to explore and research the areas in question to produce at least one exhibition (scheduled at ArtSway in April 2011), with critical and practical support from ArtSway and Stour Valley Arts.For further information about ArtSway, and details about the commission, please contact: Peter Bonnell, Curator on peter.bonnell@artsway.org.uk

Previous commissions include Super Kingdom a development of new animal habitats within King’s Wood. These luxury homes are modelled on the imperious palaces of Stalin, Ceauscescu and Mussolini and offer nesting and over-winter sites to native and migrant species.

Noma Bar – Bitter Sweet

KK Outlet, 42 Hoxton Square, London
1st – 30th April 2010

Noma Bar’s work is simple yet striking. His witty editorial illustrations use the negative space of one image to form another, creating interlocking jigsaws of graphic forms.  The library at UCA Maidstone has recently purchased a copy of the new book, Noma Bar – Negative Space.

To find out more about the Noma Bar exhibition at KK Outlet, visit their website.

Manga Sweatshop Artists at the Maidstone Hazlitt Arts Centre

This is a rare chance to see Sweatshop Studios work in exhibition. Led by Emma Vieceli (winner of Tokyopop‘s first UK and Ireland Rising Stars of Manga competition), the ‘Sweatdrop Artists’ will be showing their anime storyboards.

Hazlitt Arts Centre – Fourth Wall
Thur 1 – Sun 25 Apr • 10am – 6pm 

 

The Sketchbook Pop-Up Shop: showcasing the work of key contributing illustrators

Wednesday 31st March – Monday 19th April 2010
Monday to Saturday: 10am-7pm, Sundays: 12noon-6pm

The Sketchbook Pop-Up Shop will run for 3 weeks following the launch of the second issue of Sketchbook Magazine and will offer visitors a chance to interact with a series of Sketchbook’s contributing guest bloggers, artists, designers, illustrators and editors who are all key figures in the contemporary fashion and arts community. These guests, including famous blogger Susie Bubble, will be holding scheduled educational workshops, lectures and discussions, which will be digitally streamed through an interactive live thread. A competition will also be running throughout, offering visitors the opportunity to submit illustrations to be used on the front cover of a future issue.

More details about the Sketchbook Pop-Up Shop can be found on their blog.

Sketchbook Pop-Up Shop, 10 Newburgh Street, Carnaby, London W1F 7RN.

Daisy de Villeneuve “In Her Shoes” showing at Liberty

Liberty is showcasing the illustrator Daisy de Villeneuve’s new exhibition “In Her Shoes”. The exhibition runs between the 29th March – 25th April, on the 4th Floor at the Liberty department store.

‘Me, You, Us, Them’ A project by Petra Bauer showing at the Focal Point Gallery

‘Me, You, Us, Them’
A project by Petra Bauer
27 March to 8 May 2010

Preview: Saturday 27 March 2pm to 4pm

For her first solo exhibition in the UK, the Swedish artist Petra Bauer will explore the history of UK film collectives from the 1970s and 1980s. Through ‘Me, You, Us, Them’, Bauer’s intention is to re-examine claims made by political filmmakers at this time, and bring the various issues that preoccupied the period’s practitioners into view against the concerns of contemporary artists.

The artist’s new film, co-produced by Focal Point Gallery and Lunds Konsthall, was shot in a television studio in Stockholm, and features an interview between Bauer and the well-known Swedish celebrity and journalist, Stina Lundberg Dabrowski

Focal Point Gallery, Southend Central Library, Southend-on-Sea