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Kent’s own Tracey Emin gets behind Kent University’s KRIKEY! Kentemporary Prints

Filed under: Art News, Art events, Exhibitions — admin @ 1:03 pm

More Margate More Past by Tracey Emin

An exhibition of prints, curated by students at the University of Kent, has received a resounding endorsement from leading artist Tracey Emin.  KRIKEY! Kentemporary Prints, is the result of work by History and Philosophy of Art students at the University of Kent.  The exhibition, which runs from Monday 10 May 2010 until 4 June 2010, is open from 9am – 5pm Monday – Friday, in the University’s new School of Arts building, Canterbury campus.

Commenting on the exhibition, Tracey Emin, said: “It’s amazing how many appreciated and well known printmakers come from Kent. It’s obviously a hotbed of printmaking activity.”

Emin, famously from Margate, features alongside similarly high profile artists, from Royal Academicians to YBAs (Young British Artists), associated with the Kent region. Others include Frank Auerbach, Peter Blake, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Ian Davenport, Angus Fairhurst, Gary Hume, Humphrey Ocean, Chris Orr and Ana Maria Pacheco.

The exhibition forms an eclectic mix from the controversial Chapman Brothers’ Unhappy Meal and Gary Hume’s Hermaphrodite Polar Bear to Pop icons such as The Beatles and Andy Warhol in Peter Blake’s shimmering Love me do and Diamond Dust.

Michael Healey and Martyn Hill form the student duo who had the initial idea for the show. Martyn has said: “We wanted to demonstrate the print as a serious contemporary art form that would appeal to the masses; something that was both accessible but at the same time enjoyable and thought-provoking.”

The exhibition will be the fourth organised under the auspices of The Kent Print Collection. Established in 2005, it aims to give undergraduate students the opportunity to collect art on behalf of the School of Arts, and to put on museum-standard exhibitions drawing on this resource.

Dr. Ben Thomas, convenor of the Print Collecting and Curating module said: “I am excited about Krikey! kentemporary prints and very proud of what History & Philosophy of Art students have achieved. This is the fourth Kent Print Collection exhibition and they just keep getting better and better. By any standards this will be a great show of contemporary British art. It would not have been possible without the generosity of artists and art dealers, and I am very grateful for the amazing support we have received from professionals in the art world.”

Further details here.

Frieze Art Fair 2009

Filed under: Art events — Alan @ 7:31 am

London is quickly becoming the place for the world’s richest film stars, celebrities, and largest art names to gather after the Frieze Art Fair opened this past Thursday.

One unique attribute of the London Art Fair is that it only includes the work of living artists, otherwise known as contemporary art, which has led many in the art world to consider it to be one-sided.

The Frieze Art Fair has only been in existence for the last six years, but during this short time span it quickly has become the place to be, for those involved in the international art scene.

There are over 150 stalls at the fair that feature the full glitz and glamorous works of artists such as Takashi Murakami, Tracey Emin, and Jeff Koons.

New to the fair this year, will be the Pavilion of Art and Design in Berkeley Square which opens on Wednesday to the public and will include work that is available for purchase.