Mike Bradshaw
Having worked as both designer and educator for over 30 years, he has maintained a passion for drawing through his own practice, his teaching, curriculum design and support for subject research. The process he uses is termed “visual thinking” and is designed to help student designers find ways to engage in drawing and visual research, particularly in relation to information content and the way in which this is conveyed. Mike has developed a number of courses, presented papers and exhibited work from his extensive archive on “visual thinking” both in the UK and abroad.
Linked to the UAL Drawing Research Centre, Mike coordinates the LCC Drawing Group. ‘The Group’ is currently engaged in looking at the drawing practice embedded within courses, where it has evolved and developed new areas of visualisation, expression and communication, which run in parallel to the traditional practice of life drawing and objective study.
Mike’s work featured in the Drawing from Turner Exhibition at the Tate Britain in 2006 and this autumn, he will be working with the Department of Prints and Drawings at The British Museum on a similar project that has the working title ‘Drawing Drawings’.
For the past four years he has been restoring the drawing studio of (the late) Hans Schwarz, where he maintains his practice.
Mike can be contacted at m.bradshaw@lcc.arts.ac.uk or on 00 44 207514 6651(2).
Kelly Chorpening
Course Director for Drawing, Camberwell College of Art
Kelly Chorpening earned her BFA in Painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art and MFA in Painting from Hunter College, City University of New York, USA. She moved to London in 1999.
Recent exhibitions of her work include solo shows at ShillamSmith3, London in 2006 and Salon am Hof, Vienna in 2007. Kelly has lectured on drawing since 1994 to students of archaeology, engineering, conservation, architecture and art, and is currently the Course Director of BA (Hons) Drawing at Camberwell College of Arts.
Kelly will be featured in dialogue with another artist, Peter Morrens, for the first issue of Th INK, a cahier dedicated to the discussion of contemporary drawing produced by Sint-Lucas Beeldende Kunst, Ghent, Belgium. Th INK will be launched at a September 2009 symposium in Ghent- The Drawing Incident- where Kelly and Peter will be discussing their contribution. Other speakers include: Norman Bryson, Ann Daems, Voebe De Gruyter,Rebecca Fortnum, Tania Kovats, Dr. Ed Krcma, Wendy Morris, Ans Nys and Dirk Zoete.
Also in September, Kelly will be a part of an exhibition entitled 'Walls', at Voorkamer in Lier, Belgium.
Andrew Hall
Head of Illustration, Central St Martins
Charlotte Hodes
Research Interests
Charlotte's Research is centred on my practice as a painter. This includes large scale papercuts which have been both digitally collaged and intricately hand cut, thereby emphasising the surface, as well as ornately decorated ceramic forms. Her subject is the female figure as a motif juxtaposed with alternative historical representations enveloped by pattern, drapery, contemporary motifs such as computer icons and domestic elements. The work is informed by the Decorative and Applied Arts. Drawing is central to my practice as a thinking process through which I build an 'archive' of usable visual imagery, both hand drawn and digital. With the collaged work, the cut line of the scalpel blade is an equivalent to the line of the pencil.
Current Research
As Associate Artist at The Wallace Collection 2005 -2007 Charlotte has been using the collection as a source for new papercuts and ceramics. Her particular interest in the museum is in its evocation of female sensuality, 18th century paintings of Antoine Watteau and French Sèvres rococo porcelain. Charlotte staged a solo show at The Wallace Collection May 2007.
Jerwood Drawing Prize Exhibition, Jerwood Space, London and UK tour From September 2006 - 2007
The Drawing Gallery ongoing portfolio series of small scale collages Histoires Naturelles. Further projects include Pairs a group show December 2006 and Series and Systems Art London January 2007.
Weblinks
www.wallacecollection.org
www.fragmentedfigure.net
www.challengingcraft.org
www.emmahilleagle.com
Recent Research
Ceramics and Papercuts, Solo Exhibition, Flow Gallery, London Sept. / Oct. 2006
Cartoon, Collage and The Decorative Motif Eagle Gallery London 2006
Spirit of Liberty Liberty, London (commissioned works) 2005
Cacophony; a cabinet installation of vases, within a ribbon of shows Digital Responses V&A, 2002 www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/digitalresponses/
Somewhere Totally Else, European Design Biennial Design Museum, London 2003
Fade research artist, Camberwell & Chelsea Colleges of Art University of the Arts, London, 2004 -2006
Awards/ Grants:
Jerwood Drawing Prize 1st Prize 2006
A Practice based Inquiry into the Decoration and Pictorial Imagery of the Sèvres Vase Arts and Humanities Research Council Small Grant 2005/2006
Collaboration with The Wallace Collection Individual Artist Award, Arts Council England Research and Development 2004/2005
Conference Papers:
Crossing Boundaries: Fine Art & Ceramics, A talk at the Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham 2005
Cut, Torn and Pasted: A Female Perspective, The Fragmented Figure, Cardiff School of Art and Design 2005 www.interpretingceramics.com
From Canvas to the Ceramic Surface, Challenging Craft, Grey's School of Art, Aberdeen 2004
www.challengingcraft.org
The Digital Surface Culture 2000, a joint research project with National College of Art & Design, Dublin, University of the Arts, London & University of Helsinki culminating with a conference at the Tate Britain, June 2003
Supervision Expertise:
Charlotte will be pleased to discuss supervision for practice based research and advise students whose research interests overlap with her own.
Email: c.hodes@fashion.arts.ac.uk
Professor Avis Newman
Professor of Drawing Wimbledon College of Art
James O¹Leary
Course Director Interior and Spatial Design, Chelsea College of Art & Design
