Hear Tim Skinner's work at the I.C.A.

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Tim Skinner graduated from our BA Fine Art in 2003 and has continued to develop his practice through a range of interesting projects and residencies. His latest project took his work to London's Institute of Contemporary Art where he developed a new audio work in response to Bruce Nauman's work titled 'Days'

Check out his website to hear the work & find out how it was developed... 

http://www.timskinner.co.uk/

'This is a sound commission for the ICA, which firstsite nominated me for. The work to be exhibited alongside Bruce Naumen's sonic installation 'Days', originally shown in the MOMA 2009. The brief for the commission is to reflect the concepts circling Naumen's piece, ideas centred on repetition and time.

Time and repetition frequently appear in my work, but for this piece I wanted to keep it fairly pure, which is the beauty of Naumens 'Days'. So decided to do seven recordings of seven minutes over a week. When I need time to think, fresh air, exercise, I go for a walk out in the Essex countryside, often walking alongside this river which runs at the bottom of a small valley. It has always had an alluring sonic landscape, this project gave me the chance to explore this.

ICA SOUNDWORKS website - www.ica.org.uk/soundworks

Between Mon 26th March - Sun 1st April, I made seven 7minute recordings, first starting at 9:00am on the Monday, 10:00am Tuesday and so on finishing at 3:00pm Sunday. Each seven minutes are deconstructed, slicing into individual minutes, then layering on top of each other. So altering the fabric of time.' (extract from Tim's website)

Becky Rawlings plans to collaborate with The Alzheimer's Society

Rebecca Rawlings who has been responding to her own family experiences has created a powerful body of work aiming to raise awareness of Dementia. Becky is now negotiating with The Alzheimer's Society further collaborations to feature her artwork in their promotions.

Roote Graduate in style

Students graduating from the BA (Hons.)  Fine Art course this summer have created quite a stir during their recent exhibition titled ‘Roote’ at London’s Truman Brewery venue as part of the annual Free Range showcase for art and design graduates across the country.

In their words:

‘The exhibition has been organised almost exclusively by the students themselves, demonstrating that there is so much more to being an artist than merely producing work from the confines of a studio.  In actual fact, the inspiration behind what can be seen at ROOTE has come from endless experimentation and the pushing of boundaries.  Travel, re-appropriation, religion, the environment and play are some areas explored and developed by these new professionals, who, as a by-product of their work, are questioning the very notion of ‘the studio’ itself. ‘

Have a look at their portfolios on the Free Range website:

www.free-range.org.uk/cgi-bin/exhibition.pl?yearID=17&exhibitionID=879

Tracing the Elements exhibition at The Digby Gallery, Colchester

Seven year 2 and year 3 students collaborated during October to present a selection of work in the local Mercury Theatre Gallery Space. Val Mollison, Jane Fisher, Amgela Bowles, Abbey Potter and Liz Goozee, Rachel Brown & Rhoda Gradley cordinated and curated the show 'Tracing the Elements' (3-22 October)

Year 3 students have been evaluating and developing their practice in week long residencies in the Hay Gallery. Week 1-Colin Chaplin, Abbey Potter & Katherine Shiers Week 2- Mary Wren, Thomas Orrin & Charlotte Frost, Week 3- Rebecca Harrington & Rachel Brown.

Book binding with Mary Pullen

Book Artist and Illustrator, Mary Pullen ran a bookmaking workshop with year 0 fine art students on Tuesday 1st November. For images of the workshop and Mary's blog, check the link :

http://www.astringofwordsandpictures.blogspot.com