Morley Exhibitions Autumn 2019

Exhibitions and Events
AUTUMN 2019

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Image: Jo Spence Sim’s List Intriguing shapes and untold stories
Image: Dostoyevsky Wannabe
READ Welcome to our new listings magazine which keeps you up to
Image: National Theatre We Are Made of Diamond date with exhibitions and events curated by the Morley Gallery
Stuff by Isabel Waidner & Exhibitions Team. With the gallery temporarily closed,
A brilliant we shift our attention to exhibition and display spaces across
new and the College and offsite, as we continue to bring you a packed
experimental programme of thought-provoking exhibitions and events.
novel set on A key theme of our programme this term is untold tales. This is
the Isle of not only the title of a fantastic exhibition of animation on show
Wight, which throughout September, it also resonates with our exhibitions on
tackles the relatively unknown artists, including the filmmaker Margaret
themes of Tait, the concert pianist and composer Clara Schumann, and
race, class, a set of intriguing sculptural objects from the David Usborne
queerness collection.
and migration. You will continue to see the outstanding achievements of
Morley students in a series of displays across the College. This
SEE term you will see work in progress from HND Fashion students
Misbehaving Bodies by and sculptures from students who have recently completed
Jo Spence and Oreet stone and wood carving courses. Be sure to also check out
Ashery at Wellcome Trust Shine, the exquisite exhibition by Morley jewellery students in
This exhibition brings December.
together the influential Read on to find out more about our exhibitions, events, and
photographer Jo Spence much more. We look forward to seeing you soon.
and contemporary artist
Oreet Ashery to examine Sim Panaser
how illness shapes identity. Gallery and Exhibitions Manager
On until Jan 2020.
Image: NTS Radio
WATCH
The Antipodes by Annie
Baker at National Theatre
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer
Annie Baker’s new play
on the value of stories in a
world of crisis.
On Oct – Nov.

LISTEN
Cry Later on NTS Radio
A monthly
radio
show
playing
sad songs
and love
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What happened next? Photo: Anders Birger Tim’s Tool

n Morley student Valerie Tim Norris, wood carving tutor at
Burgess was awarded the Morley:
Inspired by... Drawing and
Painting Prize 2018. “This is the first wood carving
gouge that I made about 26 years
What did ago when studying sculpture at
winning the Canterbury. Working with the
prize mean to tutor Hamish Black, I learnt to
you? forge my own tools. I undertook
my first sculpture commissions
“It was a huge with my own home-made tools,
boost to my now mostly lost or broken. This is
self confidence. the sole survivor in my personal
The prize came chisel collection, now numbering
at a point when over 250 different professionally
I was trying to made chisels. I recently had a
decide which refresher on the forge and have
new career plans for a small carving axe,
path to take watch this space...”
and gaining
recognition 84%
for my art
helped me to of Londoners
decide to apply for a course in art think that the
psychotherapy.” city’s cultural
scene is
How do you think art can improve important in
mental wellbeing? ensuring a high
quality of life.
“I have volunteered with the art
therapy group at Royal Trinity GLA/ICM research, Mayor of London, 2019
Hospice in Clapham for over two
years now. I work with dementia Beyond Morley Photo: M. del P G Ayensa/
patients and people with life Studio Olafur Eliasson
limiting conditions. My role is Tate Modern is
hugely rewarding as I find that not far away. Take
art really unifies the group and a stroll along the
can often tap into emotions that bankside and enjoy
words alone can’t reach.” the Olafur Eliasson
exhibition In Real
What are your future plans? Life, on until 5 Jan.

“I have just passed with
distinction a one-year post-
graduate certificate in Art
Psychotherapy and have been
accepted onto a three-year
Master’s programme in Art
Psychotherapy.”

How has your artistic practice
developed since winning the prize?

“I will continue attending drawing
and painting classes at Morley
with Julia Colmenares. I still
have so much to learn in my art
practice! Just recently, I took
my paints and palette knife and
some canvas and sat in a farmer’s
field painting hay bales. It was a
wonderfully relaxing 3 hours, with
space for my own thoughts and
the ability to just ‘be’.”

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Margaret Tait and Peter Hollander, Perugia 1952. Courtesy of Orkney Library and Archive.

“One of Cinema’s true p

n The pioneering filmmaker “ A unique to Tait’s magical films, and in
Margaret Tait (1918–99) is one of and underrated the spirit of Tait we encourage
the most visionary and stridently filmmaker, nobody experimentation and individual
independent artists to have voice. We want you to create new
emerged from the UK, yet her work that draws on the themes in
work has until recently remained her films.
relatively unknown.
We welcome responses in your
Tait 100, a nationwide celebration like her. chosen medium, which could
of Tait’s centenary taking place Ali Smith, author include text, painting, textiles,
across 2018-2019, aims to change drawing, sculpture, film, animation,
that, and highlights the impact reflects Tait’s commitment to music and performance. Your
and significance of her work. diverse artistic practice. We responses will be selected by
invite students studying across Olivia Ahmad, Curator of House of
Here at Morley we are marking any course at Morley to respond Illustration, and be exhibited in the
Tait’s centenary through an Barry Till Gallery.
open-call student exhibition that

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Clara Schumann
– Blazing a Trail

n This year marks the bicentenary DID YOU KNOW?
of the birth of Clara Schumann,
a concert pianist, composer and • Clara Schumann has featured
teacher who made her debut in 1828 on German bank notes.
at the age of nine.
• Katharine Hepburn depicted
Regarded as a leading pianist of her her in a film, Songs of Love, in
day – at a time when very few women 1947.
were active in the public sphere – she
toured from Dublin to Budapest, from • The composer Edvard
St. Petersburg to Paris, giving over Grieg said about her, ‘one of
1,200 concerts. the most soulful and famous
pianists of the day’.
Our exhibition in the Cardew
Space, curated by Dimitris Karydis, We recommend listening to
Programme Manager for Classical pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason’s
Music at Morley, will highlight debut album, Romance, which
the significance of her work and takes listeners on a journey
encourage new audiences to through the extraordinary life
experience her music for the first of Clara Schumann.
time.
CARDEW SPACE
28 OCT–14 DEC

CONCERT 1 NOV 19.30

Headline quote by actress Tilda Swinton.

poets”

Find out more
You can watch a selection of
Tait’s films and download the
brief on the Gallery’s Moodle
page, or pick up a brief in the
new reception area, where you
can also view Tait’s film, Where I
Am Is Here.
For additional information get
in touch with us via email
[email protected].

BARRY TILL GALLERY
11 NOV–14 DEC

PERFORMANCE 10 DEC 18.30

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Screenprint by Kirsty Howlett
Image: Animate projects/Anim18
Congrats to Jenny and
Helen – the new Zsuzsi Leo Crane used charcoal drawings to create The Foundling – one of the six
Roboz Scholars animations in Untold Tales.

Welcome to Jenny Bell and Stop, look, listen
Helen Johannessen, the
new Zsuzsi Roboz Scholars n Animation is everywhere, a range of subjects, exploring
for 2019/20. They will both from the cinema screen, to historic curiosities, cultural
spend the next year at Morley the screens in our homes, to heritage, and communities.
experimenting and developing the ones in our hands. It’s an Each animator brings their own
their artistic practice, artform that brings together a distinctive voice and style to
undertaking a range of Morley multitude of artistic expressions tell their tales, including hand
courses and mentoring thanks to create extraordinary visual drawing, digital, stop motion and
to the generosity of the Alfred experiences, and a medium with cut-out techniques.
Teddy Smith and Zsuzsi a strong pull and the power to
Roboz Art Trust. create memories and personal Originally commissioned for
The work made by the 2018/19 connections. Instagram, these films aimed to
Scholars, Loyane Bianchini and spark curiosity and break the
Kirsty Howlett, following their Untold Tales in the Cardew Space habit of endless scrolling. In the
year of study at Morley, can be speaks to these unique qualities Cardew Space they invite you to
seen at the Cello Factory, 9-12 of animation with six playful and press pause on the everyday.
September. eye-catching short films by seven
Loyane has undertaken a renowned animators, designed to THE ANIMATORS
range of courses in sculpture stop you in your tracks.
and printmaking to evolve Jessica Ashman, Leo Crane,
her work, and Kirsty has The exhibition features work by Ian Gouldstone, Anushka
strengthened her practice Leo Crane, an award-winning Kishani Naanayakkara, Osbert
through Morley’s figurative animator and painting student Parker & Laurie Hill, and Kate
drawing classes. at Morley. Crane’s sensitive Sullivan.
Both are fascinated by the film, The Foundling, navigates a
overlapping of our real and child’s abandonment and dreams CARDEW SPACE 9 SEP–19 OCT
digital lives and have created through a combination of sound EXHIBITION TALK 17 OCT 18.00
new works informed by their and charcoal images. He says:
teaching at Morley – we look Untold Tales was commissioned
forward to seeing what they “Untold Tales was an opportunity as part of a celebration of British
do next. for me to investigate what family animation by Anim18 and by Animate
means today in an increasingly Projects, an organisation that works
CELLO FACTORY 6–12 SEP diverse society.” at the intersection of animation, art
and film.
It’s time for the third The six animations present a
Engine Room – the
international sound collection of stories and deal with
art competition for
emerging sound
artists.

Deadline for entries: 15 Sep.

IKLECTIC 5-24 OCT

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© Celine Marchbank/University of the Arts London ABOUT US

THE CABINETS OF CURIOSITIES Are you Exhibitions at Morley Gallery and
interested in form and shape? Are you looking the College reflect the breadth
for inspiration? Look no further: head up to the of art and design practice, and
Bawden Cases in the Refectory and dive into a highlight the work made by
stimulating selection of surreal objects, apparatus, students at Morley. The gallery is
and instruments from The David Usborne currently closed for refurbishment,
Collection, on loan from the University of the Arts however exhibitions continue
London. throughout the College.

BAWDEN CASES 17 SEP–19 OCT exhibition spaces

Library Finds Mini Morley pops The College has four display areas:
up in Stockwell the Foyer Cases, the Bawden
There’s always Cases in the Refectory, Cardew
room for new Take part in our drop-in family Space on the lower ground floor,
thoughts and workshop and build your own and the Barry Till Gallery on the
ideas. Here London in clay. This workshop second floor.
are some sources of is part of St Michael’s Art
inspiration available at Festival in Stockwell and will be morley art collection
Morley Library. led by artist Nick Kidd. Suitable for children
aged 3–12 years. Free tickets on Eventbrite. The College has an exceptional art
book STOCKWELL CENTRE 19 OCT 13.30–15.30 collection which is permanently
displayed throughout the College.
ROBERT THE SQUARE It features work by prominent
RAUSCHENBERG artists including Bridget Riley,
by Leah Dickerman @auntymuriel, Morley student, doing Edward Bawden, John Piper and
homework in soft pastel this summer. Maggi Hambling. A collection
An opportunity to Instagram. catalogue is available on our
discover the works website.
of this remarkable US
artist. visit us

book 61 Westminster Bridge Road
London SE1 7HT
FRAY: ART AND We are a 10-minute walk from
TEXTILE POLITICS Waterloo station towards the
by Julia Bryan-Wilson Imperial War Museum, and 3
minutes from Lambeth North on
The Ladies Sewing the Bakerloo Line.
Circle and Terrorist
Society, disobedient opening hours
crochet and the politics
of textiles. Our exhibition spaces in the
College building are open to all
dvd Monday to Friday 10.00–20.00
and Saturdays 12.00–15.00.
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front cover image

Still from the animation The
Stereoscopic Society by Kate
Sullivan. A commission for Untold
Tales, Animate Projects/Anim18.

MORLEY GALLERY EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS | AUTUMN 2019

6 SEP–12 SEP CELLO FACTORY 3 OCT–4 NOV B. TILL GALLERY Artwork by Emmanuelle Lepic.

Credit: Animate Porjects/Anime18 Inside Out Getting to Know You: 28 OCT–19 NOV BAWDEN CASES
A Fashion Collaboration
Join us at The Cello Factory, Clara Schumann. Identity
Waterloo, for Inside Out – the A collaboration project by new
culmination of a year’s study at students on Morley’s accredited A response to the theme of
Morley by Loyane Bianchini and Fashion courses – see how identity by Ceramics students,
Kirsty Howlett, the Zsuzsi Roboz they have worked together and who have created work that
Trust Scholars 2018–19. shared their experiences and expresses their personal
ideas. narratives.
9 SEP–19 OCT CARDEW SPACE
5–24 OCT IKLECTIK 11 NOV–14 DEC B. TILL GALLERY
Untold Tales
The Engine Room Tait Today
A series of micro-shorts by
seven renowned animators, A selection of works from The See works by the filmmaker
commissioned by Animate Engine Room international sound Margaret Tait and explore how
Projects and Anim18 as part art competition. the legacy of her approach and
of the Anim18 programme – a pioneering spirit continues today.
UK-wide celebration of British 8 OCT–7 NOV THE FOYER
animation in 2018. 10 DEC 18.30 PERFORMANCE
Summer Postcards
17 OCT 18.00 TALK A New Take at Tait
See over 40 postcards made The Morley Tanztheater
Animating Animation and exchanged by printmaking Performance Group have
Animate Projects producer students this summer, on the created new work in response
Abigail Addison in theme of climate change. to Tait’s films. Also featuring
conversation with Leo Crane, costumes designed by Morley
animator and Morley student. 19 OCT STOCKWELL CENTRE HND Fashion students.
The Foyer. Free, just drop in. Siobhan Davies Dance Studio.
Mini Morley Pop Up Free tickets at Eventbrite.
9 SEP–4 OCT THE FOYER
Build your own London in clay in 13 NOV–11 DEC THE FOYER
Stone & Wood this free family workshop led by
artist Nick Kidd. For children aged Shine 2019
Work from Morley’s sculpture 3–12 years.
studio, Pelham Hall. Free, drop in 13.30–15.30. The annual jewellery exhibition
highlighting the exceptional work
– 28 SEP B. TILL GALLERY 28 OCT–14 DEC CARDEW SPACE created in the jewellery studio by
our advanced and intermediate
Photography End-of-Year Clara Schumann – The students.
Exhibition Woman and the Artist
Please check www.morleycollege.
Last chance to see it. 200 years after her birth in ac.uk/the-gallery for the latest
1819, this exhibition tells the updates.
17 SEP–19 OCT BAWDEN CASES extraordinary life story of Clara
Schumann through scores, text,
Cabinets of Curiosities audio clips and video.

Dive into the world of the David 1 NOV 19.30 CONCERT
Usborne Collection, a selection of
mysterious and elegant objects. It’s About Clara
On loan from the University of Schumann’s most beloved
the Arts London. music works, performed
by students of advanced
instrumental classes.
Ticketed via Eventbrite.