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ContemporaryArtETC.. greet new staff to the team.

Published February 25, 2009

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

New Studios for HND Contemporary Art students.

Published January 8, 2009

localhost:10076/ is delighted to announce our recent move to brand new studio accommodation in Edinburgh's Telford College. The new studio has allowed us to allocate individual spaces to all of our current students in years 1 & 2 of the HND Contemporary Art Practice course.

As well as individual spaces the studio is also equipped with networked iMac computers and personal lockable storage. Having their own spaces means that students can take ownership of the studio allowing them to carry out sustained research, development and production.

As well as the new studio students continue to have access to specialist studios and workshops including; flexible and well lit life drawing and drawing & painting studio and specialist workshops for wood and metal production.

New space for Capital City artists

Published March 26, 2008

Plans have been announced today to convert St Margaret’s House, a 1970’s block next to Meadowbank Stadium, into badly needed artist’s studios which are set to begin work on 06 April 2008.

“Edinburgh was the philosophical crucible of the Enlightenment and, for one, I’d like to see the return of the city’s reputation as an intellectual melting-pot in the International ideas market. With that in mind, I believe that it is important to have a large collection of creative minds working together in theone site, a creative hub. Art’s Complex is the result of a two year project to bring such a venue to the Capital and to try and
rectify the huge need for artists space.” said Derek Gray, Director of Art’s Complex.

The venture is set to re-dress a severe shortage of affordable studio space in Edinburgh, it will be able to accommodate over 200 artists as well as an 11 000 square feet gallery/exhibition space presenting innovative work from local artist as well as creatives from the arts industry in Scotland.

“The main aim with this initiative is to redress the imbalance between the large number of artists seeking affordable studio space in the city and the severe lack of appropriate space available” said Dale Gibson, Business Director of Art’s Complex.

The deal struck between Caledonian Trust and Art’s Complex aims to do just that and to reach out specifically to the surrounding local community through arts education and participatory projects and more generally to the international arts sector bringing nationally and internationally renowned artists to Edinburgh to enrich the cultural diversity of the city.

Everybody here at Contemporary Art ETC…. would like to wish Art’s Complex all the best and we look forward to working with them at some point in the future.

Ed.

http://www.artscomplex.org/

New: Links to Student Blogs

Published March 15, 2008

We are delighted to introduce the latest addition to our links page. Please feel very welcome to have a browse through the blogs of some of our current students where you will come across a diverse and fascinating set of visual interpretations of the world including the following take on the absurdity of celebrity culture by Miki Suzuki:

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AV Festival 2008

Published March 2, 2008

The 2008 AV festival opened last week with a gala event featuring performances of John Cages’ Variations VII and Yokomono by Staalplaat Soundsystem.

AV Festival is an international festival of electronic arts featuring visual art, music and moving image. A biennial event, the festival takes place in Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough in the North East of England. It consists of concerts and performances, exhibitions, film screenings, seminars, symposia, workshops and other special events at many venues across the three urban centres of the North East.

AV Festival 08 has the theme of Broadcast and runs from 28 February – 8 March 2008 in venues across the North East.

John Cage: Variations Vii

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Staalplaat Soundsystem: Yokomono

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LINKS:

http://www.avfestival.co.uk/about

http://www.johncage.info/

http://www.staalplaat.org/site/

Visiting Artist: Jonathan Owen

Published February 23, 2008

Friday was the second in our current series of artists talks. The students and the team would like to thank Jonathan Owen who gave an informative insight into his practice over the last 10 years.

Originally from Liverpool Jonathan studied Fine Art at Leeds Metropolitan University before moving to Edinburgh where he graduated from Edinburgh College of Art’s Master of Fine Art program.

Economy is very important within his work, reducing his subject and examining essential qualities, which at the same time as focusing his intent expand the possible meaning for the viewer. In recent work Jonathan develops questions around his own pre-occupation of suburbia and notions of class.

Jonathan is currently showing at Doggerfisher, Edinburgh along with Claire Barclay, Sara Barker, Neil Clements, Sally Osborn, Jonathan Owen and Albrecht Schäfer

Exhibition runs until 26th April 2008.

www.doggerfisher.com

Telford students offered 2 Year Degree at Cumbria University

Published February 19, 2008

Congratulations to the 8 HN students who attended interviews at Cumbria University and who were all offered direct entry to the 2nd year of the prestigeous Fine Art Degree course. All the students are delighted to be offered the opportunity to complete their degree in just 2 years on a course that is “been recognised as one of the leading courses of its kind nationally since 1997”

This is a real endorsment of both the students and the HND course offered by the Fine Art team at Telford and we are delighted that everybody’s efforts have been recognised.

Happy Birthday !!!!!!!!

Published February 8, 2008

It’s our birthday !!!!!!

Exactly one year ago today we launched ourselves into the blogosphere.

Our intention was to provide information on the innovative Contemporary Art Practice course at Edinburgh’s Telford college. However in a short space of time we became one of, if not the most viewed contemporary art, educational blogs on the internet with over 34ooo hits to date.

Over the past year we have provided our readers with all sorts of fascinating information on contemporary art and artists in our “Fact of the Day” feature as well as links to web based resources and news and reviews of major contemporary art exhibitions and events.

In the coming year we intend to continue our ground breaking work and develop a range of new contemporary art ETC… features and resources.

Watch out for:

the contemporary art ETC… video channel, featuring student work and interviews with visiting artists

the improved contemporary art ETC… Flickr page

In the meantime let us thank all our readers and supporters who have contributed over the past year and without whom we would have perished in the depths of cyberspace.

You know who you are and we love you all.

Ed.

**If you have any comments, requests or would like to contribute to the Blog please let us know.

Visiting Artist: Louisa Preston

Published February 4, 2008

Friday saw the beginning of our series of talks by visiting artists.

The 1st talk was given by Dundee based artist Louisa Preston who made an excellent presentation of her work, influences and inspiration.

After a number of years of professional practice has returned to education and is currently studying for a Master of Fine Art Degree at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art.

The student and staff would like to thank Louisa and we look forward to attending her Masters exhibition later this year.

The series continues later this month with Jonathan Owen, Scott Laverie and Steve Dale.

Transloco: Artists Talk

Published November 22, 2007

Artist Talk by TRANSLOCO

2pm Saturday 24th November

WASPS Patriothall Gallery, Hamilton Place, Stockbridge

Join artists Lesley Martin, Jenny Outhwaite, Francesca Nobilucci and Nicola Rodger for a discussion about their current exhibition.

Transloco is a show of new works presented in association with Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop.

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, 25 Hawthornvale, Edinburgh, EH6 4JT
Tel: +44 (0) 131 551 4490 Fax: +44 (0) 131 551 4491

www.edinburghsculpture.org
myspace.com/edinburghsculpture
edinburghsculpture.wordpress.com

Supported by the Scottish Arts Council and the City of Edinburgh Council