Melting Trutt - 2010, oil and acrylic on canvas, 120 X135 cm

MA Fine Art (Painting) alumnus, Govinda Prasad Sah, recently exhibited his collection of paintings, ‘Emotions in Motion’, at the Siddhartha Art Gallery. The exhibition, which was inaugurated by John Tucknott, the British Ambassador to Nepal, takes viewers on a journey through a spectrum of emotions.

Govinda, who was born in the Terai region of Nepal, studied under Newari instructors at Kathmandu College of Fine Arts. He then went onto study at Tribhuvan University before moving to the UK where he graduated with a Masters in Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art in 2008.

Inspired by Newari art and Varinya Buddhism, Govinda’s paintings capture the most complicated notions of eastern philosophy, human nature and life. Some of Govinda’s paintings have been sponsored by both the British Council in Nepal and the Egyptian Ambassador to Nepal. He was also short-listed for the prestigious John Moore’s Contemporary Painting Award in 2010.

Read more about Govinda and his ‘Emotions in Motion’ exhibition here

In November we were delighted to announce that Theatre Design graduate Hyemi Shin was awarded the overall winner of the prestigious Linbury Prize for Stage Design 2011. In addition to collecting £3,500 in prize money, Hyemi was also given the opportunity to design a professional production with a major theatre company.  Her award winning design for ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ will be showing at the Lyric Hammersmith from 11 February - 17 March 2012. Make sure you don’t miss out! Book your tickets here.

Construction Gallery is a three-month pop-up creative hub in Tooting, showcasing talent across the fields of visual art, live music and literature. Through the generosity of the Outer London Fund the main space will host ambitious large-scale sculpture with a further five project spaces dedicated to bringing together artists, writers, performers and designers to create new work for the public to explore.

RCA graduate Alistair McClymont is showing his work After the Rain in the main space for the next three weeks. There are also individual project spaces showing film and sound work, and rooms for both artists and writers to take up temporary residencies.

The Gallery has been brought to life by Wimbledon College of Art alumni Pippa Koszerek and Fiona Long. Recent WCA Fine Art Painting graduates Warren Andrews and Christopher Lawrence are working on the curation and design; and artist in residence, Sam Robinson’s paintings will go on display this week. Several current students are involved in the day-to-day running of the project.

The success of the Gallery depends on the people using it. So get involved!

The launch night with live music and bar is on:

Wednesday 25th January from 6.30pm to 9pm

Construction Gallery and Cafe, 74 – 80 Upper Tooting Road, London SW17 7PB (Nearest tube: Tooting Bec)

Congratulations to Wimbledon College of Art Time-Based Media graduate, Max Dovey, who has been named in the 2012 Catlin Guide.

Launched at the London Art Fair on 18 January, the 2012 Catlin Guide showcases what its editor, Justin Hammond, claims are Britain’s 40 most promising artists. The guide exhibits the 40 artists’  latest work and details future exhibitions, projects and aspirations for the coming year.

Dovey, who graduated from WCA in July 2011, is a performance artist. One of his previous performance pieces, includes the Emotional Stock Market (pictured above), which was presented as part of the 2011 Fine Art Degree Show. The Emotional Stock Market is where happiness, sadness and love can be bought and sold. The emotional data is streamed from Twitter, creating a live visualisation in the marketplace.

Click here for The Guardian’s article on Max Dovey and 5 other artists in this year’s Catlin Guide.

The nominees for Future Map 11 have been announced. Wimbledon College of Art graduates included this year are (from top to bottom):

• Alex March – MA Fine Art
• Poppy Bisdee – BA Fine Art: Sculpture
• Jade Heritage – BA Fine Art: Print and Time-based Media
• Nathan Murphy – MA Fine Art

Future Map is an annual survey show exhibiting the best cutting edge talent from the graduating year at University of the Arts London. Reviewing all the graduate and postgraduate courses in art, design, fashion and communications, a panel of industry experts chose works they feel best represent the next generation of creativity.

This year’s panel are David Roberts – Collector and Founder of the David Roberts Arts Foundation, Mark Rappolt – Editor, Art Review, Lulu Guinness – internationally acclaimed handbag designer and Matt Stinchcomb – European Director, Etsy.com.

The winner of the Future Map prize – £3,000 and an opportunity to make a commercial edition with the Zabludowicz Collection will be announced in January 2012.

The Future Map 11 exhibition runs from 12 January - 5 February 2012 at Zabludowicz Collection.

www.futuremap.arts.ac.uk

Last Friday 25 November saw Hiraeth, a play written by Wimbledon College of Art BA Theatre Design graduate Buddug Jones being performed at the Lyric Theatre in London as part of their Lyric Lounge series.

Hiraeth explores the decline of Welsh Tradition and identity through the story of one woman’s struggle to escape. Hiraeth was produced in association with multi award-winning international touring theatre company Bear Trap, of which Buddug is a part of.

www.bear-trap.co.uk

Wimbledon College of Art BA Print and Time-based Media alumna and current MA Fine Art student Judith Hayes has been awarded the £5,000 1st prize in the Art Photography category of the 2011 Towry National Open Art Competition for her ‘Still Life. After Caravaggio.’

An exhibition of the winners will run from 3 – 15 January 2012 at the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester.

Wimbledon College of Arts theatre alumni Mike Leigh, Bunny Christie and Mark Tildesley have been nominated for Evening Standard Theatre Awards.

Mike Leigh in the Best Director category for Grief (at the National’s Cottesloe).

Bunny Christie and Mark Tildesley in the Best Design category for Men Should Weep (at the National’s Lyttelton) and Frankenstein (at the National’s Olivier) respectively.

This year’s awards are being held on November 20 at the Savoy Hotel, in association with Vogue and sponsored by Hobbs and American Airlines, will be hosted by Australian diva Dame Edna Everage – aka Barry Humphries. Presenters will include Downton Abbey star Dan Stevens and Anna Chancellor, currently on stage in The Last Of The Duchess at the Hampstead Theatre.

Full coverage of the winners will appear in the Standard on November 21.

Image: Frankenstein (at the National’s Olivier) – Benedict Cumberbatch as Victor Frankenstein and Jonny Lee Miller as his creation.

Wimbledon College of Art theatre graduate Hyemi Shin has been awarded the 2011 Linbury Prize for Stage Design.

As well as collecting £3,500, the prize also gives Hyemi a unique opportunity to design a professional production for a major theatre or opera company. Hyemi will be working with The Lyric Hammersmith and Filter to “to remix, rework and revitalise A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

The awards were presented by Anya Sainsbury CBE, founder of the Linbury Prize, Caro Newling, Chair and Sir Nicholas Hytner, Director of the National Theatre. The judges for this year’s award were renowned designers Jon Bausor, Miriam Buether and Ian MacNeil.

An exhibition of work by all 12 finalists runs until 29 November at the National Theatre.

www.nationaltheatre.org.uk

If you visited the Wimbledon College of Art BA Summer Show this year you will no doubt have come across the work of BA Print and Time-based Media graduate Max Dovey (@maxdovey). His ‘Emotional Stock Exhange‘ piece was part performance and part tech wizardry. The work embraced live feeds from Twitter whose subject matter centred around happiness, love and sadness.

We are really excited to announce that Max is back this time with his Twitter Theatre for an event entitled ‘A Limited Engagement’ at the University of the Arts London Gallery in High Holborn on Thursday 3 November, 12.00 – 19.00.

Twitter Theatre turns individual moments from around the world into real time entertainment.

Live Twitter updates provide the subject matter for improvised participatory performances throughout the day culminating in a special seated evening theatre.

Venue: Arts Gallery, University of the Arts London, 272 High Holburn, London WC1V 7EY.

Twitter Theatre will be streamed live from 12.00 on Thursday 3 November.

www.TwitterTheatre.co.uk

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