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2012

Liz Rideal has contributed the article Golden Years? which is included in the exhibition catalogue for Self-Portrait at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Gl. Strandvej 13, 3050 Humlebæk, Denmark.

Susan Collins is showing one of her Seascape prints at Inter Sections: Science in Contemporary Art, an exhibition about meeting points between science and art at the David Lopatie Conference Centre at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100 Israel from 22 September - 7 December 2012. Included are 60 works by 34 artists, including alumnus Conrad Shawcross, from around the world; each investigates various aspects of science, theory and technology: genetics, alternative energy, research into the nature of the universe and more. See www.susan-collins.net.

Ed Atkins has a solo exhibition Us Dead Talk Love at Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ from 21 September-11 November 2012. There is an artist's talk with Mike Sperlinger, Distribution Manager at Lux on Tuesday 30 October 2012, 7–9pm. See www.chisenhale.org.uk.

Graduate and undergraduate students from the Slade School of Fine Art present sculpture and performance, using a variety of media, to address scale, function, illusion, materiality and temporality. The spaces, features, architecture and foliage of the Square will become sites for large and small scale works that explore the cultural, social and imaginary worlds of the public garden. The exhibition will present works that explore the natural and the synthetic, the public and the private and the peripheral and the absurd. The event takes place at Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AG on Saturday 20 October 10:00-18:00 and Sunday 21 October 11:00-17:00. See www.bloomsburyfestival.org.uk.

Seán Hillen: Photographs from the North of Ireland 1979 - 1990 is showing at National Photographic Archive, The National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2 from 27 July- 30 September 2012. The National Library of Ireland has recently acquired 530 photos from Hillen to be held as a Permanent Collection; The Seán Hillen Collection, which comprises photographs taken in Northern Ireland between 1979 and 1990. See www.nli.ie .

Ian Giles is showing Loop at New Gallery, 92 Peckham Road, London SE15 5PY from 19 - 23 September 2012, as part of a five-day programme of exhibitions and events across Peckham organised by Peckham Artist Moving Image. See www.pami.org.uk.

Kieren Reed - Social Sculpture
Kieren Reed - Social Sculpture, 2012

Kieren Reed - Social Sculpture

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Kieren Reed is showing Social Sculputre on Whitstable Beach as part of the Whitstable Biennale from 1–16 September 2012. See www.kierenreed.co.uk.

Social Sculpture will also be shown at UCL, Downstairs Gallery and the National Trust, Mottisfont.

Alumni Richard Bevan and Pip Dickens, staff member Jo Volley and PhD student Henrietta Simson (Simson&Volley) are showing in Brittle Crazie Glasse at Islington Mill, James Street, Salford M3 5HW from 21 September - 4 November 2012. See www.islingtonmill.com.

Martin John Callanan - Wars During My Lifetime
Martin John Callanan - Wars During My Lifetime, 2012

Martin John Callanan - Wars During My Lifetime

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Martin John Calllanan has created a new work for the Whitstable Biennale 2012, Wars During My Lifetime, which lists on newsprint all the wars that have taken place over his lifetime. The newspaper is available from Whitstable Library, Elliotts Coffee Shop, Tea & Times, and Harbour News, throughout the festival. From 2pm on Saturday 8 September 2012 the town crier will read the newspaper for a special one-off event.

Lindsay Seers: Nowhere Less Now, commissioned by Artangel, at the The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, London NW6 5BA from 8 September - 21 October 2012 (booking essential). See www.artangel.org.uk.

Congratulations to Carol Wyss who has won The John Ruskin Prize 2012. Slade alumni Adrian Pritchard was also shortlisted. The accompanying exhibition, The John Ruskin Prize 2012: A New Look at Nature work by sixteen short-listed artists is showing at The Brantwood Trust, Coniston, Cumbria LA21 8AD from 8 September - 14 October 2012. See www.brantwood.org.uk.

Susan Collins, Seascape
Susan Collins, Seascape, 2012

Susan Collins, Seascape

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Susan Collins Seascape is showing at Hamburg Galleries, Osterwalder´s Art Office,
Isestrasse 37, 20144 Hamburg, Germany from 9 September - 9 November 2012. The project presents a visual exploration into the natural cycles of tide, time and light across the South East coast of England. Seascape was commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella www.fvu.co.uk and the De La Warr Pavilion www.dlwp.co, Bexhill-on-Sea, supported by Arts Council England and the Art and Humanities Research Council as well as The British Council Germany for the Hamburg show www.britishcouncil.de. For further information about Seascape, see www.susan-collins.net/seascape and about the exhibtion, www.osterwaldersartoffice.com.

Jon Thomson (Thomson and Craighead), Benedict Drew and Aura Satz are amongst those nominated for the Jarman Award 2012. The winner will be announced at a special event on Tuesday 6 November at London's Whitechapel Gallery. See http://filmlondon.org.uk.

David Blandy is showing Odysseys, a major exhibition of his recent work, at Phoenix Brighton, 10 - 14 Waterloo Place, Brighton BN2 9NB, from 1 -23 September 2012. There is an artist's talk on Saturday 1 September. See www.lighthouse.org.uk.

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