Evening Events

Evening events are open to members of the public and take place in the Long Room of the Drewe Arms, Drewsteignton and cost £5.00.

Sunday 25th July, 7.30 pm: Desert Island Images

Artist Jackie Abey, potter Rupert Johnstone, stone carver David Brampton-Greene and sculptor and musician Marcus Vergette will each present the eight artworks that they would take to a desert island: amazing and intriguing pieces that have inspired and informed their practice over the years. Desert Island Images is a lively and entertaining event to mark the opening of this year's summer school. Jackie Abey, Rupert Johnstone and David Brampton-Greene are all tutors at this years summer school and more information about them can be found under the 'tutors' section of this website. Marcus Vergette is also performing on Wednesday evening with jazz collective Pavlov.

Monday 26th July, 8pm: Daniel Hunt

Daniel Hunt is Professor of Sculpture at Kansas State University, his work is inspired by pop culture, music, films and theology.

Tuesday 27th July, 8pm: Tim Knowles

Artist Tim Knowles lives and works in London.  His work is exhibited widely both in the UK and internationally, recent shows include; Wanderlust a solo exhibition curated by Paula Orrell at Plymouth Arts Centre [2009] and Unpredictable forms of Sound and Motion Bitforms Gallery, New York [2009]. Knowles has produced a number of public works including Searchlight #1 for the Economist Plaza in 2008 and Windbarbs [2009] for Plymouth Hoe. He is also about to launch a major collaboration with The Royal Mail, presented as an online work, publication and exhibition.

Chance is crucial to Tim Knowles’ work, which is generated by apparatus, mechanisms, systems and processes beyond the artist’s control.  Akin to scientific experimentation a situation is engineered in which the outcome is unpredictable, directed by the external forces.  These operations or performances seek to reveal the invisible forces in the world around us and reveal the nature of hidden systems.

Whether it is the artist himself walking for days guided solely by the wind mapping his route to reveal the winds path through a specific landscape, or the intricate movement of a hundred weeping willow branches each with a pen attached to it’s tip, drawing as it is blown by the wind.  There is a poetry, English eccentricity and wit to the work.

Wednesday 28th July, 7:30pm: Kate Davis

Born in New Zealand in 1977, Kate Davis studied at Glasgow School of Art where she is now a part-time lecturer in the Painting and Printmaking Department. Working across a range of media, with the consistent presence of drawing, Davis has had several international solo shows, including Kunsthalle Basel (2006), Art Now, Tate Britain (2007), Galerie Kamm, Berlin (2007). Selected group exhibitions include: ‘If I can’t dance I don’t want to be part of your revolution’ (De Appel, Amsterdam); ‘Poetical Political’ (Simon Lee, London); ‘Like Leaves’ (Tanya Bonakdar, New York), and the Hayward touring exhibition ‘The End of the Line: Attitudes in Drawing'. Recent residencies include Camden Arts Centre, London (2010) Cove Park, Argyll and Bute, Scotland (2008) and The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada (2008). in 2010 her first monograph 'Role Forward' was published, she collaborated with Jimmy Robert on a series of poster works for Art Sheffield '10 and realised a two-person project with Faith Wilding at The CCA, Glasgow titled "The Long Loch: How Do We Go On From Here?”commissioned for Glasgow International 2010.

Wednesday 28th July, 9pm: Pavlov

Pavlov, formed in 2009, draws its music from a rich variety of influences: traditional English song, grooves from Mali and contemporary jazz.  Embracing the skills and experience of five players, who between them have a list of collaborations and credits from the international jazz and world music scene as long as your arm (too long to bore you with), this band hits you just where you weren't expecting it, turning heads and unexpected sixpences....

Roz Harding, alto sax
Andy Williams, tenor sax
Marcus Vergette, double bass
Dhevdhas Nair, piano
Pip Harbon, percussion

Thursday 29th July, 8pm: Piers Taylor – People, Places, Process

Piers Taylor is an architect and founding partner of Mitchell Taylor Workshop, a Unit Master at the University of Cambridge and the organiser of the annual Studio in the Woods. He will talk about his interests in ‘place’ and site-specificity with reference to his teaching work, his built work, and the Studio in the Woods.
His Cambridge students begin each year by constructing ‘tools’ that allow them to gather data relating to the landscape in which their major project will be set. These tools measure, for example: porosity, topography, wind quality and sound frequency.
He will talk about the Studio in the Woods, which has been running since 2006, which is concerned with the testing of ideas through making at 1:1. Groups of architecture students work alongside practicing architects – Taylor, Gianni Botsford, Meredith Bowles, Kate Darby, Peter Clegg, Erect Architecture, Toby Lewis and Ted Cullinan. Using a constrained predetermined kit of parts they spend several days building occupiable structures at 1:1 designed to expose, reveal, measure and describe an aspect of the landscape. It is one of the only workshops where students do not work in the ‘code space’ of the studio but instead get to construct the actual thing. The projects range from interstitial casts between trees that do not yet exist, to jetties, bird hides and other semi permanent structures.
His own house, Moonshine, is constructed on a site with no car access, and was designed using components that had to be carried by hand along a woodland path. It addresses issues of a fragile woodland ecosystem and is the result of analysis of the water table, wind patterns, rainfall and sunlight. It won the AJ Small Projects Award in 2009.
Room 13, in Hartcliffe, Bristol – one of the most deprived parts of the UK – is a purpose built community art studio designed using raw and unfinished materials which will patinate over time and reveal the occupancy of the users. It is designed to accommodate graffiti, spillage and life, and won 2 RIBA awards.
He is currently working on the infamous ‘cheesegrater’ site in Leadenhall (the site of the postponed Richard Rogers designed building) and is proposing a city farm where city workers can grow their own produce.
He will also talk about formative study years with Glenn Murcutt in Australia, and the collaborative ethos of his own practice.
www.mitchelltaylorworkshop.co.uk

Friday 30th July, 8pm: The Jive Jacks

The Jive Jacks are a Devon-based 6-piece band playing a mixture of Jazz, Swing, Soul, Rock n Roll and Latin. The line up is led by the fantastic Rosie Lowe on vocals, with Pete Lowe on saxes, clarinet and flute, Dhevdhas Nair on piano, Doug Kyle on double bass, Jesse Mollins on guitar and Tony Plato on drums. This is a great band to dance to or you can sit back and enjoy the entertaining mix of styles that go to make up their set.

www.jivejacks.co.uk