Email your submissions to k.c.clarke@wimbledon.arts.ac.uk

December 1

drawing in paint

John Carbery

2 PM with Terry Smith

November 26

CHRISTMAS IS DEAD KEVIN PROJECTS

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SPECIAL CLOSING PARTY

SURPRISE GUEST BANDS AND OPEN MIKE NIGHT

December 2

10.30 am ROYAL ACADEMY

Wendy Anderson

Tim Johnson

ANISH KAPOOR

@ The Royal Academy

Limited to 20 students

BOOKING FORMS WILL BE AVAILABLE IN PAINTING SCULPTURE AND THEATRE DEPARTMENTS

November 5

HATE KEVIN PROJECTS

November 12

TALK TO TAROT

KEVIN PROJECTS

November 19

POETRY NOTION

KEVIN PROJECTS

DERRICK WELSH

DRAWING PHONE WORKSHOP

11 AM Gallery

December 4

Live skype link to Paris

Limited to 15 students

Location: MATT’S GALLERY

INFORMATION ABOUT FORTHCOMING

SPEAKEASY COLLABORATORS

Wendy Anderson Tim Johnson  Kevin Clarke

Chloe Briggs  Derrick Welsh

Wendy Anderson is the new Director of International Development CCW. Studied at Grays School of Art in Aberdeen, and then completed an MA at University of Birmingham. Education work has been extensive working with many groups from foundation students to MA and PHD supervision. Also lecturing and workshops in Mexico and East Africa.  She is currently showing new work at the eagle Gallery and is the author of the education guide on the Anish Kapoor exhibition at the RA.

Tim Johnson is a painter, and the senior painting technician at Wimbledon College of Art. After studying in London in the late seventies and early eighties he lived for a year on a Dutch Government Scholarship in the Netherlands where he continued his own practice. Although he has since exhibited widely he currently works with galleries in the Netherlands.

December 09. Tim Johnson will be participating in a group exhibition at FW:BK Galerie, Amsterdam.

 The Hans Brinker Budget Trophy Student Exhibition. Opening 6.00pm on Friday 11th December 09. Exhibition runs through to Monday 14th December.

Five students will participate from Wimbledon College of Art along with students from Wolverhampton, the University of Gloucester, Cardiff, Norwich and three Dutch Art schools

Chloe Briggs, is head of Foundation studies at Parsons School of Art in Paris.

I make photographic documents of my body interacting with spaces and objects, often extending the limits of the spaces that a body occupies, creating precarious extensions - situations that render the body more vulnerable. I am interested in how the object’s anthropomorphism is intensified as a result of my physical intervention, and equally how performing these particular kinds of actions can make the body appear more ‘object’. These are playful acts that attempt to disrupt any simplistic reading of the body as an unthinking, stable ‘thing’. My work is also an investigation into overlooked, peripheral, and unexplored spaces both physically and metaphorically- behind and underneath objects, or above the head. If I think of my work in relation to that of a dancer, I conceive of it as a kind of rough, untrained choreography: I choreograph the body in the same way as I would draw or make an object

Kevin Clarke, works for external relations at Wimbledon College of art. He is an illustrator and book designer.

Derrick Welsh

Every smartphone user has tinkered with a drawing app--it's a tiny jolt of fun, and it's somehow satisfying to see virtual paint spattering on a touchscreen beneath the fingertip. But is it art? Absolutely. But don't take my word for it: David Hockney says so.

In an interview a few days ago, the influential British artist, who played a key role in the Pop Art movement of the 1960s, professed his love for the iPhone--which apparently has its own mini wooden easel in his London studio. Specifically, he loves the creative options the phone offers, and he's got a new exhibition called Drawings in a Printing Machine that showcases digital artwork he's produced, on phones and also using computers and graphics tablets. "Who would ever have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?" was one interesting observation, before he launched into why the iPhone particularly earns his praise: "BlackBerries are for secretaries and clerical workers while the iPhone is used by artistic people."

Hockney's name alone makes his suggestion carry weight, but there's also news that another British artist is thinking along very similar lines. Derrick Welsh is so enthused with the idea that traditional drawing skills could get a renaissance thanks to the touchscreen phone that he's about to take a tour of the U.K. to promote smartphone art. His argument even goes further, suggesting that drawing messages, like enhanced SMSs, could be a new phenomenon for users and cellphone networks: "The touch has tipped, and drawing messaging is where touch leads [...] One day maybe the use of drawing will change as children grow up with drawing as an instant communication option."

Welsh has a slightly different opinion than Hockney about the hardware. He uses Nokia smartphones and the company's mobile sharing service Mosh to publicize his artwork, though he has modified an N95 so it can be controlled by a Wiimote for painting.

Both artists have a point--smartphone art has an immediacy borne of the fact that you take your phone everywhere. Hockney notes "I like to draw flowers by hand on the iPhone and send them out to friends so they get fresh flowers. And my flowers last! They never die!" The concept is also simple, and even my 7-month old baby has had a stab at it, enjoying the fact his fingers produce a mark (the lack of painty fingers to clean up is also appreciated.) While the screen sizes and resolutions of smartphones are limited, I suspect the smartphone art genre will remain a curio--but when big touchscreen devices like the CrunchPad or the much-rumored Apple Tablet hit the scene, making tablet PCs more popular, then things might change.

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