Byam Shaw MA '09: 2009

From: Nathan Eastwood

www.eastendartsclub.co.uk

Hello to you all

Well I wanted to take this opportunity to invite you to this exhibition which I will be in. Please do come along to the opening. The private view is Thursday 3rd December, 6 – 9pm. The show will be located at the SHOREDITCH TOWN HALL BASEMENT, LONDON. It be great to see you at the event. Hope all is well with you.

Well, see you there,

With kind regards

Nathan Eastwood MA UAL
nathan.eastwood@hotmail.com

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PRESS RELEASE:

TATE THE BISCUIT

SHOREDITCH TOWN HALL BASEMENT, LONDON
PRIVATE VIEW – THURSDAY 3rd DECEMBER 6-9PM
Curated by Helen Edwards and Infinity Bunce in conjunction with East End Arts Club

“When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion” - an Ethiopian Proverb.

Well ‘Tate the Biscuit’, has the makings of a roaring success. This exhibition displays a huge collection of street artists, conceptual artists, installation artists, painters, graphic illustrators and photographers, who all come together under the roof of Shoreditch Town Hall to create interpretations of proverbs and phrases.

In room after room, juxtaposed artwork covers more than 15,000 sq feet - Even the walls breathe out a creative essence of their own making. One minute you are in a room full of glowing polystyrene pods – next you move into a room crammed with installation petals - move onwards and ponder the life size sculpture of a seven year old boy created in green fibreglass - whilst beckoning you from the corner of yet another room is a strange doll with many arms. ‘Tate the Biscuit’ is a kaleidoscopic display showcasing the best of contemporary British street art.

You can also view a huge selection of limited edition prints such as a Panda in a bar, a Muslim bride, from the banal and everyday to high fashion. This show is an extraordinary roundabout which has many roads that lead you into an ‘Aesthetic Urban Vision’, the journey can’t be missed!

From: Maurice Citron

Hello,

I'm showing at the University of the Arts Future Map 09 and would like to invite you to the Opening Party on Wednesday 25th November 2009. Look forward to catching up then... invite attached.

Best Wishes
Maurice.

Maurice Citron
Website: mauricecitron.co.uk

www.arts.ac.uk/futuremap

MATHILDE JENSEN _ Exhibition at Royal Danish Embassy

Mathilde will have an exhibition at the Royal Danish Embassy here in London on Thursday 26th November, 2009, from 5pm - 7pm.

Please visit "Frame Your Talent" for more information.

FRAUKE MATERLIK: Residency Portsmouth

News from Frauke. She is currently doing a residency in Portsmouth.
You can see her work and info on the residency here:

ART SPACE PORTSMOUTH

NEWS! Audio from Panel Discussion: 'Who is Art For?' now available

If you missed our panel discussion from September 16, or would like to hear it again, click on the following link:
'WHO IS ART FOR?' PANEL AUDIO

The title of this panel discussion was 'Who is Art For?' and was organized by two of our MA artists, Brian Putnam and Nathan Eastwood, to run alongside our final MA Fine Arts Show at Byam Shaw. On the panel were Ingrid Swenson, director at Peer Gallery, Andrew McGettigan, research office at Central Saint Martins, Nick Lambrianou, lecturer, artist and writer, Mick Finch, artist, writer and lecturer at CSM, and Adam Knight, artist and recent RCA MA graduate. Although a little shy at the beginning the discussion warmed up towards the middle and had a very fine ending (at which point it should have continued).

To recap:
The question ‘Who is Art for?’ is a question of how artist, artwork and audience communicate with one another and for what purposes. In exploring their relationships the discussion could focus on what connects them – a variety of languages that depend on the setting: University, Studio, Gallery, Museum, etc. The way language and context interact would seem to determine the intimate relationship of the artist to his or her raw materials and on an institutional level the relevance and value of an artist, an artwork or an audience as a cultural or economic force. The product of both of these interactions shapes contemporary art, informing and being informed by the conditions of Modernity. These conditions are continuously shifting and being qualified as post, super, alter, etc.

Our MA show is a threshold for us as young artists moving from our university practice to our professional practice. As such, it is a moment of reflection on every level of what it means to be an artist. The question ‘Who is Art for?’ is deeply implicated in how an artist approaches his or her work.

Opening! New Show

www.arts.ac.uk/newsevents/2855/17-ingredients
17 Ingredients

Measures of Autonomy

Catarina Albuquerque/Maurice Citron/Catrine Bodum/
Nathan Eastwood/Douglas Mark Ebbage/Beate Frommelt/
Rodrigo Garcia Dutra/Georgina Hathway/Luísa Jacinto/
Mathilde Jensen/Anthony Lyttle/Frauke Materlik/
Heather McReynolds/Simão Palmeirim Costa/
Brian Putnam/Liam Ryan/Katerina Zafeiropoulou

Curated by Shama Khanna and Blanche Craig

1–4 October 2009

Opening event: 1 October, 6 to 9.30pm
Studio One
65-71 Scrutton Street
London EC2A 4PJ

17 Ingredients: Measures of Autonomy is a group exhibition showcasing the work of recent MA graduates from Byam Shaw College, London. The exhibition at Studio One is the first to present works by the artists in a space independent from the college, suggesting new directions for each practice, each one part of a thriving whole.
The show is the result of a productive process that has involved, by necessity, a collaborative approach to working. At the same time the artists have been engaged in refining a sense of autonomy in their work – in advance of its presentation within the wider context of visual culture – thus ensuring an exceptional richness to the mix. Their working processes have culminated in a shared practice of locating and examining the meaning produced by their works – a meaning that always oscillates between transparency and dissolution.
Just as intellectual and creative exchange exists amongst the artists, this flux in meaning is experienced across and between the works in the show.
17 Ingredients: Measures of Autonomy highlights the transition of the artists’ practice from within the institution to the outside world. It treads a line between finding shared themes, while also highlighting the problems in doing so with such a seemingly disparate group of artists. The exhibition highlights the almost arbitrary way in which the artists have found themselves thrown together but, conversely, how they are essential elements to the collective outcome.
A fully illustrated catalogue, with essays by Shama Khanna, Dean Kenning and Chris Kul-Want, will be published to accompany the exhibition. Studio One is open Thursday to Monday, 11am to 6pm.
For further information please contact Beate Frommelt at info@beatefrommelt.ch