Presence: The Figure in British Postwar and Contemporary Sculpture

photograph of 4 clay figures sitting on a ledge. Figures made by Christie Brown

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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Sculptors Drawings

charcoal and pastel drawing on paper showing multiple figures of a woman walking, naked and in different clothes.

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 […]

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The Invisible Vase 

photograph of vase by Clare Twomey

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 […]

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Shining Lights – Joy Gregory on Black Women Photographers in 1980s–90s Britain

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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Disassembling the cloud factory: superconductr intervenes in platform-mediated work 

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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A Migrant Worker and a Migrant Artist Walk into a Kelp Farm 

text poster reading 'A Migrant Worker and a Migrant Artist Walk into a Kelp Farm' by Matthias Kispert

Matthias Kispert’s article A Migrant Worker and a Migrant Artist Walk into a Kelp Farm has been published on the website documenting the social practice art project Song of the Wind, which involved a series of artist residencies on the South Korean island Joyakdo during which participating artists engaged with local communities and migrant workers involved […]

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