SCULPTURE SOCIAL (staff) 
Staff Meeting
Wednesday 27th October 2010, 6.30pm
ICA BAR / The Mall / SW1Y 5AH

SCULPTURE SOCIAL (staff) 
Staff Meeting
Wednesday 17th November 2010, 6.30pm
Venue to be confirmed

Martin Creed
Artist Talk
Wednesday 24th November 2010, 630pm
Central St. Martins College, Cochrane Theatre

Martin Creed was born in Wakefield, England, in 1968, and from 1986-90 attended the Slade School of Art in London. He lives and works in London. He has exhibited worldwide and his work is featured in many public collections, notably the Tate in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2001 he won the Turner Prize for ‘The lights going on and off’. Creed’s art is characterised by a gentle but subversive wit and by a minimalism rooted in an instinctive anti-materialism. His often extremely self-effacing works, all titled by number, have been characterised as ‘attempts to short-circuit the visually overloaded, choice saturated culture in which we live’. They also take their place in the honourable tradition within the avant-garde of making work which appears to have no material value - which resists or defies commodification, even if in vain. Hence his conscious use of modest and everyday materials. Whatever the materials, his work is always arresting and can be visually spectacular, as for example his neon works, or what is probably his most celebrated piece, Work No.200 1998, ‘half the air in a given space’. Widely exhibited, this consists of a sufficient number of twelve inch white balloons filled with air to half-fill the gallery space.

A central theme of Creed’s work is the relationship art and life and he explores the boundaries in funny, interesting and sometimes unsettling ways. Ultimately, however, Creed seems to want to do what art has always been supposed to do: ‘I want to make things. I’m not sure why, but I think it’s got something to do with other people. I think I want to try to communicate with other people, because I want to say “hello”, because I want to express myself, and because I want to be loved’.

Toby Ziegler: The Alienation of Objects
7 October 2010 to 12 December 2010
Zabludowicz Collection, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London, NW5 3PT

www.zabludowiczcollection.com

SS08: DAVID BATCHELOR
Monday 8th November, 6.30pm
Byam Shaw School of Art Lecture Theatre, 2 Elthorne Road, N19 4AG

David Batchelor’s work is concerned above all things with colour, a sheer delight in the myriad brilliant hues of the urban environment and underlined by a critical concern with how we see and respond to colour in this advanced technological age. His studio is a treasure trove piled high with an endless variety of fluorescent plastic objects - clothes pegs, fly-swatters, buckets, spades, children’s toys, empty bottles of household products - found in pound shops and markets in cities the world over. He combines these everyday items with a range of light-industrial materials: steel shelving, commercial lightboxes, neon tubing, warehouse dollies, acrylics, plastics and so on to produce extraordinary installations which exalt the ordinary and celebrate the lurid and trashy whilst being, in themselves, often mesmerisingly beautiful.

Batchelor was born in Dundee in 1955 and lives and works in London. 

Information about David Batchelor’s Big Rock Candy project can be found here.

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SS07: GEORGE HENRY LONGLY
20th October 2010, 6pm
Chelsea College of Art and Design
Main Lecture Theatre

In his work George Henry Longly inquires into the rules, habitual ways of looking and norms of behaviour that are enforced by our education and shape our experience. He traces the rigid logic of such standards back to the functional character of everyday objects that are used to delineate space, measure things or bodies and elicit patterns of norm-regulated behaviour. By staging these objects in installations he makes them perform in an ambiguous way: exposing the social function they fulfill, he equally also strips them of their utilitarian programme, and charges them with a different sense of unscripted potential.

George Henry Longly is the seventh artist to speak as part of a monthly artist talks programme being curated by George Unsworth, curator of Shaping Sculpture for University of the Arts London. For more information on future talks and the Shaping Sculpture programme visit: www.shapingsculpture.com. Join the Shaping Sculpture 2010 Facebook Group for regular updates. SS08: David Batchelor, is taking place in November, and SS09: Anna Barriball is taking place in December 2010. The Shaping Sculpture Talks Series is supported by the Patrons of University of the Arts London.

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