LSoM Diploma Studies Open Event and taster

Find out about our one year Diploma in Mosaic Studies starting in September 2023. You can read about the course structure here.

Event agenda:

• 11:00 - Overview of the course by Dr Silvie Jacobi (Director), LSoM

• 11:30 - Hear a current student reflect on their experience

• 11:45 - Taster Lecture by Dr Will Wootton on an aspect of the history of mosaic

• 12:30 - Tour of School and light refreshments

Place: London School of Mosaic, 181 Mansfield Road, NW3 2HP London

Please note this event has been moved to 17th July, as does not take place as originally planned on 31st May.

Mosaics: Ancient Techniques to Contemporary Art  

To mark the publication of her first book on mosaics, Helen Miles will give a presentation focusing on the ancient principles of mosaic making and their relevance to contemporary work. These principles don’t just apply to laying of the tesserae but also extend to the planning and designing of mosaics, both Roman-style and contemporary abstract pieces. The talk will touch on the concepts of sdoppiamento and andamento and will demonstrate how these concepts have been used across the centuries.  

About Helen Miles

Trained in Greece, Helen Miles is the former editor of Andamento, the journal of the British Association for Modern Mosaics. She has more than 20 years’ experience designing, making and teaching mosaics.  

Helen’s first book about mosaics, Mosaics: Ancient Techniques to Contemporary Art, will be published by White Owl press in March 2023. She is based in Edinburgh where she runs mosaic workshops as well as leading an annual residential course in Greece. 

Booking

The event will take place face to face at the London School of Mosaic.

LSoM Diploma Studies Open Event and taster

Find out about our one year Diploma in Mosaic Studies starting in September 2023. You can read about the course structure here.

Event agenda:

• 10:00 - Overview of the course by Dr Silvie Jacobi (Director), LSoM

• 10:30 - Hear a current student reflect on their experience

• 10:45 - Taster Lecture Giulia Vogrig, Lecturer in Mosaic Practice

• 11:30 - Tour of School and light refreshments

Place: London School of Mosaic, 181 Mansfield Road, NW3 2HP London

LSoM Diploma Studies Open Event and taster

Find out about our one year Diploma in Mosaic Studies starting in September 2023. You can read about the course structure here.

Event agenda:

• Overview of the course by Dr Silvie Jacobi (Director), LSoM

• Hear a current student reflect on their experience

• Taster Lecture Dr Will Wootton, Lecturer in History of Mosaic

• Tour of School and light refreshments

Place: London School of Mosaic, 181 Mansfield Road, NW3 2HP London

Alice MacDonnell, who is the Great (x4) Granddaughter of Sir Henry Cole, the Founder of the V&A and of a former mosaic school in the museum, will be giving a talk about her personal mission to join all of the institutions, museums and scholars together to continue promoting the legacy of Cole, who was a Great Titan in his day.

RSVP to info@lsomosaic.com

Alexi Marshall

In this instalment of the LSoM Artist Lectures Series Alexi Marshall will talk through her practise. Alexi investigates rebirth, spirituality and womanhood, often investigating the cyclical nature of life and death. She uses a range of media but focuses primarily on print, mosaic, textiles. Amongst other awards including the Boise travel scholarship and Antony Dawson print prize, Marshall was selected as one of the ‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries’ exhibiting at Liverpool John Moores University and The South London Gallery (2018).

In 2019 Marshall completed her first solo exhibition "The Redemption of Delilah" at Public Gallery. More recently, she took part in the group exhibition 'Dancing At The Edge Of The World'  (2020) curated by Marcelle Joseph at Sara Zanin Gallery in Rome.

Other group exhibitions include ‘Bridge’, Izo Gallery, Moscow (2018), ‘Figurative Now’, Daniel Benjamin gallery, London (2018), ‘Young Gods’, Charlie Smith, London (2018) and ‘18/11/1’, PMQ, Hong Kong (2018), Guts Gallery, London (2019).

Instagram: @aleximjmarshall
Website: https://www.aleximarshall.co.uk/

Catherine Parkinson

Catherine's background is in textiles, she has a degree in embroidery, painting and drawing from Manchester Metropolitan University. However, she feels that the mosaic medium can give an image a depth and solidity that cannot be achieved with any other art form, which is why she chooses to work in this medium. She began studying mosaics in 1992 with Vanessa Benson and undertook an informal apprenticeship with her until 1995, when she embarked on her first mosaic commission. She exhibits regularly in London and throughout the UK and has been commissioned around the world.

Instagram: @catherineparkinsonart

Matt Feldman

Matt Feldman is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, mosaic, photography, installation, and sound. He graduated with a BA Fine Arts degree from Goldsmiths College in 2018 and was awarded a junior fellowship with the university for the following academic year. He also participated on the Into the Wild artist development program at Chisenhale Studios in 2019.

Instagram: @matt.feldman.studio
Website: https://www.mattfeldmanarts.com/

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Matt Feldman

Matt Feldman is a multidisciplinary artist working across film making, mosaic, photography, installation, and sound. He graduated with a BA Fine Arts degree from Goldsmiths College in 2018 and was awarded a junior fellowship with the university for the following academic year. He also participated on the Into the Wild artist development program at Chisenhale Studios in 2019.

Matt will be talking about his art practise and how he sees mosaic fitting alongside other art mediums. Recently working mainly in film, he will be talking about his interest in analogue technology, the links between mosaic and film and the position of mosaic in the emerging contemporary art world.

Instagram: @matt.feldman.studio
Website: https://www.mattfeldmanarts.com/

Mosaics Squared

A mosaic duo consisting of Zeo Glaysher and Posy Daniel using mosaic for interior design as a luxury lifestyle brand. Previously having worked in the commercial art gallery world and in Andrew Logans studio, they are bringing mosaic to a new audience through their private commissions.

Instagram: @mosaics.squared
Website: https://www.mosaicssquared.co.uk/

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Topic: LSoM Artist Talk: Mosaics Squared

Time: Oct 4, 2022 06:00 PM London

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Thirza Smith

Thirza is currently at the Royal Academy studying on the post graduate programme. His work uses traditional methods of creating, pointing more towards a craft aesthetic. Thirza explores our human urge to want to connect to certain groups, and hold onto this idea of community whilst questioning and distorting what that idea of community really means.

Instagram: @thirza_smith

Zoom Link:

Topic: London School of Mosaic: Thirza Smith Artist Talk

Time: Sep 20, 2022 06:00 PM London

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Meeting ID: 886 9760 3175

Caroline Jariwala - Mango Mosaics

Caroline Jariwala is a painter, visiting lecturer, exhibitions organiser and community artist. Caroline’s Mango Mosaics uses the picassiette method of old, chipped and discarded crockery celebrating a new sense of joyful beauty.

Since qualifying as a teacher in 1990, she has worked on projects in schools, art galleries and community venues. Her experience covers a wide range of art forms, such as illustration, batik, mural and mosaic.

Since 1986 she has exhibited nationally in solo and group exhibitions. Jariwala’s work features in databases and directories, ALISS, Birmingham Education Arts Forum, Directory of Cultural Contacts (Arts Council), AAVAA (African and Asian Visual Arts Archive), AXIS and The Art House.

Instagram: @mangomosaics
Website: https://mangomosaics.co.uk/

Zoom details

Time: Sep 6, 2022 06:00 PM London

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Find out about our one year Diploma in Mosaic Studies starting in September 2022. You can read about the course structure here.

Event agenda

• Overview of the course by Dr Silvie Jacobi (Director), LSoM

• Hear a current student reflect on their experience

• Taster Lecture Dr Will Wootton, Lecturer in History of Mosaic

• Tour of School and light refreshments

Date: Wednesday 27th July, 11am - 1pm

Register: Book a your free ticket on Eventbrite or alternatively please RSVP by email at info@lsomosaic.com

Place: London School of Mosaic, 181 Mansfield Road, NW3 2HP London

Matt Small

In this instalment of the Artist Lecture series Matt Small will be talking about his art practise. Primarily a painter, Small also makes metal works which blend the boundary between paintings and mosaics.

London based Small has a strong, compelling style, often choosing discarded objects like car bonnets or old signs instead of canvas for his work. “The theme of my work is young, dispossessed people: individuals who feel undervalued, who don’t have a voice, who get looked over.” Small explains how the urban debris he paints on becomes symbolic of the feeling of being without value: “I thought it’d be interesting to connect the two – that oven door, that shelving unit, that piece of trash to someone – I don’t see it like that, I see that it can be something beautiful and worthwhile. That’s how I see our young people too. Let’s look at their potential, at the hope that’s in all of them

http://www.matthew-small.com

Starts at 6.00pm

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In the LSoM artist lecture series contemporary mosaicists talk about their work at The London School of Mosaic. All invited artists have been specifically picked to contrast each other and offer different perspectives on what contemporary mosaics can be . However, all are successful practising mosaic makers exhibiting and working with institutions such as The Venice Biennale, The De La Warr Pavilion, The Chisenhale Gallery, The Royal Academy, The British School in Rome and more.

These lectures are intended to inspire and challenge in equal measure. The expectation is that through these lectures we will be able to further define what is possible with mosaics in the present day- and through attending these lectures you will be able to define your own position amongst a myriad of practitioners.

The lectures take the form of a simple artist talk, 45 minutes and then a short Q+A session. It will take place in our workshop. The artists will talk about their attitude to art, and then contextualise their mosaic work and explain why they think it is a good medium.

The lectures are open to the public, and we welcome interested parties from all backgrounds.

Andy Williams

In this instalment of the lecture series Andy Williams will be talking about his art practise, in which he primarily uses in mosaic to build three dimensional sculptures.

He says:

"I am a sculptor and mosaicist interested in the use of mosaic as a way of building form and interacting with 3-dimensional space. My work often materialises in obsessively constructed monochromatic forms that reference, but ultimately deny, domestic functionality.

Contextualised by the historic destruction of mosaics by iconoclastic movements, the medium presents me with a framework with which to consider contemporary object-making (and breaking) as well as an outlet for sculptural expression and material exploration."

Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3015646481

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In the LSoM artist lecture series contemporary mosaicists talk about their work at The London School of Mosaic. All invited artists have been specifically picked to contrast each other and offer different perspectives on what contemporary mosaics can be . However, all are successful practising mosaic makers exhibiting and working with institutions such as The Venice Biennale, The De La Warr Pavilion, The Chisenhale Gallery, The Royal Academy, The British School in Rome and more.

These lectures are intended to inspire and challenge in equal measure. The expectation is that through these lectures we will be able to further define what is possible with mosaics in the present day- and through attending these lectures you will be able to define your own position amongst a myriad of practitioners.

The lectures take the form of a simple artist talk, 45 minutes and then a short Q+A session. It will take place in our workshop. The artists will talk about their attitude to art, and then contextualise their mosaic work and explain why they think it is a good medium.

The lectures are open to the public, and we welcome interested parties from all backgrounds.

Francesca Busca

In this instalment of the series our very own Francesca Busca (Fabrication Tutor) will be talking about her mosaic practise. Francesca defines herself as an eco-artivist or RUBBISH ARTIST.

She says:

“Torn between optimism and surrender, I am haunted by the idea of mankind’s imminent self-destruction. Yet, I believe in a future for humanity of resourceful innovation through re-thinking, re-purposing and reducing. It is this hope that is made visible through my work, which is composed almost entirely of rubbish and ‘found’ material.”

More info about the talk below:

Eco-artivism in mosaic: turning trash into treasure 

Providing an alternative to a disposable society by using waste as prime material for a mosaic.  

From discard to display: how to turn waste into tesserae, please the viewer and stimulate a positive change towards sustainability. 

https://www.francescabusca.com/

Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87864189743

In the LSoM artist lecture series contemporary mosaicists talk about their work at The London School of Mosaic. All invited artists have been specifically picked to contrast each other and offer different perspectives on what contemporary mosaics can be . However, all are successful practising mosaic makers exhibiting and working with institutions such as The Venice Biennale, The De La Warr Pavilion, The Chisenhale Gallery, The Royal Academy, The British School in Rome and more.

These lectures are intended to inspire and challenge in equal measure. The expectation is that through these lectures we will be able to further define what is possible with mosaics in the present day- and through attending these lectures you will be able to define your own position amongst a myriad of practitioners.

The lectures take the form of a simple artist talk, 45 minutes and then a short Q+A session. It will take place in our workshop. The artists will talk about their attitude to art, and then contextualise their mosaic work and explain why they think it is a good medium.

The lectures are open to the public, and we welcome interested parties from all backgrounds.

Ruaidhri Ryan

Ruaidhri has exhibited internationally and nationally in art galleries and at film festivals. Working with film and video for over a decade, his practice began to incorporate mosaic, which has become a form of increasing focus since a three-month residency as Augusta Scholar at the British School at Rome.

Ruaidhri will be discussing patience, humour, a love for the mundane as well as his relationship with narrative film and the effect cinema has had on his visual art practice. 

https://www.ruaidhriryan.com/

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 Starts at 6:00pm - 7.00pm

Meeting ID: 301 564 6481

In the LSoM artist lecture series contemporary mosaicists talk about their work at The London School of Mosaic. All invited artists have been specifically picked to contrast each other and offer different perspectives on what contemporary mosaics can be . However, all are successful practising mosaic makers exhibiting and working with institutions such as The Venice Biennale, The De La Warr Pavilion, The Chisenhale Gallery, The Royal Academy, The British School in Rome and more.

These lectures are intended to inspire and challenge in equal measure. The expectation is that through these lectures we will be able to further define what is possible with mosaics in the present day- and through attending these lectures you will be able to define your own position amongst a myriad of practitioners.

The lectures take the form of a simple artist talk, 45 minutes and then a short Q+A session. It will take place in our workshop. The artists will talk about their attitude to art, and then contextualise their mosaic work and explain why they think it is a good medium.

The lectures are open to the public, and we welcome interested parties from all backgrounds.

Find out about our one year Diploma in Mosaic Studies starting in September 2022. You can read about the course structure here.

Event agenda

• Overview of the course by Dr Silvie Jacobi (Director), LSoM

• Taster Lecture Giulia Vogrig, Lecturer in Mosaic Fabrication

• Hear a current student reflect on their experience

• Tour of School and light refreshments

Date: Saturday 12th March, 11am - 1pm

Register: RSVP by email at info@lsomosaic.com

Place: London School of Mosaic, 181 Mansfield Road, NW3 2HP London

We are excited to host this talk by Sabina Giuntinelli, who will reflect on her work at Spiers Arts Academy in Cape Town, South Africa:

From 2014 to 2020 Sabina dedicated herself to teaching mosaic to young adults in Cape Town, South Africa at Spier Arts Academy. The Academy was started in 2008 by private patrons and its aim was to conjugate career development for emerging African artists with the creation of artisanal and business skills in youths coming from disadvantaged situations.

Spier Arts Trust, an Art Consultancy and curator, functioned as the link between the fine art world and the Academy, in virtue of the Creative Block project amongst other initiatives.

Her role was to train and prepare the Academy apprentices in the mosaic medium, including the historical styles and traditions, up to a professional level. The academy’s learners came from very different educational backgrounds and we had to face many challenges. The results were wonderful, in terms of artworks production and in terms of human bonding and growth, among both the learners and the staff.

Join us online by Zoom:

Time: Oct 25, 2021 01:30 PM London

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Make a Collaborative Mosaic Designed by Adam Nathaniel Furman

During Craft Week 2021 we will be offering two workshops aimed at introducing participants to mosaic making, translating a design by Adam Nathaniel Furman into mosaic. Find out more about the School's mosaic collaboration and practices with light refreshments, and get involved in the making process.

Bookings for places open shortly. Please check here for updates

About London School of Mosaic

The London School of Mosaic is the first and only art school in the UK focusing on teaching mosaic up to higher education level. For London Craft Week, they are collaborating with designer Adam Nathaniel Furman, translating one of his colourful and intricate designs into mosaic during two workshop sessions. Participants of each workshop receive a short introduction to the process of making mosaics while also getting an insight into Adam’s practice. This is followed by making the mosaic specifically set up for London Craft Week, which involves cutting and laying tiles according to the design provided by Adam. At the end of the session, participants can expect to have a good understanding of how a design idea can be realised in mosaic. The London School of Mosaic is excited to work with Adam, having been instinctively drawn to the contrasting use of colour, pattern and shapes in his works. Mosaic is created following a specific ‘andamento’, which is the pattern emerging from the flow between tiles and gaps. As many of of Adam’s works reference ornamentation and symbolism, the school is curious to see how his ideas will transfer to the concept of andamento. Visitors to the school can expect a warm welcome to the community: a collaborative space that houses many other artists and creatives.

About Adam Nathaniel Furman

Adam Nathaniel Furman is an artist & designer of Argentine and Japanese heritage based in London. Adam trained in Architecture and Fine Art, continuing to work in those areas, as well as creating products, interiors, writing and teaching. Adam’s work has been exhibited in London, Paris, New York, Milan, Rome, Eindhoven, Minneapolis, Portland, Kortrijk, Tel Aviv, Veszprem, Mumbai, Vienna & Glasgow, is held in the collections of the Design Museum, the Sir John Soane's Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Abet Museum, & the Architectural Association, and has been published widely. Adam has lectured at the RIBA, Harvard GSD, UC Berkeley, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Cardiff University, Innsbruck University, the Casa dell'Architettura Rome, the BSR, and the Biennale Interieur, amongst others and has taught courses at several universities as well as having been Studio Master at Central St Martins in London,  co-director of Saturated Space at the AA (an influential research group on colour in Urbanism and Architecture) and a judge for the Dezeen and FRAME awards, amongst others.