File Away
22 July 2020 | 11.30am 1pm
This event will be live-streamed via Zoom.
Please join the staff and students of our MA Print on Wednesday 22nd July for FILE AWAY, a series of talks focussed on the subject of the Archive.
An archive acts as a resource or memory. Within the expanded field of Print, many of us use the archive as a tool for preserving or presenting as part of a socially engaging or political work. While the archive tells us about the history of things, places or families, its discovery and exploration is as much about looking forward as it is about looking back.
FILE AWAY invites Helen Cammock, Holly Graham and General Public to discuss systems of working with archives in each of their practices. We will question the politics of the archive and how artists can play a role in enabling or encouraging public access to local archives. As part of the series Print students have hosted workshops that explored the archive within the home and create work as a response to those archives. The results of these workshops will be discussed at FILE AWAY and can be accessed through the digital publication on the RCA2020 Digital Platform.
About the Speakers
Helen Cammock
Cammock was the joint winner of the Turner Prize 2019 and her exhibition The Long Note, has been presented at Turner Contemporary, Margate as part of Turner Prize, 2019. She was winner of the 7th Max Mara Art Prize for Women. Her subsequent exhibition, Che Si Può Fare (What Can Be Done) premiered at Whitechapel Gallery, London and then moved to Collezione Maramotti, Italy. Her film They Call It Idelwild, 2020 commissioned by Wysing is currently on show at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria. The Long Note premiered at VOID, Derry, Northern Ireland; and showed at The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2019. Other solo exhibitions include The Sound of Words, Reading Museum, UK (2019) and Shouting In Whispers, Cubitt, London (2017). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at; Somerset House, Hollybush Gardens, London and FirstSite, Colchester, Hamburg Kunsthalle, Germany Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria and she has staged performances at The Showroom, Whitechapel Gallery and the ICA in London. Cammock was born in Staffordshire, UK in 1970 and lives and works in Brighton and London. She is represented by Kate MacGarry, London.
Holly Graham
Holly Graham is a London-based artist, working predominantly with print and audio. Holly undertook her BFA at Oxford University in 2012 and graduated from MA Printmaking at the Royal College of Art in 2014. Recent exhibitions and projects include: To Us It Just Looks Like A Lemon: Bothy Residency, Southwark Park Galleries (2019); The Oval Window, Gerald Moore Gallery, London (2019); The Romance of Flowers, Kingsgate Projects, London (2018); Common Third, Copperfield, London (2018). Holly is Head of Artist Development at Turf Projects, Croydon, and is Co-Founder of Cypher BILLBOARD, London.
General Public
General Public is the collaborative platform of artists Elizabeth Rowe and Chris Poolman. Broadly speaking, they devise large scale public art projects that incorporate elements of fiction, myth-making, local history re-invention and heritage rebooting. Often this process involves re-working or inverting an established model or institutional structure. Their approach is interdisciplinary and collaborative: they produce artworks (writing, film, print), devise collaborative frameworks, organise events, curate / commission other artists.