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Album Beauty is the title of an exhibition of found photographs curated by Erik Kessels, which is an ode to the vanishing era of the photo album. Once commonplace in every home, the photo-album has been replaced by the digital age where images are now jpegs and live online and in hard drives. These visual narratives are testament to the once universal appeal to document and display the mundane. Often a repository for family history, they usually represent a manufactured family as edited for display

Suitable for

• 11-13
• 7-10
• 14-15
• 18+
• 16-17

A Universal Archive: William Kentridge as Printmaker, a Hayward Touring exhibition opening at QUAD in Derby, will be the first UK exhibition to focus solely on the internationally renowned South African artist’s prints. This major exhibition will include 100 prints in all media dating from 1988 to the present, ranging in scale from intimate etchings and drypoints to linocuts measuring 2.5 metres high. New works from Kentridge’s ongoing series Universal Archive, including Cat Assemblage (2012) and 12 Coffee Pots (2012), will be shown in Britain for the first time. With a stress on experimental and serial works, this exhibition will highlight Kentridge’s distinctive use of light and shadow and silhouettes, his concern with memory and perspective, and his absorption in literary texts.

Highlights of the exhibition include Art in a State of Hope and Art in a State of Siege (both 1988) early silkscreens which mark Kentridge’s transition from designing posters for political protests and theatre productions into fine art printmaking
Living Language (1999), a series of experimental drypoint prints on vinyl 33rpm LPs
Telephone Lady and Walking Man (both 2000), two surreal life-sized figures in linocut
Portage (2000), an accordion-folded book spanning 4 metres, with silhouetted figures collaged onto pages of the French encyclopedia Le Nouveau Larousse Illustré.
Nose (2007-2010), a series of thirty small–scale prints inspired by the Russian novelist Nikolai Gogol’s story ‘The Nose’.

Acclaimed for his animated films, drawings, theatre and opera productions, Kentridge studied etching at the Johannesburg Art Foundation, and printmaking has remained central to his practice ever since. In the past two and a half decades he has produced more than 400 prints, including etchings, engravings, aquatints, silkscreens, linocuts and lithographs
often experimenting with challenging formats and a combination of techniques.

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Admission

Free

Join us for a two day workshop for young people interested in developing their digital skills using industry software. Create a two dimensional character using Adobe Photoshop and then learn how to animate and bring it to life by using Adobe After Effects.

When

1:30-4pm

Admission

cost is: £30 for both sessions

Take inspiration from QUAD’s new exhibition featuring printmaker William Kentridge. Get stencilling and printmaking in this fun workshop, you will also have the opportunity to exhibit your work in QUAD’s Participation Space during the next exhibition.

When

10:30am-12:30pm

Admission

The cost is £20 for both sessions