Artistic Director of Upstart Theatre, Tom Mansfield, and his team have been selected for our inaugural CAS:AIR community project commencing this September. They will connect Andover with ‘the bigger picture’ and give the whole of Andover an opportunity to experience a universe of hope and possibility. Tom Mansfield’s successful application to become the first ‘Andover […]
Guest Artist Interview with Hermione Allsopp
The fleshy upholstery of dated furniture contorted and compressed into new shapes. The collected objects obtained from charity shops reimagined and re-configured and given new life as expressive art objects. This was the main subject of discussion in this Friday’s interview with artist Hermione Allsopp who talked about how she makes work and how she […]
Inside the mind of an artist; Phil Illingworth
Guest Artist Interview 2/5 For the exhibition Housebound, Week 2; ‘The Bathroom’, curated by Susan Francis — @houseboundart, Interviews by Maija Liepins Over the last decade Phil Illingworth has has created highly crafted, beautifully considered pieces of work with very intriguing titles. His work can look like sculpture and wall installations but he presents them as […]
Session 3; Reading ‘Cinematic Drawing in a Digital Age’ (DISCUSSION REPLAY)
Selected paragraphs for Drawing Languages for Dissent 3rd sessionMonday, 4.5.2020, 10:30 – 12:30 THIS MONTH’S TEXT: Ed Krčma, ‘Cinematic Drawing in a Digital Age’, in Tate Papers, no.14, Autumn 2010, accessed 13 April 2020. (All paragraphs below were selected from Yonat Nitzan-Green’s summary of Krčma, 2010). Krčma seeks to conceptualize drawing in its relationship to […]
Guest Artist interview with painter Cathy Lomax
As part of HouseBound the exhibition Week 1, ‘The Bedroom’, curated by Susan Francis@houseboundart On Friday 8th Maija from CAS interviewed Cathy Lomax live on Instagram. Cathy Lomax is a London based painter. Her work is a contemporary and personal exploration of popular culture, beauty, celebrity and identity. Lomax has an MA Fine Art from […]
What a Drawing Language might be
By Amanda Bates Drawing Research Group 2020 I had a think about exactly what a drawing language might be. Some of the following may seem really obvious, but it strikes me that sometimes we make assumptions about what other people might see as obvious. I’ve edited this a little since posting it on WhatsApp. An […]
Drawing response to thoughts of “cinematic”
By Amanda Bates – Drawing Research Group 2020 I was thinking about the term “cinematic”, and it occurred to me (probably as a result of my teenage daughter’s current interest in the Marvel Cinematic Universe) that comic books and graphic novels have a particularly cinematic flavour to them. I tried to use some of the conventions […]
CAS In Lockdown!
To bring you up to speed with what CAS has been up to since a lockdown was announced, here is a brief summary of our activity March – April;
Thought, form, relationship
A week after our 2nd Yonat’s Monthly Mondays – 06.04.20 and many drawings later a drawing finally popped out which I related to Janice Kirkby-Browns summary of Formative Force – “drawing is the form of the thought” thanks Janice. Working through drawing my thoughts of a form: View this post on Instagram A post shared […]
Session 2; Formative Force, Drawing and Thought
Drawing languages for DissentCAS Research Group with Yonat Nitzan-Green Text introduced by Janice Kirkby-Brown:Jean-Luc Nancy, ‘The Pleasure in Drawing’ (2013, p. 14). Fordham University Press. Kindle Edition. Jean-Luc Nancy wrote this book for an exhibition he curated at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon in 2007. ‘This book addresses the medium of drawing in […]
The Possibility of Hope – additional Text for research group, Session 2
On Monday 6 April the CAS Research Group ‘drawing languages for dissent’ met on a combination of Zoom & WhatsApp to discuss the texts listed below. Janice Kirkby-Brown provided these texts and led the Research Group session. When sending these texts to the group Janice explained why they were important texts at this stage of […]
