Published on March 5th, 2010one comment

Textiles Designer Vivienne Martin has been selected as one of the participants in the One Year On event that is part of the New Designers Exhibition in London. New Designers & One Year On has been running for the past 11 years and each year up to 50 designer makers who are either within one ...
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Published on March 5th, 20102 comment

‘As the publishing industry wobbles and Kindle sales jump, book romanticists cry themselves to sleep. But really, what are we shedding tears over? We’re losing the throwaway paperback. The airport paperback. The beachside paperback.
We’re losing the dredge of the publishing world: disposable books.’
Great article on the future of books and the coming of graphically rich ...
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Published on March 4th, 20102 comment

Monster Truck Gallery is looking for submissions for a project of minute proportions. Following the curious appearance of a miniature gallery within the gallery, Monster Truck are currently constructing at a scale of 1:20.
Submissions to exhibit in the miniature gallery should include text – artist statement, cv/bio, and statement of intent (no ...
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Published on March 4th, 2010one comment

[ March 11, 2010 6:00 pm to April 3, 2010 6:00 pm. ] Reception 6-8pm Thursday 11 March
Exhibition runs 11 March – 3 April 2010
This exhibition is a remarkable departure for Mick O’Dea and yet it is also a journey all the way back to his childhood home in Ennis, where, as a boy he played toy soldiers in the family bar in the unlikely shared company of ...
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Published on March 3rd, 2010one comment

While looking for my copy of Richard Barbrook’s ‘The Class of the New’ today, I remembered that the publishers ‘OpenMute’, made it available for free to download as a .pdf, so I had a look to see if it’s still available and found that it is (here).
‘In this short book, Richard Barbrook presents a collection ...
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Published on March 3rd, 20102 comment
[ March 6, 2010 5:00 pm to March 19, 2010 5:00 pm. ] Cake Contemporary Arts presents its first programme of new film by filmmakers and artists based in Ireland and the U.S.
Cake aims to provide access to a wide range of filmmakers and film artists’s projects to the Kildare area through its gallery facility. The first screening programme will include films by Paul Rowley & Nicky Gogan, ...
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Published on March 3rd, 2010one comment
‘IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN: In the name of Seamus Heaney and of the dead generations of bards, writers, sculptors, painters and actors from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.
Having organised and trained her artists through her secret revolutionary organisation, the ...
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Published on March 2nd, 2010one comment

[ March 26, 2010 11:00 am to May 19, 2010 6:00 pm. March 26, 2010 11:00 am to May 19, 2010 6:00 pm. ]
Tibet’s Tibet & Mongolia’s Mongolia
Video documentaries by Wolf Kahlen
Wolf Kahlen is a multi-media artist from Germany who is well-known for his films and installations; he has also made some fine docmentaries about Tibet and Mongolia, a selection of which are being shown in this exhibition. Each week, for the duration of the show, a different ...
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Published on March 2nd, 2010one comment

[ March 26, 2010 11:00 am to May 19, 2010 6:00 pm. ]
Alfred Jensen (1903-1981), a largely self-taught artist born in Guatemala and brought up in Denmark, was influenced by the study of a broad range of esoteric subjects, including the colour theories of Goethe, the writings of Leonardo da Vinci, Pythagorean geometry, Mayan and ancient Chinese calendars, the I Ching, and Greek religious rituals. His work ...
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Published on March 2nd, 2010one comment

[ March 22, 2010 10:00 am to March 26, 2010 5:00 pm. April 26, 2010 10:00 am to April 30, 2010 5:00 pm. May 31, 2010 10:00 am to June 4, 2010 5:00 pm. ]
The RHA School is delighted to present a call to artists to participate on one of our upcoming drawing marathons.
Three drawing marathons will be held, one a month in March, April and May 2010. Each drawing marathon will take place in the new drawing studio in the RHA. Places are limited to 24 artists per ...
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