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2020

Anxious Flowers
Anxious Flowers, Diane Chappalley, 2020, pastel

Artist Support Pledge, an initiative on instagram by Matthew Burrow to support artist during the pandemic. Artists are invited to sell work for up to £200 and each time £1000 is reached, they pledge to buy another artist's work. #artistsupportpledge

Many artists' work can be seen online, including alumna Diane Chappalley's series of works 'Anxious Flowers'. See www.instagram.com/dianechappalley.

Seedlings for Solace
Seedlings for Solace, 2020

Hannah Morgan

Seedlings for Solace is dropping off seedlings at homes around the city in return for £5 donations to London domestic abuse charity Solace Women’s Aid. The project is being run by Hannah Morgan, a sculpture student at the Slade School of Fine Art, who started it when the Slade shut down. With the help of some friends and fellow students, she began growing and distributing from hubs in north and south London.

There is an article in Time Out.

We are sorry to hear of the passing of David Leverett (1938 - 2020). He taught a printmaking at the Slade for many years until his retirement.

A Colour a Day - week 4
A Colour a Day - week 4, Jo Volley, 2020

Follow Jo Volley's A Colour a Day project, a year-long project to celebrate one colour each day by recording a swatch of it, on The Pigment Timeline Blog: https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/pigment-timeline.

Work by Rutie Borthwick & Rebecca James, Harley Kuyck-Cohen, Nicole Morris, Giulia Ricci and Julia Vogl can be seen online in Dear World Project, a cross-disciplinary public engagement collaboration that explores mental health, its diagnosis, and the use of labels often associated with feelings and emotions. See the Dear World Project website.

Congratulations to Yva Jung who has been awarded an a-n Artist Bursary for 2020. The bursary will fund a residency in Felixstowe, which will culminate in a performance and video work exploring themes of journeys, borders and encounters. See the a-n website.

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phyllida-royal-academy

PHYLLIDA! A film by Third Channel of Phyllida Barlow preparing for her 2019 ‘cul-de-sac’ exhibition at the Royal Academy can be seen online on YouTube.

Colour & Poetry: A Symposium
Colour & Poetry: A Symposium , Jo Volley, 2019

Today, 21st March, is International Colour Day & World Poetry Day. Unfortunately the symposium Colour & Poetry, scheduled for today has been cancelled. Associate Professor Jo Volley, would like to share with you this piece of text that fairly encapsulates the spirit of it for her.

Then the man in the blue suit reaches into his pocket and takes out a large sheet of paper, which he carefully unfolds and hands to me. It is covered with Picasso’s handwriting – less spasmodic, more studied than usual. At first sight, it resembles a poem. Twenty or so verses are assembled in a column, surrounded by broad white margins. Each verse is prolonged with a dash, occasionally a very long one. But it is not a poem; it is Picasso’s most recent order for colours… For once, all the anonymous heroes of Picasso’s palette trooped forth from the shadows, with Permanent White at their head. Each had distinguished himself in some great battle – the Blue period, the Rose Period, Cubism, ‘Guernica….. Each could say: ‘I too, I was there…” And Picasso, reviewing his old comrades-in-arms, gives to each of them a sweep of his pen, a long dash that seems a fraternal salute: ‘ Welcome Persian Red! Welcome Emerald Green! Cerulean Blue, Ivory Black, Cobalt Violet, clear and deep, welcome! Welcome!’

Brassai, Conversation avec PIcasso (1964)