ARC FREE TICKETS TO PAMELA SCOTT WILKIE ARTIST'S TALK

ARC has ten free tickets for the talk by artist, Pamela Scott Wilkie on Sunday 21 November, 3.30pm at Chalk Hill Contemporary Art, Guildford.

Pamela Scott Wilkie was born in London and originally studied Fine Art with a former student of W. R. Sickert. Interpreting experience through drawing and colour is a common thread that links her paintings, drawings, prints and artist's books. She is particularly interested in exploring memories of poetic moments when time seems to have been suspended. She was commissioned by the Ikon Gallery to make the Horizons series of prints in 2007, 18 prints depicting places visited all over the world. This came after an earlier series known as Journey from 1970, when Pamela drove overland to Asia from the UK through Turkey, Iran and remote parts of Afghanistan. She produced a suite of 20 hand-pulled screen prints based on this experience setting up a studio in Rawalpindi making them there. Pamela Scott Wilkie's work is in private collections in the UK and many parts of the world and in numerous public collections including the V&A and The Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands.

ARC has ten free tickets to this event (normal price £10) including refreshments. Please book with Chalk Hill Contemporary Art stating that you have responded to this call out. Tickets will be issued on a first come, first served basis.

Chalk Hill Contemporary Art

23 Chantry View Rd

Guildford

GU1 3XW

01483 440638

email: annabel@chalk-hill.co.uk

www.chalkhill.co.uk

www.scottwilkie.co.uk

Image: Venetian Gold, Horizon series of prints, 2007

SALON PHOTO PRIZE - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Closing Date: 5pm, Saturday 4 December

An exciting opportunity for photographers - Matt Roberts Arts are inviting applications for their first Salon Photo Prize which will take place next year, from 4 February - 26 February. They expect to exhibit up to 100 practitioners, and one exhibitor will also win the Selectors’ prize of £1000 and a solo exhibition in 2012. This year's selection panel consists of:
Simon Baker, Curator of Photography, Tate

Stefanie Braun, Curator, The Photographers' Gallery

Tim Clark, Editor-in-chief, 1000 Words Photography Magazine 

Charlotte Cotton, Creative Director, National Media Museum

All applicants are being asked to submit a membership fee of £8 instead of an application fee. This will allow artists to apply to all three Salon Prizes - art, photo and video - if appropriate and offers ongoing professional development support through networking events and portfolio sessions.
The deadline for applications is: 5pm, Saturday 4 December.
To apply email salonphotoprize@mattroberts.org.uk or download the application procedures from www.salonartprize.com

Image:  Mauricio Arango, 'The Night of the Moon has Many Hours', 2010
the winner of the Salon Video 2010 Selectors' prize.

ONE TO ONE SURGERIES AVAILABLE WITH JOSEFINA POSCH

We are pleased to be able to offer artists in the South East the opportunity of a one to one surgery with Josefina Posch, the 2010 Art Space Portsmouth International Artist in Residence on Wednesday 24 November.   Surgeries last 50 minutes and there are four places available which will take place at aspex gallery in Portsmouth.  Artists can use these sessions to gain feedback on their work or to discuss any aspect of career development, fundraising, making proposals, or a particular project.  To register your interest, please email a copy of your CV, artist’s statement, 4 jpeg images of current work and a paragraph or two about what you would like to discuss to arc@aspex.org.uk.  Closing date Wednesday 17 November.

On Thursday 25 November from 6.30  to 8.30 pm artists are also invited to attend a critique with Josefina when she will consider the results of her residency in the Art Space studios in Portsmouth.  Please email arc to reserve your place.

Josefina's work has been exhibited in Europe, China and the USA.  She has also successfully completed residencies in New York and Shanghai.Her work explores interactive and kinetic sculpture, new media and moving image, with particular interest in the 'intersection between man and machine'.
You can find out more about Josefina and her work at http://www.wooloo.org/artists/694 or follow her blog at http://aspinternationalresidency2010.blogspot.com/.

NEXT TUESDAY - 2 NOVEMBER - LIFE DRAWING CLASS

Do you know that Life Drawing classes regularly take place at aspex on the first Tuesday of every month?  Led by artist Melanie Rose they provide an informal, relaxed environment in which both beginners and those with experience can develop their drawing skills. Melanie Rose specialises in drawing, but with a conceptual approach, in as much that she will use whatever is needed to communicate what she is exploring. In the past she has used super8 film, paint, installation, photography, sound and digital imagery. She is drawn to the bespoke and how it fits with the digital age and how education can benefit from technology, but also how audiences are exhausted of it. Consequently her fascination lies with the politics of delivery, seduction and the value of technology compared to that of the hand made. £15 per person and all materials are provided. Email info@aspex.org.uk or call 023 9277 8080 to reserve your place. www.melanierose.org.uk

CALL FOR ARC ALTERNATIVE CHRISTMAS TREE Closing Date: Wednesday 17 November

Apologies for mentioning Christmas at the beginning of November, but arc is once again looking for original and creative ideas for an ‘alternative’ Christmas Tree.  It could be sculpture, installation, intervention, decoration - the only limit is your imagination.  Jo Bushnell, Director of aspex, has  kindly agreed to make the selection and the selected artist will be awarded £200 to use in whatever way they wish to realise the project.  Short proposals clearly describing and illustrating your ideas should be emailed to arc@aspex.org.uk  by Wednesday 17 November.  We would like to have the Christmas Tree on display by mid December.  Final details will be negotiated with the selected artist.
Image arc Christmas Tree 2009, Jane Kilford

APPLICATIONS INVITED FOR STANDPOINT FUTURES 2011. Closing Date: Tuesday 30 November

In place of our own arc award for 2011, arc will be supporting the Standpoint Futures Development Residencies for regional UK visual artists. Applications are now invited for this new national residency scheme for emerging/mid career artists from across the UK - who are based out- side of Greater London. Standpoint Futures offers artists 4-6 weeks working at Standpoint in East London. Alongside studio practice the residency offers a tailored programme of professional and practice development opportunities including studio visits from leading artists, curators and writers; gallery visits; peer network opportunities; a public talk and presentation. One residency per year is reserved for artists working in the public realm and/or socially engaged practice. This residency will include realisation of a public project alongside all the development opportunities in the broader scheme. Jonathan Parsons will be involved with the selection process for this project.  For further information and application details visit: www.standpointlondon/futures.html or send an SSAE to: Stand- point Futures, 45 Coronet Street, London N1 6HD. Deadline for applications is Tuesday 30 November. http://www.standpointlondon.co.uk/Futures.html

Freelance Artist Tutor Opportunity

Turner Contemporary are currently seeking two practising artists to work together to deliver creative, fun and inspiring sessions within the Art Works 15 week course that will enable participants to understand more about contemporary, modern and historical works and their relevance to everyday life.

Closing date for applications:
12pm midday Friday 29 October
Interview date:
Tuesday 2nd / Wednesday 3rd November

Turner Contemporary has received funding from Thanet Works to deliver a 15 week course for 30 local unemployed people with the aim to increase skills and awareness of working in a gallery.  They hope that course participants will become more skilled at understanding artists’ ideas and ways of seeing and representing the world, and in turn, develop skills to discuss these with members of the public. The artists will be responsible for planning and delivering these sessions, which can include making, thinking, talking and visits to other museums and galleries, and can also draw on the support and specialisms of the wider team at Turner Contemporary. The project will need to engage participants with a variety of different levels of ability, interests and learning styles.
Post holders will need to be available to start in the second week of November (date TBC)
Hours will be based upon 60 delivery hours* across the duration + planning hours. *The exact number of expected hours will be confirmed at interview.

To apply for the post please provide a statement no longer than 300 words outlining why you think you are suitable for this post and an up to date CV.
Please also provide images of up to 6 pieces of work that you have recently produced.
If successful, you will be asked to provide evidence of a Police Check obtained within the last two years.
Applications accepted by email to Steve Kreeger at: artworks@monkeysbrother.co.uk
And by post to Steve Kreeger at:
Turner Contemporary
17-18 The Parade
Margate
Kent CT9 1EY
For full details about the position, click here to visit Turner Contemporary's website

'Great (Cultural) Expectations' Seminar, Turner Contemporary

Designs for the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw

Tuesday 26 October, 11 am to 5 pm
Can we meet the political, social and educational expectations that are placed on major cultural projects and at the same time meet our own expectations?
This seminar looks at the development of major new institutions and the evolution of significant cultural projects that thread their way in to the existing infrastructure of a town or city.

Join the discussion – book your ticket by email: nationalprogrammes@contemporaryartsociety.org or call 020 7831 3221.

Droit House, Stone Pier, Margate
Free to Contemporary Art Society members
£15 to non members

Organised by the Contemporary Art Society, Turner Contemporary Director Victoria Pomery and Head of Exhibitions Sarah Martin will be joined in the seminar by Ana Janevski, Curator, New Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland, Andrea Schlieker, Curator, Folkestone Triennial and Joanna Warsza, Artistic Director, the Laura Palmer Foundation.


For full details and seminar schedule click here

LINDSAY SEERS, IT HAS TO BE THIS WAY 1.5

The installation of Lindsay Seer's exhibition at aspex is well under way and on schedule for the Preview on Saturday. It has to be this way 1.5  is a new commission by aspex and marks Lindsay Seers’ continued attempts to unravel the mystery surrounding the disappearance of her stepsister, Christine Parkes.  The work takes full advantage of the gallery space and already looks like an exhibition not to be missed.

Lindsay Seers, It has to be this way 1.5
Preview: Saturday 23 October, 2 to 4 pm
Exhibition: 23 October 2010 to 2 January 2011
 

In 1999 a young woman was involved in a moped accident. She suffered damage
to both her short and long-term memory and was left unable to decipher her
experiences. A year later she went missing in Rome and has subsequently not been
found.
It has to be this way1.5 is a new commission by aspex and marks Lindsay Seers’
continued attempts to unravel the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the
young woman, her stepsister, Christine Parkes.
The artist, obsessed with the transformative powers of photography, follows
streams of associations; her stepsister’s boyfriend’s diary, her mother’s memories
alongside a shared archive of images and papers, determine the outline of her
ongoing journey and the form for the unfolding narrative of the work. The viewer
enters a structure in which everything is connected, a memory theatre painted
blue, a giant star, a doubled video, and a documentary and novella that weave
together a complex set of relationships which shift at every turn.
What constitutes the artistic practice of Lindsay Seers is not mere storytelling,
but a matrix where there is no formal separation between the conceptual
investigation of the act of photography, the camera as apparatus, the common
desire for film and photography to act as evidence of events, and the complex
historical and personal synchronicities of the events themselves. What we are
witnessing in the work of Seers is not so much a detached systematic outline of
these relationships, but the unfolding of the creative process, where the act of
observation and understanding influences the outcome of events.
Through Seers’ photographic explorations the past is constantly reconfigured, as
if it contains an infinite virtual potential for different outcomes, which are all
already embedded in one another.
Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, will also be exhibiting the work of Lindsay
Seers. The installation It has to be this way2 will be exhibited from 9 October
until 11 December 2010.
Lindsay Seers is based in London. She was recently awarded the Derek Jarman
Award with a commission of four short films for Channel 4. Her recent
exhibitions include It has to be this way2, at the National Gallery of Denmark
(2010), Persistence of Vision, FACT (2010), Steps into the Arcane,
Kuntsmuseum, Thurgau, Switzerland (2010), Altermodern, Fourth Tate
Triennial, Tate Britain (2009), It has to be this way, Matt’s Gallery, London
(2009), and Event Horizon, (performance/screening), Royal Academy of Art,
London (2008).
EVENT INFORMATION
Gallery Talk
Thursday 11 November, 6pm
Artist David Burrows will give a critical response to Lindsay Seers’ work.

aspex is open 11am – 4pm daily, admission is FREE.
t: 023 9277 8080, e: info@aspex.org.uk, www.aspex.org.uk

In Conversation With Suki Chan and Haroon Mirza.

Tuesday 26 October, 5.45 to 6.30 pm, The Lightbox

Suki Chan and Haroon Mirza in conversation with ARC Lead Artist, Jonathan

Parsons.

The Ingram Collection: Contemporary Art featuring Suki Chan & Haroon Mirza

will showcase contemporary video and installation artworks from The Ingram

Collection for the first time.

Expanding the collection in new and interesting

ways Chris Ingram has recently begun to support emerging contemporary

artists.

The Lightbox is proud to present these new works that push the boundaries of sculpture, new media and

installation art.

The exhibition Private View in the Upper Gallery will follow the in conversation event from 6.30 pm to

8.30 pm.

The exhibition continues until 21 November.

Preview: Lindsay Seers, It Has To Be This Way 1.5

Saturday 23 October, 2 to 4 pm, aspex

"Following an accident, a chain of events takes us on a journey through history where everything is connected. It has to be this way 1.5 continues Lindsay Seers’ filmic and photographic search for her lost stepsister, Christine Parkes, in which she reconstructs a past in which characters move across history. By recasting photography as an act that actually creates experiences, rather than explores them, Seers’ work extends the boundaries of photography."

Lindsay Seers is based in London, she lectures in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College. It has to be

this way was originally commissioned by Matt’s Gallery London in 2009.

It has to be this way 1.5 is a new commission by aspex, Portsmouth.

Email info@aspex.org.uk or call 023 9277 8080 to reserve your place.

Image: Lindsay Seers, It has to be this way, 2009 [installation view at Matt's Gallery], courtesy of the artist and Matt’s

Gallery.

Exhibition Talk: Artists in Residence, Dorking.

Thursday 14 October, 7 to 8pm

Mark Segal, Director of ArtSway, in conversation with the artists in residence, Anne Brodie and Amanda Loomes.

Artists in Residence, Dorking

13 St Martins Walk Shopping Centre

Dorking

Surrey

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In Conversation With Jonathan Parsons.

Saturday 9 October, 7 to 8 pm

Jonathan Parsons, ARC Lead Artist, in conversation with the artists in residence.

aspex After Hours: Have Another Word

 Following the success of Have a Word, the open mic event in June, aspex presents another evening of entrtainment where you get to be the star on Thursday 7 October, 6 to 8 pm.  The event is open to anyone interested in poetry, storytelling, lyrics set to music or word based performance of any kind - or just come to watch and enjoy a drink in the licensed bar.
There is still time to register your interest in taking part or if you would like to reserve a place, email info@aspex.org.uk or call 023 9277 8080.


Photo:  Kara Benford's Live Text performance at aspex.
Photographer:  Fiona Price, arc volunteer photographer.

SAVE THE ARTS

Following on from Shrigley, Deller and Wallinger, this week it is the turn of Yinka Shonibare to present the work he has created for the campaign against cuts. The number of signatures on the petition now stands at 43,864 which is still a long way from the 100,000 needed to ensure a discussion in parliament.
It's creeping up gradually but the campaign still needs a lot more support, so if you haven't already done so, sign the petition now, and make sure all your colleagues and contacts do to!
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-the-arts.html
www.savethearts.org.uk

Exhibition Opening Event: Artists In Residence, Dorking

Friday 1st October, 6pm to 9pm, St Martins Walk, Shopping Centre, Dorking, RH4 1PQ
Artists Ackroyd & Harvey, Anne Brodie and Amanda Loomes come together for their first joint exhibition held in their hometown in ‘Artists in Residence, Dorking’.
The artists have well established reputations and have been the recipients of numerous international awards and prizes.
'Artists in Residence, Dorking’ challenges the artists to make a new body of work in response to their hometown and surrounding locale whilst considering the implications of a long-term residency with regard to habit and habitat. At a time when our culture is in the process of realising the value of local sustainability, the project questions what local means to these artists.
Mole Valley District Council have been actively involved in supporting the project and will be working with the artists to transform a vacant shop into a temporary gallery to be launched during the Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival.
A series of talks in conjunction with arc will be held during the exhibition including Jonathan Parsons in conversation with the artists on Saturday 9 October at 7pm and Mark Segal in conversation with Anne Brodie and amanda Loomes on Thursday 14 October at 7pm.

Professional Development Support Programme at DLWP

Following last year’s successful pilot, the self-directed professional development programme for artists is starting up again at De La Warr Pavilion in October.
Fifteen artists sign up for a six month period, agreeing to meet once a month, and programme four sessions for themselves based on their agreed CPD priorities and interests. The sessions can include one to one surgeries, crit groups and artists talks and use of the facilities at DLWP.
The aim is to provide a more in-depth experience for artists that will have a greater benefit and impact on their practice.
If you would like to be involved please email David Rhodes david.rhodes@dlwp.com or for more information see dlwp.com/education/artists.

Save The Arts Campaign

 Mark Wallinger, 'Reckless'

Continuing the campaign to Save the Arts, Mark Wallinger's work, 'Reckless' was released this week, following on from work by Jeremy Deller and David Shrigley all of which can be found at
http://savethearts-uk.blogspot.com/

The campaign still has a long way to go if we are to reach the 100,000 signatures though to ensure a debate in parliament.  With 40,848 signatures we are almost at the halfway mark so its important to continue to encourage all friends, colleagues and contacts to sign up now!


Sign the petition here:

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-the-arts.html

http://savethearts-uk.blogspot.com/

ABERYSTWYTH RESIDENCY - OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS

For all those who came to Josefina Posch's talk last Thursday at aspex and were impressed and

envious of all the residencies she has completed, here are the details of a fantastic residency based in Wales.  You only have until 30 September to apply though - so make a start on your application today!

Applications are now invited for the Laura Ashley Residency Award.  The successful artist will be based for a period of 3 months between May - July 2011 at the Creative Arts Units at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, part of Aberystwyth University.

The residency is open to UK visual artists in all disciplines including applied arts.  The aim of the residency is to allow an artist ‘time out’ to develop their work as they wish while also including 12 days of education work with people in the locality. The basic idea of this education work should be proposed by the artist with their application, and the details of the project will be planned and organised by Arts Centre staff with the artist, before their arrival.

The successful artist will receive studio space of c. 35 square metres, accommodation, living expenses for the duration of their residency and extra payment per day of education work.

Aberystwyth Arts Centre’s Artists’ Residencies are based in the award-winning Creative Arts Units designed by Thomas Heatherwick.  The residencies offer the chance for the artist to step away from the everyday constraints of life and experience time in which to develop individual artistic practice, and also to exchange ideas in a creative atmosphere with people from other disciplines. The Laura Ashley Residency also offers the opportunity to plan and carry out an educational project within the area. We do expect the successful artist to have some experience of education work, but they will also receive support and guidance from the experienced Visual Arts Education team.

How To Apply:
The deadline for applications for this residency which will take place from the start of May until the end of July 2011 is 30 September 2010. Applications can arrive at any point up until this date; early applications are encouraged.

Applicants should fill in the Residency application form and send it to the address listed on the form, together with the visual and printed material and references as requested.

If further copies of the form are required, by post or by email, please email etr@aber.ac.uk

Or call 01970 622887/ 621634

Information can also be downloaded from:

http://www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk/information/artistsinresidence.shtml           

JOIN THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST ARTS FUNDING CUTS

Over a hundred leading artists including David Hockney, Anthony Caro, Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Anish Kapoor, Richard Hamilton, Antony Gormley and Tracey Emin have joined the campaign to fight against the proposed 25% cuts in government funding of the arts and we would like you to join too!

The campaign was launched on Friday 10 September 2010 with the release of a new video animation by artist David Shrigley highlighting the effect of the funding cuts:
An important message about the arts' - an animated video by artist David Shrigley 
Each week the work of a different artist, created in response to the campaign, will be released. Jeremy Deller and Mark Wallinger will follow David Shrigley.

Please visit the Save the Arts website - www.savethearts.org.uk - including links to Facebook, Vimeo and Twitter to sign the online petition,  NOW!  Or go direct to the petition at http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-the-arts.html

ARC EVENTS FOR SEPTEMBER 2010

Ed Pien, South Hill Park

ARC might be working on a tight budget - as all arts organisations are at the moment - but we still have some great events coming up in September. Most events are free and open to everyone, so if you would like to reserve a place just email the contact given with the event details and we'll see you there.






Symposium: Art & Space
Wednesday 8 September, 1 – 6pm, FREE
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea
Art & Space, organised by Coastal Currents Festival 2010 and supported by ARC, brings together five leading curators from London and the South East to explore the use of the public domain as a gallery space.
The afternoon will provide an intriguing insight into a range of recent exciting and innovative site-specific projects across the region. Discussions will contextualise Coastal Current's artist intervention programme 'Place', developing around central themes of art and regeneration, location temporality and permanence, social engagement and a move from the role of the artist auteur to collaborator or producer.
Please book in advance by calling 07841 757866 or email creativecoastmail@gmail.com
www.dlwp.com

Josefina Posch
Thursday 9 September, 6.30 – 8.30pm, FREE
aspex
Art Space Portsmouth’s international artist in residence will talk about her practice and the residency in the Art Space studios in Portsmouth.
Email arc@aspex.org.uk to reserve your place.

Introducing Ed Pien
Saturday 11 September, 12pm, FREE
South Hill Park
Ed Pien discusses his work, exploring the otherworldly, invisibility, disappearance and journeys, and his new installation 'Memento' in the Bracknell Gallery, South Hill Park, that opens to the public on the same day at 1pm. Ed Pien was born in Taiwan and moved to Canada aged 11. He received his Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of Western Ontario and Master of Fine Art from York University. Pien has exhibited internationally including the Drawing Centre, New York; La Biennale de Montreal; Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City; plAAy, Blackburn and The Goethe Institute, Berlin. Although the event is free, booking is required. Bookings by email: exhibitions.intern@southhillpark.org.uk
Directions to South Hill Park, Ringmead, Bracknell RG12 7PA: http://www.southhillpark.org.uk/aboutUsTravel.jsp

Hatem Imam
Thursday 16 September, 6.30 – 8.30pm
Turner Contemporary, Droit House,
Lebanon-based artist and designer Hatem Imam leads a professional development discussion for practitioners. Where do artists situate educator roles within their practice? And how might this vary between the UK and Beirut? This event is part of the Golden Threads fellowship programme organised by the collective Delta Arts in association with Gasworks, London. Funded by Arts Council England. Supported by ARC. Described by Bidoun magazine as 'a shaggy-haired polymath', Hatem Imam works in the fields of visual arts, design, theater, event organization, publishing, and education. As a visual artist his work includes print media, installation, photography, video, and painting, and he has exhibited in Lebanon, Italy, Germany, the United States, and UK. His research focuses on the production of landscape in printed media and their relation to national identity.
Please contact sangiama@turnercontemporary.org to book a place.

Matt Smith, One to One Surgeries
Thursday 23 September, 11am - 5pm
We are pleased to be able to offer another day of one to one surgeries with contemporary ceramicist, Matt Smith. There are five appointments available between 11am and 5pm and appointments will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

Matt has a very successful practice as a contemporary ceramicist which he has built up since graduating from Westminster University in 2006. This includes a number of awards and commissions and inclusion in various Art Fairs represented by commercial galleries. He has exhibited in galleries across the UK and also undertakes freelance curatorial, consultancy and training work and has worked on an impressive range of projects. In the past he has worked as Head of Exhibitions for the British Film Institute,and as Manager of various projects at the Science Museum. He is therefore well placed to share his experience as an artist and curator and offer advice to other artists. He also has a very warm and friendly personality!

If you feel a discussion with Matt could help you and your practice, then please email arc@aspex.org.uk as soon as possible for an appointment.