Art Student Conference
Meet the Artist – a Timeline students' conference.
Overview I Conference Programme I Artists I Dates and Locations I Booking
Overview
This unique day provides GCSE and post 16 Art and Design students with an exciting opportunity to gain valuable insights into the work of internationally renowned artists.
Students will be able to:
- view slide presentations of the artists' work
- meet the artists and have question and answer sessions
- listen to the artists talk about their inspiration and their working methods
- gain motivation for further work and research as part of the critical and contextual requirements of all examination specifications
- purchase books, booklets and postcards of the artists' work
If you would like a copy of the conference flyer, please click here.
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Conference programme
10:50 - Welcome and introduction
11:00 - First artist's presentation
11:45 - Questions and answers
12:15 - Lunch and a chance to purchase resources
13:15 - Introduction to afternoon session
13:20 - Second artist's presentation
14:05 - Questions and answers
14:35 - Closing remarks and a chance to purchase resources
The conference will end no later than 14:50
Students are asked to bring their own lunches and refreshments
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Artists
Peter Randall-Page
Peter Randall-Page is one of Britain 's leading sculptors. His sculpture, drawings and prints are exhibited widely in the UK and abroad, and he has undertaken numerous large-scale commissions. His work reflects the tension between the geometric order and the chaotic form found in nature. Nowhere is this more apparent that in his South Korean sculpture ‘Sung-Woon' (cloud of stars), which uses a naturally eroded boulder, onto which is superimposed a Fibonacci sequence. The design, which has to adapt and distort to accommodate the random shape of the stone, relates to the natural growth patterns of plants. For his work at the Eden Project, Peter has drawn attention to how the plant world has nourished the human spirit and imagination, and how botanical imagery has been incorporated into architecture. The result is a unique collaboration where concept and form, object and structure, architecture and art are inextricably linked .
Anthony Frost
As the son of Sir Terry Frost, it was perhaps inevitable that Anthony Frost would become a painter. The vividly coloured abstract paintings on which he has built his international reputation reflect his outgoing, enthusiastic personality. His work is an intricate mix of the straightforward and the complex, and his inspiration comes from an eclectic mix of sources - music, pictures, photos, books…. Recurrent motifs in many of his works, such as the zig zag, often find their inspiration in accidental occurrences, such as the patterns suggested by hanging existing paintings in close proximity. The development of each Frost painting is a blend of conscious planning and random events. An overheard spoken phrase or run of notes can have a significant effect on a work in progress, with Anthony blending chance material with conscious choices to create his art. For Anthony, the process of creating a painting is one in which everything counts and nothing is wasted.
David Kemp
David Kemp is one of Britain's best-known artists, with many large-scale outdoor works: ‘The Navigators', a bronze and steel kinetic water feature at London Bridge; ‘Post-Industrial Giants' on Durham Moor, giant heads of a coal miner and an iron master built from obsolete 200,000 volt industrial transformer casings; ‘Brian's Brain' at The Lowry, where visitors climb a walkway to explore the interior of a giant brain. What others throw away or abandon, David turns into art that is literally breathtaking in its imaginative use of materials, its ingenuity and its humour. He challenges the accepted notion of what is useful, forcing us to confront the effects of our wasteful consumer society. David's sketchbooks reveal the full process of his creative thinking, containing detailed notes, instructions, and explanations of how his finished pieces will look, how they will be used, how they relate to their surroundings and the effects that they will have on those experiencing them. For more than 20 years, David has lived and worked on the exposed Atlantic coast of west Cornwall , inspired by the natural landscape and by the remains of the tin mining industry carried out there since medieval times.
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Dates and locations Spring 2006
Southampton : 22 March David Kemp and Anthony Frost
Brighton : 23 March David Kemp and Anthony Frost
London : 24 March David Kemp and Anthony Frost
Oxford : 27 March David Kemp and Peter Randall-Page
Birmingham : 28 March David Kemp and Peter Randall-Page
Manchester : 29 March David Kemp and Peter Randall-Page
Leeds : 30 March David Kemp and Peter Randall-page
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Booking
Please let us know how many staff and student spaces you would like to provisionally reserve. We will send you an initial booking confirmation, which you can return to us when you are more certain of your numbers.
To reserve a place on the conference, or to receive any further information:
- Phone us on 0121 686 5120
- Fax us on 0121 686 5121
- Click here to send us an email
- Click here for an online booking form
Once we have received your information, we will contact you by post to confirm your booking.
Conference fee £19.50 (plus VAT). One free staff place per 10 students.
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