Exploring the SoA Collections 2020

As part of the first year art history module Exploring the School of Art Collections, students have the opportunity to write a small piece for this blog. This year the group decided on the theme of ‘deference’ – historical and contemporary pictures that demonstrate traditions (imaginary or real) of loyalty be it to the church, to the state, to royalty, to their communities or even within personal relationships. Each student had the opportunity to choose from a selection of prints, drawings and photographs. They only had one week to undertake some research before presenting their drafts. They all worked very hard on these projects so please take the time to view their efforts.

‘Print REbels: Haden, Palmer, Whistler & the Origins of the RE’, School of Art Gallery, 18 February – 3 May 2019

In the Spring of 2018, the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (the RE) marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of the founder and its first President Sir Francis Seymour Haden, with Print REbels an exhibition which reflects on its past and present members, the history, and the legacy of the Society. The exhibition brings together a prestigious collection of prints by Haden and those who inspired him such as Rembrandt and Dürer and his contemporaries, including Samuel Palmer and James Abbott McNeill Whistler.

Mary Ellen Edwards – A Victorian Woman Illustrator

Mary Ellen Edwards (later Mrs Freer, later Mrs Staples) by Unknown photographer, albumen carte-de-visite with black masking paint, 1860s, © National Portrait Gallery, London

Illustrator Mary Ellen Edwards was born to Mary (née Johnson, c.1809-1898) and Downes Edwards (c. 1805-1882) on the 6^th November 1838 on her father’s farm in Surbiton just outside London. The family had nine children of which two died in infancy. The Edwards moved frequently. Her father was an engineer and inventor and had by 1848 enough funds to built a family residence, Ravenscliffe in Douglas on the Isle of Man. Eventually they settled in London and lived there at various addresses in fashionable parts of town such as Pimlico, South Kensington and Chelsea.

7. German Talk, 06/02/2019, 5pm, School of Art

When: 6th February 2019

Time: 5pm – 6pm

Where: School of Art, Room 206

Topic(s): Karen’s Cabinet of Curiosities

For more information about the ‘German Talks’ and how to find us:

7. german talk flyer – karen’s cabinet of curiosities – 6. february 2019

Exploring the School of Art Collection 2018

As part of the first year art history module Exploring the School of Art Collections, students have the opportunity to write a small piece for this blog. This year the group decided on the theme of ‘The Stage’. Each student had the opportunity to choose from a selection of prints, drawings and photographs featuring theatres, concerts, ballets, circuses and more. They only had one week to undertake some research before presenting their drafts. They all worked very hard on these projects so please take the time to view their efforts.

Exploring the School of Art Collection 2017

Gathering Storm

Gathering Storm, Corinna Button, drypoint with monotype, 2006

Three women sit on a bench huddled close together. Backs to us, their arms wrap around each other snuggly, they look intimate and protected. Heads bent forward with faces close, these women are in the middle of a private moment, excluding the rest of the world. Rain falls from black clouds in the sky above, whilst overhead telephone wires stretch across poles from either side of the women, as if framing them. They are centre and focus of the print.

‘Travelling Through: Landscapes/Landmarks/Legacies’, School of Art Gallery, 12/10/2018 – 8/2/2019

‘Platform Two’, Steve Whitehead, 1985, oil and alkyd on canvas

Drawn from the School of Art’s extensive collection, Travelling Through traverses five centuries of visual culture ranging from sublime and picturesque landscapes to nineteenth-century travel photographs, twentieth-century London Underground posters and contemporary responses to our environment in a variety of media.

The exhibition, curated by Dr Harry Heuser, explores relationships between tourism and landscape art, between the consumption of signposted sights and the production of personal insights, between the fleeting experience of our journeys and the carbon footprint we leave behind.

 

 

5. German Talk, 19th September 2018, School of Art

When: 19th September 2018

Time: 5pm – 6pm

Where: School of Art, room 206

Topic: ‘Powell & German Culture’

For more information about the German Talks and how to find us:

5. German Talk Powell and German Culture September 2018

Degree Show & Postgraduate Show Opening, Saturday 19th May 2018 – A Photo Gallery

 

 

Richard Boalch (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Sarah Spencer (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Sophie Lewis (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Luciana Marçal Barata (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

(Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)

Annabelle Aston (Photo: Courtesy Grace Warwick)

(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)

Sophie Lewis (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Joe Dunlop (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Anna Greenwood (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Junko Burton (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

(Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)

(Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)

Claire Murray (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Mai Thomas (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)

Kara Knowler-Davies (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Claire Murray (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf

Sophie Long (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Gemma Woolley (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Richard Boalch (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Abi Graves (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Joseph Coyle (Apologies for the bad quality of the photo. The reflections were unavoidable.) (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Abi Graves (Photo: Courtesy Grace Warwick)

Sophie Long (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Dean Mather (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Megan Elsey (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Clodagh Metcalfe (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Megan Elsey (Photo: Courtesy Grace Warwick)

(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)

Rachel Rea (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Angharad Taris (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

(Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)

(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)

Grace Warwick (Photo: Courtesy Grace Warwick)

Genevieve Wilson (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)

Simon Robert Tune (Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)

Luciana Marçal Barata (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Heledd Grug Jones (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Alecia Jackson (Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)

Ashley Caldwell (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Ellie Hall (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Biran Swaddling (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Brian Swaddling (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)

Brigitte Bailey (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Frida Lyholm Limi (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Joanna Bonarek-Gnat (Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)

Clodagh Metcalfe (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Sophie Mockett (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Raine Eaday (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Polina Kyprianou (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

(Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)

Sydney Fletchter (Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)

Mai Thomas (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Emily Griffin (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)

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‘Visual Theology 1: Transformative Looking Between the Visual Arts and Christian Doctrine (1850– Now)’

Professor John Harvey will be keynote speaker at ‘Visual Theology 1: Transformative Looking Between the Visual Arts and Christian Doctrine (1850– Now)’, 19-20 October 2018, The Palace, Chichester, Sussex

For more information: http://www.visualtheology.org.uk