Tuesday, March 31, 2009

CNWL NOW 222 Jan-Feb 09


- College of North West London -
Magazine NOW 222 Jan-Feb 09


CNWL in Serbian art project
by Kay Shelley


TWO lecturers and a student from CNWL who
represented the UK in an art project in Serbia in
January and February 2009, involving 38 artists
from 20 countries, now expect it to travel to
other countries, including Japan.

The Iwano Project, this year featuring 76 works
of art displayed on hand-made Japanese paper,
explores the interaction between European
and Japanese art which was begun in 1999 by
Serbian designer and artist Aleksandar Pedovic.
The exhibition includes two pictures each by
student Jane Lind Walker (Michniewicz) and
tutors Sara-Anne Barraclough and Veselinka
McLarnon. In summer 2008 Veselinka also had
a solo exhibition in Novi Sad, Serbia, and spent
ten days as an artist in residence at Pale Bosnia
with 15 other artists from Bulgaria, America,
Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Hungary, and the UK.
Access to Art & Design student Jane was invited to
take part because she is interested in
Japanese paper. Serbian-born Veselinka studied
Fine Art in London and has taught at CNWL for three years on
BTEC Visual Arts, OCN-LR Art and Design
Access and BTEC Art and Design Graphics
courses. As a mother of two children, she has
focussed on the theme of motherhood.
A year ago she helped set up a ‘Wikispaces’ – a free
online visual art space, operating on similar
lines to the Wikipedia / Wiki News websites
– to display the work of Art & Design students
at CNWL. Anyone searching Google for visual
arts CNWL can find it – or click on https://
visual-arts-cnwl.wikispaces.com/
“The Serbian and Bosnian media extensively
covered events last summer and CNWL was
mentioned and promoted in a positive way,”
said Veselinka, who recently invited Serbian
artist Minya Mikic to lecture at CNWL.
“In order to be an effective visual art teacher/
instructor/lecturer, we have to keep up with
our practice, but we also hope the Iwano
Project will help us to build networks with
other artists from all around the world and
again promote CNWL.”
Kay Shelley

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Performance Novi sad- February 2009


Performance: Dear our Yugoslavia
Date 17/02/2009

Time 20:30

Place : Museum of Contemporary art Vojvodina - Novi sad

Iwano exhibition Novi sad





Novi Sad 17/02/2009 Museum of Contemporary Art Novi Sad

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Language is a virus

I always think about Laurie Anderson and Fiona Banner... different but quite similar...
Recently i started working on a new project ... trying to prepare images for the Final cut pro.
Final cut pro is my long lost friend. i can only remember the name .. everything else is blurred...
My new adventure is starting soon.... I am going to revisit the place I left Final cut pro...



Friday, January 30, 2009

Minya Mikic in London

Minya Mikic



Recently Minya Mikic - International artist from Italy, came to College of North West London to present her work. It was so inspiring to see successful artist explaining her concepts and ideas and the process of working to Access to Art and Design Students.

In 1999, a year before graduation, she moved to Rome from Serbia Novi Sad where she began her Italian adventure.
In the past nine years she has worked as a graphic designer and a visual artist and has extended her market outside Italy.

In 2006 she decided to enter the New York art scene and quickly established an excellent relationship with Monkdogz Urban Art gallery in Chelsea, the artistic heart of Manhattan.

After a couple of group exhibitions in this gallery and her solo presentation at KunStart in Bolzano, Italy in 2007, Minya’s first New York solo exhibition was held in October last year.

Roman public had a privilege to see a small preview of this exhibition on two occasions: in May last year in Galleria della Tartaruga, in the historic centre of Rome, the famous via Sistina, where her works on canvas where exhibited and in July at the “Singita”, Fregene a sea resort near Rome, where she presented her singular works on plexiglas painted on both sides.
Information taken from http://www.minya.it/

Exploring colour Acrylic on canvas

Old idea ..but new work....









Tuesday, January 13, 2009

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Life Drawing



Figure drawing






Figure drawing class...


Photograph taken by vmclarnon

Figure drawing class...

Human form offers the opportunity not found in any other subject

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