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Kingston cleans up at
D&AD design awards
Graphic design students at Kingston University have come away from this year’s D&AD awards with four ‘Yellow Pencils’, leaving their rivals green with envy! Another Kingston team was highly commended, while the University also won three D&AD ‘New Blood’ awards. Rebecca Wright, course director for Graphic Design and Graphic Design & Photography told Picture Business: “I’m particularly proud of the students and teaching team who have been so justly rewarded for their hard work, it was a Kingston clean-up!” Anna Brooks and Samantha Harvey, who are studying Graphic Design and Photography, have already attracted the attention of several bloggers for their ‘Class Portraits’, [pictured]. The idea came to them when they visited a local school hoping to take photographs of children. “They said we couldn’t take photo’s of the front of a child’s face but we could take pictures of the backs of their heads,” Anna explained. The result is a comment on the paranoia surrounding pictures of children: a series of traditional class photographs in which every single child is facing away from the camera, so only the teacher’s smiling face can be seen. The project won both a ‘Yellow Pencil’ and a ‘New Blood’ award.
p: 0208 417 3036 GB eye nomination
GB eye has been nominated for the 2010 Licensing Awards and short-listed for the ‘Best Licensed Home Décor Range for their framed 3D range of James Cameron’s Avatar wall art. The prestigious Licensing Awards are recognised throughout the worldwide licensing community. It is understood the winners will be announced at the Licensing Awards Ball on Thursday 9th September at The Lancaster London Hotel.
English Noblewoman
A late 17th century portrait of an English noblewoman [pictured] grabbed the headlines at a £165,000 summer auction of fi ne paintings, jewellery and silver in Shropshire last month. The bust length oil on panel by an unidentifi ed English artist, which depicted Lady Aston, sold for £12,000 to a London buyer who held off strong competition from a rival bidder at Halls’ successful auction in Shrewsbury. William Lacey, Halls’ painting specialist advised Picture Business thus: “It was a striking image of Lady Aston, who was wearing a ruff , jewelled chain and gold fi ligree headdress. Despite restoration work, there was a strong bidding on the painting up to £4,000 and then two bidders took the price up to £12,000.”
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Relocation
Hahnemühle UK has relocated to new premises in the Norwich area. They can now be found as determined hereunder:- Hahnemühle FineArt UK Suite 6, St. Mary’s Court Carleton Forehoe Norwich NR9 4AL
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Fakes, Mistakes & Discoveries
The hidden secrets of some of the world’s most famous paintings have been revealed thanks to a partnership between EPSRC [Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council] and the National Gallery. Culminating in the fi rst major exhibition of its
kind in Summer 2010, scientists at the Gallery have been using the latest equipment to shed new light on the history behind some of the Gallery’s priceless works of art. A state-of-the-art, EPSRC-funded gas-
chromatography-mass-spectrometer [GC-MS] has helped specialists in the National Gallery’s scientifi c department study the organic chemistry of old master paintings to understand how paintings were made and how they have changed over time. In painstaking investigations, the scientists used GC-MS to study the characterization and composition of paint binding media, additions to paint media such as resins and the composition of old varnishes. The results of this work have raised complex questions of disputed authorship and authenticity, such as period copies or modern forgeries and shed light on the original colour balance of paintings.
One example is ‘The Virgin and Child with an Angel’ which was originally attributed to the Renaissance painter-goldsmith Francesco Francia and dated about 1490. The painting’s authenticity was queried in 1954 when another version appeared on the market and years of uncertainty ensued. Finally in 2009 a renewed campaign of scientifi c examination and comparative testing, including GC-MS testing on the paint media and varnish, proved beyond a shadow of doubt that the gallery’s painting was indeed a fake, it being painted in the 19th century. Close Examanation: Fakes, Mistakes and
Discoveries is currently showing at the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery and runs until September 12th.
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