Drawing exclusively from the Westminster Menswear Archive this exhibition explores the invisibility of menswear due to its intrinsic design language that concentrates on the reiterations of archetypal garments intended for specific functional, technical or military use. It will illustrate how designers have disrupted this through minimal, yet significant modifications to produce outcomes that both replicate […]
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Before it was a gallery, Filet was a butchers and a bike shop. It used to be a house next to a carpenters, and before that a tailors. There was a vicarage to its left and later on a library to its right. The shops around it have been bakers, dressmakers, bookies, a wool shop, […]
Hyphen is an exhibition of research-in-practice by PhD candidates and alumni at the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) and the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) at University of Westminster. What possible worlds can be discovered in the interstices between research and creation? What modes of knowing and un-knowing are activated in […]
Sankofa Whispers: Remembering, Reflecting and Reframing Screenings of contemporary films works that explore African Diasporic memory practices and knowledges, from the artists Barby Asante, Halima Haruna, Onyeka Igwe, Nuotama Bodomo, Jennifer Martin and Rhea Storr. Followed by a discussion with Barby Asante, Filmmaker, curator and DJ Rabz Lansiquot and Filmmaker, researcher and educator, Judah […]
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MARKING THE LINE: CERAMICS AND ARCHITECTURE LOCATION | Sir John Soane’s Museum, London DATE | 8 March – 27 April 2013 Artists celebrate the classical and the contemporary at Sir John Soane’s Museum In an exciting project, four leading ceramic artists have created works inspired by Sir John Soane’s house and collections, which challenge where […]
The Ceramics Research Centre (CRC-UK) is a leader in the debates surrounding international contemporary ceramic practice and critical discussion is essential to the development of the discipline. Members of the Centre are committed to exhibiting and publishing, as well as hosting and participating in conferences, symposia and dialogues. Developing from their original focus on ceramic […]
Philip Lee lives in the UK and has been performing with clay since 2003. He has a BA in Ceramics from the University of Westminster (2001) and an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins (2007). Philip Lee is a performance artist whose essential material is his own naked body and earth materials. His […]
BIOGRAPHY Zahed Tajeddin was born in Syria; he presently lives and works in London. He studied chemistry, fine arts and ceramics and in 2006 obtained a Masters Degree in Artefact Studies from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London. Currently he is working on his PhD in the School of Media, Arts and Design […]
BIOGRAPHY Laura Breen’s PhD Re-modelling Clay: Ceramic Practice and the Museum in Britain (1970-2014) was part of the Ceramics in the Expanded Field project. She also has a BA in History of Art and Design (first class) from Manchester Metropolitan University and an MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies from The University of Manchester. This is […]