Late at Tate Britain: Migration Redefined

14 May 2012

Event name: Late at Tate Britain June 2012: Migration Redefined

Date and time: Friday 1st June 2012 18:00pm – 21:00pm

Venue: Tate Britain

Description: This Late at Tate explores new territories in art, fashion, music, and design. Taking inspiration from the Tate collection and the Migrations exhibition, young Londoners will curate an evening which reconsiders history, movement, transition and a sense of belonging.

Free, no need to book.

For more information, please visit the Tate Collectives Website.

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Questioning Inheritance in Art

27 Apr 2012

‘The Family in British Art’ exhibition is in its last week at Sheffield Museums before it moves to Laing Gallery in May. In its current form, the exhibition has 5 themes which group works under the titles inheritance, childhood, couples and kinship, parenting and home.

This week we have been focusing on inheritance and thinking about artworks and artists that use this theme to represent a variety of view points on the family.

Donald Rodney’s work ‘In the House of My Father’ uses genetic inheritance as a tool to comment on his identity as a British-born artist whose parents emigrated from Jamaica, as well as a platform to address his own mortality and illness.

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Everything in its Right Place

20 Apr 2012

Event name: Everything in its Right Place

Date and time: Saturday 21 April 2012 12:00pm – 2:30pm

Venue: Millennium Gallery, Museums Sheffield.

Description: Inspired by the exhibition, The Family in British Art, Sheffield Hallam University Applied Theatre students explore the trials and tribulations of family life. “Family is what you choose it to be, blood ties can be everything and nothing.”

No need to book

For more information, please visit Museums Sheffield’s Website.

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The Great British Art Debate at Camp Bestival 2012

21 Mar 2012

After a ragingly successful tour of the festival circuit last year, which managed to include a giant collaborative watercolour painting and a heated debate with Gavin Turk at Camp Bestival, militant craft-making and take-away animal heads at Underage Festival, as well as a two-hour long performance at Latitude featuring porridge, balloons, paint buckets and confetti, The Great British Art Debate is excited to announce its return to the festival scene this summer.

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My Granddad’s Car, Identity and Britishness

21 Mar 2012

The Great British Art Debate is always searching for artists who are working in and around Britishness and art, nationality and identity. With this in mind, we were delighted to be introduced to artists Sayed Hasan and IAMKSO, two contemporary artists behind the work My Granddad’s Car, currently on display at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 exhibition space.

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The Great British Art Debate at Camp Bestival

5 Mar 2012

Event name: GBAD at Camp Bestival

Date and time: Saturday 28th July 2012

Venue: Camp Bestival

Description: The Great British Art Debate returns to Camp Bestival this year to reap a veritable harvest of creativity! In the East Lulworth Literary Institute you are invited to a unique preview of the forthcoming Collection display Family Matters, which will be shown at Tate Britain in October 2012. Catch our roaming artist to contribute to the festival-wide Family Portrait Photography Project, or liberate your imagination at our artist-led performance workshop and join in the conversation with artists, Tate curators and special guests in the Great British Art Debate.

For more information, please visit Camp Bestival’s Website.

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