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INSCRIPTION: Drawing – Making – Thinking Curated by Amanda Game and Anita Taylor Part of the Jerwood Visual Arts Encounters series    13 January – 21 February 2010  Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London, SE1 0LN      An exhibition of work by three contemporary artists who each use mark making as a way of recording, developing and communicating ideas.   Curated by Amanda Game (Freelance curator and Consulting Lead Director of IC:Innovative Craft) and Anita Taylor (artist, Professor and Director of the Jerwood Drawing Prize), INSCRIPTION: drawing, making, thinkingis the fourth in the Jerwood Visual Arts Encounters Series. The exhibition explores the different approaches to inscription through three contemporary artists, David Connearn, Philip Eglin and Charlotte Hodes.   Inscription, in this context, is the act of committing ideas through mark making to record meaning. It involves different physical processes of scratching or pressing into a surface. For David Connearn, Philip Eglin and Charlotte Hodes, mark making and inscription is intrinsic to the realisation of their ideas, although their artistic intentions may and do differ.   INSCRIPTION: drawing, making, thinking enables the curators and artists to consider the connections between drawing and making, opening up a rich stream of investigation for a broad range of artists, makers, curators and visitors. The exhibition includes drawings, ceramics, moving image and evidence of the artists' working process.   Exhibition Events   DATE: 18th January, 1st, 8th & 15th February 2010  TIME: 6pm    A series of Monday evening events at Jerwood Space will run alongside the exhibition. Guest speakers will include academics, artists and curators. The events will explore the exhibiting artists’ different approaches to INSCRIPTION, widening the Encounters conversation by engaging both practitioners and audience in open debate about drawing, making and thinking.   Events are free but must be booked in advance. For further information and to book, please contact Parker Harris, or check the Jerwood Visual Arts website.    T. 01372 462190  E. inscription@parkerharris.co.uk  W. www.jerwoodvisualarts.org   Notes to Editors:   Jerwood Visual Arts is a contemporary gallery programme of awards, exhibitions and events at the Jerwood Space, which then tours nationally. Jerwood Visual Arts aims to promote and celebrate the work of talented emerging artists across the disciplines of drawing, painting, sculpture, applied arts, photography and moving image. Jerwood Visual Arts is a major initiative of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.   Encounters exhibitions aim to explore the issues and territories in the borderlands between the main disciplinary fields of the Jerwood Visual Arts programme. Previous exhibitions in the Encounters series have included Space to Draw (17 January – 10 February 2008), Invisible Cities (22 January – 22 February 2009) and Passing thoughts and making plans (4 November – 13 December 2009).   The Jerwood Charitable Foundation is dedicated to imaginative and responsible revenue funding of the arts, supporting emerging artists to develop and grow at important stages in their careers. The aim of their funding is to allow artists and arts organisations to thrive; to continue to develop their skills, imagination and creativity with integrity. They work with artists across art forms, from dance and theatre to literature, music and the visual arts. For more information,visit www.jerwoodcharitablefoundation.org

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The Artists: Asnat Austerlitz graduated with an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL in 2004 and lives and works in Israel. Her work explores ideas of space, time and place and has been exhibited in the UK, Israel, Sweden and Japan. Her practice takes the forms of drawing, video, photography, screen-print and sculpture. Richard Bevan graduated in 2008 with an MA Fine Art Media from Slade School of Fine Art (UCL), London. His work deals with the tension between film as a medium and light as its agent. Juan Fontanive is based in New York and graduated in 2006 with an M.F.A. from The Royal College of Art, London. His interest lies in the beauty of sequential and repetitive movement. Not a conventional film-maker or video artist, his hand drawn characters move across the frame of ‘paper films’ to the rhythm of clockwork mechanisms.  Paul O’Kane recently completed a PhD in History of Ideas at University of London on ‘Hesitation’ and is a London-based artist, writer, tutor and musician. Working across numerous disciplines simultaneously he investigates and consolidates principles of art and thought as illuminated via various filters, differences and juxtapositions. Mark Raidpere is a young Estonian artist who studied film studies at Tallinn Pedagogical University (2000-2003). He is established and well represented in his practice yet has rarely shown in the UK. Mark has shown a consistent search of the dynamic relationship between the evolution of self-identity and social events in the time of post-cold war transition. His work, utilising video as the main medium, explores the psychological states of those living in our time of radical social change. Dan Walwin graduated in 2007 with BA Hons Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London. His video works to date explore the creation of cinematic scenarios, while examining the construction of mood and tension in cinema, and establishing connections between the context and surroundings in which a work is shown and the work itself.

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Jerwood Contemporary Painters 2010 21 April - 30 May   Paul Huxley RA, Callum Innes and Vanessa Jackson curate a review of emerging painting practice in the UK.    The twenty-four talented emerging artists who have been selected to take part in the fourth and final Jerwood Contemporary Painters include:  Neil Clements, Stewart Cliff, Natasha Conway, Kevin Cosgrove, James Ferris, Lotte Gertz, Nick Goss, Tommy Grace, Charlie Hammond, Iain Hetherington, Thomas Hylander, Ellen Macdonald, Jill Mason, Lucy Kumara Moore, Jack Newling, J.A. Nicholls, Ben Pritchard, James Ryan, Daniel Sinsel, David Small, Lucy Stein, Shaan Syed, Mimei Thompson and Hanneline Visnes.   This innovative and diverse exhibition provides a unique opportunity for emerging artists at a particular stage in their development, between student and recognised artist. The exhibition supports imaginative and vibrant practice in contemporary painting by encouraging young artists during what can be their most creative period. Each of the participating artists, who must have graduated since 2000, receives an equal share of £30,000 to support them at this critical point in their careers. This fee is unusual to other prizes as it rewards every artist in the show.    Exhibition Events A series of Monday evening events will accompany the exhibition at Jerwood Space. Events start at 6pm on the following dates:  26 April > Meet the Artists   Gallery tour with selector Vanessa Jackson and some of the exhibiting artists.   10 May > In Conversation Paul Huxley RAdiscusses his work and this year’s exhibition with curator David Thorp.   17 May > A reflection To mark the fourth and final Jerwood Contemporary Painters, a review and reflection on the four exhibitions.   24 May > Panel Discussion A discussion focussing on opportunities for emerging artists. Speakers include Josh Lilley; Julie Lomax, Arts Council England; and David Rayson, RCA. Chaired by artist David Cotterrell.  Events are FREE but booking is recommended. To book and for general exhibition enquiries, please contact Parker Harris on 01372 462190 / jva@parkerharris.co.ukor check the Jerwood Visual Arts website. www.jerwoodvisualarts.org  Notes: The Jerwood Charitable Foundation launched Jerwood Contemporary Painters at Frieze Art Fair 2006 as a major strand of the Jerwood Visual Art programme.  Jerwood Visual Artsis a contemporary gallery programme of awards, exhibitions and events at the Jerwood Space, which then tours nationally. Jerwood Visual Arts aims to promote and celebrate the work of talented emerging artists across the disciplines of drawing, painting, sculpture, applied arts, photography and moving image. Jerwood Visual Arts is a major initiative of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

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Jerwood Contemporary Makers
Exploring new perspectives in making
 
17 June– 25 July
Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London, SE1 0LN
 
Morphing basket weave, a self-contained laundry and an over-sized charm bracelet are just some of the works that have been selected for the third and final Jerwood Contemporary Makers.
 
This year’s exhibition will explore the notion of making from a variety of creative perspectives.  Selectors Hans Stofer, Richard Slee and Freddie Robins – three of the most inventive names in the visual arts - have chosen 29 makers to take part, each of whom will exhibit one work and receive an equal share of a £30,000 prize fund.
 
The 2010 Jerwood Contemporary Makers are:
 
Laura Ellen Bacon             
David Rhys Jones              
Laura Potter
Chien-Wei Chang              
Kirsty MacDougall             
Tomoaki Suzuki
David Clarke                    
Nicola Malkin                    
Ingrid Tait
Carl Clerkin                      
Taslim Martin                   
Marloes ten Bhomer
Julie Cooke                      
Flora McLean                   
Maud Traon
Robert Dawson                 
Rowan Mersh                   
Richard Wheater
Nora Fok                         
Gareth Neal                     
Conor Wilson
David Gates                     
Karen Nicol                      
Emma Woffenden
Joseph Harrington             
Heather Park                
Dawn Youll
Tony Hayward                 
Lina Peterson
 
The exhibition, designed by Michael Marriot, will take visitors on a visual journey through the different approaches to the art of making, highlighting its importance as a visual arts discipline.  Jerwood Contemporary Makers is the UK’s only award for the applied arts and is a major strand of the Jerwood Visual Arts programme.
 
Jerwood Contemporary Makers, was launched by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation in 2008 as a three-year exhibition series supporting and showcasing emerging creative talent.  Each year, a different panel of selectors has curated the exhibition, inviting a group of makers to respond to a different guiding concept.
 
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Jerwood Contemporary Makers will be shown at the Jerwood Space, London, from 17 June to 25 July before touring to Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, with IC: Innovative Craft.
 
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For more press information, please contact Iliana Taliotis or Chris Baker at Colman Getty on 020 7631 2666 or iliana@colmangetty.co.uk
 
Notes to editors
 
Jerwood Visual Arts is a contemporary gallery programme of awards, exhibitions and events at Jerwood Space, London, which then tours nationally. Jerwood Visual Arts aims to promote and celebrate the work of talented emerging artists across the disciplines of drawing, painting, sculpture, applied arts, photography and moving image. It also aims to make connections and provoke conversations within and across the different disciplines. For more information visit www.jerwoodvisualarts.org
 
Jerwood Visual Arts is a major initiative of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.
 
The Jerwood Charitable Foundation is dedicated to imaginative and responsible revenue funding of the arts, supporting emerging artists to develop and grow at important stages in their careers. They work with artists across art forms, from dance and theatre to literature, music and the visual arts.
 
For more information on the Jerwood Charitable Foundation visit www.jerwoodcharitablefoundation.org

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