PROGRESSION

at FERREIRA PROJECTS
23 CHARLOTTE ROAD SHOREDITCH LONDON EC2A 3PB
07792 531 226
WWW.FERREIRAPROJECTS.COM
INFO@FERREIRAPROJECTS.COM

OPENING NIGHT
Thursday 01 November 2007 18.00 – 21.00

02 November – 02 December 2007
Open Monday – Sunday 10.00 – 18.00

For PROGRESSION, participating artists Marcela Alejandra, Helen Barff, Helen Elizabeth Cocker, Derek Curtis, Stephen Harwood, Katherine Lubar, Adaesi Ukairo and Lynn Wray, have focused on creating an illustrative journey, highlighting the development of their work, through progressive stages.

The exhibition, which features work in a variety of media including; arresting photography, strong paintings, wellcrafted sculptures and intricate drawings, is comprised of three stages.

The first stage will show the artists’ early works, which act as a barometer against which future works may be gauged.

The second stage, which forms the bulk of the exhibition, encapsulates where the artists find themselves in the present day. By showing the viewer the artists’ recent work the viewer can perceive how their work has developed, as their relationship with life has changed and their artistic and conceptual skills have evolved.

In the final leg of the journey the viewer can identify the artists’ aspirations for the future and how they plan to develop - whether, by changing direction, exploring new ideas, working in a different media or expressing themselves in a different form.

An artist’s progression is ever-evolving, never static and never linear and this creative dynamism is manifested in the artists’ work on show, generating an actively engaging exhibition for all viewers. For further information and images please contact Christian Ferreira on 07792 531 226 or christian@ferreiraprojects.com

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25/09/2007

Artist Talk: Rosalind Davis and Freddie Robins
29 September 2007, 3pm
(Free entry if you Email us your name in advance-booking essential as limited spaces available)

Rosalind Davis and Freddie Robins will be conducting an artists' dialogue to coincide with Davis' solo show at The Residence. Both Davis and Robins are graduates of the Department of Textiles at the Royal College of Arts. Davis was one of Robin's students.

Freddie was shortlisted for the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize of 2002 and in 2005 she curated ‘Knit 2 Together: Concepts in Knitting’ for the Crafts Council. Freddie and Rosalind have both exhibited internationally and nationally.

Both Robins and Davis use textiles in fine art contexts, exploring contemporary issues such as identity and social conditions.

They will discuss their work and their experiences of subverting traditional craft techniques wihtin their work, as well as the increasing use of textiles within fine art.

The floor will be open to a Q&A session afterwards.

Rosalind Davis is an MA graduate of The Royal Collage of Art. Her paintings are featured in public and private collections. She has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, and recently joint exhibitions in London and Whitstable. Davis has just become a member of the Bermondsey Artists Group associated with Café Gallery Projects. Inspired by a rich variety of locations from London to Cameroon, Rosalind Davis presents an ominous, threatening and romantic world. Davis juxtaposes manmade structures with organic forms, combining painted post-industrial scenes with the use of embroidery and appliqué. The only evidence of human existence is rendered through her use of embroidery. Notions of textiles are subverted to find new freedoms and expressions in painting. Its use contrasts and highlights the delicate, ephemeral beauty of the subject matter.

Freddie Robins is an artist, curator and tutor in the Department of Textiles at the Royal College of Art. Freddie is an anarchic knitter, producing conceptually led knitted textile pieces. She has built up an extensive and innovative body of medium and small-scale figurative works that cross between the categorisations of art and craft. By using knitting to explore pertinent contemporary issues Freddie continues to disrupt preconceptions of the medium as being feminine and non-threatening. In 2002 she was shortlisted for the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize: Textiles and had her first major solo exhibition, 'Cosy', at firstsite at the Minories in Colchester. In 2005 she curated 'Knit 2 Together: Concepts in Knitting' for the Crafts Council and "Ceremony" at the Pump House Gallery, Battersea Park, London. She currently has work in "Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting", an international exhibition curated by the Museum of Art & Design, New York which is touring in the United States. Her solo exhibition, "Body, Nobody, Somebody" opens at the West Norway Museum of Decorative Art, Bergen at the beginning of November. She has work in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, Crafts Council, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Nottingham Castle Museum. Freddie is a graduate of Middlesex Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1989.

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ANDC is very proud to announce that we are now sponsored by WANT.

WANT is an online shop based in the UK and stocks designed based home accessories, lifestyle products, gifts, etc.....

On behalf of all the artists and designers on ANDC, I would like to thank WANT for their kind support and keeping this website as a site we all want it to be.

Please show your support by visiting them at http://www.want-uk.com

To sponsor ANDC, please email andc@andc.co.uk

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WE WERE HERE ONCE
ROSALIND DAVIS

8 SEPT - 7 OCT 2007

The Residence Gallery The Vergers Cottage, London E9 5JA

Private view 7 September, 6pm.

Email info@residence-gallery.com for guestlist

Artists in Dialogue Rosalind Davis and Freddie Robins;
29 September, 3pm, £5.

Opening Times; Thursday – Friday, by appointment only.
Saturday 1pm - 5pm

Open to the Public
For further information and to reserve a space for the talk please contact info@residence-gallery.com

www.residence-gallery.com
Ring bell for entry at black gate near bus stop
Buses: 26, 30, 388 (last stop)
388 Bus available from Bethnal Green tube(10min) Train: Hackney Wick (3 min. walk)

an event involving ANDC's Rosalind Davis.

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Contemporary Textiles
4th-25th August 2007
Preview: Evening Friday 3rd August
http:// www.newashgate.org.uk

Featuring an inspired collection of contemporary textiles from Rosalind Davis, Alison Ellen, Priscilla Jones, Zoe Lathey, Alison Moger and Louise Nason

New Ashgate Gallery
Wagon Yard
Farnham
Surrey GU5 7PS

an event involving ANDC's Rosalind Davis.

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Art Monopoly!!!

Get this event in your diaries.....scribble over that hot date, THIS is the place to be!!

ABOUT THE EVENT:
A bunch of disgruntled artist types are descending on Hampstead Heath to make and play on a giant Art-Monopoly board.
You are invited to come make/dress up/watch/play/drink/laugh/sunbathe(wishful thinking!!)/bring mates/ENJOY.

DETAILS:
28th JULY, Saturday.
MEETING
Hampstead Heath near the Lido.
11:30am - to make the board itself...get stuck in all you wannabe artists and BRING CARDBOARD!!!! Lots of card!!
3:00pm - KICK OFF! The game begins.... LOTS OF PEOPLE ARE COMING AND ITS GOING TO BE AWESOME!!!

an event organised by and involving ANDC's Helen Cocker.

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ANDC's myspace site!!!

I have just created a myspace site for ANDC to create more exposure for all of us. On this page I will be uploading one image from each and everyone of us.

the url is http://www.myspace.com/artanddesigncollective