!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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*SLWA Special Offer* Your Own Website for £150

A website is an invaluable tool for showcasing your art and enabling collectors and galleries to follow your work.

Catherine Fraher, SLWA’s website editor, is offering straightforward websites for artists at a special reduced rate of £150 until July 31st 2010.*

Includes: 
* Up to 6 pages with…
   – Lots of images of your work
   – Any amount of text
      eg. your statement, CV, reviews of your shows, catalogue copy from your shows, your articles, and so on
* Good results on Google
* Website address of your choice (.co.uk)
* Links to SLWA websites, and any others you wish

For examples of Catherine’s work see the SLWA Showcase or SLWA Members website or the website of Irish artist, Pamela Hardesty.

For more details, contact Catherine at: catherinefraher@hotmail.co.uk
(* £150 offer open to SLWA members and their friends until July 31st 2010. )

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Can YOU predict the future of Art? – BBC’s Culture Show questionnaire

[Ed: BBC invites SLWA to participate in their survey on the future of art. Survey closes 4th June 2010.]

Ben Lewis and The Culture Show are attempting to gather the opinions of the art world in order to predict what the next age for contemporary art might be. Madness you say? Not necessarily.

Social science has been used for over half a century to assess and measure attitudes – by governments, psychologists, industries, marketing, political scientists, sociologists, etc. but not as yet by the art world. For an upcoming episode of The Culture Show, themed around science and art, presenter and art critic Ben Lewis will be applying the science of psychometrics to assessing people’s attitudes towards the future of art.

Will we find anything out? Only you can help us with that. Here is the link to it: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/F3XRNBF
Please send our questionnaire on to your fellow art world insiders, colleagues, students. Not just that, please complete it yourself! We will close the questionnaire a calendar month from now and need as many people as possible to take part.

Many thanks in advance for your time.
The Culture Show

BBC Arts, MC5 A3, BBC Media Centre, White City, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12 7TQ
e: culture.show@bbc.co.uk
t: +44 (0)20 8008 1826 f: +44 (0)20 8752 6635
www.bbc.co.uk/cultureshow

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SLWA talk: Rebecca Fortnum on Contemporary British Women Artists, Monday 17th May 6.30 – 8.30 pm

During her Arts and Humanities Research Council [AHRC] research project Rebecca Fortnum interviewed an important and influential sample of British women artists practicing internationally today. Her interviews and reflections were published as ‘Contemporary British Women Artists: in their own words’, (I.B. Tauris 2006).

The book is insightful and entertaining. It documents the thoughts, influences and processes of Jananne Al-Ani, Gillian Ayres, Claire Barclay, Christine Borland, Sonia Boyce, Maria Chevska, Tacita Dean, Tracey Emin, Anya Gallaccio, Lucy Gunning, Jane Harris, Runa Islam, Vanessa Jackson, Emma Kay, Tanya Kovats, Maria Lalic, Hayley Newman, Paula Rego and Jemima Stehli and Tomoko Takahashi.

Rebecca will talk about the book with SLWA.

Monday 17th May 6.30 – 8.30 pm.
Upstairs room at Dulwich Library.
Members and friends: £5 on the door. Non-members: £8.

Rebecca Fortnum read English at Corpus Christi College, Oxford before gaining an MFA from Newcastle University and taking up a fellowship at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, USA. She has received numerous awards throughout her career as a visual artist and has a distinguished history of teaching in the arts, in Britain and the USA. She is currently Course Director of MA Fine Art (Visual Arts) at Cambwerwell College of Arts.

To buy the book on Amazon click here>

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SLWA talk: “Rights for Artists” Monday 19th April

Rights for Artists – an introduction to copyright, moral rights and Artist’s Resale Rights

SLWA talk Monday 19 April 6.30 – 8.30 pm at Dulwich Library. Arrive for 6.15pm.‏

Presented by Christian Zimmermann, Legal & Business Affairs Manager at DACS, this talk
will cover general copyright issues relevant to artists and explore how you can generate income, for example through collecting royalties (such as Artist’s Resale Right).
It will help you to avoid pitfalls and subsequently costs when, for example, using other people’s photographs in your artwork or collaborating with a partner or models.

The presentation will last approximately 45 minutes and will be followed by questions and answers.

Members and friends £5 on the door. £8 non-members

Best wishes, Joanne Milmoe DACS

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SLWA “the book” – Bankside catalogue on sale now

You can now order the SLWA catalogue for our Bankside show.
Many thanks to Eithne Twomey for sterling work producing the catalogue – it’s a glorious SLWA First!

The catalogue is available by clicking here>
It’s a 38 page full colour, soft-cover book showing every image from the Bankside Show.

It is also available in hardback.
Single copies (soft cover) are £10.98, including postage to London.

Before ordering, do check out the pricing and shipping details – you can save money by ordering larger quantities.

Find out how to produce your own books and catalogues at blurb.com

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*SOCIAL* Foundling Museum – Emin, Rego, Collishaw – Saturday 24 April 11am

I would like to suggest our 4th social event for 24 April 2010 – to see Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin & Paula Rego: At the Foundling in Brunswick Square, London.

As the Guardian describes it: A remarkable show at Britain’s first home for abandoned children, featuring artists Tracey Emin, Paula Rego and Mat Collishaw. They are responding to the museum’s history touched on experiences that are painfully close to home – from Emin’s abortive pregnancies to Rego’s relationship with her mother. (See more at the end of this post)

We will meet outside the museum on April 24th at 11am.

After the exhibition we can have a light lunch or cream tea in their cafe (Coram Cafe) I will reserve a table for us all!

Admission prices:Adults: £7.50// concessions £5 // Art Fund members and children up to 16 years FREE(If there is 15 people interested we will get a group rate discount of £5 per adult)

Please let me know you will be attending and want to join the lunch table afterwards by emailing me on: jab.desenfans@virgin.net
Please also let me know if you are an Art Fund member

With thanks Look forward from hearing from you!
Julie X

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Save Our Development Talks!

RSVP by email to Laura at enquiries@lauramoretongriffiths.com

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SLWA at Dulwich Library and the Pavilion Café, Dulwich Park 28 February to 27 March

Final date for submissions – 12 February.

The Selection panel is – Mella Shaw, artist and Head of Exhibitions at Dulwich Picture Gallery, Frances Borzello, writer, and Pippa Graber, of Art Dog Gallery, who will also be curating the show.
Read on to find out more about their backgrounds…

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Top tips from the Bankside workshop: How you can help publicise the exhibition

#1 Add the strap line to your email signature

Think how many emails we are all going to send by May! Free publicity to thousands!
Do it now! Make your email signature:

www.southlondonwomenartists.co.uk showcase comes to town.
Bankside Gallery 28 April – 3 May: Discover, Decide, Buy

To find out how to do this put “signature” into the Help search box of your email and follow the instructions.

#2 Promote the exhibition on your own website

Include the exhibition dates and a link to SLWA’s website:

Wednesday April 28th – Monday May 3rd 2010. Open daily 11-6pm
http://www.southlondonwomenartists.co.uk/bankside

Look out for more tips and Bankside news in the coming weeks

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