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City & Guilds of London Art School
Degree Show
21 - 26 June 2011
Unique among London art schools, City & Guilds Art School (C & G) offers
progressive ideas combined with fine draughtsmanship. Students enjoy an
exceptionally high student-to-tutor ratio and are given a strong foundation of
craft skills within a distinctly contemporary context. This special approach
reaches its conclusion at this summer’s BA Degree Show in June. From the
Fine Art BA, 13 painters and 2 sculptors will be exhibiting alongside 8
Conservators and 16 Historic Carvers.
City and Guilds was founded in 1879 and remains one of the only
independent art schools in the country. Surviving entirely without public
subsidy, the school is able to remain small and specialised. In total there are
205 students across the Fine Art, Historic Carving and Conservation
departments and over 70 part-time tutors. There are in excess of 40
subsidised bursary places to ensure a high calibre of students from all
backgrounds, and a consistently high and rising level of applications.
Recently ranked by Modern Painters as the 3rd best graduate arts programme in the UK, City & Guilds is in its ascendancy. The Degree show will be exhibited in the school's historic buildings in Kennington and much of the work will be on sale.
Dates & Opening Times
WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE 2 pm – 9 pm Private view
THURSDAY 23 JUNE 10 am – 7.30 pm Open to the Public
FRIDAY 24 JUNE 10 am – 7.30 pm Open to the Public
SATURDAY 25 JUNE 10 am – 5 pm Open to the Public
SUNDAY 26 JUNE 10 am – 5 pm Open to the Public
Notes to Editors
For further information and press images please contact:
Susie Pickering PR
Susie@spickering.com
Ai Weiwei
Lisson Gallery, 52-54 and 29 Bell Street
Lisson Gallery is proud to present a major exhibition of work by Ai Weiwei. The selection of key works from the past six years was agreed with the artist at the beginning of this year.
Ai Weiwei was detained by authorities in Beijing while trying to board a flight to Hong Kong on 3 April and has not been seen or heard from since. Lisson Gallery, along with all his supporters in the UK and around the world, is alarmed by the detention of Ai Weiwei and greatly concerned for his safety.
Updated news and information can be found at www.freeaiweiwei.org. Please sign a petition started by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and signed by leading members of the international arts community:
http://www.change.org/petitions/call-for-the-release-of-ai-weiwei
The studio and supporters of Ai Weiwei are determined to proceed with his planned projects. We hope you will join us to see and celebrate the work of one of the most significant living artists, cultural figures, and champions of human rights in China and worldwide.
Exhibition Facts
Dates:13 May - 16 July 2011
Opening Hours: Monday-Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 11am-5pm
Location: 52-54 and 29 Bell Street, London, NW1 5DA
Tel: + 44(0)20 7724 2739
For press information and images please contact:
Rose Prevezer or Toby Kidd
Tel: +44 20 89693959
Email: rose@jbpelhampr.com or toby@jbpelhampr.com
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Dylan Culhane
Transcendental Wayfaring
10 June - 26 August 2011
Dylan Culhane, U-Turn, (South Africa, 2011) 120x 90cm, Multiple exposure photograph, C-print, Courtesy EB&Flow and the artist
EB&Flow is pleased to announce Dylan Culhane’s first London solo exhibition. Culhane experiments with multi exposure photography. His work features meticulous layering of multiple exposures on celluloid in the way a painter might build up brush-strokes of oil upon canvas.
He will be presenting a series of photographs which demonstrate a unique and personal representation of place. Many were taken in and around his native Cape Town. Photography is one of South Africa’s most dynamic art forms yet gritty documentary images within the tradition of struggle have dominated Western perceptions entrenching a very one-dimensional view of the country and its art. Culhane aspires to push these boundaries of convention by embracing a fresh, experimental, view of the country in his work and harnessing the sizzling zeitgeist.
"By layering contrasting exposures, Dylan forces us to appreciate how an artist can be an illusionist, transfiguring generic landscapes into emotive, alternate realities. Dylan pushes the visual boundaries and capabilities of the camera for the aesthetic delight of us, the viewer."
Margherita Berloni, Co-Director, EB&Flow
Culhane regards the celluloid negative as a canvas, layering it with dabs, splatters, slits and shapes of light. In his new work he explores the tactility of working with paint and collage in multiple exposures. He works reductively by stripping layers of emulsion from the celluloid negative in a sequence of exposures dictated by the interplay of light and shadow on film.
Drawing on a variety of influences including MC Escher, Japanese sumi-e painting and Op-Art, Culhane’s work is distinctive in that wherever possible he resists the lure of digital manipulation, using oft-forgotten in-camera techniques to create provocative images more akin to illustration, painting, or digital design than photography. Steering clear of any single subject opens up the final product to an array of interpretations. The Buddhist philosophy, specifically the idea that nothing is constant or fixed, also plays a strong influence in his work.
Key Information
Dylan Culhane exhibition dates, 10 June – 26 August 2011
Address: 77 Leonard Street, London, EC2A 4QS
Opening Times: Tuesday - Friday 10- 6pm, Saturday 11- 3pm
Nearest tube: Old Street
Phone number: +44 (0)20 7729 7797
Website: www.ebandflowgallery.com
For press information and images please contact:
Sophie da Gama Campos or Toby Kidd at JBPelhamPR
Tel: +44 (0)20 8969 3959
Email: sophie@jbpelhampr.com or toby@jbpelhampr.com