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Exhibition: Radicals and Non-Conformists

Photography by Rosie Collins

The online publication for Radicals and Non-Conformists will feature selected works from the exhibition. It will be available from mid August.

Exhibition: Radicals and Non-Conformists

Poster design by Shia-ying Wallis

Founding member, Co-Director and this year’s curator of the Staff Art Show at the National Portrait Gallery, Beverley Bennett, commissioned fellow creatives to follow the brief ‘Radicals’ in conjuction with the 12-Pages Online Project Space.

Exhibitors were asked to take inspiration from sitters within the collection located in Room 18, Art Invention and Thought: The Romantics, which features the likes of William Godwin, Lord Byron, John Constable and William Blake.

As the project evolved, participants began to move away from the chosen theme by selecting new or existing work. In doing so, individuals emerged to become Non-Conformists, free-thinking Radicals. For more information visit radicalsartshow.blogspot.com.

12-Pages: Radicals

Open publication - Free publishing - More art


The issue of 12-Pages, TBC Artists' Collective online journal is now live on the TBC blog, 12-Pages.com. Edited by Beverley Bennett, the project challenged TBC members and their invited open submissions to contribute to the theme Radicals.

Response to Octavia E. Butler's novel 'Kindred'

Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field.  
She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant.
In 1979, she published Kindred, a novel that uses the science-fiction concept of time travel to explore slavery in the United States.

12-Pages Online Project Space: Call for Submissions - Issue 7

TBC Artists' Collective has now announced an open call for submissions to its June 12-Pages Projects. Applicants are asked to make a new artwork in response to the theme of 'RADICALS'.

The Regency era spawned a group of revolutionary artists, writers and thinkers including Thomas Paine, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Blake and Lord Byron - who became known as the Radicals. It was a period in British history where opinions were voiced and artistic expression was at a level never witnessed before.

For this brief you are asked to consider modern day 'radicals' spanning the last 20 years. Work created can be a homage, reference, quote, or interpretation.

Submissions should incorporate elements of drawing processes within finished outcomes, with an emphasis on your chosen radical.
The notion of 'radical' can be as rigid or as loose as you feel comfortable with.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

• Send all images as JPEGs, minimum 72-maximum 150dpi, min 400Kb, max 1Mb
• Send all text documents as .doc, unless presented as a 'drawing' or 'image' in PDF format. Limit body text to 3,000 words
• If the contributing artist has a clear idea as to how their word should be displayed, the desired layout should be submitted as a PDF. The editor's decision is final. 
• Send all text documents as .doc, unless presented as a 'drawing' or 'image' in PDF format. Limit body text to 3,000 words
• If the contributing artist has a clear idea as to how their word should be displayed, the desired layout should be submitted as a PDF. The editor's decision is final.
• Send all images as JPEGs, minimum 72-maximum 150dpi, min 400Kb, max 1Mb 

 OWNERSHIP

• 12-Pages does not accept previously published material, and does not expect works commissioned for 12-Pages to be used elsewhere before publication of the issue concerned.
• The contributing artist retains full rights to their work. If the artist wishes to reprint or publish the work in future, TBC Artists' Collective asks that the relevent issue of 12-Pages be credited
• Due to the high volume of submissions received, TBC Artists' Collective can only enter into correspondence with those whose works have been accepted, and cannot give critical feedback on submissions.
• Editor-in-chief has final say over all editorial decisions.

All responses should be sent to Beverley.Bennett@tbcartistscollective.org by midnight on 31st May 2011 to be considered for inclusion in the 12-Pages publication on TBC's online project space. RADICALS will be online in June 2011.

12-Pages: Hybrid

Open publication - Free publishing - More literature

The new issue of 12-Pages, TBC Artists' Collective's online journal is now live on the TBC blog - www.12-pages.com. Edited by Beverley Bennett, the project challenged TBC members and their invited open submissions to contribute to the theme Hybrid.

Beethoven / 5:17 / Chopin

I decided to based my research on music. Namely classical music, Beethoven's Egmont, Op. 84: Overture in F Minor and Chopin's Nocturne No.1 in B-Flat minor, Op. 9, No. 1.
By layering the two sets of music to play seamlessly together, I later documented its output via an equalizer. There, the visual compositions were made.
I'm hoping to develop further on this series. Perhaps to produce hand rendered drawings as opposed to digital.

Sketchbook: Residue

res·i·due

–noun

1.

something that remains after a part is removed, disposed of, or used; remainder; rest; remnant.

 

 

Sketchbook: Experiments with Saffron

Delineation: Contemporary Dialogues with Drawing - Scratch Black Light

Film: 'Process' by Timothy Knights

Film gives an insight into a working day in my studio in London. The film also accompanies my solo show at Arena Gallery, Liverpool entitled Process.

TBC News: 12-Pages Online Project Space

For more information visit TBC Artists' Collective blog

News: 'Tomorrow is Uncertain' Featured Artworks on Art Review

Art Review online has decided to feature one of my works,
http://www.artreview.com/photo/photo/listFeatured

Photography by Alexandra Wolkowicz

Saatchi Online

Beverley Bennett profile

Exhibition News: 100 The Highway

 

100 The Highway is a one-night exhibition of new works, works-in-progress and site-specific works by a selection of artists, self-publishers and past collaborators, at the former location of Maritime Printing Co.

The exhibition features works by Aishan Yu, Alexander Bates, Alexandra Hughes, Andrew Ra...nville, Beverley Bennett, Catalina Niculescu, Charlie Coffey, David Lilley, Hiromi Kawasaki, James Jeff Lindley, Kala Newman, Kathryn Faulkner, Margarita Myrogianni, Marie Roux, Pernille Leggat Ramfelt, Rachel Ichniowski, Richard Bevan, Rona Smith, and Sarah Andrew.

Impulsive Random Platform will produce a free publication especially for the exhibition, in response to the works and site.