Reviews
Talking Prints
Charlene Clempson 6.30 pm , Wednesday 14th July
Lecture theatre 1 Victoria Building UCLAN
Charlene produces work in mixed media and print. She completed her Masters at Central Saint Martins and at presentshe is studying for a PhD at Loughborough University
.“My practice-based research aims to explore identity through connecting the objects I represent to memory and the classificatory systems in which they function. My project aims to catalogue and map some of my possessions, while the theory will explore concepts of classification, memory and identity (personal and social).
In my practice I am continually grappling with not only the notion of self, but the notion of what constitutes ‘making’and how it relates to ‘thinking’ and theory. If one hopes to marry the two together the lines, which separate them,seem hard to define. My activities take the role of an archivist who documents what we cannot see, making one’s memories tangible through cataloging. When the practice develops in the form of maps and documents, can this stillbe considered practice?”
After the talk you are invited for a glass of wine and the opportunity to meet the artist.
This project is a collaboration between Artlab Contemporary Print Studio and Lancashire Artist Network.
Talking Prints are sponsored by CADG
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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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Pete Clarke's review of URBAN EVOLUTION an exhibition of Prints by Anne Desmet Urban Evolution was recently shown at the Centre For Contemporary Art at UCLAN.
Anne Desmet is an established artist who specializes in wood engravings, linocuts and mixed-media collage. Her first major retrospective exhibition, Towers and Transformations, opened at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum in 1998. 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.
Please got to Urban Evolution Review
This review is to be included in the LAN e-newsletter it will also be included in the Western Australia Printmakers Journal along with
Tracy Hill's review of Bristol Impact conference and exhibition.
