Joshua Y'Barbo

  Hi All,  We’re finally able to host a drinks reception for the Team LEWIS Foundation 2021-2022 Emerging Artist Exhibition. It’s essential that you RSVP for the event. The office display includes a selection of emerging artists from Chelsea College of Art, including BA Fine Art, Graphic Communication and Textile Design courses, as well as Graduate Diploma in Fine Art, Interior Design, and Textiles courses. The collection of prints gives an overview of the creative talent coming out of Chelsea College. At the same time, a series of interviews available on my blog provides a further context to the ideas and conditions of recent graduates working through the pandemic.  You can find the virtual exhibition here .  Drinks reception on Monday, 20 June, 16:00-18:00 at Millbank Tower, 22nd Floor Millbank, London SW1P 4RS We need to provide security with an attendance list for the evening. Please feel free to invite friends and family. To RSVP, please email Amber Ashby - at a...

  I am an artist and consultant who writes and delivers Art Clubs, bespoke creativity, and problem-solving art clubs for corporate organisations within the creative industries. Recently, I developed a session on critical thinking and digital fatigue as a creative skills training module for new recruits at an international digital marketing and communications company. The aims are:  To learn about, apply, and integrate creative problem-solving, narrative writing skills, and techniques for producing ideas into your work/life  To have learners think about what creativity means and how creative thinking skills apply to different media channels (i.e., PR, Digital Marketing, Marketing Automation, social media, Web content, cyber security) To inspire thought-provoking, big picture thinking, and ask learners to think about the stories they tell audiences and clients (research and analysis implied, but creative skills needed to tell engaging stories) The objectives are:  To...

 Written Interview with Chen Shiyun (10 Mar 2022, 00:31 London, UK) Welcome to the New World Shop  (2021) by  Shiyun Chen Digital video https://www.instagram.com/chenswim/ JY: Tell me about your practice: w hat do  you make your work about, how do you go about making your work, what do you think about when making your work, and do you still make work ?  CS: The new world shop film relates to the website, including some promotional material for this fictional shop. It is a concept promotional video, so there is no physical shop yet. The idea for the work started with my dissertation topic but changed differently because of the quarantine period. My dissertation research has inspired my practice. Meanwhile, my practice has been affected by the quarantine period, which caused some interesting changes between them. The project documents the changing state of my life, a person who is away from home from their lives, inner activities, emotions, and spirits. I felt a b...