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Until lions write their own history…

amb94 — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 09:47:35 +0000

Through kimonos, wall hangings, mats, soft sculptures and paintings, artist Deanna Tyson tells her political tales and weaves her social comments through stitched and painted works.

“Textiles, their application, their colours, their very threads and stitches reveal a great deal about the social history of differing cultures,” says Tyson. “Like a spider, I hope to lure the spectator in through a pretty and frivolous web of threads towards a political punch. Many of the pieces employ African wax cloth, the lineage of which is steeped in meaning and metaphor, legacies of colonialism, trade routes and exploitation.”

̽��ֱ��exhibition space in the atrium of the Alison Richard Building (ARB) nestled among the Faculties of English, History, Divinity and Music is creating a reputation as one of Cambridge’s best-kept secrets, and a leading venue for contemporary international art.

Since the building’s opening last year, the ARB’s Public Art Committee has welcomed a series of exhibitions as part of its ‘ART at the ARB’ initiative, including installation, photography, ceramic and textile work. ̽��ֱ��bright open space of the building’s atrium, arranged over three floors, lends itself to large and colourful pieces and offers a flexible approach to displaying three-dimensional works.

̽��ֱ��ARB, home to the Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) is not just an elegant space, but also has art running through its veins. Last year award-winning contemporary ceramicist Edmund de Waal embedded his porcelain works into the very ground on which the building stands for his piece, A Local History. ̽��ֱ��three glass-covered, underfoot cabinets, or vitrines, that contain his collections of ceramic fragments echo the meticulous work of archivists at the Centre of African Studies, the Centre of South Asian Studies and Centre of Latin American Studies. ̽��ֱ��thrill of walking over these unmarked cabinets for the first time is well worth a visit.

Deanna Tyson’s exhibition of textile work, ‘Until lions write their own history the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter’, will be open until 3 January 2014. Entry is free.

To find out more about ‘ART at the ARB’, and to propose a new exhibition, visit: https://arbart.crassh.cam.ac.uk/

An exhibition of contemporary textile art by Deanna Tyson has opened at the Alison Richard Building in response to the unique materials held there collected from all corners of the globe.

Deanna Tyson

Karnu Warrior

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Building the Future

bjb42 — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:15:43 +0000

Research of high quality does not always depend on good facilities: I dare say Wittgenstein would have been a genius with or without a fine edifice in which to work, and Newton, Darwin, Crick and Watson would doubtless be astounded by the high-specification laboratories available to today’s researchers in the physical and biological sciences. I would certainly contend, however, that good buildings help research to flourish.

In my nearly seven years as Vice-Chancellor, I have had the great privilege to open (or more often to witness our Chancellor, HRH ̽��ֱ��Duke of Edinburgh, opening) new buildings that have added significantly to the research space across the ̽��ֱ��. Like those featured in this issue of Research Horizons, all are thriving examples of the spirit of endeavour and the excitement of scholarship embodied by research in Cambridge.

These new buildings are paralleled by refurbishments of existing stock: the Herchel Smith Building for Brain and Mind Sciences, and the Departments of Chemistry and Plant Sciences are major examples. Such developments are made possible by large-scale and far-sighted investment by the ̽��ֱ��, assisted by Government infrastructure funding, charitable foundations, and philanthropy both individual and corporate.

̽��ֱ��investments continue, with new land being pressed into service: part of the research area of the Botanic Garden provided the site for the stunning new Sainsbury Laboratory opening its doors early in 2011, and West Cambridge provides space for transformative expansion, as will North-West Cambridge in the coming years.

Expansion is not something we undertake for its own sake, of course, but because areas of knowledge open up which command our attention. Last year, as part of our 800th Anniversary celebrations, and along with 799 others, I wrote a ‘Letter to the Future’, to be opened in 2109. We can have no thorough understanding of the research our future counterparts will be conducting then. But, through decisions we make now, and attention to quality and flexibility, we are helping to ensure that ground-breaking discoveries will continue to be made in Cambridge.

Professor Alison Richard

Vice-Chancellor

Vice-Chancellor Professor Alison Richard on how new buildings and refurbishments across the ̽��ֱ�� are helping research to flourish.

Expansion is not something we undertake for its own sake, of course, but because areas of knowledge open up which command our attention.

Professor Alison Richard

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St John's

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