Follow Jo Volley's A Colour a Day project, a year-long project to celebrate one colour each day by recording a swatch of it, on The Pigment Timeline Blog: https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/pigment-timeline.
Work by Rutie Borthwick & Rebecca James, Harley Kuyck-Cohen, Nicole Morris, Giulia Ricci and Julia Vogl can be seen online in Dear World Project, a cross-disciplinary public engagement collaboration that explores mental health, its diagnosis, and the use of labels often associated with feelings and emotions. See the Dear World Project website.
Congratulations to Yva Jung who has been awarded an a-n Artist Bursary for 2020. The bursary will fund a residency in Felixstowe, which will culminate in a performance and video work exploring themes of journeys, borders and encounters. See the a-n website.
PHYLLIDA! A film by Third Channel of Phyllida Barlow preparing for her 2019 ‘cul-de-sac’ exhibition at the Royal Academy can be seen online on YouTube.
Inaugural World Pigment Day, 22 March, dedicated by Jo Volley & Ruth Siddall, tune in for a live stream from 12 noon on Longplayer: https://longplayer.org/listen/
Today, 21st March, is International Colour Day & World Poetry Day. Unfortunately the symposium Colour & Poetry, scheduled for today has been cancelled. Associate Professor Jo Volley, would like to share with you this piece of text that fairly encapsulates the spirit of it for her.
Then the man in the blue suit reaches into his pocket and takes out a large sheet of paper, which he carefully unfolds and hands to me. It is covered with Picasso’s handwriting – less spasmodic, more studied than usual. At first sight, it resembles a poem. Twenty or so verses are assembled in a column, surrounded by broad white margins. Each verse is prolonged with a dash, occasionally a very long one. But it is not a poem; it is Picasso’s most recent order for colours… For once, all the anonymous heroes of Picasso’s palette trooped forth from the shadows, with Permanent White at their head. Each had distinguished himself in some great battle – the Blue period, the Rose Period, Cubism, ‘Guernica….. Each could say: ‘I too, I was there…” And Picasso, reviewing his old comrades-in-arms, gives to each of them a sweep of his pen, a long dash that seems a fraternal salute: ‘ Welcome Persian Red! Welcome Emerald Green! Cerulean Blue, Ivory Black, Cobalt Violet, clear and deep, welcome! Welcome!’
Listen to our students, Kasia Depta-Garapich, Cherry Song and Ruby Wroe, speak about their work for Melancholia, UCL Psychoanalysis's exhibition at Freud Museum London, which has been postponed until Autumn.
The book Launch Event for 'Earthly Bodies', examining the work of Nayoung Jeong, published by Slade Press takes place at the Korean Cultural Centre UK, Grand Buildings, 1-3 Strand, London WC2N 5BW, on Tuesday 17 March at 6 pm.
'Earthly Bodies' examines the ten years of internationally exhibited artworks Korean artist Nayoung Jeong. The book features contributions from critical experts, who investigate the impact of Jeong’s work with local clay, as she explores concepts of identity, foreignness, and cultural isolation.
808, Kieren Reed, 2020, digital image, dimensions variable
courtesy of the artist
Kieren Reed is showing in The Red Mansion Anniversary Art Prize at Weston House, Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington Gardens, London W1S 3ET, from 18 - 25 March 2020. See The Red Mansion website.
The Red Mansion Anniversary Art Prize
The Red Mansion Art Prize was established to promote artistic exchange between China and the UK. In 2020, The Red Mansion Foundation celebrates its 20th anniversary with a special edition of the Art Prize.
Over the past twenty years the Red Mansion Art Prize has been inviting students from the UK’s foremost art colleges to spend four weeks in China and subsequently exhibit the works made in response to this residency. To mark its 20th anniversary, The Red Mansion Foundation reversed these roles, arranging for Heads of School and Programme Leaders to travel to China, and to produce a body of work inspired by these travels.
The Red Mansion Foundation
The Red Mansion Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation, which promotes artistic exchange between China and the UK. Our mission is to increase knowledge and appreciation of contemporary Chinese art in the UK whilst encouraging understanding. www.redmansion.co.uk
The Red Mansion Anniversary Art Prize Exhibition 2020
Exhibition of 2019 participants:
Eliza Bonham Carter - Royal Academy Schools Anthony Gardner - The Ruskin School of Art David Mabb - Goldsmiths College Martin Newth - Chelsea College of Arts Kieren Reed - Slade School of Fine Art Alex Schady - Central Saint Martins Jo Stockham - Royal College of Art
Ginte Regina is showing The Pain of Youth at the Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry, 10–12 Artillery Street, Derry~Londonderry BT48 6RG, from 21 March - 23 May 2020. The exhibition is a result of a partnership between The Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry (CCA) with the Lithuanian Cultural Institute and Kaunas Artists’ House (KAH) to establish a new Reciprocal Residency for emerging artists. See the CCA Derry-Londonderry website for further information.
Anna Reading's The Pothole, which has been on tour since May 2019 as part of Mark Tanner Sculpture Award's national touring programme, opens at Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre on Saturday 7 March and continues until 20 June 2020. See the Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre website for further information.
