An exhibition of work by CSM alumnus Dave Pearson will be on show at the Bermondsey Art Space from 20 April to 13 May 2012.

After Pearson’s death in 2008, the discovery of his extensive artwork in his Lancashire terraced house hit the headlines due to it’s estimated value of £1million. Pearson’s reputation has steadily grown in the art world and he has been likened to L.S. Lowry as an artist largely undiscovered in his own lifetime.

Critic and writer Edward Lucie-Smith said of Pearson: “It’s not often nowadays that a really major artist slips through the net.”

He described the upcoming exhibition – the first of its kind in the capital, Pearson’s birthplace – as “one of the greatest composed by any 20th century British artist.”

Exhibition: Friday 20 April – Sunday 13 May 2012
Private View: Thursday 19 April 19th 2012 – 18:30
Opening Hours: Mon-Weds: by appointment only, Thurs-Sun: 1-6 pm
Address: Bermondsey Art Space, 46 Willow Walk, London SE1 5SF
Contact: Dave Pearson Trust: Bob Frith, hb@compnet.co.uk
or Margaret Mytton, margaret.mytton@btopenworld.com

Find out more:
- David Pearson Trust website

Callum has won the ‘Best Student Film’ award at The European Independent Film Festival.

Telling the story of a school boy struggling to cope with feelings of guilt, grief and fear when his first love is killed at a local train station, Callum was also awarded ‘Best Drama’ at 2012 Screentest National Student Film Festival.

Find out more:
- The European Independent Film Festival website
- BA Directing course page

Top: 'Hadley TK-421' by Jonathan Reid Edwards, Bottom: 'Callum' by Michael van der Put

Short films by Drama Centre London alumni Jonathan and Michael have won awards at the 2012 Screentest National Student Film Festival.

Callum by Michael van der Put won Best Drama, whilst Hadley TK-421 by Jonathan Reid-Edwards picked up prizes for Best Script and Best Score.

Find out more:
- Screentest National Student Film Festival website
- BA Directing course page

Still from promo for Tribes’ “When My Day Comes” directed by Mickey Voak & Dan White.

Tribes nominated for NME Best New Band award 2012.

Tribes, (“Camden’s urchin grunge…indie rock of the most rebellious kind” The Guardian) featuring CSM BA Fine Art graduate Dan White, and backed by promos directed by Dan, and a team of other BA Fine Art graduates including Giorgio Bruni, Toby Ross-Shouthall, Towa Noel Shimizu and Ralph Fuller, have been nominated for the NME’s Best New Band Award 2012.

The other nominees are: The Vaccines, Lana Del Ray, Wu Lyf and Foster the People. The winners will be unveiled at London’s O2 Academy Brixton on February 29, 2012.

Find out more:
-Vote for Tribes on the NME website
-BA Fine Art course page

Martin Clapp’s film The Magic Piano made the Oscar Animated Short final 10 shortlist. Martin has worked in the animation industry since graduating in 2000, mainly with 3D computer animation. He also worked on the 2006 Oscar winning film Peter and the Wolf, produced by Breakthru Films.

Find out more:
- MA Character Animation course page

Film star Michael Fassbender, who graduated from BA Acting in 1999, is nominated in the Leading Actor category for his role in Steve McQueen’s film ‘Shame’; recent MA Screen graduate Rungano Nyioni is nominated in the Best Short Film category for her recent short film ‘Mwansa The Great’.

Find out more:
- BA Acting
- MA Screen
- Drama Centre London

Cross Over celebrates the work of the 2011 graduates, and suggests the exciting possibility of new collaborations, as all disciplines gather under one roof for the first time.

Central Saint Martins and Lowe + Partners, the international advertising agency network, present the first exhibition at the College’s brand new site at King’s Cross.

To create Cross Over, course leaders at the 2011 shows selected works from Central Saint Martins courses other than their own. Going beyond familiar boundaries has brought fresh insights, encouraging shifts in view points and has opened up new perspectives. A diverse range of concepts, representations, designs and art objects all come together in Cross Over.

The exhibition, which is now open, is sponsored exclusively by Lowe + Partners who have also created Nova, The Lowe and Partners Award for Fresh Creative Talent. This will be presented to the best new talent from the Cross Over show, at a prestigious event in November, with a substantial cash prize.

Cross Over opening hours:

Lethaby Gallery

Monday to Saturday, 10am – 6pm
Saturday, 10am – 4pm

24 October to 24 November 2011

Ed Atkins, still from ‘Death Mask II – The Scent’, HD video, 2010.

This year’s prestigious Frieze Film Commissions include BA Fine Art graduate Ed Atkins.

Frieze Film is a programme of artist commissions screened to coincide with Frieze Art Fair. Curated by Sarah McCrory, this year it includes five newly commissioned films that will be shown in the Frieze Art Fair auditorium and on Channel 4 television. The artists commissioned to make new work for Frieze Film are: Ed Atkins, Lutz Bacher, Anthea Hamilton, Judith Hopf and Katarina Zdjelar.

The Frieze Film commissions will also be previewed in a new post-watershed Channel 4 arts slot during the week of Frieze Art Fair from Monday October 10 to Friday October 14. In previous years collaborations between Frieze Film and Channel 4’s ‘3 Minute Wonder’ slot have averaged audiences in excess of one million viewers.

Ed Atkins is also featured in this month’s Frieze magazine, on the front cover, and in a round table discussion of Artists’ film in London with Melanie Gilligan (also a Central Saint Martins BA Fine Art graduate), Ben Rivers and Anja Kirschner.

Visit:
- Frieze Film 2011
- BA (Honours) Fine Art course page

Dagmar Schurrer single screen projection, 2 min 35 sec

Seven Central Saint Martins alumni have been selected for New Contemporaries 2011.

Bloomberg New Contemporaries is the leading UK organization supporting emergent art practice from British Art Schools. Since 1949 New Contemporaries has consistently provided a critical platform for new and recent fine art graduates primarily by means of an annual, nationally touring exhibition. Independent of place and democratic to the core, New Contemporaries is open to all. Exhibition participants are selected by a panel predominantly made up of artists and writers by means of a rigorous two-stage process. The selectors for 2011 were Pablo Bronstein, Sarah Jones and Michael Raedecker.

Alumni of Central Saint Martins BA Fine art:

Dagmar Schurrer (2007 – 2011)
David Ben White (2003 – 2006)
Jessica Sarah Riland (2008 – 2010)
Nick Nowicki (2002 – 2005)

Alumni of Central Saint Martins MA Fine Art:

Georgina Mc Namara (2009 – 2011)
Kim Kielhofner (2009 – 2010)

Alumna of Byam Shaw PG Diploma, Fine Art:

Veyena Popava (2006 – 2007)

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011 is showing at S1 Artspace and Site Gallery in Sheffield until November 5 2011. It will then travel to the ICA, London, where it will exhibit November 23 2011-January 15 2012.

S1 Artspace
120 Trafalgar Street
Sheffield S1 4JT

Site Gallery
1 Brown Street
Sheffield S1 2BS

Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall
London SW1Y 5AH

Visit:
- Bloomberg New Contemporaries website
- BA Fine Art course page
- MA Fine Art course page

We are proud to announce that this year’s short list for the prestigious Jarman Award for artists working in film and video includes two graduates from BA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins; Ed Atkins and Laure Prouvost.

The Jarman Award is an annual prize inspired by one of Britain’s most innovative, esteemed and controversial artists of the late 20th century – Derek Jarman.

Celebrating the spirit of experimentation, imagination and inspiration in the work of UK artist film-makers, The Jarman Award recognizes individual artist film-makers whose risk-taking work resists boundaries and conventional definition – work that encompasses innovation, excellence and vision.

The winner, who will receive a £10,000 cash prize and a broadcast commission, and a budget of £20,000 to make a film-based artwork for Channel 4′s new art strand, will be announced at a special event on October 3rd 2011 at the Whitechapel Gallery. A selection of work from the shortlisted artist is currently touring to venues across the country.

Visit:
- The Jarman Award web page
- BA Fine Art course page