Joanna Geldard ‘Blueprints’

'Blueprints' Exhibition at Deda/Derby 29th March – 30th April

 

'We live our daily lives in a constant exchange with the set of daily appearances surrounding us – often they are very familiar, sometimes they are unexpected and new, but always they confirm us in our lives. They do so even when they are threatening: the sight of a house burning, for example, or a man approaching us with a knife between his teeth, still reminds us (ungently) of our life and its importance. What we habitually see confirms us…. Yet it can happen, suddenly, unexpectedly, and most frequently in the half-light of glimpses, that we catch sight of another visible order which intersects with ours and has nothing to do with it.’

John Berger, 1996, The Russian Way Interstices, Opus 21

‘Blueprints establishes the staring into the everyday, it focuses on the point of the body in space and it attempts to still and quiet the body whilst acutely aware of sensation. These Blueprints, ‘half light glimpses’ of the everyday body in space; between place and space. The reduction of line is used to create a graphic scoring of the body in space. It is this scoring that establishes the blueprint by which to create large scale pieces of work. The graphic line is an attempt to complete a notation of the body in space at once universal and absurd. Two singular concerns arise in this scoring; that of movement and that of sound, yet the line by its very nature stills this and fixes it as notation. For this reason the connection with the musicians’ tradition of graphic scoring is demonstrated within the images as the body recognises pulsation and resonance as both movement and sound in space. Thus the body is merely shadow that reverberates as energy in space underscored by a line.' Joanna Geldard

Link to Blueprint publication

PAULA CHAMBERS EXHIBITION

26 March — 10 April 2012

Blenheim Walk

A Talk in the Gallery
Wednesday 28th March — 12.15pm

“My current art making practice explores the dilemma of what it means to inhabit a female body. I create installations and individual works that contain multiple layers of meaning; the work is subtle and surprising, disturbing and amusing. I alter and adapt ready-made objects that stand in as signifiers for the maternal body. I cast objects in unusual or unsuitable materials with the intention of suggesting an alternate reading of the original object. My intention is to promote in the viewer a complex response encompassing the cultural, political, social, historical and mythological agendas that inform our current perspective on motherhood and its role in contemporary society.”

http://www.leeds-artexhibitions.co.uk/?p=823

F******* Marvellous!

BA (Hons) Art & Design (Interdisciplinary) hosted a two day Flocking Workshop delivered by Belgian designers; Rudi Respeel and Jeff Rutten from Mechelen, Belgium.
Flocking is the process of depositing many small fiber particles (called flock) onto a surface by the means of an electrically charged ‘gun’, the technique fires coloured fibres at a glued surface or object, to create a soft textured finish... more

Rachael Forster, Level 4 BA (Hons) Art & Design (Interdisciplinary)

GIDE Dundee workshop in the news

Dutch magazine article about the Dundee GIDE workhop
http://www.items.nl/2012/2/29/design-action-dundee/


news article on Leeds College of Art website about the Dundee GIDE workhop
http://www.leeds-art.ac.uk/home/student-work-successes/successful-projects/gide-group-for-international-design-education/

Nine – Five – Nine. Work Together, Play Together

‘Nine – Five – Nine
‘Work Together, Play Together’
5-9pm Thursday 1st march 2012
Film Screening and publication exhibition
14 Park Square East, Leeds LS1

Art event on Thursday 1st March in an empty space in Leeds City Centre. Artists in Leeds are often asked to be creative when thinking about sites to respond to and ways to present their work. In addition there is a tradition of individuals sustaining a creative practice by working collectively or collaboratively. Art in Unusual Spaces would like to celebrate and unpick this by inviting film and publication submissions of new or existing work in response to theme of work, play, collaboration, collectivity, domestic and commercial spaces.

Artists include:
Kristyna Baczynski, Lucy Barker & Ben Ncm, Violaine Bergoin, Joanna Brinton, Stephanie Bryant, Clare Charnley & Patricia Azevedo, Annie Carpenter, Lex Clarke. Amy Connor, Rosie Curtis, The Den Project, Jade Ellis, Carrie Lent, Paul Matosic, Abi Mitchell & Josie Wells, The Print Project, Sam Renseiw, Michael Szpakowski, Topical Jungle, Harry van de Bospoort, Ben Warren, Philip Welding and more to be confirmed

Co-organised by 2nd year students from BA Art & Design Interdisciplinary and Art in Unusual Spaces

Supported by Leeds College of Art, Art in Unusual Spaces, Leeds City Council
http://www.artinunusualspaces.co.uk/home/

WASTE SPACE & MAXIMISE FLOW

WASTE SPACE & MAXIMISE FLOW
Workshop-event
Toulon Art School (ESATPM) / Villa Arson / La Station
16 – 19 January 2011
Charlie Jeffery & Dan Robinson (Mud Office)

Toulon’s theme, principles of equality, becomes an exploration of materials and processes of sculpture and the everyday. A programme of visits, screenings, object-making, actions and discussion provides material for individual responses and the collaborative production of objects, actions, video and documentation. Over 4 days, the workshop explores the strategies and processes of various artists, including Mud Office.

Supported by Leeds College of Art, Mud Office, ESATPM, Villa Arson, La Station, British Council - Erasmus Staff Mobility

http://mudoffice.eu/
http://mud-toulon.blogspot.com/

‘Design in Action’ GIDE Dundee

GIDE Dundee 2012
‘Design in Action’
February 13 – 17, 2012
Dundee, Scotland

From 13 till 17 February, GIDE (Group for International Design Education) had their 9th event with lectures, workshops and an international exhibition. This event “Design in Action” took place at the University of Dundee, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Scotland. http://gidedundee.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/gide-dundee-2012/

GIDE Dundee 2012 International Workshop focussed on the ‘Design in Action’ ethos inspired by the V&A at Dundee project, and the building designed by Kengo Kuma

GIDE Dundee 2012 invited 170 design students from Milano, Leeds, Magdeburg, Lugano, Mechelen, Ljubljana and Dundee to collaborate in international and interdisciplinary teams to playfully explore, interpret and creatively respond to the Design in Action element of the V&A building.

F**** King International Workshop

F**** King
International Workshop
March 6th – 8th
A three day Flocking Workshop with two Belgium designers from Mechelen; Rudi Respeel and Jeff Rutten. They will be working with students and staff on B.A (Hons) Art & Design (Interdisciplinary) and Interior Design courses. The workshops take place during March 6th – 8th.

The workshop is funded as part of the Erasmus Exchange Mobility Programme. This is part of an ongoing teaching, research and student exchange programme; linked to the GIDE Group for International Design Education programme.

http://gidedundee.wordpress.com/
http://www.jeffrutten.be/

Processing workshop. 14-16 Nov 2011

3-day workshop exploiting the clash between digital & analogue to produce a body of work using Processing (open source generative design software) with CNC and laser machines.

http://www.imprecise-precise.blogspot.com/

part of Leeds Digital Festival


Processing publication designed by Arthur Carey final year BA (Hons) Graphics student below: