sadie tierney news

This year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition opens 9 June through to 17 August. No need to apply finishing touches to my framed print, but I’ll be going along to Varnishing Day to enjoy the historic spectacle…

The RCA Secret exhibition is open, and the party for the artists is tonight. Good luck finding those 3 Tierneys amongst the 2900 artworks!

Royal College of Art, Dyson Building, 1 Hester Road, Battersea, London SW11 4AN

Tel. 020 7590 4444

TWITTER@RCASecret

DATES:13th to 22nd March 2014

OPENING TIMES 11am-6pm daily (until 9pm on 20 Mar) | One-day Sale: Sat 22 Mar 8am-6pm

Admission free, postcards £50

WEBSITE

…of the Creating Balance Project. 400+ people and the most buzzing the Aspex Gallery has ever been! Thanks to the organisers Claire Sambrook and Strong Island for making it such a great success. The exhibition runs until 16 March. Here’s a few photos from launch night…

This Thursday 27th February sees a special screening of all ten films made for the Creating Balance Project at No6 Cinema in the Dockyard from 7pm.

Tickets are £7.50 for adults and £5.50 for children and concessions.

Some images from the opening on Saturday. With 170 artists exhibiting there was a good turnout. The exhibition opens to the public today, and runs until the 4 January 2014.

The dog pretending to be a parrot belongs to Emily Mayer.

Look out for the Tierney in Flowers annual group show this year, opening this Saturday in London’s East End and running until 4 January 2014.

The show, titled ‘Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?’ takes it’s name from the series of paintings by Barnet Newman.

Amongst the esteemed line up of fellow exhibitors are:

Freya Payne, Humphrey Ocean, Derek Boshier, Boyd & Evans, Lucy Jones, Rachel Heller, and Mikey Cuddihy

I used a limited palette on a series of six small paintings, and selected two for the exhibition. Looking forward to the Private View on Saturday!

‘Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue: Explosion’

‘Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue: Airplane’

Albert Irvin receives an OBE in the Queen’s Honours List!

Great to be able to share in Bert and his wonderful family’s celebrations at Advanced Graphics, and view his impressive oeuvre in the medium of printmaking, going back a couple of decades.

As a student I would eagerly anticipate his inspiring and encouraging tutorials on his Visiting Lecturer days at the RCA.

Thrilled to be included in the central London preview for the Creating Balance Project this week -as part of the London Design Festival & The Icon Design Trail.

Thursday 12th September 2013 17.00 – 21.00 Speakeasy Espresso & Brew Bar, 3 Lowndes Court , Carnaby Street, London, W1F 7HD

Talk / Seminar 1.30pm – 3pm  V&A Museum – 19th September 2013, Sackler Centre, Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL Seminar Room1, www.vam.ac.uk

Launch night – From 5pm Creating Balance participant Russell Squires will be taking photographs outside Speakeasy with a giant Anglepoise – capturing people during Carnaby GQ Magazine Style night and visitors to the launch. Numbers are expected to be high due to the style night being on the same night as the launch. Details here

– During the exhibition there will be a special ‘Creating Balance’ coffee, Eristoff Vodka and Vodka Coffee, Irving Brewery Beers, Brighton Blonde Lager with ‘Creating Balance’ branded labels and Joe and Sephs Popcorn.

– All the 10 videos will also be displayed and of course the final 10 photographs.

– Custom lights from Paul and Tristan, I Love Dust, FarkFk, My Dog and Russell Squires will also be on display.

– Carnaby Street media crew will be filming and documenting the project

Lead Project Organiser ~ Claire Sambrook, University of Portsmouth Lead Partners ~ Simon Terry, Anglepoise®, Paul Gonella & Tristan Savage from Strong Island

Exhibition continues until 25th September 2013  PR: claire.sambrook@port.ac.uk

www.creatingbalanceproject.co.uk  #creatingbalance

Update: great party, thanks to the organisers and everyone who made it along! A photo by Russell Squires…

Some reviews…

and another one here.

And some more pics…

After a productive day of filming and photography in our studios, and many weeks editing, here is the completed film by Jonas Jakunas and Massimo Mazullo, also featuring Neal Layton and Cotton Candy Photography.

View all the ten films and the project’s progress here…

Neal Layton and I are very excited to be participating in the Creating Balance Project:  a new, collaborative project with Anglepoise®, Strong Island & The University of Portsmouth celebrating a design classic and local creativity in Portsmouth.

10 artists/designers have been twinned with 10 photographers and an Anglepoise® light. We’ve been teamed up with photographers Gemma and Philippa from Cotton Candy Weddings. The  year long project will culminate in 10 posters / 10 videos and an exhibition in London.

Lead Project Organiser – Claire Sambrook, University of Portsmouth.

Lead Partners – Simon Terry, Anglepoise®, Paul Gonella and Tristan Savage Strong Island

BSc TV & Broadcast students – Massimo Marzullo and Jonas Jakunas

Photographs below by Claire Sambrook