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Hong Kong Heritage Museum

ARTS AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES

	Made In Britain


	Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection 1980 – 2010

			Date:		30 Jun 2011 – 9 Oct 2011 (Closed on Tuesdays)
			Time:		10.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.
			Venue:		Hong Kong Heritage Museum 1 Man Lam Road, Shatin
			Admission:		$10 for adults (Free on Wednesdays)
			Enquiries:		2913 5100 or arts@britishcouncil.org.hk

Co-organised by the British Council and the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, the third leg of the touring exhibition ‘Made in Britain: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection 1980 – 2010’ is specially selected from one of the most comprehensive holdings of modern and contemporary British art in the world, containing some 8,500 art works by over 1,650 British artists.

The exhibition showcases nearly 150 works produced in the period between 1980 and 2010 by 35 groups of British artists, including Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, Gillian Wearing and Mark Wallinger. It will also be featuring works by Turner Prize winners such as Richard Wright and Wolfgang Tillmans as well as several nominees, encompassing an enormous diversity of styles and conceptions. A series of comprehensive programmes and events will run throughout the exhibition period.

For more information on the artists and their works, please visit our exhibition website and the video.

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Education Programme:

1. Dialogue with Curator: Challenges in Curatorship

Date: 30 June 2011 (Thur)
Time: 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room, Hong Kong Heritage Museum
Speaker: Delphine Allier (Exhibitions Organiser, British Council)
Languge: English
Registration: Register Here

Expert from the UK will share experiences and exchange ideas with local professionals on curating exhibitions overseas and building up art collections for museums or organisations. A guided tour of the exhibition Made in Britain - Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection 1980-2010 will be included.

Topics:
- The challenges of curating a contemporary art exhibition
- The challenges of organising travelling exhibitions (insurance, shipping and crating, installations, loans and agreements)
- An introduction to the British Council Collection

About The Speaker

Delphine Allier is Exhibitions Organiser in the Visual Arts department at the British Council, London. The Visual Arts department at the British Council promotes innovation and diversity in British visual arts, developing relationships with other cultural organisations and managing exhibitions across the world. Prior to joining the British Council, Delphine spent five years working at the National Portrait Gallery in National Programmes, organising touring exhibitions and partnership collaborations across Britain. Delphine has also previously worked at Artangel and the Pump House Gallery in Battersea Park, London. She was the organiser of the exhibition ‘Turner from the Tate Collection’at the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) in Beijing in 2009. This exhibition is the result of a partnership between the British Council, Tate and NAMOC.

2. Talk: Contemporary Art & Society

Date: 9 July 2011 (Sat)
Time: 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room, Hong Kong Heritage Museum
Speaker: Clement Chan Wai-Bong (Senior Lecturer, Hong Kong Art School)
Language: Chinese
Registration: REGISTER HERE

Contemporary artists’ creative processes are closely related to the society they live in and so social, political and cultural issues often become their focus of concerns and exploration. Though diverse in style and practice, the works of the participating artists in the exhibition try to create a dialogue between art and society by responding to these issues. Taking this as a starting point, the talk will tackle the development of contemporary art using an introductory approach, hoping to enhance the audience’s understanding of its causes, characteristics and impact. Art lovers, visual arts teachers and students are welcome.

3. UK Artists Talk

Date: 17 July 2011 (Sun)
Time: 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room, Hong Kong Heritage Museum
Artists: Adam Chodzko and Matt Franks
Moderator: Lukas, Tam Wai Ping (Assistant Professor, Dept of Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Language: English
Registration: REGISTER HERE

Two participating artists, Adam Chodzko and Matt Franks, will share with the audience their creative processes and social positions as artists.
Working in a range of mediums - from drawing to sculpture and performance to film - Chodzko draws on the environment that surrounds him, often engaging and involving the viewer. Many of his works examine systems of meanings, highlighting their fundamentally arbitrary and absurd nature and displaying an element of chance where outcomes are unknown and unpredictable.

Matt Franks is one of a generation of British sculptors whose work is made from mass-produced industrial materials and everyday ephemera. He carves huge blocks of Styrofoam to produce humorous and bizarre works with a broad spectrum of references, from high art to pop culture.

More about Adam Chodzko

More about Matt Franks

4. Screening: Originality Express – Featured Films from the British Animation Awards
Date: 21 August 2011 and 18 Septemeber 2011 (Sundays)
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room, Hong Kong Heritage Museum
Languge: English
Registration: A maximum of 80 participants on a first-come-first-served basis. To register, please call 2180 8260 or simply join the programme at the Seminar Room.

The creative industry in Britain has found its way into the spotlight in recent years and the many and varied developments in British animation are no exception. This programme showcases selected clips from films that featured at the British Animation Awards 2010, including children’s entertainment programmes, experimental artistic shorts, music videos, advertising commercials and technological innovations.