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Cutting Edge: Graduate Design

4 October 18 November 2012

Cutting Edge: Graduate Design, curated by Betsy

Lewis-Holmes and Justine Boussard brings togethera selection of emerging designers, handpicked

from the London 2012 graduate shows and fairs for

the Stables Gallery visitors.

The group of designers presented are all recent MA

graduates from Londons best design Colleges: The

Royal College of Art, Camberwell College of Arts,

Chelsea College of Art and Design and Central Saint

Martins. Altogether, they form a condensed

panorama of contemporary design research.

Taken out of the frenzy and effervescence of

shows and fairs into a smaller, more exclusive environment, each piece has the

opportunity to express its full potential in a space ideal for showing off design, with

its contrasting original eighteenth century features. The exhibition will showcase a

mixture of different types of design, from slashed furniture to haunting graphics and

jewellery, including more process-based works that explore time and materiality.

Cutting Edge is no ordinary design shop. The curators, both trained at the RCA/V&A

MA in History of Design will guide the visitors through to the beating pulse of design

creation, as experimentation and process will hold pride of place.

A week after the tenth anniversary of the London Design Festival, the capital will be

at the centre of the design world, and Cutting Edge is the opportunity for

Twickenham and the gallery visitors to take an active role in contemporary creation

by meeting and supporting emerging designers at a crucial point in their career.

Indeed, cutting edge design is not inaccessible design; on the contrary, it is design for

the public.

To complement the exhibition, Orleans House will host Cutting Edge: Design Fair on

13-14 October in the Coach House and Octagon Room with free workshops and

talks.

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Notes for Editors:

Cutting Edge will be held at Stables Gallery behind Orleans House Gallery Riverside

Twickenham TW1 3DJ.

Exhibition opening hours are: 1-4:30pm Tuesdays Saturdays and 2-4:30pm

Sundays. Mondays closed.

Admission free.

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For more information please contact: cuttingedge.exhibition@gmail.com.

Participating Artists:

Anton Alvarez, Emma Elston, Camille Flammarion, Young Ju Do, Christina Gandolfo,

Ryan Humphrey, Helena Karelson, Charlotte Kingsnorth, Tania Grace Knuckey, DanMcMahon, Evelie Mouila, Simone Perrotte, Erika Renedo, Min Jeong Song, Gaspard

Tin Berres, Petter Thorne, Chen Sheng Tsen, Dylan Taylor, Julie Usel, Imme Van der

Haak, Emile de Visscher, Ying Wu.

Curators:

Justine Boussard is an independent design curator and writer. A

recent graduate from the V&A/RCA MA in History of design, she

was co-editor of the student-led online studio Unmaking Things,

in charge of the column Design/art, which has covered a variety

of subjects from interviews with designers, exhibition reviews

and reflections on mechanisms of high-end design

(www.unmakingthings.com). Before coming to London, she studied the arts and

visual culture of English Speaking Countries at University of Paris Diderot. She has

interned for design galleries and museums, including the Victoria and Albert

Museum where she has worked for the furniture department and will be helping

during the London Design Festival 2012. Being a historian of contemporary design,

she navigates between being a collaborator (talking to designers and helping them

refine their ideas and purpose) and bringing an exterior perspective (conceptualising

their work beyond their practice and digging for deeper historical roots). It is a

balance she wishes to keep in the future. Justine will write the preface for the

catalogue of Remix, an exhibition of contemporary design by Ben Alun Jones, shown

at the RAD Gallery during the LDF 2012.

Betsy Lewis-Holmes is an arts professional and independent

writer. She has worked at Orleans House Gallery for five years,

during which time she has curated numerous design and art

exhibitions and been involved in various community artsprojects. Betsys particular research interests are in the links

between art and science, specifically in case studies that explore

notions of health. After previous study in History of Art and Fine Art, she took the

RCA/V&A MA in History of Design where she wrote on histories of science, medicine

and technology, before focussing on Victorian exercise machines for her thesis. She

is part of a team organising a Wellcome Trust funded medical humanities conference

in Spring 2013, and is planning to undertake doctoral research in the Autumn of that

year. Betsy is interested in collaborating, curating and creating displays and

exhibitions which explore these ideas, and has just joined the Unmaking Things

collective, mentioned above.