This series of curated conversations, chaired by Tessa Peters, provides a platform for dialogue and discovery, bringing together a diverse range of artists whose practice uses clay and ceramics. Each ‘Clay in Conversation’ event centres on a specific theme – acting as a lens through which the artists present a project. The conversations offer an […]
Matthias Kispert’s 30-minute documentary The Social Life of Food: Movements for Justice & Local Resilience will be screened at the London Conference in Critical Thought at the University of Greenwich, London. Registration for the conference is free and can be booked via this link. The film features interviews with a number of London-based initiatives involved […]
The exhibition Presence: The Figure in British Postwar and Contemporary Sculpture is held in the 13th century tithe barn at Messums West over the summer. It aims to explore the many ways in which artists have represented the human figure within the UK since 1945. Emerita Professor Christie Brown will be exhibiting a work from 2006-10 titled The Uncanny […]
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Emerita Professor Christie Brown is included in this group exhibition at Messums West in Wiltshire, which offers insight into the relationship between two- and three-dimensional practice. This is an area of constant interest to the artist as she has recently developed her many years of life drawing to explore narrative composition that connects to her […]
Prof. Clare Twomey will present her work ‘The Invisible Vase’ at The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, USA. The Portland Vase: Mania and Muse, a comprehensive exhibition that delves into the fascinating journey of the ways a single Classical vase rose to legendary status, shaping and influencing art and commerce across time and space. “This […]
Sara Dominici‘s article ‘Photography and Early Motor Touring in Britain’ is out now in the latest issue of History of Photography. The article explores the arrival of the motorcar in Britain as it polarised photographers’ opinions like no other means of transport before. The article asks, more specifically, why those photographers who came from the […]
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Join Ingrid Pollard, Carole Wright, and Roshini Kempadoo for a panel discussion, chaired by Joy Gregory, as part of Photo London on Wednesday 15 May 2024. From Ingrid Pollard’s collages exploring the idealised male body to Carole Wright’s studies of community life in South London, the ground-breaking work made by black women photographers in the […]
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David Campany has published an overview of the work of French photographic artist Valérie Belin. “In 2003, the artist Valérie Belin made a series of photographs of Michael Jackson lookalikes. Not the preternaturally gifted child Michael, but the troubled older megastar. We can assume the lookalikes never met him. They were mimicking an image, or […]
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On 21 September 2023, Helen Sear is in conversation with Eugenie Shinkle at the Centre for British Photography. “Helen Sear presents a series of large-scale works that combine multiple images to emphasise the indivisibility of the human and the natural worlds. In giving equal status to the human and natural, Sear observes the landscape as another body. […]
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Matthias Kispert’s peer-reviewed article Disassembling the cloud factory: superconductr intervenes in platform-mediated work has been published in Unlikely: Journal for Creative Arts, Issue 09: Resistance. The article discusses aspects of Kispert’s project superconductr, which investigates conditions and contradictions in digital platform labour through employing artistic research methods that intervene in the infrastructures of digital labour […]
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