Selection of work from the Wimbledon College of Art MA Show. You can see more images on Flickr.

The MA Show continues until Thursday 8 September. Full details can be found on our MA Show Event page.

Images top to bottom: Riccardo Andujar – MA Fine Art, Eleni Savvidou – MA Visual Language of Performance, Katie Goodwin – MA Fine Art.

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

We are delighted to welcome renowned Japanese artist Hiraku Suzuki to Wimbledon this week. Installation is in full swing for ‘Glyphs of the Light’ which will open at WIMBLEDON space next Wednesday, with a live drawing performance in the Theatre at 6pm. Come along and check out Suzuki’s futuristic installation of drawings and sculpture!

Selection of images from the Wimbledon Foundation Show.

Images top to bottom: Cally Renow (Product Spatial pathway), Katherine Mothersill (Fine Art pathway), Sally Oliver (Theatre pathway).

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Find out more about the Wimbledon 2011 Summer Shows.

Find out more about the CCW Foundation Course.

Selection of images from the Wimbledon College of Art Foundation Show.

Images from top to bottom: Holly Morley (Fine Art pathway), Gabriel Vergara (Product Spatial pathway), Stuart McAdam (Graphic Design pathway).

See more images on Flickr.

Find out more about the Wimbledon 2011 Summer Shows.

Find out more about the CCW Foundation Course.

The Society of British Theatre Designers’ Transformation and Revelation, is the largest ever exhibition of theatre design work in the UK.   Peter Farley, senior lecturer at WCA, is the curator of the exhibition and the forthcoming UK exhibit for the Prague Quadrennial followed by a six-month residency at the V&A as part of the British Design Festival for the Cultural Olympiad in 2012. This show precedes the Prague Quadrennial in June 2011, and is open now until April 16th. Amongst the work exhibited are CSM alumni Antony Gormley’s dance designs for Sutra with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, WCA alumni Richard Hudson, UAL Professor Emeritus Pamela Howard’s designs for The Great Game – 12 plays about Afghanistan, CSM alumni Ralph Koltai’s designs for An English Tragedy, directed by Di Trevis. 

Other theatre designers who teach at WCA and who are exhibiting include Michael Pavelka, Pathway Leader, Design for Performance, Abigail Hammond, Acting Pathway Leader, Costume Design, WCA alumni exhibiting their recent designs include:  Becs Andrews, Janet Bird, David Burrows, Sean Crowley, Soutra Gilmour, Anna Hourriere, Chloe Lamford, Verena Leo, Iona McLeish, Conor Murphy, Kimie Nakano, Francis O’Connor, Martin Morley, Katherina Radeva, Anna Efremova, Michael Spencer and Elizabeth Wright (PhD).

Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, The Castle Grounds, North Rd, Cardiff, CF10 3ER
Monday – Friday 9.30am to 8pm
Saturday and Sunday10am to 5pm
Entrance to this exhibition is free to the general public.

The CCW Festival: What is Socially Engaged Practice? is taking place this week throughout Wimbledon, Chelsea and Camberwell campuses. The Fine Art courses have been collaborating to produce an exciting schedule of events across staff and student disciplines. Already this week at Wimbledon we have seen a collection of work from Henry Bradley, a first year Painting student displayed in the Nano Space. Daniel K and Rebecca T, have exhibited Moon Project, an installation and interactive 2D piece in which viewers were invited into the apace to create ‘moon’ inspired work which was exhibited alongside their own. Peter Simpson and Kyle Galloway built a bridge structure whilst limiting their movement to two static points at either side of the room, which was then was filmed and guests were invited to view their creation and watch their film.

Limor Collins, exhibited ‘Taking the stones back to wales’, an exciting mixed media installation  exploring film, sculpture and neon sign work that will be shows in three galleries across the UK next year! We were also invited to view an installation by 3^rd year Sculpture student, Declan Jenkins whilst Rosie Morris Grove and Sophie Epperlain, two 3^rd Painting students, held an exhibition of their work. Alongside this exhibition, Sophia Simensky held a work in progress performance piece using sculpture, film and performance which looked at urban myths and storytelling. Work was also displayed from Addy Goldstein, Mickey Barj, Janine Hall, and Nora Silva with Lucie Nebas, Kat Harvey and Pallavi Dave organising the RELAX ROOM, an interactive performance which has then been left as a social experiment for the rest of the week.

Artist and Curator Barby Asante lead a session designed to explore participatory practices, working with people in non-traditional spaces, residencies and community projects, the definitions of these practices and how different artists approach working in this way. Barby, who has extensive experience in running workshops talks regularly to artists about practices so her insight and attendance was of great relevance. We also heard talks from Jim Brook, the director of a performance company at the university of Gloucestershire,  Tom Hunter who spoke about his recent film shown at the Serpantaine Gallery earlier this year, Jessica Voorsanger on her current exhibition at the Peckham Space, Peckham Heroes and Alistair McKinven who gave a Fine Art forum visiting artists talk which discussed Painting practice.

Costume Design students offered tours of their most recent installations, each lasting 5 minutes with only 7 people at a time allowed and the Asylum Dialogues, scripted by award-winning playwright Sonja Linden, was premiered Wednesday afternoon. The concept which was conceived and researched by Christine Bacon, is drawn from real-life conversations and reveals the moving, funny and poignant relationships between British people and refugees who have fled violence and persecution in their own countries. It was launched in collaboration with Refugee Action during Refugee Week 2008 and toured to four UK cities, culminating in a sold-out performance at the Tricycle Theatre.

Jessica Rutherford and Chelsea student Sarah Jones, collaborated exploring the life of a woman in Clapham Junction, who everyday for the past 20 years has taken photographs of strangers from the exact same spot. Jessica and Sarah have conducted a documentary on this lady from the other side of the camera in the form of photographs, film and documentation. Essentially this exhibition delves into the social behaviour and anthropology within art.

Aswell as talks and various exhibitions, students and staff were also invited to the Art Exchange, where they were given the opportunity to swap art work prints, buy unwanted stuff and limited edition zines. The Wimbledon Amateur Society also ran NEW HORIZONS IN POPULAR MUSIC, a festival of music including bands Wood and Welcome to O.C. Bitch.

Running throughout the week is TBMTV, a collaborative T.V. studio broadcasting student performances live and the Tutor/Student Show which contains work by academic and technical staff from Wimbledon, alongside students work. The Private Views which ran on Monday and Wednesday invited a range of people the opportunity to see the work of the college staff and the direct influence they have on the student body. Also Theodora Sutton, who’s Private View ran on Wednesday afternoon, designed an installation about outer space involving countless of LED lights.

Still to come is a collection of wall based colleges by Tara Dickinson, a workshop by Peter Fillingham and Kate Janes at 11am on Friday and a lecture from Wimbledon alumnus Michael Eden, who graduated from BA Fine Art Painting on Psychoanalysis at 2pm. There is also the discussion on the importance of an awareness of socially engaged practice amongst students by Rosalind Davis and Sarah Rowles. This subject is especially targeted for those who are interested in working with people, social, educational or political issues and will run at 3pm on Friday 18^th.

The London Contemporary Dance School has played host to the Collaborations Project, which runs jointly with Wimbledon College of Art students and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, to produce six exciting new works of dance and design! The final year BA students have choreographed and designed the performance at The Place Theatre - the home of contemporary dance in London. The programme invited third year choreographers to collaborate with third year designers whilst in a simultaneous project, third year choreographers are paired with postgraduate composers for an intensive week of workshops of sharing ideas to form collaborative partnerships. The design work ranges from large scale constructions to transformative uses of the theatre, while live music ranges from traditional scoring to innovative electronics.

These new works are being performed as a single theatre programme on Monday 28th and Tuesday 29th March at 8pm at The Place Theatre, 17 Dukes Road, London WC1H 9PY (Near Euston Station). Tickets are free to all WCA staff and students so you wouldn’t want to miss out on this fantastic display of ingenious inspiration!

To book your place, contact the Box Office on 020 7121 1100

Kirstie Reid, is a senior Sculpture Technician at Wimbledon College of Art. For the past 9 years she has captained the British Team travelling to Grindelwald in Switzerland to compete in an international snow sculpting competition as part of the annual World Snow Festival.

In previous years alumni students Trilby Jones, William Waterhouse, Richard Cramp, Richard Miller, Eammon Hughes, Georgina Miller, Nathan Jarvis have all been members of the team of 4. The UK team has taken 1st place on three occasions. This year the competition theme was ‘Joie de Vivre in which the British entry depicted 3 monumental women enjoying a conversation together around a café table, referencing characters from a Beryl Cook painting.

 The final sculptures are the result of 5 days intense effort, with teams working in temperatures as low as minus 11ºC .Kirstie, has also participated in the snow sculpting competition in Brekenridge, Colorado.

Friday afternoon played host to a number of fabulous costumes that Wimbledon College of Art 2nd and 3rd year students had created as part of the Costume Parade 2011. With a beautiful array of stunning costumes ranging from intelligent reinventions of classic Edwardian dress, to threatening contemporary beast like masks, the Costume Parade displayed its best yet!

Performance and dance were integrated into the catwalk show which cleverly provided context and characterisation for the costumes exhibited. With contributions from 2nd & 3rd year Costume Design and Costume Interpretation, parents, guests and fellow students looked on in awe at the fabulous designs and vast creativity behind such incredible imagination. I’m sure we can expect many more successful accomplishments from the students behind this fantastic display of unique dress in the future.