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Blueprint on Migration
As this year's Designers in Residence exhibition draws to a close, media partner Blueprint hosts an evening focused on migration — the theme for 2015.
With just a few days left before the deadline for 2015 applications, Blueprint Senior contributing Editor, Shumi Bose, is joined by the renowned artist Bob and Roberta Smith and the 2014 Saatchi Art Showdown Prize award winner Hormazd Narielwalla. Alongside them will be Victoria Walsh, Professor of Contemporary Curating at the RCA and Professor Ralph Ball, co-author of the influential Form Follows Idea: An Introduction to Design Poetics and one half of the Studio Ball. Each speaker will give their own unique slant on the upcoming Designers in Residence programme for this year.
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More about the speakers
Bob and Roberta Smith
Bob and Roberta Smith is the name of the British artist whose best known works include: ~ Make Art Not War, which belongs to the Tate collection; and Letter to Michael Gove against whom he is currently standing as an MP. Bob and Roberta Smith was an Artist Trustee of Tate between 2009 and 2013, and he is currently a trustee for the National Campaign for the Arts, and a patron of the NSEAD. He has recently been elected to be a Royal Academician.
Hormazd Narielwalla
Hormazd Narielwalla (1979) is a London-based artist who works in collage, utilising bespoke Savile Row tailoring patterns, and their antiquarian and contemporary trade counterparts, to create artworks exploring the body in abstract form. Since Narielwalla’s first solo show was sponsored and exhibited by Sir Paul Smith in 2009, he has been named as ‘One to Watch’ by Saatchi Online Magazine and in 2014 he won the Saatchi Art Showdown prize – The Body Electric.
Victoria Walsh
Victoria Walsh is Professor of Contemporary Curating at the Royal College of Art. She is a curator and active researcher and was previously Head Public Programmes at Tate Britain (2005-2011) during which time she led an innovative team of programmers and relaunched Late at Tate Britain as an experimental platform for working with artists, new media practitioners, commissioning performances, sound works, film and dance programmes and leading on collaborations with London art colleges and artist collectives. Her research projects span from the post-war period to the contemporary with a particular focus on interdisciplinary collaborations between artists, architects and designers; performance art and its documentation; the reconstruction of exhibitions; practices and histories of gallery education and audiences; issues of curating in relation to the digital, hyper modernity and globalization.
Ralph Ball
Ralph Ball is Professor of Design at Central Saint Martins. His work has been exhibited widely in the UK, Europe, Japan and the USA and including 2 solo shows in London. With partner Maxine Naylor, Ball generates conceptual artefacts, reflecting design culture, coining the term 'Design Poetics' to define this activity. Design Poetics forms an experimental, evolving series of objects and collections, contemplating Modernism, Postmodernism and contemporary design. A co-authored book about their work and ideas is called Form Follows Idea: An Introduction to Design Poetics.
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