Pop Up and Rock with WaWa
Wawa, founded by Richard Ward, based in Shoreditch near Columbia Road Flower Market creates classically contemporary seating and sleeping creations with distinctive upholstery. www.wawa.co.uk.
Richard, a trained sculptor and one time film set designer is re-launching his Rocking Chair design vis a vis a series of playful events around London. The first one will take place in Clifton Nurseries, Maida Vale – established in 1851 and owned by Lord Rothschild.
Dungeness Old LightHouse "Immaterial Time"
RSVP • David Sherriff
an invitation to touch another dimension
RCA Fashion Show 2013
During it's 100 year history the "Royal College of Art" has built a reputation as being the world's foremost post-graduate arts and design university. In the coming month the College once again opens its doors to the public to view its graduating students’ Shows.
Roderick Coyne - Crossing Fields
More than fifty people gathered at “AND eventSpace 1” on Friday evening 22 May to see “Crossing Fields” - an exhibition of recent works by Roderick Coyne. These works further extends his previous practice of using photographic imagery to include the process of painting.
RCA Society AGM 2013
The draft minutes of the previous AGM were tabled. Members were reminded of corrections included from the subsequent MC meeting. Below is a summary of the AGM 2013.
RCA Soc AGM Report 2013 (1mb PDF file)
The minutes of the 2012 AGM were agreed as accurate.
FIX FIX FIX at Gallery SO - 92 Brick Lane
An exhibition of objects that have been “fixed” from different broken objects which have been “perfectly” repaired or have incorporated the fault line into its reconstitution. The exhibition, curated by Glenn Adamson, a tutor at the RCA and head of research at the Victoria & Albert museum, brings together a vast scale of “fixed” items - from small coins to grand pianos.
Rhonda Whitehead’s “Beneath the Surface”
Rhonda Whitehead’s series of large abstract paintings are a rich layering of textures and colour which bring to mind the arbitrary landscapes made up of imaginary stories and real histories depicted on wall surfaces of weathered buildings... These are sharply contrasted by the harsh geometry of her later paintings.
Keep Henry Moore's “Draped Seated Woman” ('Flo') in public ownership
Displacement
Lost heritage
Social and Humanitarian aspects
Unifying Cultural elements
Site + theme specific considerations
Independence Arts Achievement award for Althea
On 8 September 2012 H.E. Garvin Nicholas, High Commissioner for the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, presented Althea McNish with an award for Achievement in the Arts as part of the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Independence of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, at a Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony at the Royal Garden Hotel, London.
