BA Costume Design 3rd year students at Wimbledon College of Art, collaborated with Mark Baldwin to create their own designs for the Rambert’s new show Seven for a Secret, Never to be Told.

“Working with Mark Baldwin during our final year at Wimbledon College of Art has given us a valuable insight into the world of professional dance and design.

Mark was inspirational to talk to and work with. He showed genuine enthusiasm and interest in our design work and encouraged us to meet the standards that he would expect from professional designers.  We were lucky enough to be able to sit in on company rehearsals.  The energy and grace of the dancers were very inspiring. Watching them helped us to consider the practicalities of the costumes as well as the design elements.” Kirsty Bell – BA Costume Design student.

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.

www.newcontemporaries.org.uk

Images top to bottom: Katie Goodwin, Rafal Zawistowski.

JAMESPLUMB is Hannah Plumb and James Russell, two former Fine Art Sculpture students from Wimbledon College of Art. They recently begun to work together and today their combined name of JAMESPLUMB represents the artistic voice that builds on their different but complementary approaches.

We are delighted to announce that they have been nominated for Designer of the Year in the British Design Awards 2011. This year seven cateogries are open to public vote, JAMESPLUMB need your help so vote now. Also everyone who votes gets the chance to win £5,000 in John Lewis vouchers!

Voting closes on 28th September 2011 and the winner will be announced in the December edition of Elle Decoration.

VOTE NOW online at thebritishdesignawards.com

Good luck to JAMESPLUMB, and watch this space for more exciting news on them!

Drawing out: 2012 is transdisciplinary conference collaboration between RMIT Melbourne & The University of the Arts London.

Working with the assumption that drawing is not simply a way of thinking and communicating but an integral part of our everyday and professional lives. Addressing how drawing functions as part of literacy through three themes; Drawing and Notation-Drawing as Writing-Drawing: recording and discovery.

A variety of talks and conferences will be held showcasing ideas and the closing conference will be held at Wimbledon College of Art!

For information regarding Drawing Out: 2012 and submissions please click on the link below.

http://thecentrefordrawingual.wordpress.com/

Imagine landing your dream job. Now imagine winning an Emmy Award for it. This fantasy came true for former Wimbledon BA Costume Interpretation alumna Caroline McCall.

Caroline started off her career at art college in Belfast before moving to Wimbledon College of Art. She then went on to train with the BBC and is now responsible for some of the eye-catching costumes worn by the Downton Abbey cast on the ITV show. Caroline McCall has been working as assistant costume designer alongside Susannah Buxton the costume designer. On Saturday the pair picked up an Emmy for their work.

Congratulations to Caroline McCall.

Nicki Rolls who recently completed an MA in Fine Art at Wimbledon, has won the Student Jerwood Award for her piece Sketch. Sketch is a black and white film, which has been digitally animated and projected on an open book. The piece explores ‘the idea of writing movement with light and the relationship between film, animation and drawing.’

We would like to congratulate Nicki on her success!   

An exhibition of selected works will take place at JVA at Jerwood Space, London from 14 September – 30 October 2011. The exhibition will then tour nationally.

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

New work by a group of sculptors from The University of the Arts London including a number of current Wimbledon students, former students, tutors and alumni.  Who will be featuring in the special exhibition, Expansive Mood at The Mansion House which is the official residence of Lord Mayor Michael Bear, at the end of this month.

Exhibitors include: Daniel Baker, Sarah Woodfine, Paul Coldwell, Elizabeth Wright, Nick Bailey, Russell Hill, Zuza Mengham, Roxy Minter, Naomi Dines and Joe Sutherland.

Expansive Mood, which forms part of the ‘Open House London’ weekend on 17 and 18 September, brings together artwork by up-and-coming sculptors, such as Nick Bailey’s Magic Missile 8, and pieces from established British artists, including Daniel Baker’s Ornament. Four mannequins by ‘Earl of Bedlam’ will be included in the exhibition as a nod to London Fashion Week, which takes place during the same weekend.

Visits to The Mansion House during ‘Open House London’ weekend can be booked in advance by writing to the City of London’s Public Relations Office at the Guildhall to enter a draw for tickets – more details from www.londonopenhouse.org

Image: ‘Airwicks’, 2010 – Russell Hill.

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!

The Jerwood Drawing Prize is the largest and longest running annual open exhibition for drawing in the UK. Judged by an independent panel of selectors, the Prize aims to recognise and support all UK based artists, from student to established, working in the field of drawing.

From a submission of 3,500 entries, the 2011 selectors, Iwona Blazwick, Director, Whitechapel Gallery; Tim Marlow, writer, broadcaster and Director of Exhibitions, White Cube; and Rachel Whiteread, artist, have brought together 70 drawings that represent and celebrate the diversity, excellence and range of current drawing practice in the UK.

We are very please to announce that two of our MA students at Wimbledon, Ka Wah Liu and Nicki Rolls have been selected for the Drawing Prize. The Awards will be announced at a private awards ceremony on Tuesday 13 September 2011. We would like to wish both students the best of luck.