Dance by Munch
Munch's Alpha and Omega
Alpha and Omega
Im pleased to say that the lyrical and atmospheric Illustrator Laura Carlin is showing with us.
Astrid Chesney
Anna Bhushan
I have been an admirer of Anna's work for some time and am delighted she is exhibiting with us at Bristol - her work has that rare quality - one that captures the magical wavelength that animals hold - and like Munch's 'Alpha and Omega' drawings - the creatures and humans occupy another plain. More here too http://www.annabhushan.com/
And also Astrid Chesney - shes showing too - which Im delighted about.
Fred and Parrot Sheffield
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mm/07 Haworth Moor Yorkshire
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The show in February will bring together a collection of artists and academics and their personal, intuitive responses to habitat and Landscape.The reflective work on display will range from Photography to Bookworks, Painting, Printmaking, Drawing, Collage autobiography & Prose. Landscapes of experience and recall.
On the evocative subject of Memory, habitat and recollection Marcel Prousts lyrical writing and Bachalard's book 'The Poetics of Space' are both often referenced as seminal texts by Visual Artists to give their works literate meaning and poetic context. Of our Contemporary writers on the human condition Alain De Botton writes the most warmly. Yet Visual Language is arguably the more emotive conduit for the evocation of memory and experience' than even the written word.
Dan Fern 'On the Road with BASHO 3' Diptych
Professor Dan Fern is a highly respected academic and teacher and has been a strong influence on a generation of his students. The creative ethos that he, Quentin Blake, Brian Robb and their dedicated staff nurtured at the RCA IIlustration department continues today throughout many British Art schools via their ex students, many of whom are now established academics and course leaders at Universities like Bath, Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, Derby to name just a few.
Elizabeth Grant Mask drawing
Visit Hugh Lupton and Chris Wood's Christmas Champions "http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/worldmusic/feature_mummers.shtml''
Mummers and Guisers arise and act out your masked mime
And with Christmas so close in merry England dear
All our ancestors are nearly always present - nearly always here.
Charlie Muss Manning & Fred Manning Brothers in World War One
Photo 'On Rememeberence Day Nov 11th 2007 ' mm
Our relationship with places where Being and Memory marry.
Slice by R.Caldicott
Other Contributing Artists and academics for the show will include Richard Caldicott above, Robert Kettell. Iain Biggs from University of West England & LAND2,
Paul Gough UWE Bristol and Land2 Will Hill, Chris Draper from Ruskin Cambridge School of Art. Jane Stanton from The University of Derby, Dan Williams from Glasgow school of Art, John Woodman Elizabeth Grant, Collum Leith, Bruce Ingman, Ann Skea, Alan Young & Alain De Bottons new photo essay and Illustrators Laura Carlin, Astrid Chesney
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'Frozen time' Large Digital Print ( 2008/mm )
MYTH and Mythologies - From King Arthur to Vera Lynn we have personifications of 'A L B I O N' - a word evolved from from the Latin 'Albus' ‘white’ ( alludes to the white cliffs of Dover)
Poster E.Grant
The Time and Being Collective
Began in 2007 set up by Mack Manning and also Elizabeth Grant. A creative and informal collective of artists. Jane Stanton Dan Fern Quentin Blake Liz Pyle Leo Duff Paul Gough Rob Kettell John Woodman. Will Hill, Tom Bland, Chris Draper, Johnny Hardstaff, Dan Williams, Anna Bushen, Astrid Chesney and guest writers ( Alain de Botton, Hugh Lupton ) and was initially set up to exhibit annually and to investigate the relationship between memory, habitat and ecology. For 2010/11 a new group show for the 'Time & Being' Collective - Filmic Landscapes, Creative visual responses in various media to formative experiences of Film and narrative. Contact email memorycollective@yahoo.co.uk for further information.
Elizabeth Grant has worked independently for ten years in Education. She lived and taught in Barcelona, living there as a resident and delivering embedded Creative Arts and Cultural studies for the British Council within English language seminars and lectures. Her creative work is very much associated with her visual experience of travel. Much travelled herself she has backpacked on self initiated field trips across a variety of locations including Ulaan Batar (Mongolia) Siberia, Moscow, St Petersburg, Beijing China, Sydney, Melbourne, Rome, Paris and Florence. documented through a range of media - photography, drawing and book works. Her Artists book ‘Travelogue’ encapsulated this visual reportage work and these experiences and is held in the special collection archive at the Brno Museum near Prague.
Elizabeth considers her commitment to travel and these wider cultural experience as an important attribute toward her own Practice and her teaching delivery and her ability to motivate aspiring students. On returning to the UK she managed, delivered and consulted on teaching methodologies for Private Schools and more specialised government funded Language Institutions in the Community - teaching International students in Leeds, Sheffield and Manchester - whilst also studying herself and achieving a First Class Honours Degree in Visual Communication from Leeds Metropolitan University@ David Hockney's Bradford School of Art.
Cultural heroes include Charles Keeping, Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog. She is currenty working on a new book for Children and Adults and working toward a new Summer show in Cambridge.
Mack Manning
Awarded a Bursary Scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art for an M.A (RCA) in Visual Communication Illustration from 1988 to 1990.
With work focused on Ecology and Graphic Art.
Prior to this in 85-88 studied B.A Printmaking at Maidstone College of Art, this work specialised in Ecology, Sense of place, using Printmaking, memory, Stone Lithography and drawing , His interest in Landscape and habitat grew from living in rural Northern England and the contrasting Kent habitat , he produced creative writing and prose for his degree dissertation and for his Masters dissertation he wrote on Poetry and Habitat. Professional design work has included commissions for Friends Of the Earth, The Observer, The Sunday Times, The Independent, The BBC, Penguin books and many other design organisations. He has written articles for the Independent on Design Education and written, developed and advised on Art & Design programmes in the UK at both Degree and Masters level
At the RCA Manning says he was 'privileged' to Study with 'a host of influential and historic staff' Christopher Frayling and Frank Whitford, Paolozzi, Dan Fern, Quentin Blake, Klimowski, David Blamey, Helen Chadwick.
He Stayed on at the RCA for a further year as a researcher and operator continuing work with the Canon research project group with Fellows Simon Larbelestier and Richard Caldicot. During 87-90 the very first breakthrough notions of digital and colour phototcopying Print were developed - new creative practices were initiated by this small collective of staff, students and alumni - Illustrative aesthetics that are commonplace today - hence the research was very influential. 'Visual Research' work was purchased by the Whitworth Gallery, Manchester for Permanent collection after Group Shows in London, Japan and Europe.
Teaching - has taught at Glasgow School of Art, The University of Derby and Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin. Currently works full time at Manchester Metropolitan University in Design and Art Direction - is full time External Examiner for the BA (Hons) Graphic Design course at Bristol, University of West England and also works as a visiting external and reviewer for Chelsea School of Art and Cambridge Anglia Ruskin school of Art and The University of Derby
In 1990 after being awarded 'best in show' by Conrans Alan McDougall and Roddick he was hired by for the newly formed 'Bodyshop International 'Design team off Oxford Street to work on special external projects - a strand of the Roddick's lesser known work - their own passionate altruistic educational and relief projects with The United Nations.
Also worked for The Green Party, The Labour party, The RCA Marketing dept, Fitch RS, Pan Macmillan, New Scientist, Random House, Bloomsbury, Bloodaxe, Wolf Ollins, Fitch, Adison, Sampson Tyrell, Pentagram, Simon Esterson & Mike Lackersteen and Angus Hyland.
Recognises the direct influence and inspiration absorbed from his own native landscape 'The West Riding' - an often mythologised landscape.
RCA class of 88-90 ( MA show catalogue page )
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