Friday 4 December 2009

Fine Art Christmas Party


















The Fine Art Christmas Party is on Wednesday 16th December in the Side Gallery - 3pm. Please bring a bottle, Join in with Secret Santa and make an 'Un-Christmas' postcard. You can find details on the notice board or ask Ian Hartshorne for details....

1st Year Etching Workshops
















First Year Etching workshop begins on Wednesday 9th December. There will be a follow up session Wednesday 16th December.

Wednesday 11 November 2009

Royal College of Art Printmaking students visit....











































Images by : Anna Curtis - 'Skull', & Wallpaper, Cordelia Cembrowicz 'Active Activism', Performance, 'Tooth Fairies' Human Teeth,

We will be having two current Printmaking students from the Royal College of Art visiting Printmedia - Cordelia Cembrowicz and Anna Curtis on 30th November. They will give a talk about their work and there will be opportunity for some tutorials. You may also be interested in asking them about their experience of the RCA, if you are interested in applying there.
The Lecture will be in Chatham 304 at 11.30am on Monday 30th October.

First year Printmedia students current work....





Here is a selection of works from our 1st year Printmedia students. These works were the results of a 6 week project that took found objects as the starting point, they were asked to react to different forms of manipulation, were introduced to collecting, archiving and classifying and were asked to consider 'transfer', 'change', 'scale' and location...

Monday 9 November 2009

First year current work....

First year Printmedia students will be exhibiting some of their work today - up until tomorrow lunch time.... come to the Printmedia set up space in the downstairs studio to see what they have been up to...

Interview with recent graduate Sarah Abbott









Recent Print Graduate Sarah Abbott has been interviewed about her work on the Not Paper.net (a blog that discusses collage.) Whilst studying at MMU Sarah made some fantastic work that took collecting as its starting point:
"I'm not sure I have a specific technique, but collecting things defintely helps things along, just finding little things that could otherwise become lost in the world and giving them a home again. I have so many worthless things lying around that I couldn't part with, I'm sure lots of people can relate to that." Sarah Abbott (Read the rest of the interview)
Sarah' s degree show exhibition culminated in a successful installation of found objects, drawings and engaging paper assemblage. Sarah has exhibited her work and has completed numerous commissions.
View Sarah's blog.
View Sarah's flickr page - 'Watersounds'

Thursday 15 October 2009

Submit your work to an exhibition In New York


New Prints 2010/Winter - IPCNY, New Prints Program

New Prints 2010/Winter - IPCNY, New Prints Program
Deadline : November 13, 2009

In keeping with our mission to promote the greater appreciation and understanding of the fine art print, IPCNY presents a selection of new prints four times per year. Criteria for selection are:

Only original fine art (limited edition and unique) prints are eligible; reproductions of other artwork such as drawings or paintings are not acceptable.
Selections will represent a broad diversity of sources, geographical and otherwise.
Prints must have been completed within a year of the submission deadline.
THERE IS NO ENTRY FEE. Independent artists, workshops, publishers and dealers are all welcome to submit recently completed print projects. Please refer to the Submission Guidelines below.


Tuesday 13 October 2009

        Have a look at this! This is Tracy Gills work. She is currenty exhibiting at the holden gallery for this week! Have a look! They are so cooolllllll!!!!
                                                                                                                                                                               (M.Aristidou)




http://doodlestitch.co.uk/index.php


Welcome to the Doodlestitch website

blue dollThe perfect introduction to the craft of needlework

Ideal for all ages* from 8 to 80+.
Improves creativity for children/adults and is therapeutic.
Compare your creation with others by sending an image and
short story about your doodlestitch to our gallery.


doodlestitch is a 3D blank canvas
that you can make into a character or creature of your choice. It is creative, fun, exciting, relaxing and educational. You can turn it into whatever you want, giving you the freedom to be individual. You can do it on your own or in groups. It is therapeutic and be warned it can be addictive. It is also good for building social skills. Fascinating conversations develop from groups sitting and stitching. 
You start by taking your needle and thread to sew on buttons, to give your doodlestitch eyes. Then sew stitches all over to make it individual. You can as have as many eyes as you want and use any stitches that you know. The basic stitch to get you started is running stitch.  
With doodlestitch you can start to sew and leave it if you need to do something else. The next time you get the itch to stitch you can pick it up and start again where you left off or at a different point. 

doodlestitch is a perfect gift for others or as a treat for yourself. 


Enter the doodlestitch competition and you could win a limited edition doodlestitch and a special kit bag containing lots of exciting sewing things.

The first competition ends on December 16th 2009. The winner will be notified by email and their doodlestitch will feature on the competition winners page.  
To enter the competition you will need to send a photo of your finished doodlestitch. Make sure that you give it a name and add a short sentence about it.



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Some work in the studios...






Here are some works of Printmedia students - currently going on in the studios....

Charlotte Utting-Brown, Abigail Everitt, Heather Lomax & Lorene Simpson

Joyous Machines Tate Liverpool

It is recommended that you visit Tate Liverpool to see the exhibition 'Joyous Machines: Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely'

'I went to this exhibition and I thought it was wonderful. To actually see Tinguley's machines working and to see the concepts he has developed is fascinating they are a strange mixture of the anarchic and crazy but there is a huge element of fun that lies beneath it all. I also think that Michael Landy’s work in bringing together the Homage to New York ,while it might be a bit obsessive at times, is great, especially as he has tracked down so many of the people actually involved in the H2NY event. The image of the bow tied patrons of the event picking up parts of the structure after it was destroyed and went on fire is priceless. Tinguley’s translation of Kandinsky image into a 3 dimensional moving object is very clever but also reveling in being able to combine his knowledge of the art with the formation of a 3 dimensional image completely different in form from the original concepts.

Richard Deloughry

This exciting exhibition will focus upon the connection between the work of Jean Tinguely (1925-1991), one of the most radical, inventive and subversive sculptors of the mid twentieth-century, and renowned British artist Michael Landy, who has been significantly influenced by Tinguely and his constructive and destructive tendencies.

Landy will co-curate Joyous Machines: Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely, and will devote special attention to Tinguely’s rarely examined early career, tracing the development of Tinguely’s work from the late 1940s building up to his momentous Homage to New York.This, the most famous and influential of all ‘auto-destructive’ works of art, was a 27ft high self-destroying mechanism that came to life for 27 minutes before catching fire during a performance in the Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Modern Art, New York on 17 March 1960.

As recommended by Richard in 2nd year

Wednesday 7 October 2009

Letterpress inductions

I have booked 3 dates for letterpress inductions. This is compulsary
for first year students, there are some spaces for 2nd and 3rd years
to sign up. If there is more demand I can book more dates.... See
notice outside 3rd year studio for details.

New Contemporaries at the Cornerhouse

Make sure you get along to the New Contemporaries down the road at the
Cornerhouse. The work of current students and recent graduates are
shown across three floors of the gallery. Among the work on show are a
number of works that employ traditional and contemporary print media.
Above is a large photoetch by Andrew Curtis. Also on show are the
ambitious and exquisite silkscreens on various media by Jack Newling,
aswell as the largescale digital prints of Barbara Wolff that also use
collage and found objects.

Early 20th Century prints at the Whitworth



19 September - 13 December 2009

Printmakers in the United States in the first half of the 20th century produced some of the most exciting, original and defining images of modern American life.

Beginning with John Sloan and the Ashcan School of urban realism in the early 1900s, artists adopted a wide variety of print media to depict the American Scene, from the evocative cityscapes of Edward Hopper and Martin Lewis to romanticised views of the rural heartlands by Thomas Hart Benton and the young Jackson Pollock.



Call for entries

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Call for Entries - Mini Print 2009, Artlink

Yorkshire, Hull Closes Thursday 12 November 2009 Unpaid (Voluntary) Part time Artform: visual arts  Contact: Katie Gill, Gallery Development Workergallery@artlink.uk.net

    

Description

Artlink in Hull are calling for entries for its popular annual Mini Print Exhibition.  This is a great selling opportunity for artists as Mini Print is held in the run up to Christmas.   Artists are invited to submit work in any printed medium, please see submission guidelines for exact criteria on what we can and cannot accept.  Required with all entries is a fee of £20.00 per artist to cover mounting/framing and return postage of unsold work.  A maximum of five prints can be entered per participant.

The closing date for entries is Thursday 12th November 2009 and Mini Print 2009 will run from early December 2009 until end of January 2010.  For further information and an application form please visit our websitewww.artlink.uk.net and see the opportunities page.  Alternatively contact Katie Gill at Artlink on 01482 345104 or email gallery@artlink.uk.net.

ARTLINK, Centre for Community Arts, 87 Princes Avenue, Hull, HU5 3QP



Tuesday 6 October 2009

New York Study Visit

There is a study visit to New York being planned for second year Fine Art students. The trip will be for 6 nights in March 2010.
You will be staying in Manhattan. The itinerary will include visits to major collections, as well as independently run spaces in Chelsea and Brooklyn.
Deposits are needed soon - please check the Fine Art notice board for details and updates, or contact Jo Lansley.

Claire Curtin in Blank Pages


Recent print graduate Claire Curtin is reviewed in Issue 15 of Blankpages, an online magazine from BLANK MEDIA collective.
'Claire Curtin is a recent graduate from Fine Art Printmaking course at Manchester Metropolitan University and currently an intern within Blank Media’s exhibitions team. The focus of Curtin’s recent work has been the recording of faces that instinctively appear when random marks are given character. Her intention is to interpret the faces, providing them with characters and narratives'

"The focus of my recent work has been the recording of

faces that instinctively appear when random marks are

given character. My intention was to interpret the faces

providing them with characters and narratives." Claire Curtin.

To read more download the magazine at www.blankmediacollective.org/news/blankpages/

Monday 5 October 2009

1st year London Trip

Please note that the deadline for the payment of the deposit of £30 for the London Trip is this friday 9th October...
The trip to London will now happen at the end of November/ beginning of December.

Tuesday Talks at the Whitworth

ALL YEARS

Please be sure to attend these excellent and free series of talks

Tuesday Talks

at The Whitworth Art Gallery

13 October - 8 December 2009, 11.00am - 12.30pm

The Tuesday Talks series, programmed by Prof. Pavel Büchler with Lesley

Young, explores the driving forces, influences and sources of inspiration

behind the work of contemporary artists.

Mark Lewis

13 October 2009, 11.00am - 12.30pm

Mark Lewis¹s film works explore the language of cinema and painting, placing

the incidental compositions and camera shots conventionally used to connect

that surprise and unsettle the viewer. Lewis has had major solo exhibitions

at Vancouver Art Gallery; Hamburger Kunstverein; BFI Southbank, London, and

FACT, Liverpool; and is representing Canada in the current Venice Biennale.

He is co-founder and co-editor, of Afterall Journal and Books.

Fanni Niemi-Junkola

20 October 2009, 11.00am - 12.30pm

Fanni Niemi-Junkola initially studied sculpture at Glasgow School of Art in

the 1990s but through her interest in kick-boxing and martial arts has

developed a highly personal style of performance video, often based on

violent action. Her video installations and short films have been shown

extensively in her home country of Finland and also internationally,

including at the 3rd Berlin Biennial; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and

Manifesta 2, Luxembourg. She teaches in the Department of Fine Art at

Tampere Polytechnic.

Knut Ã…sdam

27 October 2009, 11.00am - 12.30pm

Knut Ã…sdam¹s film works use sound, video, photography and architecture to

reflect upon the politics of space and the boundaries of subjectivity. These

concerns are often related to themes of dissidence and to an analysis of

space in terms of its use and its history. He lives in Oslo and has

exhibited at Tate Britain; Kunsthalle Bern and the Museum of Contemporary

Art, Oslo; as well as in the 2003 Istanbul Biennial and Manifesta 7,

Rovereto, Italy.

Will Holder

3 November 2009, 11.00am - 12.30pm

Will Holder is an artist, designer and editor whose work focuses on books

and the gap between language and object. Through these different roles he

explores the transformative processes at play within the act of publishing.

Re-performing and referencing art, literature and music, using the works of

Dickens, Salinger or Cage, Holder swoops around the stuff of books and

writing with reverence and playfulness. He co-edits biannual journal FR

DAVID, has recently co-curated the exhibition Talk Show at the ICA, London,

and in 2005 organised Bachelor Party to celebrate Marcel Duchamp¹s birthday.

Pierre Bismuth

10 November 2009, 11.00am - 12.30pm


Disney characters, fairy tales, or the rituals of the white cube and museumPierre Bismuth¹s practice appropriates imagery found in both pop and high

culture. Whether drawing from political events, reportage, men¹s magazines,

architecture; all are disrupted using similar low-tech means. In 2004 he

collaborated with film director Michel Gondry to make the film Eternal

Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, winning an Oscar for the Best Original

Screenplay. He has had solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel; Villa Arson,

Nice; and Witte de With, Rotterdam. His work was included in the 2001 Venice

Biennale and in Manifesta 4, Frankfurt-am-Main. He lives in Brussels and

London.

Andrew Miller

17 November 2009, 11.00am - 12.30pm

Andrew Miller¹s work engages with abandoned, often utilitarian objects and

architectural fragments, designing and building structures which reference

their provenance and history. As well as exhibiting widely, he has worked on

many public and private architectural and design projects including building

a library for Douglas Gordon and the bookshop at The Fruitmarket Gallery,

Edinburgh. He has recently had a solo exhibition at Inverleith House,

Edinburgh.

Corey McCorkle

24 November, 11.00am - 12.30pm

By moving between cultures, both western and eastern, and disciplines

including art, craft, science and mysticism, Corey McCorkle acquires

knowledge and know-how to imbue his meticulously crafted objects, films and

architectural interventions with complex cultural references and poetic

resonance. Living in New York, he has had solo exhibitions at Maccarone

Gallery, New York: Kunsthalle Bern; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; and

been included within the 2008 Whitney Biennial.

Pamela Rosenkranz

1 December, 11.00am - 12.30pm

Swiss artist Pamela Rosenkranz makes works that resemble language and

suggest a narrative, yet deliberately confuse the viewer¹s search for

meaning. She works in a variety of media, often making use of the simplest

visual forms, techniques and gestures and incorporating in her objects and

installations a range of materials chosen as much for their symbolic

connotations as for their sensual qualities - from her own hair to silicon,

from dust to silk. Last year her work was included in the 5th Berlin

Biennale and Manifesta 7, Rovereto, Italy and will be on show in Manchester,

at Castlefield Gallery, from 3 December.

Speaker tbc

8 December, 11.00am - 12.30pm

Admission is free and attendance is on a first come first served basis. To

be added to the Tuesday Talk emailing list please call The Whitworth Art

Gallery on 0161 275 7450 or email events.whitworth@manchester.ac.uk


Whitworth Art Gallery

The University of Manchester

Oxford Road

Wednesday 30 September 2009

Photoshop Lecture















Oran will be giving a lecture on how to prepare images in Photoshop for printmaking - looking at layers, dot sizes, scale, separations other possibilities.
The Lecture will be in Mabel Tylecote 310 at 9.30am on Wednesday 7th Oct

New Contemporaries 2009











Richard Healy, Ceausescu

The New Contemporaries 2009 is being held at the Cornerhouse, Manchester..'showcasing the freshest and best of contemporary art from artists still at or just graduated from art school'. There will be a group trip and talk by the curator for first year Sculpture and Printmedia students on 7th Oct.

Sunday 27 September 2009

Fantasies, Follies and Disasters: The Prints of Francisco de Goya- until January












I recommend that you see this exhibition at the Manchester Art Gallery, a selection of Goya's Etchings - from The Fantasies, The Disasters of War and The Follies, all of which were withdrawn or withheld from publication during his lifetime because of their controversial, disturbing or strange qualities.

Monday 7 September 2009

Some more images from the 2009 Print show.....



Print poster designed by Sarah Abbott... work by Sarah Abbott, Monika Miah, Ruth Clayden and Vito Lui Mattioli

Images from 2009 Print Degree Show...





Images from Rebecca Wellock, Joanne Johnson, Adam O'Bern, Claire Curtin, Andrew Smith and Gemma Hayes.