Associate Lecturer Virginia Verran: Showing in London

Virginia Verran, Associate Lecturer on BA(Hons) Fine Art is showing two large paintings in Rules of Freedom, curated by Rosalind Davis, at Collyer Bristow gallery in Holborn, until 19 February 2019.

Virginia Verran’s paintings suggest other-worldly battlefields and virtual warzones that show the traces of action and process, of a personal world of invented motifs and symbols. Multiple perspectives, aerial scanning and surveillance, lines and motifs track back and forth between nodes. These paintings and drawings utilise signs and symbols that work at a percussive, graphic level, sitting on the surface of ungrounded spaces, adding celebratory, playful and dark undertones. Drawing has played an important role in this layering of information, bringing across to the paintings an intuitive language. Rhythm and gentle light, exuberance and complexity of information are necessary components, giving way, to darker elements of disruption. Impermanence is alluded to via ‘encampments’, equally working as lumps of colour, existing alongside more permanent structures. Striped ‘ladders’ pass through like conveyor belts and metaphorical ‘toy’ bombs are plugged in at the edges. All represent threats to general security and stability. Fluidity and control are Verran’s primary focus.

 

Virginia Verran was born in Falmouth and has taught Fine Art since 1990. She is an Associate Lecturer on Falmouth’s BA(Hons) Fine Art course, and also teaches at Chelsea College of Art and Design.

In 2010 she won the Jerwood Drawing Prize and this year her entry in the 2018 John Moores Painting Prize is titled ‘Black Star’; a large piece measuring 6ft x 5ft6ins.

She lives in London and works in her studio in Bethnal Green.

Recent Practice: Drawing Lecturer Dr Joe Graham

Joe Graham Lecturer on BA(Hons) Drawing was among the contributors to ACTS RE-ACTS,  an annual laboratory of performance, new media, workshops, lectures, discussions, events and installations.

This year Acts Re-Acts, at Wimbledon College of Art, took the form of an intensive two-day laboratory of selected performances, exploring the borderzone between Theatre and Fine Art.

Other contributors included: Eleanor Bowen & Jane Bailey, Henry Bradley, Greig Burgoyne, Angela Hodgson-Teall & Miles Coote, Richard Layzell & Bruce Barber, Jozefina Komporaly & ZU-UK & guests, Robert Luzar, Melanie Menard, Lucy O’Donnell, Ken Wilder & Aaron McPeake, Alex Reuben, Lois Rowe & The Haptic Collective, Aminder Virdee.

 

Falmouth School of Art lecturer Joe Graham is ‘in conversation’ with artist Lucy O’Donnell, March 2018.

SCOOP: 3rd Year BA(Hons) Illustration Students Published !

Four 3rd year BA(Hons) Illustration students – Lucy Rivers, Katherine Harris, Jasper Golding and Sam Hinton – have had their work published in SCOOP magazine, ‘The Human Body’ issue.

The students made an industry visit to London in April 2018 and the industry connection was made with Luana Asiata, Creative Director & Designer of SCOOP magazine. All the illustrations were then completed whilst studying at the Falmouth School of Art .

Scoop is a magazine aimed at 7 to 12 year olds that publishes all forms of story, told by the most fantastic authors and illustrators and designed to inspire and nurture a love of reading. William Boyd in The Guardian called the magazine ‘A transforming experience.’

Illustrator: Lucy Rivers

Illustrator: Jasper Golding

Illustrator: Sam Hinton

Illustrator: Katherine Harris

 

Circle Triangle Square presents ‘Remades and Readymades’

Bronwen Anwyl, Daniel Bethell and Edward May graduated from BA(Hons) Fine Art at Falmouth in 2017. Recent work by the three artists is being shown in Peckham, London, this July.

Remades and Readymades is presented by Circle Triangle Square, an art platform set up by Edward May following his degree. The exhibition explores the aesthetic and theoretical themes surrounding man-made objects and the natural environment (and the crossover between them), in the context of the art gallery.  

Artists announced for Falmouth Fine Art London 2018

We’re delighted to announce the names of the artists selected by critic and curator Sacha Craddock from our 2018 BA(Hons) Fine Art degree show, to exhibit at this year’s Falmouth Fine Art London.

Molly Allam | Matilda Beale | Crystal Bonnell | Isabelle Carr | Rebecca Cave | Antonia Eden | Brittney Formosa | Juliet Gibbs | Adriana Hancock | Samuel Hines | Daniel Hollings | Ellen Leach | Olivia Lo | Oscar McCarthy | Amy McMillan | Henry Merrick | Henry Phillips | Holly Roseveare | Megan Stacey | Amelia Thompson | Ashleigh Trim |  Katja Wendland | Edward Wills Garcia | Alexandra Windsor | Louis Winyard-Sears

Falmouth Fine Art London will take place at Copeland Gallery London , curated by artist Jesse Leroy Smith.

Honorary Fellow Mark Dion – Theatre of the Natural World

Artist Mark Dion, Honorary Fellow of Falmouth University, has a new show opening this week at Whitechapel Gallery, London. From the Whitechapel’s website:

Explorer, collector, activist and conjuror of theatrical environments American artist Mark Dion (b.1961) has travelled through rainforests and rubbish dumps to reveal the wonder and fragility of life on earth. Dion uses specimens – natural and manmade – to make uncanny representations of these environments. His drawings, sculptures and installations draw on the techniques of scientific enquiry and museum display; and on the telling of natural histories.

Mark Dion, The Wonder Workshop, 2015 (detail), dark oak cabinets, epoxy resin, paint, 124 magic sculpt objects, installation view of Future Histories: Mark Dion and Arseny Zhilyaev at Casa dei Trei Oci, Venice, 2015. Courtesy V-A-C Foundation, Moscow

We embark on a journey through a sequence of installations created between 2000 and the present. The exhibition begins with The Library for the Birds of London (2018), a new commission continuing a series of aviaries Dion has created since 1993. The roomy sanctuary is a temporary home to 22 zebra finches, which are well-known for being social creatures. Visitors are invited into the aviary, which has an apple tree at its centre, referencing the tree of life. Over 600 books devoted to ornithology, environmentalism, literature and the natural sciences surround the birds. A scholar’s study invites us to unravel intricate drawings and models; while the Bureau for the Centre of the Study for Surrealism and its Legacy displays the strange magic of obsolete things. The muddy banks of the Thames have also yielded their treasures for poetic display in a gigantic cabinet; while The Wonder Workshop displays the ghosts of animals and instruments, many of them extinct and obsolescent. Each immersive environment is also a habitat, evoking the characters that observe, conserve or exploit the natural world.

Theatre of the Natural World opens on 14 February, until 13 May 2018.

Keiken Collective – a productive finish to 2017…

Keiken at FOMO

Keiken, a collective of artists comprised of alumni from Falmouth School of Art, co-founded by Tanya Cruz, Hana Omori and Isabel Ramos, have enjoyed success since graduation and regularly provide opportunities for recent graduates and current students to collaborate with them. Autumn and winter 2017 saw Keiken engaged in projects around the UK…  

Keiken performance and installation at Clinic //2

Keiken performance and installation at Clinic //2

Keiken’s performance and installation piece, Silicone_Animism | The Birth of Mother Digital, was presented at Clinic //2 at the Oxo Tower, London, as part of a group show for the London Design Festival. The piece included the collective’s virtual reality film @MotherDigital (Tanya Cruz, Hana Omori, Jess Pemberton, Isabel Ramos, video design by Keiken’s George Stone and sound by Oak Matthias), alongside durational performance accompanied by live sound; a truly visceral atmosphere was created by 700ok (current Falmouth School of Art students Jasper Golding, Auguste Oldham and Zac Pomphrey) using generative code, in conjunction with sound artist Nati Cerutti.

Performers occupied the installation wearing costumes designed by recent graduate, Nine Derricott. Clad in silicone pregnancy bellies and PVC and reflective 3M garments, performers, in reference to the revolution of AI, explored innate feelings of connection usually associated with mother and child, in a world where the human is intertwined with the digital. Current BA(Hons) Fine Art student Alberta Shearing wrote the score and with another student Haruka Fukao performed extraordinarily alongside other performers, Nine Derricott, Kat Cashman, Sian Fan, Monty Fitzgerald, Si Garner, Sam Hall, Coral Knights, Beth Mellet and Julia Mallaby. In November, the film @MotherDigital was transmitted into space by Jon Pettigrew as part of Planet3artnews.

Keiken at Disturbed, Hacked, Reassembled

A group show curated by Drive-Thru at Lewisham Arthouse featured an adaptation of Silicone_Animism | The Birth of Mother Digital, as part of ‘Disturbed, Hacked, Reassembled’, an event which explored how artists are employing technology to stage, interrogate and celebrate the digital female body. Keiken’s interactive installation, again with sound designed by 700ok, used VR, video and sound to trace the birth of the digital; a giant networked space fused with human interaction and technology.

The installation, representative of an office environment, featured a pregnant woman working in Silicon Valley, who has

Agatha Gothe-Snape, Every Artist Remembered with Keiken, 7 October 2017, Frieze London, Regent’s Park, London. Photo: Sofia Freeman/The Commercial, Image courtesy The Commercial, Sydney

relationships with the office furniture in an allegory of Late Capitalism and animism (video design Keiken and George Stone, sound by Nati Cerutti). This adaptation was re-exhibited by Keiken as part of ‘Hervisions’ at Second Home, London.

In other recent projects, Keiken performed in Every Artist Remembered (2017) by Agatha Gothe-Snape at Frieze Art Fair, London; in November they led a performative workshop for Goldsmith University’s BSc Digital Arts Computing, and in a return to Falmouth, they performed at FOMO, the first Falmouth Art Publishing Fair.

In January 2018, Keiken will be hosting a workshop and event under keiken° mind u as part of Vorspiel transmediale, Berlin.

BA(Hons) Drawing Student Megan Fatharly exhibits in London Gallery This Week

Megan Fatharly, a BA(Hons) Drawing student going into her third year of study at Falmouth has been selected for Beside The Wave London’s very first ‘Open Summer Show’.

The Private View takes place on Thursday 20 July 6-8pm at Beside The Wave London, 41 Chalcot Road, Primrose Hill, NW1 8LS.  The exhibition will run until 09 September 2017.

The show has been organised to celebrate the second anniversary of their London gallery and aims to put a focus on the wealth of creativity on their doorstep as well as welcoming selected artists from across the UK with a mix of emerging and established names.

Beside The Wave – Open Summer Show

Images from Falmouth Fine Art London 2017 Private View

The Private View for Falmouth Fine Art London took place on the evening of Thursday 8 June at South Kiosk Gallery, Peckham.  The Private View was attended by Falmouth School of Art Visiting Professor, Hew Locke, and artists Mark Francis and Lisa Wright, amongst many others.

 

 

 

Artists announced for Falmouth Fine Art London 2017

We’re delighted to announce the names of the artists selected by critic and curator Sacha Craddock from our 2017 BA(Hons) Fine Art degree show, to exhibit at this year’s Falmouth Fine Art London.

Yasmin Alaghband | Bronwen Anwyl | Maxwell Bale | Daniel Bethell | Paula Bolton | Kathleen Broad | Joanna Clarkson | Martin Dodridge | Danielle Georgiou | Alexander Goodyear | Robert Ive | Bethany Kelly | Oscar Lyons | Edward May | Jasmine Mills | Zoe Murphy | Beth Pinner | Kristina Rayner | Michaela Riches | Anthony Sims | Isobel Smith | Lillian Thomson

Falmouth Fine Art London will take place at South Kiosk, SE15, curated by artist Jesse Leroy Smith.

Beatrice Brown – THE N0THING SERIES – 23 March–23 April 2017

Falmouth BA(Hons) Fine Art alumna Beatrice Brown is about to open her first solo exhibition in London. ‘THE N0THING SERIES’ is curated by James Birch and opens at Gallery 46 in Whitechapel on March 23, 2017 until 23 April. 

The works in this exhibition bear witness to inner visions that Brown has had from as early as six years old, when she transposed her inner turmoil and confusion onto seeing the ‘Fire Child’, a character that spoke to her from within the flames of a hearth. The sheer compressed power of the sculptural work is analogous to the potency of material transformation in alchemy, of the Jungian Nigredo, the black beginning – The Nothing Series.

Beatrice graduated from Fine Art in Falmouth in 2013, and was shortlisted for the Midas Award in that year, exhibiting that autumn at Millennium Gallery, St. Ives (now Anima-Mundi). Her solo exhibition features a new collection of drawings.

Gallery 46 is a new art-space from Martin J Tickner, Sean McLusky, Martin Bell and Wai Hung Young in Whitechapel, London’s long-standing centre of radicalism and independence, has developed from the non-conformist curatorial approach they deployed at Redchurch Street’s infamous MEN Gallery.

http://gallery46.co.uk/Exhibitions/beatrice-brown-the-nothing-series/

http://beatricebrown.net

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Visceral – Exhibition of abstract artists co-curated by BA(Hons) Fine Art Senior Lecturer Mark Surridge

Mark Surridge, Senior Lecturer on BA(Hons) Fine Art has co-curated a group exhibition of abstract artists with Coates and Scarry.  Selected artists include Vincent Hawkins, Jonathan Mess, Laurence Owen, Nina Royle, Matthew David-Smith with Mark also showing alongside the selected artists.  The exhibition includes a series of prints, paintings and sculptural ceramics that explore abstraction and materiality.

The Private View will take place on Thursday 09 February 6-8pm and the exhibition will then run until 25 February 2017.

Venue: 8 Duke Street, St James, London, SW1Y 6BN

Opening Times: Monday – Saturday 11.30am – 6.30pm, Sunday – 11am – 5pm

Further info from: www.coatesandscarry.com

Falmouth Fine Art Alumnus Ed Burkes selected for BEERS London Contemporary Visions

Ed Burkes, A headlight looks into the dark, but shimmers and tells you it’s cool, 127×127 cm oil on canvas

2016 BA(Hons) Fine Art graduate Ed Burkes, has been selected for BEERS London Contemporary Visions.

Burkes was on of eleven artists selected from an open call of over 4000 applicants, by a panel that included Philly Adams, Senior Director of the Saatchi Gallery, and Kurt Beers, Director of BEERS London and author of 100 Painters of Tomorrow.

This is the seventh year of BEERS London, a group exhibition that has sought to identify current trends in contemporary art. The artists selected for this year’s show are described as ‘posess[ing] a strong point of view as well as an artistic practice that shows distinct promise’. Burkes himself is described by the exhibition organisers as ‘one of the UK’s most sought-after young artists.

Burkes says, ‘My work is sparked from a commonplace drawing or situation: A friend drinking coffee, a buddy pulling up his socks, a pretty girl in the fruit and veg section of Tesco express. Through the process of painting these preliminary considerations begin to wobble out of sync to a point where their distinctiveness as a primary source slips away. This Introduces the opportunity for the work to embody its own honesty where identity stands as a framework to the painting, unfixed in its dwelling as the viewers’ considerations take hold’.

His work is also currently on display at Mall Galleries, London, as a part of FBA Futures 2017 (until 20 January) and was shown at The Other Art Fair, London, as a part of the Saatchi Invest in Art programme. Burkes was also shortlisted for the 2016 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, and was the recipient of the Falmouth School of Art Purchase Prize 2016.

Ed Burkes in his studio

BEERS Contemporary Visions previews on Thursday 19 January, open 20 January – 4 March, at 1 Baldwin Street, EC1V 9NU

Industry-focused trip for first year Illustrators in London

BA(Hons) Illustration students visiting Artworks

BA(Hons) Illustration are currently undertaking their first year London trip, including industry visits to the following: The Artworks Illustration Agency, Us Two Games Ltd, Pete Fowler, Egmont Press, Human After All, The Folio Society, Arena Illustration Agency, Dorling Kindersley, Macmillan Childrens Books, Harper Collins, and Walker Books.

The trip also includes the annual London Illustration Forum of guest speakers; this year Alice Dunseath, Neil McFarland and Pete Fowler.

Follow the trip through the Falmouth Illustration Blog.

Gemma Anderson workshop: The Big Draw at the Royal Society

BA(Hons) Drawing Lecturer Gemma Anderson will be delivering a free Isomorphology drawing workshop at the Royal Society Saturday 22 October, for an event as part of The Big Draw.

The Big Draw at the Royal Society event brings together art and science in a series of workshops and activities.

Read more about the event online here and here.

 

Falmouth Fine Art London 2016

Critic and curator Sacha Craddock selected from Falmouth’s BA(Hons) Fine Art degree shows 20 artists to exhibit at Falmouth Fine Art London 2016 at Underdog Art Gallery, 1 – 3^rd July 2016

Max Aspin Radford | Jamie Battersby | Ed Burkes | Ella Caie | Ed Carter | Finbar Conran | Michael Cox | Rob Davis | Joe Fenwick-Wilson | Kerry Foster | Freya Goodwin | Amy Jefferies | Zoë Pearce | Calum Rees-Gildea | Jess Russell | George Stone | Amelia Tinton | Tabitha Tohill Reid | Matthew Vaughan | Sandi Williams | Mara Zaice

The London show case exhibition, now in its fourth year, was a great success. The gallery was set in a vibrant part of the city, within walking distance of Tate Modern, Borough Market and White Cube in Bermondsey. It drew new audiences through a wide range of passers-by.

The work selected sat in a rather Gothic setting under an old railway arch, with dripping painted grey walls and a range of large sofas and chairs. This didn’t detract from the artwork, but provided a new narrative for the work to respond to. George Stone and Tabitha Tohill Reid’s work sat in a large bathroom area adjacent to the main exhibition room breathing life into an uncomfortable space. The artwork selected had a powerful presence in the space.

Artist Graham Gussin met the selected artists in the gallery space to lead a group critique. This was a valuable experience, enabling our recent graduates to participate in a challenging discussion about their work. The short but focused opportunity that the London showcase provides has been met with enthusiasm by all involved, including the staff team who thoroughly enjoy spending time in settings such as this with our most recent completing cohort of fine artists.

BA(Hons) Illustration at D&AD New Blood

See the FalmouthIllustrationBlog for some great pictures and write-up of BA(Hons) Illustration exhibiting at D&AD New Blood in London. Full links to the websites of exhibiting students, too.

Falmouth Fine Art London – artists announced

We’re delighted to share the names of the final year BA(Hons) Fine Art students selected to exhibit at Falmouth Fine Art London, this year taking place at Underdog Art Gallery from 1-3 July.

Max Aspin Radford | Jamie Battersby | Ed Burkes | Ella Caie | Ed Carter | Finbar Conran | Michael Cox | Rob Davis | Joe Fenwick-Wilson | Kerry Foster | Freya Goodwin | Amy Jefferies | Zoë Pearce | Calum Rees-Gildea | Jess Russell | George Stone | Amelia Tinton | Tabitha Tohill Reid | Matthew Vaughan | Sandi Williams | Mara Zaice

Falmouth Fine Art London promises to be a diverse celebration of Fine Art at Falmouth, and will be curated by artist and Falmouth Associate Lecturer Jesse Leroy Smith. Exhibitors were selected from the recent degree shows by critic and curator Sacha Craddock. The event, now in its fourth year, gives those artists selected an additional professional practice experience as they complete their studies at Falmouth, and gives contacts based in London and the surrounding the opportunity to view our students’ work outside of Falmouth.

A private view of the exhibition will take place 7-9:30 on 30 June, with an alumni happy hour from 6-7pm the same night. Exhibitors will also benefit from an in situ crit with artist Graham Gussin.

The Edge of Printing – Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts

© Virginia Verran ‘Pink/Red (Not Here) 2016 Etching 1/6’

Virginia Verran, an Associate Lecturer for the Falmouth School of Art, is currently showing a series of 4 new etchings in an exhibition at the Keepers House, Royal Academy of Arts in London.  The Edge of Printing opened on 27 April and continues until 23 October 2016.  It is co-ordinated by Tess Jaray RA and presents work from Tim Head, Richard Plank, Saori Parry, Anne Desmet RA, Tom Lomax, Peter Freeth RA, Cathy de Monchaux, Tess Jaray RA, Guilia Ricci, Trevor Sutton, Rebecca Salter RA and Virginia Verran.  Also showing are two Falmouth alumni, Onya McCausland and Andrea McLean.

Celebrating the developments within contemporary printmaking practice including etchings, monoprints, lithographs, woodblocks, silkscreens and three-dimensional digital prints, this collection explores the way in which traditional techniques have evolved and examines some of the new technologies which are offering artists ever-changing methods of producing work.

The RA describe Verran’s work:

“Verran’s intuitive line creates boundaries and demarcations, repetitive patterning, and graphic symbols. These etchings explore a multifarious space with multiple viewpoints.

Primarily a painter, Verran’s imagery evokes layered and atmospheric space in which there are suggestions of peripheral movement; both human and mechanical. Her work also utilises symbols that suggest a darker preoccupation with global anxieties and fears of war and dislocation.”

The Edge of Printing is the fourth in a series of exhibitions presenting limited editions and unique works for sale, online and onsite, by Royal Academicians and other significant contemporary artists.

Falmouth Fine Art London 2016

We’re making preparations for our fourth London showcase of selected BA(Hons) Fine Art student work, which we are delighted to announce will take place at Underdog Art Gallery from 1-3 July 2016.

Exhibiting students will be selected from the BA(Hons) Fine Art degree shows, which students are currently preparing, by critic and curator Sacha Craddock. The show will be curated by artist and Falmouth Associate Lecturer Jesse Leroy Smith. We’ll share the list of selected exhibitors soon after 31 May.

A private view of the exhibition will take place 7-9:30 on 30 June, with an alumni happy hour from 6-7pm the same night. We’re again looking forward to former students connecting with current students and comparing notes on life after Falmouth Fine Art!

 

 

Drawing student shortlisted for Batsford Prize 2016

© Megan Fatharly

The Batsford Prize is an annual competition for all undergraduate and postgraduate students.  The theme for 2016 is ‘Reuse, Recycle, Reclaim’.  We’re delighted that one of our BA(Hons) Drawing students, Megan Fatharly, has been shortlisted in the ‘Fine and Applied Arts’ category.  Winners will be announced in London on 17 May – Good luck Megan!

http://megansartspace.blogspot.co.uk/

Alumni selected for John Moores Painting Prize

(C) Laurence Owen, Ritual to the Westfield, 2015, Oil and collage on canvas with glazed ceramic pins (236 x 360cm)

We’re delighted to announce that an alumnus of BA(Hons) Fine Art, Laurence Owen is one of 54 artists selected from 2,500 entries for this year’s prestigious John Moores Painting Prize.

Born in Gloucester, Owen graduated from BA(Hons) Fine Art at Falmouth in 2005 and later studied at the Royal Academy Schools in London, where he now lives and works. His works has featured in group, and some solo exhibitions, in London, Manchester, Surrey, York, Colchester, and Mexico.

Owen’s selected painting Ritual to the Westfield will be exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery (9 July – 27 November) with other selected artists as part of the Liverpool Biennial 2016.

Submission for the prize is open to all painters in the UK. Works for the exhibition are selected anonymously. This year’s jurors are Gillian Carnegie, Richard Davey, Ansel Krut, Phoebe Unwin and Ding Yi.

The overall winner will receive £25,000, with four further prizes of £2,500 also awarded. The names of the five shortlisted prize winners will be announced in June 2016, with the overall winner revealed on 7 July 2016.

www.laurenceowenart.com

Plague of Diagrams at The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

Falmouth School of Art Senior Lecturer Neil Chapman and Course Coordinator Gillian Wylde were among contributors to Plague of Diagrams at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. The exhibition and programme of performances, talks and discussions concerned the relationships between diagrammatic practices and thought in different disciplines. In particular, the event explored the function and use of diagrams in art as expanded diagrammatic practice beyond the graphic presentation of information.

Contributors: David Burrows, Rachel Cattle & Jenna Collins, Neil Chapman & Gillian Wylde, Ami Clarke, Richard Cochrane, Andrew Conio, John Cussans, Benedict Drew, English Heretic, Nikolaus Gansterer, Joey Holder, Dean Kenning, Christoph Lueder, Stine Ljungdalh, Adelheid Mers, Mike Nelson, Paul O’Kane, David Osbaldeston, Plastique Fantastique, Patricia Reed, John Russell, Erica Scourti, Andy Sharp, Kamini Vellodi, Martin Westwood and Carey Young.

Watch now on YouTube: Click here

Virginia Verran – wall drawing at RIBA Bookshop

Virginia Verran at work on the drawing

Falmouth Fine Art Associate Lecturer Virginia Verran currently has a wall drawing, RIBA (Space), at RIBA Bookshop, Portland Place, London W1B 1AD.

The work is in connection with the launch of a new book, ANCHOR, edited by Joe Graham. ANCHOR is the result of an artist drawing research project in which artists, writers and curators with an interest in drawing were invited to respond to the phenomenology of the Outline. Verran’s work is also included in the book.

ANCHOR is published by Marmalade Publishers of Visual Theory, London, 2015; Virginia Verran’s wall drawing will be in place for at least a month.

Detail of Virginia Verran’s RIBA (Space) wall drawing

 

BA(Hons) Illustration head to London

Falmouth’s BA(Hons) Illustration students are currently in London for a series of visits, including: Faber & Faber, Sparks Studio, Human After All, The Guardian, The Telegraph Magazine, Penguin Books, Egmont, Oh Comely Magazine, Walker Books, The Folio Society, The Artworks, Transworld, Nobrow, Tate Publishing and Dorling Kindersley. 

Students are also looking forward to the course’s annual Illustration Forum, held at The London College of Communication. This year’s speakers are Olivier Kugler, Jonny Hannah and Aude Van Ryn.

Don’t forget to follow the Falmouth Illustration blog, where you can see more pictures from the trip so far and keep up to date with news from the course.

 

Organic Chaos

Megan Fatharly has just completed her Foundation Diploma in Art & Design at Falmouth School of Art and is about to commence on our BA(Hons) Drawing course.  From 10 September to 10 October her work from her foundation course will be exhibited on the London Arts Board. Megan says, it is “a rather unconventional way to have my work displayed but I am thrilled to have been asked.”

Megan’s inspiration come from the outside environment, the patterns and repetitive marks found on trees, stones and the shapes within the landscape. She recreates these patterns through texture, colour and mark-making often using printmaking techniques, “I have a love for the process of printmaking as I have a very chaotic, fast paced way of working.  I find the method of working meditative and repetitive which slows me down and helps me refine my ideas.”

You can see more of her work here.

And you can read her blog of interviews with artists and reviews of exhibitions at http://megansartspace.blogspot.co.uk

You can view the exhibition here: http://londonartsboard.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/organic-chaos.html

Or in person on the corner of Vestry Road and Peckham Road.

Falmouth Fine Art London 2015

Falmouth Fine Art London 2015, at London’s Embassy Tea Gallery, London, presented work from Falmouth School of Art’s BA(Hons) Fine Art degree show. The work was selected by art critic and curator Sacha Craddock and curated by artist Jesse Leroy Smith.

Lucy Bainbridge, Gallery Director at Embassy, spoke of how impressed she was with the standard of work on show, liking the exhibition to an MA rather than a BA showcase.

Exhibiting artists were: Elin Barker | Maisie Blackburn Scott | Yasmin Brain | Beccy Bray | Mair Cook | Alice Ellis Bray | Rebecca Eley | Janne Erlandsen | Sean Fergus | Ross Gamble | Jessie Giudici Mumford | Katherine Glynne Jones | Joanna Hulin | Salli Louise Johnson | Lauren Kent | Nicola Kerslake | Aimee Labourne | Adam Langer | Sophie Malpas | Hana Omori | Paul Pilgrim | Nick Popham | Darren Ray | Camilla Robinson | Andy Ross | Freddie Strickland | Jacob Theobald | Anna Karin Waara | Gareth Wilde.

Falmouth Illustration at New Blood Graduate Showcase

The D&AD New Blood Graduate Showcase was held this week. BA(Hons) Illustration’s Nigel Owen and Sue Clarke set the show up earlier in the day in what can only be described as tropical conditions. The Falmouth stand was up and looking good just after lunch giving staff and students a chance to have a look at other stands. The overall standard is very good this year with what seems like more illustration on show than in previous years.

The private view kicked off at 6pm and almost immediately industry clients began to show interest in the work on show by Falmouth students. Well done to all the students that attended for their professionalism.

BA(Hons) Illustration New Designers Exhibition and Private View

Mark Foreman and Keryn Bibby have done a great job of putting up the New Designers Exhibition, the 2nd of our two graduate showcases in London this year. This is physically a considerably bigger show than the D&AD exhibition and includes the majority of this year’s Falmouth Illustration graduating students. This year the students have done a great job of preparing their boards for the exhibition with the help of Cally back in Falmouth. The final show is a credit to the effort that everyone (staff and students) have put in this year. The Private view kicked off at 6pm and before long there was a healthy number of people gathering around the Falmouth stand. In attendance was Ginny Button, Director of the Falmouth School of Art while industry visitors included Sheri Gee from the Folio Society and Louise Power from Walker Books amongst others. Also paying a visit during the evening was recent Falmouth Illustration alumni Will Grill, who last week was awarded the Kate Greenaway Gold Medal for his book ‘Shackleton’s Journey’, a project that he began while a student at Falmouth. Here are some pictures from the night….

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Artists announced for Falmouth Fine Art London 2015

Critic and Curator Sacha Craddock has selected from Falmouth’s BA(Hons) Fine Art degree shows the artists who will exhibit at Falmouth Fine Art London 2015 at the Embassy Tea Gallery, London.

We’re pleased to congratulate the following, and we look forward to sharing some of their work with you from 3-5 July, in an exhibition curated by artist Jesse Leroy Smith:

Elin Barker | Maisie Blackburn Scott | Yasmin Brain | Beccy Bray | Mair Cook | Alice Ellis Bray | Rebecca Eley | Janne Erlandsen | Sean Fergus | Ross Gamble | Jessie Giudici Mumford | Katherine Glynne Jones | Joanna Hulin | Salli Louise Johnson | Lauren Kent | Nicola Kerslake | Aimee Labourne | Adam Langer | Sophie Malpas | Hana Omori | Paul Pilgrim | Nick Popham | Darren Ray | Camilla Robinson | Andy Ross | Freddie Strickland | Jacob Theobald | Anna Karin Waara | Gareth Wilde.

 

As part of Falmouth Fine Art London, we will welcome alumni of BA(Hons) Fine Art, for an Alumni Happy Hour; and exhibiting artists will benefit from an in situ crit with artist and former Falmouth Visiting Professor of Fine Art, Cornelia Parker.

 

 

Falmouth School of Art degree shows 2015

Please join us for the public opening of the Falmouth School of Art Degree Shows this Friday, 5 June, 6-9pm. The shows continue until 4pm on Monday 8 June.

www.falmouth.ac.uk/degreeshows

Cornelia Parker unveils Magna Carta embroidery at the British Library

A 13 metre-long embroidery by British artist Cornelia Parker is now on display at the British Library.

Stitched by over 200 carefully selected individuals, many of whom have a connection to civil liberties and the law including almost 40 prisoners, the artwork depicts the Magna Carta Wikipedia page as it appeared last year on the document’s 799^th birthday.

Cornelia Parker with a fragment of Magna Carta (An Embroidery) in the British Library (credit Tony Antoniou).

Among the contributors, each stitching words or phrases significant to them, are Director of Liberty Shami Chakrabarti (stitching ‘Charter of Liberties’), Baroness Doreen Lawrence (‘justice’, ‘denial’ and ‘delay’), Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales (‘user’s manual’), Edward Snowden (‘liberty’) and Jarvis Cocker (‘Common People’).

Jarvis Cocker and Cornelia Parker find his phrase ‘Common People’ on Magna Carter (An Embroidery). Photograph by Joseph Turp

‘I wanted to create a portrait of our age’, says Cornelia Parker. ‘All these people have their own opinions about democracy today and I thought carefully about the words they should stitch. For instance, Baroness Warsi, Eliza Manningham-Buller, Julian Assange and numerous prisoners have all stitched the word ‘freedom’, but all have different relationships to it’.

Cornelia Parker at work on Magna Carta (An Embroidery), Photograph by Joseph Turp

The bulk of the text of the Wikipedia page has been embroidered in various prisons by inmates under the supervision of Fine Cell Work, a social enterprise that trains prisoners in paid, skilled, creative needlework. The detailed pictures, emblems and logos that punctuate the text have been fashioned by highly accomplished members of the Embroiderers’ Guild, a national charity that promotes and encourages the art of embroidery and related crafts, alongside embroiderers from the Royal School of Needlework and the leading embroidery company Hand & Lock.

‘I love the idea of taking something digital and making it into an analogue, hand-crafted thing’, says Cornelia. ‘I wanted the embroidery to raise questions about where we are now with the principles laid down in the Magna Carta, and about the challenges to all kinds of freedoms that we face in the digital age. Like a Wikipedia article, this embroidery is multi-authored and full of many different voices’.

Magna Carta (An Embroidery) was commissioned by the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford in partnership with the British Library and is part of a major programme of events, exhibitions and digital projects at the Library examining Magna Carta in this 800^th anniversary year.  It runs alongside the Library’s largest ever exhibition Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy (open until 1 September).

On 15 June, exactly 800 years after Magna Carta was sealed, Cornelia Parker, Jimmy Wales and Roly Keating, Chief Executive of the British Library will be in conversation at the Library exploring the ideas behind the artwork.

Magna Carta (An Embroidery) is on display from 15 May to 24 July at the British Library.

Cornelia Parker is Visiting Professor of Fine Art to The Falmouth School of Art at Falmouth University.

Bloomberg New Contemporaries in Cornwall

Staff and students are enjoying Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014 at Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange. The exhibition includes work by 55 of the most promising artists emerging from UK art schools, chosen from nearly 1400 submissions, and selected by Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Enrico David and Goshka Macuga. The exhibition has already shown at the ICA in London and the World Museum Liverpool.

Among the artists exhibiting are Falmouth alumni Ed Hill, Stacey Guthrie, Melissa Kime and Frances Williams.

Ed Hill, Bee Night, 2013,

Stacey Guthrie, Disarmed and Ever So Slightly Dangerous, 2013. Still from video

Frances Williams, Ting and Tang: anachronisms (1), 2012. Still from video

Melissa Kime, Technicolour Joseph and the Amazing City Bankers, 2013, cropped

The exhibition runs until 30 May at The Exchange, and 13 June at Newlyn Art Gallery.

Also exhibiting until 18 April at The Engine Room at The Exchange is another Falmouth alumna, Lucy Apple. Lucy completed her Foundation at The Falmouth School of Art in 2002, and her BA(Hons) Fine Art in 2005, before studying her MFA Painting at The Slade in London.

Reflections on the Spike Island Residency

2014 BA(Hons) Fine Art graduate Ed Hill was awarded the Spike Island Residency, following his studies. Here he shares with current students of the course his reflections on the experience…

Working at Spike Island for three months allowed me to continue the momentum of working post graduation. In my case, this meant painting.

Ed Hill’s Spike Island studio space

The Residency studio was big and situated among other artists’ studios. After moving timber, paint, canvas and stretchers into my space, I shared the studio with three other recent graduates. With 24/7 access, you are free to come and go anytime, day or night. I enjoyed the access to a wood workshop – where I made stretchers, (there is also a metal workshop and plenty of room for larger scale projects).

The atmosphere was very professional, and it was a realistic and beneficial experience of a totally independent way of working outside of art school. I made paintings for a show, and without the studio, facilities and space it would have been much more challenging to do so.

‘At the beach (after Mr and Mrs Andrews)’ 100x100cm, oil on canvas

If you are hoping to carry on working on art projects after graduating, and if you are serious about being artist, the residency is something to aim for – it will provide space, facilities and an opportunity to continue momentum in an art environment at a time when it is increasingly hard to do so. I recommend applying for the residency.

Edward Hill, Standing on a Rock

Ed Hill was one of four Falmouth alumni selected for the 2014 Bloomberg New Contemporaries which, having toured to Liverpool and London, will be on display at Newlyn and the Exchange Galleries from 21 March – 30 May 2015. You can see Ed’s work as part of that exhibition. Ed was also the recipient of The Falmouth School of Art Purchase Prize 2014 for his Bloomberg-selected piece Standing on a Rock.

Falmouth Illustration Blog – follow now!

Don’t forget to follow the Falmouth Illustration Blog, this week blogging from the BA(Hons) Illustration trip to London – giving a fascinating insight into the students’ many and diverse industry meetings. Also read about today’s Annual Falmouth / LCC Illustration Forum, speakers including one of the country’s leading reportage artists, Lucinda Rogers, international award winning illustrator Mark Smith and truly innovative animator Cyriak.

Visits to Nobrow and The Artworks

‘Scope’ – BA(Hons) Drawing exhibit in London

BA(Hons) Drawing students recently exhibited at the RKB Gallery, London.

BA(Hons) Drawing at R K Burt Gallery, London

BA(Hons) Drawing at R K Burt Gallery, London

Isolde Pullum at The Mall Galleries, London

(C) Isolde Pullum

BA(Hons) Drawing Senior Lecturer Isolde Pullum will have two works featured in The Discerning Eye exhibition at The Mall Galleries, London, from 13 November.

This annual exhibition is the principle activity of The Discerning Eye, an educational charity established in the UK in 1990, to encourage a wider understanding and appreciation of the visual arts and to stimulate debate about the place and purpose of art in our society, and the contribution each one of us can make to its development.

Of her exhibited work, Isolde says, ‘These drawings are part of a large series of works on paper made from chance starting points and experimental surfaces.  People, animals and ambiguous spaces are recurrent themes and although narratives can easily be found, they are just a by-product of the process.  The joy of making these drawings is never knowing what’s going to happen and who or what will appear’.

Born in 1962, educated in Southend and Cornwall, Isolde has worked in industry and education, written books about ponies and taught at Falmouth School of Art since 1986, most recently on the BA(Hons) Drawing Degree. Isolde’s drawing practise is broad, encompassing the detailed recording of natural subjects and an extensive series of drawings based loosely on the phenomena of pareidolia.  Her current research interests explore the interface between drawing and writing.

The exhibition will be open to the public from Thursday 13 November until Sunday 23 November at The Mall Galleries, London SW1, 10am-5pm daily. Admission is free and all works are for sale.

Big Draw Workshop – art and science

See this new blog post from the Natural History Museum, about a Big Draw workshop co-run by Falmouth BA(Hons) Drawing Associate Lecturer Gemma Anderson.

The group consisted of mathematicians, psychiatrists, RCA students, museum scientists and the editor of New Scientist – observed; they wrote, drew from observation and drew from memory, guided by Anderson and co-facilitator William Latham.

Photo credit: Gemma Anderson and Gavin Broad

Photo credit: Gemma Anderson and Gavin Broad

Photo credit: Gemma Anderson and Gavin Broad

Photo credit: Gemma Anderson and Gavin Broad

Photo credit: Gemma Anderson and Gavin Broad

Photo credit: Gemma Anderson and Gavin Broad

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014

Four BA(Hons) Fine Art alumni – Edward Hill, Stacey Guthrie, Melissa Kime and Frances Williams – are exhibiting in this year’s Bloomberg New Contemporaries which is currently open as part of the Liverpool Biennial 2014. Ed, Stacey and Frances, along with 51 other artists, join the roster of Bloomberg New Contemporaries, which includes previous exhibitors Jake & Dinos Chapman, Falmouth alumna Tacita Dean, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst and Mike Nelson as well as more recent emerging artists including Ed Atkins, Becky Beasley, Haroon Mirza and Laure Prouvost.

This year’s selectors are Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Enrico David and Goshka Macuga and the resulting exhibition is an incisive snapshot of contemporary practice, spanning diverse media, processes, themes, influences and approaches—from moving image and performance to more traditional approaches to making work such as printmaking, painting and sculpture.

“At a time when creativity and innovation has never been so vital, this year’s selected artists demonstrate the relevance of contemporary art as analytical commentary in everyday life. Offering a unique nationwide insight into British art schools today, this year’s national touring exhibition offers a unique opportunity for selected works to be seen on an international platform at Liverpool Biennial and ICA, London.”
–Kirsty Ogg, Director, Bloomberg New Contemporaries

Ed Hill, Bee Night, 2013.

http://www.newcontemporaries.org.uk/artists/ed-hill

Stacey Guthrie has been chosen by Axisweb as one of five artists to watch in this years New Contemporaries. For more details see:http://www.axisweb.org/features/default/spotlight/five2watch-bloomberg-new-contemporaries/

/ http://www.staceyguthrie.co.uk

Stacey Guthrie, Disarmed and Ever So Slightly Dangerous, 2013. Still from video

http://www.newcontemporaries.org.uk/artists/stacey-guthrie

Frances Williams, Ting and Tang: anachronisms (1), 2012. Still from video

http://www.newcontemporaries.org.uk/artists/frances-williams; www.frances-williams.co.uk

A review of the exhibition, referencing Frances’ work can be found on e-flux. Frances also completed her MA in Fine Art at Falmouth in 2011 and is a current PhD candidate and Technician in time based media.

Melissa Kime, Technicolour Joseph and the Amazing City Bankers, 2013, cropped

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014, 20 September–26 October 2014, World Museum, William Brown Street, Liverpool L3 8EN. Hours: Monday–Sunday 10am–5pm, Free admission

www.newcontemporaries.org.uk

Falmouth in the Threadneedle Prize

Falmouth is again well represented in this year’s Threadneedle Prize. The exhibition includes works by BA(Hons) Fine Art alumni Erin Sevink–Johnston, Jack Davis (2012), Sarah Shaw (2001) and Kate Giles (1990), among work by 64 artists selected from entries by over 3,600.

The Threadneedle Prize: Figurative Art Today, aims to showcase the very best in new figurative and representational art, and champions work by some of the most interesting artists working in Europe today. The Threadneedle 2013 Prize was won by painter and Falmouth Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, Lisa Wright.

Jack Davis, Pendennis Point Through The Rain

 

Erin Sevink-Johnston, Godzilla Mouse House.

 

Sarah Shaw, Hearthold

Kate Giles, Back Towards Overy Marshes, Norfolk

 

 

Exhibition open: 25 September – 11 October 2014, 10am – 5pm – Mall Galleries, London SW1

Brian Cheeswright and Ed Hill: Two Painters

Brian Cheeswright and Ed Hill: Two Painters

2 October – 9 November 2014
The Gallery at Idea Store Whitechapel invites you to a joint exhibition by two painters Brian Cheeswright and recent Falmouth Fine Art graduate Ed Hill.

Ed Hill aims to make atmospheric paintings, imbued with an elusive mystery and warmth. The subject matter used to inform his paintings can vary; sketches from life, personal photographs and memories and painting history can all inform an idea. Cultural phenomena such as film, music, literature and comic books also provide inspiration. A recurring theme in his work is the allusion to far-away places, perhaps a memory from childhood, a personal depiction of a place or ‘thing’ once visited or witnessed, an experience or sensation. It could be a semi-fictional invention or a borrowed story from a relative. He is drawn to images which contain strangeness, humour and a tragi-comic element.

Ed’s recent exhibitions include ‘Paint Like You Mean It’, Interview Room 11, Edinburgh and ‘Test Space Open’, Spike Island, Bristol. Upcoming Exhibitions Include ‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries’, World Museum Liverpool/ICA London (2014), and ‘Mr and Mrs Andrews’, Transition Gallery (2014). Ed was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014.

London born painter Brian Cheeswright is taking stock of his output and pondering the curious geography of lines and marks and wrong turns he has mapped out for himself – adventures carried out in the living room of his Edinburgh flat. Cheeswright’s modest-sized figurative paintings are concerned with vulnerability, anxiety, and the idea of each man or woman as stuck on an island, tentatively sending out a message in a bottle or clambering into ramshackle rafts to try and reach each other. His cast of characters often originate in books or dreams, though increasingly he is turning towards his own childhood and adolescent biography for inspiration. Cheeswright’s style has lurched, back-stepped and stumbled between the expressive, the gestural and the romantic, the cynical and the absurd.

Brian Cheeswright (b.1978) lives and works in Edinburgh. Studied at Brighton School of Art, graduating in 2004. Recent exhibitions include, ‘Draw In’, St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh (2014), ‘Artworks Open’, Barbican Arts group Trust, London (2014), ‘Paint Like You Mean It’, Interview Room 11, Edinburgh (2014) and ‘Marmite Painting Prize IV’, various venues (2013). Cheeswright was the winner of ‘Marmite Painting Prize IV’ in 2013.

 

Saatchi New Sensations long-list

Rose-Marie-Caldecott, A Debate.

BA(Hons) Fine Art alumni Rose-Marie Caldecott and Emily Cranny have made the Saatchi New Sensations longlist. Widely regarded as the UK’s most important annual prize for emerging artists, it prioritises talent and imagination, providing an international platform.

This, the eighth year of the prize, saw submissions from hundreds of art students preparing to graduate from both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the UK and Republic of Ireland. Nominated by Saatchi Art curators, the longlist reflects the highest calibre of work.

Rose-Marie commented on her selection, “It was a great honour to find out that I had been nominated. To have the recognition from the Saatchi Gallery, which many call the hub of the modern art world, has given me a confidence and drive which is very valuable at this stage of my career.”

Emily Cranny, Arid and Salty

Equally delighted, Emily added, “The news was quite a surprise! I’m tremendously pleased and grateful to have been nominated. It’s a great boost as I continue with my practice.”

Rose-Marie is currently enjoying her first solo exhibition at Oxford’s Art Jericho. Titled, The Radiance of Being, the show runs until September. Emily is also continuing her work and has plans to return to university for postgraduate study.

The Saatchi New Sensations shortlist will be selected by a panel of judges and announced in September. All shortlisted works will be profiled in the New Sensations’ exhibition this October at a 22,000 square-foot venue represented by Location House, London.

Show & Tell Exhibition by BA Drawing student

Sophie Glover, a Falmouth BA(Hons) Drawing student is exhibiting a new drawing as part of the Just Us Collective exhibition exploring the theme of ‘show and tell’.  The Private View is on 30 July at 6pm in Shoreditch, London.

 

BA(Hons) Drawing exhibition – ONE-TWO-DRAW!

BA(Hons) Drawing, which has its first graduating cohort this year, hosts an exhibition of first and second year student work in Falmouth this week.

Late opening (6-9pm) on Friday 13th June, will coincide with the opening of the Falmouth School of Art’s Degree Show, which will include work on display at the Falmouth Campus at Woodlane by our final year students in BA(Hons) Drawing, BA(Hons) Fine Art and BA(Hons) Illustration.

The work of BA(Hons) Drawing students will also be exhibited in London at the RKB Gallery in Southwark from 27 June to 4 July.

From Fine Art at Falmouth to Animation at the RCA

Oscar Lewis

 

Oscar Lewis, a  Falmouth Fine Art alumnus, has been accepted onto an Animation course at the Royal College of Art in London this autumn.  Whilst studying in his second year at Falmouth, Oscar took a bold move and transitioned from painting into animation, needless to say it was a huge step for Oscar, but one which has certainly paid off.  Oscar thanked his Falmouth tutors for their encouragement and direction through his time at Falmouth, and we are delighted for Oscar and wish him all the best with his blossoming career.

Artist Cornelia Parker – working with Falmouth Fine Art students

Renowned artist and Turner Prize nominee Cornelia Parker made her third visit to Falmouth University on 26 February, her second since becoming Falmouth School of Art’s Visiting Professor of Fine Art.

Cornelia revealed how she’s often played with the idea of ‘truth to materials’ – something of a mantra during her own art school days – influencing how we might read or interpret the most unlikely materials, from the charred remains of churches, to ink made from pornographic tapes.  

Dr. Ginny Button, Director of The Falmouth School of Art, introduced Cornelia to a capacity audience of students, staff and members of the public, and said afterwards “It was great to welcome Cornelia back to Falmouth. She always creates a buzz and gives us plenty to think about.” 

The following day, Cornelia gave a seminar for final year BA(Hons) Fine Art students.

Last summer, Cornelia spent several hours with graduating students in a crit of their exhibition at The Dye House in Peckham, London. Current third year students are sure to be looking forward to their crit with her at their London post graduation show in summer 2014.  

 

Fine Art Graduate invited to show in London Exhibition

Congratulations to Sam Houston, BA(Hons) Fine Art graduate, who has been invited to show a piece of work titled Persist in the ‘Federation of British Artists Futures‘ exhibition, taking place at the Mall Galleries, London.  The exhibition features ‘outstanding art graduates from 2013’. “I’m delighted to be selected for this exhibition, and I’m really looking forward to it,” said Sam.  He added that the exposure gained from the ‘Now Falmouth’ exhibition, which also took place in London, organised by his fellow Fine Art students, secured his invitation into the FBA Futures exhibition.

‘Persist’ by Sam Houston

Since graduating from Falmouth, Sam has been continuing his practice, exhibiting in galleries nationwide.  In February, Sam will be exhibiting among fellow Fine Art graduates in an exhibition titled ‘New Beginnings’ at Porthminster Gallery in St Ives.  Sam said “I’m really excited to return to Cornwall and see everyone again,” adding, “Falmouth gave me the knowledge and confidence to keep working and experimenting, and time is showing that hard work does pay off eventually.  Falmouth’s reputation has helped me along the way, and I have to thank all the tutors for all their support”.

The FBA Futures exhibition takes place between 21 January – 25 January 2014.   Work online from 17 January at: http://mallgalleries-shows.com/

The ‘New Beginnings’ exhibition takes place between 08 February – 01 March 2014.

Falmouth 1st Year Illustration London Study trip

Nine visits have taken place since our last posting. These have included Disney, Egmont, Arena Illustration Agency, ‘Human After All’ (design group), Artit Partners, the Telegraph, Penguin Books, Dorling Kindersley, designer Matt Cooper’s studio, with Phosphor Agency and Walker Books still to come this afternoon.

Yesterday’s Illustration Forum at The London College of Communication was a great success. Catherine Anyango gave a great presentation of her acclaimed Graphic Novel interpretation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Ian Whadcock (who had travelled down from Macclesfield especially gave a fascinating insight into his own conceptual processes while Matthew Richardson delighted both Falmouth and LCC students with case studies of recent work. It was a incredibly valuable day. Thanks to all the speakers and also Paul and Stuart at LCC for allowing us to use the college’s facilities for the day.

I think everyone is beginning to flag a little but it has been a fantastic week and a great ending to the autumn term.

Here are some photos with more to come in future posts.

Students meeting Senior Designer at Penguin, Richard Bravery (who also happens to be a former Falmouth Illustration graduate)

Discussing the ‘Face Stamp’ project with Victoria Talbot at the design group, ‘Human After All’

Looking at Portfolios at Arena Illustration Agency

Students Outside Harper Collins

Matthew Richardson speaking at the Falmouth’s London Illustration Forum (in association with LCC)

Illustration students visit Artworks and Harper Collins

Falmouth students visiting Artworks Illustration Agency

A group of BA(Hons) Illustration students have just had a great visit to Artworks Illustration Agency in Hoxton. Lucy and Alex of Artworks, both experienced Illustration agents, discussed a broad range of issues from their perspective. Really informative. Many thanks to Lucy and Alex for taking some time out of their working day.

Eight students have just visited two senior art directors at the literary division of Harper Collins. Designer Julian Humphries hosted what turned out to be an extremely valuable visit. The visit revolved around how illustrators are sourced, the commissioning process, the role of agencies and more. Many thanks to Harper Collins for giving our students the opportunity to visit.

 

BA(Hons) Drawing students exhibit in London

2nd year BA Drawing students at R K Burt Gallery, London

Second year BA(Hons) Drawing students had their first taste of exhibiting their work in London at the beginning of October, when they presented a showcase of their work at the RK Burt Gallery in Union Street, timed to coincide with nearby drawing shows at the Jerwood Gallery and the Society for Graphic Fine Art.

Thanks go to Clifford Burt, of RK Burt’s Paper Suppliers, for making the students so welcome, and for once again providing BA(Hons) Drawing with an excellent gallery space to show in.

This course followed their London exhibition with a show of work by second and third year students at the Ariel Centre at King Edward VI Community College in Totnes.

Jamie Stenhouse’s work, shown at the Ariel Centre, Totnes