box lid for the Rock Against Racism archive of Syd Shelton and Ruth Gregory

Curator and writer Carol Tulloch and CHELSEA space’s Donald Smith were invited to talk on 16. 03.11 as part of the ‘Graduate Encounters’ series chaired by Prof. Hayley Newman at Chelsea College of Art and Design. The two chose the form of a ‘show and tell’ using selected artefacts from their personal archives with the intention of giving insights into their individual approaches to research and curating. The title,’ The Raw and the Cooked’, was … Continue Reading

Barbara Elting takes notes from Stephen Willats whilst Donald Smith and Gustavo Grandal Montero watch and learn

Stephen Willats recently visited CHELSEA space to see Shelagh Cluett’s work and to discuss his exhibition with us which opens on March 8th, 2011. Willats’ show has the working title of Public Monitor and will be a contemporary re-presentation of his West London Social Resource Project made especially for CHELSEA space. With forthcoming projects in the UK and internationally, including MOMA Oxford, and a new studio project in New … Continue Reading

Chelsea School of Art's Manresa Road building photographed by Donald Smith in 1996

After Donald Smith included some of his archive photograph’s of Chelsea School of Art’s Manresa Road building in CHELSEA space #32 Don’t Do Any More Henry Moore he was approached by Lucy Howarth, a researcher from Tate, to be interviewed about his time at the school for an ambitious Tate Research project entitled ‘Art School Educated’: Curriculum Development and Institutional Change in UK Art Schools 1960 - 2000.

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