Learn/ Learn/ Making it Big - Symposium/ 16 November 2010
General Information
A key note speaker will be Helen Marriage, co-director of Artichoke, a leading independent production company that works with artists to invade our public spaces and put on extraordinary and ambitious events that live in the memory forever. Other speakers will include Sam Wilkinson, a senior arts consultant specialising in commissioning site specific public art, Keith Khan, award-winning artist who works with communities and diverse talent to create world-class spectacular arts and cultural events, and makers like David Rhys Jones and Andy Hazell who work with a range of media and scales. The symposium will be chaired by Simon Fraser MA Course Director MA Design Ceramics Furniture or Jewellery, Central St. Martins College of Art and Design.
The symposium is linked to the Arts Council funded Festival Makers Awards scheme organised by The Making and Central St Martins for designer makers to create innovative public artworks or interventions for a new world arts festival in Hampshire.(Closing date: 30 November 2010)
Speakers include:
Helen Marriage, co-director of Artichoke, one of the country’s leading production companies
Sam Wilkinson, senior arts consultant specialising in commissioning site specific public art
David Rhys Jones, artist and joint winner of the 2010 Jerwood Contemporary Makers Prize
Andy Hazell, film-maker, automata maker and public artist
Simon Taylor, Education Manager, and Jenny Bethell, Business and Events Manager, from craft development agency The Making.
Lucy Fergus, maker (Re-silicone design)
Keith Khan, award-winning artist who works with communities and diverse talent to create world-class spectacular arts and cultural events.
The symposium will be chaired by Simon Fraser MA Course Director MA Design Ceramics Furniture or Jewellery, Central St. Martins College of Art and Design.
Ticketing Information
£10 students, £25 freelance professional designer-makers and visual artists, £50 organisations/arts professionals
To book by telephone: 020 7269 1606
Contact Information
http://www.themaking.org.uk
