Events

11 March 2023

Artist Talk & Paupers Press studio visit

Standpoint Gallery

An artist talk with current exhibitor Michael Taylor, and tour of Paupers Press Printmaking Studio, where the work for this exhibition was made.

08 December 2022

Laurence Noga: Artist Talk

Standpoint Gallery

Laurence Noga was joined in conversation with Peter Ashton Jones, painter and curator, to discuss his work and unpick his relationship to painting, collage and sculpture.

In his recent work, Noga examined the possibilities of working sculpturally with a variety of materials, chiefly wood and found objects, often with painted or painted surfaces, which related directly to his two dimensional works.

This was a revised section of the Talking Sculpture Symposium, which was postponed due to Covid.

Supported by The Henry Moore Foundation

10 November 2022

Niccolo Binda Residency Presentation

Standpoint - Residency Studio

Standpoint presented an open studio event with Niccolo Binda to celebrate the end of his residency at Standpoint. Niccolo presented a number of new works created during his residency and introduced visitors to his practice.

Supported by The Henry Moore Foundation

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20 July 2022

Standpoint Professional Practice: Clay Day

A Free event at The Standpoint Gallery, Hoxton

Exploring the critical context and scope of contemporary ceramic sculpture. The day aims to open up dialogue and discuss the interchange of ideas and approaches in current ceramic practice. The day includes: unique access to Standpoint’s two ceramic studios; artist discussion; practical workshop; and a viewing of Tassie’s new work in the gallery.

11am - 12.30pm Artist Talk: Nicola Tassie and Denise de Cordova
Nicola Tassie was joined in her studio by artist and educator Denise de Cordova, exploring crossovers in approach between trained sculptors and ceramicists in navigating ceramic material as a medium for making sculpture.

An afternoon of making with Nicola Tassie and Will Papworth, activities include: throwing on the wheel; assemblage demonstrations and the opportunity to address concerns in your own practice.

This is a revised section of the Talking Sculpture Symposium, which was postponned due to Covid.

Supported by The Henry Moore Foundation

30 October 2021

Vitalist Aesthetics: Dean Kenning in Conversation with Lindsay Seers

ICA, The Mall, London

To mark the end of his Mark Tanner Sculpture Award exhibition ‘Evolutionary Love’, Dean Kenning was in conversation with the artist Lindsay Seers delving into some of the themes which have informed Kenning’s sensory, crawling automatons, and to further explore areas of mutual artistic interest in the fields of aesthetics, science and philosophy.

They considered how artistic approaches and methods can engage with and generate insight with regard to models of reality in neuroscience, cosmology and the life sciences. They questioned how their amateur passions and collaborations inspired the growth of new artistic forms, and envisaged points of genuine continuity across artistic and scientific research.

28 October 2021

Liam Fallon: Residency Presentation

Standpoint - Residency Studio

Standpoint presented an open studio event with Liam Fallon to celebrate the end of his residency at Standpoint.

Liam presented a number of new works created during his residency and gave a short talk introducing some of his current interests and ideas.

Liam’s sculptural practice focuses on the exploration of queer culture and the way that materials contribute to this exploration. The binary of private and public marks a particular point of interest for Fallon, more recently looking into the familiar relationship framework of falling in love and suffering loss, occurrences that are at once unfolding in the public realm, whilst at the same time remaining an enigmatically private affair.

17 October 2020

INTUITIVE GEOMETRIES: WOMEN MAKING CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE

Free Online event

An online event in collaboration with yellowfields, feat Olivia Bax, Nika Neelova, Linda Brothwell, Solveig Settemsdal and Jennifer Dudley

This event marks the launch of the yellowfields publication, Intuitive Geometries. The project features artist texts by Olivia Bax, Nika Neelova, Linda Brothwell and Solveig Settemsdal connected through an essay by art historian and curator Jennifer Dudley. Connected through the making of sculpture, this group’s work delve into critical ideas around material and process, space, ergonomics, and responsibility.

28 November 2019

Winter Studio Sale

Ceramics with Nicola Tassie & Jo Marland

30 October 2019

Mark Devereux Projects

Making a strong application, from start to submit

This workshop focused on skills, techniques and information to help participants write and submit exhibition, commission and funding applications. The session offered information and advice on how to target your application through use of language and what to and not to include. The workshop looked at the application process for Arts Council National Lottery grants. Led by Mark from Mark Devereux Projects.

30 October 2019

Mark Devereux Projects

One-to-one mentoring & advice sessions

Four 1-hour one-to-one mentoring sessions available, with mentor Mark Devereux. Subjects of the sessions could include (but not limited to): portfolio reviews, advice on applications and fundraising.

29 August 2019

Summer Art Workshops

20 June 2019

Sculptorvox Vol 3: A God Complex

Launch Party at Standpoint

Join us for the launch of the new issue of Sculptorvox. This 3rd Volume expresses notions, ideas and theories on ‘A God Complex’: aspects of the human ego, narcism, creation, transcendence, allure, seduction, religion, elitism, either lateral or literal.

Sculptorvox is an 8 volume series going beyond seeing sculpture as ‘object’ and delves into the world, work, inspiration, processes, influences, ideas, journeys and careers of artists, writers, photographers who all work directly or indirectly with notions of three dimensions. From interviews and articles to original writing, thinking and photography that goes some way to show the breadth and depth of practice in contemporary studios.

With a short informal talk and panel Q&A with editor Daniel Lingham and featured artists Adeline de Monseignat and Anna Reading.

Visit www.sculptorvox.com

14 June 2019

Anna Reading and Sophie Williamson In Conversation + The Pothole Publication Launch

Mark Tanner Sculpture Award 2018/19 winner Anna Reading is joined in conversation with Sophie Williamson, Programme Curator: Exhibitions, Camden Arts Centre, to discuss her new exhibition and wider practice. In addition the artist launched a new publication called ‘The Pothole’, made especially to coincide with the exhibition of the same name at Standpoint.

The publication features texts written by Anna Reading (artist based in London), Hannah Regel (artist and writer based in London) and Carey Lifschultz (writer based in San Francisco). Lifschultz and Regel's contributions were written as creative responses following visits to Reading's studio. The texts include poetry and prose and are layered alongside images of Reading's highly textural sculptures and vibrant digital collages. The publication is printed in an edition of 50 on Risograph by PageMasters and designed by Anna Reading and Tempe Storm Cole.

This event is free to attend but booking is recommended. To reserve a place please email: gallery(at)standpointlondon.co.uk

26 April 2019

Artist Talk: Denise de Cordova

In her exhibition at Standpoint Gallery, Denise de Cordova presented a series of imagined beings developed from time spent navigating the deep woods and forests spaces of British Columbia, Canada.

9 March 2019

DIRTY HANDS & Revelations Matinee Feast

Join the DIRTY HANDS & Revelations artists for a matinee of performances and feast on The Dirty Banquet.
Performances and readings by Jessica Wetherly, Kenji Lim, Lil Cahill, Maisie Maris, Chloe Monks and The One Day Choir.

16 November 2018

Sculptorvox Vol 2: Blood & Wire

Launch Party at Standpoint

Join us for the launch of the new issue of Sculptorvox. Blood and Wire represent the physical flesh, the visceral manifestation of being, assembled, realised, created and displayed. It is the bond that ties, the desire to connect, the need to communicate and sometimes to simply be. It is about the stuff of human existence and the sometimes jarring experience of the human condition.

Volume 2 spans the subtlety and nuances of identity, politics, social interaction, social history, personal endeavour, observation, and the human body. A short informal talk and panel Q&A with editor Daniel Lingham, art director Matt Gill, contributing writer Rebecca Partridge and artist Sol Bailey-Barker.

Visit www.sculptorvox.com

30 July – 1 August 2018

Summer Masterclass
Thinking the Making (Social Justice)

Participants (aged 14-19 years)

Over the course of 3 days young people learned new skills in traditional crafts within professional artist’s studios in East London. Together they explored the values of their living environment & social justice, using letterpress printmaking, ceramics at Standpoint Studios and a local Nature Reserve. The project was in collaboration with Phytology medicinal garden in Bethnal Green.

23 – 27 July 2018

Summer Craft Playscheme
In Your Hands (Compost/Soil)

Participants (aged 8 – 14 years)

Over the course of the week young people learn new skills in traditional crafts within professional artist’s studios in East London. Together they explored the values of their environment, using letterpress printmaking, ceramics and painting at Standpoint Studios and it's local Great Outdoors. The project is in collaboration with Phytology medicinal garden in Bethnal Green.

Friday 15 June 2018

Frances Richardson In Conversation

Mark Tanner Sculpture Award (MTSA) 2017/18 winner Frances Richardson is joined in conversation with Luce Garrigues and Javier Pes, UK Editor Artnet to discuss her new exhibition and wider practice.

Friday 27 April 2018

Temsuyanger Longkumer Q&A

Temsuyanger Longkumer is joined in conversation with Standpoint's director Michael Taylor to discuss his new exhibition QUINTETTE and wider practice as a print technician at Paupers Press. With an emphasis on professional practice post college (Temsu graduated in Printmaking from the Royal College of Art in 2003), the talk included an introduction to how the artist-led Standpoint formed and a look into Paupers Press' current / archived projects.

Paupers Press is a fine art print and publishing studio that works with many leading contemporary artists, publishers and galleries. The studio opened in 1986 and works both by commission from galleries and publishers, as well as publishing under their own name. Artists include: Damien Hirst, Paula Rego, Rachel Whiteread, Cornellia Parker, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Tony Bevan and Grayson Perry.

13th and 20th January 2018

Workshops by Alex Schauwecker

Workshops:

Accompanying Alex Schauwecker's exhibition ‘Where the City ends, the Forest begins’, held at the Standpoint Gallery 20 January – 3 February 2018

Young people create a wall painting inside the gallery space to explore the exhibition theme together with the artist.

Young people write poems inspired by the artwork exhibited using traditional craft of letterpress printmaking in collaboration with New North Press and the artist.

Visit Alex Schauwecker's website www.walfisch-studio.com

This project has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Swiss Cultural Fund UK.

24th October 2017

On Empathy

Autumn Half-term one day workshop for young people.
Nature drawing/movement/printmaking

The workshop starts at Standpoint Gallery before setting off on a field trip to explore the period gardens of close-by Geffrye Museum. Lead by artist Sarah Lawton and artist educator Beatrice Bless, young participants searched for patterns in nature and take drawings and rubbings of their findings.

Once back in the gallery, young people practiced traditional Indian dance gestures and their meaning. Together stories were shared through language and movement.

The final part of the workshop involves block-printing to replicate symetric/non-symetric patterns in the natural world, based on collections taken during the garden visit in the morning.

Throughout the day young people learned different craft techniques and print their final artwork on paper and on Khadi* cloth. All textile samples have been sourced during the artist’s residency in Ahmedabad, India. *Khadi cloth is hand-spun and hand-woven fabric.

2016

In Your Hands

Summer Holidays and Autumn Half-term

Standpoint is excited to announce Summer 2016 Holiday Craft Activities of their initiative 'In Your Hands'

'In Your Hands' launched in 2016 with over 96 young people engaging with the process of making by experimenting with the nature of materials in the setting of professional artists’ studios.

From our Standpoint Studios in Hoxton, East London we ran two week-long courses teaching the craft skills in ceramics, letterpress printmaking and illustration.

Over the 5 day course professional artist educators helped young people (aged 8-14) research and develop ideas on traditional games and inventing new ones.

• learned new skills and techniques from inspiring artists
• planned and produceed hand-crafted games using the different crafts
• visit a professional run artist studio and meet the artist
• be able to take home their finished outcomes at the end of the week

Collaborating artists are: MizuyoYamashita (ceramics), Emily Rand (illustration, Tom + Trounce (illustration) and Beatrice Bless (letterpress printmaking)

Read more about ‘In Your Hands’ at the organiser's website New North Press

22nd June 2017

Nicola Dale | An Era of Abbreviation

Standpoint Futures at Chisenhale Studios

At the completion of her six-week residency, Nicola Dale presents new work arising from her research into art historian Aby Warburg’s photographic collection at The Warburg Institute. Nicola has selected and abbreviated 89 images and translated them into an eight-metre wall drawing, in turn used as a choreographic score by contemporary dancer Chloe Aliyanni.

Location: Studio 4, Chisenhale Studios, 64-84 Chisenhale Rd, London E3 5QZ

26th May 2017

Beth Collar in Conversation with Phoebe Blatton

Location: Standpoint Gallery

Beth Collar is the current recipient of the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award on show at the Standpoint Gallery until the 27th May.

Phoebe Blatton is a writer of fiction and criticism, based in Berlin, Germany, and London, U.K. She is editor of The Coelacanth Press, whose publications include The Coelacanth Journal, and a re-issue of Brigid Brophy's 1956 novel, The King of a Rainy Country. Her latest writing features in Frieze and ArtReview, and on Anna M. Szaflarski's fiction podcast Letters to the Editors.

27 April 2017

AJ Stockwell | Fadic Rock

Standpoint Futures at Chisenhale Studios

Location: Chisenhale Studios, 64-84 Chisenhale Rd, London E3 5QZ.

At the culmination of her six-week residency, Standpoint Futures were pleased to present AJ Stockwell | Fadic Rock.

Clay, sound and a stage come together to reveal a point in time that has been lost to history. The work draws on AJ’s ongoing research into the Society of White Rock, a community centered round the preservation of precious porcelain, and its customs and folk traditions.

Elements of museum display and theatre design wer employed to accompany a soundtrack of repeat rhythms and tones, in an effort to sing the fadic rock back into present time. This singing of the rock mirrors a folk custom of ‘singing the land’ emerging from AJ’s memories of her maternal connection to the Western Isles.

The 'fadic rock’ is a material lost in time, a fiction born of physical stuff, a utopic material fetish.

During the evening, AJ spoke about her research with Fiona MacDonald (artist and Director of Standpoint Futures) as a performed ‘in conversation’ event.

Thursday 2 March 2017

Pop Morphosis

Standpoint Futures at Chisenhale Studios

Current residency artist Simon Bayliss public event

For the culmination of his Standpoint Futures residency Simon Bayliss collaborated with artists and musicians working with pop music, rave and live performance. The event developed through conversations with Sian Dorrer performing as Acid Prawn, and Susie Green who collaborated with Bayliss as Splash Addict.

The idea of metamorphosis stems from Splash Addict’s latest track, a dance cover of ‘Smalltown Boy’ by Bronski Beats, the lyrics of which describe a painful life-transition from oppressive parochial sexual-conservatism to urban liberation.

Acid Prawn’s piece ‘What Women Do’ (featuring Joey Four) features live soundtrack, online make-up tutorials and sandwich making. Rafal Zajko performed a psychedelic sound work in collaboration with pop singer Zoee. Lobsta B aka Leon Bayliss, DJ'ed' a ‘pop-rave megamix’.

12 April 2017

London Craft Week

Gain open access to all areas of Standpoint Studios and join one of the guided tours, participatory workshops and demonstrations in the ceramic, letterpress and etching studios with Nicola Tassie, Stuart Carey, Graham Bignell and Michael Taylor.

Standpoint includes the ceramic studios of Nicola Tassie and Stuart Carey as well as Peter Jones' painting studio, an in-house gallery, New North letterpress studio and printmaking studio Paupers Press. The open studios give you the opportunity to talk to the artists, and to View their work and methods Of making. The guided tours include a talk on how to set up and run an arts/crafts studio space. In the ceramic studios, View works in progress and demonstrations Of throwing and turning. There were opportunities to make clay ves- sels using pinching and faceting techniques. Graham Bignell and Beatrice Bliss of New North Press demonstrate how to print one of their bespoke posters. Learn how to set from their vast range of typefaces and operate the hand-pulled Albion and Columbian Presses. Michael Taylor of Paupers Press demonstrated the process of multiple-plate colour etching and offer the opportunity to print some self-drawn multiple-plate monoprints.

A Discussion on Hierarchy and Influence, with The Workers

Lucy Clout, Susan Collis, Aileen Harvey and Caitlin Hinshelwood join Standpoint curator Fiona MacDonald for a discussion around their experiences and interpretations of the overt and covert manifestations of hierarchy in the artworld.

The artists will also discuss how their individual working practices have been challenged, altered and enriched by each other, through their years of interactivity as studio assistants in Susan Collis' studio. Notably, Collins' studio is a female dominated environment. We will also ask - what difference does this make?

Exhibition: 26 February - 2 April 2016

5 December 2016

Casual Gesture

Eye Eye curators - Thorbjørn Anderson and Flore Nové Josserand introduce the artists, the work and the concepts operating in Casual Gesture.

Works by: Claudia Djabbari, Florian Meisenberg, Grégoire Motte, Laurence Payot, Philip Ewe, Luke McCreadie and Bruce McLean.

31 October 2016

Natural Staking

Panel Discussion | Sensibility, Continuity and Contingency

The panel comprised of artists Simon Bayliss, Susan Taylor, Alexis Teplin and Sherman Sam and was chaired by Natural Staking exhibition curator Dan Howard-Birt.

'How do the factors that surround and inform the making of a painting / an exhibition crystallise in an object / event, and how does the object embrace it's mutable future?'

The discussion thought about painting and other pigmented surfaces in relation to the evolving hypotheses of potentiality, expanded field, the transitive and occult or arcane irrationality.

Tuesday 22 September 2016

Thinking the Making

Exhibition, open studios and demonstrations

Standpoint Gallery presented ceramics by internationally acclaimed artists Nicola Tassie and Stuart Carey; lithos and etchings by Paupers Press - featuring artists Charles Avery and Rosie Snell; letterpress prints by New North Press, and woodcuts by Peter Ashton Jones.

The exhibition offered insights into the process, materials and technology involved in each craft, alongside displaying some of the beautiful finished works, many of which were for sale.

This event allowed special access to look around Standpoint artists' studios, to get first hand information about the skills involved in making the works displayed, and watch technical demonstrations by the artists. There was also an opportunity to try your hand at making a letterpress print.

This event was part of Shoreditch Design Triangle , and the event was kindly supported by Grolsch.

9th September 2016

Laura Reeves - Honest

Laura Reeves and Phil Owen, Writer and Researcher at Arnolfini's Reading Room, Bristol, presented an evening of conversations and readings to launch Laura's artist-book - Honest.

Laura's invitation to you:
"I have worked with Phil a number of times. I met with him recently to discuss we would do for this event. We tried to pin-point the first time we met and neither of us could remember. Phil has visited one of my previous studios, I've presented at Tertulia - a salon event that Phil has been running alongside Megan Wakefield for almost five years now. Phil also wrote a text called Dear Laura, a personal letter, and he informed me of my doppelganger, Laura Reeves the American bodybuilder.

Before we met I prepared a selection of books and scanned pages of text I thought he would like and were somehow related to the content of my publication. Then the computer crashed and I lost it all. I sulked. Then decided to 'go with the flow' and see what happened when we met. I shouldn't have worried. Phil is conversation-led, and if anything, pre-planning was a mistake.

Honest is an artist-book. The book is part two of the recent show at MOSTYN containing excerpts from my Worksheets series comprising autobiographical prose, short fiction, found images and an imaginary artwork.

Me and Phil performed some sections from the book and reading from related texts, and Phil read some vignettes / reinterpretations of the photographs."

Laura Reeves was the artist-in-residence representing Wales as part of Standpoint Futures programme in 2014.

5 August 2016

Phallacy by Brian J Morrison

Standpoint Futures Event

Phallacy is a performance by artist Brian J Morrison and the culmination of his six week Standpoint Futures residency.

10 June 2016

An Interview with Thomas Goddard

Standpoint Futures Event

Thomas Goddard works across design, drawing, photography, film and performance exploring the relationship between place, community, culture and fiction. Goddard’s work looks at the relationship between the individual and society, the role of misinformation through the media and its effects on contemporary culture through the power of suggestibility and misattribution. His work examines the line between truth and fiction; how harnessing public anxieties is exemplified by endless facts and sources in an obsessive repetition through the axis of a modern world where choices are seemingly endless.

Goddard received a Creative Wales Award for 2015/16 and was artist in residence at Standpoint. A major exhibition was held as part of Uprisings at Mostyn, Llandudno opening on 17th July 2015.

27 May 2016

Kate Lyddon Artists Talk

Publication launch and reading by Alice Butler

Kate Lyddon’s practice spans painting, drawing and sculpture. The Mark Tanner Sculpture Award has supported her to develop the sculptural aspect of her practice over the course of the last 12 months. Kate talked about the things that inform her practice and the works in the exhibition.

On the same evening Standpoint launched the publication accompanying the show, with an essay by Alice Butler and photographs by Mark Blower. Alice Butler is a writer and editor based in London who won the Frieze Writer's Prize in 2012, and is currently Writer In Residence at Jerwood Visual Arts.

29 May 2015

Contemporary Clay Seminar Workshop

Nicola Tassie and Kate Lyddon lead a combined practical workshop and theoretical discussion, which quizzes and discusses the current upsurge of interest in clay as a central material in contemporary art practice, and how this impacts upon or emerges from functional ceramic practice.

While teaching specific making skills the seminar elaborated upon and promote discussion around the interaction between (or mutual avoidance of) contemporary studio ceramics practice and contemporary art practice which emphasises ceramics as a material.

13 May 2015

Collette Rayner

Standpoint Futures Event

In conversation and open discussion with Andrea Francke.

For this event our current Standpoint Futures resident artist Collette Rayner presented a short publication of new material made during her residency. This coincided with an open discussion and ‘in conversation’ with Andrea Francke.

Collette Rayner's practice focuses on model-making as a methodology and as a subject of research. Throughout the residency her work has focused on investigations into the insular world of hobbyists, model makers and micro nationalists and aspects of privacy and piracy surrounding each organisation’s assertion of craft, capital and community structures.

Collette Rayner (b. 1990 Dundee) lives and works in Glasgow and graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2012.

Andrea Francke  (b.1978 Lima, Peru) is a graduate of Open School East whose most recent projects include The Piracy Project, a collaboration with Eva Weinmayr that explores authorship, copyright and publishing and Invisible Spaces of Parenthood, with Kim Dhillon.

9 May 2015

London Craft Week

Ceramic studio participatory demonstration

Two of the ceramic artists with studios at the Standpoint gallery, Nicola Tassie and Stuart Carey, offered visitors first-hand insights into their respective practices, displaying their current works in progress, demonstrating throwing and decorating techniques and giving attendees the chance make their own forms through pinch pottery and faceting.

Letter-Press participatory demonstration at New North Press

Hand-setting wood and metal type and printing on Albion and Columbian presses, the studio produces commissions and its own poster editions. The press aims to keep the craft of letterpress alive through regular workshops and events, and, as part of Craft Week, Graham Bignell and Beatrice Bless demonstrated how to print one of their bespoke posters. Visitors had the opportunity to learn how to set from the press's vast range of typefaces and operate the hand-pulled presses.

There were open studios with guided tours, and a talk covering how to set up an artist-run space, the relationship between exhibiting and making, and current craft/arts practice.

25th March 2015

Standpoint Futures Event

Zoe Williams

Screening & In Conversation with Dr Katherine Angel

For this event our current Standpoint Futures resident artist, Zoe Williams, presented a screening of new material made during the residency. Followed by an ‘In Conversation’ with historian, writer and Wellcome Trust Fellow - Dr Katherine Angel, whose work deals with questions of sexuality, feminism and desire.

Those attending the event were invited to engage physically with some of the objects and personal care products that Williams' has been working with; including body butters, oils and scent.

21 March 2015

No-one Lives in the Real World

Discussion event with the exhibition artists & curators

28 January 2015

A discussion event accompanied the exhibition Footnotes Playing Dead. Join us - Oreet Ashery, Pil & Galia Kollectiv and Idit Elia Nathan for ‘in conversation’ event facilitated by Dr. Daniel Rubinstein. The discussion reflected on what it might mean to be from Israel with its contested past bleeding into the present and make work in the UK today. It explored the terrain between making work politically and making political work and examine some of the themes fromFootnotes Playing Dead exhibition regarding responsibility and complicity.

3 December 2014

Ana Genovés

Ana Genovés presented an illustrated talk on ideas related to her practice.

The free talk refered to interconnected aspects of Genovés' work and ideas. Genovs showed a selection of her collection of source photographs. These images, which were carefully hoarded and repeatedly consulted - a kind of personal sculptural pornography - revealed the vernacular sources of some of her forms and methodologies.

The work of Ana Genovés operates between the boundaries of making, faking and destruction. Her 'failed geometric' forms echo the shapes and textures of the objects with which we arrange and order our social and civil space, that she sees as often defaulting to the logic of geometry to suggest an appearance or aesthetic of control. The ambiguous functionality of her objects, their surfaces suggestive of entropic processes, undermine this attempt at control, and reveal a futile binary opposition of intention and inevitability.

18 October 2014

Nicola Tassie in conversation with Stuart Carey

Ceramicists Nicola Tassie and Stuart Carey introduced and discussed the diversity of the work in the exhibition CRAFT, explaining some of the ideas and inspiration behind the exhibition, as well as giving a unique insight into Nicola's processes, materials and techniques.

5th October 2014

Making Art at Standpoint

FREE!

Come and re-imagine Hoxton's past. Make funny farm animals out of clay, or map the historic area of Standpoint onto copper plates and print them in the etching studio. Make amazing paintings on canvas of the old farmlands, fields and gardens of Hoxton, or set everyday stories from our vast library of wooden and metal typefaces and create unique posters in our letterpress studio.

Children from 6 years and upwards are welcome. Children under 11 must be accompanied by an adult.

Monday 23 June 2014

Mapping Art Practice in the UK

Click below to hear Discussion 3 - David Cross and others (the beginning is chopped off, David is reacting to the introduction of £9000 per year tuition fees).

Discussion 3

NETWORK WORTH: How artists can benefit / be restricted by their work with institutions (eg art schools, funders, galleries, local government, wider commercial framework)

Speakers
Moderator: David Cross artist and Reader at University of the Arts London introduced each speaker just by name, and gave his overview of the discussion topic, with reference to his work within UAL and as an artist working in the public sphere.

Russell Martin artist, programme manager of Artquest and co-founder of Rational Rec gave insight into the particular pressures that London-based artists are subject to with regard to how they reach / open a conversation with / get noticed by institutions they want to work within the city's dense and complex art world.

Anthony Schrag artist based in Edinburgh, working internationally in socially engaged practice offered examples of the projects he has developed in response to a tricky brief, particularly those working with local government bodies.

Teresa Gleadowe curator and writer, director of The Cornwall Workshop discussed the projects and networks she has instigated since her move to Cornwall in 2010, and how her thoughts on current artist resources available within different regions across the UK.

Questions our panels addressed:
1. London versus the UK artworld: how do we differ, compete and interact?
2. ART-DIY: What do artist-led / artist-focused organisations and initiatives achieve?
3. NETWORK WORTH: How artists can benefit / be restricted by their work with institutions 

Confirmed speakers include:
David Powell - researcher and co-author of recently published PLACE Report and Rebalancing Our Cultural Capital

Ellen Mara De Wachter - independent writer and curator, currently Curator, Public Collection Development at Contemporary Arts Society

Cheryl Jones - director of Grand Union , Birmingham

Anthony Gross - artist and founding director of Enclave , London; and previously TemporaryContemporary

Dr Megan Wakefield - recently completed a PhD researching peer learning amongst artists outside of formal educational systems, Associate Lecturer at the University of the West of England, Bristol


Kwong Lee - director of Castlefield Gallery , Manchester

Mary Vettise - artist and co-founder of Artists' Union England

Pippa Koszerek - artist, is a-n staff member of AIR Council leaders of the a-n & AIR Paying Artists Campaign

Anthony Schrag - artist based in Edinburgh, working internationally in socially engaged practice

Teresa Gleadowe - curator and writer, director of The Cornwall Workshop

David Cross - artist and Reader at University of the Arts London

David Hoyland - director of Seventeen Gallery , London

Russell Martin< - artist, programme manager of Artquest .

Paul Moss - director of Workplace Gallery