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UEL student curates major travelling London exhibition

Thursday 18 February 2010

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A University of East London student is the chief curator of a major travelling exhibition that offers artists from around the world and UEL students a chance to showcase their work and build on London’s reputation as a cultural and creative capital.

Antria Pelakanou, is a MA Fine Art student at the School of Architecture and the Visual Arts (AVA) at UEL and she is the chief curator of a moving exhibition, a project which involves UEL students and includes 56 other artists globally.

The exhibition is a mixture of professional and novice artwork and it highlights creative art projects and initiatives currently in London. The project will be shown at five different venues around the capital including the Vyner Street Gallery in Hackney and Acquire the Arts in Battersea.

The artists and exhibitions vary from one venue to another and aims to engage each community in the course of daily life by ‘moving London through art.’

Antria, who is originally from Cyprus, said: “I’m really excited about curating this project, it’s been challenging and enterprising. During my internship at the Lloyd Gill Gallery recently, I learnt how a gallery is run and now I have a great opportunity to put it into practice.”

The exhibition features some of the best undergraduate and postgraduate students at UEL and professional and novice artists from around the world, including Brazil, Israel, and Portugal.

Antria added: “Everyone knows that London is the biggest city of Art in Europe – if not the world, and the best place for this exhibition. The range of art on display includes painting, print-making, sculpture, installations and performance art, everyone is welcome to attend and it’s free.”

Exhibiting artists include prolific photographer, Colin Hampden White, internationally renowned conceptual artist, Barbara Rosenthal, Lucy Apple, who has cerebral palsy and Vickie Fear, who focuses on using handmade props for performance pieces.

Grenville Davey, Programme leader in MA Fine Art at the AVA said: “This is a really ambitious project that has been really well managed by Antria. It shows the exceptional talent we have at UEL and it also allows our students to gain an all round practical experience and business skills as they manage their work and engage with other artists globally.”

The first moving exhibition will be at the Docklands campus AVA Gallery from the Monday 8 March to Monday 15 March and it will move around London afterwards. An exhibition book featuring the artists and their work will be on sale at all the venues.

For further information visit www.amovingexhibition.com

Notes to Editors

The University of East London (UEL) is a global learning community with over 28,000 students from over 120 countries world-wide. Our vision is to achieve recognition, both nationally and internationally, as a successful and inclusive regional university proud of its diversity, committed to new modes of learning which focus on students and enhance their employability, and renowned for our contribution to social, cultural and economic development, especially through our research and scholarship. We have a strong track-record in widening participation and working with industry.

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