FORTHCOMING EVENTS:
Saturday 20th June, 12 noon
Super Kingdom - guided walk, King's Wood, Challock.
London Fieldworks appropriated the architectural styles associated with 20th century dictators to create bespoke animal residences. The artists and their commissioned architects, Consarc will describe their project, discuss how the challenges of project were met. Meeting in the main car park at 12 noon, this guided walk will lead you through the forest to the site of the work.
In association with South East Festival of Architecture 2009. Free of charge.
Wednesday 24th June, 7 - 10pm
Midsummer Picnic, King's Wood, Challock.
The annual Midsummer Picnic will take place within Lukasz Skapski's 'Via Lucem Continens' (Avenue Containing Light), a 140-metre avenue of 200 yew trees planted in 2000 by local people. Meeting in the main car park at 7pm, a guided walk will lead you to this beautiful place to witness the setting sun.
Free of charge. Bring a picnic, sturdy shoes, a blanket and warm clothes.
24th June - 6th September, 2009 |
 |
Sunday 12th July, 3 - 5pm |
 |
| Saturday 18th July, 12 noon - 5pm INVOLVE - A community arts festival, King's Wood, Challock. Participatory arts activities for all ages led by young people from Ashford Youith Forum, with support from the National Youth Volunteering Programme in the Ashford area. Click here for more information about SVA's PULSE project. Free of charge. |
 |
Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th September , 4 - 7pm
A new work by Bethan Huws for 2 sites; King's Wood, Challock and Margate sea front.
This new work involves a film work designed to be screened deep within King's Wood and a text work mounted on Margate's sea front. This work is jointly commissioned by SVA and Turner Contemporary, Margate.
More information to follow
Free of charge.
RECENT EVENTS AND NEWS:
February 2009 Beyond Architecture: Imaginative Buildings and Fictional Cities |
|
| 22 January 2009 Super Kingdom by London Fieldworks is shortlisted for Architects Journal (AJ) / Rambøll WhitbyBird Small Projects Award 2009. An exhibition of all 24 shortlisted works is currently on show at The Building Centre, Store Street, London. This exhibition will later tour nationally, details of which will be added here soon. For further information see www.buildingcentre.co.uk |
 |
28 January 2009
Inspiring Learning Education Evening.
Turner Contemporary Project Space, Margate.
Launch event for a new research pack for teachers, youth workers, community group leaders, lecturers, tutors and artists interested in education for use in the classroom and beyond. Exploring the use of maths and pattern in art, these resources relate to works commissioned by Stour Valley Arts, to the exhibition Superabundant: A Celebration of Pattern at Turner Contemporary and objects in the collection of Canterbury Royal Museum.
These packs can be downloaded at www.turnercontemporary.org/learn/?p=150
Ongoing, Exchange Residency Programme- Vera Möller.
Following Fernando Palma Rodriguez's residency at Heide MoMA, Melbourne, Australia, Vera will be here in King's Wood in May and June 2009, researching new works.
Ongoing, Artist in Residence - London Fieldworks.
Using their recently inaugurated animal residenses as film set, London Fieldworks are now working on a new digital animation work. This film will be launched in late summer 2009.
Ongoing, Artist in Residence - Jem Finer.
Jem is currently working on a new film work which records Score for a Hole in the Ground as it melds into its surroundings through a full year of the forest.
ARCHIVE
21st September 2008
Super Kingdom launch event, King's Wood, Challock.
3 new buildings for native and migrant animal species by London Fieldworks (Bruce Gilchrist & Jo Joelson) can now be found nestled into a beech plantation deep in King's Wood. These structures will become the film set for a new digital animation work that the artists will produce over this winter's hibernation period.
11th September - 2nd November 2008
Tree Rings exhibition at Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, nr. Kettering.
Work made during Stephen Turner's 2001-2 residency in King's Wood alongside new works made in the grounds of Fermynwoods. For further information see www.fermynwoods.co.uk
5th August - 26th October 2008
Butterflown of Love exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia.
Work made during Fernando Palma Rodriguez's exchange residency at Heide MoMA. For further information see www.heide.com.au
24th June 2008
Midsummer Picnic, King's Wood, Challock.
The annual Midsummer Picnic took place within Lucasz Skapski's 'Via Lucem Continens' (Avenue Containing Light), a 140-metre avenue of 200 yew trees planted by local people. 50 folk brought picnics to enjoy the evening and despite cloud cover preventing a perfect sunset a good time was had on a beautiful evening in the forest.
22nd May 2008
Prince of the Petrified Forest at Cragg Lecture Theatre, UCCA, Canterbury.
Screening of London Fieldworks' video work 'Prince of the Petrified Forest' (2007) commissioned by Beaconsfield, London, followed by a Q&A.
28th Feb - 1st June 2008
Nature is a Workshop at Turner Contemporary Project Space & Droit House, Margate.
An exhibition of works selected from the Arts Council Collection, Nature is a Workshop featured a range of interpretive materials developed in response to the exhibition by the Inspiring Spaces young people's group. This group is working with Stour Valley Arts, Turner Contemporary and the Beaney Institute to explore contemporary art and visual venues.
For more information on the Inspiring Spaces project please see relevant section in Education: Projects
April - May 2008
Fernando Palma Rodriguez artist in residence at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia.
This was the first stage of a newly established international exchange residency programme between SVA and Heide Museum of Modern Art. In spring 2009 Australia-based German artist Vera Möller will travel to King's Wood to undertake her residency with us.
29th Feb - 29th March 2008
An exhibition of Rodney Glick and Lynette Voevodin's film Down on His Luck at Canterbury Royal Museum and Art Gallery.
Documenting 24 hours in the forest and focusing on the work of the foresters as they sustainably harvest the timber of King's Wood. The film is made by sewing together 24 individual one hour long films into a 10 metre wide panoramic projection that engulfs the viewer in the sights and sounds of the forest.
11th April - 10th May 2008
Wide Eyed and Legless by Neville Gabie at Canterbury Royal Museum and Art Gallery.
Neville Gabie's exhibition includes 2 multi-part installations that portray the people and landscape of Kellerberrin through the adoption of innovative strategies. In the first, a letter of introduction requesting appropriate clothing for the terrain, and in the second, filming the landscape with kite-mounted video cameras.
17th October 2007
Susan Derges' Artist's Talk. The last of talks in the Exploring the Context series. The re-scheduled presentation concluding the spring's series of Artist's Talks.
16th September 2007
Composer Matthew King's re-scheduled King's Wood Symphony.
13th July 2007
Presentation of works produced during Salon's week-long residential workshops in King's Wood. www.salonart.org.uk
30th June 2007
Chamber concert at the Wigmore Hall featuring Matthew King's composition. Students' work showcased in foyer
19th May 2007
Notes from Underground public performance event at the forest.
9th May 2007
Architect Simon Barker presents the fith talk in the series Exploring the Context at the forest office.
28th April 2007
Forest Stars: A temporary installation by Christopher Jones. The floor of King’s Wood lit up by the forests own hidden natural energy resource.
25th April 2007
Emily Richardson gives the fourth in a series of 6 Artist's Talks: Exploring the Context at the forest office.
28th March 2007
Stephen Turner gives the third in a series of 6 Artist's Talks: Exploring the Context at the forest office.
24 September 2006
Launch of Jem Finer’s Score for a Hole in the Ground in King’s Wood.
15-17 September 2006
Ashford Visual Arts and Architecture Festival.
Student Bursaries launch in the Memorial Gardens, Ashford.
17 July 2006
Edwina fitzPatrick’s exhibition opens in Ashford Library, Church Lane, Ashford.
24 June 2006
Midsummer picnic at Lucasz Skapski’s Via Lucem Continens
23 June 2006
Opening of Jacques Nimki’s show, Fabrica, Brighton
16-23 June 2006
Architecture Week
Student bursary exhibition, Ashford Library.
Kamilla Sztyben, Ashford School of Art and Design and Christine Lobb, University of the Creative Arts, were awarded Student Bursaries to realise their proposals.
6-9 June 2006
CEMEA workshops
22-26 May 2006
Salon workshops
April 2006
Australian artists, Rodney Glick and Lynnette Voevodin begin residency
24 February 2006
SVA conference ‘Lost in Space: Topographies, Geographies, Ecologies’
Hosted by the International Study Centre, Canterbury Cathedral. 150 delegates attended. The conference investigated the relationships between art, place and time and was followed by a meal in the evening and a walk round King’s Wood the next day.