Thursday, 31 May 2012
Monday, 28 May 2012
mark power's 'jubiloo'
I have been following the progress of Mark Power's building at Jubilee Garden's on the South Bank, opened by Kate Hoey, MP for Vauxhall on Thursday 24th May.
It was good to meet the staff who will be managing the super plush public convenience. Kim (pictured on the burnish'd throne) and her colleagues have been recruited from the Waterloo Job Shop and will on site throughout the Jubilee celebrations and beyond.
kim
The launch event was serenaded by a local community choir who had concocted some appropriate lyrics for the building.
guess the lyric ...
and as it happened - january to may 2012
Friday, 18 May 2012
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
never where kentish town
An exhibition of photographic work by
Kim Cunningham
Katya de Grunwald
Jan Dunning
Kelly Hill
Jason Shenai
Five photographic artists who all live in Kentish Town have come together to show work in the brand new community space. The exhibition coincides with the opening of the renovated Kentish Town Community Centre.
Each artist approached the common fact of living in Kentish Town in a different way and the work varies from the highly personal and aesthetic to what might be described as record photography. In addition to still photography the show includes an installation of projected video.
Millennium Images is delighted to be supporting the exhibition. Millennium sells photographic reproduction rights, especially for fiction book covers, and arranges photographic exhibitions and commissions. All five artists have work placed with Millennium.
Private View
Thursday 3rd May 2012 18.30 to 20.30
Exhibition open
Saturday 5th to Sunday 6th May 2012 12.00 to 18.00
Kentish Town Community Centre
17 Busby Place NW5 2SP
Kim Cunningham's work entitled A Portrait of a (London) Village is the sequel to her original project about growing up in a small village in Ireland. Here, Kim explores her new home of Kentish Town as part of a conglomeration of small villages, despite the urban nature and anonymity of city living.
Katya de Grunwald's photographic series A Mere Interlude depicts unremarkable everyday moments and familiar objects. Domestic spaces continue to be a focus in her work.
Jan Dunning combines video and sculpture, creating a playful mobile that features the silhouettes of NW5 landmarks; some recognisable, others less familiar.
Kelly Hill's project explores the lives of three individuals all living in Kentish Town. The images have been compiled in books and tell a very personal story about the individual and the worlds in which they exist.
Jason Shenai's work concentrates on the shops of Kentish Town Road. It is the old and individual shops that seem to thrive and whilst they seem to never change, there are always minor adjustments being made to their make up.
Monday, 6 February 2012
Modern Love
DayFour issue 9 Modern Love
Published 2011
To most of us, love is a fundamental emotional need. We want to love and be loved. Love is the universal subject of musicians and artists, and the stock-in-trade of gossip columns.
In Western society, the importance of love, and indeed the definition of love, has changed throughout history. Once upon a time homosexuality was prosecuted, and now we celebrate gay weddings. Once upon a time, love meant a private relationship between a man and a woman, leading to a life-long marriage, children, and the founding of a family. Now, marriage is optional, divorce is normal, and privacy is almost impossible. We look for love on Internet dating sites, and hook up with strangers. At the same time, in the modern world different ideas of love are leading to increasing cultural conflict. Loving who you want, or expressing your love, can incur violence and punishment.
Modern love applies to more than our intimate relationships. Once upon a time, the idea of loving your job would have been unimaginable, and not loving your country would be a treasonable offence. Now we love our football team, or The X-Factor, or Justin Bieber, and express that love in ways our parents never imagined.
For this issue, DayFour contributors considered what, who and how we love. While many of the subjects are timeless – the family, falling in love – the way we approach those subjects – defining family, finding a mate – are pure 21st-century.
Contributors
© All photography and text in Dayfour is copyright the contributors. All rights reserved
The Touch
What is it about our hands that tell us so much about ourselves and, the work that we do?
Have a look at your own hands – what story do they tell?
What is it that connects the eye to hand to heart?
'Our sense of touch', said Barbara Hepworth, 'is a fundamental sensibility ... giving us the ability to feel weight and form and assess its significance'.
The touch of a hand is what gives us the capacity to communicate as unique individuals – with all our faults and blips … we are not machine made.
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Irene, The Foundry Manager
As manager of the Royal College of Art’s foundry for many years, Irene is acutely aware of the different attitudes of students passing through the school. ‘There is a tendency just to want to copy objects today,’ she told me. ‘Many students don’t take time to really understand materials and processes. The ones that do produce more interesting work.’
As manager of the Royal College of Art’s foundry for many years, Irene is acutely aware of the different attitudes of students passing through the school. ‘There is a tendency just to want to copy objects today,’ she told me. ‘Many students don’t take time to really understand materials and processes. The ones that do produce more interesting work.’
Alessia, the bee keeper
Born in a small rural Italian village, Alessia loves living in London. She is passionate about bees and works seven days a week on rooftops, in allotments, and city farms tending hives and teaching others about beekeeping. Alessia brings to her life in London a desire to support and sustain these often overlooked city dwellers.
Born in a small rural Italian village, Alessia loves living in London. She is passionate about bees and works seven days a week on rooftops, in allotments, and city farms tending hives and teaching others about beekeeping. Alessia brings to her life in London a desire to support and sustain these often overlooked city dwellers.
Friday, 3 February 2012
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