An artist’s working process is a hidden yet significant journey: it is where ambiguous and uncertain knowledge(s) are given the opportunity to bediscovered through materiality and encounter. The artist’s process itself is also a highly valuable practice of research, actively enabling new yetpotentially slippery knowledge(s) to emerge through reflection, the synthesis of ideas and the [...]
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Drawing, Research, Theory, Practice: new publication
A Happy New Year to all. The first week of 2021 sees the publication of the Journal DRTP Volume 5, Number 2 edited by Dr Catherine Baker. It is published by Intellect with a focus on the multifaceted (inter)relationships between Drawing and Science. You may recall a webinar we held late last year on the experience [...]
Art as a Practice of research seminar: Prof Erin Manning
We are delighted to welcome Professor Erin Manning to present the second talk as part of this series: Erin Manning is a professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). She is also the founder of SenseLab (www.senselab.ca), a laboratory that explores the intersections between art practice and philosophy through the [...]
Call for ‘Works in progress’
We are currently looking for contributions from cluster members to feature your works in progress on the Material Encounters website. It would be really helpful if you could let us know what you are working on at the moment by sending us some images and texts about your works. It may sound ambitious, but we [...]
Whisperings
From 10 - 17 December 2020, Jennifer Ng presented 'Peranakan Whispers' at The Substation Gallery in Singapore. The "Blackboard Schemes" Exhibition featured artists of the Fertile Art Refinery (FAR), creating an experimental and process-centric platform to promote collective reflexivity and connectivity. This organic unity with a multiplicity of practices by 30 artists include themes such as society [...]
A Big Draw award
Remember Jim, Matt and Deb? Canadian Artists Jim Holyoak and Matt Shane shared their drawing experiences with the Cluster in 2019 as they took a day out from their immense all gallery drawings at Mac Birmingham. Debbie Kermode the CEO and Artistic Director of Mac shared with us the curation history behind the show and [...]
EXPRESSION 30.
From the Expression Editors: It is a pleasure to offer you a complimentary copy of EXPRESSION 30. This issue, the fourth one to appear during the Coronavirus pandemic, faces a crucial theme, that of identity, which bothers a large percentage of the human beings, of societies and of nations. It also concerns students and scholars, trying to define the [...]
Print Journal Published
The IMPACT Print Journal has been published online. In is the second edition of the journal borne of the IMAPACT Print Biennale that is in its twentieth year. Some ME members will know of IMPACT as they have participated in the international Conferences, most recently in Santander in 2018. The Journal is edited by Wuon-Gean [...]
Association for Art History annual conference
Bringing together current research and critical debate about art, art history and visual cultures Online EventWednesday 14 - Saturday 17 April 2021 Who should attend the 2021 Annual Conference?The Annual Conference is open to all. If you are doing research about art, art history or visual culture this online event is a perfect opportunity to [...]
Drawing is Free
There is a online event this evening at 5-6pm. It is a mix of discussion and drawing. It is hosted by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020 and the Cooper Gallery at the University of Dundee. It is a launch of a series of free online events and will feature Chloe Briggs in conversation [...]
INVITATION
WRITING WORKSHOP : Peer-review, publishing and editorial roles Cluster members, PGR and ADM BCU staff are invited to join us for the first in a series of Cluster Writing Workshops that will take place over the coming academic year. This informal session will include feedback from two current doctoral students, Harriet Carter and Edward (Jonnie)Turpie, [...]
Thinking Through Drawing
‘Teaching drawing online: a showcase of examples and resources for artists and educators’ Material Encounters member Chloe Regan delivered a workshop with the University of the West of England Drawing Research Group on ‘Teaching drawing online: a showcase of examples and resources for artists and educators’ at Thinking Through Drawing Symposium 2020. Contributors to the workshop presented their [...]
