Contemporary Art in London Today Monday, 2Nd to Thursday, 5Th October, 2017 Speakers Will Include
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Contemporary Art in London Today Monday, 2nd to Thursday, 5th October, 2017 Speakers will include: Dr JJ Charlesworth, Consultant Lecturer, Sotheby’s Institute of Art Dr JJ Charlesworth is a writer and art critic. Since 2006 he has worked on the editorial staff of the London-based international art magazine ArtReview, where he is online editor and director of digital content. JJ studied fine art at Goldsmiths College, London, in the mid-1990s, before turning his hand to criticism. Since 1999, he has written reviews, articles and commentaries for publications such as Art Monthly, Flash Art, Modern Painters, Contemporary, Time Out London, Third Text and the Daily Telegraph newspaper. He has published numerous features and catalogue essays on artists including Roger Hiorns, David Claerbout, Sarah Lucas and Liam Gillick. He has lectured and taught extensively, tutoring at London’s Royal College of Art, the Royal Academy Schools and Central St Martins College. In 2016 he completed a doctoral thesis at the Royal College of Art, a study of art criticism in Britain during the 1970s. He is a member of the executive committee of AICA UK. Emma Cousin, Curator, Bread and Jam Emma Cousin trained as a painter at The Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford University, before moving to London in 2008. She maintains a vibrant painting practice, recently winning the Marmite Painting Prize and exhibiting numerous times in London and Internationally this year. After running a commercial gallery in Pimlico, Emma freelanced as an arts event organiser, researcher and curator, working with art institutions and museums, schools, commercial galleries, small artist- led projects and private collections. Working at Robin Katz Gallery since 2011, Emma honed an interest in curation where she conceived one of their most successful shows, ‘The British Line’ charting British history through Modern British drawing. Emma has been commissioned by Hanmi Gallery, The Barbican Arts Trust and Arthouse1 Gallery to work with their alternative spaces and, in 2015, left Robin Katz to set up her own space. Bread & Jam began as a series of experimental and artist-led exhibitions based in a three-storey property in South East London. In resistance to space limitations and playful opportunities for mid-career artists, she set up a residency environment where new works could be tested, realised and exhibited to the public, without the constraints of a commercial gallery and outside of this conventional setting. Working with over five hundred artists over the past two years, Bread & Jam has become a platform where the public can interact directly with art in pieces commissioned for and developed in alternative spaces. Bread & Jam is currently developing a writing residency linked to Milton Keynes Art Centre, and Emma is in the middle of a book charting the project to date and exploring the ethical, social and political issues it raises. The book features commissioned essays and contributions from academics, critics and artists. Focused on developing interdisciplinary collaboration, Emma now works with writers, critics, educators, philosophers, poets, chefs, bakers and a wonderful range of artists to remain curious and challenged in reflecting and questioning the world in which we live. Gareth Fletcher, Lecturer, Art Business, Sotheby’s Institute of Art Gareth Fletcher is a lecturer and seminar tutor in Art Business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art. He is Co- Academic Leader of the Art Business, Foundations & Placement semester course and Co-Leader of the Art and Its Markets summer study programme at SIA. He also lectures on strategy and risk management as part of the Business Management in the Art World Executive Education programme; strategic planning as part of the Business Management of an Art Gallery programme, and the contemporary art market as part of the Frieze Art Fair: Contemporary Art in London Today programme. In June 2016, Gareth delivered a paper entitled Scores on the Doors: Establishing a Certificate of Virtue Framework for Future Art Market Regulation, as part of the ‘Art and Cultural Heritage: What Is the Role for Ethics?’ panel during the second All Art and Cultural Heritage Law Conference at the University of Geneva. Gareth has recently received a TECHNE AHRC scholarship to pursue his PhD examining the semiotics of provenance as institutional construct in the establishment of cultural and economic value in the market for Near Eastern antiquities, and has contributed a chapter on Criminal Activity and Art: Fakes, Forgeries and Thefts for the forthcoming publication, ‘Art Business Today: 20 Key Topics’. Ed Leeson, Consultant Lecturer, Sotheby’s Institute of Art Ed Leeson is a London-based lecturer specialising in Modern and Contemporary Art. He is a staff lecturer for Tate and a guest lecturer on a number of courses at Sotheby's Institute of Art, London. He is also a guest lecturer for a number of American universities, including Pepperdine (California), Syracuse (New York), Lewis & Clark (Portland), James Madison (Virginia) and Wake Forest (North Carolina). He is an independent curator, and has organised a number of exhibitions for The Residence Gallery, London and Public Exhibitions, London. Anna Moszynska, Consultant Lecturer, Sotheby’s Institute of Art Anna Moszynska pioneered the study of Contemporary Art at Sotheby's Institute during the late 1980s, and oversaw the development of the MA in Contemporary Art. In addition to writing books she has contributed to journals including Tate, Apollo, Arts Review, TLS, and Art Monthly, as well as writing for and lecturing at international institutions. Her research interests include the development of recent British, European, American, and Middle Eastern practice, and the problematic issue of medium specificity. In 2010, she curated an exhibition of Antony Gormley's drawings and sculpture for the reopening of MACRO (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Rome. Moszynska is an art critic for BBC Radio 3 and a member of the International Art Critics Association. Bob and Roberta Smith RA Bob and Roberta Smith (aka Patrick Brill) is a highly respected artist who has been a notable fixture on the London art scene since his graduation from Goldsmiths in 1993. He is an outspoken supporter of arts education in Britain and is the co-founder of the Art Party, on whose platform he attempted election to parliament in 2015. Smith has worked as a film-maker, musician, curator, sculptor and author, but is perhaps best known as a public speaker and, as an artist, for his boldly lettered placard paintings - from his furious letter to Michael Gove to others proclaiming that all schools should be art schools. Smith's work is found in the collections of the British Council, the Art Council and the Tate (among others) and his art has been on view at the Whitechapel, the Hayward, the Serpentine, and more. In 2009, Smith's work Sedition was shortlisted for the Fourth Plinth commission in Trafalgar Square. Ben Street, Consultant Lecturer, Sotheby’s Institute of Art Based in London, Ben Street lectures on Modern Art, Contemporary Art and Old Master painting for a number of institutions, including The National Gallery, Tate and Dulwich Picture Gallery. Ben is the author of numerous texts for exhibition catalogues, including the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, The Royal Academy and the Saatchi Gallery, and is a contributing writer for Art Review magazine. He has written and presented programmes on art for BBC Radio 4. Ben has an MA in Art History and English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. Stephan Wrobel, Founder and CEO of Diapason Currencies and Commodities Stephan Wrobel is a founder and CEO of Diapason Currencies and Commodities. For almost two decades, he has specialised in collecting post-war European art including works by Giacometti, Hartung, Buffet, Le Corbusier, Fontana, Sutherland, Morellet and Debre. He has lent some of his collection to world renowned museums and galleries, collaborated on publications and had opportunities to interview and engage with artists. Stephan is in contact with auction houses and dealers around the world. He was featured in the FT weekend magazine and has appeared in the recent book on Bernard Buffet: The invention of the modern mega artist. He is a regular lecturer at the Kedge Business School (Paris, Bordeaux and Marseille) focusing on the Art Market. .