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The Reunion is a series which reunites a group of people intimately involved in a moment of modern history. In this weeks programme Sue MacGregor brings together some of the young artists who emerged in the 1990s to create the Brit Art movement – Tracey Emin, Gavin Turk, Abigail Lane, Mat Collishaw and Gregor Muir.
Click on the link below to listen to the programme.
ContemporaryArtETC are delighted to announce the arrival of 2 new members of the staff team. Heather Craig and Jen Outhwaite.
Heather who has been a prominent of the FineArtETC team at Edinburgh’s Telford College for 5 years will replace Neil Manning as a Lecturer during his time as Acting Curriculum Manager. Heather who graduated from the Intermedia course at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) is a practicing artist with an impressive CV including being lead singer of underground electro/punk/pop/art outfit The Gussets.
Jen is new to both the college and the course and has an equally impressive back ground, graduating in 2008 form the Sculpture School at ECA. Jen joins us as our very 1st Learning Assistant.
Some of our regular readers might remember that both Heather and Jen have featured on this site before as both have joined us on separate trips to Germany. Jen joined us in Muster and Kassel in the summer of 2007 and Heather helped maintain order at 5th Berlin Biennale.
Jen and Heather will bring new perspectives, thinking, skills, vibrancy and enthusiasm to the team and we are very much looking forward to working with them.
For further information on all the course team please visit the Staff Page
Graduates from Edinburgh’s Telford College’s Fine Art Programmes feature strongly in Exhibition showcasing the very best of contemporary Scottish art.
The inaugural RSA New Contemporaries exhibition presents some of the finest up-and-coming artists and architects in Scotland, selected from the 2008 undergraduate degree shows. The exhibition is an exciting and innovative move by the Royal Scottish Academy as it replaces the pre-graduation, open submission, mish-mash that was the annual student show with a post-graduation selection of the best of the four Scottish art schools and six architecture schools.
Ruth Barry who graduated from Edinburgh’s Telford Colleges (ETC) innovative Fine Art HND programme has presented a combination of table, table-top sculpture and watercolour painting in new work commissioned especially for the exhibition. An impressive work for which Ruth was presented with ESW Research Award for excellence in Contemporary Sculpture practice at the opening Gala by RSA President Prof Bill Scott. Ruth recently arrived back in the UK after working the education dept of the Guggenheim Museum in New York and she will move to London next month to continue her career in Fine Art.
Other FineArtETC graduates featured in the exhibition are Alex McAndrew whose dark glittering mountain dominates the landscape of the sculpture court and Kevin Harman who presents a rather understated wall piece featuring multiple tools which have been stripped of their original surfaces.
Both Kevin and Alex studied on the BTEC Foundation in Art & Design at Edinburgh’s Telford College.
Colin Greenslade, RSA Programme Director, comments: “We envisaged that the development of this exhibition will be one of the most important initiatives for emerging artists in Scotland each year, enabling a ‘first exhibition’ opportunity for some 60+ emergent artists annually. The exhibition will be an unique opportunity to see the best of Scotland’s emerging talent under one roof.”
RSA NEW CONTEMPORARIES
14 to 25 February 2009. Open Monday to Saturday 10am – 5pm, Sunday 12noon – 5pm. RSA Upper & Lower Galleries, The Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL. Admission £2 / £1 conc
Sight / Site is an exhibition of new works by year 2 participants of the HND Contemporary Art course at Edinburgh’s Telford College. The exhibition deals with the dual themes of visual impairment & location in response to the current exhibition at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh by artist Rosita MacKenzies; who is herself blind. The work has not been developed specifically for those with visual impairment but rather deals with the individual concerns of the artists. Taking the Royal Botanical Gardens as their source / site of research the work explores and attempts to tackle some of the apparent contradictions between visual art and visual impairment.
Sight / Site is open on Wednesday 4th – Friday 6th February from 10am – 5:30pm
This event will coincide with the opening of the Richard Demarco Archive also at Edinburgh’s Telford College.
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