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Art Forum: Tamara Winikoff
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Life After Art School Life after art school can be a tricky road to navigate for recent graduates. As early career artists leave behind the high level of support provided throughout their studies, where can they go for help in the next stage of their careers as professional artists? The National…
Cóilín Ó Dubhghaill
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Fringe Forum Cóilín Ó Dubhghaill is a silversmith based in Sheffield, England. Born in Dublin, Cóilín trained at Grennan Mill craft school and Edinburgh College of Art, graduating in 1996. He subsequently worked as a designer for industry in India, the Philippines, and the UK, and set up a workshop…
Art & Sex: Leah Emery
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Leah Emery appropriates pornographic images which highlight the awkward and bizarre fare that consumers of pornography are regularly offered. Contemporary erotic bodies in popular culture are typically tanned, taut, manipulated, shining and hairless and as such are eerily alike. Collecting and…
Ariadne’s Thread: The Forensic Art of Provenance
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Anne Halpern, Senior Provenance Researcher for the National Gallery in Washington Joint Seminar hosted by School of Literature, Languages & Linguistics and Centre for Art History & Art Theory The provenance, or ‘biography’, of an artwork or object is a hierarchical form of classification…
Russell Baldon
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Fringe Forum Russell Baldon grew up in the central valley of California where he designed and built wooden toys for his family-owned company. Upon moving to San Francisco in 1984, he earned a Bachelor’s degree in furniture from the California College of Arts and Crafts. He went on to receive a…
Art & Sex: Peter Maloney
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Peter Maloney has been a practising artist since the mid 1970s when he was taught by artists Bea Maddock and Gareth Samson. Their influence left a lasting urge to create works infused with existential problems of occupying a body subject to the vagaries of sex, health, shifting vitality and…
Cao Zhenrong and Cao Hong – Chinese “Qinhuai” Lantern masters
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Fringe Forum The Cao family, from Nanjing, has long been renowned for its kite and lantern makers. In 1949, at five years of age, Cao Zhenrong began learning his art in the family workshop. In 1964 however, amid a “Party Rectification” campaign, the workshop was closed, and Cao was sent to be a…