Author Archives: Terry Perk

Charles Matton at Omega Place, London

PRESS RELEASE from AVA
Charles Matton: Enclosures
2 Omega Place - Open until 7th October 2011

AVA (All Visual Arts) is proud to present the first major retrospective of French artist Charles Matton. Thirty eight undiscovered boxes will be installed in Kings Cross. From 1985 until his death in 2008, Charles Matton created mixed [...]

James Casebere at Lisson Gallery

7 September - 1 October 2011:  52-54 Bell Street, London
PRESS RELEASE from Lisson Gallery:
Lisson Gallery is proud to present Credit, Faith, Trust, an exhibition of new and recent works from James Casebere’s Landscape with Houses series.
Working at the forefront of constructed photography since the late seventies, Casebere is associated with The Pictures Generation, a group [...]

Prisoner-of-War Bone Ship Models

Check out this interesting feature on BBC’s Inside/Out exploring the floating prisoners in Medway. The programme features MAKEs own Julian Rowe talking about his recent model ship installation at Rochester Cathedral. The work, presented in a recent blog here on the MAKE website, is referenced to the famous model ships made of bone that were [...]

MAKE’s Flora Parrott attempts to model the sensation of landscapes

Art exploring landscape
Flora Parrott, Artist in Residence, Ryedale Folk Museum (RFM)
19 February to 27 March 2011

Artist Flora Parrot explores the complex histories, relationships, meanings and significances of a section of the North York Moors in her new installation, Dipole, which will be on show at the Ryedale Folk Museum from [...]

Julian Rowe at Rochester Cathedral

MAKE cluster member and researcher Julian Rowe’s has recently de-installed his latest work, Atlantis, at Rochester Cathedral. On show for only a brief few days, the work was filmed by the BBC for their BBC South East Inside-Out programme. We’ll let you know if and when it gets air time.

About the work, Julian has [...]

MAKE Returns

After a short hiatus the MAKE Research Cluster has returned afresh, with new members and a ambitious programme of events and research projects for the coming year. The new look cluster particularly welcomes Bradley Starkey, Course Leader for the university’s MA Architecture course, and Flora Parrott, whose practice explores the relationship between analogue and digital [...]

Gary Clough introduces MAKE at Jiangnan University

During his recent UCA visit to Jiangnan University in China, MAKE’s Gary Clough had the opportunity to introduce the MAKE Research Cluster to students and academics at the university’s School of Design in Wuxi. Outlining the university’s research profile, he went on to present recent MAKE projects, including Repetition and Difference, opening up the [...]

Le Corbusier at the Barbican

On Tuesday 24th February students and staff from the BA Modelmaking and 3D Foundation Course visited the Barbican Centre in London to see the major retrospective exhibition of Le Corbusier ’s work. Accompanying a range of architectural presentation and sketch models, were examples of his furniture, painting and sculpture. A great day and a in-depth [...]

Washington Post Reviews MAKE Show

Click on the link below to see Jessica Dawson’s review of our Georgetown University show in today’s Washington Post.
Imitation as Art by Jessica Dawson

Panamarenko at S.M.A.K

Like train-spotter’s who revel in the joy of unexpectedly seeing that carriage or engine appear on a line it shouldn’t, my visit to S.M.A.K, in Ghent (arguable one of the most interesting contemporary galleries in Europe), was blessed with a surprise sprinkling of work by the Belgian/Flemish artist Panamarenko. Alongside a series of sketches the [...]