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.
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.
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.
Follow @TweetLiveArt
Zoe Payne, a graduate from the BA Theatre Design course was recently Artist in Residence at The Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon for their Macbeth production.
Zoe produced a series of drawings during the rehearsals and a selection of these are now being exhibited at the RSC.
Zoe will be exhibiting the drawings again during The Chocolate Factory Open Studios weekend which takes place on 12-13 November.
During her residency Zoe also created an animation based on the Macbeth production. This will be screened at the BFI (British Film Institute) in London on the 1 December accompanied by a live score, composed and performed by AMOPHA.
The 2011 Bloomberg New Contemporaries includes 2 Wimbledon College of Art alumni.
Katie Goodwin and Rafal Zawistowski both studied MA Fine Art.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries is the leading UK organisation supporting emergent art practice from British Art Schools. Since 1949 New Contemporaries has consistently provided a critical platform for new and recent fine art graduates primarily by means of an annual, nationally touring exhibition. Independent of place and democratic to the core, New Contemporaries is open to all. Exhibition participants are selected by a panel predominantly made up of artists and writers by means of a rigorous two-stage process.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011 will be showing at S1 Artspace and Site Gallery in Sheffield between 23 September and 5 November 2011 before travelling to the ICA, London, 23 November 2011 until 15 January 2012.
Images top to bottom: Katie Goodwin, Rafal Zawistowski.
Preview: Monday 12th September, 6:30-9pm
13 September – 16 October 2011
We are delighted to announce that the Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art have presented the winners of the EXPOSURE 11 AWARD: Jack Friswell, Kate Shepherd and Rebecca Turner, all graduates of Wimbledon College of Art. The EXPOSURE Award has gained increasing recognition and proved to be of great benefit to previous winners by giving our graduates an opportunity to exhibit work in a professional context.
Thursday 29 September, 7pm
Artist Talk
All three winners will discuss the work in the exhibition and their experience of the EXPOSURE AWARD with Sarah Woodfine: BA Fine Art Sculpture Pathway Leader at Wimbledon at a free event. Woodfine was the recipient of the Jerwood Drawing Prize, 2006, Artangel commission, ‘When Night Draws In’, 2006 and has exhibited at Compton Verney, Sheffield Millennium Gallery, Graves Gallery Sheffield and Danielle Arnaud.
For more information about EXPOSURE and 2011 winners please visit
Mariana Fantich Wimbledon’s Digital Media Technician is opening Red In Tooth And Claw her and Dominic Youngs exhibition at the beginning of October. Fantich & Young’s sculpture Double Games; Red In Tooth And Claw deploys 300.000 Sheffield steel stanley blades to subvert the competitive attributes of vintage school gymnasium apparatus.
Fantich and Dominic Young have lived in Hackney Wick for over six years and have seen first hand the massive urban transformation due to the successful London Olympic bid. To them the Olympic site is like a mini city within a vast metropolis, it reflects the identity of its host. The Olympic Games like London share similar personality traits; they actively endorse ruthless competitiveness, hierarchal objectives and statistic driven targets. It’s quite apt then that the work is being shown in the Hackney Wick area at SEE Studio within the vicinity of the 2012 Olympic Games site.
6TH OCTOBER – 19TH NOVEMBER 2011
PRIVATE VIEW: THU 6TH OCTOBER, 6PM-9PM
SEE STUDIO EXHIBITION SPACE
13 PRINCE EDWARD ROAD
HACKNEY WICK, LONDON, E9 5LX
Congratulations to two former Wimbledon design students, Hyemi Shin and Ellan Parry. Who have been chosen as finalists in this year’s Linbury Prize for Stage Design, which gives recent design graduates the chance to showcase their work in an exhibition at the National Theatre and compete to design a forthcoming production for a professional theatre company.
On the judging panel this year are renowned designers Jon Bausor, Miriam Buether and Ian MacNeil, while the production companies the finalists will be designing for are the Lyric Hammersmith and Filter; Watermill Theatre, Newbury; The Opera Group; and ROH2 at The Royal Opera House.
Each of the four commissioning companies has chosen three finalists to work with on designing a forthcoming production. One from each group will then win a commission to realise their designs on stage, with one of the top four competitors awarded the overall winner’s title. The exhibition, featuring work by all 12 finalists, runs from 31 October to 27 November at the National Theatre, with the winners announced at a ceremony on 10 November.
Best of luck to Hyemi and Ellan!
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