Webcams #1 by Foxall Studios

Private view: Thursday 6th Feb 2014
Exhibition runs: 5th Feb – 9th Feb 2014
Location: Gallery & Project space

An exhibition of 12 webcams chosen by leading artists, fashion designers, poets and others. By way of introducing ourselves to the GWS contingent Foxall Studios are staging an exhibition in the gallery space between the 5th and 9th of February.

As a studio, we have been interested in various webcams over time, and in the spirit of not sitting on ideas in 2014, we decided to make a deadline and curate this show, and hopefully meet lots of you in doing so.

This exhibition started with the thought that the recent years of internet and new media technology advancement have forced us to re-evaluate the two-dimensional image. When does having a static image go out of fashion? Would a moving image (rather than a static image) on the wall of your bathroom take too much of your attention?

We are interested to see how this group of images will work together, as the webcams play our their various daily cycles in the same gallery space. Like an exclusive performance, the live exhibition will mark a point in time and cannot be repeated.

There will be a private view on Thursday the 6th February from 6.30pm.

Inside Design with Bruce Ingman and Trisha Krauss

Book signing, Q+A and Competition winner announced
Thursday 5th December 2013
Location: Gallery and Project space

4pm Book reading, signing and competition winner announced
7:00pm Inside Design with Bruce Ingman – Bruce talks about his past and current projects
7:30pm In conversation with Trisha Krauss and Lauren Child

As a special Christmas treat, Great Western Studios will be hosting an exhibition where children can interact, discover and invent their very own story book characters.

The exhibition will inspire and educate children and adults in the art of illustration and also provide the rare opportunity to meet two successful children’s book illustrators and discover how they work.

Bruce Ingman and Trisha Krauss have written a storybook and invite you to have a go at creating your own characters. The exhibition will explore the relationships between illustrator, writer and publisher, also looking at the story behind characters and giving an insight into the processes of creating an illustrated children’s story book.

On Thursday 5th Dec 2013 from 4pm Bruce and Trisha will be signing and reading some of their most popular and renowned books. Join Great Western Studios in this celebration of creativity. Admission is free and it’s suitable for all age groups. Find out how to enter the illustration competition by emailing events@greatwesternstudios.com

 

Bruce Ingman

Bruce Ingman is an internationally acclaimed award-winning author and illustrator. Born in Liverpool, he studied at the Royal College of Art.

His first book, When Martha’s Away, won the prestigious Mother Goose Award for the Best British Newcomer to Children’s Picture Books and The Overall Winner V&A Illustration Award. His partnership with author Allan Ahlberg has yielded many successes including, The Runaway Dinner, Previously, Everybody was a Baby Once and The Pencil – Winner of the Redhouse Children’s Picture Book Award and Time magazine’s Children’s Book of the Year. Their latest book,Hooray for Bread, was published in February 2013.

Bruce has also recently illustrated Ronny Rock Starring in Monster Cake Meltdown and Ronny Rock Starring in a Thousand Tiny Explosions written by Merryn Threadgould. His next book, Henry Tate, which he has written and illustrated will be published by Tate Publishing in 2014. He is an Ambassador for the House of Illustration, the world’s first dedicated home for the art of illustration; from adverts to animation, picture books to political cartoons and scientific drawings to fashion design.

Bruce teaches illustration at The CASS London Metropolitan University.

 

Trisha Krauss

Trisha Krauss’s Maude, The Not So Noticeable Shrimpton, written by  Lauren Child, was published in October 2012 by Puffin UK and released in the US by Candlewick Press in 2013.

Trisha Krauss is an American illustrator who spent the beginning of her career in New York City. She started off freelancing for many well-known magazines and newspapers such as: The New Yorker, The New York Times, Town and Country, Travel and Leisure and the Washington Post. Before moving to London she illustrated several published books and book covers.

Further information:

www.bruceingman.com
www.trishakrauss.com

Contemporary Film Screening

Thursday 28th Nov 2013
Refreshments and snacks available
Location: Gallery and Project space

rKive Productions (studio 63) invite you to view six award winning and or nominated Independent short films.

The emphasis of the films is on quality and mutual interest for debate, creating a unique viewing experience.

Genres include: thriller/drama, thriller/comedy and comedy/drama.

You will also get the chance to meet some of the film makers themselves and mingle with others that are passionate about contemporary Indie film making.

Inside Design with Dyson

Engineers Talk with: Sioned Owen, Catriona Sutter and Frederic Nicolas
Thursday 14th Nov 2013
Location: Gallery & Project space

Inside Design is an exciting season of exhibitions, where GWS has invited leading designers, companies and brands to share their creative journey in a business to business, creative to creative environment.

Six exhibitions and talks by six exceptional designers who communicate excellence in their product, brand, communication and DNA, and present their philosophies through a series of ‘show & tells’. The dissection of the working process of their products allows visitors to gain an ‘Inside Design’ knowledge on how successful brands are produced.

Award winning, renowned James Dyson believes that engineering is part of our DNA and that we are all inventors.

Inside Design with the James Dyson Foundation will explore the business of invention, high tech manufacturing, where initial ideas are sparked and how the products function.

Business skills for artists

Seminar: 13th Nov 6.30 – 8.30pm
Location: Gallery & Project Space

This seminar is a must for all artists and has been developed to provide the skills necessary to navigate more effectively in the commercial art world.

Areas covered:

• How to build a portfolio for presentation to a gallery/dealer.
• Marketing your work successfully.
• How to get the press on your side and get ahead of the competition.
• Communicating to a wider audience.
• Financial growth potential and realistic time frame.
• The artist, the market and profile building.

Further information: www.theartinsider.co.uk
info@theartinsider.co.uk / t.02082799916

Decade – 10 years of Totality

Exhibition runs: 18th – 23rd Oct 2013
Location: Gallery and Project space

To mark ten years of Place Marketing, Totality is delighted to present an exhibition offering an overview of work from the past ten years. The place marketing specialism marries our skills in branding and design with an ongoing fascination with places and why people may choose to live, work or visit them. In all work, we seek to define and create a unique and motivating ‘sense of place’, this being the foundation for developing a strong destination brand. A photo essay on Nottinghill  by Jon Stevens gestures towards Totality’s birthplace, whilst demonstrating the importance of individuals in shaping place.

The evening of 17 October will see a private launch of Decade, a publication offering Totality’s take on the last ten years, created to mark our anniversary.