This one day symposium is hosted by De Montfort University Fine Art Department and Leicester Print Workshop with support from DMU Local and the Fine Art Practices Research Group. Through interviews and panel discussions this symposium explores different approaches to making and creating new art work.
At Bivouac #1, the experience you have will be dictated by the small choices you make, and you’ll be in charge of what happens. Five minutes early, or five minutes late? Tea, or coffee? Left, or right? Every decision you make might change your life.
Social Making: Socially Engaged Practice Now and Next is a symposium which will bring
examples of international socially‐engaged practices to the South West of the UK, giving the region exposure to a wider network of projects and organisations, and an opportunity to consider a range of methods and their impact.
Working with colleagues in the Netherlands, this symposium will explore the dynamic relationship between artist, curator and organisation; looking at how collaborations on new projects and commissions allows for institutional methodologies and processes to be challenged and changed. Organised by East CVAN.
A symposium to accompany Listening, the Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition jointly hosted by Art Exchange and Firstsite. Friday 29 January 2016, 1-5.30pm, at the Hexagon, University of Essex
A half day symposium exploring the role and importance of cultural tourism. Wednesday 16 December 2015, 10am - 2pm, Turner Contemporary, Margate. Tickets: £5
This study day will examine some of the issues around the increasingly public and mainstream nature of nudity, stripping and burlesque and the body as a site for dance led experimentation.
Six stimulating and provocative conversations between art world professionals, including artists, curators, consultants, gallery directors, academics and researchers will explore core problems in the structure of the art world, and seek to address its contemporary system failure. As well as diagnosing the problems, these conversations aim to suggest alternative ways that the art world might function, in order to improve the status and earning power of visual artists.
A one-day symposium that brings together prominent policy-makers, artists, researchers and health professionals to explore the role of conceptual and empirical research in understanding the cultural sector’s impact on people’s health, wellbeing and social connectedness.
Saturday and Sunday, October 24-25, 2015
Hackney, London
Special Guest Speaker: Sam Chatterton Dickson, Director of Sales, Lisson Gallery
This two-day seminar offers an overview of issues in professional practice and development for visual artists. It is particularly aimed to advise artists and students making the transition from BA or MA courses to the "real" world of professional practicing artists.
A unique feature of the seminar is that each participant will have a one-on-one hour-long private tutorial in which they can focus on issues and questions particular to their situation. It also provides students with a detailed course manual which is a useful long-term reference.
The first session is an all-day lecture/discussion from 10.00 - 18.00, which will cover the following:
- Managing Materials ie CV / Portfolio
- Marketing and Self-Promotion
- Networking and Press
- Dealing with galleries
- Looking for work / Interning
- Useful resources
- Creative approaches to funding projects
- How to conduct a successful research campaign - using the Internet as a strategic tool
We are fortunate to have a special session with guest speaker Sam Chatterton Dickson, who is the director of Sales at Lisson Gallery, one of the world's leading contemporary art galleries, who will be taking about working with galleries.
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The second day is devoted to individual tutorials.
Students will have a private hour-long coaching session/tutorial to discuss whatever issues they would like.
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Doug Fishbone was born in New York in 1969 and earned an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London in 2003.
He recently exhibited a major new project, Doug Fishbone's Leisure Land Golf - a 9 hole artist-designed miniature golf course - at this year's Venice Biennale:
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His project Made in China, in which he switched an Old Master painting with a cheap Chinese replica, was on view at the Dulwich Picture Gallery from February to August, 2015 in London:
theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/feb/10/young-masters-dulwich-gallerys-made-in-china-challenges-public-to-spot-fake-art-work
His film Elmina, which had its world premiere in a solo exhibition at Tate Britain in 2010, was recently voted one of the most iconic artworks of the past 5 years by the website artinfo:
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Selected group exhibitions include: Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai (2014); Akademie der Kunste, Berlin (2013); Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool (2012); BFI, London (2012); SMBA-Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2011); FACT, Liverpool (2011); Dublin Contemporary (2011); ZKM Karslruhe, Germany (2011); Tate Britain (2010), Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea (2008); Hayward Gallery, London (2008); British Art Show 6 (2006). He performs regularly at both international and UK venues, including appearances at London’s ICA and Southbank Centre.
Fishbone lectures in professional practice at the University of Westminster and is a frequent visiting lecturer at Chelsea College. He has been invited to guest lecture at dozens of universities around the UK, including the RCA, Glasgow School of Art, Goldsmiths College, Christies, Sotheby's, and the Slade.
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The course is limited to a maximum of ten students, to enable comfortable discussions and a generally comfortable vibe.
Course Fee: 125 pounds
Coffee, Tea and snacks provided.
Money-back guarantee if dissatisfied - never yet happened!
Location:
Guest Projects
Sunbury House
1 Andrews Road
London E8 4QL
Closest Tube: Bethnal Green, Central Line
For more information or to book a place, contact: [email protected]
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Previous students have found the seminar very helpful. A few comments from recent sessions:
"Awesome seminar! I have renewed vigour!"
"Thank you for the fantastic seminar and tutorial!"
"I found the seminar really useful and have been telling all my art friends so. It was so inspiring"
"Thanks again for a great seminar; it was most enlightening."
"Thank you for sharing your insight into the business side of the art world. It was valuable information that you shared and I really appreciate it!"
"I wanted to thank you for the invite to the seminar. It has been rewarding and I will put the advice you gave at work for my career."
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Join leading thinkers, practitioners and collectors in an exclusive summit examining emerging global trends in philanthropic funding. The debate will seek to inform the development of a new framework for building greater support for the visual arts beyond the major cultural capitals.
b-side invites you to join 2 days of conversation, creative provocation and intervention with guests from the world of art, heritage and environment. The symposium will explore the impact of tourism on community, environment and economy and the role art can play.
The day will explore how contemporary artists working in rural environments and with rural themes, either permanently or as part of short term projects and residencies, are developing new platforms and ideas for creating and showcasing visual arts practice and new approaches to collaboration and audience engagement.
Do we need to grow up? forms part of The NewBridge Project’s 5th Birthday, it encompasses an exhibition, 2-day conversation and birthday party – the programme will critically consider and celebrate the nature of artist-led communities and workspace.
Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy is holding a series of public debates during 2015/16 with the aim of raising awareness about topical issues in relation to the arts fundraising agenda. The first of these debates dates place in Leeds on 19 August.
Join Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN) in partnership with the The Audience Agency, insights from The National Visual Arts cluster of the Audience Finder programme, which involves over forty galleries across England collecting data about their visitors.
Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) presents a day long symposium, in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) held at the Whitworth Art Gallery, which seeks to connect international and interdisciplinary artists, researchers and cultural and environmental practitioners from Taiwan and the UK.
Artists’ Union England is very pleased to announce we are hosting a Hustings on the 11th of Feb 2015 6-8pm, at Chelsea College of Art and Design lecture theatre in London.
Please SAVE THE DATE for Public Assets: small-scale arts organisations and the production of value on Friday February 6th.
Take the money and run? is a day of presentations, provocations and discussions by artists, activists, academics, producers and journalists looking at the challenges of fundraising ethically and a range of strategies we might consider for the future.
Join DACS as they bring together curators, artists, artists’ estates and lawyers to discuss the conceptual, ethical and practical issues that determine an artist’s legacy, in partnership with the ICA.
Make:Shift is a new biennial conference taking place from Thursday 20 to Friday 21 November 2014 at Ravensbourne in Greenwich.
This seminar brings together key curators and artists to share their experience and knowledge and debate the issues that historic environments lend to artist interventions.
This two-part event will celebrate the closing weekend of the exhibition Chance Finds Us at mima, the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art.
The Visual Arts London Strategy Group are hosting a national networking event to facilitate conversations about how the visual arts sector can work together more effectively and creatively, with a focus on developing and enhancing inter–regional partnerships.
Midwest to Midville: repositioning the visual arts in the Midlands, is a free symposium, organised by Ikon and Turning Point West Midlands, for visual artists, students and arts professionals.
The Contemporary Visual Arts Network’s ultimate goal is to nurture contemporary visual artists and organisations in order to produce internationally regarded, critically engaged work that is valued by our society.
