10 sessions. 10 cities.

Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy launches ‘Exploring the Future Of Tradition’ project. The project aims to create internal forums in 10 cities around the world – London, Paris, Sao Paolo, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Roma, Madrid & Geneva. LVMH will select Central Saint Martins MA students to participate!

The event will be held on January 16, 2012 at the Tate Modern. During the event, participants will divide into four teams, each consisting of four LVMH Senior Executives, one London Business School MBA student, and one Central Saint Martins MA student. They will be given presentations, as points of departure for the day.

In this competition, LVMH wishes to offer young talents a chance to exchange ideas with its senior executives and world class experts. Participants are encouraged to share their own vision of the Future of Tradition in LVMH’s creative project, and win the unique opportunity to meet with luxury experts at exclusive events around the world.

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- Competition entry details

Reclaim to Wear

Aiming to develop eco-sustainability in fashion, Central Saint Martins students collaborate with Orsola De Castro, Creative Director of Reclaim To Wear, to create upcycled collection.

London, November 2011 – Ten teams from Central Saint Martins’ students (second year BA in Fashion with Marketing, Fashion Print, Knitwear Design and Communication and Promotion) encouraged by course director Willie Walters and briefed by eco-pioneer Orsola De Castro, are being challenged to make an upcycled capsule collection by adopting the Reclaim To Wear’s method of producing clothes using the fashion industry’s surplus such as stock, remnants and off-cuts. In step with the innovative spirit of Central Saint Martins, the next generation is trained to develop this sustainable and efficient method, ensuring that pre-consumer textile waste is re-used in a creative way and re-introduced into the market as a new, upcycled product.

The teams are briefed to create a catwalk piece and two “commercial” pieces, in addition to a lookbook and a short film presenting the collection.  The students’ collections will be unveiled at Central Saint Martins on December 1 2011, where a judging panel, whose members will include Anna Orsini of British Fashion Council, Vogue.com’s Jessica Bumpus and model Cecilia Chancellor, will review the collections – winners will be announced shortly afterwards.   A selection of the students’ works will be showcased at Estethica,the British Fashion Council hub of London’s ethical fashion industry, during London Fashion Week in February 2012.

On her experience with Central Saint Martin’s students, Orsola De Castro comments “I’m thrilled to see the creative energy and commitment that these emerging talents apply to apply to the brief. They are showing us the only way forward: creativity and eco-sustainability have to go hand in hand”.

Throughout December we will keep you posted with videos and images from the project’s “behind the scenes”, and a selection of the promotional films and images.

Visit:
- Reclaim to Wear

Lives of paintings

Published to coincide with the biggest ever Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the National Gallery in London, this fascinating new book traces the extraordinary history of seven of the artist’s most celebrated and influential works, from original commission to final resting place, and brings to life the wider context in which the paintings were created, bought and sold.

It includes the story of how one painting became a national symbol of Poland after surviving years of war-torn history; and it describes how a bitter feud between two rival art dealers over another Leonardo painting, led to a sensational court case that shook the art world of the 1920′s.

Entertaining and accessible, this unique study offers a fresh approach to art history. Professor Marina Wallace is Director of Artakt, a Research Group at Central St Martin’s.

Preface by Martin Kemp. Introduction by Robert Anderson. Published November 30, 2011

For more information contact Chris Burrows PR: 0161 4456635 / 07738903955 / chrisburrows2@virginmedia.com

Visit:
- Artakt
- Marina Wallace

Artakt’s Leonardo Da Vinci expert publishes a fascinating book about Madonna of the Yarnwinder, revealing the secret history of this iconic masterpiece.

State-of-the-art detective work by two art historians has uncovered the hidden story behind one of Leonardo’s most influential paintings. The mystery surrounding The Madonna of the Yarnwinder, has confounded art experts for centuries: there are many copies of the painting, but which, if any, is the original?

Using the latest advances in forensics and scientific analysis, as well as years of painstaking research, renowned Leonardo scholars Martin Kemp and Thereza Wells undertook some of the most in-depth technical examinations ever carried out on an old master painting – and made extraordinary new discoveries that could change the way we look at Renaissance paintings forever.

Published to coincide with the opening of the biggest ever Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery in London, this unique book offers a new way of understanding the grand master of Renaissance art and gives a rare glimpse into the mind of a true genius at work.

THEREZA WELLS is a Research Fellow and Curator at Central Saint Martin’s Artakt. She has worked on exhibitions including Leonardo da Vinci : Experience, Experiment and Design and Metamorphosis in Science and Art (Science Museum, London). She is editor of Leonardo da Vinci Notebooks (OUP, 2008).

Visit:
- Artakt
– Leonardo Da Vinci at the National Gallery

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

We can be heroes

We Can Be Heroes is a new book about London clubland between 1976-84 by Graham Smith (photography and interviews) and Chris Sullivan (text). It’s funded by crowdsourcing so if you’re interested, sign up to pledge some money!

Beautifully designed over 320 pages, it’s the definitive record of this fascinating and influential period of youth sub culture, produced by people who were actually there in the thick of it.

The book includes interviews with more than 60 familiar ‘faces’ (many of whom were Central Saint Martins boys and girls) and the photography is captioned with 500 of their quotes, from Sade to Philip Sallon. You’ll also find playlists from all the clubs, and charts plotting the rise and evolution of the scene.

Those were interesting times…

Visit:
- We Can Be Heroes web page

Postmodern jewellery at the V&A

This week Central Saint Martins BA Jewellery Design students are making brooches at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.

As part of a project that responds to the new Postmodernism exhibition at the V&A, the students were briefed by the museum’s Deputy Head of Research, Glenn Adamson, to create jewellery that explores 21st century Postmodernism.

The students are currently creating their final pieces which will be exhibited in the V&A’s Art Studio from Friday September 30th. The designers gleaned inspiration from different aspects of Postmodernism – the aesthetic, the extravagance, the work of a particular design studio. Videos of the students talking about their work are currently being produced, and will be available to view soon.

Visit:
- Postmodernism: Style and Subversion at the V&A
- The Central Saint Martins BA Jewellery Design 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

The retailers at St Pancras International are welcoming UAL staff and students with some great offers!

Shopaholics will find plenty to enjoy including eclectic style at Oliver Bonas, calming eastern treats at Ritual, everything vintage and floral at Cath Kidston, Champagne indulgence at the St. Pancras Grand/The Champagne Bar and pampering relaxation at the sumptuous St. Pancras.

20% off:

• Rituals

15% off:

• The Betjeman Arms (food only)
• Hamleys

10% off:

• BHRC
• Cath Kidston
• St Pancras Grand/ The Champagne Bar
• Fossil
• Foyles
• The Sourced Market
• Neuhaus
• Oliver Bonas
• West Cornwall Pasty Co
• Renaissance Hotel Spa
• The Melogy Salon

Discounts are available with a valid staff or student UAL ID 20 September to 31 October.

Find out more about St Pancras Freshers Discounts

Professor Shaun Leane and Xin Ran Lu

Visiting Professor Shaun Leane presented the Boodles Jewellery Award 2011 to Xin Ran Lu. Congratulations to him!

Xin Ran’s work was selected from final year BA Jewellery students for its originality and excellence. The award is £1,500.

Visit:
- BA (Honours) Jewellery Design course page
- Shaun Leane’s website