V&A Museum and other venues in London
17 – 25 September 2011
The London Design Festival is a city-wide celebration of design that takes place over nine days. There is a broad range of activities on offer, most of which are free to enter. Events taking place during the festival cover graphic design, furniture, interiors, fashion, and other design areas.
To find out more, please see the festival website.
UCA graduate Christina Lai is showing her ceramic doorknobs ‘Contaminated’ and a mixed media piece entitled ‘Chosen or Choice’ at Artstyle Gallery in the Walnuts Shopping Centre, Orpington, Kent until 3rd September.
Also on display are a diverse range of art forms including painting, printing, photography, ceramics, digital art, mosaic and bespoke painted furniture.
Follow the link for additional information about Artstyle: http://www.artadvisorstylist.com/default.html
Find out more about Christina’s work here: http://www.christinalaiceramics.co.uk/index.html
Deadline: February 18, 2011
The competition is open to anyone who is currently studying communication design, product design, architecture, interaction design or film at a university or a college is eligible to participate. Students who have graduated within the last 12 months may also submit final degree works.
All projects submitted to the : output competition will be eligible for the : output Grand Prix of 3,000 Euro.
More information about the competition is available on the : output competition website.
Last date of submission March, 15th, 2011
The theme of the first category Product package is „Package for a national product“. The second category Different View aims to attract attention of graphic designers and illustrators. The theme of this inspirational category has become “Book as a package for words“.
Entries sent by postal service will be accepted from participants registered through online registration form. High school, college, university students, and designers of up to 30 years of age can register in two categories: Product Package and Different View. With their entries, participants do not include any CDs or portfolios; they can use the registration form, which provides room for description.
More information about the competition and how to enter can be found on the Young Package website.
Deadline: 21 February 2011.
Jerwood Makers Open is part of Jerwood Visual Arts (JVA), a contemporary gallery programme of awards, exhibitions and events at Jerwood Space, which then tours nationally. Jerwood Visual Arts aims to promote and celebrate the work of talented emerging artists across the disciplines of drawing, painting, sculpture, applied arts, photography and moving image. It also aims to make connections and provoke conversations within and across the different disciplines.
More information about the Jerwood Makers Open is available on their website.
Friday 1 October – Submission Deadline
Salisbury Arts Centre’s National Open Submission Exhibition 2010 will focus on Making, with a particular emphasis on process and materials including those traditionally associated with craft-based skills such as wood, ceramic, textiles and metal as well as synthetic and recycled materials.
If you are a maker/artist aged 16 and over, you could see your work exhibited at Salisbury Arts Centre and be in with a chance to win £200. Explore the Salisbury Arts Centre website for further information and to Download the Submission Form now.
The selection panel will include Katy Bevan (Crafts Council), Syann van Niftrik (Studio Jeweller) and Simon Barber (Evolver Magazine).
The 5th Whitstable Biennale will open on Saturday 19 June 2010 on Whitstable’s main beach at 12 noon. The Biennale has commissioned major new works, all of which explore different aspects of performance and film. For two weeks the seaside town of Whitstable will be transformed into a centre for contemporary art.
See the Whitstable Biennale 2010 calendar online for the main festival programme.
Special performances and talks on Saturday June 19 2010:
12.00-13.00
Main launch on the beach, with Whitstable Brewery Ale, at the Biennale HQ next to the Royal Native Oyster Stores, Horsebridge Rd CT5 1BU.
14.15-15.45
UR-NOW: The Ruins of the Contemporary. Talk at the Sea Cadets Hall by Brian Dillon with some of the artists from the film programme he has curated for this year’s festival
16.00-16.45
67 Made in Heaven, Luciennne Cole choreographs a performance at the Oxford Bingo Hall
17.00-18.00
Social History and Telling Tales, Karen Mirza & Ruth Beale host a screening of vintage films with local historian and collector Tony Blake at the Sea Cadets Hall
Whitstable Biennale full programme details : click here
The upmarket London store opens it’s first craft exhibition next month, entitled “Handmade”. The exhibition will showcase crafts by established British makers, as well as emerging talents such as Hitomi Hosono and other recent graduates from the Royal College of Art. Fortnum’s commissioned a piece by ceramicist Helen Beard especially for the show.
For further information, visit Fortnum’s website.
Where: First Floor, Fortnum & Mason’s, Piccadilly, London W1A 1ER
When: 22 April – 11 June 2010
Admission: Free
Creative Boom magazine is a national online magazine which aims to celebrate, inspire and support the creative industries.
Whether that’s design, illustration, web, art, crafts, music, film, animation, photography, writing, performing arts, fashion, architecture, interior design, digital, PR or marketing.
Creative Boom also has 24 regional e-zines called Creative Boom Hubs, celebrating and supporting creativity in different pockets of the UK. It also offers a free Creative Industries Jobs Board and Boom 101, online tutorials and tips for getting started in your career.
A new exhibition at Contemporary Applied Arts showing work inspired by the honey bee and the hive starts on Friday 26 March 2010. Twenty eight artist craftsmen and women have worked in their studios to create an exhibition of useful and decorative objects, aiming to demonstrate the “wonder of the bee” and how important bees are to humanities continuing survival.
Where: Contemporary Applied Arts, 2 Percy Street, London W1T 1DD
When: 26 March – 1 May 2010.
Entrance: Free.
