MA+Lecture+series+archive

= Archive 2010/11  = = MA Lectures Series, 3pm Wednesdays in Main Lecture Theatre  =

= Professional Practice Lectures: 6th April  =

Gallery education is much, much more than just working with kids, offering visual artists, designers and writers opportunities to get involved in design and interpretation, long-term partnerships and one-off events, academic programmes and social networks, cross cultural and international exchange. For many involved professionally it offers freedom from centralised curricula, creative ways to develop ideas and collaborate with others, and the chance to reflect on your own practice in a different way. This lecture explores some of gallery education's different roles and opportunities for all those involved in the visual arts. =  @http://www.felicityallen.co.uk/   =
 * FLICK ALLEN: Working in Education**

= Professional Practice Lectures: 13th April  =


 * cancelled - sorry**

= Professional Practice Lectures: 4th May  =

Dan Hays won the John Moores Painting Prize in 1997 with his painting of a seductive, oversized, empty hampster cage, ‘Harmony in Green’. These series were optical explorations of the contrast of the illusionistic cage against a flat background. In recent years he has been interested in the relationship between digital rendering, reproduction and traditional painting techniques. In his work based on digital images of Monet’s gardens, the visibility of his brushwork is one of the most fundamental concerns of Hays’ practice, namely, the rendering of the illusion of light in opaque pigment. Dan Hays has been quoted as describing painting as “a refuge”
 * DAN HAYS: Undertaking a practice based PhD**


 * http://danhays.org/**

= Professional Practice Lectures: 11th May  =

Marie Milligan from ECCA: Introduction to Self Employment
Consider what is involved to be self-employed or freelance (is it right for everyone? etc) · Identifying business areas that self-employment covers (i.e. finance, marketing, planning etc) · Defining roles you need to play to be self-employed (i.e. creative, admin, £ hats to wear & who can support you) · Informing about process of self-employment (i.e. when to register, what records, how to finance it etc) · Know where to go to get support as a self-employed UK resident (i.e. both general & creative support orgs)

= **Practitioner Research Lectures**  = **Past lectures** 1/12/10 **Grayson Perry** Turner prize winner

8/12/10 **Sonia Boyce** Sonia Boyce works across a range of media including photography, installation and text. She came to prominence as part of the Black British cultural renaissance of the 1980s. Her work also references feminism. Sonia Boyce was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2007 for services to art.

5/1/11 **Vong Phaophanit** Vong Phaophanit is an artist based in [|London]. Born, in [|Savannakhet], [|Laos] in 1961, Vong Phaophanit was educated in [|Paris] and later studied at the [|Ecole des Beaux Arts] , [|Aix en Provence] , [|France]. He met and married [|Claire Oboussier] while they were both still students, moved to the UK in 1985 and became a British citizen in 1993. There he began to experiment with a wide range of media subsequently exhibiting widely nationally and internationally. Phaophanit is best known for his large-scale installations which incorporate a wide range of materials including ash, silk, rice, rubber, wax and often light. In 1993 he was short-listed for the [|Turner Prize] and in 1994 was awarded the DAAD fellowship in Berlin. He has been a visiting lecturer at [|Chelsea College of Art], [|Wimbledon School of Art] , The [|University of East London] and [|Exeter College of Art] and was also senior fellow in drawing at Wimbledon School of Art. In 1998 he was nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Prize and in 2002 was the award winner of the Art and Work Award for site-specific work with Gensler Architects. His work is held in major collections around the world including the [|Tate Gallery], [|The Irish Museum of Modern Art] , [|The British Council Collection] and [|The Arts Council Collection]. His most recent exhibitions were at Shanghai Biennale 2004, Void Gallery in Derry in 2005, The Quiet in the Land, Luang Prabang in 2006, and Gropius Bau Museum, Berlin (‘The Tropics’) in 2008.

12/1/11 **Robert Pratt (AA2A)** Robert Pratt graduated from the Royal Academy Schools (2009) and Loughborough University (2006). He has participated in a number of prominent group exhibitions in London including Who’s On Second?, Pumphouse Gallery (2007) and the second part of this Exhibition New Works, FAFA Gallery Helsinki (2008), Royal Academy Schools Premiums Exhbition (2008), Royal Academy Schools Graduate Exhibition (2009) and was selected to receive the Royal British Society of Sculptors, Bronze Casting Award (2009) sponsored by Phoenix Bronze Casting Foundry. Following his graduation from the Royal Academy he was one of three artists to be included in Everyday Altered, Gallery Primo Alonso (2009). A solo exhibition of his work, Bendy Straws and Beached Whales, was recently curated by George Unsworth and Owen Pidcock at And/Or Gallery Mare Street, London (2010) and was soon followed by the culmination of the Royal British Society of Sculptors Bronze casting Award with the show being hosted by the RBS, 108 Old Brompton Road (2010).

19/1/11 **Martin Newth****, Head of BA Photography, Camberwell** Martin Newth was born in Manchester in 1973. He studied at Newcastle University and the Slade School of Art. As well as showing his work in solo and group exhibitions in the UK and abroad Martin Newth has organised and co-curated numerous exhibitions including a series of artists' projects at Central Space, west London. He is currently Course Director of Photography at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London. He lives and works in London

26/1/11

**Kelly Chorpening, Head of BA Drawing, Camberwell** Kelly Chorpening earned her BFA in Painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art and MFA in Painting from Hunter College, City University of New York, USA. She has lectured on drawing since 1994 to students of archaeology, engineering, conservation, architecture and art, and was appointed Course Director BA (Hons) Drawing in autumn 2006. Kelly Chorpening's work explores the dynamic between people and the landscape within cities through sculpture, drawing and light projection, with a particular focus on the relationship between elements carefully planned and those seemingly left to their own devices. Her most recent work- in drawing and film- is an extension of this investigation, with the added questioning of how traces of words can function both physically and symbolically within the urban landscape.

2/2/11 **Yuko Kikuchi**, Reader in history of art and design & **Professor Cate Elwes** Research Paper Briefing

9/2/11 **Dan Sturgis, Head of BA Painting**

Daniel Sturgis is a London based artist, he received an MA from Goldsmiths College in 1994, where he subsequently taught, until being appointed Course Director in Painting at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London. Recent exhibitions include 'Plastic Culture: Legacies of Pop 1987 - 2008', Harris Museum, Preston (2009); 'Invisible Cities, Jerwood Space, London (2009); and the solo presentations 'Possibilities in Geometric Abstraction', Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart (2008) and 'Everybody Loves Somebody', The Locker Plant, Chinati Foundation, Marfa Texas (2007). He has curated a number of exhibitions looking at aspects of contemporary painting and its historic legacy. These include, Daniel Buren's 'Voile Toile/Toile Voile', Wordsworth Trust Grasmere (2005); Between 'Letters and Abstraction', Wordsworth Trust (2004); co-curated with Richard Kirwan 'Jeremy Moon - A Retrospective' (2001), and co-curated with Martyn Simpson 'Perfidy' at Le Corbusier's convent Santa Marie de la Tourette in France. In 2008 he was awarded a PhD by Oxford Brookes University, his thesis examined the position of abstract painting, and the use of the Baroque, in early post-modern thought.

16/2/11 **Yvonne Kulogowski: Research Paper Skills**

23/2/11 **Caroline Bergvall** Caroline Bergvall is a French-Norwegian writer and artist, based in London who works across media, languages, and artforms. Her work is concerned with mediated speech, language and perception, multilingualism, cultural performativity. She has developed books and textual pieces as well as audioworks, net-based pieces, live readings and installations in Europe, Scandinavia and North America. Collections of texts and performance pieces: Eclat (1996), FIG (2005), and the chapbooks: Cropper (2008) and the Norwegian output Plessjør (2008). Recent collaborations: sound-text installation with Ciaran Maher Say: “Parsley” (MuKha Museum, Antwerp 2008); arts residency with visual artist Rodney McMillian (Hammer Museum, LA 2009); printed matter The Die Is cast with writer Nick Thurston (information as material, 2009). Other presentations: Henie Onstad Museum (Oslo), MOMA (NY), PhonoFemme (Vienna), DIA (NY). Director of Performance Writing (1995-2000, Dartington College of Arts). Recipient of an AHRC Arts Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts (2007-2010).

2/3/11 **Faisal Abdu'Allah**

Faisal Abdu’Allah graduated from the Royal College of Art, his first solo show ‘Censored’ received wide acclaim and was quoted as ’one to watch’ by art critic Sarah Kent. Abdu’ Allah’s work primarily evolves from the interface of photography, the printed image and lens-based installation. He constantly repositions values and ideologies pertaining to representation. Abdu’Allah continues to broker disparate worlds through his practice best exemplified in ‘The Garden of Eden’ 2003 with architect David Adjaye looking at the privileged gaze and more recently ‘Gold Finger’ 2007 with the late Joey Pyle from the British Mafia over a three year period. Abdu’Allah has participated in Sharjah, Torino and Tallinn Biennales and has been the recipient of the Decibel Artist Award 2005 and recently first prize at the Tallinn Print Triennial 2007. Abdu’Allah is currently in collaboration with Christian Boltanski on ’14 years in between’, due 2010. He is a senior lecturer in Fine art at the University of East London. He lives and maintains a studio in London.

9/3/11 **Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry (AA2A)** Karin Kihlberg (Sweden) and Reuben Henry (UK) have been collaborating since 2004. Recent group exhibitions include Art Futures, Bloomberg Space, Art Summer University, Tate Modern, The 100 Ideas Festival, Hayward Gallery, Please Excuse my Appearance, Ikon Gallery and Cut my Legs Off and Call Me Shorty, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm. They have exhibited in solo exhibitions at Citric Gallery in Italy, Centre des Arts Actuels SKOL in Canada as part of Les Mois de la Photo à Montréal and at Castlefield Gallery in Manchester, UK. Kihlberg and Henry worked as researchers in the fine art department at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, The Netherlands for two years between 2009-10. They are represented by Danielle Arnaud Gallery in London.

16/3/11 **Graham Rawle** Graham Rawle is a  [|UK] writer and  [|collage]  artist whose visual work incorporates illustration, design, photography and installation. His weekly  [|Lost Consonants] series appeared in the Weekend  [|Guardian]  for 15 years. He has produced other regular series which include ‘Lying Doggo’ and ‘Graham Rawle’s Wonder Quiz’ for The Observer and ‘When Words Collide’ and ‘Pardon Mrs Arden’ for The Sunday  [|Telegraph] Magazine. His most recent series, Bright Ideas, appeared weekly in The Times 2009-2010. He has lectured and exhibited his work internationally, heading the design team that created the 4,000 sq ft (370 m2) 'Hi-Life' supermarket installation for EXPO 2000 in  [|Hanover]. As director of the Niff Institute, in 2001 he created a range of limited edition art pieces that form the Niff Actuals product range. Among his astonishing published books are The Wonder Book of Fun, Lying Doggo, Diary of an Amateur Photographer and a reinterpretation of  [|The Wizard of Oz], which won 2009 Book of the Year and best Illustrated Trade book at the British Book Design Awards. His critically acclaimed  [|Woman's World], a novel created entirely from fragments of found text, is being made into a feature film.

23/3/11 **Judy Price** Judy Price is a London based artist who works with video,sound, photography and installation. Her practice is sited within the borderlines and interchanges between video and photography. Price was recently artist in residence at the London Jewish Cultural Centre, funded by the European Association for Jewish Culture working with archival film material from the British Mandate period in Palestine. In January 2008 she was curator of a programme of archival film material around the British Mandate in Palestine as part of the British Council Film Festival in Israel. In July 2008 she will be curating a similar programme for the Al-Ma'mal Foundation, in East Jerusalem as well as making site specific work for the Jerusalem Show, an art exhibition showcasing the works of Palestinian and international artists, around the Old City of Jerusalem. Recent exhibitions include Unscene, solo exhibition, London Jewish Cultural Centre; Chisenhale Biennale; The Projection Gallery, Liverpool Biennial; Coin & Platform, The Common Place, Leeds; Performing Rights, Queen Mary, University of London; Refining Memory, Whitechapel Gallery, City Hall, London, Curzon Soho Cinema, London; Ciclope, Caracas, Venezuela; Art Caucasus, Tbilisi, Georgia; The Ice factory, Hastings; Shifting Time, solo exhibition at Wingfield Arts, Suffolk; The Well, Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, London; Lost Hours, Pump House Gallery, London; Fairplay, Angel Row, Nottingham; Tweener, Norwich Gallery, Norwich.

30/3/11 **Committee** **(Harry Richardson & Clare Page)** Clare Page and Harry Richardson are a collaborative practice called Committee. The raw material of the lighting and wallpaper designed by Clare Page (1975-) and Harry Richardson (1975-), who work together as COMMITTEE, is the junk that they find in the flytips and skips and on the market stalls and streets in Deptford, the area of south east London where they live and work. At first glance the colourful assortment of pottery animals, vases, figurines, boxes and other bric-a-brac clinging to Committee’s Kebab Lamps looks like a cheerful jumble of random objects. Gradually it becomes clear that the choice was painstakingly considered, and that Clare Page and Harry Richardson, co-founders of Committee, spend days finessing sequences of objects to explore a theme or to tell a story. Most of the objects come from the junk stalls on Deptford Market, a short walk from their studio, and arrived there from the local tip. Born in Northampton and London respectively in 1975, Page and Richardson moved to Deptford in 1998 after graduating in fine art from Liverpool Art School. Since founding Committee in 2001, they have worked as designers applying “pragmatism and imagination” to exploring “the drama of the everyday”. Having transformed tip cast-offs into desirable objects in their Kebab Lamps, the pair collaged images of more junk salvaged from tips and on the streets into the Flytip wallpaper commissioned for the British Council's exhibition My World, 2005. “Looking at these objects, it isn’t clear if they are beautiful and noble on their way up to the heavenly rubbish dump in the sky,” they observed, “or a chintzy portrayal of excessive consumption.” © Design Museum, 2006 (http://designmuseum.org/design/committee)

**Research Methods Lectures**

3/11/10 David Cross, Reader in Art and Design Title: Practice as research A key function of contemporary art is to test concepts, definitions and boundaries. Design has the power to influence ideas about the future. What has research got to offer? David Cross will show some public projects which have critically engaged with particular places, and discuss how asking questions can make a difference.

10/11/10 Professor Paul Coldwell Title: Case Studies This session will take two recent projects, 'Morandi's Legacy;Influences on British Art' and 'Absence & Presence : An artist's intervention within the house at Kettle's Yard' to explore research methods applicable to fine art practice based research with and within collections/archives.

17/11/10 Dr Malcolm Quinn, Reader in Critical Practice Title: Research Sources and the Field of Inquiry

In this talk, Dr Malcolm Quinn will demonstrate the essential connection between a proper use of primary and secondary research sources and the identification of a field of research inquiry, including the relationship of current debates to historical developments in the field.

24/11/10 Dr Linda Sandino, Research Fellow Title: Interviews as Research Drawing on oral history and narrative research, this session will explore the use of person to person interview documents for academic research. From initial contact, the questions asked, ethical issues and use of the text whether visual or audio or both, the session will lay out the fundamental elements of this approach to research.