Fine Art at University of Plymouth

You are warmly invited to Betty Marsh’s MA Fine Art Graduate Show “ Shared Marrow” at 37 Looe St.

Shared Marrow translates concepts explored in creative writings and critical essays, presenting them as physical objects. The artworks echo the artist’s observational studies, imaginative concepts and memories of her ritualised trail. Focusing on the ephemeral, on feint pencil markings and thin papers, the works’ fragile physicality records passing experiences that do not last.

Private View : Thursday 6th June / 5pm-7pm
Exhibition : Friday 7th June - Sunday 9th June / 11am-4pm
Venue: 37 Looe St, Plymouth, PL4 0DQ

📨📽 MOVING IMAGE WORKSHOP SCORED LIVE + SUBMIT YOUR FILM TO THE SECOND CINAESTHESIA EVENT! 📨📽

Imperfect Cinema partners with Alternate Sensory Reality for a series of participatory screening events: CINAESTHESIA, exploring relationships of sensory experience with the world of moving image and sound through experimental approaches.

CINAESTHESIA 2!

We will be running a collective moving image workshop during the day, with a live score perfoemd in the evening by the wonderful looped-out dynamism of Oddstep Deployment Uni!

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Hey Ho Lets Go! x

To sign up for the workshop please go here (limited places): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cinaesthesia-film-workshop-tickets-860075297367?aff=oddtdtcreator

To submit a film please go here: https://imperfectcinema.com/?page_id=2800

ARE YOU BASED IN OR AROUND PLYMOUTH, UK?

SUBMIT YOUR FILM
to be featured in a screening of shorts alongside a curated international screening of experimental and artists films around the theme of sensory perception.

DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?
How can the sensory perception/subjective experience be communicated and challenged by filmmaking? How does film allow us to connect to others and the world by exchanging subjective realities?

One of the premises of neurodiversity is that the ways we see, hear, experience the world are slightly different and unique for every person. The ways we interact with the world make us who we are.

WE ARE CURRENTLY ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR SCREENING ON SATURDAY 23 MARCH 2024

AT MANOR STREET GALLERIES, STONEHOUSE, PLYMOUTH.

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGL649/6-fully-funded-collaborative-doctoral-awards-cdas

6 Fully Funded Collaborative Doctoral Awards (CDAs) at University of Plymouth Discover a PhD Studentship: 6 Fully Funded Collaborative Doctoral Awards (CDAs) Explore more PhD opportunities and apply today!

TODAY!

Flo Brooks Artist Talk

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We are launching our new MA Fine Art Course - 1 year Full Time and 2 year Part Time with possibilities to take Modules across all the suite of Arts MAs.

MA Fine Art University of Plymouth: Advance your studio practice, and enhance your critical thinking with a MA in Fine Art. The programme will help you experiment...

📣 CALLING ALL ARTISTS

We're inviting proposals for a new commission as part of Imperial War Museums' 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund, that will look at themes such as home, family and communication during a time of conflict.

D/L for initial proposal: 6 Dec 2023
Full details from https://ow.ly/UAsL50Q42WG

What's on in December?

ART MARKET: 4th December, all day, ground floor, Roland Levinsky Building

Fine Art Winter Market What's on at the University of Plymouth: Fine Art Winter Market. Supporting local artists. University of Plymouth, 4 December 2023.

Angela Piccini (BA Programme Lead) and Sefryn Penrose and Joanne Dorothea-Smith have been working with The Box on this project. For Home Movie Day they'll be joined by IMPERFECT CINEMA to explore with visitors the potential of the archive in the present for the future

Come down to The Box, 11am-3pm on Saturday, 21 October and bring your home movies - from old film to phone footage

Come and join us at The Box and University of Plymouth of Plymouth as we bring Home Movie Day to Plymouth for the first time ever!

We want to help you share your home movies with the community. Celebrate with us on Saturday 21 October 2023 and bring along your home movies - film or video. Learn how to identify and digitise your film gauge or video format, and how to care for your beloved family footage.

Event info 👉🏻👉🏾👉🏿https://ow.ly/s51350PSNo9

Home Movie Day was started in 2002 by a group of film archivists concerned about what would happen to all the home movies shot on film during the 20th century.

Find out more about Home Movie Day
👉🏻👉🏾👉🏿https://ow.ly/Y8k450PSNoa

In Plymouth, Home Movie Day is a collaboration between The Box and University of Plymouth exploring how home movies and amateur films form important cultural heritage. These films contain possibilities for how we might live now and in the future.

ARTIST TALK
Philip Banks
18 October
11-12 RLB101

Followed by sign-up tutorials

Philip Banks is a Cornwall-based artist who graduated from the BA Fine Art in 2022 with his speculative memory machines, drawing on archaeological imaginaries and working through material experimentation & transformation

His practice shifts and evolves between 2D and 3D; drawing, painting, photography, a variety of sculptural approaches that include maquettes, junk modelling, wooden structures, hand building with clay and plaster moulds. Reoccurring themes include Science Fiction, Time Travel, Architecture and Archaeology. He works with found materials, artefacts, and photos from places of interest.

Those who attend the talk are encouraged to ask questions about his time at University of Plymouth Fine Art and how his artistic practice has continued since graduating.

FINE ART UOP

ARTIST TALK LAUNCH

First up, we're over the moon to welcome

Rhys Morgan recently completed the MFA at Goldsmiths and has been selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries. He lives and works in Plymouth and is involved in a range of activities and organisations, from Plymouth Art Weekender to Take A Part. His ACE-funded project, Seaweed in the Fruit Locker, is an LGBTQ+ sea shanty choir. It is this work that's been selected for New Contemporaries.

Rhys will be giving a talk from 12.30-13.30 followed by sign-up tutorials with UG and PGT students

ALL WELCOME TO ATTEND RHYS'S TALK!

37 Looe Street and Art & Design Research Group at University of Plymouth are hosting:

DR LOIS KLASSEN
Simon Fraser University / Emily Carr University of Art and Design

Artist Talk:

Reading the Migration Library and Other Actions:
an artist talk and book exchange

Tuesday, 19 September 2023
16.30-18.00
37 Looe Street Gallery, PL4 0EB

Reading the Migration Library (RML) is a long-range collaborative project involving artists, writers, and designers in the production of small publications with content about migration and failed migrations. The books (27 to date) are circulated through online networks, mail art, free libraries, and events. In an informal presentation Lois Klassen will share and exchange copies of RML books (‘zines, chapbooks, and ephemera) and encourage a discussion about sustaining relationships and relationality in art and action-oriented research.

This event will celebrate the most recently completed RML publication, Henry Frederick Terry (1907-1980) ~ I Remember by Ginger Mason (Victoria, Canada). The book in the form of a mailable packet contains a broadsheet, postcard, commemorative Canadian postage stamp, and little booklet that recounts the intergenerational impacts of British/Canadian policies to place British children as settler labourers on Canadian farms (1860s to 1930s).

Bring your own small run publications, artist prints, or other ephemera to trade for limited editions of Henry Frederick Terry and other RML publications that Klassen has brought from Canada for this occasion!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-flows-digital-arts-humanities-practice-based-research-tickets-682095083757

Digital Flow/s: digital arts & humanities practice-based research A symposium and exhibition celebrating the 3d3 doctoral training partnership

thank you Helge Mruck for these photos of the 2023 MA Graduate Show "In Spite of Bad Weather" featuring the work of Aldous George, Sam Machell, Victoria McTavish and Neil Robinson.

Great opening for "In Spite of Bad Weather" now on view July 1 - 11 at The Levinsky Gallery.

📢ARTIST CALL: 16 - 25 year olds📢

You are invited to submit work for the brand new Create Our Space gallery as part of our exhibition Corinna Wagner:TerraOceanus.

Themes:
👉Environmentalism
👉Realism
👉The body
Any medium including photography + creative writing.

Please bring your artwork to the gallery by 1 July
Email [email protected] or call 01404 45006 for more details

Honiton Community College
Exeter College
Bridgwater & Taunton College
Fine Art at University of Plymouth
Parental Minds CIC
University of Exeter
Arts & Culture, University of Exeter
Corinna Wagner

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/in-conversation-matt-burrows-with-the-artists-of-in-spite-of-bad-weather

In Conversation: Matt Burrows with the artists of In Spite of Bad Weather Matt Burrows, Curator and Gallery Manager at Exeter Phoenix, will lead a discussion with the artists of In Spite of Bad Weather, who have come to the...

In Spite of Bad Weather

1 – 11 July 2023
Monday–Friday 10:00–17:00, Saturday 12:00–17:00
The Levinksy Gallery
Free admission

The weather gives us metaphors; storm, flood, drought, and other terms sourced from the shifting environmental conditions are scattered through human languages. We often apply these to large events, crises, or catastrophes, whether economic, societal or political. These metaphoric storms are part of the weather we live with now. Alert to the conditions around them, the artists in this show present work that engages with myth, landscape, story and materials to reflect on experience, to imagine paths and ways through the crashing storms.

In Spite of Bad Weather brings together contrasting aesthetics, folding and adapting the biological and the technical. The artists propose new old stories, reworking fables, revising strategies of showing, of describing. They recognise how economic, political, climactic, environmental stresses work across each other in a complex interlocking system. Their making acknowledges the pressures on all the inhabitants - animal, plant, other - of this corner of the planet, and by “staying with the trouble” the artists hold a space for possibility.

Aldous George works as a multidisciplinary artist exploring the boundaries of what it is to be mentally and physically ‘human’ alongside humanity’s obsession with evolving beyond its current limitations, especially by means of science and technology. Working within the conceptual terrains of transhumanism, cyborgism and reconnecting with nature he employs sculpture, physical structures and prostheses, processual audio and visual material to immerse an audience within the blurry area between human and machine.

Sam Machell is an artist and writer whose practice reflects ecological and political anxieties and is concerned with the intersection of sprawling systems and individual bodies. Writing, as both process and material, is positioned as the centre around which other works can orbit; the guiding fiction magnified into performances, diagrams, cartoons and videos, like the text of an illuminated manuscript. His ongoing project, the expanded fantasy novel Dinner Machine, explores the lives and messy relationships of humans and animals within an absurdly large and complex castle.

Victoria McTavish is deeply interested in woman’s story, ancient knowledge systems and the intersection between the two. Her work is based on myth, other worlds and the archetypal underpinnings of the collective psyche. It is in the act of giving form, care, and new life to materials such as old garments and domestic linens, which come with their own stories, as evidenced in the delicate wear and tear from use, that she re-tells and subverts linear narratives. The inherent tension of pulling, stitching, and deconstructing can all be seen as a metaphor for reparative thinking and through weaving together the personal, political, and transpersonal dimensions inherent in all stories she hopes to evoke a sense of the interconnection of all phenomena.

Neil Robinson is a surfer, artist and teacher who wades with his work through dark tides and folding waves. Living in the coastal landscape, Robinson is interested in critiquing contemporary coastal politics, and the ways in which coastal cultures are perceived by outsiders. Though his work may grow from commercial forms, like placid seascapes or the pretty kinds of pots you see in a tacky beachside gallery, his often-violent interventions subvert the hierarchy of tourist and place. Robinson’s work may provoke or confront the viewer, but its friendly, conversational approach allows unique space for a point of shared understanding to be reached between artist, viewer and oceanic environment.

🎉 CAMP MEMBERSHIP BURSARIES!

We are very pleased to announce that CAMP has secured Arts Council England funding for another year of programme.

AND we also have a whole range of partnership support from arts organisations across Devon and Cornwall.

We have partnered with The Box Plymouth, Real Ideas Organisation, Nudge Community Builders, KARST and Exeter Phoenix to offer 17 CAMP one year membership bursaries.

This opportunity is open to any artists/arts curators/arts producers/arts writers living and/or working in Devon or Cornwall, with a couple of the bursaries having more specific geographical criteria; and two aimed at printmakers and ceramists.

You can be a non-member, past member or current member to take part.

All you need to do is fill in the very quick and easy online form to put your name in the hat. Then we will pull names out the hat at random until all the bursaries are awarded.

⏰ Deadline is Wednesday 7 June 2023 at midnight.

🔗 Click on the link to fill in the online form.
https://www.camp-membership.org/opportunities

Private View

BA Fine Art: Stage 2 and Stage 3
Work-in-progress pop-up

Friday, 20 Jan
5pm-8pm
Studio 101 and 108
Roland Levinsky Building
Plymouth

Open all day Saturday, 21 Jan

Due to illness on the other side of the world, today's talk with Jem Noble is postponed to the new year

ARTIST TALK | JEM NOBLE

Thurs, 8 Dec
RM 101
Roland Levinsky Building
4.15pm

Research Architecture: Framing Embodied Knowledge Creation Through Art

In this guest-artist presentation, Jem Noble (CA/UK) unfolds how his understanding of research methodology, methods and modes developed across the course of his practice-based PhD research in Visual Art (2015–2021, Deakin University, AU, unceded territories of the Kulin Nations), with a focus on "staging intermediation/intermedialities".

Jem Noble is a mixed-media artist whose wide-ranging practice explores the mutual composition of environment and experience through entangled poetics of force, form, fabrication, and feedback. Noble’s work is often collaborative and has been included in NGV Triennial, Te Tuhi (Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland), Artforum International (with Te Tuhi), PSI/Fluid States (with David Cross), dOCUMENTA 13 (with GRADCAM DIT and EARN), Manifesta 7 (with Piråtbyrån) and ICA London. Since 2012 Noble’s practice has been informed in part by his status as both first-generation Settler on unceded Coast Salish territories and pansexual Q***r member of a polity including Indigenous peers.

Noble completed a BA in Philosophy at Prifysgol Abertawe, a practice-based PhD in Visual Art at Deakin University, and a parasitic Fellowship investigating Fiction in the Expanded Field at the New Ruined Institute—an entity in the work of Turner Prize winner Elizabeth Price (UK), several of whose video installations include Noble’s music and sound design.

We've been silent on Instagram over summer because our account was hacked and then deleted. After feeling real sad about it, we've licked our wounds. We're pleased to be back, now at thanks to our new fabulous colleague, Dr Melanie Jackson. Follow us to find out about what we're up to this autumn - artist talks, open studios, workshops, collaborations across the university and the city

October is the best month: crisp air sea swims, long nights, and the students are back in the studio. Crack open your diaries because BAS9 opens on 8 October across Plymouth https://britishartshow9.co.uk/whats-on/plymouth/. Sarah Duffy is the Clare Thornton Memorial Residency artist at 37 Looe Street https://37looestreet.org/sarah-duffy/. Frieze is in London https://www.frieze.com/fairs/frieze-london. There's even still time to get to Venice for the Biennale. 2 October is the deadline for the new CAMP commission, How Long (open to all CAMP members) https://www.camp-membership.org/opportunities/. And there's a crop of new films at Plymouth Arts Cinema https://plymouthartscinema.org/calendar/

www.camp-membership.org opportunities We currently have THREE opportunities for CAMP members (HOW LONG contains two opps in one call out!)1. HOW LONG – exhibition and walks call out2. Portfolio Sessions with Matt Bu…

The very exciting line up of public events programmed for British Art Show 9!

The Arts Institute – public arts programme The Arts Institute with the University of Plymouth. Plymouth's Centre for art and culture open to the public all year round.

Places still available on our 3 year PT MA Fine Art course, which has been developed for those who want to study alongside other committments. Join a cohort of talented and supportive artists and develop your artistic work and engagement with the arts and other disciplines. Photos from recent end of year shows are by Helge Mruck. Performance photos by Josie Cockram https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/ma-fine-art

See this great free course/project led by colleagues at Kingston, Goldsmiths, MMU and Middlesex.

Message from Jo Addison at Kingston:

On behalf of A Particular Reality, I am excited to announce this Open Call for a new Summer School called Art School, Backwards, 27th to 29th July.

Art School, Backwards is a free 3 day experimental project taking place at Kingston School of Art. ASB is conceived as a strategy for unpicking dominant modes of thinking, ingrained behaviours and approaches to learning. ASB is for anyone working within a creative field at any level of study or practice.

Art School, Backwards will be run in partnership with [A%20Particular%20Reality]A Particular Reality — a collective formed by students, alumni and educators from the Fine Art departments at Goldsmiths, University of London, Kingston School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University and Middlesex University London, with a commitment to building creative learning environments upon the values of Anti-racism, equity and care.

ASB will be an opportunity to work alongside amazing artists and practitioners, including Murat Adash, Clémentine Bedos and Ali Eisa, as well as APR students and alumni. Participants will engage in an array of collaborative, practical activities, and discussion, to construct new objectives for action and positive change.

Please feel free to share, and to encourage students, colleagues, partners, and alumni to submit an expression of interest by Thursday 13th July; see attached PDF for further details. There is a limited number of places available, however, ASB is running as a pilot, which we hope will be a successful precursor of an annual programme.

Very warm wishes all,
Jo Addison
Head of Department, Fine Art
School of Arts