Ron Sims R.A.S. at the Hayletts Gallery, Friday 15th April to 14th May 2011
Sally Patrick invites you to attend the Private View of Paintings, Linocuts and Screenprints by Ron Sims R.A.S., at Oakwood House, 2 High Street., Maldon, CM9 5PJ
Having exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition over the last few years, the pieces of work they choose in selection invariabley lean towards abstraction. As an art student Sim’s influences were both broad and strong ranging from Vermeer’s spacial interiors, British Vorticism and Art Deco to Henry Moore’s endless variation into the human figure and the Pop-Art artists Sir Peter Blake and Sir Eduardo Paolozzi. This has lead to his freedom to experiment and design with popular imagery. One is abler to see these influences resonating in his work today especially in his prints whereby he includes figurative photo elements using photo-silk-screen. These elements alongside his geometric colours and shapes may potentially be described as 3-D forms creating very uique challenging and beautiful images.
Stop press: The Annual Reunion will be on May 7th 2011
Please note that we have had to change the reunion date again; this was unavoidable but rest assured that it will take place on Saturday evening 7th May as usual in the Fine Rooms, 6 30pm to 8 30pm. Light refreshments are offered and the customary free glass of wine with your ticket; if you have paid in advance please note that you can collect your ticket/s at the door. See you there!
‘PECKHAM MEETS PICCADILLY’ Go to the gallery to see some of the children’s gesture drawings.
Photographs by Beth Evans: www.bethevans.com
This Thursday (March 10th), nineteen Year Five children from Brunswick Park Primary School in Peckham were given an exclusive tour of the Royal Academy of Arts in Piccadilly. Facilitated by arts organisation Young Visions and funded by the Excellence in Cities initiative working with the Royal Academy Schools and the Education Department, the experience gave the children a unique introduction to one of the UK’s most prestigious artistic institutions.
First, they were greeted by Professor Maurice Cockrill, Keeper of the Royal Academy and taken on a guided tour of the current exhibition by two students. Then they were shown around the Schools in the basement of the Academy where they observed the current postgraduate students hard at work in the studios. Professor Cockrill said: “I hope this visit will widen the children’s horizons both as young art critics and young artists. By welcoming them to the Royal Academy we are showing that we value them. These young children are our potential audience, students and artists of the future. We want to give them something memorable that can act as a source of inspiration.”
The group was also granted special entry into the iconic Life Room, unchanged from its inception in the eighteenth century and normally only accessible to students of the Academy. Sitting where celebrated artists such as Turner and Constable would have done, the nine and ten year olds took part in a life-drawing workshop run by Phillippa Clayden, director of Young Visions and chair of the Royal Academy’s alumni association (RASA), along with Licy Clayden, Young Visions co-director and tutor. The children were given expert tuition on drawing a dressed life-model using unusual techniques such as using a pencil in each hand. Morgan said ‘I love learning new ways to draw. I really enjoyed looking at the art too’ and Tom said ‘I liked drawing the silhouettes and making them 3D. I’m going to bring my family here and tell them that I made art in the Life Room- I’ll even bring my children when I’m older!’
The work they produced will be exhibited in the Schools for current RA students to admire, and will later be taken back to their school and exhibited. It was an extraordinary art lesson where the children not only learned valuable technical skills, but also gained an impression of the entire process of being artist.
This project is part of Phillippa Clayden’s work with Young Visions, an organisation she founded 28 years ago which is dedicated to bringing unique visual arts teaching methods to young people of all backgrounds and abilities in Southwark. Her recent work has involved bringing the UK’s prestigious arts institutions into creative collaboration with Southwark primary schools.
In delivering ‘Peckham meets Piccadilly’, Clayden has given children access to the high profile world of the making of art, and helped them to be confident within it, and in their own abilities to contribute to it. The art co-ordinator at Brunswick Park School and one of the accompanying teachers, Mahnaz Kamran commented; ‘This visit has been wonderful. The children might not have been comfortable in an arts environment before, they may even have felt excluded from it, but the Royal Academy has really welcomed them and shown them how much they can enjoy looking at art and making art. They have gained lots of confidence from the event and I’m sure they will be keen to visit exhibitions and get involved in arts projects in the future.’
While the obvious learners in the project are the children, Phillippa and Licy are both keen to recognise the reciprocity of the learning experience, and they thank the children of Brunswick Park Primary for their influence on the Royal Academy. Phillippa says: ‘It’s great to see the children in the Schools bringing their new perspectives and fresh ideas. The RA Schools initially started because a group of artists thought more people should be given the opportunity to create. It’s events like these that remind everyone of the founding principles of the Royal Academy.’ Inspired by its teachings while she was a student, she has taken the methods and ethos of the Academy out into the community and, in turn, brought the community back to the Schools. In that sense, she says ‘“Peckham meets Piccadilly” has come full circle’.
Remmel: ‘I love being here, I love to draw!’
Remell Williams age 9
Weblinks
:http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/
http://www.brunswickpark.southwark.sch.uk/
http://www.phillippaclayden.co.uk/
http://www.licyclayden.co.uk/
Media enquiries: Julia Brosnan 07870 306867, julia@dovetailtogether.co.uk
and Cathy Wilcock 07846628669, cathywilcock@gmail.com
www.dovetailtogether.co.uk
RASA at the Art Pavilion Mile End
The private view took place on March 1st at the Art Pavilion a rather splendid venue where Paul Curtis our London exhibition coordinator organised and hung RASA members’ works. The exhibition lasted for a week with some sales! Paul has booked the venue for 2012. A huge thank you to all the members who gave their time to help Paul and to invigilate the exhibition.
Stop press: The Annual Reunion will be on May 7th 2011
Please note that we have had to change the reunion date again; this was unavoidable but rest assured that it will take place as usual on Saturday evening 7th May in the Fine Rooms. Further details will follow as soon as possible.
Exhibition open to all RASA members
Exhibition open to all RASA members
will take place in March 2011 at The Arts Pavilion, Clinton Road (off Grove Road), Mile End, London E1.
Entry fee £30 for six paintings. A selection will take place but a minimum of two works will be exhibited from all artists. Selection will be online. Send high-resolution Jpeg images to andy@pactdigital.com. Emails in excess of 7MG will bounce back. Please include the following information:
• for each artist: name and address of artist / phone number and/or email addressor
• for each work: Title / medium / size / sale price.
The Arts Pavilion parks@towerhamlets.gov.uk. is administered by Tower Hamlets Local Authority for the encouragement of the arts in the East End of London. Part of our remit will be to offer a workshop for children and a lecture for local schools. These will be hands-on events run by RASA members.
Volunteers please for hanging, administration, cataloguing, workshops etc.
Entry fees should be made out to RASA and sent to Gloria Steemsonne, Executive to the Council, Friends Department, Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, London WIV 0DS.
Deadline for entries: 11 February 2011
Details for delivery of work and exhibition
dates will be sent on selection.
Further information from Paul Curtis 0114 2553387 or 07875193632 or by post from 15 Penley Street, Sharrow,
Sheffield S11 8BG.
Brian Whelan leads London Irish painters in an exhibition in Philadelphia from 20 Aug – 6 Oct 10, the third stop for an international tour of the works of 5 dynamic, Irish artists based in London: Brian Whelan, Bernard Canavan, John Duffin, Dermot Holland and the late Daniel Carmody. Launched at the PM Gallery in west London in spring 2009, the following summer the show visited the medieval celtic bastion of Santiago de Compostela in Spain and now the shores of Philadelphia, where thousands of Irish fled during the ‘potato famine’.
For details on the documentary and book, contact wendy.roseberry@btinternet.com and visit www.brianwhelan.co.uk 
Joan Roche Exhibition 12th to 25th August 2010
Painting and Sculpture by Phillippa Clayden, Denzil Forrester and Michel De Bono
An Exhibition of Evolving Shapes
Thaxted Church, Essex
29th – 31st May 2010
Phillippa Clayden, Denzil Forrester and Michel De Bono are exhibiting together for the first time since meeting over 35 years ago in a basement studio in Dalston. Their work will be exhibited over the Bank Holiday weekend in the magnificent setting of the Parish Church in the old Essex town of Thaxted, (home of; Thaxted music Festival, Morris dancing and Dick Turpin).
‘Dal Vero’ Recent Work by Paul Wilks May 4th to May 31st
At Grays Court, Minster Yard, York.
Hours- 10am to 6pm.
Images- Pastels, Drawings and Paintings.
Large oil paintings + many pastels including some from my ‘Rose Dress’ series
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