FLEX is a 4 year collaborative project between Camden Arts Centre, The Slade Research Centre and Undergraduate Sculpture at The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL.

Taking its starting point as a series of speculations into the properties of clay, this collaborative project considers the philosophical and material conversations around ceramics.  Consisting of student projects with Camden Arts Centre’s Ceramics Fellow, talks and events across both institutions programmes, the project will culminate with a publication which will include works from artists and writers participating in the programme.  

Monday 2 – Friday 6 June 2014
This year sees the Slade Undergraduate Sculpture students working with Camden Arts Centre’s Ceramics Fellow, Jesse Wine on a project that explores materiality and process when approaching working with Clay.

Rooting itself within Jesse’s approach to ceramics, students will look to working with clay in a way that acknowledges both conceptual and physical ways of working with the material.  Acting as a fellow artists and tutor Jesse will be working alongside the students, to shed light on his approach to making and critiquing work.  Throughout the week he will also be giving rolling tutorials with the students.

Students are encouraged to create work that acknowledges their own studio practice, adapting their themes, processes and approaches of working to this new material, environment and brief.

Throughout the week there will also be visiting lecturers including artist Aaron Angell and ceramicist Dan Stafford.  Aaron will give a talk with Jesse about their different approaches to using clay and also give tutorials to students, while Dan will give students more detailed talks around the use of ceramic glazes on Friday 6 June.

The project will culminate in an exhibition on Tuesday 10 June in the Artists’ Studio and garden.