exhibition

Jerwood Contemporary Painters

Artists Johan Andersson, Varda Caivano, Gordon Cheung, Ross Chisholm, Simon Collins, Tom Crawford, Matthew Draper, Elinor Evans, Andrew Griffiths, Nadia Hebson , Gunther Herbst, Sally Kindberg, Sophie Lascelles, Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Yuko Nasu, Alicia Paz, Michael Samuels, Chris Smith, Caroline Walker, James Wright

09.Apr.08 - 18.May.08
Mon-Sat 10-5

Jerwood Space
171 Union St
London SE1 0LN
020 8408 5533
sarah.williams@jerwoodspace.co.uk
www.jerwoodspace.co.uk
Tube Southwark, London Bridge, Lambeth / Southwark

Stephen Farthing will chair this year’s selection panel, accompanied by Anita Taylor and Jason Brooks. They will select 20 artists to take part in an exhibition in the Jerwood Space, London in April 2008.

Professor Stephen Farthing
Stephen Farthing has exhibited extensively in international one man shows since his first solo exhibition held at the Royal College of Art Gallery, London in 1977. From 1990 – 2000 he was the Ruskin Master of Drawing at the University of Oxford. He was elected Royal Academician in 1998.

Professor Anita Taylor
Anita Taylor is an artist, Dean of Wimbledon College of Art and Director of The Centre for Drawing, University of the Arts London. She has been on the selection panel for six open exhibitions, including chairing the Hunting Art Prize in 2002. She has helped to establish several exhibitions, including the annual Jerwood Drawing Prize.

Jason Brooks
Jason Brooks’ photorealist paintings have been given solo and group exhibitions in the UK and abroad. Brooks was a prize winner in the John Moores 20 (1997) and went on to join the judging panel of the John Moores 24 (2006). He won the Natwest Art Prize in 1999.
Exhibition 9 April – 18 May
Jerwood Space, Union Street, London SE1

Jerwood Contemporary Painters will tour to the Royal West of England Academy (RWA), Bristol, from 22 June – 17 August. Monday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Sundays 2pm – 5pm. Admission FREE. Tel: 0117 973 5129

Jerwood Contemporary Painters 2008 - Exhibition Events

A series of events has been organised to promote interesting, thought provoking and relevant conversation and debate around painting. Starting at 6pm each evening, these events will take place on the following dates in the galleries and glasshouse at the Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London SE1 0LN. Admission to the events is free, but booking is recommended: 01372 462 190.


Monday 14 April: Meet the Artists 6-8pm
Anita Taylor introduces and chairs this exhibition walk through with artists Johan Andersson, Simon Collins, Tom Crawford, Andrew Griffiths, Günter Herbst, Sally Kindberg, Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Alicia Paz, and Caroline Walker.


Monday 21 April : Craigie Aitchison RA in Conversation with Tony Godfrey 6-8pm
Established artist Craigie Aitchison discusses his long career, and also the state of painting today, with Tony Godfrey, Academic Director of Sotheby’s Institute, London and author of Conceptual Art (Phaidon, 1998) and Painting Today, soon to be published by Phaidon Press.


Monday 28 April: Selectors' Question Time 6-8pm
Stephen Farthing, Anita Taylor and Jason Brooks, selectors for the 2008 exhibition, answer questions put to them by audience members and gallery visitors* about the artists and works they have selected and also the current state of painting. This event will be recorded live for broadcast on Resonance FM on Wednesday 30 April, at 8pm. Tune in at 104.4 fm or www.resonancefm.com

*Audience members and visitors to the exhibition are invited to submit questions in advance of the evening, by either filling in a form in the gallery or by emailing: jcp@parkerharris.co.uk.


Monday 12 May: Panel Discussion: Richard Dyer, Katie Pratt & Marc Vaux 6-8pm
Painters Katie Pratt and Marc Vaux in discussion with art critic Richard Dyer, focusing in particular on the stages of their careers in which they were emerging painters. Open to questions at the end of the discussion.


Radio Broadcasts on Resonance FM
Artists from Jerwood Contemporary Painters 2008 will be hosting a series of Contemporary Culture Review broadcasts on Resonance FM, between 8 - 9pm, on the following Wednesday evenings: 16 & 23 April & 7 May 2008. The Selectors' Question Time event, detailed above, will also be recorded live and broadcast on Resonance FM on Wednesday 30 April. Tune for all these shows at: 104.4 fm or www.resonancefm.com


Jerwood Contemporary Painters runs from 9 April – 18 May at the Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London SE1 0LN (Nearest tube: Southwark). Monday - Friday, 10am - 5pm, Saturday & Sunday, 10am - 3pm, Admission Free. Further information: www.jerwoodvisualarts.org jcp@parkerharris.co.uk Tel: 020 7654 0171

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