FRIEZE EDUCATION BLOG

FRIDAY AT FRIEZE ART FAIR

2010-10-16T04:47:00.000-07:00

Hello, from day 2 of the Frieze Art Fair Education Blog. Today we welcomed Students from Ackland Burleigh and Haverstock School.

THURSDAY AT FRIEZE ART FAIR

2010-10-15T05:37:00.000-07:00

HELLO! Welcome back to the Frieze education blog. On Day 1, we welcomed students from London secondary schools, Pimlico Academy and Grey Coat Hospital.

The Build-Up

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Over the past few weeks, Royal College of Art artists have been working closely with London school students to develop their projects in time for these year's Frieze Art Fair.

Students enjoy working together at Grey Coat Hospital.

Artist Jackson Sprague assists a student at Pimlico Academy.

Meanwhile artist Jack Tan, communicates the ideas behind his project 'Frieze Frame'.

Students begin work on 'Frieze Frame' at Grey Coat.

Which begins to gather momentum, as some of the students become more performative.

Over at Acland Burghley school, a student enjoys working on a botanical collage for the 'Art of the Everyday Project'.

It can be hard work being creative, as one student finds out as he considers'Frieze Frame' theory!

The Royal College of Art's Jesse Wine is always on hand at Acland Burghley School, where 'Art of the Everyday' is progressing quickly.

Good question?

Students at Grey Coat get ready for the Frieze Art Fair public presentation.

Frieze Education Programme 2010: This Is Yours

2010-10-13T06:44:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the Frieze Education Programme 2010!

Archived here will be photos and text from our School Workshops with 16-18 year olds in four London schools and Family Workshops held at Frieze Art Fair.

We hope you enjoy looking at it, and taking part.

Constructed Space animation now online

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The Sunday workshop at Frieze Art Fair, Constructed Space, was led by animator Anne Harild. We documented the process of the day through stop motion animation. The finished film is now available to view on ReachOutRCA's YouTube page. Please cut and paste the link to get to it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/reachoutrca#p/a/u/0/TAnBFakOn5E

Well done to everyone who took part!

Drawings by young visitors at Frieze Art Fair

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ReachOutRCA in the Deutsche Bank Education Space at Frieze Art Fair

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ReachOutRCA in the Deutsche Bank Education Space at Frieze Art Fair

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ReachOutRCA in the Deutsche Bank Education Space at Frieze Art Fair

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ReachOutRCA in the Deutsche Bank Education Space at Frieze Art Fair

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ReachOutRCA in the Deutsche Bank Education Space at Frieze Art Fair

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Haverstock School Sculpture workshop with Melissa Jordan

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Haverstock School Sculpture workshop with Melissa Jordan

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The Grey Coat Hospital School Sculpture workshop with Nicolas Deshayes

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The Grey Coat Hospital School Sculpture workshop with Nicolas Deshayes

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Pimlico Academy. Sculpture workshop with Melissa Jordan

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Pimlico Academy. Sculpture workshop with Melissa Jordan

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Highbury Grove School 'Readymade' workshop with Nicolas Deshayes.

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Highbury Grove School 'Readymade' workshop with Nicolas Deshayes.

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Frieze Education 2009

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This year Frieze Education has been working with four London schools: Highbury Grove, Pimlico, The Grey Coat Hospital and Haverstock.

Artists Nicolas Deshayes and Melissa Jordan have worked with the students creating sculptures which they will be exhibiting in the Deutsche Bank Education Space at the fair on Thursday 15th and Friday 16th of October.

The private view on each day is 3pm-4pm and all visitors to the fair are welcome to come and join us. We will be updating the blog as the fair progresses.

Students from Highbury Grove work with the idea of the Readymade.

Please see below for the archive blog of 2008's Education Programme.

Frieze Young Critics

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Year 12 students from Acland Burghley and St Marylebone met with critic D. Strauss to discover what it is like to be an art critic, recording their ideas and responses on iPods. Acland Burghley students interviewed performance artist Mark McGowan about his controversial practice. St Marylebone students recorded a round table discussion about the fair and the work they had seen in Resonance FM's booth.

Inflated Drawing at Frieze Art Fair

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A+D+A+D and young visitors to the fair take part in Inflated Drawing exploring the parameters of the Education Space using unconventional drawing materials such as toilet paper, fabric and specially designed cardboard construction panels.

The Story Wall at Frieze Art Fair

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Type Club and young visitors to the fair taking part in The Story Wall, an interpretive typographic workshop using Frieze Film 2008 as inspiration for new letterforms and words.

Highbury Grove School at Frieze Art Fair

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Highbury Grove School hang their show in the fair, inviting visitors to come and view the work of the artists David Blandy and Rachel Shannon, who they have been working with as curators.

Pimlico School at Frieze Art Fair

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Pimlico School become their artworld characters at the fair, as a result of research made in their role as art anthropologists in previous sessions.

South Camden Community School at Frieze Art Fair

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Students from South Camden Community School curate and hang their exhibition in the Deutsche Bank Education Space at Frieze Art Fair. Students went out into the fair and invited members of the public to attend, then discussed the artists, artwork and their curatorial themes with the audience.

Haverstock School at Frieze Art Fair

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Haverstock's final session of The Lives of the Artists with Lucy Pawlak, taking place in the Deutsche Bank Education Space at Frieze Art Fair. Students assumed identites of characters they had created as a result of research into the art world.

All photographs copyright of Michele Panzeri, no reproduction without prior permission. Contact him here for details http://panzeri.co.uk/

Project Space at Frieze Art Fair

2008-10-15T04:14:00.000-07:00

George Polke is pleased to announce the opening of 2 exhibitions at Frieze Art Fair this Friday 17th October.

THESE HORSES + KAORU TSUNODA 12.30PM
curated by Julfa Begum, Fidel Elias, Hawnaz Hussein, Parveen Ichatun, Ola James, Muhid Miah and Abdu Saeed

DAVID BLANDY + RACHEL SHANNON 4.00PM
curated by Mike Afeworki, Jake Chivers, Zion Ford, Kevin Gauhgan, Micha Grant, Curwin Hutson, James Lomax, Michael Martelli, Lona Mucara, Danielle Perez, Corey Peter, Tylon Riley, Alan San and Sama Sundifu

Deutsche Bank Education Space, (near Victoria Miro & Yvon Lambert) Frieze Art Fair, Regent's Park.

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George Polke has been running the Project Space workshop for Frieze Education 2008, sponsored by Deutsche Bank and in association with ReachOutRCA

This will culminate in the installation of 2 consecutive exhibitions at the Deutsche Bank Education space on Friday 17th October, curated by students from South Camden Community School and Highbury Grove School.

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Project Space with Highbury Grove

2008-10-13T02:50:00.000-07:00

Feedback from artist David Blandy about showing his films to students from Highbury Grove.

David is one of the artists the students will be curating at Frieze Art Fair on Friday October 17th.

Lives of the Artists with Pimlico School

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Contrast in the art world
by Harry Weskin, Pimlico School

On the 3rd October this year I witnessed, first hand, the contrast between the different areas in the art world. Along with my A-level art class of twenty students, we went to Liverpool Street to interview the Deutsche Bank buyer, Alistair Hicks. We then went on to interview an artist by the name of John Strutton in his studio. The experience as a whole really opened my eyes to the art world and has given me a new perspective on the contrast within.

Entering Deutsche Bank I was soon shocked by a wave of art hung up on the walls and even in the middle of the floor. It was not what you would expect to find in a city bank. (However the rushing bankers who ignored the jaw dropping sculptures are certainly what one would expect to find inside a city bank.)

I soon found my self around a table so extravagantly big, that I was surprised I could see Alistair Hicks down the other end and even more surprised that I could hear him. Throughout the fascinating interview, he described a number of things that I never knew about the art world. For instance, how competitive and demanding the art market can get.

"Of all the contemporary artwork out there; only a very small percentage of it is being seen and even a smaller percentage is being sold." By saying things like this, he made it obvious to me that being an artist is a very challenging and difficult career to choose. This daunting interview was fascinating but also quite frightening and could easily scare people from becoming an artist.

From the large, busy and expensive bank we arrived in a small, calm and cosy art studio of John Strutton, it was like arriving down the other end of the art world spectrum. The main thing that was comforting about John was that he incorporated his hobbies and enjoyments in life, into his artwork.

He was laid back and the answers he gave to our questions were reassuring. He did this by explaining, "I enjoy being an artist and can’t imagine being anything else." This was reassuring because it made me believe that there is still a side to art that isn’t interested in money.

The two interviews highlighted the differences in the art world by really contrasting with each other. This contrast fascinates me by opening a door into the art world that I never knew was there. On one side you have the artists working hard to make a living and on the other you have the commercial side of art. This does involve artists but it involves a lot of money too!

Project Space with South Camden School

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These are the final choices for the exhibition in the Education Space.

Kaoru Tsunoda's '1RPM' with it's accompanying film; These Horses will be performing 'Damp Damp Damp' and there will also be an older work, 'Dancer In The Dark' projected on the wall.

South Camden made connections between the work through the kinetic, through language and through the idea that These Horses' piece is full of words while with Kaoru's, you are lost for words.

Here, you can also see Abdu's reconstruction of Kaoru Tsunoda's 'Daily Incantation'.

Project Space with South Camden School

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Fidel is making the gallery space while Ola, Milu and Hawnaz work out how to represent These Horses, a performance group, and the performance works they have proposed.

Project Space with South Camden School

2008-10-02T04:14:00.000-07:00

Each student made a representation of the potential artworks they would be curating in the Education Space at Frieze Art Fair. Here, Julfa and Parveen are interpreting Kaoru Tsunoda's work. This allowed everyone to get a sense of scale and try out different combinations of work to develop their curatorial theme.

Project Space with South Camden School

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South Camden School visited George Polke gallery on Sept 22nd and were introduced to Kaoru Tsunoda, a Japanese artist who they will be curating in their show at Frieze Art Fair on Oct 17th.

“I have never seen this sort of workshop for teenagers in Japan. There are lots of workshops to encourage creating art but I have never learned how the system works or how an exhibition is organised when I was a kid. It is good to learn those elements in detail and understand art in a different perspective. It helps teenagers get an idea of art as a career and as interdisciplinary learning. It is a fresh dimension for me also.

Their interpretation of my work and questions were so pure and gut reaction without being filled with theory, which is sometime far from art actually happening in front of you.

One of the girls asked me 'Are you a successful artist?' so I said it depends on what you consider as successful. She said 'Money?' then I said 'I am not that successful in that sense.' and she said 'Happiness?' then I said 'I am successful in that sense!' I did not know till I said it!!! It helps me to know my work better and it is amazing to share my work with teenagers for the purpose of education which I have never had chance to get involved with but I always wished I could.”

Kaoru Tsunoda