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

Several of our graduates showing this week at the Dutch exhibition ‘iFABRIC’ at the Tilburg Textile Museum, with Kate Goldsworthy opening the exhibition with a ‘Textiles Futures’ presentation on Friday 23 September alongside Christine de Baan, program director of Dutch Design, Fashion and Architecture.

Designers featured include:

• Natsai A. Chieza
• Berit Greinke
• Siwen Huang
• Laura Martinez
• Elaine Ng Yan Ling
• Marin Sawa
• Elisa Strozyk

The museum presents a young generation of highly promising designers from Europe who are active in the fields of fashion, interior textiles and design. There is a striking interest in the latest scientific developments, such as those in microbiology, which often results in collaboration with biologists and chemists.

Another aspect that stands out is the consideration for the emotional aspects of fashion and design, which places a greater focus on the material and the surface structure of objects. But what does the actual practice that awaits them involve?

i FABRIC is one of the highlights of the cultural programme of the Tilburg Textiles event, which is being organized in the context of 2018Brabant. BCXSY, the studio of the young designers Boaz Cohen and Sayaka Yamamoto, is responsible for the exhibition’s graphic and spatial design, as well as for the design of the accompanying publication.

Museum address:
Goirkestraat 96 5046 GN Tilburg,
The Netherlands

Telephone: +31 (0)13 53 67 475

More:
- MA Textile Futures website
- Tilburg Textile Museum website

Recent graduate Amy Congdon is currently undertaking a 3 month residency at SymbioticA in Perth, Western Australia. Looking at exploring the idea of ‘bespoke biological textiles’ Amy is attempting to grow skin cells over her completely embroidered textile scaffolds.

As a designer engaging with science, Amy is exploring the blurring of roles between these disciplines and learning tissue culture as a technique through which to engage with using life as a raw material for her work.

“Bespoke is often considered the height of luxury, with pieces being individually made for a client.  What if in the future we are able to have biologically bespoke pieces made, would we want them, what form could they take and most importantly should we be allowed to have them?  Designers will have increasingly important roles to play, not only in their designs but also in their choice of materials.  Removed from their source do our cells, and the cells of others, become the ultimate commodity?”

More:
- MA Textile Futures course page
- Amy Congdon on the SymbioticA website
- Amy Congdon’s website

We’re proud to learn that film star and DCL alumnus Michael Fassbender has won the prestigious Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival for his performance in Steve McQueen’s film “Shame”.

Michael has three films opening in the near future and provided the cover and main feature of a recent Sunday Times “Culture” section, where his “brilliant” combination of transformative acting and personal charisma was said to place him in a strong position to become the next James Bond.

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