Paint Club is a research network
open to all staff and research students at the University
of the Arts London.
Painting here is defined as an expanded field that relates to
the specific histories and traditions of painting. Our activities
publicly explore and debate what it means to research painting within
the context of contemporary art practice. We aim to put
on one or two events each year that respond to the concerns
and interests of the membership. We are establishing a network
of affiliations with other institutions both in the UK and world-wide.
Our first public event, The Processes of Painting, was held in June 2009 at the Swedenborg Society Hall in Bloomsbury, London. Through a series of conversations with painters who teach at the UAL it explored questions about methodologies and technologies as well as notions of expression and intention. Future activities include the 'Look Club' that will develop critical discourse around a single contemporary or historical painting.
Planning meetings are held termly by the core group to which others are invited/invite themselves as appropriate. We aim to have representatives from all the UAL colleges involved in the planning of each event.
Paint Club was
founded by Rebecca
Fortnum
(Camberwell College of Art) in association
with:
Jeffrey Dennis (Chelsea College of Art &
Design),
Mick Finch (Central St Martins College of Art), Dereck
Harris (Wimbledon
School
of Art) and Daniel Sturgis (Camberwell College of Art)