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ARTIST- LED PROJECTS
KAFFE MATHEWS AND SHANE WALTENER and pupils from the Bridge Academy To coincide with a series of events From Scratch JULY 2009 Artists Kaffe Matthews and Shane Waltener led students through visual and sound workshops to explore the activities and methodology of Cornelius Cardew and the Scratch Orchestra. The students considered sound as musical objects, exploring and developing their own creative process. The 6 session workshops led to a performance by pupils on Regents Canal.
Kaffe Matthews, has been making and performing new musics around the world for the past fifteen years. From a background in classical violin, a Zoology degree, studying with W.African drummers, acid house engineering and a masters in Music Technology, she is now most known for her live sampling performances of violin in particular places in real time: heard in installations, on stage, in galleries, clubs, various locations. Mathews introduced and established the course Performance Technology at Dartington College of Arts, Devon and is now tutoring violin and live electronic techniques to students at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. Mathews worked as a director for Sonic Arts Network and the London Musicians Collective. Shane Waltener is an artist living in London. He has contributed to numerous exhibitions internationally and completed a number of public commissions. Waltener draws inspiration from craft traditions as much as art history. Sculptures, installations and performance work all reference in some way domestic crafts such as knitting, crochet, lace making techniques, sugarcraft and cooking. Recent projects have become increasingly participatory, involving artists, visitors, spectators and community groups in the making of the artworks. Waltener facilitates a process of 'crafting' together in order to allow for cultural and social histories relating to these crafts to be freely exchanged.
To coincide with a series of events From Scratch in collaboration with ICFAR, University of the Arts, London Monday 6 & Tuesday 7 July, 10.00 – 16.30 A two-day workshop, led by Australian artist Jude Walton, exploring the relationship between gesture, mark and movement, and the documents and records that result. This workshop is for artists, performers and writers. Jude Walton is a Melbourne based interdisciplinary artist who is a Summer Fellow at ICFAR. Jude Walton is an artist/academic currently teaching performance at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. Her art practice includes writing, philosophy, dance, spatial design, architecture, video, and all sorts of ephemera. An ongoing project is ‘dancing the book: looking at artists’ books and dance’ and is based around the artists’ book collection in the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum. It explores the possible relations between body and book, dance and writing, action and the word. For more details visit www.icfar.org.uk There Is No Alternative?: Drawing Pad project with artist Albert Potrony and Hackney Community College To coincide with TINA exhibition October 2008 Student from Hackney Community College and artist Albert Potrony Artist Albert Potrony led a Drawing Pad project with Hackney Community College Foundation Art and Design students. The students engaged with the TINA exhibition and addressed issues of rules within society and our current economic climate. Using the exhibition as a starting point each student responded to the work in the show and questioned rules and constructs within their environment through the use of drawing, audio, video and animation. Albert Potrony is a visual artist who works in a variety of media including drawing, sculpture, installation and video. In his work he explores the notions of time, place , perception and the translation of our experiences. In his projects participation from diverse groups of people have been key elements. He uses workshops to engage with groups to investigate ideas around play and decision making. Alongside his practice Albert works as an arts educator and has led workshops for Whitechapel Gallery, Gasworks, Bow Arts Trust, Goldsmiths College, University of London and Next Generation at the National Theatre Laburnum Street Party Workshop July 2008 with Reuben Powell To coincide with Nowhere is here exhibition Artist Reuben Powell led a workshop with local children and visitors responding to the exhibition Nowhere is here and inspired by the local environment.
Drawing Pad project with artist James Brooks and Hackney Community College To coincide with Hayley Tompkins exhibition Students from Hackney Community College Artist James Brooks led a Drawing Pad project with Hackney Community College Foundation Art & Design students. Artist James Brooks curated a group exhibition in response to Hayley Tompkins practice. Students visited the exhibition and were introduced to the work of Hayley Tompkins as a springboard for the production of new work. The students then installed their work at The Drawing Room and received a critical appraisal of their curatorial approach and the individual works made from the Directors. James Brooks has exhibited at: Riflemaker, London/ Seventeen, London/ Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris/ Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt/ Tate Britain, London/ Trinity Contemporary, London, Arcade, London, and DomoBaal, London. Furthermore, in 2008 he had a solo show at Monika Bobinska, London. Drawing in its broadest sense, forms the backbone of James Brooks’ practice and using as his source material strands of popular culture, (photo, film, recording/ object/ text) which have become absorbed into the fabric of contemporary life. He consciously reworks their original associations into an altered sensibility as a way to draw attention to the individual aura and character of the absent original. Laburnum Street Party Workshop 1 July 2007 with Alison Guile To coincide with Geoffrey Farmer: The Last Two Million Years
The workshop took Geoffrey Farmer's exhibition as the starting point for visitors to source imagery from found encyclopedias, magazines, books to create alternative worlds. Polly Gould Confidence To coincide with SOUNDS LIKE DRAWING exhibition Karen Logan Paper Cut To coincide with Diana Cooper & Hew Locke exhibition
Amanda Bracken - Drawing and Colour To coincide with A KIND OF BLISS exhibition A six-session project led by artist Amanda Bracken, inspired by A Kind of Bliss exhibition and her own practice. Pupils from Whitmore Primary School visited THE DRAWING ROOM exhibition and Amanda conducted five practical workshops at the school, culminating in ambitious works created by pupils in teams of two. Amanda Bracken builds fragile sculptures from found objects such as china tea cups. These tangible objects then become the subject of subtle, illusionistic drawings.’ Unifying themes include colour, lightness and weight, movement and stillness. She is interested in drawing as a process of control and repetition and painting in its most fluid and gravity laden anti-control.Bracken has researched and lead many art projects for Gallery education in London Including Serpentine Gallery, Estorick Collection, Hayward, and Victoria Miro Gallery. |
