Workshop and Dialogue at KREI Open Source Studio:Tokyo

Workshop: This participatory workshop will discuss our relationship with ‘things’. How we live our lives in the ‘middle of things’ and how objects connect us to ideas and people. We will consider how things sometimes take the place for thought that cannot be expressed or spoken. Workshop Context: With more objects than ever before created [...]

TOKYO WONDER SITE RESIDENCY

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Tokyo Wonder Site Aoyama, Tokyo Japan (以下に日本の) Creator in Residence: October – November 2011 CCW have collaborated with the Tokyo Wonder Site in Aoyama to invite two UAL (University of the Arts London) academics to be creators in residence in Tokyo. Over the next two months I plan to collect stories around ‘cherished things’ and [...]

BRITISH MUSEUM event: ‘welcome to the after life’

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Grayson Perry Late: Friday 11 November, 18.00–21.00 Great Court British Museum London Together with a fantastic group of 3D students we proposed two concepts for this event. The event: WELCOME TO THE AFTERLIFE was accepted. Visitors to the British Museum will be invited to choose the objects they want to take to the next life [...]

BEIJING ARTS SUMMER SCHOOL

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Karen Richmond coordinated the first residential course for UAL students in Beijing, China. Now know as the BEIJING ARTS SUMMER SCHOOL The three-week programme culminated in an exhibition at the Lee Song Gallery in the 798 Art District of Beijing. There’s highlights of the blog  here where all 11 of us share our day-to-day observations. [...]

Jerwood Makers Open discussion

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Open Discussion’ on 18 July 2011 Maiko Tsutsumi and I were invited to chair a panel discussion with the 2011 Jerwood Makers Open artists Heike Brachlow, Keith Harrison and Emmanuel Boos. Vimeo here From the Jerwood site: 13 July – 28 August 2011 Jerwood Makers Open is a new open-submission initiative designed to support and [...]

PRESENTATION FOR CRAFTS NORTHERN IRELAND at Flowersfield Portstewart

The next seminar of Craft NI’s Business Support Programme takes place on 15 June at Flowerfield Arts Centre with designer, maker and curator Karen Richmond. Recent activities include: Presentation to Craft NI Business Support Programme at Flowerfield Arts Centre Northern Ireland The seminar will give tailored advice on how to identify appropriate galleries and exhibition [...]

THINGNESS EXHIBITION AND SYMPOSIUM

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THINGNESS Exhibition & Symposium and Limited Edition publication April 2011 Maiko Tsutsumi and I were invited to propose an exhibition for The Camberwell Space Featured Artists: Neil Brownsword /// David Clarke /// Michael Marriott /// Gareth Neal /// Jasper Morrison The Question: What role does ‘the materiality of things’ play in our relationship to the [...]

BEST STAND ND

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Awarded the ‘Best Stand’ at New Designers, Business Design Centre, London 2008

EXHIBITION- RESEARCH PROJECT BARTLETT, UCL

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10th April 2008 PhD Research Exhibition and Symposium in the Gallery of the Bartlett University College London featuring a selected objects from the Galton Collection, 600 persicopes and a film of 600 periscopes in use at the Tate Modern Tate Takeover Inspired by a story I was told about Galton who used to carry a [...]