Ergin Çavuşoğlu – Crystal & Flame

PEER, London
16 September – 30 October 2010

Better Bankside Pop-Up space, London
29th September – 10th October 2010

artsdepot, London
4th – 15th October and
18th – 21st October 2010

‘Crystal & Flame’ is a new multi-channel installation by artist Ergin Çavuşoğlu. It comprises three sets of imagery: the flame grill at a Turkish café; a gem-cutter handling precious stones; and a group of actors rehearsing in a theatre space.

More information about the installation is available on the Free to Air website

Double Trouble at the Blyth Gallery

6 Oct 2010 to 5 Nov 2010
Mon – Sun: 9am – 9pm
5 Oct 6 – 8.30pm

 

Participating artists: Julie Cockburn, Richard Ducker, Neil Gall, Oona Grimes, Mindy Lee, Clare Mitten, Sue Sluglett, Paul Vivian

For Double Trouble, artist and curator Mindy Lee has brought together the work of eight contemporary artists, all of whom explore notions of the double, the uncanny, and of metamorphosis in their work. Transformations occur within all the works in the exhibition, in the form of duplication or splitting, of adaptation over time, or of shifts in meaning and perception.

Blyth Gallery, Level 5, Sherfield Building, Imperial College, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2 AZ

e-flux journal now available online!

E - Flux Journal is now available online.

Raymond Briggs audio slideshow

In an audio slideshow produced for The Guardian newspaper website,  Raymond Briggs talks about his accidental career in children’s fiction, the joys of illustrating nursery rhymes and why Ethel and Ernest remains his favourite book.

You can watch the slideshow here.

Mapping Stereotypes: The geography of prejudice by Yanko Tsvetkov

Yanko Tsvetkov, a freelance graphic designer, illustrator and photographer has a very interesting and funny project concerning maps and prejudice on his webpage. Well worth a look for inspiration!

Kathryn Spreadbury wins New Talent award

Kathryn Spreadbury, who graduated from the BA Illustration course at University for the Creative Arts, Maidstone, in 2009, has just won the prestigious New Talent award from the Association of Illustrators.

Kathryn won for her Urban Jungle series of images, which was created with charcoal and acrylic inks, and is about the day in the life of a businessman in Canary Wharf and her own view of working in London.

You can see more of Kathryn’s work on her website.

Fall Out: War and Conflict in the British Council Collection showing at the Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury

2nd October – 13th November

Mon-Fri: 11am – 5:30pm

Sat: 12 noon – 5.30pm

 

Spanning over 90 years of artistic engagement with war and conflict, from Paul Nash’s energetic lithographs (1918) produced from his sketches of the front line at Ypres, to Mat Collishaw’s Deliverance Daguerreotype’s (2008) inspired by reportage images from the 2004 school siege in Beslan, Russia. Fall Out showcases works selected from the British Council collection by winner of the British Council’s international competition to find ‘The Fifth Curator’, Theodor Ringborg.

Sidney Cooper Gallery, St Peter’s Street, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2BQ

Jarman Award winner Lindsay Seers on Channel 4’s 3 Minute Wonders

Four new works by the winner of the 2009 Film London Jarman Award, Lindsay Seers, will air on 27,28,29 and 30 September at 10.55 pm on Channel 4′s acclaimed 3 Minute Wonders.
Seers, who won the commission as part of the Award last year, uses a dark combination of performance, film and installation to interweave history, literature and philosophy in works founded on strange truths. For her 3 Minute Wonders commission, Seers has produced four films that chart aspects of her life and artistic practice, related through a myriad of tales told by those who have known her.

EDMUND CLARK, Guantanamo: If the light goes out & Letters to Omar showing at Photofusion

1 October – 26 November 2010

 

Guantanamo: If the light goes out illustrates three experiences of home: the naval base at Guantanamo which is home to the American community, the complex of camps where the detainees have been held, and the homes where former detainees, never charged with any crime, now find themselves trying to rebuild their lives. Interspersed with these images is Letters to Omar, a selection of cards and letters sent from around the world to Brighton resident Omar Deghayes during his five years of captivity at the Guatanamo Bay detention camps.

More information about the exhibition is available on the Photofusion webpage.

Photofusion, 17a Electric Lane, London, SW9 8LA

Chico and Rita trailer

Chico and Rita is a new animated film by Fernando Trueba, Oscar- winning director of Belle Époque, and Javier Mariscal, a Spanish artist and graphic designer.  The film is a visually stunning story of romance and music set in Havana, New York, Paris and Las Vegas during the 1940s and 50s.

The film won’t be released in the UK until the 19th November 2010, but in the meantime you can check out the trailer below.