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Calendar of Upcoming Events
Sculpture Social (staff)
Staff Meeting DATE TO BE CONFIRMED
David Batchelor Artist Talk POSTPONED: NEW DATE TO BE CONFIRMED. Byam Shaw School of Art, Lecture Theatre, 2 Elthorne Road, N19 4AG
October 2010
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Major Internal Events
The Shaping Sculpture programme includes major internal events run and developed by the University. All have as their focus the practice of sculpture bringing into the University celebrated figures from the University’s history as well as developing projects to support the students and staff. These events include: The A Course: An Inquiry Jannis Kounellis in conversation PARK ‘10:...
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Shaping Sculpture Talks Programme
Held at Chelsea College of Art and Design and taking place each month throughout 2010 this artist talks series is being curated by the Shaping Sculpture director George Unsworth and is aimed at extending the discussion surrounding contemporary sculptural practice. A group of practitioners have been invited to discuss their works, its themes and its production, to coincide with current exhibitions...
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CONTACTS FOR SHAPING SCULPTURE
George Unsworth Director/Curator of Shaping Sculpture george@shapingsculpture.com 07713113590
Alexandra Bootherstone Assistant of Shaping Sculpture alexandra@shapingsculpture.com 07713113590 Kate Sedwell Coordinator of Shaping Sculpture k.sedwell@arts.ac.uk Sophie Fowler Coordinator of Shaping Sculpture s.fowler@csm.arts.ac.uk
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Upcoming Events
Throughout the Autumn/Winter term University of the Arts London is hosting a wide range of events and exhibitions as part of the Shaping Sculpture programme. The term sees the launch of new commissions with David Batchelor’s Big Rock Candy, and the presentation of the Cass Sculpture Prize for 2010 on the Chelsea Parade Ground; and the continuing programme of artist talks is to feature George...
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Major External Events
The Shaping Sculpture programme is a response to major, significant events taking place in 2010 that have as their focus the practice of sculpture and highlight the history of the University as being integral in helping form the practice of contemporary sculpture as it exists today. These events include the International Sculpture Conference, From Floor to Sky curated by Peter Kardia, and the...
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September 2010
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22nd International sculpture conference (ISC) -...
I gained an International sculpture conference ticket by the ISC association. ISC was held with entailed a big issue ‘what is sculpture in the 21st century?’ at mainly Chelsea College of art and design and Kings place for about three days 7 – 9, April.
They were going on many programs especially, I was inspired one of lectures by ‘A Changing Landscape: Sculpture, Society & Environment’. They...
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Language of Sculpture - Jane Lloyd
“If you put a urinal in a gallery it’s art, but put it back in the stall and it’s…..”
This comment from the floor in response to the Language of Sculpture Panel Discussion was received with much applause and laughter and followed by the more serious question “Don’t we therefore need a new kind of language?”
The presentations by chair, artist and...
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The Challenges of Materiality: Sculpture,...
This panel discussion hoped to address questions of how the teaching of sculpture is approached at academy level. Specifically regarding materiality, is the idea of medium specificity outdated? Or should the knowledge and physical awareness of materials be central to art teaching?
Chaired by Nick De Ville from Goldsmiths, University of London, the two key speakers were Joel Fisher an American...
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Response: Antony Gormley’s Keynote Address -...
Antony Gormley gave a satisfying although troublesome example of his oratorical abilities in an opening speech of the 22nd International Sculpture Conference on Wednesday 7th of April. In the Lecture Theatre of the National Gallery Gormley presented to the conference attendees the recent directions of his work and critical thinking, seeking to connect his career into a larger art-historical,...
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International Sculpture Conference - Fiona Flynn
I probably wouldn’t be able to raise £500 to get my kids out of jail right now if I had to, so I thought I was lucky to get a ticket, worth that amount, for this conference. I hoped to be a part of some lively discussion on what I reckon are the pertinent issues of our time: the extent to which public art, dependent on public funding, is expected to dance to a commissioner’s tune, the...
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Out of Darkness: Light as Public Art - Aaron...
This session featured presentations from artists Susan Collins, Bill Fitzgibbons and Peter Fink and was billed as one which would explore; “the use of light based art projects as a sustainable approach to permanent and ephemeral urban artworks”. The presentations raised some interesting issues in respect of both the logistics and content of the work, but most striking was the issue that lighting...
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Response: The Challenges of Materiality-Sculpture,...
Do we still need a medium specific conference today in an age of dematerialisation; are we not all ‘artists’? Having completed a BA in Sculpture and an MA in Fine Art this is a question I often ask myself.
I was interested to hear from the two Speakers. Joel Fisher spoke of four principles, that he described as post Copernican, which he felt were specifically important to sculpture and could be...
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Anthony Caro by Philip Morris
An Anthony Caro Private View to even the most focused and hard working student may seem a little dull.
Anyone with any interest in the work of Caro or indeed the man himself, will, at some point probably have read that Anthony Caro as a youth (young person) was a very talented traditional sculptor, verified by Henry Moore’s employment of Caro as his assistant for two years.
The reason I...
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‘Objecting to Objects: the Future of...
The idea of this panel discussion was to explore ‘contemporary approaches to site, the disappearing object and the performative event’, as well as looking at examples of how art objects function in acts of social exchange.
The first speaker was Charlotte Cohen, who works in the US as a Regional Fine Arts Officer. She was discussing a public art commission that was awarded to Tony Feher, an...
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To speak or not to speak, that is the question......
The International Sculpture Conference set sculpture in the 21st century as its grand remit, and Antony Gormley took up top billing as keynote speaker. Gormley formally opened the Conference by addressing an eclectic group of international sculptors at the National Gallery.
There was much build up and anticipation as to how Gormley would tackle what makes sculpture exciting and relevant for the...
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What is sculpture, anyway? - Fiona Long
A major theme came out of the International Sculpture Centre Conference for me. Everyone was struggling for a definition of what sculpture really is. I come from a painting background but spend a huge proportion of my life sculpting (or playing around with 3-dimentional objects at least!) so I was keen to find out myself! In the past decades there has been a broadening of what sculpture can be....
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International Sculpture Conference - Taran Patel
ISC gave me invaluable insight on Sculpture as visual arts. Is it possible to define sculpture in words? I always used to wonder. What is a sculpture? The lecture sessions conveyed that it is something which determines space, centering and articulating our time as we come to know it. Resolutely present, it looks back to us from its position of certainty. Aware of all that it lacks. Calling of our...
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