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NFASP (The National Federation of Artists Studio Providers)
Colchester
firstsite
firstsite is a contemporary visual arts organisation based in Colchester with a mission to make contemporary art relevant to everyone.
Our integrated programme of work includes projects, exhibitions and publications by established and emerging artists, as well as extensive learning opportunities and artists’ support initiatives.
25.09.2011
NEW BUILDING!!
FIRST EXHIBITION
CAMULODIUM 25TH SEPTEMBER 11- 22ND JANUARY 12
Colchester's Roman history as the first city of Britain is the starting point for our opening exhibition, Camulodunum, which runs from 25 September 2011 – 22 January 2012.
The show will feature major commissions by British and international artists, as well as loans from collections including Tate, V&A, Arts Council England, the University of Essex Collection of Art from Latin America, Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Art Institute Chicago and Kunsthaus Zurich.
The exhibition will draw on the town's important collection of Romano-British artefacts including coins, ceramics and other aspects of Colchester's archaeology, shown alongside artworks that consider the treatment of objects in the museum and contemporary culture as future historical record.
Among these are works by Ai Weiwei, Subodh Gupta, Barbara Hepworth, Sarah Lucas, Henry Moore, Cildo Meireles, Grayson Perry, Robert Smithson, Bill Woodrow and Andy Warhol.
Camulodunum includes new commissions to four international artists: Michaela Eichwald, Aleksandra Mir, Karin Ruggaber and Danh Vo.
Mir's encyclopaedic HELLO Colchester will link 100 found images to a photograph of a local soldier meeting the Queen, reflecting Colchester's long history as a garrison town, from pre-Roman times to the present day. Danh Vo's work features some of the first fragments completed as part of a two-year undertaking to fabricate a full-scale replica of New York's Statue of Liberty.
In partnership with the University of Essex Collection of Art from Latin America, a series of Zero Centavo and Zero Cent coins by the Brazilian conceptual artist Cildo Meireles will be shown, alongside original Iron Age and Roman coins.
For all info on our upcoming projects and events visit our website!
www.firstsite.uk.net
Art on Five
Arts programme at Essex University, Colchester
www.essex.ac.uk/artson5/
Colchester School of Art and Design
Art and Design courses based at Colchester Institute, and MA courses at the Minories.
www.colchester.ac.uk/centresofstudy/art/
Southend
Metal
Metal was founded by Jude Kelly OBE in 2002 and was created as an artistic laboratory to champion the need for continual investment in artistic investigation and the development of innovative ideas that could shift the thinking in the UK cultural sector.
We provide innovative, multi-disciplinary residency space for artists from the UK and overseas in Liverpool and Southend on Sea.
Alongside providing space for artists and thinkers to develop their ideas and further the philosophy of their work, we are interested in how this artistic process, and the practice of artists can input into, and potentially influence political and social issues of the day.
Through our artistic programme we draw out evidence and ideas for a better understanding of the artist’s role in civic life, and ensure that these are shared with a wide and diverse set of partners.
These ideas are showcased and disseminated on a regular basis through residencies, exhibitions, events, performance, discussion and publications.
http://www.metalculture.com/
Idea 13
IDEA13 is an online network for culture across Southen on Sea, & place for conversation between artists and their audiences. It was launched by Metal in March 2009. It features events in Southend and surrounding areas. Artists and organisations can create their profile in Forum as well as post their news and opportunities.
http://idea13.org
CoExist Arts/TAP
TAP is an artist-led studio, gallery, cinema and shared office space for a number of creative organisations and artists from Southend on Sea.
www.coexist.org.uk/tap.html