17 Jul–14 Aug ²⁰¹⁰

Artists Programme # 2: Laura Oldfield Ford

Through the Planned Cities Fires Will Rage
- artist Laura Oldfield Ford has created an exhibition with local Year 11 students.

The Artists Programme, now in its second year, will provide Year 10/11 students with a unique opportunity to create an installation with artist Laura Oldfield Ford.

Participants will take part in practical workshops which will result in a public exhibition. Sessions will also include visits to University of the Arts London and SPACE's Sara Lane studios, where students will meet with successful creative enterprises.

Pupils taking part this year are from Warren Comprehensive and Barking Abbey School. The programme will take place in the vast 4,350 sq ft ground floor of The Malthouse.

Laura Oldfield Ford lives and works in London. She studied at the Slade School of Art and completed her MA Painting at the Royal College of Art. She has exhibited extensively including at Rokeby and Hales galleries in London, Savage Messiah takes over Late at Tate Britain, The Arnolfini, Bristol and the Goethe Institute, New York. She has also recently been commissioned by International Art Review. She is represented by Hales Gallery.

Exhibition dates and venues:

17th - 30th July 2010
12 - 4pm
The Malthouse, Abbey Road, Barking, IG11 7BT

2nd - 14th August 2010
Mon - Fri 9am-7pm / Sat - Sun 10am-4pm
Barking Learning Centre, Town Square, Barking, IG11 7NB