PUBLICATION 03

Sculpture Social (staff)

Staff Meeting DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

Mina Salimi

18th November, 2010

Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art and Design, 16 John Islip Street, London, SW1P 4JU

The newly commissioned work of Mina Salimi, the recipient of the CASS PRIZE 2010 will be exhibited on the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground and the grounds of the CASS Sculpture Foundation. 

CASS PRIZE

About the Award

The Cass Sculpture Foundation and Cass Art along with the University of the Arts London have developed the CASS PRIZE, an MA Sculpture prize to be awarded to a graduating MA student from University of the Arts London. Cass Art, Cass Sculpture Foundation and University of the Arts London wish to promote emerging artists working in the sculptural medium, build a wider audience for contemporary sculpture, and engage students across University of the Arts London in demonstrating excellence in creative practice.

Winning Selection

The first annual CASS PRIZE of £10,000 allocates £8,000 towards the commissioning of the winning submission and a cash prize of £2,000 for the winning artist. The selected work will be installed on the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground at Chelsea College of Art and Design in Autumn 2010 and featured as part of the Shaping Sculpture programme. Following this, the work will be displayed on the Cass Sculpture Foundation's grounds as one of its commissioned works for sale.

The winner of the CASS PRIZE 2010 was Mina Salimi, her work can be seen on the Chelsea Parade ground from November 18th 2010.

More information on the CASS PRIZE exhibition can be found here.

Iberian Statues, Immutable Objects, and Staffordshire Pottery Dogs.

SATURDAY 6TH NOVEMBER, 3pm

Zabludowicz Collection, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London, NW5 3PT

Toby Ziegler and curator George Unsworth explore an archive of the artist's found images. A ranging conversation discussing processes of production in Contemporary Art.

SS08: DAVID BATCHELOR 14TH MARCH 2011, 6PM Byam Shaw School of Art Lecture Theatre, 2 Elthorne Road, N19 4AG

David Batchelor’s work is concerned above all things with colour, a sheer delight in the myriad brilliant hues of the urban environment and underlined by a critical concern with how we see and respond to colour in this advanced technological age. His studio is a treasure trove piled high with an endless variety of fluorescent plastic objects - clothes pegs, fly-swatters, buckets, spades, children’s toys, empty bottles of household products - found in pound shops and markets in cities the world over. He combines these everyday items with a range of light-industrial materials: steel shelving, commercial lightboxes, neon tubing, warehouse dollies, acrylics, plastics and so on to produce extraordinary installations which exalt the ordinary and celebrate the lurid and trashy whilst being, in themselves, often mesmerisingly beautiful.

Batchelor was born in Dundee in 1955 and lives and works in London. 

SCULPTURE SOCIAL (staff)  Staff Meeting Wednesday 27th October 2010, 6.30pm ICA BAR / The Mall / SW1Y 5AH

Martin Creed Artist Talk Wednesday 24th November 2010, 630pm Central St. Martins College, Cochrane Theatre

Martin Creed was born in Wakefield, England, in 1968, and from 1986-90 attended the Slade School of Art in London. He lives and works in London. He has exhibited worldwide and his work is featured in many public collections, notably the Tate in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2001 he won the Turner Prize for 'The lights going on and off'. Creed's art is characterised by a gentle but subversive wit and by a minimalism rooted in an instinctive anti-materialism. His often extremely self-effacing works, all titled by number, have been characterised as 'attempts to short-circuit the visually overloaded, choice saturated culture in which we live'. They also take their place in the honourable tradition within the avant-garde of making work which appears to have no material value - which resists or defies commodification, even if in vain. Hence his conscious use of modest and everyday materials. Whatever the materials, his work is always arresting and can be visually spectacular, as for example his neon works, or what is probably his most celebrated piece, Work No.200 1998, 'half the air in a given space'. Widely exhibited, this consists of a sufficient number of twelve inch white balloons filled with air to half-fill the gallery space.

SS09: ANNA BARRIBALL 8th November, 6pm Chelsea College of Art and Design Main Lecture Theatre

Anna Barriball’s work hinges on minimal interactions with objects and often steps between the parallel languages of drawing and sculpture. Much of her practice explores and depicts the accretion of time – from the length of time it takes for a candle to burn down to the repetitious activity of taking graphite rubbings from objects that bare the traces of their use or function. In her hands a map of the world is transformed into a strange expanse of shimmering substance, or the bounce of a rubber ball on a piece of paper creates the effect of a cosmic explosion. Her interventions produce objects that combine a minimalistic rigour and the seemingly endless endeavour to make sense of the world of objects by empirical study.

Anna Barriball will have a solo exhibition at Frith Street Gallery in early 2009. Other notable shows include Walsall Art Gallery in 2006, Gasworks Gallery, London and Newlyn Art Gallery in 2005 and Arnolfini, Bristol in 2003. Barriball’s work was included in the British Art Show 6 at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead and touring and is also featured in Phaidon’s major publication Vitamin D, a survey of contemporary drawing.

Anna Barriball will be the ninth artist to speak as part of a monthly artist talks programme being curated by George Unsworth, curator of Shaping Sculpture for University of the Arts London. For more information on these talks and the Shaping Sculpture programme visit: www.shapingsculpture.com. Join the Shaping Sculpture 2010 Facebook Group for regular updates. The Shaping Sculpture Talks Series is supported by the Patrons of University of the Arts London.

WINTER TERM

George Unsworth Director/Curator of Shaping Sculpture [email protected] 07713113590

SS07: GEORGE HENRY LONGLY 20th October 2010, 6pm Chelsea College of Art and Design Main Lecture Theatre

In his work George Henry Longly inquires into the rules, habitual ways of looking and norms of behaviour that are enforced by our education and shape our experience. He traces the rigid logic of such standards back to the functional character of everyday objects that are used to delineate space, measure things or bodies and elicit patterns of norm-regulated behaviour. By staging these objects in installations he makes them perform in an ambiguous way: exposing the social function they fulfill, he equally also strips them of their utilitarian programme, and charges them with a different sense of unscripted potential.

EXHIBITION

Before and After Modernism Exhibition Opening 15th November 2010, 6pm Central St. Martins College, Lethaby Gallery

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EVENT

'Before and After Modernism: Byam Shaw, Rex Vicat Cole, Yinka Shonibare'

22nd November, 6.30pm

Cochrane Theatre, Central Saint Martins, Southampton Row, London, WC1B 4AP

A special evening to celebrate the centenary of the Byam Shaw School of Art, founded in 1910 by the Edwardian artists, and close friends, Rex Vicat Cole and Byam Shaw. Featuring Yinka Shonibare MBE in conversation with Timothy Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University and curator of the winter exhibition in the Lethaby Gallery at Central Saint Martins ('Before and After Modernism: Byam Shaw, Rex Vicat Cole, Yinka Shonibare').

Tickets are free and will be released at midday on 9th November 

www.cochranetheatre.co.uk

Futurama: Visions for Peckham

17 September 10 to 27 November 2010

Venue: Peckham Space, University of the Arts London, Peckham Square SE15 5RS 

Futurama brings the spirit of the Worlds Fair to SE15’s newest arts venue Peckham Space. This exhibition charts the journey of lead artist Harold Offeh, design team Glass Hill and local young people from Leaders of Tomorrow to imagine a better future for Peckham. 

Harold Offeh will create a showroom of designed objects, video and images dedicated to this dynamic future vision. Inspired by how design can change the immediate surroundings, Offeh has invited Leaders of Tomorrow to re-imagine and improve their environment. Through site visits, tours and discussions, the young people have identified design solutions to improve the area. These solutions include innovative seating, signage and lighting which will be realised by design team Glass Hill. Futurama will bring to life this futuristic vision for an experience that draws on the rich history and legacy of international Worlds fairs and Expos.