NEW Visits and Workshop

Friday 25 March 2011: Susan Hiller: Curator’s talk

Tate Britain
13.00 – 14.00
Tickets cost £5
Tel 0207 887 8888 to book your ticket now
email jackiekbrown20a@gmail.com for details

Wednesday 30 March 2011: Modern British Sculpture at the Royal Academy of Arts

Curated by Penelope Curtis, Director of Tate Britain
Free talk at 2.30 Please arrive at 2pm
Entrance to exhibition £12 and £10 concessions
Buy ticket on the day
email moira.jarvis@btopenworld.com for details

Friday 11 March 2011: Life Drawing Workshop
Numbers are limited
10.30 – 1.30
email moira.jarvis@btopenworld.com for details

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Private View at Dulwich Library, 3rd November

On the morning of October 13th the selection panel met to choose the work for the fourth SLWA exhibition to be held  at Dulwich Library. It took Emily Druiff, Mella Shaw and Maria Chevska more than two hours to view over 130 images and choose the final 46 pieces to be displayed. By lunchtime the final decisions had been made and the work will be on show in the library from 31st October until 27th November.

The Private View is on the  3rd November  from 8 pm – 10 pm and the invitation is open to everyone.

Whether or not you have work in the show please show your support for the SLWA  by not only coming along yourself but by inviting as many people as possible to join us. The strength and continued growth of SLWA depends on greater exposure of the group and this is a responsibility that falls at the feet of every member.  An awful lot of work goes into organising these library  shows  so  please do your bit by distributing flyers and e-mailing invites. Every exhibition is a chance to raise our profile which obviously benefits all of us!

Can anyone help with making canapés for the Private View? If so please email art@paolaminekov.com

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LAUNCH MEETING OF THE SLWA SUB-GROUP

There’s been a lot of interest in the formation of a Painting Sub-group and to make the idea a reality I’d like to invite you to come and pool ideas about what we want the group to do and how we are going to achieve the goals.
The meeting is on Monday 11th October 2010 at 7pm at 214 Acre Lane, SW2 5UG.
Buses 35,37,137,417, P5
Underground Clapham North, Clapham Common, Brixton.

SLWA has many painters in it’s membership so I need to have an idea of numbers.  Please let me know if you are coming and any contributions to the agenda would be welcome.
Chrissy Thirlaway

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2nd SLWA critique

Jackie Brown will be hosting the second critique in the series of three. It will be on the evening of 12th November 2010. More Information to come but put it in your diary now.

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SLWA critique hosted by Jane Higginbottom

I would like to invite members of SLWA to a critique at my studio on Tuesday 28th September. This will be the week after our Open Studios weekend so it will be a chance to view and discuss my work in a reasonably tidy space. People are also invited to bring a piece of their own work for discussion.

This will be an informal and friendly discussion and there may even be some wine left over from the Open Studios.

The address is 330 studios, St James Road, SE1 5JX  – please see website for a map but it is very close to PC world on the Old Kent Road. 330studios.co.uk

It will be 6.30 for 7 until 9pm.

This is part of a series of three critiques of work which I feel have some empathy, particularly in the use of material.The other artists will be Jackie Brown and Sarah Willet whose critques will be later in the year.

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!Book Now! SLWA visits New Hall & Cambridge

Maggi Hambling Rising Wave

A chance to see Maggi Hambling’s work twice in one day… 12 people have now booked but there’s space for more…

SLWA VISIT TO THE NEW HALL COLLECTION OF WOMEN’S ART – CAMBRIDGE
Sunday 25 July

350 contemporary works by women artists
The most significant collection of its kind in Europe
Works by Maggi Hambling, Barbara Hepworth, Paula Rego and Rebecca Fortnum
Given or donated to New Hall, Cambridge, still a women only college.
Works displayed throughout this modernist 1960s building.
http://www-art.newhall.cam.ac.uk/

SLWA visit includes a 90 minute guided tour by the curator
Amanda Rigler, who visited our Bankside exhibition.
SLWA Katherine Jones’ prints on display as the temporary exhibition.

OPTIONS FOR THE AFTERNOON
Kettle’s Yard house and Gallery
Exhibition – The Long Dark – Medievalism in contemporary art
By 9 emerging British and German artists.

Fitzwilliam Museum
Exhibition – Maggi Hambling: The Wave, a powerful group of large-scale paintings depicting the power and energy of the North Sea.
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/index.html

Cambridge – colleges, river, nice pubs ………

TIMING: Kings Cross station 10.04
Meet at 9.50, usually platform 9 check the board.
Arrive Cambridge 11.12. Taxis to New Hall
Curator’s tour 11.30-13.00.
Lunch – local pub
Afternoon – your choice
Train 17.04 arrives Kings Cross 18.19 or choose your own departure time.

COST: Book ahead at fixed times with Rail Easy – £20 return
Shared taxis to New Hall- £2 (buses a pain)
New Hall tour by curator -£3, includes tea and coffee.

Optional
Kettle’s Yard, House free, exhibition £3.

PLEASE CONFIRM IF YOUR ARE COMING SO THAT WE CAN NOTIFY NEW HALL
BOOK YOUR OWN TRAIN TICKET.
Email:jennysweeney@sweeneycourt.co.uk

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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

JUNE 28 2010, 7 FOR 7.15PM
THE LINBURY ROOM, DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY
COME AND CELEBRATE

A fantastic exhibition at Bankside

A fantastic year – 100 members, guest members and a waiting list

GREAT PROFILE – GREAT SALES – GREAT DEVELOPMENT

 WHAT NEXT?

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SLWA Knowledge Sale

For more details of events for SLWA members click here

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PPD – a reminder of Monday’s talk with Angela Schütz

At this busy time of year, as we prepare for the Christmas break – traditionally a time of activity followed by a period of reflection – we welcome your attendance to hear our third speaker Angela Schütz, who will be asking us to examine the creative process itself.

CREATIVITY AND THE CREATIVE BLOCK

Angela Schütz, a practising artist and psychosynthesis counsellor will present a psycho-spiritual view of creativity and the creative block. Using examples from her own artwork she will be sharing her personal experience as well as inviting us to reflect on our own art practice and to gain a deeper insight into the creative process and what makes it flow.

“Creativity is being in the world soulfully, for the only thing we truly make, whether in the arts, in culture or at home, is soul.”
Thomas Moore

Looking forward to January: on Monday 18th Edward Birch of the Southwark Arts Forum will start our SLWA year off by encouraging us to get out of our studios and work places and reap the benefits of networking. Also, gleaned from time spent at the Arts Council, Edward will give his top tips for making succesful funding appliactions.

We look forward to seeing lots of members and friends at these talks.

Best wishes,
Laura and Liz

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URGENT NEWS: PPD NOV 2nd TALK CHANGED TO NOV 4th

Please note that the next talk, scheduled to take place on November 2nd, is now going to take place on WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 4TH, same time, same place.

We hope those of you who said you could come on the 2nd will still be able to attend, and hope that those of you who have Monday evening commitments will now be able to come and hear Althea Greenan speak about contemporary women’s artistic practice.  A reminder that she will bring material from the Women’s Art Library,

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