Phillippa Clayden: ‘Young Visions’ 15th July, 6 30pm in the Ballroom at the Royal Festival Hall.
In July this year at the Ballroom in the Festival Hall at the Southbank Centre, as part of a growing arts education partnership between Southwark EiC and the Southbank Centre’s learning & participation department, ‘Young Visions’ artists will be working with dancers and musicians towards a performance involving 400 children who will be designing and creating all their own props, backdrops and costumes. ‘Southwark Splash’ will celebrate 9 exciting years of bringing the best of Southwark’s outstanding performing & teaching talent to the stage with a performance of ‘The First Kiss Of Dawn’.
Young Visions was founded by Phillippa Clayden 28 years ago and currently has a team of 5 practising artists on the team. Previously based in North London, Young Visions has been working with Southwark’s Excellence in the City scheme for the past 3 years. EiC funding has enabled Young Visions to introduce their ethos and unique method of teaching the visual arts to young people and their teachers in Southwark through workshops, inset days and exhibitions. Their work with CLPE (centre for literacy in primary schools) and the Power of Reading project has focused on enriching the reading and writing skills of young people.
VISIONARIES May 20 – June 10 2009
Phillippa Clayden is exhibiting in this show called ‘Visionaries’ or ‘working in the margins’; an exhibition of paintings and performance by artists with a prophetic vision:May 20 - June 10 2009
Wallspace, All Hallows on the Wall,
83 London Wall, London EC2M 5ND
Tuesday - Friday 12pm-6pm
Saturday 11am-4pm
VISIONARIES May 20 - June 10 2009
Touring: August 28 - 31 2009
Greenbelt Arts Festival, Cheltenham
Visionaries brings together artists working in this honourable and challenging tradition, which includes William Blake, Goya and Samuel Palmer - those who explore with passion the territories of the spiritual, the religious and the human condition. The exhibition will include works by a number of painters, who although they are no longer alive, are still hugely influential: Stanley Spencer, Cecil Collins, Norman Adams, Tony Goble and Albert Herbert. They are joined by contemporary artists: Unity Spencer, Peter Howson, Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Paul Martin, Noel White, Brian Whelan, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Harry Adam, Billy Childish, Phillippa Clayden and Adam Neate. The prophetic tradition, with its history of dramatic enactment, is a rich one. Visionaries will therefore include a performance piece by Kit Poulson and David Shillinglaw will paint ‘live’ during the period of the exhibition.
The exhibition has been curated by Wallspace and will be on show at All Hallows on the Wall in the City of London from 20 May to 10 June. It will then travel to Greenbelt Festival, at Cheltenham Race Course for the August Bank Holiday weekend, from 28 to 31 August.
Artists being approached or work loaned include
Sir Stanley Spencer
Cecil Collins
Norman Adams RA
Albert Herbert
Anthony Goble
Noel White
Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Paul Martin
Brian Whelan
Peter Howson
Jake Chapman
and Dinos Chapman
Billy Childish
Adam Neate
Pam Day Exhibition, Going and Returning (Itus et Reditus)
Going and returning is a site-specific exhibition of sculpture, drawings, photography and time-based media at two adjacent sites, All Souls’ Church and Bankfield Museum, Halifax.The two sites are linked by a five minute walk through Akroyd Park and are a ten minute walk from Dean Clough. All Souls’ Church, Haley, Hill Halifax HX3 6DR, 9-14 June 2009 (closed Mondays), also Saturdays to 18 July, inclusive.
Bankfield Museum, Boothtown, Road, Halifax, HX3 6HG tel 01422352334,
9 June - 18 July 2009 (closed Mondays) inclusive.
Tuesday - Saturday 10am to 5pm Sundays 1 - 4pm
More information at www.p-l-a-c-e.org
Katharina Stover winner of the RASA Premium prize 2009
Katharina has been away working in Germany and Belgium but better late than never we now have images of her prize winning work.
Vicki Reynolds 1946 - 2008, Royal Academy Gallery Café until April 1st. “I can hardly believe I’m real”
This exhibition is a celebration of the life and work of the Artist Vicki Reynolds. Vicki was born in Portsmouth in 1946 and studied at Goldsmiths’ College and the Royal Academy Schools where she was awarded the Richard Ford Travelling Scholarship.
still life
pencil on paper
400 X 454 cm
“In the beginning was the word” says the bible and much of contemporary art practice, but Vicki Reynolds had no time at all for wordy explanations of her sensual experience of the world. 
The Red Fence
oil pastel
20 X 29 cmShe said that “Painting is a way of being alive, not a way of life”. Each new day, presented a new opportunity to get to grips with the impossible, but wonderful task of imaging what her body experienced. Vicki’s art work lacks any kind of pretension and she once said that when making work she felt just the same as she did when drawing at her mother´s kitchen table when she was a little girl.
Brockley Cemetry
oil 600 X 410 cm
Vicki was totally committed to her work and completely dismissive of the passing fashions that she felt plagued contemporary art practice. Her work is ambitious, but her attitude was rather self effacing and unpretentious and she resisted all attempts by her friends to organise a major show of her work during her lifetime.
Unfinished landscape
500 X 501cm
It sounds obvious to say that to understand Vicki’s work you have to look at the image itself, but actually looking at an image is a complicated business and makes considerable demands on the viewer. Unlike much of contemporary work, there is no text, what you see is what you get, but what you see will develop the more you look. In Vicki’s late work, the image was never separated from that that was imaged and there was a constant reference from one to the other.
If you look at her work with as few preconceptions as possible, then you will unlock the love, obsession and experience that is present in all her images.
David Hawkins
A space to exchange ideas about the exhibition is at:
http://reynoldsvicki.blogspot.com/
Jonathan Huxley Thursday 2nd April - Saturday 2nd May 2009
The exhibition entitled ‘Small Change’ at the Crane Kalman Gallery
178, Brompton Road, London, SW3 1HQ
Charles Saumarez Smith speaker at the annual reunion 2008
The RASA annual reunion on December 4th 08 was very enjoyayable. This year members and their guests were fortunate to listen to Charles Saumarez Smith, the Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy. I do not think that it was an exaggeration to say that you could have heard a pin drop once he began his talk. Charles is an interesting and accomplished speaker; he has a great knowledge of the history of the Royal Academy and related present day issues. He spoke about a higher profile for the Schools which will be reflected in exciting, architecural developments taking place within the Royal Academy and the importance of a thriving alumni association.
The picture above shows Charles Saumarez Smith (centre) George Waud and Gloria Steemsonne. Photographer Martin Bowers
RBA annual exhibition 2009
‘Ten thousand currents’ Susan Haire and Stephen Dydo, feb to August 2009
The Walkway at the Maidstone Gateway
Maidstone Borough Council, King Street, Maidstone, ME15 6AW
19 February - 28 August 2009
Open Monday - Friday 8.30 am - 5.00 pm
Private View Friday 20 February at 5pm
Concert, given by Stephen Dydo, of music for the ancient Chinese qin at 7pm
Enquiries: Emily Smith, Arts Development, 01622 602828, emilysmith@maidstone.gov.uk
Ten thousand currents is an installation of paintings and music by Susan Haire and New York composer Stephen Dydo for the magnificent new Walkway Gallery, in Maidstone. Dydo and Haire have developed a progression with the continuum of paintings unfolding its narrative like a gigantic Chinese hand scroll. Dydo’s music, a seven part soundscape, changes as the visitor moves from one painting to the next, walking the length of the gallery, an imposing 30 metres. The works together explore, in a contemporary idiom, the traditional Chinese connection between music and painting. The exhibition will run for six months.
Sponsored by KEF, Maidstone, specialists in loudspeaker engineering and design with an international reputation for audio excellence.
More of Susan’s work can be seen in the gallery.
Timur D’Vatz Recent work 2-19 December 2008
Detail from ‘Golden Light’ Mixed media on canvas 47″ x 49″/120 x 150 cm
Timur’s work can be viewed on the RASA website gallery
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