RCA Secret 2011 | Royal College of Art, London | 18-25 November 2011
A very heart warming email appeared in my inbox yesterday, regarding the purchase of my RCA Secret submission:
Dear Edd,
Last week I went to the RCA Secret viewing and fell in love with two postcards, two matadors. They were the only postcards I wanted. Last night, I sat in a sleeping bag on the street to get as close to the front of the queue as I could, (if you knew me, you’d be surprised) just because I wanted one of the matador cards.
Waiting in line, people were checking their long wish lists of postcards, watching the tv screens with the images of the cards in the sales hall and ticking off postcards as they were marked as sold. I didnt need a piece of paper, I only had two postcards in mind. I got towards the cash desk and one had been bought already. I got nervous. I asked for card 1934, and they still had it! I nearly cried!
I feel very lucky to have got it. I’m sure there were hundreds of people in the queue after me who would have been really disappointed to see the picture as sold.
Its the most beautiful and delicate piece of art I have ever seen. I’m completely in love with it and wanted to thank you very much. I’ll cherish it forever.
Thank you so much
Jane
(published with permission)
(From a series entitled ‘Lágrimas’ which will be published by Rise Arts in January 2012)
Ghost of Gone Birds Part II | Rochelle School, London | 2-23 Nov 2011
Ghosts of Gone Birds
2-23 November 2011
Rochelle School, London, E2
NEW ART PROJECT BREATHING LIFE BACK INTO EXTINCT SPECIES
Among confirmed contributors producing new work are Sir Peter Blake, Ralph Steadman, Margaret Atwood, Jamie Hewlett, Kai & Sunny, Charming Baker, Polly Morgan, Edd Pearman, Marcus Coates and Billy Childish, with live music by Doves’ Jimi Goodwin
A major new multimedia art exhibition will open in London this November, aiming to throw light on the increasing loss of bird species across the world. Over 80 contemporary artists, sculptors, musicians, writers and poets will come together for Ghosts of Gone Birds, which will run from 2-23 November 2011 at the Rochelle School, Shoreditch, east London. Each artist has been asked to choose a different extinct species, producing a new piece of art inspired by the bird and celebrating its life.
Ghosts of Gone Birds aims to raise awareness of the need for bird conservation and raise funds for BirdLife International’s Preventing Extinction Programme to prevent further losses. The natural rate of bird extinction is one bird each century but in the last thirty years alone, 21 species have disappeared. At present, 190 are classified as critically endangered and, without immediate action, many will not be here in ten years’ time. One clear example is the albatross family, which is fast becoming the most threatened family of birds in the world, dying at a rate of around one every five minutes. In fact, they are disappearing at a rate faster than they can actually breed – so 18 out of the 22 species of albatross are now facing global extinction.
Ghosts of Gone Birds has been created by filmmaker Ceri Levy, best known for his documentary film Bananaz about the band Gorillaz and creative director Chris Aldhous, of consultancy Goodpilot. Ceri Levy said, “We’re aiming to raise a creative army for conservation and it’s fair to say that we have been floored by the response of the artists we’ve asked to create new work for us. To have the likes of Sir Peter Blake, Ralph Steadman, and Margaret Atwood producing new work for the exhibition is a clear illustration of the enthusiasm and support that exists for the cause. The project is
reaching out to involve new audiences in conversations about conservation through their collective interest in contemporary art, music and poetry. We want to get people thinking about the diverse range of birds that have already been lost to extinction and introduce them to the work of BirdLife International.” Margaret Atwood said, “To find so many creative people engaged with the subject of birds and the threat of extinction that faces so many of them today, is truly inspiring. This magnificent show will reconnect us to the natural world, teach us about our past, and fuel our interest in saving what we are losing daily. See the show, love the show, add to the show, and learn how to help.”
To mark the exhibition, Jimi Goodwin from the band Doves will perform his soundtrack to Ceri Levy’s forthcoming film The Bird Effect in a nearby venue during the run of the show. Among other special events will be live readings and discussion with Margaret Atwood, artists working on pieces in the exhibition galleries and limited edition artwork prints being produced by Jealous Print Studio onsite for purchase by visitors. Ghosts of Gone Birds will continue to grow beyond the London exhibition to become an international touring show funding frontline conservation and bird protection projects
run by BirdLife International.
We All, Us Four, Will Fly Edd Pearman
Contemporary Perspectives on Water Colour | Mall Galleries | 13 – 18 June 2011
Mall Galleries have invited twelve artists whose practice reinterprets the traditional medium of watercolour and other water-based media to exhibit in this dynamic group show.
Showcasing a broad range of experimental approaches to watercolour, this exhibition explores the boundaries of the medium through digitally manipulated paintings, watercolour collage, sculptural work built from acrylic paint, delicate miniatures and works that focus on subversive or deliberately naïve subject matter.
Exhibiting artists: Iain Andrews, Patricia Cain, Simon Carter, Louisa Chambers, Stefan Ciulu, Annabel Dover, Lucy Jones, Eva Lockey, David Orme, Edd Pearman, Melvyn Petterson and Daniel Preece
Special Edition Print Auction in aid of UCH Macmillian Cancer Centre
Edd Pearman
Avairy, Digital Print, 84 x 55cm
Estimate Price: £500 – £1000
To make an advanced bid, please email Guy Noble – guy.noble@uclh.nhs.uk
A downloadable pdf of the catalogue can be found here
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Exam | Curated by Edd Pearman | Transition Gallery | 28 May – 19 June 2011
N.B. :-
(i) Question No.1 is compulsory.
1. “Each society has its own social institutions. These are not buildings or places, but structures of relationship, obligation, role and function. These are social concepts and practices, but also involve cognitive structures. Members of a society have a similar mental concept of right and wrong, order and relationships, and patterns of good (positive values). Those who do not honor these concepts are “criminals,” or at least antisocial.”
Dr. Orville Boyd Jenkins
‘Exam.’ is a study of externalised anti-social existentialism. An exhibition of art, which operates outside of, or discusses accepted communal norms and customs. Unorthodox relationships, death and superstition, sociological confusion, and stereotypes are exposed through the media of painting, sculpture, collage and print. If society is collaborative then these artists are practicing in isolation. Their intent: to bring themes of unrest, obsession and morbidity to the fore.
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Artists Biographies
(1) Alex Ball (b. 1985, Northampton, UK)
Graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2007 with a First Class Honours degree in Fine Art, Ball has exhibited at Nettie Horn Gallery (London), Gallery Primo Alonso (London) and Eitoeiko (Tokyo). In November 2010, Ball exhibited his first solo show at the Arts Gallery (London). Ball’s work is held in a number of private collections including the David Roberts Foundation and Anita Zabludowicz Collection, as well as the Kabin Contemporary Art Collection and University of the Arts London Collection. He was awarded the Catlin Art Prize in 2008.
Ball creates several works simultaneously to produce collections of intricate, small-scale oil paintings. Ball’s work is remarkable for its virtuoso technical flair and intriguing subject matter. Fascinated by Samuel Beckett’s solitary characters, Ball’s compositions recurrently posit objects and lone figures in bizarre, unsettling compositions, which allude to the liminal space inhabited by Beckett’s protagonists.
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