Susan Forsyth in front of her gold leaf wall at Art Space Gallery

The curator of CHELSEA space # 20 Ping Pong Dialogues: Bill Beckley, Jo Melvin, has curated an exhibition at Art Space Gallery entitled Duration and Painting featuring the work of Eddie Farrell and Michael Wedgewood, Susan Forsyth, Jeff Gibbons, and Ralph Hunter-Menzies. CHELSEA space is great friends with Susan Forsyth, who was once a CHELSEA space Assistant, whilst Eddie Farrell first came to CHELSEA space’s attention during CHELSEA space #1 Gary Woodley: Impingement No. … Continue Reading

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

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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