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Awakenings

Two of our Fine Art students, Christie Grant and Kate Monan, have had work selected for a group show.

Charles Williams: “Louise Bourgeois And Me” And Other Stories

Senior Lecturer Charles Williams has an exhibition opening in London EC2.

“Louise Bourgeois And Me” And Other Stories

A solo exhibition of paintings and narrative by Charles Williams NEAC RWS.

Studio 1.1

57A Redchurch Street
London
EC2 7DJ

4th-27th November 2016 (Gallery open Thursday–Sunday 12–6pm or by appointment)

For more information contact info@studio1-1.co.uk

Artist Statement

Charles Williams’ work is very like short stories. He tries to cram everything he is thinking about, other paintings old and new, newspaper stories, what he saw on his holidays or when he last went to the shops into each painting. Sometimes characters and places evolve; sometimes they just appear and then disappear. The chief studio rule is no sketches, no photos, no studies, nothing. People seem to assume that the paintings come from somewhere, but they are simply a la tête. He cannot be bothered with stopping and fiddling around with those things, or doing that projecting thing.

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Born in Evanston, Illinois, USA, Charles Williams was educated at Kent College in Canterbury, Maidstone College of Art and the Royal Academy, London. He was elected to the New English Art Club (NEAC) in 1996 and in 1999 was a founder member of the Stuckist group. He has shown his work in London, the UK and abroad, including a solo exhibition at the Bakersfield Museum of Art in California. He is the author of Basic Drawing (Robert Hale, 2011) and Basic Watercolour (Robert Hale, 2014).

City of the Imagination

You still have time to catch Bryan Hawkins, Eddie McMillan and Pete Wallace’s installation in Canterbury Cathedral.

City of the Imagination
Venue: Cathedral Chapter House, Cathedral Precincts, Canterbury
Opening Times: 10am–5pm (15th-22nd October 2016, closed Sunday 16 October)

William Blake declared “every age is a Canterbury Pilgrimage”.

City of the Imagination links ancient forms of light and sound to 21st century technology within the magnificent architecture of the Chapter House and celebrates Canterbury Cathedral as at the heart of an ‘imagined’, spiritual, artistic and inspirational city. The installation will reflect the contemplative power and grandeur of the Chapter House alongside Canterbury’s imaginal, traditional and contemporary stories.

Curated and created by Bryan Hawkins, Eddie McMillan and Pete Wallace, School of Media Art and Design at Canterbury Christ Church University.

http://www.canterbury.co.uk/Canterbury-City-Of-The-Imagination/details/?dms=3&feature=1301&venue=3030160

 

Two Painters and a Potter, Linden Hall Studio, Deal

Senior Lecturer Charles Williams has a joint exhibition opening in Deal.

Linden Hall Studio presents the work of Arthur Neal, William Plumptre and Charles Williams, three artists whose careers have spanned the late twentieth century and early twenty-first and whose work contains many of the concerns, obsessions and interests of this particular time in British culture. Reflections on Modernism and Post-modernism, on the breaking down of ideas about authenticity and a search for some kind of truth or beauty in the mass of contradictions that characterizes our time are contained in these works. In the end it is only in the constant practice of making and remaking that brings what resolution is possible.

4 September 2016-2 October 2016

Linden Hall Studio
Contemporary Art Gallery
32 St George’s Road
Deal
Kent
CT14 6BA

Born in Evanston, Illinois, USA, Charles Williams was educated at Kent College in Canterbury, Maidstone College of Art and the Royal Academy, London. He was elected to the New English Art Club (NEAC) in 1996 and in 1999 was a founder member of the Stuckist group. He has shown his work in London, the UK and abroad, including a solo exhibition at the Bakersfield Museum of Art in California. He is the author of Basic Drawing (Robert Hale, 2011) and Basic Watercolour (Robert Hale, 2014).

You Are Here

Graphic Design lecturer Kate McLean is showing one of her smellscapes at National Library of Scotland.

The smellscape of our world is in constant flux as smells come and go, meandering amongst architectures, vehicles and nature, between people and their everyday routines, indexing rhythms, life and activity. The invisibility of smell, both as a physical entity and as a social construct in the prevailing sensory order has led scholars to call for further study in how the urban smellscape may be detected, recorded, stored and communicated. The Sensory Maps project http://sensorymaps.com uses design methodologies to render visible geo-located olfactory sense-data through creative mapping practices and one work; “Smells of Auld Reekie on a very breezy day in 2011” by Kate McLean is on display at National Library of Scotland’s You Are Here: A journey through maps exhibition in Edinburgh from now until April 2017.

 

You Are Here challenges what we know about maps, how they are made and how we understand them. It shows the skills of the map makers and the aesthetics and usefulness of maps.

 

See http://www.nls.uk/exhibitions/maps for further details.

 

 

Kate McLean is a sensory designer, cartographer, photographer and smell collector. Educated in the UK and USA she has a BA (Hons) in Related Arts from the University of Chichester and a diploma in Graphic Design from NESADSU in Boston, USA. Her MFA (with distinction) is from Edinburgh College of Art. As Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design she specialises in typography and information design.