News/Forthcoming Events
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, Chesney’s 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 artist’s 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
http://www.ysp.co.uk/view.aspx?id=702
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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, 18.30–20.00
Peter Kardia was a radical and controversial teacher at both St Martin’s 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 Kardia’s
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:
17th 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 please go to link below
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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.
NIH subsequently 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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artlab Timetable for 2010 Winter Term
20th January- Rebecca Chesney Artist talk. 7pm print studio
27th January- Martha Oatway. Artist talk.7pm. Print studio
3rd February- Lubaina Himid Writing a proposal/professional development. Session 1. 5.30pm start
10th February- Talking Prints – Keith Brown. 6.30pm
Professor of Sculpture and Digital Technologies at MMU. Keith Brown is one of the foremost digital sculptors currently working in Europe. He has made regular representations at an international level as a contributor to, and organiser of, symposia and exhibitions in electronic and digital art.
12th February – Jason Hicklin masterclass in viscosity printing. 10am until 4pm. £40/£30 students (Limited places booking is essential.)
17th February- Lubaina Himid Writing a proposal/professional development. Session 2. 5.30pm start
24th February- Lubaina Himid Writing a proposal/professional development. Session 3. 5.30pm start
3rd March – Talking Prints . Katherine Jones. 3 6.30pm
Katherine is the current printmaking fellow at the City and Guilds of London Art School and was recently awarded the London Print Studio Award 2009, the T N Lawrence and Son print prize 2009, the Oriel Wrexham - Intaglio Printmaker Award 2009, the Northern Print Biennale Solution Group Prize 2009 and the East London Printmakers Great Art Prize 2009.
31st March - Making a Print Portfolio with Lisa Wigham 6-9pm
-Trade secrets from the Two am Press
In this workshop we will make a print portfolio to your own requirements of size (with a maximum of 20”x15”) to get you started on designing and creating your own custom made cases for artists’ books or sets of prints.
Workshop £18 per person
5th May – Gerry Baptist. Talking Prints guest. 6.30pm
Gerry Baptist was born in Lahore in 1935 of British and Portuguese parents. Educated in both India and England, he believes that the common thread of strong colour and energy that has been woven into his work throughout his career emerged from the vivid images and magical colours that accompanied his childhood in India.
He has been exhibiting regularly since 1993 at Galleries such as The Royal Academy, The Medici and Mark Jason Fine Art, Workplace Art in London, The Pump Gallery in Dorking, John Davies Fine Paintings in Stow, Lucy Simmonds in Hong Kong and other galleries in San Francisco, Frankfurt, Toronto and NY.
*In May there will be a chance to book a tutorial with Lubaina Himid dates and times will be bookable in the new year.
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