Author: Alan Holligan

ESW MICRO RESIDENCIES 2010: Call for proposals

Closing date for applications: Friday 5 March 2010

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop’s Micro Residency programme was created to give artists time and space to develop their research and practice in an unpressurised environment which encourages experimentation.

The flexible nature of the programme allows participating artists to explore new ideas and processes outwith their normal practice; benefiting from Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop’s facilities, staff support, and encourages networking / peer critiques between themselves and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop’s artists.

The Micro Residencies promote interdisciplinary practice and include events that enable the public to meet and talk with artists. The Artists’ Collective, FOUND’s work, Cybraphon, subsequently won a Scottish BAFTA in 2009.

“FOUND used the ESW micro-residency to develop and prototype ideas that would eventually become Cybraphon.  It was ideal for trial and error work as ESW put no pressure on us to create a ‘finished’ article as such. It also gave FOUND our first studio proper and led to us taking up another studio space for a year with ESW.” Ziggy Campbell, FOUND

Each Micro Residency lasts one month. Selected artists will be given one of the ESW studios and access ESW’s workshop equipment free of charge. A fee of £150 is awarded to successful applicants for production costs, and ESW will organise and promote a public event at the end of the residency.­

ESW are currently inviting applications for the months of April, September, October and November 2010. On the application form, please indicate which month(s) you wish to be considered for.

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop,

25 Hawthornvale, Edinburgh EH6 4JT

Tel: 0131 551 4490

2010 micro residency application form

Knife ‘n’ Fork Job

Six graduates from FineArtETC…. courses (5 from the HND)  exhibited new works recently in a self initiated exhibition ‘Knife and Fork ‘. The exibition which took over the site of the former Edinburgh Copy Shop in the capitals historic Cowgate featured the wok  of 15 artists in total, all of whom are current students of the Intermedia course at Edinburgh College of Art.

In recent years significant numbers of Fine/ContemporaryArtETC… graduates have progressed directly on to Sculpture, Painting and particularly Intermedia Degree course at ECA.

BA(hons) Fine Art Degree, Articulation Agreement Signed.

ContemporaryArtETC is delighted to announce the signing of an Articulation Agreement between the Fine Art team of Edinburgh’s Telford College and the University of Cumbria allowing candidates from Edinburgh’s Telford College to gain an Honours Degree with only 2 years additional study*.

The agreement guarantees** successful HND Contemporary Art Practice students from Edinburgh’s Telford College direct entry to Level 5 (SCQF Level 9 equivalent) of the University’s BA (Hons) Fine Art Course.

This is the first and currently the only agreement of its kind between the new Contemporary Art Practice HND qualification and BA (Hons) Fine Art degree course and is clear recognition of the quality of candidates graduating from the innovative course at Edinburgh’s Telford College.

*subject to successful completion of BA (Hons) course at University of Cumbria

**The agreement is subject to review in July 2010. Pending a successful review candidates successfully completing the HND in 2011 and 2012 will be guaranteed a place on the BA (Hons) Fine Art at University of Cumbria.

http://www.cumbria.ac.uk/Courses/Coursesbylevel/Undergraduate/Arts/ArtDesign/FineArt.aspx

Visiting Artist: Keith Farquhar

ContemporaryArtETC… would like to thank our latest Visiting Artist, Keith Farquhar, who to give an excellent talk to both year groups on his current body of work “Nudes in Colour”. The talk was very engaging and the studios have been buzzing with discussion about the work and Keith’s up coming show at Hyperground in Edinburgh.

Keith graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1993, and completed his MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths in 1996. As well as taking part in numerous group shows over the years, he has also had several solo exhibitions of his work in Edinburgh, London, Berlin, New York, Cologne and Milan. Recent solo exhibitions include: In Domestos Chaos, Crescent Artspace, Woodend, Scarborough (2008); Matisse and Keith Haring Remade by Keith Farquhar, the Embassy, Edinburgh (2007); Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London (2007); Atomised, Nyehaus, New York (2005) and New work, with Mark Leckey, Inverleith House, Edinburgh (2005).

‘Nudes in Colour’ opens at Hyperground (3/1 Bruntsfield Crescent) Friday the 4th of December 7-9pm is then open on the 5th and 6th of December 12-6pm.

FREE FILM SCREENING: Tomorrow @ Stills Gallery

FREE  Film Screening: Counter Images. GDR Underground Films 1983-1989
Thursday, 12 November 2009  6.30PM

For this special screening curator and filmmaker Claus Löser will present a selection of films which were made in the GDR between 1983 and 1989 by young artists, musicians and writers. At a time when art was subject to state control artists operated outside all official channels, their subversive actions watched closely by the Stasi state security police. As in the West, the GDR had a thriving Super 8 movement which developed out of the D.I.Y. credo of punk and was able to blossom in the small pockets of independent underground culture, providing new forms of expression amid the rigidity of the political climate. Today, many artists of this GDR Super-8 underground scene – including Helge Leiberg, Via Lewandowsky, and Cornelia Schleime – have become well-known figures in the international art world.

A 70 minute programme comprising seven films.

Presented in association with Goethe-Institut Glasgow
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