London Festival of Photography

Various venues in London
June 2012

In June 2012, London’s most celebrated venues (Museum of London, British Library, British Museum, Tate Modern, the V&A and more…) will play host to a world-class, city-wide celebration of photography as the London Festival of Photography returns for its second year.

Encompassing street, documentary and conceptual photography, the festival includes 18 exhibitions and 40 satellite events including workshops, talks and screenings.

Exhibitions include The Great British Public featuring contemporary British photographers such as Zed Nelson, Martin Parr and Simon Roberts, and an exhibition of photographs by Steve Bloom of 1970s apartheid-era South Africa.

Magic carpet takes off in Whitstable!

Last chance to see ‘Of Time and Place’, an exhibition of work by textile artists’ group 1n2textiles – on a theme of journeys – at the Horsebridge Gallery, Whitstable until Tuesday 15th November. The work of seven artists is on show, including large and small scale felt work by UCA Rochester Faculty Librarian Georgia Wyver.

Artstyle Gallery/Shop – Orpington

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

‘Forward’ at the Hazlitt Arts Centre, Maidstone

UCA Careers is pleased to announce ‘Forward’. Supported by the new UCASU Gallery Society and curated by UCA students Mane Branco, Nikitas Almpanis, Siobhan McManmon and Anthony O’Donnell. ‘Forward’ is running a series of mini exhibitions over 3 weeks, showcasing high calibre work from UCA students and alumni, held at the Grahame Clarke Gallery, Hazlitt Arts Centre.
 
As part of ‘Forward’, there will be a Professional Networking Event on 25th January 2011, 11am – 4pm, held in the Exchange Studio and the Fourth Wall at the Hazlitt Arts Centre, with access to the gallery exhibition on the day. The Professional Networking Event is to include talks from artists/organisations on portfolio skills, networking and start-up business initiatives as well as providing CV advice and sessions.
 
Both the exhibition and event day are free of charge with the event day being opened up to the general public as well as UCA students and alumni.

e-flux journal now available online!

E - Flux Journal is now available online.

GENERATE 2010 exhibition : Building Blocks at the Turner Contemporary

 

You are invited to the opening of this years Generate exhibition
Building Blocks, an exhibition of artwork made by artists and their children, inspired by the changing landscape. Building Blocks is open to the public from 14 August to 26 September 2010, Wed to Sun 10am-5pm. Free entry

More information about the exhibition is available on the Turner Contemporary website.

Turner Contemporary, Droit House, Stone Pier, Margate CT9 1HB

Mnemosyne by John Akomfrah showing at the BFI SouthBank Gallery

10 Jul 2010 – 30 Aug 2010

 

Mnemosyne is a new work by Black Audio Film Collective member and seminal filmmaker John Akomfrah which was created as part of Made in England, a partnership initiative developed by Arts Council England and BBC English Regions.

Akomfrah was given access to the BBC’s television, film and sound archives for Made in England, a project that reflects how England makes art and art makes England.  He chose to focus on the experience of migrant labour in the West Midlands to create Mnemosyne, a poetic essay on the themes of memory and migration.

Akomfrah’s work questions memory and suggests the possibility for endless re-interpretation of historical events by interweaving archival footage from 1960-1981, with contemporary ‘portraits’ of Birmingham and extracts of new work filmed in a remote snowy landscape.

The Hand Drawn Map Association

This website is an ongoing archive of user-submitted maps and other interesting diagrams created by hand.  It is full of fascinating creative work, including visualisations of journeys, histories, connections, and the memories and emotions associated with place.  Often the maps achieve an elegant simplicity, through unusual use of scale or the paring away of  detail which would be unnecessary to the reader.

www.handmaps.org

Remarque, an exhibition of printmaking

Parasol unit presents Tabaimo

Tabaimo press release March 2010

 Parasol unit presents Tabaimo: Boundary Layer – an animation installation with talk by Prof Suzanne Buchan on 15th July 2010.　

An opportunity to see five installation works by Tabaimo, a critically acclaimed young Japanese animation artist, at London’s Parasol Unit Gallery 26 May – 6 August (Angel/Old Street tube station).

Her works are intimate and sometimes dark portrayals of Japanese domestic life, stylistically inspired by traditional Japanese prints and drawings, that thematise vulnerability, femininity, cultural critique and voyeurism.

Prof Suzanne Buchan, Director of the Animation Research Centre, will be giving one of a series of talks on Tabiamo’s work on 15th July 2010.

Parasol Unit Talks and Events flyer