Frank Sidebottom
CHELSEA space was sad to hear the news of the death of Chris Sievey, better known as Frank Sidebottom. CHELSEA space Director Donald Smith said "Chris was a creative and unpredictable genius who helped shape the programme at CHELSEA space. His admirers included Bob and Roberta Smith and Jeremy Deller, and Matthew Higgs wrote a glowing review of Frank's show in Artforum - as Frank once sang "that's the wonder of cardboard". Our thoughts at this time are with Little Frank"
#15 Frank Sidebottom CHELSEA space is Ace!
04.07.07 - 04.08.07
Antony Gormley's Critical Mass lands on the De La Warr pavilion
Whilst CHELSEA space considers the physical and administrative demands of Chelsea College of Art and Design’s Henry Moore sculpture Two Piece Reclining Figure 1959, De La Warr Pavillion curator and former CHELSEA space assistant Jane Won moves Anthony Gormley’s work onto the roof at Bexhill on Sea
Mick Jones
CHELSEA space Director Donald Smith curates
Mick Jones' Rock & Roll Public Library
at the Gallery at Norwich University of the Arts
Mick Jones: The Rock & Roll Public Library
13th April - 22nd May
Gallery at Norwich University of the Arts
Francis House, 3-7 Redwell Street, Norwich NR2 4SN
[From the Press Release]
Mick Jones, iconic guitarist and songwriter with The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite and Carbon Silicon, has amassed an impressive collection of paraphernalia of performance and marketing materials of the bands he has worked with. This archive sits alongside a parallel general collection of books, magazines, videos, ephemera, toys and games which mark out his life, times and influences... see more in PDF
In September/October 2010 CHELSEA space will host an exhibition about the late Barney Bubbles, the influential designer whose iconic work for Stiff Records and Hawkwind inspired a revolution in graphic design. The show is curated by Bubbles’ biographer Paul Gorman, renowned author of the book and blog The Look: Adventures in Rock and Pop Fashion.
27 years after his tragic death, Barney Bubbles is now recognised as one of the most powerful influences on the development of graphic design. Paul Gorman will examine the extraordinary oeuvre of this mysterious figure who insisted on anonymity yet provided the visual identity for the counter-culture, new-wave and post-punk movements.
#34 PROCESS: The working practices of Barney Bubbles
curated by Paul Gorman
14.09.10 – 23.10.10
"Barney Bubbles is the missing link between pop and culture"
Peter Saville
Paul Gorman is to present a lecture on Barney Bubbles on 10th March at University Campus Suffolk for more information visit here
A Riot of Our Own
A Riot of Our Own curated by Carol Tulloch, Syd Shelton, and Ruth Gregory and initiated at CHELSEA space in 2008 is to be shown as part of the East End Film Festival. Details as follows:
The East End Film Festival presents Riot, Race and Rock & Roll - Rock Against Racism 1976 - 1981
Babak Ghazi
Visit the website of artist Babak Ghazi (www.babakghazi.com) which
includes his work from The Affirmation curated by Andrew Hunt
at CHELSEA space in November/December 2007.
Syd Shelton
One of Syd Shelton's photgraphs from the A Riot of Our Own exhibition at CHELSEA space has been commissioned for the poster of a new film by Antonino d'Ambrosio entitled Let Fury Have The Hour.
Clare Lewis
artist and CHELSEA space assistant Clare Lewis's artwork was recently featured on the BBC website
Saplings represent stab victims (PDF)
Charlie Franklin Inside Out
Artist and Chelsea space assistant Charlie Franklin is curating and showing work in the forthcoming show:
Inside Out
GV Art
49 Chiltern Street, London W1U 6LY
www.gvart.co.uk
Opens 4th August - 1st October 2009
press release / invite (PDF)
Jazzonia & the Harlem Diaspora
Jazz Tap Workshop
The history, the 1980s revival, the moves
With David Gothard (former artistic director of Riverside Studios)
and Annette Walker (anthropologist and 'hoofer').
Wednesday 29th July 2009
4pm - 6pm
CHELSEA Space
Free Admission
Carol Tulloch and Syd Shelton reflect on their show
at CHELSEA space A Riot of Our Own
Wednesday 10th June 2009 5pm
The Lecture Theatre
Woodlane Campus
University College Falmouth
Gary Woodley's plywood chairs
in Dematerialised
The plywood stools used in the current CHELSEA space exhibition Dematerialised: Jack Wendler Gallery 1971 to 1974, were designed by the artist Gary Woodley who made the inaugural exhibition at CHELSEA space, Impingement no. 47, March 5th – April 16th 2005.
at Tate Britain
Woodley currently has a major new work, Impingement no. 53 in the Duveen Galleries and Room 23 of Tate Britain as part of the exhibition Kettle's Yard curated by Kettle’s Yard Director, Michael Harrison.
coming soon to CHELSEA space -
ECONOMY by Ian Whittlesea
Friday 1st May 2009 10am-10pm
coming soon to CHELSEA space -
December 1952 by Earle Brown
Directed by Cally Spooner
Tuesday 28th - Thursday 30th April 2009
coming soon to CHELSEA space -
Mick Jones: The Rock & Roll Public Library
Private View:
Tuesday 17th March 2009. 6 – 8.30pm
Exhibition continues: 18.03.09 – 18.04.09
Previews
The Independent: London calling for Jones' Clash show (PDF)
Uncut online preview (PDF) / NME.com preview / allgigs.co.uk preview (PDF)
WHITEHOT Magazine
January 2009
Interview with Hana Noorali and Lynton Talbot of RUN Gallery.
Chelsea Arts Club Trust
CHELSEA space Director Donald Smith has bee appointed Chairman of the Trustees of the Chelsea Arts Club Trust, a registered charity set up in 1990 to encourage art and design education and support artists and designers.
Charlie Franklin
Artist and CHELSEA space assistant Charlie Franklin is showing in
Propeller Island /An Evolving Art Space
29 Thurloe Place, South Kengington
London SW7 2HQ
For more information please go to
www.propellerisland.blogspot.com
Curatorial Independence
On March 19th 2008 CHELSEA space director Donald Smith was invited to take part in 'Curatorial Independence' a panel discussion in the series 'Chelsea Conversations' organised by Sonya Dyer curator and co-ordinator of the Chelsea Programme.
The subject of the discussion was "What does 'curatorial independence' mean? Is it ever possible within the public sector? What strategies do curators employ to maintain / claim their independence?".
Panellists included Kwong Lee, (Director Castlefield Gallery), Andrew Hunt (Independent curator), Jen Wu (Temporary Contemporary and Inspire curatorial fellow, ICA) and Donald Smith, (Director of Chelsea Space) explore the issues, in a conversation chaired by Teresa Gleadowe.
For more information on this event and the Chelsea Programme go to
http://cltad.arts.ac.uk/users/chelseaprogblog/weblog/1a6fb/Chelsea_Conversations.html
Joana Bastos & Nadine Puetz
Chelsea graduate Joana Bastos made reference to CHELSEA space in her recent MA show with accompanying text by curator Nadine Puetz
Blow My Skirt Up at Chelsea Futurespace
Work by 12 contemporary artists
Private view: 7th October 2008 6.30 - 8.30pm
Exhibition: 08.10.08 - 31.10.08
Chelsea Futurespace
Hepworth Court, Grosvenor Waterside
Gatliff Road London SW1W 8QP
For more information please visit www.chelseafuturespace.org/blowmyskirtup
Sophy Smith
Artist and CHELSEA space assistant
Sophy Smith was exhibiting at West Eleven
Five at 5
22 - 29 September 2008
West Eleven
5 Blenheim Crescent, off Portobello Road
London W11 2EE
When Marcel Met Motley at V&A
CHELSEA space originated exhibition When Marcel Met Motley opens at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
09.07.08 - 31.08.08
Victoria and Albert Museum
Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
The Zusammen Choir founded by artist and CHELSEA space assistant, Susan Forsyth, will be participating in the Homo Ludens Festival in Warsaw as part of Radioactive.
See: MySpace for The Zusammen Choir
A Riot of Our Own curated by Carol Tulloch
From July 2nd to August 2nd CHELSEA space will be hosting A Riot of Our Own, a show of Syd Shelton's and Ruth Gregory's archive of the Rock Against Racism movement from 1976 until the early 1980's including their publication Temporary Hoarding and Syd's iconic photographs.
Related links on BBC website:
Did music fight racism?
Rock Against Racism
Susan Forsyth
Artist and CHELSEA space assistant Susan Forsyth's animation can be viewed at YouTube.
30 November 2007 - 12 January 2008
CHELSEA space web designer and artist
Shoko Maeda was showing at
Galerie Lorenz in Frankfurt, Germany.
Study Day at Tate Britain
The Archival Impulse: Artists and Archives
Friday 16 November 2007 10:00 - 18:00
CHELSEA space Director Donald Smith and Bruce McLean have been invited to talk about the exhibition Process Progress Project Archive at a conference at Tate Britain.
Link to CHELSEA space archive:
Process Progress Project Archive 1966 - 2006
28 January - 11 March 2006
Jane Won
CHELSEA space are delighted to announce that Jane Won, CHELSEA space assistant and curator of Shin Azumi and Norman McLaren and When Marcel Met Motley, has been appointed Assistant Curator at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex.
Donna Marris
Artist and CHELSEA space assistant
Donna Marris' website
Late at Tate:
Friday 3rd August 2007 18:00 - 22:00
Director of Exhibitions Donald Smith is co-curating the Late at Tate Britain in collaboration with Adrian Shaw from Tate.
3Things
Group exhibition made by Donald Smith
RUN gallery, 30th June to 29th July 2007
Invitation / Press Release / List of Works
Installation views
CHELSEA space website
Site created by Shoko Maeda
(artist/photographer)
