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New Graduates Show
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21 June - 6 July 2008

This show marks the launch of this annual exhibition, presenting the most dynamic new work by visual arts graduates from BA and MA courses across the UK.

Following an online application process, 25 photographers have been chosen. This year our panel of judges were: Melanie Manchot, artist; Sarah Kent, writer and critic; Brett Rogers, Director, The Photographers' Gallery and Marta Weiss, Curator of Photographs, V&A.

The artists in this show are:

Alex Sandwell Kliszynski, Nikki de Grunchy, Philip Ewe, Boris Austin, Rebecca Ayre, Stuart Bailes, Ben Bailey, Murray Ballard, Simon Carruthers, Nikki de Gruchy, Simon Dixon, Philip Ewe, Gavin Fernandes, Paul Greenleaf, Sam Holden, Michal Honkeys, Jesus Jimenez, Neil Montier, Theo Niderost, Akira Rachi, Alex Sandwell Kliszynski, Steve Schofield, Mariah Skellorn, Jan Stradtmann, Rebekka Unrau, Iveta Vaivode, Zoltan Varga and Sally Verrall.

As well as being exhibited at the Gallery, the work is available to view in an Online Gallery.

Mitra Tabrizian: This is that Place

This is the first major UK exhibition of work by Mitra Tabrizian, an Iranian-British photographer and film director whose work combines documentary and film techniques to make elaborate photographic tableaux.

Bringing together a selection of works from the last eight years, the exhibition focuses on the rise of corporate culture, themes of nomadism and migration, and notions of homeland.

The exhibition includes Tehran 2006, a panoramic photograph showing a modern but run-down residential area, populated by a disparate group of people. While it is a constructed photograph, all the characters 'play' themselves: the crowd is a mixture of people who are struggling and those who are living on the edge.

Free entry, until 10 August at Tate Britain.

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Psycho Buildings @ Hayward Gallery

Definitely going to see this one. Will comment back when I do.

'The extraordinary international artistic response to Psycho Buildings shows just how challenging, exciting and playful The Hayward can be' Ralph Rugoff, Director of The Hayward and curator of the exhibition.

This exhibition marks The Hayward's 40th anniversary as one of the world's most architecturally unique exhibition venues.

The exhibition brings together the work of artists who create habitat-like structures and architectural environments. Become an adventurous participant as you explore The Hayward's spaces inside and out, including a room frozen in a moment of explosive disaster, an eerie village of over 200 dollhouses, a floating plastic cloud and a skyline boating pond.

>> until August 25 at the Hayward Gallery, London SE1 (0871 6632519)

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Open Submission Photography Exhibition at Phoenix Gallery

Brighton Photo Biennial in association with Brighton Photo Fringe announces

Open Submission Photography Exhibition at Phoenix Gallery
October - December 2008

Selection panel
A distinguished panel of specialists in the field will include David Chandler, Director of Photoworks, Brighton; David Campany, writer and critic; Clare Grafik, The Photographers’ Gallery, London and Val Williams, Curator and Writer.

Details
One person photographic exhibition of recent work at Phoenix Gallery as a featured element of the Brighton Photo Fringe festival and linked to Brighton Photo Biennial.

Eligibility
Mid career photographic artists currently based or working in the UK. Applicants should have a strong background of exhibiting and undertaking related projects on a national/international scale.

Exhibition content
Present an existing body of work which has not been previously exhibited. Work can be in any lens-based medium and should be appropriate to the exhibition space.

Selected artist will receive a fee and budget for presentation of work and related expenses.

Phoenix Gallery is part of a large independent visual arts organisation based in central Brighton. It runs a contemporary exhibition space, artists’ studios and educational activities.

Brighton Photo Fringe is the largest event of its kind in the UK. It offers artists from Brighton, the UK and abroad an opportunity to exhibit their work alongside Brighton Photo Biennial.

To Apply
Please send the following materials on cd or dvd:

1. 20 images in the following format: jpegs, 72 dpi to a maximum of 30 x 25 cm (no powerpoint), or moving image on dvd
2. List of work with titles, dates, formats and duration for moving image
3. Statement up to 500 words about your work and how it might be presented in the gallery space
4. Any specific printing, framing or equipment requirements
5. CV including email and postal address
6. Self addressed stamped envelope if you want your materials to be returned

Send to
Photo Fringe 08
Phoenix Gallery
10 - 14 Waterloo Place
Brighton BN2 9NB
Deadline
8 July 2008

Applicants will be notified at the end of July. Site visits will take place in early August.

For further information about Phoenix Gallery, including updates on this exhibition, and to view a floor plan of the gallery spaces, please visit www.phoenixarts.org.

Chutney Preserves - Two: "The Rot sets in"

This should be a fun day out!

Sunday 22nd of June, 2008, on Camberwell Green, Camberwell – 2pm till 7pm

A juxtaposition of workplace with exhibition stage, or perhaps more coherently, experimental lab with ceremonial site, ‘The Rot Sets In’, is decorated like a fete with small gazebos and stalls, and a rotten twist. The fete is in effect, a one day public art work, which visitors to the green can interact with, or just observe if they choose. It will be a humorous and thought provoking display of a broad range of temporary art works and artists that will make reference and take resources from the fine borough of Camberwell.
Sarah Doyle will offer weeds, rescued from between the cracks of the paving stones of Camberwell’s’ streets, from her garden stall, whilst Naomi St Clair Clarke has made an effigy which you can ‘make clean’ with a wet sponge missile. Lady Lucy is a rotten portrait artist, offering to make rotten portraits of visitors to the green from her park bench, possibly beside Rachael House who shall be sharing edible dog poo from a dogs bottom. Ami Clarke will pluck small gifts from her bearded chin, Ben Woodeson will display a number of hand-printed t-shirts of Mayor Johnson, and Miriam Craik-Horan shall respond to Mendelssohn with a lawn mower engine on her face. Jo David proposes to create a cardboard obelisk and miss-information desk with rotten visitor information about Camberwell, Sarah Sparkes will send down messages from her nest in the hanging tree. Andrew Cooper has a composting Wicker Man lying on Camberwell’s lawn and Dean Kenning will ceremonially hoist a totem pole at sundown, made during the day, from collected bottles and cans. Rebecca Feiner will invite passers-by to rant about issues in ‘Ranter’s Corner’. As they do she will make a picture of them and display these, framed on a table. Julian Wakeling has taken a beautiful photograph of pears decomposing. He has made it into postcards and will write messages for visitors to take away. Libby Shearon has transferred images of hobby horses and other spirits from the land onto business men’s white shirts, and Marq P Kearey has a muddy pool with ambitions to facilitate low ebb’s, whilst Geraldine Swayne shall cheer us all with rotten ballads, channelling voices from folk singers who frequented the green in days gone by. Continuing the musical responses, The Lonesome Cowboys From Hell, Calum F Kerr, Tim Flitcroft, Jan Maat and Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly, parade as The Wild ‘Worst’ on Camberwell Green with a rotten western arena, complete with fake camp fire. cApStAn StRiNg a rebel rouser, will embody the spirit of Captain Swing, the long dead peasant agitator. Darren O’Brien has been trying to train worms to make paintings – visitors will be invited to pick a worm to make a muddy painting that they can take away. Be repulsed by Gavin Toye’s revolting paintings and then hit a rotten egg on Ben Newton’s dart board game and take home a jar of green chutney.

Come, come, come along to the great festival of Camberwell Green – ‘The Rot Sets In’.

Another event organised by Sarah Sparkes and Marq P Kearey. Visit the blogsite at:
http://www.chutneypreserves.blogspot.com

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2008

A bit late with this one... but still time to submit an entry. This used to be the Schweppes Prize once, it is now sponsored by Taylor Wessing - a bit easier to spell!

Submissions are now being invited for this prestigious international photographic portrait competition, which celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography. Entry is open to photographers from around the world, aged 18 and over.

The Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery has established a reputation for its diversity of photographic styles, encompassing editorial, reportage and fine art images submitted by a range of photographers, from gifted amateurs and photography students to professionals.

In the Prize's search for excellence, photographers are encouraged to interpret 'portrait' in its widest sense of 'photography' concerned with portraying people with an emphasis on their identity as individuals.'

This year, the winner of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2008 will receive £12,000. In addition the judges, at their discretion, will award one or more cash prizes to the shortlisted photographers.

The Prize will also include the special Godfrey Argent Award, presented for the best portrait taken by a photographer aged 18 and 25.

To enter Online, visit www.npg.org.uk/photoprize between 1 May and 20 July 2008 to register online. You will receive an email confirming your registration number. Photographs must be delivered to London College of Communication either in person or by post/courier between 21 and 25 July 2008. Online registration will ensure a quicker, more efficient, check-in when delivering photographs.

FORMAT International Photography Festival

!call for EXPOSURE exhibitions now open!

Artists working with photography or moving image are invited to submit proposals for new or existing works for display in the FORMAT EXPOSURE exhibitions in non gallery spaces as part of the FORMAT Festival 2009 6th March - 5th April 2009.

These exhibition opportunities are open to any artist/photographer based in the UK or internationally. Selected artists will be included in the FORMAT09 brochure, catalogue, website and will be profiled as part of the festival.

The EXPOSURE exhibitions curated for FORMAT09 will be held in 30 venues throughout Derby city centre ranging from temporary gallery and non-gallery spaces including bars and cafes, university campuses, museums, civic and other public access buildings.

The selection panel includes:

* Louise Clements - Senior Curator FORMAT & QUAD
* Mike Brown - Arts Projects Co-ordinator FORMAT & Derby City Council
* Clare Grafik - Curator The Photographers Gallery
* David Campany - Writer/Curator/Teacher
* Huw Davies - Dean of Arts Design & Technology, University of Derby

The theme for FORMAT09 - PHOTOCINEMA is deliberately broad inviting practitioners to respond in a number of ways;

We are interested in seeing any work that ranges from 'film still' to 'still film'. The theme for FORMAT09 is positioned in the half-light between these two narrative and technical sensibilities, colliding - fact with fiction, historicism with fantasy.

The festival will contain a broad variety of work from artists who can relate to the cinematic through referencing or have the look of films, single images that are so brimming with narrative as if they were a film in one shot, the use of sequencing, directed or documentary photography and moving image from single still to feature film. Works may be derived from/inspired by film, be highly composed and directed, or can be documentary or street photography, in essence regardless of definition the exhibitions included in the festival will need to subscribe to a notion of the cinematic.

FORMAT09 will include the diversity of techniques within photography from darkroom to digital, printed, projected and moving image. Including works that fall within these categories:

* Screen based
* Projected
* Wall mounted
* Web based

Download the application form and more information:
www.formatfestival.com

FORMAT is an International Photography Festival that takes place in the city of Derby, UK, which celebrates the diversity of photographic practice from darkroom to digital. Established international practitioners exhibit alongside the best emerging talent from the UK and beyond.