Podcasts about Ikon Gallery

This series of conversations with art educators, practitioners and makers expands on the ideas presented by Visualise: The Runnymede Trust and Freelands Foundation 2024 report on Race & Inclusion in Secondary School Art Education. In this episode 'Classroom Portraits' we are joined by Exodus Crooks, a Birmingham-based multi-disciplinary artist and educator who works with installation, film-making and text. Through their practice they explore ideas of self-determination, religion and spirituality at the intersection of education, using their role as a teacher to re-imagine Western pedagogy. Exodus has previously exhibited with Iniva, Ikon Gallery and the National Gallery, among others. Today they'll be joining me to discuss their experience as both an educator and former student, and how we can transform the art curriculum within the classroom. Freelands Foundation works to broaden access to art education and the visual arts across the UK. They work with teachers and educators to develop diverse and ambitious approaches to art education. Read the report Visualise report here. Executive producer and host Lou MensahShade Podcast InstagramShade Podcast WebsiteMusic King Henry IV original composition for Shade Podcast by Brian JacksonEdit & Mix by Tess DavidsonEditorial support from Anne KimunguyiPodcast design Joel Antoine-Wilkinson Help support the work that goes into creating Shade Podcast. https://plus.acast.com/s/shadepodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The abstract painter Mali Morris is fascinated by colour and light, and has been exploring their possibilities in her work for more than 50 years. She was born in Wales and studied at the University of Newcastle, where the Pop Art pioneer Richard Hamilton was one of her teachers. He brought her and fellow students news of New York which she says “seemed as far away to me as the moon”. Mali herself taught at a number of art schools including Chelsea, the Slade School and the Royal College of Art. She was elected a Royal Academician in 2010, and last year, flags made from her work hung above Bond Street, not far from the Academy, in a riot of joyous colour. She currently has a major exhibition at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham. Her musical choices include Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi and some blues singing and whistling by Professor Longhair.

In Episode 95 of the No Limitations podcast, “Finding a Way Through,” Blenheim Partners' Gregory Robinson speaks to Elizabeth Ann Macgregor AM OBE, former Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Australia's leading museum dedicated to exhibiting, collecting and interpreting contemporary art from across Australia and around the world.With a career that began on the road driving a travelling gallery around Scotland, Elizabeth gives us a glimpse into her remarkable journey that brought her to Australia to lead the metamorphic revitalisation of the MCA. From breaking down barriers to art and engaging with broader audiences to establishing the National Centre for Creative Learning and driving a major focus on artists as educators, she shares with us the challenges they had to overcome to allow her to develop MCA into the vibrant organisation The Art Newspaper has declared the most visited contemporary art museum in the world before the global pandemic.Elizabeth is also on the Board of the Sydney Swans Foundation and was previously President of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art, Chair of the Federal Government's Creative Economy Task Force, and a Director of UNICEF Australia. Prior to her 22-year directorship of MCA Australia, she was the Director of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, one of the major contemporary art galleries in the United Kingdom.

    In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Dean Kelland (@deankellandofficial)   Dean Kelland is a UK Based Artist who works across performance, photography and filmmaking. His practice touches on cultures of taste and histories of class in order to produce engaging observations on collective and mediated identities. Kelland has exhibited nationally and internationally and undertaken residencies at New Art Gallery Walsall and the Birmingham & Midland Institute.   In 2019 he was awarded a three year artist residency at HMP Grendon for Ikon Gallery and the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust.   For more information on the work of Dean Kelland go to https://www.deankelland.com   To Support this podcast from as little as £3 per month: www.patreon/ministryofarts   For full line up of confirmed artists go to https://www.ministryofarts.org Email: ministryofartsorg@gmail.com Social Media: @ministryofartsorg

The latest episode of Making a Mark explores the work of Christiane Baumgartner (b. 1967), a ground-breaking artist who has achieved international critical acclaim for her printmaking, choosing to adopt the earliest form of the medium, the woodcut, as her primary means of expression. Curator and director at Cristea Roberts Gallery, Helen Waters, talks to Baumgartner about her formative years spent living in East Germany under communism and how this informed and shaped her work, as well as her choice of medium and subject matter, from her earliest woodcuts, many of which are now housed in major museum collections, through to her latest editions, which are the subject of a new exhibition at Cristea Roberts Gallery.   We also hear from Jonathan Watkins, director of Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, who gave Baumgartner her first solo show in the UK and commissioned her to make Stairway to Heaven, 2019, her largest work to date, Christian Rümelin, an early supporter of Baumgartner's work and Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the Musée d'art et d'histoire in Geneva, and Gillian Forrester, independent curator and scholar, who has written about Baumgartner's work. She is the former Curator of Prints & Drawings at Yale Center for British Art in the US. Making a Mark is a new podcast by Cristea Roberts Gallery exploring the relationship between artists and printmaking.⁠ Artworks discussed in the episode can be viewed online via https://cristearoberts.com/podcast/ Image: Christiane Buamgartner in her studio in Leipzig, Germany, 2021. Photo: Werner Lieberknecht #christianebaumgartner #womanartist #womeninart #germanart #germanartist #eastgermany #printmaking #woodcut #woodcutting #prints #light #landscapes #seascapes #artiststudio #surveillance

A novel about Matisse, hand glazed ceramic panels, red ochre to Yves Klein blue, the story of female pioneers of colour theory: Laurence Scott is joined by the artist Lubna Chowdhary, author Michèle Roberts and art historians James Fox and Kelly Grovier to celebrate colour and find out more about the history of different colours and the way we look at them. Lubna Chowdhary's exhibition at Peer in London until November will be expanded when it goes on show in Middlesborough at MIMA in 2022 https://lubnachowdhary.co.uk/ James Fox's book is called The World According to Colour: A Cultural History Michèle Roberts' novel is called Cut, Out. You can hear Michèle talking about failure and female friendship in a previous Free Thinking discussion https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jvwp Kelly Grovier is writing about female pioneers of colour theory for bbc.com You can find more of his work at https://www.kellygrovier.com/ In the Free Thinking visual arts playlist we talk to painter Sean Scully, a fashion expert and a neuro scientist about colour perception https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b046cs01 and Kelly thinks about how we look at art in this episode https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04xrzd5 And if you want to experience colour on the walls of galleries at the moment – the Royal Academy Summer show is ablaze with it, the Hayward Gallery has a display of painters, Frieze London art fair is on this week, Mit Jai Inn has created a Dreamworld at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, Charleston farmhouse in Sussex – the colourfully decorated home of the Bloomsbury gang - pairs the work of Duncan Grant with contemporary art and the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge has a show focusing on gold artefacts found in Kazakhstan. Producer: Jessica Treen

Felicity Allen is a British artist and writer who makes paintings, books and films, often collaboratively. Her current work is mainly focussed on two durational projects. For one she is developing her concept of the Disoeuvre (as a feminist alternative to conventional ideas of an artist's oeuvre); for the other she produces series of Dialogic Portraits. She has just completed her most recent Dialogic Portraits project, including her film Figure to Ground: a site losing its system (trailer: https://vimeo.com/527359904), with the cross-disciplinary research project People Like You: Contemporary Figures of Personalisation https://peoplelikeyou.ac.uk/ . Her current work on the Disoeuvre involves a study group with the Women's Art Library archive at Goldsmiths. She outlined the concept in her PhD (2016), since when she has made a film and a series of prints, as well as the artists book The Disoeuvre: an Argument in 4 Voices (WASL Table); 6:27, (Ma Bibliothèque, 2019).She continues to work with the literary, activist, walking organisation Refugee Tales https://www.refugeetales.org/ , for whom she made Dialogic Portraits postcards last summer when Lockdown made mass walking impossible. Recent exhibitions of her work have been at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; x-hibit, Vienna; and Resort, Margate. For most of her working life Felicity has been involved in informal and higher education and, having run the education department at Tate Britain, published a series of articles on gallery education, and edited the Whitechapel/MIT Documents of Contemporary of Art book Education (2012). For more info see www.felicityallen.co.ukHer photographic work, Baby II, is currently on show in the Ikon Gallery's exhibition A Very Special Place: Ikon in the 1990s. 

今回は横浜美術館主任学芸員の木村絵理子さんを迎えて「美術館と表現の自由〜ポリコレと、その他のルール」をテーマにトークセッションを行います。 00:35　アーティストの表現と現代社会との繋がり 08:14　社会問題によって変わる美術館のルール 16:43　ポリコレと美術館が出来る表現 24:01　スキャンダラスな芸術表現と一般社会における気付きの種 30:40　日常生活を独自の解釈で見つめる 37:29　木村さんからリスナーへの「問い」 ＜ゲストプロフィール＞ 木村絵理子（キムラ・エリコ） 横浜美術館・主任学芸員 2000年より同館勤務、主に現代美術の展覧会を手がける。2005年展から横浜トリエンナーレに携わり、2020年展では企画統括を務める。近年の主な展覧会企画に、“HANRAN: 20th-Century Japanese Photography”（National Gallery ofCanada、2019）、「昭和の肖像：写真でたどる『昭和』の人と歴史」（横浜美術館、2017／アーツ前橋、2018）、「BODY/PLAY/POLITICS」（2016）、「蔡國強：帰去来」（2015）、「奈良美智：君や 僕に ちょっと似ている」展（横浜美術館、青森県立美術館、熊本市現代美術館、2012）、「高嶺格：とおくてよくみえない」展（横浜美術館、広島市現代美術館、IKON Gallery、鹿児島県霧島アートの森、2011）、「束芋：断面の世代」展（横浜美術館、国立国際美術館、2009-10）ほか。この他、關渡ビエンナーレ・ゲストキュレーター（2008、台北）、釜山Sea Art Festivalコミッショナー（2011）など。

As the impetus for digitalisation grows with the increased physical segregation brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a tension between traditional and contemporary approaches, and how they will evolve and co-exist. In this panel, we speak with artists about how they are straddling the two while remaining true to their practices. Panellists: Alecia Neo, Artist and Co-Founder of Brack Jason Lim, Artist and Educator Masuri Mazlan, Artist and Co-Founder of Tekad Kolektif Zarina Muhammad, Artist, Educator and Reseacher Moderator: Melanie Pocock, Curator, Ikon Gallery

Today we have a very special guest Doctor Vanley Burke. Dubbed the godfather of Black British Photography, he started documenting the lives of Handsworth residents since the 60s and his archive, which contains not only photos but also objects giving context to the Black experience, became so substantial that it is largely housed in Birmingham's Central Library. An exhibition in 2015 at Birmingham's Ikon Gallery transported his entire home into the gallery and became one of the most successful exhibition in the galleries history. http://www.vanley.co.uk/ Desert Island Disks: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00010pq Intersectional GLAM conference tickets available: https://lglam2020.eventbrite.com Online Courses: https://intersectionalglam.org/online-courses/ Tip Jar: https://intersectionalglam.org/podcast-well-spoken-tokens/

In this new series, I am discussing various topics connected to art with Birmingham based artists and other art world insiders. They are more laid back versions of standard 'talking heads' interviews. Video podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnVvJaLfx6k&feature=youtu.be The idea for this podcast came from Contemporary Lynx's invitation to write about how do artists and curators work together. For the article in Contemporary Lynx I interviewed Jonathan Watkins (Director, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham), the owner of commercial gallery Joanna Gemes (l'étrangère, London), the co-founder of an artist-run space Karolina Korupczyńska (Stryx, Birmingham) and two internationally renowned artists: Tereza Buskova and Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll. This podcast is the full recording of my conversation with Karolina Korupczyńska. -MENTIONS- Stryx: http://stryx.co.uk/ Digbeth First Friday: https://digbethfirstfriday.com/ My video about Digbeth First Friday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7CSdizc1PA Grand Union: https://grand-union.org.uk/ Vivid Projects: http://www.vividprojects.org.uk/

Artist Hew Locke and historians Suzannah Lipscomb, Aanchal Malhotra & Anindya Raychaudhuri talk to Rana Mitter about using objects and archives to create new images of the past, from Guyana to India and Pakistan to women in C16th France. Suzannah Lipscomb's book The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc uses the evidence of 1,200 cases brought before the consistories – or moral courts – of the Huguenot church of Languedoc between 1561 and 1615 to summon up the lives of ordinary women. Hew Locke Here's The Thing - the most comprehensive show of his art in the UK runs at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham from March 8th to 2nd June 2019 and then tours to Kansas City and Maine. Aanchal Malhotra is the author of Remnants of Partition : 21 Objects from a Continent Divided. She is also the co-founder of the Museum of Material Memory Anindya Raychaudhuri teaches at the University of St Andrews and is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. He has published Homemaking: Radical Nostalgia and the Construction of a South Asian Diaspora. You can hear his Essay on Partitioned Memories for BBC Radio 3 here https://bbc.in/2SJjLew Producer: Luke Mulhall

Osman Yousafzada was born in Birmingham, where his mother ran a dress-making business. He studied anthropology before turning to fashion, and he launched his own womenswear label in 2008. Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Emma Watson and Taylor Swift have all worn his designs. Last year he staged his first solo art exhibition, Being Somewhere Else, at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham. Haroon Mirza was born in London and was obsessed by audio technology from an early age. He has exhibited his work widely around the UK and overseas. His installations have often mixed old-fashioned radios, TVs and gramophones with film loops, light and sound to explore sensory perception.

Polly Apfelbaum is an artist living and working in NYC. In 2018, Polly had solo exhibitions at the Belvedere 21 in Vienna, Austria and Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, UK, which travels to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, in 2019. She has exhibited widely since the 1980s, including one-person exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, the Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA at Bepart in Waregem, Belgium, the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, MA, the lumber room in Portland, OR and at the Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, India. A major mid-career survey of her work opened in 2003 at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, PA, and traveled to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, and Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, both in 2004. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions including Pattern and Decoration, Ornament as Promise, Ludwig Forum for Internationale Kunst in Aachen, Germany , An Irruption of the Rainbow at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Wall to Wall at MOCA Cleveland in Cleveland, OH, Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler at the Rose Art Museum, , Three Graces at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY,  Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design, Midcentury and Today at the Museum of Art and Design in New York , AMERICANA: Formalizing Craft at the Perez Art Museum in Miami, FL, Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, amongst many, many others. 

Polly’s work is in numerous permanent collections including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Dallas Museum of Art; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; The Museum of Modern of Art, New York; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She was the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 1987, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993, an Artist's Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 1995, an Anonymous Was a Woman Award in 1998, a Richard Diebenkorn Fellowship in 1999, a Joan Mitchell Fellowship in 1999, an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2002, and the Rome Prize in 2012. Brian stopped by Polly’s loft in lower Manhattan where she’s lived and worked for the last 40 years for a talk about early influence, the Pennsylvania Dutch, Philadelphia funk, craft, design, endless drive and so much more.

Vanley Burke is a Jamaican-born photographer often described as the Godfather of Black British Photography. His body of work is regarded as the greatest photographic record of African Caribbean people in post-war Britain. He is motivated by a desire to document culture and history. Vanley was born in 1951 in St Thomas, Jamaica. When he was four, his mother emigrated to Britain to train as a nurse, leaving him in his grandparents' care. His mother sent him a Box Brownie camera as a present when he was ten, and his interest in photography was born. When he was 14 he left Jamaica to join his mother and her husband and their children, in Handsworth, Birmingham, where they ran a shop. Vanley's fascination with photography continued and he began taking photographs of every aspect of the life of his local community. He also started collecting relevant objects to provide more context for his photographs, gathering everything from pamphlets, records and clothes to hurricane lamps. His archive became so substantial that it is largely housed in Birmingham's Central Library.In 1977 he photographed African Liberation Day in Handsworth Park, documenting what is thought to be the largest all-black crowd ever to assemble in Britain. In 1983 he held his first exhibition, Handsworth from the Inside, at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, and in 2015 the entire contents of his flat was relocated to the gallery for the exhibition At Home with Vanley Burke. His images have appeared in galleries around the UK and abroad. Earlier this year, he was commissioned to mark the 70th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush, creating the installation 5000 Miles and 70 Years at the MAC in Birmingham.CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Blue in Green by Miles Davis BOOK CHOICE: Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants by Ahmed Fayaz LUXURY ITEM: A Machete and a Crocus bagPresenter: Lauren Laverne Producer: Cathy Drysdale

Vanley Burke is a Jamaican-born photographer often described as the Godfather of Black British Photography. His body of work is regarded as the greatest photographic record of African Caribbean people in post-war Britain. He is motivated by a desire to document culture and history. Vanley was born in 1951 in St Thomas, Jamaica. When he was four, his mother emigrated to Britain to train as a nurse, leaving him in his grandparents’ care. His mother sent him a Box Brownie camera as a present when he was ten, and his interest in photography was born. When he was 14 he left Jamaica to join his mother and her husband and their children, in Handsworth, Birmingham, where they ran a shop. Vanley’s fascination with photography continued and he began taking photographs of every aspect of the life of his local community. He also started collecting relevant objects to provide more context for his photographs, gathering everything from pamphlets, records and clothes to hurricane lamps. His archive became so substantial that it is largely housed in Birmingham’s Central Library. In 1977 he photographed African Liberation Day in Handsworth Park, documenting what is thought to be the largest all-black crowd ever to assemble in Britain. In 1983 he held his first exhibition, Handsworth from the Inside, at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, and in 2015 the entire contents of his flat was relocated to the gallery for the exhibition At Home with Vanley Burke. His images have appeared in galleries around the UK and abroad. Earlier this year, he was commissioned to mark the 70th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush, creating the installation 5000 Miles and 70 Years at the MAC in Birmingham. CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Blue in Green by Miles Davis BOOK CHOICE: Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants by Ahmed Fayaz LUXURY ITEM: A Machete and a Crocus bag Presenter: Lauren Laverne Producer: Cathy Drysdale

Philip Dodd and Joanna Kavenna discuss the challenges of art in an age of irony as the work of Käthe Kollwitz goes on display in Birmingham at the Ikon Gallery. Lawrence Norfolk pays tribute to the work of the great American poet, John Ashbery, who died last week. Plus a discussion of social conservatism in the USA, Europe and the UK with Sophie Gaston from the think tank, Demos and the political commentators, Tim Stanley and Charlie Wolf. Kollwitz was born in Königsberg in East Prussia in 1867 and the show gathers together 40 of her drawings and prints under the themes of social and political protest, self-portraits and images she made in response to the death of her son Peter in October 1914. Portrait of the Artist: Käthe Kollwitz A British Museum and Ikon Partnership Exhibition runs from 13 September 26 November 2017 with a fully illustrated catalogue.John Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) is the author of collections including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 Image: Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) Self Portrait, (1924) Woodcut Copyright: The Trustees of the British MuseumProducer: Zahid Warley

Ruth Wilson plays the lead in Ivo van Hove's production of Hedda Gabler at London's National Theatre, Son of Joseph (a French film with religious overtones) takes on the overwhelming might of the latest Star Wars Rogue One. Blockbuster vs indie might not be an equal fight but thank goodness there's something else out this week! How good is it? Nadeem Aslam's latest novel The Golden Harvest is set in modern Pakistan, with the resilience of the human spirit fighting corruption and international interference Roger Hiorns was brought up in Birmingham and his latest exhibition at the city's IKON Gallery looks at his career-long fascinations with human corporeality and its meeting with the mechanical and he proposes a new pathway into how artists can continue to make and behave And we cionsider a couple of the big crime dramas on TV over Christmas - ITV's Maigret (starring Rowan Atkinson) and Agatha Christie's Witness For The Prosecution on the BBC Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Alex Preston, Stephanie Merritt and Jamila Gavin. The producer is Oliver Jones.

In a programme exploring light, Anne McElvoy is joined by Ann Wroe - who has walked the South Downs for her latest book considering painters including Ravilious and Samuel Palmer. Prof. Lucie Green has written a journey to the centre of the sun. The fluorescent creations of Dan Flavin the post war American artist go on show at Birmingham's Ikon Gallery curated by director Jonathan Watkins. And in Blackpool - home of the Illuminations - the Grundy Art Gallery is adding to its collection of light works – curator Richard Parry explains. Dan Flavin: It is What It Is and It Ain't Nothing Else runs at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham from 13th April to 26th June.Six Facets Of Light by Ann Wroe is out now. She is also the author of Pilate: The Biography of an Invented Man.15 Million Degrees - A Journey to the Centre of the Sun is written by Dr Lucie Green, solar physicist at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory at UCL.Producer: Torquil MacLeod

Prince has been the Executive Director of the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, Canada, since 2011. Prior to this he was Curator at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK, where he was responsible for an international program, making solo exhibitions and publications with artists including Arturo Herrera, Donald Judd, Olafur Eliasson, Andrea Zittel, Martin Boyce, Shahzia Sikander, Ryan Gander, Victor Man, Marcel Dzama, Steven Shearer and Susan Philipsz amongst many others. His exhibition of paintings and drawings by Cuban artist Carmen Herrera in 2009 was critically heralded as the ’discovery of the decade’ by newspapers The Guardian/Observer in the UK and The New York Times.

In Cornelia Parker's Rorschach (Endless Column III) 14 flattened silver-plated domestic objects, are suspended on wires in a horizontal line, hovering a few inches above the floor. All the objects -- including a candelabra, a fruit basket and a ladle -- have been squashed by a 250 ton industrial press. Standing in front of her stunning sculptural installation, purchased by the GAC in 2009, Cornelia Parker gives a revealing interview about what motivated her to make the work. She explains why she chose the particular silver-plated pieces, where she collected them from and what made her pulverise them with an industrial press. Emphasising that these are silver-plated objects not silver, Parker explains that they are the kind of pieces that people tend to give to commemorate occasions such as weddings, anniversaries and retirement -- this is silver that we all have in our lives. Cornelia Parker was born in Cheshire. She trained at Gloucester College of Art and Design, Wolverhampton Polytechnic and completed her Master of Fine Art degree at the University of Reading. In 1995, she collaborated with performer Tilda Swinton in The Maybe, an installation for the Serpentine Gallery. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1997 and a major exhibition of her work was held at the Serpentine Gallery, London in 1998. In 2001 she was commissioned to produce a sculpture for the new British Galleries of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Two major solo shows of her work were held in 2008 at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham and at the Whitechapel Gallery, London

This week: Part one of the Open Engagement conference 2013 series. Caroline Picard talks to Caire Doherty! Claire Doherty is Director of Situations. Claire initiated Situations in 2003 following a ten-year period investigating new curatorial models beyond conventional exhibition-making at a range of art institutions including Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Spike Island, Bristol and FACT (Foundation of Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool. Claire has worked with a diversity of artists including Lara Almarcegui, Uta Barth, Brian Catling, Phil Collins, Nathan Coley, Lara Favaretto, Ellen Gallagher, Joseph Grigely, Jeppe Hein, Susan Hiller, Mariele Neudecker, Cornelia Parker, Roman Ondak, Joao Penalva and Ivan and Heather Morison. She has advised a range of organisations as curatorial consultant including Tate, Site Gallery Sheffield and is author of the public art strategies for the University of Bristol and Bjorvika, Oslo Harbour. In 2009, Claire was awarded a prestigious Paul Hamlyn Breakthrough Award as an outstanding cultural entrepreneur. Claire directed One Day Sculpture in 2008-9 with David Cross, a year-long collaborative series of 20 commissioned, 24-hour public artworks across New Zealand. In 2010, she was Co-Curatorial Director of Wonders of Weston for Weston-super-Mare. Doherty lectures and publishes internationally. She is editor of Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation (Black Dog Publishing, 2004); Documents of Contemporary Art: Situation (Whitechapel/MIT Press, 2009) and co-editor with David Cross of One Day Sculpture (Kerber, 2009), with Paul O’Neill, Locating the Producers: Durational Approaches to Public Art (Valiz, 2011) and with Gerrie van Noord, Heather and Ivan Morison: Falling into Place (Book Works, 2009). She was also an external advisory member of the Olympic Park Public Realm Advisory Committee and a Fellow of the RSA.

Emily Carr and Rennie Collection Speaker Series Emily Carr is pleased to present a lecture by Martin Creed in conjunction with his exhibition of works and performances at the Rennie Collection from May 21 to October 22, 2011. It is probable that Creed is best known in Vancouver for Work No. 851 (2008) his seventy-five foot neon sentiment EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT, permanently installed at Wing Sang. The phrase should rightly be read as a glowing beacon of optimism and conciliation. A converse interpretation, however, might lead one to ask “but exactly how good is ‘alright’? By entangling the double entendre in many of his works, Creed seemingly employs binary opposites: on or off; big and small; open, then closed. When these opposites collide, as they do so often in these numerically catalogued works, what was once a simple dualism is exploded, revealing infinite ulterior facets. The door into Martin Creed’s world is much like Work No. 129: a door continuously opening and closing (1995), where we can look through it and see nothing or everything, or both, in equal parts. Creed renders the invisible tangible to spectacular effect with Work No. 329 (2004). By employing party balloons to contain precisely fifty percent of the calculated volume of a particular room, the artist provokes the viewer’s awareness of how they may negotiate the remainder. Creed craftily compounds elements again in Work No. 372 (2004-2005). A grand piano, an elegant yet burdensome instrument, normally used to play florid compositions brimful of scintillating keystrokes is transformed into a brute, thumping automaton. As the innards of the piano reverberate each time the lid comes down, the sculpture also becomes a score. Rennie Collection holds a diverse breadth of these seminal works alongside more recent endeavours. In Work No. 1000: Broccoli prints (2009-2010), a special commission to be shown for the very first time during this exhibition, the artist halves an imperceptively complex shape, a sprig of broccoli, using the exposed plane to conduct printed impressions. Creed has similarly been bisecting entire exhibitions with Work No. 850 (2008), in which convoys of human sprinters are directed to traverse spaces, such as the neoclassical galleries of Tate Britain, at timed intervals. This piece will be making its North American debut at Wing Sang. Martin Creed was born in Wakefield, England in 1968 and currently lives and works in London and Alicudi, Italy. He won the Turner Prize in 2001 and in recent years has worked on music, dance, writing, sculpture and painting. Creed’s recent solo exhibitions and projects include Moscow Museum of Modern Art; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; and the Duveen Commission, Tate Britain, London. Rennie Collection has evolved over a number of years to focus on works related to identity, social injustice, appropriation, painting and photography. Bob Rennie has garnered an international reputation as a dedicated collector, amassing one of the largest collections of contemporary art in Canada. In 2009, renovations were completed on the oldest building in Vancouver’s Chinatown to display the collection to the public. Rennie Collection at Wing Sang holds two exhibitions a year with supporting catalogues and events. To book a tour, and to find out further information go to www.renniecollection.org

This week, another in the series of interviews Duncan and Christian did at the Banff Centre while they were on art vacation, Jonathan Watkins! Jonathan Watkins (born 1957) is an English curator, and is currently Director of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham. Watkins emigrated to Australia with his family in 1969 and studied Philosophy and History of Art at the University of Sydney, where he later taught. He was curator of the Chisenhale Gallery in London during which period this relatively small local gallery became an internationally known centre of excellence - many of the Artists shown at that time later going on to major acclaim including a number of Turner Prize winners, Watkins later moved to the Serpentine Gallery from 1995 to 1997 and worked in a freelance capacity as curator of the Biennale of Sydney in 1998. Watkins now lives in Birmingham, England. He currently directs the Ikon Gallery, and recently unveiled plans for a new museum of modern art in Birmingham.

This week Duncan and Christian talk to Ron Terada about art, hockey fights and Blade Runner (for the love of God, Edward James Olmos's character was named Gaff!!!).Ron Terada lives and works in Vancouver. Recent solo exhibitions include Voight-Kampff (2008), Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver; Stay Away From Lonely Places (2006), Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; and You Have Left the American Sector (2005), ArtGallery of Windsor. His work has been included in a number of group exhibitions including Tractatus Logico-Catalogicus (2008), VOX Centre de l’imageContemporaine, Montreal; Words Fail Me (2007), Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; The Show Will Be Open When the Show Will Be Closed (2006)Store, London and the Kadist Foundation, Paris; Intertidal (2005), Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium; and General Ideas: Rethinking Conceptual Art 1990-2005 (2005), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco. Terada was a recipient of the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award, Canada Council for the Arts (2006); and the VIVA Award, Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation (2004); and was nominated for a Sobey Art Award (2007). Terada is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Part of University of Illinois Chicago's Voices lecture series at Gallery 400.Arturo Herrera (Venezuelan, born 1959) received his MFA from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Selected solo exhibitions of Herrera"i? 1/2 s work include those held at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom (2007), Art Gallery of Ontario (2002), Whitney Museum of American Art (2001), UCLA Hammer Museum (2001), Centre d"i? 1/2 Art Contemporain, Geneva (2000), Renaissance Society, University of Chicago (1998), and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1995). Selected group exhibitions include Comic Abstraction (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007), The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli, Torino (2003), Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art (Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, 2003), Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002), The Americans (Barbican Art Centre, London, 2001), and Painting at the Edge of the World (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2001). Selected awards include a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (2005), DAAD Fellowship (2003), Pollock-Krasner Foundation award (1998), and an ArtPace Fellowship (1998). The artist lives in Berlin.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Part of University of Illinois Chicago's Voices lecture series at Gallery 400.Arturo Herrera (Venezuelan, born 1959) received his MFA from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Selected solo exhibitions of Herrera"i? 1/2 s work include those held at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom (2007), Art Gallery of Ontario (2002), Whitney Museum of American Art (2001), UCLA Hammer Museum (2001), Centre d"i? 1/2 Art Contemporain, Geneva (2000), Renaissance Society, University of Chicago (1998), and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1995). Selected group exhibitions include Comic Abstraction (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007), The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli, Torino (2003), Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art (Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, 2003), Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002), The Americans (Barbican Art Centre, London, 2001), and Painting at the Edge of the World (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2001). Selected awards include a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (2005), DAAD Fellowship (2003), Pollock-Krasner Foundation award (1998), and an ArtPace Fellowship (1998). The artist lives in Berlin.