Lisa Selby - Artist Crit at ICA

CRIT: Megan Broadmeadow and Joey Holder at the ICA studio You are invited to join the next in a series of discussions arranged by Lisa Selby, one of last year’s Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art graduates and a visiting tutor at Nottingham Trent University. The group was put together to sustain ongoing conversations around the work of fellow artists. These crits are for artists to show new works, in new places and meet new people. Graduates and students from colleges such as RCA, Slade and Chelsea are attending theses sessions and integrating with Goldsmiths graduates and current students. The two people showing work (usually in a one night 'pop up' format), generally have similar concerns and have a large amount of input in the structure and venues.  Tuesday 10th April - 7.30pm - Bring drinks, snacks, eyes and brains. Megan Broadmeadow's  work finds its origin in customs and folklore, yet mixes in references to current popular phenomena to re-examine the position and relevance of these traditions in today's society. The resulting fabricated new mythologies are a hybridization of street theatre, carnival and disco cultures. In Broadmeadows live work, she is mostly engaging in the transformative moment of the performative act with a particular interest in character, ridiculousness and ritual. She uses seductive colour and materials to raise tensions between surface and structure in objects. A strong interest is evident in costume and the adornment of the body when performing. Megans intentions are to magnify archetypal characters and themes through a fantastical approach yet at the same time question the universal traits that we recognise. Her final works take varied forms mainly incorporating combinations of sculpture, performance, costume and video. http://www.megartmix.co.uk/ Joey Holder's work to date has included painting, sculpture, video and digital manipulations. Often using cheap plastic, kitsch or found objects and fabrics she imitates so called organic substances within a series of abstractions, creating a world of manifold layers, none more unified or natural than the next. Mutated images are congealed into stable configurations, whilst remnants are suspended in illumination, creating a supersaturated vision of pure display and hyper-aestheticization. http://www.joeyholder.com/ http://www.joeyholder.blogspot.co.uk/ Megan Broadmeadow 'The way to do it' Wood, canvas, paint 2011 Joey Holder 'Bi-Crystal' & 'Photovoltaics' Feb 2012 Digital Prints Come along! StudioInstitute of Contemporary Arts The Mall London SW1Y 5AH

Artist talk - DIY after School

Sunday 22nd April - Artist Talk / Presentation

DIY after School

Part One from 1 pm

1) Elaine Mullings about The World's Our Oyster Exhibition as a Slade graduates collective show 

   the-worlds-our-oyster.blogspot.co.uk/ (Slade Graduate)

2) Magda Fabianczyk about collaborative art work with Indish and Pakistan Artists

    www.fabianczyk.com (Byam Shaw Graduate)

3) Catharina Cronenberger Golebiowska about The Chess Club, an international artist platform

    (Slade Graduate)

10 min Break with juice+snacks

Part Two from 2:15 pm

4) Lisa Selby about a Goldsmiths Crit Group (Goldsmiths Graduate)

Since graduating, Lisa arranges and regulate time keeping in fortnightly critical group sessions 

on two selected artists in various studios located throughout London. These crits continue 

the experience of discussions at Goldsmiths and furthers knowledge of trends, varied practices 

and current developments in art and its critical contexts. www.lisaselby.com

5) James Smith about his art magazine This is tomorrow (skype connection from Berlin)

    www.thisistomorrow.info/

6) Der Warst / Simon Schaefer (talk performance) about circuit bending music events (RCA graduate in sculpture)

  www.schaefersimon.de/

End about 3:00 pm or 3:30 pm