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.
Zara Schofield received the RASA Graduation prize
We haven’t had the pleasure of talking to Zara yet but we are looking forward to asking her about her work which can be seen in the gallery. There is something graceful and elegant in the objects that she produces which are eye catching and amusing. We wonder how much mischief is intended in the mix of the spiritual and earthly iconography? Watch this space and we will soon learn from the artist herself.’
Barbara Wolff our 2008 Premium Prize Winner
The 2008 Premium prize winner was Barbara Wolff. Here is an excerpt from a conversation I had with her about her work. There will be more of this in the RASA newsletter which will come out shortly.
Gloria: How shall we start? May be I should say why I like your work… I liked your work because strangely enough, I don’t know if it means anything to you, they reminded me of Renaissance paintings like Titian or Veronese somebody like that, exotic and that was my main feeling; but they’re quite mystical aren’t they?
Barbara: Yes I think they are. They start off from quite a scientific point I think because I am very interested in the patterns of nature and how the microcosm has got similar patterns to the macrocosm like for example here we can see the star formations are in the carpet, and it’s got similar patterns to the coral formations on the top of it. Also on this piece (a hanging basket) I am working on branching systems; it’s based on Fibonacci and the Golden Section.
Gloria: Which is renaissance?
Barbara: Yes and I’m very fascinated by renaissance paintings especially; and I come from a painting background. I used to be a painter but it’s kind of transformed for me…
More images of Barbara’s work can be found in the gallery
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