Events
Online Art Café; Artists Opportunities post COVID, 11am 30 July
Visual Artists Association
FREE to all UK and International artists, we would like to invite you to Episode 3 of the Visual Artists Association (VAA) Art Café featuring Artists and creator of the Artists Support Pledge Matthew Burrows. Learn more on how Matthew’s initiative, marketing expertise and quick thinking founded £50m sales for Artists globally. We will also be discussing the latest grants and opportunities for visual artists post COVID.
www.visual-artists.org
Nottingham Arts Mela
Nottingham Arts Mela launches with its premise Climate, Changed as a digital arts online festival from 27 Jul to 23 Aug.
Over the four weeks be engaged by an incredible local to international line up.
Week 1, 27 Jul to 2 Aug – Environment
Week 2, 3-9 Aug – Politics
Week 3, 10-16 Aug – Society
Week 4, 17-20 Aug – Art and Culture
Festival weekend 21-23 Aug
https://www.nottinghamartsmela.org/
Exhibitions
In Steps of Sundew
Fermynwoods Contemporary Art
#InStepsOfSundew focuses on our experience of landscape, inspired by the once largest walking dragline excavator in the world used at quarries in Corby.
http://fermynwoods.org/in-steps-of-sundew/
Exhibition Explorations: Anna Bunting-Branch
QUAD Derby
For this Exhibition Exploration, QUAD Senior Curator Peter Bonnell hosts artist Anna Bunting-Branch and her collaborator, the sound artist Aliyah Hussain, and Helen Starr – the exhibition co-curator and founder of The Mechatronic Library – for a virtual guided tour of Anna’s exhibition ‘Warm Worlds and Otherwise’.
https://www.derbyquad.co.uk/WarmWorldsAndOtherwise
DANCE FIRST THINK LATER
General Practice Lincoln
From the 8th July until 23rd August by appointment. Please DM us to book a slot.
https://www.general-practice.net/
Content
Video: RCF-D Ideas & Insights
New Art Exchange
In this insightful film, cultural producer and curator Saziso Phiri shares her journey of establishing The Anti Gallery. Saziso shares insights on networking on getting her foot in the door, making the most of resources, learning from her mistakes and overcoming imposter syndrome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFcl3oF8Pgg
Robyn Tisley Takeover and Interview
No Jobs In The Arts
NJITA interviewed Robyn Tilsley on her print ‘Madge’, a screen print she created for the Derby Print Open during a placement at Green Door Studios. You can see more of Robyn’s work here: @robyntilsleyart
Artist Statement:
I am a student based in Derbyshire and have recently completed GCSE Art. I am planning on taking double BTEC Art and Design at sixth form. I attended a screen-printing workshop through school which sparked an interest in printing and have attended a placement at @greendoorstudios to continue this interest. I’m also interested in other art mediums such as digital art, drawing and fashion design/textiles.
https://www.instagram.com/nojobsinthearts/
https://www.charlieanneart.com/no-jobs-in-the-arts
Workshops & Learning
Picnic with Wingshan Smith
Mansions of The Future
Wingshan Smith has reimagined her contribution to the Communal Lunches programme, creating Picnic, a new instructional video work which will be available online until 30 September 2020. Part tutorial, part ritual, this is a spell to welcome a little chaos. To find strength in disorder. To purge the unwanted. Perform this spell on a waning moon. A time to put something to rest. Welcome wildness this season.
https://mansionsofthefuture.org/events/communal-lunch-with-wingshan-smith/
Isolated Moments – Market Garden
Fermynwoods Contemporary Art
During lockdown I have been restricted to walks in South East London, exploring and investigating, and documenting this on @Blak_Outside. The empty streets got me thinking about community and particularly how in these times, there is a stronger and more urgent need for community togetherness. Community spirit is being eroded, especially where I come from in Brixton, where gentrification projects are ripping the heart out of communities who have been there for generations. Whereas ‘before’ we were, in essence, already self isolating through being wrapped up in our own individual concerns, this national collective experience has provided the impetus we needed to reach out to our neighbours, either through needing help, or the offering of help.
http://fermynwoods.org/isolated-moments-market-garden/