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New Work By Tracy Hill

Wed 6th to wed 13 October 2010

You are warmly invited to join me in the viewing of my new works atThe Centre for Contemporary Art in Preston.

The works will be shown over a three week period as a changing installation with two informal private viewing opportunities on the

following dates:

Weds 6^th October between 12.30-2pm

Weds 13^th October between 5-8pm

You are welcome to visit the space and view the works outside of these dates on a Wednesday or Thursday but viewing is by appointment

only on a Friday.

Please call: 07971 594 338 or email SWalsh5@uclan.ac.uk

Centre for Contemporary Art, 37 St Peters Street,University of Central Lancashire, Preston.

Please follow link to see map:

http://www.uclan.ac.uk/information/uclan/how_to_find_us/preston_campus_map.php

The nearest parking is the pay and display car park on Adelphi Street, alternative parking is available in the town centre with a short walk up Friargate.

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Elizabeth Cousins Scottnew show 'Bending theLine

Elizabeth is one of our current resident Artists on the AA2A and some of the work she has been making in our printmaking studios is included in this show.

Elizabeth'swork has alsobeen selected for the front of the invitation which is a huge honour for such a diverse and international show.

Bending the Line: 62 Group

3 July 14 August (Closed 16 -19 July)

See press releaseInvite image

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May June 2010

Magda Stawarska Beavan

Artist Magda Stawarska- Beavan based in the School of Creative and Performing Arts, has succesfully had four of her works selected for

the prestigious InternationalPrint Triennial in Vienna 2010.

The exhibition will be opened in Knstlerhaus in Vienna from 6 May to 13 June 2010.

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Rebecca Chesney

Artist Rebecca Chesney begins a year long residency at YSP, researching the bees and plants of the Bretton Estate to develop new work. With the help of experts and visitors, Chesneys residency also draws attention to the plight of bees. Bees are under great threat and their disappearance would have a catastrophic effect on nature and humans.

The artists previous projects, which look at changing environments and human activity, have resulted in exhibitions of drawings, photographs, installations and films.

The YSP Centre display includes further information, ways to become involved in the project and a virtual hive. YSP Centre from 6 March

For more info on Rebecca's residency and project go to link below

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Bee Project blog

www.rebeccachesney.com

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Gerry Baptist - Talking Prints Lecture Theatre 1 Victoria Building Uclan Wednesday 5 May 6.30 pm

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Ink-Coherant

Artlab Contemporary Print Studios statement for The Harris Stairway.

ArtLab Contemporary Print Studio is a group of artists from across the North West who use the printmaking facilities at The University of Central Lancashire to develop their knowledge and skills in printmaking.

The member artists are from a range of backgrounds and disciplines, for some of them printmaking is the core oftheirartisticdevelopment and for others the print studio enhances their practice in different disciplines. Artlab Contemporary Print Studios creates an environment where members can engage in debate and investigation into contemporary research and strategies.

Ink-Coherant is an exhibition of works which are a response by artists of Artlab Contemporary Print Studiosto The Harris Museum and Art Gallery. Each of the works on show relates to either something held in the collections or is a direct response to the environment of the Harris Museum and Art Gallery itself.

21 Apr - 26 June

Images from the opening of Ink-Coherant at Harris Museum and Art Gallery Preston

For more images of the Ink Coherant opening at the Harris Museum and Art gallery please

visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonyknox/4541604189/in/set-72157623908010584/

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Katherine Jones - Talking Prints

You are invited to join us for Talking Prints lecture by Katherine Jones. Katherine is the
current printmaking fellow at the City and Guilds of London Art School and works
with traditional forms of printmaking in conjunction with drawing and watercolour.
The visual vocabulary in the latest series of prints is based around a recurring greenhouse
motif that simultaneously represents nurture, protection and suffocation. These archetypal
house shapes are subverted structurally and contextually, frail and peculiar structures
emit otherworldly light to suggest a mysterous or unexpected

The talk will take place on Wednesday 6.30 pm, 3rd of March in Victoria 1, Lecture
Theatre at University of Central Lancashire.

After the lecture there will be an opportunity to meet the artist in the printmaking
studios where the networking event will take place.
The talk is free for Arlatlab members, students and LAN members. For outside public
the cost of the attendance is 5.

Places are restricted so it is essential to book,
please contact Celia Cross mail@celia-cross.co.uk

This project is a collaboration between ArtLab and Lancashire Artist Network (LAN)
and is funded by CADG in association with University of Central Lancashire.

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Keith Brown - FROM FLOOR TO SKY

Peter Kardia From Floor to Sky

Education and Research Practice in the Visual Arts Wednesday 10 March 2010, 18.3020.00

Peter Kardia was a radical and controversial teacher at both St Martins and the Royal College of Art during the 1960s and 1970s.

Featuring artists and art educators,this discussion will examine contemporary art pedagogy and consider the continued impact of Kardias

A major exhibition curated by Peter Kardia bringing together early and recent work by some of the most significant British artists of our time in the

vast subterranean gallery of Ambika P3 in London

For more informationon From Floor To Sky see PDF

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An Introduction to book arts with Michelle Rowley

Michelle leads book art projects at the Wirral Metropolitan College and Wrexham Regional Print Center. She is a founder member of Hot Bed and has a book of her own in the Tate Collection.

Michelle will be in the Print studio on:

17^th March 2010

Artist Talk in Lecture theatre 1

10am- 11am

Free to all students and artists wishing to attend but must book a place as seating is limited.

Followed by one day course in Print studio from

11am 4.30pm

Cost 30

Michelle will teach you simple folding techniques developing ideas about design, sequence, form and visual content. She will look at suitable papers for book arts as well as handling and sewing papers.

Artists taking part should bring along some of their own original print works for recycling into artist books.

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Henckel & Ramsdale investigators
Art lab : David Henckel . Ruth Alice Ramsdale
Curator Tony Knox

Incubation Gallery, 4th Floor, media factory.
University of Central Lancashire Preston,
PR1 2HE

David Henckel
My work is informed by the personality of everyday objects. Through a playful process of sampling and automatic drawing I combine elements of vegetation, science fiction, furniture, architecture, vehicles and other stuff to create characters and forms with absurd and comic tendencies. Continual invention and humour is important to me and I enjoy the challenge of creating new characters based on a loose set of rules. As well as using finished drawings to create a painting I am also interested in using elements from my drawings as inspiration lines, scratches and half forms. These pieces, or micro samples, I think of as quantum soup, packets of information, genes or tiny building blocks of unlimited potential. Currently Henckel is artist in residence at UCLAN where he is exploring these ideas in printmaking.

Ruth Alice Ramsdale
I feel that I am physically involved with the intricacies of Mother Nature; everyday she amazes me with something new.
Her reclamation of mankind is overpowering, relaxing, it makes me feel safe to know how small I am. I know I can never compete with her creativity, her attention to detail, her intricate growth, yet I will keep trying. Always walking one step behind her knowing that I am her creation but because of that I will never pass her. My prints are my creation, my expression of my world and the outcome of my investigations.
www.davidhenckel.com

9 Feb - 9 April 2010

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Talking Prints A Lecture by Keith Brown Wednesday, February 10th 6:30 pm Victoria Building , UCLAN

Talking Prints is a gem of an idea. Organized by Artlab in collaboration with the Lancashire Artists Network (LAN) and funded by CADG, it strives to bring the best of contemporary printmaking to the northwest. Master printers from across the UK are invited to show and discuss their work with an emphasis on current research and new technological developments.

As a printmaker and temporary transplant to Preston from the United States , Talking Prints is the perfect way to familiarize myself with contemporary UK printmaking practices and at times be completely inundated with new ideas and concepts.

To read more from Keith Browns Lecture and to see images pleasego to link below

Pdf for full text

News/Forthcoming Events

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Martha Oatway DNA#12

Congratulations to Artlab member Martha Oatway who has this week been contacted by Project Manager of the Medical Arts section of NIH (National Institute Human Genome Research Institute) to purchase four of her prints.

Martha previously exhibited work at the University campus of the National Institutes of Health in Washington, DC two years ago after the curator had visited her website and wanted large prints relating to DNA and maths.The prints were selected to hang outside the office of the new director of the NIH, Dr. Francis Collins. Dr. Collins served as the first director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the NIH from 1993-2008.

NIHsubsequently purchased three prints, one of which is an illustration of her daughter's PhD thesis. The mother and daughter collaboration is hanging in a research library on the campus.

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Talking Prints - Keith Brown

You are invited to join us for Talking Prints lecture by Keith Brown. Keith Brown is professor of
Sculpture at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has made regular representations at an
international level as a contributor to, and organiser of, symposia and exhibitions in electronic
and digital art. Recently exhibiting in China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, USA,
Africa, France, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Austria and the UK, he is gaining
international acclaim as a pioneer and leader in his field.

Keith Brown will be talking about his work and research as a contemporary artist using
printmaking in relationship to his sculptural work.
The talk will take place on Wednesday 6.30 pm, 10th of February in Greenbank Lecture
Theatre at University of Central Lancashire.

After the lecture there will be an opportunity to meet the artist in the printmaking studios
where the networking event will take place.

The talk is free for Arlatlab members, students and LAN members. For outside public the cost
of the attendance is 5

This project is a collaboration between ArtLab and Lancashire Artist Network (LAN)
To book please contact Celia Cross mail@celia-cross.co.uk
This project is funded by CADG in association with University of Central Lancashire

See PDF version

Keith Brown Lecture

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Printing with Jason Hicklin.RE

Jason once again joins us in the print studio at UCLAN to share his printing secrets.

Jason will cover preparation techniques, how to mix Intaglio inks to achieve the perfect range of tones, how to use viscosity inks and apply them

to produce multi-coloured prints at one stroke.

These techniques will revolutionise your printing practice.

Join Jason on February 12^th for his

Master class in printing.

10am-4pm

Cost 40 /30 students

Places are limited so booking is essential.

Email:THill@UCLAN.ac.uk

Tel: 01772893193

Images from Master Class

See PDF version

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Anne Desmet PDF version

URBAN EVOLUTION

30th Nov - 18th December 2009

University of Central Lancashire, Preston

Centre For Contemporary Art 37 St peters Street (opposite library)

and

Vice Chancellor's Reception Adelphi Building (top floor), UCLAN

Opportunity to meet the artist at the Centre For Contemporary Art

Wednesday 2nd December

12 - 2pm and 4.30 - 6pm

Opening times Monday to Friday 10am to 4pm.

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Talking Prints: ANNE DESMET

Wednesday 2^nd of December, 6.30 pm at Greenbank lecture theatre, UCLan PDF version

This is a collaborative project between UClan staff/ Artlab and Lancashire Artist Network (LAN) to promote the traditions and contemporary developments in Printmaking to a wider audience in the North West.

The talk is open to UCLan students, ArtLab Contemporary Print Studio and LAN members.

To reserve your place email Celia Cross: mail@celia-cross.co.uk

Anne Desmet is an established artist who specializes in wood engravings, linocuts and mixed-media collage.

Her latest major museum exhibition, Anne Desmet - Urban Evolution, opened at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, this year and is currently touring the UK. 20 international awards include an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Canada, Award (2007); and a Pollock/ Krasner Foundation, USA, Award (1998. Her work is in museum collections worldwide. Since 1998 she has been editor of Printmaking Today; she is co-author of Handmade Prints - an introduction to creative printmaking without a press.

Her work is represented by Hart Gallery, London, UK.