Event overview
A series of conversations that provide an insight into the minds of some the field's most-respected practitioners.
2 July 2013: Nick Cobb in conversation with Paul Halliday
(Goldsmiths, University of London)
6.30-8.30pm, RHB 137A - Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths
Limited seats available rsvp essential: r.jones@gold.ac.uk
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3 July 2013: Stephen J. Morgan in conversation with Paul Halliday (Goldsmiths)
6.30-8.30 pm, The Wapping Project Bankside, 65a Hopton Street, London SE1 9LR
http://www.thewappingprojectbankside.com
Limited seats available rsvp essential: info@thewappingprojectbankside.com
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4 July 2013: Elisabeth Blanchet in conversation with David Kendall (Goldsmiths)
6.30-8.30pm, Photofusion, 17A Electric Lane, London SW9 8LA http://www.photofusion.org
Limited seats available rsvp essential: jenna@photofusion.org
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Photographer biographies:
Nick Cobb:
Nicholas Cobb’s photography captures the humorous and humdrum events of our everyday lives as city dwellers. Many of his images are made first by creating elaborate set models populated with figurines, then photographing his own manipulated narratives. For some of his series he has bent and moulded plastic bottles, card and general waste, but whatever material he uses, the outcome is a collection of scenes that we can all relate to.
Coming from a background of art school and twenty years of abstract painting, Nicholas abandoned the canvas and picked up a camera to capture the life he imbues in his models. This abrupt change in artistic approach came about seven years ago as he began exploring all that was opposite to what he had done in the past. His interests in sculpture, model-making, the narrative and photography all came together in previous projects such as Ovid’s Metamorphosis, and Life of Christ.
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Stephen J. Morgan:
With his camera, Stephen J. Morgan documents familiar, urban places, bringing about a photographic record of his journey through life and delving into his own identity, as a second generation Irish having grown up in Birmingham. With The Other Side of Everything, he places his personal story within the wider narrative of England's recent political history and the legacy of the British Empire, through one of the country's most potent and ubiquitous symbol: the flag.
For the past year, Stephen J. Morgan has travelled across the UK and photographed both, the Union Flag and St George's Cross where he found them: hanging from tower blocks, displayed in the windows of houses, swinging from poles. The Union Flag is commonly associated with the Monarchy, the British Empire and the British Armed forces. It may function as an emblem of pride and patriotism, or of racism, xenophobia and a rudimentary form of nationalism, depending on who sees it, when and where, thus leading the artist to ponder its function in today's multicultural society.
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Elisabeth Blanchet:
Photographer Elisabeth Blanchet has spent over 11 years building an archive of post-war prefabricated homes and communities in the UK. Prefabs – Palaces for the people is a multimedia exhibition at Photofusion that includes photographs, interviews, short films, stories, an ipad interactive platform and prefab memorabilia.
Over the years there has been much interest in prefabs from writers, the general public and through the media. Actor Michael Caine and politician Neil Kinnock were both famously brought up in prefabs. Recently, the popular television programmes Foyle’s War and Call the Midwife have both featured prefabs and ignited people’s interest in, and nostalgia for, post-war British design. Architectural heritage consultant and writer Greg Stevenson and sustainable housing expert, architect and writer Brenda Vale have authored two of many books on prefabs.
Designed for homeless families with young children, these “palaces for the people” (as they were called at the time) were synonymous not only with comfort and
luxury but also with freedom from the cramped and unsanitary urban housing of pre-war Britain. Intended to be a short-term solution to the post-war housing crisis, the prefabs were supposed to last only ten to fifteen years. However, there are large numbers of people still living in their original prehab homes on estates around the UK, including Catford, South London and Moseley, Birmingham, with a few models receiving grade II listed status.
Dates & times
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2 Jul 2013 |
6:30pm - 8:30pm RHB 137A - Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths |
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3 Jul 2013 |
6:30pm - 8:30pm Venue: Wapping Project Bankside |
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4 Jul 2013 |
6:30pm - 8:30pm Venue: Photofusion |
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