RCA Society and Thames & Hudson

 

 

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Artbook Prize Presentation 2006

During the Show 2 exhibition at the college on 29th June - a number of RCA Society members met up with winning graduates and presented them with their RCA Society + Thames & Hudson art book prize packs.

You can also see some of the prize winners - click for photos

Prize Winners 2006 Click for photos

 

School of Fine Arts

Sculpture Tom Flemming and Edwin Pennicott

Painting Theresa Gillespie

Photography Virginia Litzler

Printmaking Zoe Anderson

Printmaking Tom Leighton

 

School of Applied Art

Ceramics & Glass Tae-Lim Rhee

Goldsmithing, Silversmithing,

Metalwork & Jewellery Kyeok Kim

 

School of Fashion and Textiles

Fashion Menswear Aitor Throup

Fashion Womenswear Karin Gustafsson

Constructed Textiles Priti Veja

Printed Textiles Aleksandra Stasic

 

School of Architecture & Design

Architecture and Interiors Eva Chloe Vazaka

Interaction Design Yumiko Tanaka

Design Products Tomas Alonso

Design Products Mathias Hahn

Industrial Design Engineering Christopher Huntley

Vehicle Design Ramon Torrent Sala

 

School of Communication

Animation William Bishop-Stephens

Communication Art & Design Grit Hartung

Communication Art & Design Adam Simpson

 

School of Humanities

Conservation Louise Parris

History of Design Julie Aveline

Curating Contemporary Art Collective Prize

 

 

RCA Show 1

generation Sculpture 2006 Click for photos

generation Fashion 2006 Click for photos

RCA Show 2 Click for photos

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A visit to Woodchurch
The Annual Air show

6 August 06

 

 

It's surprising how many RCA Society members live in Kent and nearby East Sussex. Equally surprising was the number of people who gathered together to go to the Annual Air show. Once again, our membership secretary, Doreen Wilcockson, who (conveniently) lives near Woodchurch, generously opened her house to us all for the day and directed us to the AirShow. The weather has a habit of being wonderful for these airshows - and this year was no exception. It was a perfect day to watch airplanes of all ages 'loop the loop' and do dare devillish tricks against a perfect sky for taking photos. If you felt a bit squeemish watching tiny propellered aeroplanes plunge towards the Kent fields then you could stroll around and gaze at 'Heath Robinson' farm equipment that pumped and belched out steam and grease or look at an extraordinary display of vintage cars and chatter with the ir proud owners. The traditional funfair offered a perfect back drop to the main event and the swings and roundabouts looked a far safer bet to what the spitfire was up to!

Put this event in your diary as it's a fantastic day out - full of thrills and endless amazement at the extraordinary skill of dedicated pilots and people who love ''mechanical things'. If it's not your cup of tea then it's a nice excuse to just fall flat on your back and stare at the sky.

 

See more images from the airshow

 

 

Jeff Sawtell remembers...
John Latham

23 February 1921 - 1 January 2006

 

See more photos of reception for John Latham at Tate Britain

 

if you haven't heard already, John Latham flatlined on Sunday (January 1).
Not only a friend and comrade, John was important to me as he was to many artists and other cultural combatants who came in contact with him and his work.

A brilliant mind, baffling and ornery to many, he was always stimulating, never content to produce products for productions sake, always eager to tear down barbarian barriers to understanding, ever-ready to attack cultural conventions that would have us mesmerised into thinking that art was the stuff of decoration.

Unlike many who advertised themselves as revolutionaries, no matter what you thought of his thoughts on revolution, he always asserted that those who have the audacity to call themselves artists need to realise they have a responsibility not only to communicate, but to explore, to understand and to dare to venture into the unknown.

 

burning a skoob
in mourning memory
the ashes drifting
passing on the wind
forming and reforming
they settled in a pyre
shifting uneasily
not stable nor solid
a phoenix ready-rising

 

 

90 Minutes

 

A book by Robert Davies. Published by Merrell - £19.95

 

£19.95 | $35.00 | Can$46.95 | 1 85894 305 1

hardback | 208pp | 25 x 25 cm | 9.75 x 9.75 in

110 colour illustrations

 

 

http://www.layzellpr.com

 

http://www.merrellpublishers.com

 

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Robert Davies an RCA graduate, pulls together ‘freeze frame’ images from FIFA’s archives. “Epiphany” - an accompanying exhibition - will be held at the Alexia Goethe Gallery in Dover St. London W1 from 9 May till 9 June.

 

Of the billion + people expected to watch key football matches as this year’s World Cup tournament unfolds less than 0.001% of the live audience will be in the stadium. Everyone - apart from maybe a handful of people - receive information about world events through TV - apart from our personal life so little of our information about everything else is from direct experience. Even the most powerful and privileged of people cannot know everything though ‘they’ are trying very hard through ever increasing surveillance methods - and that is second hand experience and never a complete knowledge. Indirect experience has become ‘normalised’ and we can now talk about countries we’ve never been to with the same familiarity as what is directly beyond out front door - we know the price of a coffee in highway diners in the mid West and familiar with the rickshaw drivers in the far East. We discuss over a cup of tea events local to residents of places we may never go to - yet we presume to bring solutions to their problems, or comment on their situation.

 

Football - an English game... The cultural logic of the game translated into a myriad of languages - we observe tactics and reactions, hand signals and expressions, masculine behaviour of generations of men from around the world linked together with the common thread of a specific game and its garb.

 

The book addresses the sharing of a universal experience through images electronically generated through the world’s media network. A billion+ people at the same time are seeing something happening on a TV Screen. An image reflecting a tiny detail in a rectangle of action on a football pitch - isolating it from the bigger picture as experienced by the 0.001 spectators at the match. We see it frozen - we see it replayed - we see it in slow motion - we see it in black and white - we see it in colour - we see it from different angles... Our knowledge of the action is thorough - we see it more intensely than the 0.001% who saw it for real. Or do we? Our collective view point is controlled by the camera operator’s physical and technical ability which is, in turn, controlled by the selective judgements of the director on duty in the TV Channel’s editing room. What we see and hear is not the same as the 0.001% of the live match audience. It’s not the same as any of the 22 players or the referees or the managers yet we are the massed eyes having had the same feed. The images are burned into our collective memory and in time seep into the 0.001% memory too as they relive their experiences through the TV replays and mass dissemination of images of the event.

 

The ‘hand of god’ argument, the not given penalties, the questionable decisions of the ref, have never been resolved although these events were all witnessed at the same time by billions of people. What is it - that regardless of the common universal experience, mitigates against seeing absolute reality. We can all agree that something occurred, or that is, we presume to have witnessed the same event but cultural differences, angles of the shot, the light, the speed, the subjective reasoning polluting so many interests causes us all to see things differently. Our understanding is different to what we have visually witnessed. What we see on TV is the result of agitated electrical impulses - what we see in printed form are spots of coloured or black ink amassed in different intensities - each giving the illusion of reality. Both re-presentations are open to manipulation. But even with being there amongst the tiny minority of people who directly see the event through no other vehicle other than our own eyes can we still see what is happening?

 

It would be a lost opportunity to see this book merely as a fanzine collection of TV images of heroic moments in a glamorised sport subjectively selected and represented as flat printed glossy rectangles. “90 Minutes” presents us with an immensely interesting visual conversation about universal understanding.

Review by Jenni Boswell-Jones

 

Peter Ayley Tiles Display

 

 

 

H & R Johnson’s new showroom in the West End of London is called 'Materials Lab'. They have dedicated an area for the display of 'new products' and while their normal remit is architectural products, they are willing to display any inspirational new idea. Peter Ayley should soon have his original tiling principle on display - a single square tile can produce a random pattern across a surface. If you also have something that you want to place before the public.

Contact Ben Marshall
Materials Lab, 10 Great Titchfield Street W1

Tel 020 7436 8629