Chelsea MA Fine Art alumnus David A.Smith has been chosen as one of the Catlin Art Prize finalists.

“The prize is unique in providing the artists with the time and opportunity to develop their practice. They are each commissioned to produce a brand new body of work to be exhibited one year on from their respective degree shows, encouraging them to explore new ideas in a large and modifiable space.

As with The Catlin Guide, the chosen artists are considered to be producing high quality work which demonstrates their capacity to make a significant mark in the art world during the next decade. Based on this criteria, a panel of judges will award one of the artists with the prize of £3,000.” An exhibition of the eight finalists will take place at Village Underground, London in May 2010.

www.davidasmithart.co.uk

Image: Shuck, Anatomical canine skeleton, glow wire, enamel paint, 2009 – David A.Smith

James Capper is a Chelsea BA Fine Art graduate. The ‘Ripper’ was the sculpture he made for his final show in 2008 and was also shown at the Hannah Barry Gallery ‘Bold Tendencies’ exhibition later that summer. The piece is now part of the Cass Sculpture Foundation collection.

James describes the ‘Ripper’ as a ‘floor marking’ machine and ‘a tool for making art’; the structure being the cross between a ‘tower crane ‘ and a ‘drag hoe.’ The marks that it makes are the effect of the viewers’ active participation.

As part of Shaping Sculpture 2010 the cafe at Chelsea College of Art and Design currently has a small show of drawings by James. The drawings are for a machine called ‘Chimera’. ‘Chimera’ was shortlisted in 2009 for the Jerwood Sculpture Prize. James also has shows later this year at the Hannah Barry Gallery and Royal Society of British Sculptors.

www.shapingsculpture.com

www.hannahbarrygallery.com

An exhibition of new works by:

Colin Clark
Luke Drozd
Michael Lawton

at The Flea-Pit, Columbia Road, London, E2 7RG

Opening event on Thursday 4th Feb, 6-9pm
Exhibition continues Feb 5th-28th

Sunday 10am-2pm
Tuesday – Saturday 6pm-10pm (dependent on events – see website for details: www.thefleapit.com)
 
About The New New Black Mountain.

Sunday. I spent this morning reading Saturday’s Guardian. Starting at the back, I tried yesterday’s Sudoku puzzle. Working forward (through the past), I looked at yesterday’s obituaries. Mathematics and narrative. There’s logic in reading about the recently deceased in old newspapers.

Regardless of how newly out-dated the events, new new-ness, and black mountain-ness, should’ve been filling my thoughts. Serendipitously, a ghostly aide memoir appeared.

Yesterday’s celebrated life was Kenneth Nolan, a spectral alumnus of The Black Mountain College, a recipient of it’s social and liberal arts education. A pupil of Josef and Annie Albers and Buckminster Fuller, a peer of Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage and Merce Cunningham.

This plot is not mathematically factual, but makes for a good story.

There is no college on the New New Black Mountain, I checked on Google Earth, even at a ratio 1:1, a useless tracing shows no sign of anything educational. Can a mountain peak be new? And is ‘New New’ a joke on art school jokes? (Do two news make an old?)

Perhaps this exhibition constitutes a mapping of this doubly new and dark territory, or a potential mapping of a de-territorialisation.

From the pen of the Secretary of the New New Black Mountaineering Club
For further info email: lukedrozd@hotmail.com

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We Cluster and We Stick

An exhibition of works by Rosie, her family and friends.

December 15 – 17
The Triangle Space
Chelsea College of Art & Design
16 John Islip Street
London, SW1P 4JU

www.rosiedwyer.co.uk

Self portrait with skin

‘Self Portrait with Skin’ is an example of my recent series of self-portraits where I am considering fragmented nature of a preceived image and multitude of layers which compose my perception of myself. The portraits speak about the inability to see oneself as others see us. For myself I am never a complete, whole being but rather a moving, changing network of lines, angles, thoughts, expressions, tensions, gestures. There are so many aspects of myself that I can not see it all despite twisting and turning my body and mind.

‘What we are dealing with here is the negative link between visibility and movement: movement equals blindeness; it blurs the contours of what we perceive.(…)The person who has stopped being alive exists more fully than when actually alive, moving around before us’. Slavoy Žižek The Plague of Fantasies.

Joanna Wodzicka is a 2nd year Fine Art student

Contact the Artist: jwodzicka@yahoo.com

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Culmination of the live industry project with City Inn hotels

Students from Chelsea’s Graduate Diploma in Interior Design have designed the Christmas Tree for the London branch of the contemporary hotel chain City Inn. The culmination of a live project with the hotel group, the students have shown versatility as well as an original approach to the brief.

Read more about the Graduate Diploma Interior Design

Work by second year part time Fine Art student, Henry Blackshaw

Henry Blackshaw
BA Fine Art (part-time)

I am interested in the mundane, and how at times it can be a hypnotic and beautiful place. Hence why I have been doing a lot of drawings and paintings lately inside garden centres.

Contact the artist: henryblackshaw@hotmail.com

Read about BA (Hons) Fine Art – Part Time

Work by Fine Art student, Amelie van Moorsel Orssich

In her final year at Chelsea, Amelie has been invited to exhibit her work with 4 other artists, at the town hall of Founex, in Geneva, Switzerland. The exhibition was held on the 2nd of October. Undergraduates go Global!

Contact the artist: swissame@gmail.com

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You are invited to:

The Space Between – Showcasing the work from a number of Chelsea College of Art and Design Staff