David Wightman - Behemoth

David Wightman: Behemoth and Other New Paintings

Part of Cornerhouse Projects

From Saturday 31 October to Wednesday 16 December

David Wightman appropriates images from both geometric abstraction and classical landscape painting – motifs associated with aspiration, idealism, and modernity. Using collaged wallpaper, which signifes the domestic, he personalises these images and renders them nostalgic – capturing their beauty, banality, and the desires they represent. The colours and patterns he uses in his work link aspirational working class homes and high art.

CORNERHOUSE, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 5NH

Image from last night's opening event for FIELD EVENT

FIELD EVENT
This project explores London as a vast FIELD of spaces and events of immense shifting complexity.  As soon as one gains some understanding of this field, it shifts before our very eyes.  In order to understand this complexity, we need to shift our thinking. 
We need to think like scientists, poets, geologists and archaeologists, before starting to re-think our processes as designers.

The exhibition is conceived as a multi-media EVENT showing Images, Text, Video and Physical Constructions, all related and indexed to specific areas in the FIELD. 
The project featured a Word & Image collaboration between iSD students and poetry students from Royal Holloway-University of London Department of English Literature. 

BA (Hons) Interior & Spatial Design

BA (Hons) Interior & Spatial Design feature

 Two Chelsea graduates are featured in Blueprint magazine’s feature on the best from the 2009 Summer Shows. Royal Designer for Industry Terence Woodgate described the experience of visiting the Chelsea Show as ‘entertaining, enlightening and even shocking’, and stepped out of his discipline to select Interior & Spatial Design and Textile students as among the top 50 design graduates in the UK.

The selected students were:
Terumoto Mizushima from BA (Hons) Interior & Spatial Design
Lisa Walker from BA (Hons) Textile Design

BA (Hons) Interior & Spatial Design

BA (Hons) Textile Design

Blueprint online

Black Pig City Masonic Circus
Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art & Design

Exhibition runs from 17th – 25th October: 10am – 5pm (weekdays), 10am – 4pm (weekends)

For the first Borderline commission, Italian collective Black Pig City have been running a workshop with a group of UAL students. The result of this process – ‘The Phenomenal Manifestation of the Black Pig’ – a performative event / Private View is on Friday 16th October. All welcome!

www.borderlineproject.org.uk

The 28th State: European Borders in an Age of Anxiety
Tate Britain
Saturday 24th October 2009
‘The 28th State,’ seeks to explore how cultural practitioners in Europe are engaging with the idea of borders – both literally and metaphorically. What is the role of art in framing visions of contemporary / future Europe? How are practitioners engaging with the idea of borders when much of contemporary practice is peripatetic? What do terms like ‘cross-cultural’ or ‘trans-national’ mean now? How do Diasporic experiences affect the Europe we are creating?

‘The 28th State ‘ is a practice –based symposium, placing artistic practice at the heart of the discussion, featuring speakers from across the EU.

Tickets £25/£15

To book, please visit http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/symposia/19662.htm

Forthcoming projects include a commission form Paula Rouch and Ines Amado and much more…

Borderline is funded by Chelsea Programme and Arts Council England. ‘The 28th State’ is also kindly supported by City Inn Westminster.

Monday 5th October 2009 3–8pm
Procedures and Enquiries 3 -  Symposium on Drawing
University of the Arts, London
Chelsea College of Art and Design, Millbank, London SW1P 4RJ.
Map  and Directions: http://www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk/docs/Millbank_Map.pdf

Procedures and Enquiries 3
This is the third in our series of symposia which discusses processes and practices of spatial investigation and design in relation to contemporary drawing practice.
In the 21st century digital interfaces increasingly inform our understanding of art, architecture and design.  In the past 20 years the viral spread of computing hardware and software has re-defined the protocols and procedures of the thinking/drawing process.  Recent editing, 3D modelling and projection technology has changed the immersive possibilities of the drawing space and opened up new avenues for time-based drawing.   Many artists and designers are enthusiastic about the further potential of this technology for an expanded digital drawing practice, while others resist and continue to champion a more craft-based or hybrid approach. 

This symposium provides a chance to discuss contemporary methodologies and approaches from across disciplines.

Speakers:
Session 1 / Chelsea Triangle Space / Chelsea College of Art and Design
15.00 James O’Leary / Intro – Drawing Time
15.20 Peter Maloney / Mapping Kubrick’s TimeSpace
16.00 Matthew Butcher / The Flood House
16.40 Christian Kerrigan / The 200 year continuum
17.20 Discussion followed by break

Session 2 / Lecture Theatre / Chelsea College of Art and Design
18.00 Perry Kulper / The Long Drawn Out
19.30 Drinks etc

To make an enquiry about this event, please email j.o-leary@chelsea.arts.ac.uk