Art, Design & Architecture

Dr. Bernadette Blair was invited to attend, as a keynote speaker, the International Design Education Forum of South Africa (DEFSA) conference in Johannesburg this month.  The conference was held in the Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture of the University of Johannesburg (UJ).  This was the 6^th DEFSA conference and was entitled ‘20/20 Design Vision’ celebrating the 20th year of this organization.  The conference was attended by delegates from many African countries and also other international institutions.

Bernadette’s presentation reflected on the last two decades where we have seen the designer’s role and brief broaden. She discussed how with the introduction of the personal computer, the Internet and wireless technology and social networking, designers /academics have experienced dramatic changes, especially in their rapport with space, time, the physicality of objects, and themselves as individuals. Her presentation focused on how, with the expansion in student numbers and a reducing resource in Higher Education, the studio-based design pedagogic community is responding and adapting its teaching and learning methodologies in response to these rapid developments and is effectively utilising feedback opportunities to inform curriculum and student’ understanding and equipping them for the profession they are entering.

Bernadette also toured FADA at UJ and discussed with academic staff and the dean of faculty  shared practice and developments.  Kingston’s reputation for art, design and architecture is well known.  The links made will be furthered by a visit from the Dean of FADA UJ to Kingston University later in the year and will hopefully lead to further opportunities for collaboration in the future.

Picture gallery of the conference can be viewed at

http://www.defsa.org.za/e107_plugins/autogallery/autogallery.php?show=2011_Conference

The Stanley Picker Fellowships at Kingston University have developed into a remarkable magnet for some truly international contemporary artists and designers, whose work can be seen right now across the globe.

Shown first at the Stanley Picker Gallery in the Spring, Design Fellow Ab Rogers now opens his exhibition “A Day in the Life of Ernesto Bones” in China as part of Beijing Design Week. The narrative installation of the fictitious Ernesto Bones, originally inspired by objects from the real Picker House on Kingston Hill, and made in collaboration with Faculty students, will this time reside in a house in the Dashilar area of Beijing, part of the historic region south of Tiananmen Square. A new book in Mandarin and English, with an introduction by Gallery Director David Falkner, is being published to accompany the exhibition.

The Gallery is very proud to announce two exciting new Fellowship appointments for 2011 with artist Andy Holden and designer Marloes ten Bhömer.

Currently showing in The Power of Making at the V&A Museum, Marloes ten Bhömer’s work (pictured above) consistently aims to challenge generic typologies of women’s shoes through experiments with non-traditional technologies and material techniques.

Andy Holden, nominated by Mark Leckey in the current 20th anniversary edition of Frieze as one of 20 contemporary artists to watch, makes work that incorporates a wide variety of media and forms of presentation, from plaster, bronze and ceramic objects, to music, performance and large outdoor sculpture.

Andy and Marloes join current Fellows Matthew Darbyshire, Daniel Eatock and Martin Westwood – whose own Stanley Picker Gallery exhibition launches here on 5 October – to begin developing their future projects over the coming months at the Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture.

Information about all our exhibitions, events, news and participatory activities can be found on the brand new Gallery website at www.stanleypickergallery.org

COURSE START DATES:

School of Fine Art
MA Art & Space
MA European Art Practice
MA Fine Art with Learning & Teaching in Higher Education
MA Photography
MA Experimental Film
Monday 3 October 2011, 10.30am, Knights Park Campus

The Design School
(formerly the School of Communication Design and the School of 3D Design)
MA Design: Product & Space
MA Fashion
MA Production Design for Film & Television
MA Design: Health & Wellbeing
MA Fashion Journalism
MA Curating Contemporary Design
MA Design for Development
MA Design with Learning & Teaching in Higher Education
Monday 3 October 2011, 10.30am, Knights Park Campus

Communication Design Programme
MA/MFA Communication Design – Illustration & Animation
MA/MFA Communication Design – Graphic Design
MA/MFA Communication Design – Motion Graphics
MA/MFA Communication Design – Drawing for Creative Process
Monday 3 October 2011, 10.30am, Knights Park Campus

Digital Media Suite
MA/MSc Games Development
MA/MSc User Experience Design
MA/MSc 3D Computer Generated Imaging
Wednesday 21 September 2011, 11.00am, Knights Park Campus

School of Art & Design History
MA Art & Design History
MA Museum & Gallery Studies
MA Professional Practice (Design)
MA Heritage (Contemporary Practice)
Monday 3 October 2011, 10.30am, Knights Park Campus

School of Surveying & Planning
MA Art Market Appraisal
MA Planning & Sustainability
MSc Quantity Surveying
MSc Building Surveying
MSc Historic Building Conservation
MA Sustainable Place Making and Urban Design
MA/MSc Sustainability for Built Environment Practice
MSc Real Estate
MSc Real Estate (Development)
MSc Real Estate (Sustainable Asset Management)
Wednesday 21 September 2011, 9.00am, Penrhyn Road Campus

ENROLMENT:

Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture Postgraduate (MA) students enrol on: Friday 7 October 2011 from 3pm – 6pm

Except for the following courses:
Postgraduate Surveying & Planning (School of Surveying & Planning)
Postgraduate Digital Media Suite (Design School)
MA Fashion Journalism
Postgraduate Teaching & Learning (MA Fine Art with Learning & Teaching and MA Design with Learning & Teaching)
who enrol on: Wednesday 21 September 2011, 1pm – 4pm

Research Students (PhD, MPhil, MSc by Research) enrol on Friday 7 October 2011, 1-3pm

Room PRJG0004 on the ground floor of the John Galsworthy building on the Penrhyn Road campus.

International, European or Exchange students who have attended face to face enrolment on 13 or 14 September 2011, and are now a fully enrolled current student, are not required to attend any further enrolment dates. 

Paul Stafford ARBS and Brian McCann ARBS have been invited to participate in the inaugural exhibition at Gallery Different, a prestigious new commercial gallery in the heart of FItzrovia at 14 Percy Street, Lonon W1T 1DR.

Internationally renowned sculptor David Begbie has recently opened this brand new space and asked Paul and Brian to form part of his ‘stable’ of gallery artists.  Paul and Brian will be taking part in a group show from the 8 of September – 8 October 2011 along with 6 other artists. Private view: 14 September 2011.  Strictly invite only.

With established gallery connections in New York and Italy Gallery Different plans to show the work of its London based Artists in both Italy and New York in the future. Please visit www.gallerydifferent.co.uk for more information.

A Kingston graduate has been named in Creative Review magazine’s September graduate special as one of five young talents to watch.

James Huse, who graduated in Graphic Design and Photography, has already won a yellow D&AD pencil and a Best New Blood award for his design work. He told Creative Review: “The thing that keeps me interested in any project is always having something new to learn.”

Course Director Rebecca Wright said that James was driven by intense curiosity about the world around him. “His remarkable photography bridges the disciplines of art and science in their scrutiny of the physical properties of things. He is an exciting designer whose innovative approach has already won him a ‘Best in Show’ award at the prestigious D&AD New Blood exhibition in June.”

An image from James’s ‘An Abrupt End’ – a series of photos of an exploding, milk-filled balloon created with fellow Kingston graduates Josh Eaton and Steven Keylock – was chosen for the magazine’s cover.

All FADA Undergraduate Students start date in the Faculty is: MONDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 2011
All School of Surveying & Planning Undergraduate Students – 9.30am at Penrhyn Road Campus
All other Undergraduate courses in the Faculty – 10.30am Knights Park Campus

All new students should look to the following website to find out everything you need to know now that you’ve chosen Kingston University:  http://www.kingston.ac.uk/gettingready

Information includes:  confirmation and enrolment, getting ready to study, Freshers’ Week, accommodation, information for international students and fees and bursaries.

Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture specific information can be found at:  http://www.kingston.ac.uk/gettingready/fada   

New students should follow up their enrolment emails and undertake the first stage of enrolment online before arriving at Kingston University.

Senior Lecturer at Kingston University Pascal Anson has this week found out that his concept for the British Airways livery for the Olympic Games in London 2012 has been chosen. The concept, currently a closely guarded secret, will cover 12 planes and last for 6 years. To see Pascal discuss what it means to him to be chosen for this fantastic opportunity please visit his blog:

http://thegoldenhands.blogspot.com/

Or take a look on his website:

http://www.iampascal.com