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.
Mindful of Silver
An exhibition by twelve leading contemporary British silversmiths. Each craftsperson has a different philosophy and approach to their craft, and diverse making processes.
Venue: Goldsmith’s Hall, Foster Lane, London EC2V 6BN
Admission: Free
When: Monday – Saturday, 10 – 5pm. Friday 27th May – Saturday 16th July.
eStream is the University Library’s system for digitally recording television and radio broadcasts. You can view programmes via a web browser similar to the way you would watch YouTube.
Access eStream on and off campus at http://www.estream.ucreative.ac.uk
For off campus use, please use your standard UCA computer login.
On campus you should not need to log in unless you are using Firefox or Safari.
If you have any comments or questions about eStream, or would like to recommend any TV or radio programmes that you would like us to record, please contact the Visual Resources team at libraryvr@ucreative.ac.uk
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.
London’s biggest names and brightest talent will be opening their doors to celebrate London Jewellery Week. There will be fashion shows, collection launches, gallery exhibitions, seminars and street festivals.
For details of events, visit the website: www.londonjewelleryweek.co.uk
Are you a marginal or self-taught artist? Do people call your work strange, amateurish, obsessive, even ugly? Have you received a calling to depict new worlds? Or inherited a book of hand-drawn doodlings? Or are you simply an artist with a disability, whose creativity has yet to be discovered?
If this sounds like you, or someone you know, we exhort you to submit a work on paper or modest canvas to Exhibition #2 to be held on May 14th, 15th and 16th 2010 at London’s Tate Modern.
Exhibition #2 is open to all non-professional, non-traditional and non-exhibited artists – living or dead – to their relatives and representatives and even to owners of anonymous artworks.
To enter, mosey on down to Tate Modern and have your work eyeballed by their bawdy Board of Trustees. Successful works will be displayed inside the Turbine Hall for the duration of the exhibition and may be published in a book of the show and invited into the museum’s permanent collection.
Please, we’re on our knees, don’t miss this golden opportunity. For the ins and outs of it all, email everytate@gmail.com or click just here.
Find the board of trustees at Tate Modern at these times;
Friday 14th May 2010 – 10:00am until midnight
Saturday 15th May – 10:00am until midnight
Sunday 16th May – 10:00am until 6:00pm
More information about Tate Moderns 10 year anniversary can be found on the following websites:
This exhibition at Contemporary Applied Arts brings together six critically acclaimed UK makers working in the fields of textiles, jewellery, ceramics and lettercarving. The works explore the relationships between drawing and making as different by equally vital forms of embodied thinking.
When: 7 May – 12 June 2010
Where: Contemporary Applied Arts, 2 Percy Street, London, W1T 1DD
For more information: www.caa.org.uk
The Business of Fashion has listed their top 10 fashion films of the season .
At no 1 the have chosen FRED BUTLER “SUNSHOWERS” by Elisha Smith-Leverock with the following motivation; There is a hypnotic, sharply focused beauty about Fred Butler and Elisha Smith-Leverock’s film “Sunshowers” that makes it dance through your head long after you’ve seen it. Created for A Shaded View on Fashion Film in response to a one-word brief (“Light”) from Diane Pernet, the film uses ritualistic movements, flashes of golden sunlight, and rhythmic soundtrack to perfectly heighten the experience of stunning accessories and headpieces by Fred Butler and Rosy Nicholas for Fred Butler. We think the film feels primal and utterly elegant, timeless and contemporary — all in the same breath.
“Sunshowers” premieres at ASVOFF on May 25 in Milan.
Japanese silversmith Hiroshi Suzuki will give an illustrated talk about his life and his career as a ground-breaking silversmith. The talk complements the exhibition being held at the Goldsmiths’ Company in London between 8th February and 6 March 2010.
Where: Goldsmiths’ Company, Foster Lane, London EC2V 6BN
When: February 16 2010, 18.00 – 19.00
Admission: Free
To book your place, email: promotion@thegoldsmiths.co.uk
Exhibition at Contemporary Applied Arts:
This year CAA is hosting a Christmas selling exhibition that focuses on unlocking the mysteries of gift giving. Featuring some of the UK’s most celebrated designers and makers working in glass, metal, ceramics and textiles.
Where: Contemporary Applied Arts, 2 Percy Street London, W1T 1DD
When: 19 November 2009 to 16 January 2010
