Studio preview - July 2015

Chelsea College of Art Postgraduate Summer Show 2015 4th - 10th September 2015
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Roberts's studio - in progress

Housed - Curator's rehang

Curator's rehang - insightful!

Oil 2015 
Image credit: Kelise Franclemont

http://housed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2015/04/09/9-april-2015-the-stunning-results-of-the-curators-intervention/

Oil, detail 1 Image credit: Paul Abbott

Oil, detail 2 Image credit: Tom Butler

Oil, detail 3 Image credit: Tom Butler

Housed - artist/ curator update

Image credit: Paul Abbott

Image credit: Regan O'Callaghan

Image credit: Regan O'Callaghan

Image credit: Regan O'Callaghan

Image credit: Paul Abbott

Image credit: Regan O'Callaghan

Image credit: Regan O'Callaghan

http://housed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2015/04/07/housed-and-ready-for-the-curators/

Housed invite, 7-10 April 2015

Designed by Joseph Lichy

Download the press release here

Housed: Chelsea Cookhouse, 7-10 April 2015

A four-day exhibition, and collaborative project involving Chelsea MA Fine Art, and Curating students.

Image courtesy of loomio.org and Amy McDonnell

How far can you stretch the authorized set up of the museum/ institution? [1]

Art as a mirror and as a lamp. [2]

Housed: seeks to explore the interplay between the artist, the viewer and the location setting… the latter being a ‘display space’ within an art school context. Who are we? Who are they? And what role does the environment holding the exhibition play in this relationship? The collaboration (Chelsea MAFA & MACC students) will provide both groups an opportunity to address the Meta Artist/ Curator position.

Housed: seeks to reveal what remains dormant and under-exposed within us in response to the traditional and institutional framing of the socio-political artistic practice. The premise of this exhibition proposes a chain of perspectives that challenge the ‘occupancy’ inside the regimented frameworks that artists continually try to support, intervene and critically address.

http://housed.myblog.arts.ac.uk 

https://www.facebook.com/housedcookhouse

[1] Mami Kataoka, Chief Curator at the Mori Art Museum (MAM), Toyko, Japan.

[2] James Lingwood, Co-Director of Artangel, UK.

Chelsea Cookhouse, Chelsea College of Art, 16 John Islip Street, SW1P 4JU

7 - 10 April 2015: Open daily, Tuesday 7th, 11am – 6pm, Wednesday 12pm – 6pm, Thursday 9th 11am – 6pm, Friday 10th, 10am – 2pm.

For further information please contact Alex via a.roberts5@arts.ac.uk 

This postgraduate exhibition and collaboration is kindly been supported by the Postgraduate Students Communities Fund, UAL

MAFA Interim Show - works in progress

An opportunity to see what 20 Chelsea MAFA students 

are gearing up to, for September's final show... 

Fact, Fiction, Fable

Three MA Fine Art students, Paul Abbott, Alex Roberts and Michael Williams, spent a week (17-21 November 2014) collaborating, and involved with dialogue around the themes of Fact, Fiction and Fable.

"The week offered a chance for us to re-address some common threads, and overlaps of interest within our independent works. Re-looking at the question of narrative, and hints to a narrative within our studio practice. 

Our time included co-operation with using different materials such as drawing, sound, video, performance, not with the aim to produce completed works, but to allow the process of coming together to inform our interest in identity, ambiguity, narrative, the relationship between the figurative and abstraction".

A brief selection of the documented, working experience, and the installation piece (sound & visual), that came together.