sketchfu

Osman Ahmed did an MA in Drawing at Camberwell. He is currently a Phd. student at Wimbledon. The Imperial War Museum showed his drawings in 2008. I mentioned in the Animation Salon that he is now working on a series of animated drawings on sketchfu. It's a very easy free way to animate drawing. Osman says you can turn them into a DVD....


http://sketchfu.com/profile/osman

Opportunities: STUDIO VOLTAIRE | RESIDENCY IN ROME | CALL FOR FILM AND VIDEO

These look good! Frances x

Studio Voltaire Open Submission Exhibition

This year Selected by:
Jennifer Higgie - Frieze Magazine
Rebecca Warren - Artist
Application Deadline - 9 Jan 2010
Provisional show dates - 25 Feb - 27 Mar 2010
Application forms can be found at:
http://studiovoltaire.org/artist-mem.htm
The exhibition is open to ALL artists working in any medium, who are associate members. Applicants can become an associate member at time of application.

Studio Voltaire
1a Nelson's Row
London SW4 7JR

www.studiovoltaire.org
0207 622 1294
Contact: tamsin@studiovoltaire.org

Residency in Rome
THE DEREK HILL FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP
This Scholarship aims to encourage artists for whom the use of paint and/or drawing is important to the development of their work.

It is a three-month residency (October to December 2010), tenable at the British School at Rome. It offers a grant of c. £950 per month, and board and accommodation in a residential studio.
For further information and an application form, see the Fine Arts Awards page on:
www.bsr.ac.uk
Or e-mail: bsr@britac.ac.uk
Closing date for applications: 15 December 2009

Call for artists film and video works [deadline: 30.03.10]
Marmalade Publishers of Visual Theory, would like to invite artist film makers to submit works for publication in our 2010 artists film and video DVD series.

Every year we publish a series of films, selected through a process of invited and open submission. Each DVD includes one film only and is accompanied by a specially filmed interview with the artist. Also next year all published works will be individually screened at the IMT gallery, London and will be available to buy at the BFI Filmstore, London, ICA, London, Koenig Books, London, Close-up, London, IMT Gallery, London, Bookartbookshop, London, Pro qm, Berlin and Konst-ig, Stockholm or by order from our website.

Please send film or video works on PAL or NTSC DVD for consideration to: Marmalade Publishers of Visual Theory, Studio 4, 21 London Fields Eastside, London E8 3SA, United Kingdom.
marmalade@inter.uk.com www.filmarmalade.co.uk

Film - Thursday 3rd Dec, The Studio, 4pm

You, the Living: A Swedish black comedy film written and directed by Roy Andersson

The film is an exploration on the "grandeur of existence," centered around the lives of an overweight woman, a disgruntled psychiatrist, a heart broken groupie, a carpenter, a business consultant, an elementary school teacher with emotional issues and her rug selling husband, among others. The cast is non-professional and alienating techniques such as presenting the characters in grim make-up and having them talk directly to the camera are extensively used.

Shot in an unconventional manner, it consists of a fluent succession of exactly 50 short sketches, most of them with a tragicomic undertone. Most of the sets were meticulous created and the shooting took three years to finish.

A fantasticly absurd and surreal film, i think you would find it hard not to laugh

-Robin

INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR VIDEO: 7a*11d INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL

Of interest? F
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INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR VIDEO: 7a*11d INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL

8th International Festival in Toronto, presented by the 7a*11d collective
October 21 – 31, 2010

www.7a-11d.ca

Direct to Documentation: d2d
D2D = Direct to Documentation: a program of performance documentation or performance for camera. Can't come to the Festival? We still want to see your work! Send us a tape, CD or DVD [five minutes or less] of your performance documentation or performance for camera. Selected works will be curated into a screening program. Artist fees will be paid to those selected for screening.

Deadline: Proposals must be postmarked no later than January 15, 2010.

Return of materials: If you wish your materials to be returned, you MUST include a self-addressed stamped envelope for the return of your documentation. Please ensure that postage is adequate. Materials will be returned by June 2010.

Art Gig in Brighton after Xmas party 18th Dec?

at Fabrica Gallery: Brighton

Grey Area presents a one-off art-gig bringing together five artists who use music performance as an integral component of their practice. Staged in front of the altar of a deconsecrated Church, now Fabrica gallery, 1-2-3-4 features a diverse billing of inter-disciplinarians who both play and display .

Hi
It's the Xmas party on 18th Dec at WCA, 4.30-6.30PM, and after, at 6ish, I'm heading back to Brighton, to go to an art-music gig with a friend, at Fabrica Gallery, (nr the South Lanes, 15 minute walk down from Brighton station). If you'd like to go to this event; tickets need to be pre-booked (see blue link).
Jackie j.raybone2@wimbledon.arts.ac.uk

1-2-3-4
Artists:
Martin Creed
The Apathy Band (Bob & Roberta Smith , George Barker, Victor Mount, Leonardo Ulian)
The Barefoot Lone Pilgrim aka David Blandy
The Coolness
Plastique Fantastique

Date: Friday 18 th December 2009
Time: 7.00pm-11.00pm
Location: Fabrica, 40 Duke St, Brighton, BN11AG
Tickets: £6.50 in advance
available from Grey Area, Fabrica, and online at http://www.amiando.com/1234artgig

JILL MAGID Authority to Remove - Tate Modern (level 2)

This is a great show!
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/jillmagid/default.shtm

The secret itself is much more beautiful than its revelation.' Jill Magid, The Report for the AIVD on the Subject of its Face.



Frances

Want to get some lecturing experience?

Hi, I'm Martin (2nd year PT).

I work PT for UCA (www.ucreative.ac.uk) at the Maidstone campus teaching on the Foundation and Adult Access course.

I've spoken to couple of you about coming down and gaining some work experience. Andrew and Joel are going to come down on Weds 9th December to give a short talk about their work followed by Q&A (in the lecture theatre) and then do some tutorials (studio). I can open up the opportunity to a couple more MA students, with a preference for non-painters (just for variety). This is an especially good opportunity for Video Artists as it will give you a rare chance to screen your work and get some feedback outside Wimbledon.

If you're interested can you email me? I'm m.lang3@wimbledon.ac.uk. Feel free to ask any questions but if you're sure you want to do it you should tell me 3 interesting things about yourself and 5 achievements as an artist (I'll use this for a poster and an introduction on the day).

Here's the deal....

PAY: It's unpaid

STUDENTS: I expect there will be an audience of no more than 45 students, 16 ACCESS and about 27 Foundation (Fine Art specialism). It could be up to 150 if all the Foundation students come (they don't normally come in on a Wednesday though).

TRAVEL: Maidstone East train station is 1 hour from Victoria, direct. If you catch the 07:49am train you will arrive at 08:51. I will pick you up (up to 4 people) and drive you to the college which is not near Maidstone East. I will also drive you back to the station. A return ticket will cost you about £32. If you haven't get a 16-25 "Young Persons" railcard yet I'd get one. I'm 30 but you can get the college to stamp it to say you're a mature student. It costs £20 per annum and gives you 1/3 off most journeys i.e. you'd save c£10 on this trip alone.

It is also possible to get trains to Maidstone East from Cannon St, London Bridge, Waterloo East, and others but you'd need to check yourselves. You could get a train to Maidstone West and walk to the college but there are no direct trains so you'd need to change and that would add 20mins onto you journey, plus the walk.

Martin

hi guys,

I really enjoyed Sophie Calle and Faisal Al Abdullah, two related but almost counterposing exhibitions around ideas of portraiture.. at the Whitechapel... if you are interested in portraiture and/or dialogical models of work these two adopt completely different ways of working, but both seem to offer a portrait or interpretation of another person.

also this frieze discussion on theory as suggested by Andy and Sarah is really well worth a listen.. esp to Simon Critchley's points about a few philosophical theories being used to cover artists works wholesale "like a margarine"!

http://www.friezefoundation.org/talks/detail/scenes_from_a_marriage_have_art_and_theory_drifted_apart/

see you next week Bex x

Opportunity - Toilet Gallery, Kingston

I visited the Toilet Gallery last night, an old toilet block turned gallery in Kingston. In short, the gallery hasn't been active for a good while but recently a small group of artists has taken it over as 'artists in residence', although they will not be able to use it a studio space. Basically what this means is they are really open to any propsals for projects to run in the space during this 12 month period and better than that it will be for FREE! This is however a very specific site, it very much feels like a toilet, but with the right approach it could be a good opportunity.

If Interested email Dave Loder ( coperniciumproject@gmail.com )

Current Exhibition :
Fluxion
5th-8th Nov

Joel

Film - Thursday 12 Nov, The Studio, 4pm

Coming up in our weekly film slot is The Order from Matthew Barney's Cremaster 3.

(Due to crits and tutorials in the studio next week, this film is scheduled for Thursday 12 Nov).

Matthew Barney's legendary CREMASTER CYCLE was hailed by the New York Times as "An inspired benchmark of ambition, scope and forthright provocation for art in the new century". Nine years in the making, the five films that comprise the CREMASTER CYCLE came to a brilliant grand finale with a 31 minute sequence at the close of CREMASTER 3 called "THE ORDER".

As the film is only 31 minutes long if anyone has another film they would like to show as well, please bring it along.

film slot update

hi all

we managed to show a film in the studio on friday. it was fun but friday evenings are maybe not the best time if we want more people to take part.

next week we will have to move it to wednesday (sorry part-timers).

if you are interested in showing anything screen based let me or joel know or just post it on this site on the monday of the week that you want to show the film.

look forward to seeing your choice of film.

sharon

Dave Hullfish Bailey & Nils Norman: Surrounded by Squares

I managed to get to the current exhibition, 'Surrounded By Squares', at Raven Row this weekend, it runs until November 1st and I highly recommend you take a trip down. I ended up spending a healthy chunk of my afternoon there in the end and through some discussion, with a friend, the staff and a visiting architecture class (even one of the artists himself at one point), I felt we uncovered some real depth in what to me was an exciting, considered and well executed show.

for more info check out the Artvehicle review -------->here

Joel

Thursday Film Launch

On Thursday (22nd October) we will show the first film of our weekly film slot in the studio at 4 o'clock. We will be running this feature once a week from now on and our first film will be ' The City of Lost Children' by the french director

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

If you're interested in sharing a film/video please let Sharon or Joel know by Tuesday of that week.
This slot can also be used for showing any type of screen based work that you may want to discuss.

Sharon

Welcome...

...I will write up the user name and password on the studio board so anyone can login and post, please use this online space as you would a group notice board in the studio, a place to share things you think may be interesting to the whole group. The advantages of this being online means it's easier to post up videos and images, while also being accessible from home, as well as the studio. The greater the level of activity and the creativity in postings will determine how successful this blog is, please share fruitfully and diversely.

To start the blog ball rolling, here is a video of a work I saw at Flowers Gallery last year. A collaboration between artist Max Dean and mechanical engineer Raffaello D'Andrea.



Joel