Sunday 30 January 2011

Unveiled today new sculpture by artist Antony Gormley at Canterbury Cathedral

Angel of the North artist Antony Gormley uses old cathedral nails to create stunning new artwork
By Daily Mail Reporter

Unveiled today, the piece, called Transport, is suspended at the cathedral above the site of the first tomb of Thomas Becket, the archbishop murdered at the altar on December 29 1170.

The two metre-long work uses antique iron nails from the cathedral's repaired south east transept lead roof to construct a membrane outlining the space of a floating body.

The piece is suspended in the eastern crypt of Canterbury Cathedral in Kent, above the site of the first tomb of Thomas Becket. Gormley, who won the Turner Price in 1994, is best known for his works such as the Angel of the North and Another Place on Crosby beach

MOTHER AND CHILD - A PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION

Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London
Sat 29th January - Sat 5th February 10am-5pm daily

This exhibition is the result of a photo contest organised by Painted Children. For one month, people worldwide submitted their interpretations of the theme ‘Mother and Child’, as this is the main focus of the charity’s work. Out of over 1000 submissions, the 40 best photographs, including the winners, will be displayed.

Definitely worth a visit....

Artangel Longplayer Conversation 2011

The Artangel Longplayer Conversation 2011: John Gray and James Lovelock

RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects)
66 Portland Place
London W1B 1AD
7pm, 18 April 2011

BOOK TICKETS

The Artangel Longplayer Conversation 2011 introduces two of the world’s foremost modern thinkers: climate-scientist and ‘futurologist’ James Lovelock and political philosopher and author John Gray, who will embark on a discussion inspired by the philosophical implications of long time.

An annual event, The Artangel Longplayer Conversation invites two cultural thinkers to engage in a discussion inspired by the philosophical premise of Jem Finer’s Longplayer, a musical composition playing, in real time, over the course of an entire millennium. Commissioned by Artangel and launched in 2000, Longplayer suggests a projection of growth and change and a timescale beyond our lifespans

for more information: www.artangel.org.uk

Saturday 29 January 2011

Exhibition of photographs by Tim Flach

Lucy Bell Gallery exhibition of photographs by Tim Flach

Gallery Open Tuesday-Saturday 11am-4pm or by appointment on 01424 434828: 07979 407629

Lucy Bell Gallery is proud to present Dogs/Gods - an exhibition of photographs by Tim Flach, which celebrates the recent launch of his highly acclaimed new book Dogs/Gods. Shot in the aesthetic of fashion shoots, movie posters and celebrity portraits, these striking images are laden with visual drama, as Flach uses a unique photographic approach to create powerful and compelling work.

Tim Flach is an award-winning photographer who is perhaps best known for the originality he brings to capturing animal behaviour and characteristics, often exploring the close relationship between humans and other animals. A particularly strong focus is on how people impose and reveal their ideals when trying to understand and work with animals. Tim has published two books on animals, Dogs/Gods, and Equus, and has won many awards, heralding him as one of the UK’s most respected and exciting photographers.

The exhibition of around 20 photographs – some of them over 2m wide - is more than a showcase of dogs, big and small, flatcoat and frizzy haired. Through his photography, Tim explores the intimate relationship between man and dog. A closer look at many images, meanwhile, will raise to some potentially disturbing questions. The apparent alertness of the slick Dobermann, for example, is in actual fact due to his surgically altered ear shape, while the overgrooming of showcase dogs reveals an uncomfortable reminder of man imposing his will on the animal world.

Tim says he is interested in “how much we modify and manipulate nature”. Dogs, he insists, represent the oldest of the domesticated relationships and perhaps the most remarkable. “We have,” he says, “in part created them and they have in part created us”.

For more information and images, go to www.lucy-bell.com

46 Norman Road
St Leonards
TN 38 0EJ
01424 434828
07979 407629
www.lucy-bell.com
gallery@lucy-bell.com

Friday 28 January 2011

Salon Photo Prize Private View

Private View of the Salon Photo Prize will take place on Thursday the 3rd February, 2011 (18.30 - 21.00). 39 photographers have been selected from over 900 submissions. The participating photographers are:

Manuela Barczewski, Sara Bjarland, Richard Burton, Emma Crichton, Alex Currie, Julia Curtin, Marysa Dowling, Lisa Elmaleh, Valentina Ferrandes, Iulia Filipovscaia, Jo Gane, Marguerite Garth, Ben Gold, Isabelle Graeff, Julie Hill, Ellie Davies, Tess Hurrell, Mandy Lee Jandrell, Jordanna Kalmann, Özant Kamaci, Naima Karlsson, Yaron Lapid, EJ Major, Zoe Maxwell, Georgina McNamara, Kate Nolan, Ethna O'Regan, Vesna Pavlovic, Sever Petrovici-Popescu, Luca Sage, Carolyn Scott, Louise Short, Jayne Smith, Alison Stolwood, Jan Stradtmann, Carole Suety, Chiara Tocci, Philip Tottenham, Rachel Wilberforce

The Selector’s Prize winner will be announced at Midday on Saturday 5th February. The exhibition will continue from Friday to Sunday, 12.00 – 18.00 until Saturday 29th February. Please forward this invitation to anyone you think might like to attend.

Matt Roberts Arts, Unit 1, 25 Vyner Street, London, E2 9DG.

The Curlew win another award!

The Curlew named Sussex' Best Eating Experience!

What the owners Mark & Sara Colley had to say:

After 130+ restaurants entered and thousands of Sussex' finest voted, we are absolutely thrilled to report that The Curlew has been named The Sussex Food and Drink Awards' 'Best Eating Experience'.

We sat nervously last night, at the East Sussex National Golf Resort & Spa near Uckfield, ...awaiting the decision and when our name was read out, we literally jumped for joy!

The Curlew won Best Sussex Eating Experience, sponsored by a Taste of Sussex. The other finalist were Restaurant Tristan at Horsham & Simply Delicious at Bognor Regis. Congratulations to them both!

Clive Beddall OBE, Chairman of the Judges noted: “The Sussex Food & Drink Awards celebrate the exceptional standards of quality and innovation that have taken the county’s producers into the top half of the UK’s Premier League for locally produced food and drink."

The other winners were: Best Sussex Farmer's Market (Uckfield); Sussex Farmer of the Year (enny & Trevor Passmore, Church Farm, Coombes, Lancing); Best Sussex Food/Farm Shop s(Cheese Please, Lewes); Sussex Food Producer of the Year (Caroline's Dairy, Sidlesham); Sussex Drink Producer of the Year ( Dark Star Brewery, Horsham); Sussex Young Chef of the Year (Steven Edwards, South Lodge, Horsham); and Sussex Butcher of the Year (Tablehurst Farm Shop, Forest Row).

Congratulations to all the other winners - come and see us soon!

The Curlew Restaurant, Bodiam

Website:
http://www.thecurlewrestaurant.co.uk

Location:
Junction Road
Bodiam, United Kingdom, TN32 5UY

Thursday 27 January 2011

Towner, Eastbourne. Half term Workshops for children

Half term workshops for children


Fri 25 Feb 11am – 1pm (5 – 7 yrs)
Fri 25 Feb 2pm – 4pm (8 – 11 yrs)
£4 per child – booking essential
Make your own kimono or warrior armour out of paper, with a 21st century twist! – with artist Rachel Cohen.


  1. Towner The Contemporary Art Museum, Devonshire Park,  College Road, Eastbourne BN21 4JJ  Tel: +44 (0) 1323 434660

Wednesday 26 January 2011

Gilbert and George on the One Show! Wed 26th January

Gilbert and George


Book cover showing Gilbert (right) and George (left)

Gilbert & George are two artists who work together as a collaborative duo. Gilbert Proesch (San Martin de Tor, Italy, 17 September 1943) and George Passmore (Plymouth, United Kingdom, 8 January 1942) have become famous for their distinctive, highly formal appearance and manner and their brightly coloured graphic-style photo-based artworks.

Early life

Gilbert Proesch was born in San Martin de Tor in Italy, his mother tongue being Ladin rather than Italian. He studied art at the Wolkenstein School of Art and Hallein School of Art in Austria and the Akademie der Kunst, Munich, before moving to England. George Passmore was born in Plymouth in the United Kingdom, to a single mother in a poor household. He studied art at the Dartington College of Arts and the Oxford School of Art, then part of the Oxford College of Technology, which eventually became Oxford Brookes University.
The two first met on 25 September 1967 while studying sculpture at St Martins School of Art, now Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, one of six colleges in the University of the Arts, London. The two claim they came together because George was the only person who could understand Gilbert's rather poorly spoken English. In a 2002 interview with Daily Telegraph they said of their meeting: "it was love at first sight". They have claimed that they married in 2008.
For many years, Gilbert & George have been residents of Fournier Street, Spitalfields, East London. Their entire body of work has been created in, and focused on, London's East End, which they see as a microcosm. According to George, "Nothing happens in the world that doesn't happen in the East End".


Singing and living sculptures


Whilst still students Gilbert & George made The Singing Sculpture, which was first performed at Nigel Greenwood Gallery in 1970. For this performance they covered their heads and hands in multi-coloured metalised powders, stood on a table, and sang along and moved to a recording of Flanagan and Allen's song "Underneath the Arches", sometimes for a day at a time. The suits they wore for this became a sort of uniform for them. They rarely appear in public without wearing them. It is also unusual for one of the pair to be seen without the other. The pair regard themselves as "living sculptures". They refuse to disassociate their art from their everyday lives, insisting that everything they do is art.

 

The Pictures

The pair are perhaps best known for their large scale photo works, known as The Pictures. The early work in this style is in black and white, later with hand-painted red and yellow touches. They proceeded to use a range of bolder colours, sometimes backlit, and overlaid with black grids. The artists themselves frequently feature in these works, along with flowers, youths, friends, and Christian symbolism.
In 1986 Gilbert and George were criticized for a series of pictures seemingly glamourizing 'rough types' of London's East End such as skinheads, while a picture of an Asian man bore the title "Paki". Some of their work has attracted media attention because of the inclusion of (potentially) shocking imagery, such as nudity, depictions of sexual acts, and bodily fluids (faeces, urine and semen). The titles of these works, such as "Naked Shit Pictures" (1994) and "Sonofagod Pictures" (2005), also contributed to the attention.
A book, The Complete Pictures, 1971–2005, published in 2007 by Tate Modern, includes over a thousand examples of their art.


Gilbert and Georges current exhibition can be seen at The White Cube Gallery

Tuesday 25 January 2011

MERU

Could you help MERU to help more children?

MERU is a charity that exists to improve life for children and young people with complex disabilities.

 

MERU is based in Epsom, Surrey, from where it provides services to clients in London and the South East. They also offer an Information and Advice Service for parents and therapists nationwide.

 

Like all charities, MERU is dependent on the generosity of individuals, charitable trusts, companies, schools, clubs, churches and many other organisations.

Could you be one of them? Perhaps you could help by making a donation, organising a fundraising event or by volunteering your time and skills.
You could support MERU and the vital work it does in helping severely disabled children in many different ways.

 

Folkestone Triennial

Folkestone Triennial
Folkestone plays host to artists from all over the world in the second of these three-yearly projects. Cornelia Parker brings Copenhagen's Little Mermaid to the south coast, and Huw Locke fills a church with model ships.
25 June – 25 September, folkestonetriennial.org.uk, 01303 854080,

One to see... Mothers at Hauser & Wirth

Mothers - review by Adrian Searle

Hauser & Wirth, London W1
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Martin Creed's new show Mothers
 

Adrian Searle writes for the Guardian sunday 23rd january.......

Martin Creed's new show Mothers at Hauser & Wirth in London. 

Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

A steel beam sweeps the gallery, just above our heads. Standing under it, the air ruffles your hair as it turns. Its hard not to duck and cringe. If you are over 6ft 8in, Martin Creed's Mothers could kill you. Big hair? It'll scalp you.

Monday 24 January 2011

Exhibition at The Fine Art Society, Est. 1876, 148 New Bond Street, London, W1S 2JT

Alberto Morrocco
Works on Paper 
 
26 January - 19 February 2011 
Private View: 6pm - 8pm, Tuesday 25 January
Morrocco- newspaper and glasses
Alberto Morrocco OBE RSA RSW, Newspaper and Two Glasses

The Fine Art Society are delighted to present a selling exhibition of works on paper by Scottish artist Alberto Morrocco (1917-1998.)

Throughout his days at Gray's School of Art, Morrocco was an exacting and meticulous draughtsman. Under James Cowie (1886-1956) and Robert Sivell (1886-1958) he was taught the principles of the Italian Renaissance, in particular the Quattrocentro. It gave his pictures the poise and composure which comes from confidence in well founded technique. Both tutors stalwartly believed in training based on the Renaissance emphasis on the importance of preliminary drawing and the structure of painting. Cowie's and Sivell's resolve to adhere to the manner of the Old Masters stayed with Morocco his whole life. Even in the later, intensely coloured paintings, for which Morocco has become better known, the roots of his training are still evident in the ordered composition of the pictures. 

The works on paper which make up this exhibition stretch from his days at college in the 1930s, intimate drawings of his family as they grew up to the colourful Mediterranean beach scenes from the '50s onwards. In addition we will be exhibiting a group of Morrocco's oil paintings.


Morrocco - anticoli corrado
Alberto Morrocco OBE RSA RSW, Anticoli Corrado


The Fine Art Society, Est. 1876, 148 New Bond Street, London, W1S 2JT
T: +44 (0) 20 7629 5116  E: art@faslondon.com  W: www.faslondon.com
                                   Monday - Friday; 10am-6pm,  Saturday; 10am-1pm

Sunday 23 January 2011

Modern British Sculpture: empire of the oddballs

Modern British Sculpture: empire of the oddballs

Inspired by artefacts plundered from around the world, Britain's sculptors, from Moore to Hepworth to Hirst, let their visions run riot. Adrian Searle applauds a heavyweight new show
adam british sculpture 
Certainly not wilting ... a Royal Academy visitor takes in Adam by Jacob Epstein.
Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian
Modern British Sculpture opens with a model and some photographs. The model is a three-quarter-size replica of Edwin Lutyens's 1919 Whitehall Cenotaph. The photographs blown up on the surrounding walls depict the controversial but largely decorous naked and semi-naked figures with which, in 1908, Jacob Epstein once decorated the exterior of the British Medical Association building on the Strand, and which were removed before the second world war.
  1. Modern British Sculpture
  2. Royal Academy of Arts,
  3. London
  1. Starts 22 January
  2. Until 10 April
  3. Details:
    0844 209 0051
  4. The mocked-up Cenotaph is pale, serious, and somehow irrefutable. I have long thought it a great sculpture, with its slightly inclined vertical planes, which, if projected, would meet a thousand feet above the earth's surface. Photographed in grainy black and white, Epstein's high-relief sculptures are naked, grubby with London soot, ruined temporary plaster figures.
Temporary like us. This space has the feel of a mausoleum, a place of death and commemoration. Then, through a doorway, we are tantalised by things displayed in spotlit gloom: a black basalt Easter Island figure, an ancient Egyptian baboon, a phallic woman carved by the overheated Eric Gill. Is this going to be a fun show, or what?
British British Sculpture Sculpture is the title of the essay by curator (and recently appointed director of Tate Britain) Penelope Curtis that opens the catalogue. The same title adorns the essay by her co-curator, British sculptor Keith Wilson at the end of the book. Is it me, or is there an echo in here? One cannot but wonder to what degree this exhibition indicates Curtis's future direction of Tate Britain. It tries to tell one among many stories of modern art, in a limited space, and is no worse for bringing less well known artists and works to the foreground, while ignoring others. And who needs another coffee-table pop-up sculpture show and catalogue of the usual big names?
The show is full of echoes: of ancient African, Egyptian and oceanic art, Greek sculpture, the fragile clatter of Chinese porcelains and Bernard Leach pots, the pomp of Victorian Britain and of the imperialist mindset that filled the British Museum with artefacts from other cultures and other times, influencing generations of sculptors.
Britain bought, looted and collected from the world, wherever navy and empire went. Artists in their turn – Moore to Gill, Barbara Hepworth, the almost forgotten Maurice Lambert and Leon Underwood – stole from the treasure horde in the British Museum, as well as from their European peers. Their demonstrable craft and frequent self-regarding preciosity is wearying. They wished to be original, but mostly turned into mannerists.

go to http://www.guardian.co.uk/ to read the full article.....
 

Mayor announces Fourth Plinth 2012/13 Winners

In early 2010 six internationally acclaimed artists were shortlisted for the Fourth Plinth Commission. The artists were invited by the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group to make maquettes for the public consultation phase of the commissioning process.
During the exhibition of the maquettes at St Martin-in-the-Fields, just off Trafalgar Square in central London over 17,000 members of the public commented on which artworks should be chosen for the 2012 and 2013 commissions.
At 10am on Friday 14 January 2011, Mayor of London Boris Johnson announced that Powerless Structures, Fig. 101 by Elmgreen & Dragset has been successfully commissioned for 2012 and Hahn / Cock by Katharina Fritsch has been commissioned for 2013

  • Project Manager required Hastings

    Project Manager - Eight Foot Square, Parrabbola

    South East Closes Monday 31 January 2011 Paid Part time Artform: combined arts, dance, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music, theatre, visual arts   Contact: Philip Parr hastings@parrabbola.co.uk
        

    Description

    Parrabbola have been commissioned by Hastings Borough Council to undertake a yearlong arts outreach programme across Hastings and St Leonards. We’re calling this project Eight Foot Square – an image drawn from the iconic Hastings net huts.
    We’ll be working principally in the Ore Valley and Hollington areas and relating the work created there – by local community members and by professional artists – to the new outdoor performance area at The Stade.
    We’re looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic Project Manager to run this project on the ground; someone who has a passion both for the arts and for developing and nurturing community participation – and previous experience in these areas will be important.
    This is very much a hands on role, with a regular commitment to being in Hastings – sometimes for a day at a time, sometimes for a whole week.
    You’ll manage workshops and events, co-ordinate with venues and local organisations, and nurture relationships with participants and potential participants.
    For a full job description email hastings@parrabbola.co.uk
    This will be a fee based role, with an immediate start. The deadline for applications will be January 31st, with interviews in Hastings on February 3rd

    Artist in Residence, Wycombe Abbey Scool

    Closes Friday 11 February 2011 Artform: visual arts   Contact: Mrs Dagmar Walker walkerd@wycombeabbey.com
        

    Description

    Artist in Residence
    From September 2011 Wycombe Abbey School seeks to appoint an Artist in Residence to contribute to the development of Art and Design. All disciplines are welcome to apply.  This would offer an excellent opportunity for an artist to pursue their own work and to contribute to the enrichment of the students at Wycombe Abbey.
    This position is offered on a one year contract and includes studio space, accommodation, meals, materials and a small remuneration. The successful candidate would be required to deliver weekend workshops and to contribute to teaching in the department. Please submit photographs of your recent work with your application.
     You will be asked to bring a portfolio of work to interview.
    Salary: £4000 per annum + free accomadation + free meals during term time
    Closing date: 11th February 2011.
    Please complete an application form which can be found on
    www. wycombeabbey.com and send it to:
    walkerd@wycombeabbey.com
    Wycombe Abbey School is committed to the Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  The successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced CRB check

    Saturday 22 January 2011

    Art Basel Miami Beach 2010

    As the wounds inflicted by the 2008 to 2009 financial meltdown heal, dealers at the ninth edition of Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB) settled into the new rhythm of the post-recession recovery.
    Part of the reason for the semi-subdued atmosphere was the lack of footfall on the floor, particularly on the VIP opening day. “[It] felt very quiet, there was a strange atmosphere,” said Alexandre Gabriel at Fortes Vilaça (I2). Nevertheless, the gallery sold almost all the works on its stand that day, including Vik Muniz’s Samba, after di Cava Icanti, 2010, for $95,000 to a Brazilian.
    According to Gmurzynska (C5) director Mathias Rastorfer, a member of the ABMB selection committee, the organisers had “reduced the number of VIP tickets by 600 this year because we felt that it was too crowded [in the past].”
    While important collectors including publishing magnate Peter Brant, hedge-fund manager Steve Cohen, Lacma trustee Steve Tisch and Brazilian buyer Susanna Steinberg were at the fair, many noted the absence of other big-name buyers. Rastorfer said that “five or six major collectors didn’t come,” adding that “there has been the autumn fairs, then the sales: hundreds of millions—how much can the market take?” However, he made some strong sales, including Yves Klein’s IKB 93, 1961, for $4m.
    This was one of few multi-million dollar sales—a far cry from the adrenaline-fuelled buying of 2007 when seven-figure deals were not uncommon. While ABMB first-timer Ramón Cernuda (H2) reported placing Wifredo Lam’s 1944 Les Fiancés at $3m with a US collector, a $20m Lucian Freud at Faurschou (A4) was showboating rather than selling, and many other blue-chip modern works were still homeless by the weekend.
    Meanwhile, at the top-end of the contemporary section, “the fair was definitely better than last year, but not  at its full potential,” said Andrea Teschke at the shared Capitain/Petzel booth (J17). Prices in this section were generally well under $1m, and usually under $500,000.
    Philanthropist Estrellita Brodsky commented on the general tendency to “bring known, safe artists, but of very good quality—and the prices reflected that.” While down on the boom, they were higher than last year: “$100,000 is the new $40,000,” she said.
    “We brought a large volume of work, all priced under $550,000,” said Adam Sheffer at Cheim & Read (K8), adding that “the price point helped the work to sell—it’s a different strategy to bringing a couple of multi-million dollar works.” This seemed to have paid off: by the third day the booth was mostly sold, including Jack Pierson’s The Modern, 2010, priced at $175,000, to a prominent New York collector. Another US collector bought Sterling Ruby’s Excavator Dig Site, 2010, for $375,000 at Hufkens (C13).
    While dealers generally felt positive by the weekend, some of the mid-market contemporary gallerists were less enthusiastic. “It’s been OK, but slow. It’s not the big rush you get at Basel,” said Marie-Sophie Eiché at Kamel Mennour (E5). She had limited sales by Friday, but in the fair’s first five minutes had sold Sigalit Landau’s Salted Shoes, 2009, for €40,000.
    André Buchmann (C26) agreed: “It’s been positive, but slow. Maybe it’s because of the weather in Europe?” He had a small number of sales, including Bettina Pousttchi’s London Time, 2008, which, despite the snowstorms, went to a European collection for $17,000.
    The young dealers in Art Positions, showing just one work each, were pleased as punch. Everyone had made sales (albeit not necessarily of the work on show). Philipp von Rosen (P10) had sold two editions of its video installations by Judi Werthein, La Tierra de los Libros, 2008, priced at $24,000: one to a US museum and one to a Colombian collector.
    It was a different picture altogether in the emerging Art Nova section. Nature Morte/Bose Pacia (N32) hadn’t sold a bean by Friday, although “we have a few things on hold”, said a hopeful Rebecca Davis, including Schandra Singh’s colourful Pualani, 2010, priced at $35,000. “I hoped it would be busier and there would be more buying,” admitted Tracy Williams (N44). She said she had seen a lot of collectors around Miami, but “elsewhere, not at the fair”.
    Miami’s notorious party-scene was back with a vengeance this year, but not in the convention centre. “The fair seems much more mature and serious. The party scene and the fair are really two different worlds now,” said Marc Payot of Hauser & Wirth (H17), reporting sales including Roni Horn’s one-tonne work, Well…, 2009/2010, priced at $750,000 to private West Coast collector.
    Dealers, though, didn’t necessarily miss the Miami vice: “Celebrities don’t buy anything, they come on the stand to be photographed, that’s all,” said Robert Landau (C3).

    RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

    THE CLOTHWORKERS’ FOUNDATION
    Supporting Conservation

    A grant of up to £80,000, over two years, is available to a UK institution to enable an experienced conservator (employed by that institution) to pursue a research project. During their sabbatical their post will be covered by an externally recruited junior conservator.

    The grant will meet the salary and on-costs of the junior conservator, and the project costs of the work undertaken by the senior fellow.

    The deadline for applications is Friday 4th March 2011.

    Please see website for full guidelines and an application form: www.clothworkers.co.uk
    Deadline: 3/4/2011

    Tate Modern

    Jerwood Makers Open 2011

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    Jerwood Makers Open 2011

    The Jerwood Charitable Foundation is pleased to launch Jerwood Makers Open, a new open-submission initiative to support and showcase emerging makers working in the applied arts.  This annual exhibition series will offer bursaries to four makers to create ambitious new works, which will be exhibited as part of the Jerwood Visual Arts programme.
    Jerwood Makers Open has been developed out of a commitment by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation to continue to create a space in which to recognise the significance of making practices within the contemporary visual arts. It also aims to offer an open submission opportunity to develop new work independently of specific commissioning structures. The series replaces Jerwood Contemporary Makers, which ran from 2008 to 2010.
    Jerwood Makers Open begins in 2011 and will run for up to three years. Each year, four bursaries of £7,500 will be awarded to makers submitting proposals for new work or works. These works will then be exhibited in a group show as a key part of the Jerwood Visual Arts programme at Jerwood Space, London. Makers will be selected by Emmanuel Cooper, potter, writer, educator and critic; Siobhan Davies, choreographer and artistic director; Jonathan Watkins, curator, writer and Director of Ikon Gallery.
    Applications will be open to artists who are within 10 years of graduating or setting up their practice and can be from across making disciplines.
    How to applyEntry is by online application. www.jerwoodvisualarts.org
    Those unable to enter online should contact Parker Harris: jmo@parkerharris.co.uk  or 01372 462190.

    The Portland Gallery London SW1A 1RP

    FORTHCOMING EXHIBITION

     


    Andrew George and Sarah Gillespie

    27 Jan 2011 - 11 Feb 2011



    The Portland Gallery are delighted to introduce works by two new artists - Andrew George and Sarah Gillespie.
    Paintings can be reserved prior to the opening of the exhibition and can be viewed by appointment. If you are interested in any of the paintings that are already reserved please contact the gallery as there is a chance that these will become available.
    Contact: Maria Morrow and Sophie Morgan
    Email: maria@portlandgallery.com sophie@portlandgallery.com
    www.portlandgallery.com

    Northcote Gallery Chelsea

    Tim Garwood

    Northcote Gallery Chelsea
    Propeller Exhibition
    February 2011
    Dynamo
    Dynamo
    105 x 105cm Mixed Media on Glass

    Tom Homewood

    Northcote Gallery Chelsea Exhibition - December Fully illustrated colour catalogue available on request
    A Sudden Gust
    A Sudden Gust
    Oil and Graphite on Panel 60 x 60cm

    Richard Whadcock

    Northcote Gallery Chelsea Exhibition - November Fully illustrated colour catalogue available on request
    Between Munros
    Between Munros
    Oil on Panel 40 x 40cm

    Michelle McKinney

    Northcote Gallery Battersea
    The Consent
    The Consent
    Steel Mesh in Perspex 90 x 90 x 5cm

    Friday 21 January 2011

    Hastings Arts Forum Current Exhibition

    15 – 25 Jan in AF1 and AF2.  
    Re-Cycling Exhibition, curated by Annie Rae.

    Hastings Arts Forum proudly announces it will hold its first recycling exhibition in its two galleries, 13 – 25 January 2011. The exhibition is curated by Annie Rae, and will include work by 15 of the Forum’s artists. 

    Annie Rae hopes this exhibition is only the first of a series, exploring imaginative methods needed to re-use materials, which are usually destroyed, dumped or put into landfills. The exhibition has work that is ingenious and  witty.
                   
                                     
                                        ©.Serena Thirkell. Fearsome beast

    The Hastings and Bexhill Wood Recycling Project is playing a major role, providing recycled wood for displaying exhibits and examples of its furniture and designs. Stewart Walton’s original prototype drawings will also be included. Wood comes into many of the contributions, as do other discarded materials. Serena Thirkell uses  discarded metal. Penny Hobson beachcombs and with an eye for colour, arranges objects in several clever ways. Max Lane uses many found and discarded bits and pieces to make small, clever sculptures.

    Tim Riddihough, Peter Quinell and Peter Edwards are well known for bringing a smile to those attending Forum exhibitions. Artists working in mixed media include Kim and Renee Thrower, Harry Snook, Danny Mooney, Martin O’Neill, Cathryn Kemp, Maika Crampton.

    Congratulations to the Curlew on their First (but def not last) Michelin star

    Michelin stars released by the new Michelin Guide

    Kerstin  Kühn
    Tuesday 18 January 2011 12:46
    Michelin GuideMichelin has released its 2011 guide for Great Britain and Ireland and has awarded two stars to Cornwall-based chef Nathan Outlaw and French female chef Hélène Darroze.

    The guide, which this year celebrates 100 years since its first publication in 1911, also awarded 12 restaurants in London and England with their first stars. There were no new additions in Scotland, Wales or Ireland and 10 establishments lost theirs stars. However, the results bring the total of Michelin-starred restaurants in Great Britain and Ireland to 143, the highest number in the guide's 37-year history of awarding stars.

    A total of 26 restaurants were named Bib Gourmands for offering good food at moderate prices.
    Commenting on the results, new editor in chief Rebecca Burr, who has replaced outgoing editor Derek Bulmer, said: "There is no doubt that 2010 was a difficult year but those hotels and restaurants that represented value for money, at whatever price, were the ones best placed to weather the storm. We found 12 new one-star restaurants but also awarded 26 new Bib Gourmands, which our readers particularly appreciate for their moderate prices."

    Nathan Outlaw has debuted in the guide with two stars, having previously been tipped by Michelin as a rising two-star chef for two consecutive years in 2008 and 2009. He relocated his restaurant from the Marina Villa hotel in Fowey to the St Enodoc hotel in Rock last year, where he also runs a more casual Seafood and Grill restaurant.

    Meanwhile, French chef Hélène Darroze has been awarded her second star having held one star since 2009 following the opening of her eponymous restaurant at London's Connaught hotel in 2008. Last year, Darroze lost one of her two Michelin stars at her restaurant in Paris in the 2010 edition of the Michelin guide for France.

    Among those operators celebrating their first star are newcomers including Nuno Mendes's Viajante, Philip Howard and Rebecca Mascarenhas's Kitchen W8 and Alexis Gauthier's eponymous restaurant in London; as well as the 10 in 8 restaurant group's Paris House in Woburn, Bedforshire.

    Gordon Ramsay Holdings has gained a star at the relaunched Pétrus, which reopened last March a stone's throw from the original, now occupied by Marcus Wareing at the Berkeley.

    More established restaurants being awarded their first Michelin star include Petersham Nurseries in Richmond; the Curlew in Bodiam, East Sussex; and the Pony & Trap in Chew Magna, Somerset.
    The Michelin guide for Great Britain and Ireland this year celebrates its centenary as it has been 100 years since the very first edition was published in 1911 (it was published from 1911-1930 and then returned in 1974).

    New TWO-star restaurants

    LondonHélène Darroze at the Connaught, Mayfair
    EnglandRestaurant Nathan Outlaw, Rock, Cornwall

    New one-star restaurants

    LondonKitchen W8, Kensington
    Petersham Nurseries, Richmond
    Viajante, Bethnal Green
    Galvin La Chapelle, Spitalfields
    Pétrus, Belgravia
    Seven Park Place, St James
    Gauthier Soho, Soho
    EnglandThe Curlew, Bodiam, East Sussex
    Pony & Trap, Chew Magna, Somerset
    Adam Simmonds at Danesfield House, Marlow, Buckinghamshire
    The Black Rat, Winchester, Hampshire
    Paris House, Woburn, Bedfordshire

    Competition for aspiring young artists and writers in Kent

    Learn > Page Turner
     
    19 November 2010 - 4 March 2011

    Art and Writing Competition
    Schools, Colleges, Teachers

    Turner Contemporary Margate are looking for original work from aspiring artists and writers in Kent – it's up to you what you create and how you go about it, but it will need to be inspired by the theme Nothing in the World But Youth.

    This is an amazing opportunity to have your original artwork or writing exhibited alongside professional artists in our forthcoming Nothing in the World But Youth exhibition 17 September 2011 - 8 January 2012 at the new Turner Contemporary gallery.

    There are also many great prizes to be won, including digital cameras and iPods. You can enter Page Turner if you are at secondary school or in further or higher education in Kent. Teachers, teaching assistants, learning mentors, tutors or other staff can enter too.

    To submit your entry and for more competition information please go to www.turnercontemporary.org Learn.

    Winners to be announced at the prize giving and exhibition evening on Thursday 28 April 2011 at the University for the Creative Arts in Canterbury to which all entrants and their families will be invited.

    Closing date for entries is Friday 4 March 2011. 

    Sponsors and judges:
    Go Vicinty Creative, Lilford Gallery, Kent County Council, University Centre Folkestone, University for the Creative Arts University of Kent.

    The competition is a partnership with the University of the Creative Arts and Aimhigher Kent and Medway.

    Revealed: Turner Contemporary Opens

    16 April 2011 - 4 September 2011 


    The Turner Contemporary Margate opening exhibition explores the themes of imagination, discovery, wonder and the creative spirit.

    Centred on JMW Turner’s extraordinary but little-known painting The Eruption of the Souffrier Mountains, in the Island of St Vincent, at Midnight, on the 30th April, 1812, from a Sketch Taken at the Time by Hugh P. Keane, Esqre 1815, depicting a dramatic volcanic eruption that Turner himself never witnessed, the exhibition will feature six major international contemporary artists.

    New commissions by Daniel Buren, Russell Crotty, Ellen Harvey and Conrad Shawcross, will show alongside selected works by Teresita Fernandez and Douglas Gordon.

    The works in the exhibition play at the borders between what we can see and know and the truly fantastic. This dynamic relationship between imagination and reality also reflects the process of realising the long-awaited new gallery, starting from ideas and drawings to a physical building.

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    Gregor Muir as new executive director of the ICA

    The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London has appointed Gregor Muir as executive director. 

    www.guardian.co.uk 11 Jan 2011

     

    The Institute of Contemporary Arts (today) appointed the experienced and well-connected gallerist Gregor Muir as its new executive director after a rocky year which saw an executive clearout.
    Muir, who went from the "young British artists" (YBA) scene to curating at Tate before becoming director of one of the world's leading galleries, Hauser & Wirth, will formally take charge on 7 February.
    The ICA has been in turmoil for more than a year with financial problems so bad that, at one stage, it was threatened with closure. Ekow Eshun, its executive director since 2005, announced his resignation in August, along with the chair, Alan Yentob.
    Eshun left on 30 November, before the end of his six-month notice period, and the new ICA chair, Alison Myners, has led the search for a replacement leader at a particularly important time for arts organisations. The ICA receives around £1.4m from Arts Council England and, like other funded organisations, it is having to re-apply for money in a new funding structure.
    The council's executive director for London, Moira Sinclair, welcomed the appointment of Muir. "He has a wealth of experience as a curator and director, and with his passion and knowledge of contemporary art, he will be a valuable asset to the ICA."
    Muir said he was delighted to be taking over.
    "Since my first visit to the ICA as a student in the 1980s, I have become tremendously attached to this unique and inspiring institution," he said. "As Sir Roland Penrose, co-founder of the ICA, said in 1968, the role of the ICA is 'stimulating interest in the works of artists and ideas formerly unfamiliar to us.'
    "Now more than ever, the ICA is needed to give artists a voice, allowing them to display their work while exploring new ideas in a welcoming environment. I very much look forward to being a part of the ICA's future."
    Myners said Muir was held in great esteem by artists and his peers. "He brings to the ICA many years of experience from both public and private sectors at a time when knowledge of both is so important. Gregor will once again place artists at the heart of the ICA, making it a forum for new ideas and discussion, exciting audiences and restoring the ICA as a destination."
    Muir is the author of Lucky Kunst: The Rise and Fall of Young British Art, part memoir, part history of an art movement in which he concedes he was an early YBA groupie.
    He desperately wanted to be one of them but writes that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time: "Had I not spent so much time partying at Camberwell and defected to Goldsmiths instead – where my contemporaries Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, Gary Hume and others had graduated – I could have been up there with the best of them."
    Instead, Muir made his name as a gallerist and curator. In 1997 he founded the Lux Gallery in Shoreditch, east London, and staged early shows for artists such as c and the twins Jane and Louise Wilson.
    That same year he co-curated a show at the ICA called Assuming Positions, which included work by Jorge Pardo and Tobias Rehberger.
    Muir went on to work at Tate, co-curating a show at Tate Britain, In-a-Gadda-da-Vida, which displayed work by Hirst, Lucas and Angus Fairhurst. He rose further up the art ladder in 2004 when he was appointed director of the international gallery Hauser & Wirth.

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    Pushing Print are pleased to announce their first solo exhibition prize winner of 2010

    16 April - 14 May 2011


    Jenny Wiener





    Beans  Jenny Wiener

    Open to the public

    Saturday April 16 - Saturday 14 May 2011
    Pie Factory Project Space
    5-7 Broad Street
    Margate
    Kent
    CT9 1EW

    Opening times

    Thursday - Saturday 11am - 5pm
    Sunday 12noon - 4pm
    Bank Holiday Monday 11am - 5pm

    Talk by Jenny Wiener Saturday 30 April 2011


    Time to be confirmed

    Places limited - Booking essential
    To reserve a place email: pushingprint@hotmail.co.uk
    or call Dawn Cole 01843 846824

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    Thursday 20 January 2011

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    Images represented are examples of the artists work only and may not be available for sale
    unless otherwise stated. Contact the Gallery for further information

    Wednesday 19 January 2011

    The Cranbrook Colony of Artists, Cranbrook Kent

    Thomas Webster, R.A., son of John Webster, Member of the George III's household and Mrs Webster Printer friendly version
    Thomas Webster was born on 20th March 1800 at Ranelagh Street in Pimlico the son of John Webster a member of George III's household. He trained as a chorister at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and at the Chapel Royal, St James's, London, but, preferring art, entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1821, winning the Schools silver medal in 1825. He was elected a member of the Royal Academy on 10th February 1846. Thomas Webster married twice - firstly to Betsy of Sittingbourne and, after her death in 1859, secondly to Ellen Summerfield of Aylesford at All Souls, Marylebone on 26th July 1860. There were no children of either marriage.
    In 1857 Webster moved to the village of Cranbrook, Kent, and became the informal leader of the Cranbrook colony - Frederick Daniel Hardy, George Hardy, Thomas Webster, George Bernard O'Neill, John Callcott Horsley and Augustus Edwin Mulready - that thrived in Cranbrook in the latter half of the nineteenth century. They were a close association of colleagues and friends, and, in the case of the Hardy brothers and G.B. O'Neill, distant relatives. All six were "Genre" painters depicting scenes from daily life, either real or imaginary and, through their work, we have an accurate depiction of the people and homes in the Cranbrook area during the Victorian age. Often the Colony used their children, families and friends as models with the Hardys and Webster focused on rustic interiors and O'Neill and Horsley on picturesque historic architecture. The six painters, who occupied The Old Studio in the High Street, were prolific in their work and exhibited extensively at the Royal Academy and the British Institution.
    Throughout his time at Cranbrook Thomas Webster lived at Webster House in the High Street where on 23rd September 1886, he died. A memorial to him by Hamo Thorneycroft was erected, subsequently, at St. Dunstan's Church, Cranbrook