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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.

Conrad Shawcross' new work Trophy, made for the National Gallery, is showing in Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 a unique collaboration between the National Gallery and The Royal Opera House at the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN from 11 July – 23 September 2012. The exhibition also features new work by Chris Ofili and Mark Wallinger. Top British choreographers, dancers and composers have collaborated with the artists to create an evening of three new works, performed at The Royal Opera House by The Royal Ballet in July 2012. See www.nationalgallery.org.uk.

Videoooooh, a Slade Olympic-related initiative is showing at the Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB from 12noon - 5pm, 24 July - 3 August 2012. It includes one minute videos by Charles Gouldsbourgh, Henrietta Simson/Jo Volley, Hira Mansur, Liz Rideal, Luke Schroder, Michael Duffy, Patrick White, Pippa Connolly, Rebecca Merrill, Rob Cross, Sarah Bayliss and Kasia Depta-Garrapach.

Videooooh is a collaboration between the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL The One Minutes Foundation, Amsterdam and  the Flemish/Dutch house de Buren, Brussels. The exhibition comprises 212 one minute videos made by 193 artists from 33 countries on the subject of Sport, Like/Dislike (truly Olympic) to conincide with the London Olympics.

See www.theoneminutes.org.

Alumni Angus H Braithwaite, Phil Coy, Benedict Drew and Emma Hart, and staff members Martin John Callanan and Kieren Reed are showing at the Whitstable Biennale 2012, at various venues in Whitstable from 1 - 16 September 2012. See www.whitstablebiennale.com.

Michael Ajerman, Eloise Fornieles, Nick Hornby, Emila Izquierdo, Hyo Myoung Kim, Saad Qureshi, Mohammed Qasim Ashfaq, Gideon Rubin are showing in This is London at Shizaru Gallery, 112 Mount Street, London W1K 2TU, from 25 July - 28 September 2012. See www.shizaru.com.

Ali Kazim, Daniel Preece, Saad Qureshi and Julia Vogl are showing in the Creative Cities Collection Fine Arts Exhibition at Exhibition Hall I and II,  Barbican Arts Centre, Silk St London EC2Y 8DS from 2 - 8 August 2012. See www.creativecitiescollection.org.

Elly Cho is showing Visual Kinematics: a state of mind (No.10), 2011 (excerpt) as part of the Times Square Midnight Moment in Times Square, New York, NY, USA from 1 - 31 July 2012, every night at 11.57pm. See www.timessquarenyc.org.

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