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In a commission for the Museum of London’s major new exhibition DICKENS AND LONDON, Suki Chan shows an installation of light boxes and neon. Chan uses images and text from her own study of London at night, Sleep Walk Sleep Talk. 9 December 2011 – 10 June 2012 www.museumoflondon.org.uk
Suki Chan's films Interval II and Istanbul were presented at The Wapping Project in November as part of Undiscovered Landscapes, in which five international film makers explored the landscape of family, self, home and place.
Vital Arts has commissioned Joby Williamson to create an installation for the children’s x-ray and imaging areas at the new Barts and the London Children’s Hospital in Whitechapel, London. The work will be installed Spring/Summer 2012.
Serena Korda is working on a commissioned project in Barton Hill, Bristol for Sovereign Housing and Field Art Projects. She is collecting people’s everyday, work-related movements and industrial sign language. Events will take place in Barton Hill in May 2012.
Flora Parrott has been commissioned by Royal Holloway University, London to make an installation for a special science event. Parrott will respond to Holloway's pills and medicines, creating a mixed-media assemblage of images, ingredients and objects. 25/ 26 February 2012.
Serena Korda presented a performance piece, The Depiction of Clouds, at Turner Contemporary in Margate on 29 August with Robert Poulter. The performance grew out of their joint curiosity about the mechanics of theatre. Korda is drawn to Nicola Sabbatini's cloud machines that depicted different meteorological phenomena on the stage in the Italian baroque theatre.
Serena Korda was commissioned to make a special project for the Wellcome Collection exhibition Dirt: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life. Korda’s Laid to Rest featured a growing stack of hand-made bricks, all of which contain dust donated by the public. A mythical troupe of dancers called the Brick Keepers perform a ritualistic dance guarding and celebrating the brick stack. Korda filmed this in the Crossness Pumping Station, Joseph Bazalgette's magnificent 'cathedral to waste'. A layer of the bricks was ceremoniously buried in Brunswick Square Gardens in September.
2011
In a commission for the Museum of London’s major exhibition Dickens and London, Suki Chan is showing an installation of light boxes and neon. Chan used images and text from her own cinematic study of London at night, Sleep Walk Sleep Talk.
Vital Arts commissioned Joby Williamson to create an installation for the children’s x-ray and imaging areas at the new Barts and the London Children’s Hospital in Whitechapel, London.
Suki Chan's films Interval and Interval II were presented at The Wapping Project as part of Undiscovered Landscapes: five international film makers explore the landscape of self, home and place.
Serena Korda was awarded a commission by Field Art Projects for a project in Barton Hill, Bristol funded by Sovereign Housing.
Flora Parrott was commissioned by Royal Holloway University, London to make an installation for a science event. Parrott responded to Holloway's pills and medicines, creating a mixed-media assemblage of images, ingredients and objects.
Serena Korda presented a performance piece at Turner Contemporary in Margate with Robert Poulter. The performance grew out of their joint curiosity about the mechanics of theatre.
Tintype curated Spritz, a group show of established and emerging artists for the law firm Simons Muirhead & Burton. Spritz included work by Tim Davies, who represented Wales in the 2011 Venice Biennale, Amikam Toren, internationally renown conceptual artist, as well as young artists such as Dolores de Sade, who won the British Institution Award at the 2011 RA Summer Exhibition.
An Gee Chan, who was invited by Tintype to use the gallery as a project space earlier in 2011, was selected by the artist Adam Dant to have a one-day solo show at the Flowers Gallery in Cork Street.
Joby Williamson and Craig Wheatley were commissioned by Skylon in the Festival Hall, London to make a series of works for an exhibition to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Festival of Britain.
Suki Chan's film Interval II was screened in an open-air plaza in the Chelsea area of New York as part of the Big Screen Project.
Kayde Anobile's work was in The Nature of Change: Hybridity, a group show of young artists presented by HRL Contemporary.
Joby Williamson's Post-it note installation featured in Textures of Time, an exhibition curated by the Whitechapel Gallery & London Metropolitan University's Curating the Contemporary course.
Serena Korda was commissioned to make Laid to Rest, a special project for Dirt: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life exhibition at the Wellcome Collection. Laid to Rest featured a stack of hand-made bricks, all of which contained dust donated by the public. A mythical troupe of dancers called the Brick Keepers performed a ritualistic dance guarding and celebrating the brick stack. Korda filmed this in the Crossness Pumping Station, Joseph Bazalgette's magnificent 'cathedral to waste'. A layer of the bricks was ceremoniously buried in Brunswick Square Gardens.
Flora Parrott had a joint show, Trapezius, with Lisa Gunn at the Herbert Gallery in Coventry exploring the ways in which the human body repairs and heals itself. The artists responded to works in the Herbert Museum.
Joby Wiliamson had an exterior installation with Sign Gallery in Reykjavík, Iceland. Entitled Hverju gleymdirðu? (What Have You Forgotten?) was based on his Tintype show of the same name.
Flora Parrott undertook a residency at the Ryedale Folk Museum in Yorkshire. This culminated in Dipole, an installation in the gallery that visually described the sensation of standing on the broad expanse of the Yorkshire Moors just outside the Museum.
Istanbul by Suki Chan was shown as part of Smile for London, a daily changing programme of film, art and animation displayed on digital platform screens across key London Underground sites.
Suki Chan’s Interval II was selected for the V&A Museum’s Friday Late as part of ‘China Through the Looking Glass’.
Suki Chan's Sleep Walk Sleep Talk was exhibited at MoCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Hiroshima, Japan.
2010
Suki Chan's work featured in Ingram Collection Kinetic Art Sculptures/Installations at the Lightbox, Woking, a joint show with Haroon Mirza.
Flora Parrott showed new work in a group show, Interstice at Testbed1 Project Space, London and also at the M2 gallery in Peckham and the Robin Gibson Gallery in Sydney, Australia.
Suki Chan was shortlisted for the Renaissance Art Prize 2010 hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute.
Joby Williamson showed work in The Familiar Unfamiliar, a group show at the Wuerttembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart.
Serena Korda was Artist in Residence at the Camden Arts Centre, London in August; the residency culminated in the dance performance Decosa Tradition, Stockholm Kiefer/Pin, choreographed by Korda.
Joby Williamson was interviewed on Radio London in June about his show at TINTYPE, What Have You Forgotten?
Suki Chan's two-screen moving image piece Sleep Walk Sleep Talk was shown at the 2010 Concrete and Glass Festival in Hoxton, East London and at the New Art Exchange in Nottingham.
The three artists in Tintype’s show Stripped Away – Birgir Snæbjörn Birgisson, Helgi Hjaltalín Eyjolfsson and Helgi Thorgils Fridjónsson – featured in Wistful Memory, an exhibition at the National Gallery of Iceland in Reykjavík. Stripped Away was chosen as one of the five Top Events for the March Time Out and the Whitechapel's First Thursdays.
Joby Williamson curated the Irregular Wasps show at Tintype with fellow artist Peter Lamb.
Serena Korda was commissioned to make artworks for the new Town Hall Hotel in Bethnal Green, East London, as part of the WalkWalkWalk Live-art collaboration.
Suki Chan curated a moving image exhibition for Jerwood Visual Arts at Jerwood Space in London: ‘For the Sake of the Image’, exploring the relationship between sound and image.
Serena Korda premiered her puppet show There's A Strange Wind Blowing at Galerie Klatovy/Klenová in the Czech Republic following her Start Point Prize residency there in Spring 2010. Start Point selects works from graduate programmes around Europe. Korda was the 2009 winner, the first time for an artist from outside Eastern Europe.
In March, Serena Korda performed in ‘Go Public’, an initiative at Tate Britain.
Suki Chan was profiled in the February issue of Dazed & Confused as part of a feature on Chinese-British artists and work by Chan, Gordon Cheung and Gayle Chong Kwan, was shown at a special event in London's Chinatown.