Connected Creativity is an exhibition that marks the beginning of a collaboration between creative practitioners from both sides of the Atlantic. It features the work of four artists – Jonathon Anderson, Alyssa Bistonath, Shezad Dawood and Julie Marsh – who are engaged in practice-based research as a means of exploring critical and innovative approaches to their craft. […]
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Julie Marsh’s exhibition Virtual Assembly is a virtual space and archive for Old Kent Road Mosque and MANUK (Muslim Association of Nigeria UK) in response to the demolition and redevelopment of their mosque. This interactive model has been built in collaboration with David Scott and Florian Koenig from the Fabrication Lab and acts as an experiential archive, providing innovative […]
What role has the photographic darkroom played in the histories of photography and visual culture? How has this space, at times known as the camera obscura, developing room, laboratory, operating room, operating box, darkened chamber, photographic tent, dark tent, and developing tent, shaped ways of living and knowing? Historical accounts of the wet darkroom are […]
A series of three practical workshops using porcelain clay to discuss whiteness and antiracism – with artist and PhD researcher Victoria Burgher. The Workshops In these practical, hands-on workshops, we will work with porcelain as a way of thinking together about the meaning of whiteness in society today. Participants will learn pottery-making and decorating techniques […]
Launching on the 20th of January on all major podcast platforms, Blabla time is an innovative podcast made to address the little and big challenges of student life. Hosted by coach and University of Westminster Senior Lecturer Dr. Sandra Gaudenzi, it invites students to listen to their internal “blabla” and, hopefully, learn from it! Mixing practical advice, coaching […]
Rooted Stories, a solo exhibition by Uriel Orlow, curated by Filipa Oliveira at Casa da Cerca – Contemporary Art Center, in Almada, Portugal. “Perhaps for the first time in our history, we are beginning to have a collective awareness both of the reality of climate change that has long been predicted, but also of its […]
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In July this year, PhD researcher Verónica Posada, was approached by @picum_ig to work on, Locked Up: Stories from immigration detention in Europe, a project that helps to visualise the inhumane practice of immigrant detention centers. PICUM – Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants – is a network of organisations working to ensure social justice and […]
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‘Shattered Silk, The Bond is Always by Scent, The Salve of Repair’, an exhibition by Jini Rawlings is on at the Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery. The exhibition combines handsewn costumes of silk and cotton, interpretive dance and interactive video. Silk is used as a metaphor for some of the entangled stories of women in the […]
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Emerita Professor Christie Brown is exhibiting a new group of ceramic sculpture entitled Icons of Uncertainty with Messums Wiltshire in their 13th Century tythe barn. The work centres around a need for protection in difficult times and is informed by the artist’s ongoing interest in the connection between archaic objects and contemporary art. To find […]
A one-day symposium Friday 28th October 2022 at University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK What role might ghosts have in the way traumatic histories are communicated and represented on screen? How might the ghost have the capacity to bring the past forwards to us in the present and enable us to reconsider how histories […]