Edward Cotterill is the next Gate Theatre Artist-in-Residence

Edward Cotterill, a recent MA Fine Art graduate (2009-10) from Chelsea College Art & Design is the next Artist-in-Residence at the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill.  The residency is part of the Gate Curate project at the Theatre and is funded by Chelsea Arts Club Trust and artists are selected in association with CHELSEA space.

Edward’s work responds to the play GROUNDED by George Brant and the Gate Theatre version is directed by Chris Haydon and stars Lucy Ellinson.  The image above is titled 1.2 Seconds or A Portrait Taken by the Artist Ryan Gander By The Artist Edward Cotterill.

Edward states ‘1.2 seconds is a self portrait where I contacted another artist to take my portrait, this was the instruction.  He had carte blanche to do as he pleased the only specification was that the shutter speed was 1.2 seconds (the time it takes from moving a control stick somewhere in the world for a drone aircraft to move in another part of the world).  I wished to relinquish control (responsibility) for work but still have ultimate responsibility for it.  It is mine, it is not mine.’

GROUNDED is at The Gate Theatre from 28th August – 21st September.  You can see Edward’s installation before a performance, or by appointment.

Artist Charlotte Jonerheim is selected for the second Gate Curate residency at the Gate Theatre

Artist Charlotte Jonerheim is selected for the second Gate Curate residency at the Gate Theatre, in association with CHELSEA space and funded by Chelsea Arts Club Trust.

Artist Charlotte Jonerheim has been selected for the second artist in residence award at the Gate Theatre.  A recent graduate from MA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design, Jonerheim will be responding to Howard Brenton’s new version of ‘Dances of Death’ by August Strindberg.  You will be able to see Jonerheim’s foyer installation during the play’s run, 6^th June – 6^th July 2013.

About the artist

Charlotte Jonerheim was born in Malmo, Sweden and has lived and worked in London for 20 years. She has studied at Byam Shaw School of Art, Slade School of fine art and graduated from MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2012.

work by Charlotte Jonerheim

Jonerheim has recently returned from India, having been selected for a three-month residency Arts for India Scholarship based at the International Institute of Fine Arts in Delhi. Her work has been shown in many exhibitions in London including a solo show of site-specific sculptural work at Clerks’ Well in Islington, having received the Islington Exhibits 2012 Artist Award.  Her work also features in the group show ‘SURFACE’ at Chelsea Futurespace.

Charlotte Jonerheim’s work in SURFACE exhibition at Chelsea Futurespace

In her practice Jonerheim questions and investigates the quotidian experience where objects and encounters hardly register. She is interested in the purposes of objects, both their functional and emotional intentions.

Her inquiries lie in the relationship with form and have through reason of practicality, psychological, emotional, remembrance or simply aesthetic purposes.  Objects through time and history may lose their value or significance and thereby run the risk of becoming overlooked, taken for granted and often discarded.

This reinvention of things is often done with a bit of humour and with an element of surprise and an unpredictable outcome. Her objective is to reintroduce things back into the environment as a new way of seeing, connecting and understand the world we live in, to evoke a different experience and encounter with familiar items and focus on a new attention and meaning.

Charlotte Jonerheim’s work from her MA Fine Art summer show at Chelsea College of Art & Design

Jonerheim is predominately interested in materials sourced from the domestic environment. With a little humour objects get reinvented through reassembly, often with a sense of theatricality. The artist’s aim is to evoke a different experience and encounter with familiar items and focus on a new attention and meaning.

Gate Curate

Gate Curate is a new and unique collaboration between the Gate Theatre, CHELSEA space and Chelsea Arts Club Trust. 
Every Gate show will feature an installation in our foyer by an emerging visual artist that is a bold and surprising response to the work on stage.

Announcing the Chelsea Cafe Project

About the project

The Chelsea Cafe Project is a series of displays of work by students and staff from Chelsea College of Art and Design.  These changing displays are a chance to see some of the talent here at Chelsea from across a diverse range of disciplines.  The series is curated in collaboration with CHELSEA space (opposite) as part of CHELSEA public programme.

The first artist in the display will be Vanessa Hodgkinson (MA Fine Art), whose work is also featured in the current exhibition SURFACE at Chelsea Futurespace.

For more information please contact Daisy McMullan or Kate Ross at info@chelseaspace.org or in person at CHELSEA space.

Announcing Gate Curate

Gate Curate is a new and unique collaboration between the Gate Theatre, CHELSEA space and Chelsea Arts Club Trust. Together, the partners will appoint an Artist in Residence for each of the theatre’s five productions annually. These emerging visual artists will be commissioned to create a foyer installation at the Gate Theatre that is a bold, surprising and exciting response to the work on stage.

Next up: Mark Leckey on 28 June

In just a couple of weeks’ time we’ll be welcoming artist and pop culture magpie,

Mark Leckey for a refreshingly honest and witty take on the mystique of digital

technology. Leckey, who is known for being the sort of artist who both attracts

and defies labels comes fresh on the heels of two major recent shows at the

Serpentine and Manchester Art Gallery, so we recommend you book now as this

is going to be a busy event!

Mark Leckey: Touchy Feely

Thu 28 June, 6.00-7.30pm, FREE

 

Turner Prize winner, video pioneer – Mark Leckey is an artist’s artist. His pop references

and use of technology mark him out with a massive influence on the current generation.

Mark Leckey won the Turner Prize in 2008, his wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary practice

combines sculpture, film, sound and performance. His work has been widely exhibited,

with a major solo exhibition, See We Assemble, held at the Serpentine Gallery last year

and a recent solo show at Manchester Art Gallery, back in March 2012.

For this talk, Leckey will explore the sensual pleasure of making things that aren’t actually

physically there.

To book your place for this talk or for more information email:

info@chelseaspace.org

The talks series is free and open to the public and will take place in the main

Lecture Theatre at Chelsea College of Art & Design, 16 John Islip St, SW1P 4JU

 

Date Confirmed: Sonia Boyce & Barby Asante: Towards a Hybrid Gallery Space

Diaries at the ready…Wed 11 July it is…

We are very pleased to announce a new date for the Sonia Boyce & Barby Asante: Towards a Hybrid Gallery Space talk, which is now set to take place on Wed 11 July at 6.00-7.30pm in the main Lecture Theatre.

This free panel discussion sees Paul Goodwin, writer, curator and urban researcher chair discussion between Emily Druiff, director of Peckham Space and artists Sonia Boyce and Barby Asante, investigating a new model that brings together curatorial and educational fields.

We’ll be updating you on further information about the discussion shortly, but in the meantime you can now book your place by emailing: info@chelseaspace.org

Incoming: Pil & Galia Kollectiv Next Week

Pil & Galia Kollectiv: Against Human Nature

Wed 30 May, 6.00-7.30pm, FREE

Pil & Galia Kollectiv’s practice is collaborative and interdisciplinary, based primarily in film and performance. Their work addresses the legacy of modernism and the avant- garde and the relationship between art and politics. Pil & Galia will discuss the inherent contradictions of post-Fordist labour, the myth of meritocracy and their art band WE. They will also introduce this artist’s talk with a new two-channel video work, We Are Equilibrium, which was recently shown at the Haifa museum in Israel, and presents a dialogue between two computers.

To book your place for this talk or for more information email: info@chelseaspace.org

The talks series is free and open to the public and will take place in the main Lecture Theatre at Chelsea College of Art & Design, 16 John Islip St, SW1P 4JU

Spring/Summer 2012: Talks Series Announced

Building on the success of previous talks, we have invited a number of diverse

and exciting artists to share their practice and thought provoking ideas on contemporary

themes as part of this Talks Series for Spring/Summer 2012, devised by the CHELSEA public programme & CCW Graduate School at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Throughout this series of talks we’ll be looking at collaboration, the mystique of digital technology, and how curation can meet education, amongst other things.

We are hosting the following upcoming events so why not come along and take part for yourselves…

Pil & Galia Kollectiv: Against Human Nature

Wed 30 May, 6-7.30pm, FREE

Pil & Galia Kollectiv’s practice is collaborative and interdisciplinary, based primarily in film

and performance. Their work addresses the legacy of modernism and the avant- garde and

the relationship between art and politics. Pil & Galia will discuss the inherent contradictions

of post-Fordist labour, the myth of meritocracy and their art band WE. They will also introduce

this artist’s talk with a new two-channel video work, We Are Equilibrium, which was recently

shown in Israel, and presents a dialogue between two computers.

Mark Leckey: Touchy Feely

Thu 28 June, 6-7.30pm, FREE

Turner Prize winner, video pioneer – Mark Leckey is an artist’s artist. His pop references

and use of technology mark him out with a massive influence on the current generation.

Mark Leckey won the Turner Prize in 2008, his wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary practice

combines sculpture, film, sound and performance. His work has been widely exhibited,

with a major solo exhibition, See We Assemble, held at the Serpentine Gallery last year

and a recent solo show at Manchester Art Gallery, back in February 2012. For this talk,

Leckey will explore the sensual pleasure of making things that aren’t actually physically there.

Sonia Boyce & Barby Asante: Towards a Hybrid Gallery Space

Date to be announced for June, 6-7.30pm, FREE

This free panel discussion sees Paul Goodwin, writer, curator and urban researcher chair

discussion between Emily Druiff, director of Peckham Space and artists Sonia Boyce and

Barby Asante, investigating a new model that brings together curatorial and educational fields.

By investigating two projects recently commissioned by Peckham Space, this talk aims

to address the questions: to what extent are these practices considered as art? How do these

practices relate to terms such as ‘community’, ‘socially engaged’ and ‘dialogic or relational’ art?

To book your place for any of these talks or for more information email: info@chelseaspace.org

The talks series is free and open to the public and will take place in the main Lecture Theatre at Chelsea College of Art & Design, 16 John Islip St, SW1P 4JU

 

 

A Call to Arms!

A call to arms!

Art group Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann are looking for collaborators to assist with the planning, production and build of a large-scale public artwork.

As part of the Chelsea Programme project ‘If Not, Then What?’ (curated by Cecilia Wee), CL&M will be producing a temporary pavilion come battlement which will occupy the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground at Chelsea College of Art & Design from 1-13 March 2011. The structure will be the headquarters and centrepiece for a range of workshops, discussions, direct actions and other forms of resistance against the political and social upheaval that exists in Britain today.

This would be an excellent opportunity to experience a live build from early planning stages to its final execution along with opportunities for creative input into the process.

As well as enthusiasm and an interest in inputting into a live creative project, applicants should have a good working knowledge or willingness to learn basic structural woodwork and other construction techniques as well as a host of other manual and creative activities. The project will involve designing and fabricating structure for the RHPG and will involve working independently and in groups.

The construction will be taking place over a 3-day period (1-3 March 2011).

We would ideally like each helper to participate for 3 half days or more during the construction period, as well as attending a brief evening introduction session on Monday 21st Feb, from 5 – 7pm.

If you are interested in being involved, send a short statement of interest including information about your skills and experience to clandmeu@gmail.com by Friday 4th February.

For more information about Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann visit www.clandm.eu

 

If Not, Then What? on Twitter!

Curator and writer Cecilia Wee has set up a Twitter hashtag for If Not, Then What?

Follow the project via twitter – @ifnotthenwhat

Disclaimer – This twitter field is written by Cecilia Wee, and its contents reflect her views. It is not the official twitter feed of CHELSEA public programme or Chelsea College of Art & Design