| "ZAP IS RUN AND CURATED BY THE ESTIMABLE ROSALIND DAVIS AND ANNABEL TILLEY, WITH A HUGE AMOUNT OF DISCERNMENT, ENERGY AND GUSTO." Andrew Bracey |
ZeitgeistArtProjects is Rosalind Davis and Annabel Tilley, the innovative partnership behind the highly successful DIY Educate programme SHOW & TELL, delivered originally at Core Gallery in 2011. ZeitgeistArtsProjects is based at ASC Studios in New Cross Gate and delivers a series of high quality professional practice events, artists talks, tutorials and peer critiques. Tilley and Davis also curate exhibitions of work from outstanding new and established artists. Their programme launched in April with Collectible, an exhibition of 68 promising and established artists. Future exhibitions shall include the Zeitgeist Open Submission exhibition in Autumn 2012.
Rosalind Davis is a graduate from the Royal College of Art and Chelsea College of Art. An artist, curator, award-winning blogger, writer, lecturer, member of the AIR Council and manager of Core Gallery from 2009-11, she has exhibited nationally and internationally and has work in private and public collections. Her work is currently on display in the Courtauld Institute until 2013. From 2009-11 Davis co-founded and managed Core Gallery a dynamic artist-led gallery space working in collaboration with over 200 artists and curators. Davis lectures for a number of organisations such as the Royal College of Art; University of the Arts, London; a-n The Artists Information Company and AIR. As a writer she has contributed to The Guardian, a-n Magazine, Artlicks and Jotta.com.
Rosalind Davis, The Bede Estate, 60x60cm, oil and embroidery on vintage fabric
Annabel Tilley is a passionate advocate for drawing. Since being shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2005, she has exhibited widely and undertaken several public commissions and drawing residencies, including at Hastings Museum, Towner, Eastbourne and, most recently, created a wall drawing for the drawing survey show London/Berlin at fruehsorge contemporary drawing in Berlin and C4RD, London. Her work is held in several private collections. Annabel Tilley trained in Fine Art at The University of Brighton and has written for Arty Magazine and Garageland, and the Artists talking blog:
How to emerge? In 2011 she co-curated the exhibition 'Home' at Core Gallery with Rosalind Davis.
Annabel Tilley, Remembrance of plants past, 38x28cm, ink on paper, 2011
Both Rosalind and Annabel are AIR Council members: Advocates for improving, representing and making change in artists' lives. AIR is a membership body for practising visual and applied artists with over 17,000 members.
DIY Educate is supported by
Elizabeth Murton, Charlie Norwood and
Jack Hutchinson.
