Chelsea College of Art and Design

Pentagon Petal

pnellis — Sun, 18 Dec 2016 21:28:03 +0000

This installation project by artist Fran Cottell and architect Marianne Mueller reflects on the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground as the dream site for Jeremy Bentham's experimental panopticon, the real Millbank Penitentiary, a military parade ground and now university campus, outdoor gallery and thoroughfare to Tate Britain.

From solitary confinement, to the military organisation of a group as a single unit to today's neoliberal forms of sociability, the social history of the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground represents a cross section through architecture's power to orchestrate social modes.

The intervention re-enacts a scaled version of the prison's infamous plan, editing and reinterpreting it into a more socially active figure: a flower shaped bench. Each of the six pentagons or petals - originally shaped to facilitate social control and designated for solitary confinement - now invites informal gathering. The intervention plays with ideas of exclusion and segregation while offering a generous place within the larger barren square.

Pentagon Petal is supported by: Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon Graduate School the Staff Fund and Careers and Employability.

Day of the Dead celebrations at Chelsea

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The CCW Digital Zoo: A Collaborative Project

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Gareth Owen Lloyd of Machines Room at CCW Digital MakerSpace day

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Digital woven design with electronic loom control - Chelsea weave department at CCW Digital MakerSpace

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Melanie Bowles at CCW Digital MakerSpace day

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SEE funded Pilot Project Workshop with Dutch artist Tiong Ang

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FLΔG Collective: Praxis between the educational turn and the art school

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Nigel Hall video of Crossing (horizontal) sculpture being installed at Chelsea Part 1

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Brian Chalkley's "Dawn in Wonderland and Other Stories" - book launch and panel discussion

mkita — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 11:51:29 +0000

Panel discussion which took place at the book launch event for Brian Dawn Chalkley's Dawn in Wonderland and Other Stories. The event was held at Chelsea College of Arts on Thursday 5 June 2014.

Panel: Dave Beech, screenwriter Tony Grisoni, Dr Sadie Murdoch, Raven Row Director Alex Sainsbury and Dr Stephen Wilson.

Brian Chalkley is Course Director of MA Fine Art at Chelsea. Chalkley is also an important transgender artist, known for his drawings, paintings and video work exploring queer identity and subculture.

His work is based around two characters Brian and Dawn, Dawn being a transvestite personality. Dawn in Wonderland and Other Stories is a book of drawings Chalkley created between 2000 and 2003. The book also includes texts by Guardian art critic Adrian Searle, and screenwriter Tony Grizoni.

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Pentagon Petal

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Gareth Owen Lloyd of Machines Room at CCW Digital MakerSpace day

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Digital woven design with electronic loom control - Chelsea weave department at CCW Digital MakerSpace

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Melanie Bowles at CCW Digital MakerSpace day

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SEE funded Pilot Project Workshop with Dutch artist Tiong Ang

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FLΔG Collective: Praxis between the educational turn and the art school

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Brian Chalkley's "Dawn in Wonderland and Other Stories" - book launch and panel discussion

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The Digital Textiles iPad - Focus:1/Stage:1

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Feedback from the first CCW learning studio event

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The Digital Textiles iPad - Introduction & Research Plan

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