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Andrew, Steve, Magic and Me
Beechfield 1973 |
I'm the one without the hat. |
Drawn in memory of Steve Cripps in
'82
might be a familiar image of the
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As I remember, this was taken when I was doing some props work on a comedy/documentary film 'What'll You Have?' (starring Roy
Hudd, Richard Wattis and a bloke from 'On the Buses'. It went out on release with the original version of 'Slap Shot' I think). There were quiet a few films
made around the area at that time - not least 'The Music Lovers' (before my time in Corsham ) - there were quite a few students as extras in that - Ingrid,
Jilly, Susie and their mates (legend has it that Liam, Jay and Dave Spurring - see Suzie Mackie's photos - got featured extras work on a spaghetti western called 'The Man with No Name' with Henry
Fonda.. but you'd better ask Dave), 'Barrie Lyndon' and 'Moll Flanders' (BBC).
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The Music Room at the Court featured quiet big in 'Barrie Lyndon' - I remember a girl called Angela
convincing me that I could ride a horse (nothing to do with the film).
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and with his face
jammed into the new
photocopier in the Court library (1974)
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As I was clattering sideways up the main drive a bloke from the film unit came out and told us to bugger off.
Cycled to Lacock one frosty morning, with Tristan Forward (local lad - great name) to get extras work on 'Moll Flanders' - only to find they just wanted 'old hags'. Andrew
Bailey, Steve Cripps, myself (and a couple of others whose names escape me) drove over to HTV to try and get work on 'Arthur of the Britons' - Could we sword fight they asked? Yes. Could we ride a horse? (see above) Yes. They saw through our lies and we didn't get work. What they should have asked of course was 'Could we go away and have a good wash'..
All the best
Richard Nye
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- Name:
- Paul Malcolm
- Email:
- Subject:
- ceramics
- Dates:
- 1983-86
- Date:
- 23 September, 2004
Comments
I have an announcement to make to all my old mates if you ever read this.
My girlfriend and soulmate of 10 years, Tracy, has finally agreed to be my wife in December on my 40th birthday. Anyone who I know who cares to email me gets an invite. This is a big achievement for me as 10 years on my knees asking the willfull wildchild to be mine has been long hard graft. I have found in her what I have been searching for. Tracy, by my side, you have been loyal, devoted and true. You are beautiful, intelligent and wicked. I will never find another you. I am honoured.
Any of my special and well remembered friends at BAA are invited to meet my lovely bride, it will be a BIG party! Come up to Preston for xmas!
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- Name:
- Janet Simpson
- Email:
- Subject:
- NDD/Painting, Lettering
- Dates:
- 1950-1954
- Date:
- 13 September, 2004
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Having been a student from 1950-1954 I realize I am an "elder
statesman" (woman? nah - it was the 50's!). It was a golden era
before the unrest of music and social issues that followed soon after.
The Flea Pit (down High Street, a turn to the right to a small primitive
building showing "B" movies, where the wild west heroes
galloped past the same landscape over & over again during the long
chase scenes & Mr. Magoo cartoons were the favoured shows) - The
Pack Horse - where the pinball machines or the dartboard mesmerized us
into adulthood.
I have already added student names that I recall (funny how you can
remember faces & not names & vice versa). Most memorable were
the staff of that era: Rosemary & Clifford Ellis of course (with
daughters Penelope & Charlotte) and William Brooker, William Scott,
Bryan Wynter, Tony Fry, Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon, Kenneth Armitage,
Harry Cliffe, James Tower, Peter Potworowski, Margaret Lester-Garland,
Andrew Wilson, Stephen Russ, Bill Turnbull.
Once we left, reality struck.
For NDD students, a 5th year - London University Certificate of
Education was the stepping stone to a classroom somewhere far from the
protection of those who understood us. I ended up teaching Art in
Staffordshire - then a private school in Peterborough. Then a vacation
in Majorca and a sojourn in Royan in southern France led to marriage to
an American sailor 47 years ago! I'm still married to him and we have
raised three sons together. A lucky encounter. For the past 33 years we
have lived in this house (in Old Lyme, Connecticut) that I designed
& we built just before our last son was born. (He now lives down the
hill in the house that he built). The surrounding gardens have been
carved out of this rocky, forested hill and are in a constant state of
growth and renewal. I have had sporadic moments of productive creativity
- none significant - but I have utilized my design abilities gained at
Corsham - especially the hours spent in the Lettering & Typography
classes with Andrew Wilson - in almost all the endeavours that I have
undertaken as a volunteer in the community. I have designed and produced
many newsletters over the years. Thank heavens for computers!! What on
earth would Andrew Wilson have said??? I have designed gardens and logos
and interiors. I have an iron Peacock in my garden and my son &
family have LIVE Guinea fowl just down the hill, so sights and sounds of
BAA pervade.
Old Lyme, at the mouth of the Connecticut River was the gathering place
for the American Impressionists of the 19th century. They considered the
light and the landscape here to have the same qualities they had
observed working with the French Impressionists http://www.flogris.org.
An Art School was birthed by one of my neighbours - a sculptor - and has
gradually grown to a 4-year accredited college "Lyme Art Academy
College of Fine Arts" http://lymeacademy.edu.
I was involved in its early years but the thrust in those days was for a
very "classical" approach which I did not embrace. Fortunately
as it has grown, so has its vision and now some credible work is
emerging.
Anyhow this is just to say that I still live in a community that brings
memories of Corsham. I have remained in contact with a few of my Corsham
friends - particularly Monica Harmon - who lived with me at "Parkside"
home of BAA bursar Bryan Fisher. She married Bryan Wynter (who taught at
Corsham and died about 25 years ago). Their son Billy is an artist in
Cornwall while son Tom and his family are here in the U.S. Monica still
lives in Cornwall and is in touch with many of the St.Ives artists and
peripheral personalities. She has kept me "in touch." Many
friends have sent me news of Howard Hodgkin from time to time. I saw his
work exhibited at the Yale Museum of British Art some years ago and then
the big retrospective at the Metropolitan in NY a few years back. I then
happened to be in Fort Worth, Texas where it travelled a few months
later. Awesome to see his name in banner size on the facade of the
Museum! Fascinating too, to see the same paintings hung in such
different venues in such different light and ever echoing the influences
of his life - including BAA. Not all of us (yet!) have reached such high
places of esteem as Howard or Jeff Nuttall (who ever would have thunk it
of Jeff when he was at Corsham?) but I am sure the BAA experience
coloured the lives of every one of us - enriching us by opening our eyes
in such unique fashion.
I certainly have been intrigued and in awe of some of the
accomplishments of those who have posted in the guest book here. I
suspect all of us who were exposed to the persona and ideas as we passed
through BAA have made a difference in the world around us in one way or
another. It was a special place.
*As I recalled "Parkside" I thought of Sean, Ardan and Dowland,
Bryan & Irene's sons - they were mere babes then, diapers on the
line & we used to babysit! Then as I returned to read a few more
"stories" at Gerry's brilliant website I discovered that Ardan
Fisher became a film editor! It really IS great to know fragments of the
past, thank you Gerry.
If anyone should happen to recall me from those long ago days, and wants
to be in touch - I'm right here!
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- Name:
- Paul Sproll
- Email:
- Subject:
- painting, printmaking, education
- Dates:
- 1963-66
- Date:
- 05 September, 2004
Comments
Another message for William Bradley (in addition to the one sent by my friend John Miles).
Salima Hashmi is a professor and dean of the School of Visual Arts at the National University, Lahore, Pakistan. A Google search provides a fair number of references to her and her work. Quite amazingly when I was being given a preliminary interview in Boston, for my present position in States at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Salima was at that time completing an MA in Art Education at RISD and was a member of the interview panel! A former student of hers has just completed her MA in Art + Design Education at RISD with me. It really is a small world. I am not sure, but I think Dave Spurring may have been a student of mine when I was teaching art at Lindisfarne College in North Wales.
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- Name:
- John Miles
- Email:
- Subject:
- painting/sculpture
- Dates:
- 1965-69
- Date:
- 02 September, 2004
Comments
A message for William Bradley.
I've just discovered Raphael Sebastian Ahbengs work on the internet. It
appears that he is still working in Bau district, Sarawak, and his
paintings can be seen in many Malaysian galleries. web site; www.eonet.com
hope this is of some use.
When he produced his enormous panga (knife), and demanded that we turn
off the music, we thought it prudent not to argue. He was a great guy!
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- Name:
- William Bradley
- Email:
- Subject:
- Graphic Design & Painting
- Dates:
- 1964-68
- Date:
- 01 September, 2004
Comments
It's great to find the site. I have been reminded of several students
whose names I had forgotten. It was sad to see Liz Martin had
died. I loved her personality and liveliness.
Many I would love to hear from.
I remember Paul Ansell who has written some comments. It would be
great to hear from others as well, like Angus Davies, Dave
Spurring, John Punt, Helen de Paravicini, Anne
Stevenson, Jenny Gunn (I see a comment from her), Ian
Lawson (Printing Tutor), Marjory Yu Siew Yean (now
Yee), Dave Prince, Diana Simpkins, Virginia Spate
(Art Hist. Tutor), Elise Ward, Mike & Jan
Craig-Martin (Painting Tutors), Greg Hull, Chris
Lumgair, Kieran Lyons (whom I met in Auckland NZ about
'76), Cherry Wigley, Tony Birch, Rena Contagonis, Cheryl Dicks, Simon Farrel,
Christine Feiler, Richard
Foster, Salima Hashmi, Dorothy King, Janina
Mintowt-Cyz, Claudia Rummel, Rachid Rkaina, Katie
Waller (then Rosson), Steve Lowndes, Sam Lord, Juanita
(Waukaso) & Clive Adams, Raphael Sebastian Ahbeng
Kureng, and others I hope to remember.
A time of great excitement and freedom. I only remember the sunshine,
falling in love, making friends, talking lots of talking.
on 02 September
Does anyone know anything of Angus Davis and Ian Lawson, Chris Lumgair,
Dave Spurring, Pauline Green, Dave Prince, Diana Simpkin, John Punt,
Kieran Lyons and others from that time?
on 06 September
Anyone Know of Simon Farrell's whereabouts? or Paul Ansell's email.
[in Links page 1 - Gerry]
2nd message
Thanks Paul & John for the information. I will see where it leads. Salima invited me to her wedding in Pakistan, but I was unable to get there sadly.
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- Name:
- Stephen Fairbairn
- Email:
- Subject:
- Graphics
- Dates:
- 1967-1970
- Date:
- 25 August, 2004
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What a brilliant site. Brings tears to the eyes.
I am now senior designer at an Icelandic ad. agency. Married Margrét Jóelsdóttir
(also at Corsham 66-68) and moved to Iceland 1970. We work together in the art business.
Anyone who remembers me and would like to make contact, please email me.
Check out our new Website.
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- Name:
- Jason Hoare
- Email:
- Subject:
- youngest 60's Monks Park resident!
- Dates:
- 1962 - 1964
- Date:
- 02 August, 2004
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I think I was the youngest resident at Monks Park
in the early '60s.
I actually lived in the House and not in the old army shed in the
garden. Freyja and Geoffrey Hoare, were the wardens for a while, they
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You might remember a small precocious boy, who ran a
muck everywhere, well that was me and now I am 45!! I have many vivid
memories from the era. I can recall helping out in the kitchen, one job
I had was to stand on top of a dustbin (I was short then) to watch the
toast, I had to bang on a saucepan lid with a wooden spoon to alert that
the toast was done, I had great difficulty with brown bread, which
always got burnt. I remember the milk in the pantry was in a churn as
big as me with a ladle to decant it. Cornflakes had cut out animal masks
on the back of the box. Somewhere there was a underground common room/bar which was very sixties with bare painted brick and red road lamps,
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- Name:
- Catherine Holden
- Email:
no email submitted
- Subject:
- Graphics
- Dates:
- 64-67
- Date:
- 06 July, 2004
Comments
I studied Graphics at Corsham 64-67 on the Institute Course. Would
love to hear from anyone who might remember me.
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- Name:
- Michael (Mike) Keen
- Email:
- Subject:
- Painting/Lettering
- Dates:
- 1957-61
- Date:
- 02 July, 2004
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A quick reply to Roger Bodenham re. siblings at Corsham. Laila and
Alison Chaplin were at BAA in the mid-to-late 1950's. Alison was a third
year student during your first year there. (I was in my second year when
you arrived.)
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- Name:
- Roger Bodenham
- Email:
- Subject:
- Sculpture (and the Female Form)
- Dates:
- 1958-61
- Date:
- 05/*06 June, 2004
Comments
Hi to everyone in Group D?, 1958-61.
Thanks Bruce. I'd forgotten about the carpet. Wish I still had the
Norton tho'. I think I was on the roof after being tied up by you lot.
Do all come and visit me at Blampied, Australia. I have plenty of
firearms still.
*Just remembered I had a sister who went to Corsham; I think 1952-54,
painting diploma class. Her name was Pat Bodenham (now Kneene). She drew
my half a cabbage for me and got me in: I ate it! Best wishes to all the
re-incarnated.
Roger
P.S. I wonder, has anyone done a study of siblings, etc. at Corsham?
an archived Anecdotes Page entry
from Roger is viewable here.
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- Name:
- Paddy Adamson
- Email:
- Subject:
- music/pottery painting & mosaics
- Dates:
- 1963-1966
- Date:
- 25 May, 2004
Comments
Hi Guys.
I got your email address via Paul Sproll. My curiosity was aroused so
here I am.
I remember there was student unrest at Clifford Ellis's high handed management
of the place. Students were being sent letters in the holidays telling
them not to return next term for no apparent reason. 'C.E. = 1984'
appeared one morning daubed on the wall.
Geoff Harris had the oldest yellow Austin Seven around. I had 1937
Austin 7 Ruby. I shared a room in Beechfield House with Tony Jackson,
next door was Simon Chadwick.
So many great memories.
an archived Anecdotes Page entry
from Paddy is viewable here.
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- Name:
- (Paul) David Elkington
- Email:
- Subject:
- Graphics
- Dates:
- 1980 - 1983
- Date:
- 17 May, 2004
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BAA was a real inspiration and I'd love to get back in touch with
some of the guys I knew there. It was a whole experience that
successfully broke my conformist conditioning, even to the degree of
finding myself on a lone streak through Corsham town at dead of night!
I'm now a writer/egyptologist and have a few books out at the moment,
but studying at Corsham was a great foundation, even though I didn't
finish the course and left somewhat under a cloud which was later
identified as ill-health, now cleared, thank goodness.
After leaving I had various jobs in film and TV until I got the 'egypt'
bug and pursued a new career in the field of ancient history and
linguistics. I occasionally saw some of the guys in the years
immediately after leaving, but I left the country for a couple of years
and I've seen no one since returning. I particularly remember my room
mate at Church Street, Paul Bridger who was a painter. Paul was best man
at my wedding in 1986 - I'd love to get back in touch with him again. We
had some extraordinary adventures, but who at Corsham didn't? (Alas, the
marriage didn't last!) I also remember Cathy Humpries and Sheran
Hemmings, also painters, John Woodhouse - a year above me in graphics
and Mike Smith from the Corsham DIY shop. Can anybody tell me what
happened to Bob Craven lately of 'The Pack Horse'?
I can remember having a temporary job back in 1987 as a gardener. One
night there was a call for a gardening team to go to the old Beechfield
site and 'tidy things up'. I wish that I had never gone - it was like
the opening to Waugh's Brideshead Revisited: mournful and sad now that
it was empty of all presence, an echo of the past. Memory flooded into
my skull - it was very upsetting, one really grew very fond of the
place!
I remember my room mates in my first year, Karen Kinton, ceramics and
Anthony Parker, Graphics, from Nottingham. Whatever happened to Kate
Luck, our Art History tutor? And Robin Whalley? And Julia Garrett?
Tutors all.
I fell in love at Corsham and the feeling of it has never left me, I
often raid the memory of it all for ideas in my writing and I am sure
that some people out there will recognise themselves as characters in
certain of my forthcoming books. Long live Corsham, it was a great
privilege and it was a joy.
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- Name:
- Jezz Bishop
- Email:
- Subject:
- The Sad loss of Sue Mallon
- Dates:
- 1982-85
- Date:
- 13 May, 2004
Comments
It is strange when moments and events conspire to bring thoughts and
feelings to the fore in our lives, and such a time happened today when I
learnt of Sue’s death. It is at moments like this that we find
ourselves faced with the cold reality of ours and other’s fragility
within this strange existence we call life.
I had not seen Sue for nearly twenty years, yet when I heard the news of
her death I found myself flung unexpectedly back in time to when she and
I along with eight others first met in 1982. We were all full of
expectations and nerves, a time of learning to be with others in a way
that is quite unique to our student years. The ten of us who
collectively were the that year’s sculpture intake soon formed an
intimate and deep friendship, one that involved likes and dislikes,
parings and separations, of falling in and sometimes out of friendships
and above all, a time of inner and outer discovery for all. Sue had her
own journey to travel as did we all; one that at times involved pain as
well as moments of fun and joy. Hearing about Sue brought home to me
just how vital and central a time these three years were and remain in
my life since. Sue’s memory as part of this extended family, which
shared so much, will never be lost to me and I have faith that this is
so for the others too. Her loss is deeply felt.
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- Name:
- Gerry McFarlane
- Date:
- 7 May, 2004
Comments
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Obituary
Susan Mallon
1962-2004 |
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at
a party in 4 Church Street, Corsham in 1980 |
happier
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on a shopping trip to New York in 1999 |
It is with such great sadness that I have to inform you of the death of Susan
Mallon [BAA sculpture 1982-'85] from a fall in her home on
the 3rd May 2004. She worked in Swindon Social Services and was a
colleague, friend and close neighbour of mine.
Susan had a turbulent personal life post BAA, with many events that caused her
great anxiety and conflict. After a serious medical diagnosis
4 years ago, she had to overcome added stress which compounded her illness. Susan was a fighter and had just managed to come through this with a positive attitude to her
life. Very recently finding some happiness and contentment again.
we're born, we live, we die
and everything in between is unpredictable
as mysterious as the purpose of our existence
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- Name:
- Michael O'Donnell
- Email:
- Subject:
- drawing, painting, sculpture
- Dates:
- 1964-1967
- Date:
- 16 April, 2004
Comments
Michael O'Donnell, living in Cornwall, is seeking to contact friends
from that important Corsham period in our lives.
I have many contacts from the 1964-1967 years, and would very much like
to hear from anyone who would like to get in touch. Particularly anyone
who remembers the famous " Corsham Band" (I was the drummer).
A few names to trigger that time:- Tony Benge, (who hogged the TV at
Monks Park TV room); Ted Coney, (with the open red Austin); Joe Connely,
(A born comedian); Barbara Phillips; Marion Nubley; Maggie Bullivan;
"Spud" Taylor, (Isabelle Symonds insisted on calling him
"potato"); Geraldine, Cheyne, Anna, etc., and all the other
great people (too many to list) I would like to contact again from that
time : you have retained a place in my mind. John Nesbitt lives in
France and Mark Prescott lives in Leighton Buzzard, I am still firmly
rooted in Cornwall. Very best wishes to all, and I look forward to
hearing from any "Corsham Friends".
There is no doubt that the years at Corsham were seriously important,
not just a social event but a start to a life in a creative sense. I
have continued as an Artist working full time on my drawings and still
fighting the corner for abstraction in a literal world. I have been
working for the Arts Council, involved on the Advisory Council at the
Tate (St.Ives) since it was formed, retired Senior Lecturer, formerly
West Sussex, Cornwall, Hampshire, etc.
an archived Anecdotes Page entry
from Michael is viewable here.
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- Name:
- Peter Juerges
- Email:
- Subject:
- Graphics
- Dates:
- 67-71
- Date:
- 20 February, 2004
Comments |
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I stumbled into this BAA experience having had alarm bells go off
when I recognised Paddy Goffs name on the Web Pro site. Google did the
rest.
Scanning through the names and comments left me feeling emotional and
yet quite numb. The memories, those incredibly good, warm, unique
memories, were suddenly back. It's as though saying anything or even
participating will spoil something precious...but then... I'm here - I
can't ignore it.
Yes I do have some pics somewhere and they will be unearthed and
submitted, and yes the site should grow. For now just let me say hello
to anyone who remembers and thanks to those that have helped create this
site.
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- Name:
- Ray Silvester
- Email:
- Subject:
- Graphic Design
- Dates:
- 1967-1972
- Date:
- 19 February, 2004
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Hello all.
I was at Corsham from 1967 - 1972 (took a sabbatical in 1970 and travelled to India with John Headlam). I was the Australian girl who wore the plastic dresses and had a motorbike that I rode with the guys
(Liam, Dave, John, Jonathon etc.). I live in America now, still working as a Graphic Designer and have 2 daughters (one a singer song writer just starting to make a name for herself:
Jessy Moss
I have some Corsham photos that I will scan and load - you may see yourself.
It really does not seem that long ago. It was a great time.
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- Name:
- Paul Coope
- Email:
- Subject:
- Ceramics
- Dates:
- 75-79
- Date:
- 11February, 2004
Comments
Hi to all my former ceramic mates, hope you are all well etc, etc. I
keep visiting this site from time to time and enjoy catching up in some
small way with past friends.
There was a question about the photos that were taken for the Mr Bath
Academy calendar. Well Simon Cork and myself took the photos of all the
guys and Sue Mac, Jane Foster and Linda Brown provided the makeup for
our beautiful bodies. For an art college with all those wayward students
we were rather modest with the camera work and the girls left the rooms
when the guys stripped off, except for when Dick Goodie was to be
photoed, he was so on tender hooks and nervous that he stripped off in
front of the girls before they could leave!!! The only other female was
Ali Coath whose hand appears holding a match to light a rocket held by
one of the guys. As for the photographs, Jane Foster is the person to
contact for these!!! I am sure she would be happy to supply these for a
small fee!
Be happy out there in the real world.
Regards Paul
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- Name:
- Keith Elliott
- Email:
- Subject:
- painting
- Dates:
- 70-73
- Date:
- 5 February, 2004
Comments
I don't know if it's simply because our 70-73 time was a watershed of
British counter culture, or more pragmatically, the unblemished mirror
of today's reality which we now have to accept unconditionally, in our
mid-fifties, portfolio of draught projects evaluated, marked and filed;
but its absence of regular additions to the guest-books is telling. It's
as if the pre-seventies had at least one foot in the establishment and
the post seventy-fivers at least two in the future.
The students who
turned up on the lawns of Corsham Court for their interviews were not
only tongue-tied they were establishment tied, at least that was the way
it appeared to a Mancunian who felt he could simply never get his tongue
around BATH when all his life people had said it as in 'cat'.
Adrian
Heath appeared to have the last word on candidates; 'last' as in the
golfing 'fore'. Contemporary artistic regionalism was a thing of the
future, the fair-haired bespectacled Yorkshire painter with a penchant
for splashes and the west-coast was the next best thing to hovis. (Lowry
was not yet even a distant cousin to Bruegel the elder). I recall Adrian
pulling nonchalantly on his straight pipe, 'Yes, I think I have one or
two of his larger Slade student works somewhere in my London studio'.
That said it all.
So why the vacant spaces surrounding those 36 months
of the nether-aesthetes? I recall a denuded mid-summer night's symposium
in that delicious stone pool next to the gothic revival ruins. How on
earth could one ever surpass the admixture of insouciance, youth and
peacocks, (I was always on the look out for D.H.'s albinos variety for
total communion). Flower-pot men juvenilia, provocation and abstract
expressionism on the demur lime green lawns of the Methuen
lineage at twilight was enough to transgress all notions of space, rank
and time. And guest-books are precisely about that.
Here go a few smooth
resounding pebbles, and here's hoping that the rings multiply and
spread:-
Margaret Drabble's lecture in the old barn where we all gasped when she stammered uncontrollably -
Paul Chambers' girlfriend sitting on an unplumbed loo for personalised life-class in B12 -
Serena and George bridging the north/south divide in constant good humour -
Kevin Mount's special vessels (be they still not empty) -
the librarian Shawn Newsom's idiosyncratic and fabulous musical evenings -
the future Sir Howard stretching canvas in Castle Combe -
illicit salt-kilns being fired on a football pitch late at night -
late night silk-screening at Monks amidst Graham Day's stars, John
Furnivals' rainbow sweaters and a Steven Russ lute -
the loneliness of the Monk's Park painter -
Ruth's compartmentalised portraits -
Moore Kenny's model aircraft camera and his work on Bacon -
the little dots that held us fascinated in Crumplin territory -
Peter Kinley's Walter Matthau smile and his perspicacity -
Michael Kidner's flared pants and unflared certainty that
painting has function beyond functionality -
Michael Simpson's antithesis to the contrary -
Jim Moyes' creaking leather jacket -
Adrian's divine right of principal lecherer -
the choice of mild or tasty cheddar at the local grocer's which was incomprehensible to Maria from Nicosia
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Constance 'Budgie' the American girl from Syracuse who found us all so, so immature -
Kai Moe's wonderful custom-made bicycle which I bought from him before his return to Norway
the anti-Thatcher protest trip to London -
the international scholarship interview in London which put pay to my life and time in England just 31 years ago.
I'd love to catch up.
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- Name:
- Quentin King
- Email:
- Subject:
- Graphic Design
- Dates:
- 75-78 I think!!
- Date:
- 28 January, 2004
Comments
Corsham was freedom, Hi to all those who knew me.
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- Name:
- peter wells
- Email:
- Subject:
- painting
- Dates:
- 77-81
- Date:
- 16 January, 2004
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Sadly Bhupen Khakhar has recently passed away. He was a fellow at BAA in 1979 and worked in the studio next to me at Monks Park. He was
frozen..... he told me later in Delhi that the cold is all he remembers. Bhupen
was one of the best Indian painters and was celebrated all over the world, lately in a book by Tymothy Hymen. I wonder if anyone else remembers him at Corsham? He was originally discovered by Howard Hodgkin and Peter Kinley but stayed with Jo Hope while at BAA.
from Peter's website:-
Influences
I have been influenced, as much as anyone, by the Indian artist Bhupen
Khakhar, who was resident in the next studio to mine at Bath Academy of Art in 1979.
But I did not know who he was at that time and never spoke to him, although I did once sneak into his studio when he wasn't there and saw what to me were the strangest pictures I'd ever seen, some even painted on glass.
It was only later in 1996 that I first talked to him in New Delhi. I was having a show at The British Council and he was having a show at The National Museum of Modern Art. I took a rickshaw miles out of town to where he was staying at an artist's retreat. He was drawing in brown chalk on a huge piece of paper pinned to the wall. What a love of India he has, and what a sense of humour. He is also the first modern gay Indian artist to have come out in public.
Best Wishes,
Peter |
 
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The person with Michael Kidner in Who's Who page 11 is
Paul Mariner, history of art.
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- Name:
- Stephanie Sampson
- Email:
- Subject:
- visual art, painting B.A.
- Dates:
- 1977-81
- Date:
- 11 January, 2004
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I studied painting at Corsham from 1977 to 1981 and then left the
U.K. for Greece and Canada where I have lived alternately for several
years.... I now live in Greece where I paint, exhibit (and teach
sometimes). It's interesting to read ex students comments... I didn't
realize so much beer drinking went on.....did I miss out??!!! It would
be good to hear from people of that period.
bye for now.
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- Name:
- Nader Khalatbary
- Email:
- Subject:
- Graphics
- Dates:
- 1973-76
- Date:
- 1 January, 2004
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Dear Corshamites, with a very special warm "hello" from the past:
happy
full of good health
joyful
full of goodwill
open
full of honest smiles
peaceful
new year
nader k
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- Name:
- Gerry McFarlane
- Email:
- Subject:
- Ceramics
- Dates:
- 1974-78
- Date:
- 1 January, 2004
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Greetings to everyone for the New Year.
The guest book will continue with the same password being required to
make an entry. It has so far outwitted the 'spam artists' but also
stopped genuine ex-BAA'ers from posting, so if you need the password
please don't hesitate in emailing me. This current Guestbook 2004 will
probably run for more than a year, depending on the amount of entries
received.
Sadly, some of our friends and colleagues have 'shoved-off the mortal
coil' in the past year; Derek Pope, David Heale, Liz Martin, Philip
Higson and Gareth Ball - their obituaries are on the site in guest book
entries or pages featuring them - they will be missed and not forgotten!
Reunions?, well there have been a few and I would hope some are being
planned for this coming year. Let me know what you are arranging so that
I can feature it on the site early enough for people to attend.
Thanks for all of your support and contributions in the last two and a
half years, the site has grown quite considerably since it's beginning
and I look forward to adding more of your photos & memories of BAA
in the coming year.
Cheers,
Gerry
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