Launch party Thursday 1 October 7 – 9 pm
Friday 2 – Sunday 4 October 11 – 6 pm
PSC’s Project Space, 45 Gransden Avenue, London E8 3QA
PART OF THE ART LICKS WEEKEND 2015
Taking Shape traces the through line that connects a body of work. Understanding an artist’s practice as constantly evolving, this exhibition presses pause to present sculptural works and consider the conditions of their own (im)possibility and the promise of their potential.
28 September 2 – 6 pm
Shortwave Cinema, Bermondsey Square, SE1 3UN
To mark the third installment of ‘Sculpture at Bermondsey Square’,Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre and VITRINE will be hosting an afternoon of talks and discussion featuring the three commissioned artists to date with curators, open-call judges and a panel of experts, exploring issues within public sculpture today. More info.
Tuesday 13 October 11 am – 1 pm
PSC’s Project Space, 45 Gransden Avenue, London E8 3QA
You can replicate almost anything and it’s increasing a mainstay of many industries: medicine (hearts); film (props); fashion (knockoffs)–sculpture (objects). But you need to know how to replicate, including the skills, processes and materials involved.
Arthur Manzo from W P Notcutt Ltd, leading supplier of mouldmaking and casting materials, will demonstrate a range of materials, such as different rubbers, resins and jesmonite products. He will also discuss the science behind them and how to use them (and when not to!). This two-hour session will open your eyes to the multitude of possibilities out there and stimulate thinking around how they might stretch your sculptural practice. Come with your own casting questions and queries–or just to find out what exists and what you can do with it.
Tickets are free but booking is essential.
Thursday 22 October 10.30 am – 1.30 pm
Meet at NOW Gallery near North Greenwich tube.
A field trip to the Greenwich Peninsula to meet artist Alex Chinneck and visit his Bullet from a Shooting Star, a flagship project for this year’s London Design Festival. Alex will share insights into the work’s production and commissioning.
After that we’ll meet with with Megan Piper, co-founder of The Line, London’s first public sculpture trail featuring modern and contemporary works. She will take us on a tour of the south end of the walk, exploring the artworks in situ around the Greenwich Peninsula and Victoria Dock. These include sculptures by Thomas & Craighead, Gary Hume and Eduardo Paolozzi. More info.
Places are free but booking is essential.
(You will be required to pay for your own TFL Skyline ticket.)
Photograph courtesy of the artist, Katherine Clarke
Thursday 12 November 7 – 9 pm
Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre Project Space, London Fields, E8 3QA
Speakers:
Katherine Clarke – muf architecture/art
Andrew Ranville – Artist & Executive Director of the Rabbit Island Foundation
Hayley Skipper – Curator of Arts and Development for Forestry Commission England
Public ‘sculpture’ might just as easily be described these days as ‘sculpting public space’ or ‘sculpting the public’ or even ‘sculpting in public’. When the event or experience is often valued in equal measure with the object or outcome produced, what challenges does this shift result in for practitioners? What are the demands as well as possibilities of this public-centric way of working? Has site-specificity been replaced by audience-specificity or do these remain distinct things? The invited speakers will reference specific projects and share insights into their own experiences and approaches of working in this field.
Places are free but booking is essential. Sign-up here.
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Opening night: Thursday 19 November 7 – 9 pm
Show runs: Friday 20 November – Wednesday 9 December 11 – 6 pm
Closed Mondays & Tuesdays
PSC’s Project Space, 45 Gransden Avenue, E8 3QA
Which one of these is the non-smoking lifeboat? marks the culmination of Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre’s (PSC’s) Autumn 2015 artists’ residency. The exhibition showcases the ambitious three-dimensional artworks realised over the course of the six-week programme.
Whilst diverse in their practices, what draws the artists together is their commitment to the in-depth exploration and recalibration of ideas, materials and processes. Pushing an impulse to its full potential – even to its breaking point – is something else that this group shares. The exhibition features work by Byzantia Harlow, David Rickard, Emily Motto, Jamie Fitzpatrick, Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau and Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen.
About the artists-in-residence programme.
Installing the Ai Weiwei show at the Royal Academy 2015
Tuesday 10 November 11 am – 5 pm
PSC’s Project Space, 45 Gransden Avenue, E8 3QA
More and more artists are showing in alternative spaces (offices, warehouses, airports, forests, etc.). They’re also making this installation part and parcel of their artworks’ offer. Instead of discrete and portable objects, some of the most exciting artists working today are creating meaningful encounters that are often shaped through how their artworks are installed. There is a brave new world beyond the white cube so why default to the conventions of installing artworks in this context?
Join us for a one-day workshop that knocks the installation of sculpture off the plinth, taking it to another level. Bring work with you to install—or bring your ideas for a project— and get expert advice on how to exhibit and install it from PSC’s in-house technician, Leila Alice Smith. More info.
Credit: Fabian Ong
Thursday 26 November 3 – 5 pm
Heatherwick Studio, 356-364 Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1X 8BH
With Alice O’Hanlon, Archivist, and Georgina Wesley, Conservator, for Heatherwick Studio
What stays and what goes? Artists and others working three-dimensionally have to make decisions every day about what’s important enough to keep and what gets thrown away, especially in London where escalating rent prices put space at a premium. These decisions only get more complicated as the ambition, scale and volume of an artist’s project(s) increase and even moreso, when their works are recognised as making a key contribution to our time. Ideally, this goes hand-in-hand with being able to afford more space and perhaps a few experts to help in the decision making and practicalities of this process. More info.
Anne Hardy, Pitch Black, a smooth echo / A scoop with a shelter, 2015
Life Cycle, Continuous considers the life cycle of both artwork and artist’s legacy with a particular focus on how it transforms, evolves and transitions across platforms, people, place and time. The invited speakers will reference specific projects and share insights into their own experiences and approaches of working in this field. More info.
Photograph: Dominic Tschudin for PSC
Show runs: Friday 20 November – Wednesday 9 December 11 – 6 pm
Closed Mondays & Tuesdays
PSC’s Project Space, 45 Gransden Avenue, E8 3QA
Which one of these is the non-smoking lifeboat? marks the culmination of Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre’s (PSC’s) Autumn 2015 artists’ residency. The exhibition showcases the ambitious three-dimensional artworks realised over the course of the six-week programme.
Whilst diverse in their practices, what draws the artists together is their commitment to the in-depth exploration and recalibration of ideas, materials and processes. Pushing an impulse to its full potential – even to its breaking point – is something else that this group shares. The exhibition features work by Byzantia Harlow, David Rickard, Emily Motto, Jamie Fitzpatrick, Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau and Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen.
About the artists-in-residence programme.
