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March 2005 Royal College of Art, London BlindArt’s inaugural competition and exhibition Sense & Sensuality 2005 was held at the Henry Moore Gallery, Royal Collage of Art in March 2005. The competition was open to all artists, blind, partially sighted and sighted, to create work specifically for the visually impaired audience. Two and three-dimensional works carried out in any medium including photography, painting, video, sculpture and installation were welcome. The project was a runway success with unprecedented international broadcast and print media coverage for a six-day exhibition, reaching an approximate 25 million people worldwide. It received thousands of submissions to the competition and an average of 1000 visitors per day. The inclusiveness of the exhibition, the variety and quality of the works, and the opportunity not only to see, but also to touch, listen to and smell contemporary art, provoked a joyous reaction from visitors and endorsement from the arts world and disability sector. Professor Glynn Williams, Head of Fine Art and Head of Sculpture of Royal College of Art, said of his involvement in this project, “BlindArt is an unexpected and thrilling venture, creating a meeting place for the sighted and the visually impaired artists to rub shoulders and experience and compare each other’s work. The invention needed to realize some of the works by visually impaired artists is technically fascinating for all. The visual work by artists deprived of some or all of their external vision will surprise and move the viewer to the extant of questioning the source and definition of vision itself. It promises to be a very liberal and joyous experience, which should remove many of the stereotyped ideas and expectations.” The judges of Sense & Sensuality 2005 exhibition were: Prof Glynn Williams – Head of Fine Art, Royal College of Art Sheri Khayami – Founder of BlindArt William Packer – Financial Times Art Critic Frankie Rossi – Director of Graphics, Marlborough Fine Art Gary Sargeant – Visually impaired artist Simon Labbett – Royal National Institute for the Blind Two prizes were awarded: a Judges Prize of £5000 and a Purchase Prize by BlindArt. Winners of Judges Prize Head by Liz Munro & Nuala Watt Winner of Purchase Prize Chalk & Cheese by Micheal Cahillane Tactile Textures by Ruth Spaak Exhibiting Artists
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BlindArt Collection Donated to
Moorfields Eye Hospital
October 2012
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BlindArt Permanent Collection @ Banbury Museum
February - March 2011
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BlindArt Permanent Collection @ Hove Museum & Art Gallery
June - September 2010
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BlindArt Permanent Collection @ RNC
June 2009
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BlindArt @ ART LONDON Fair
2 - 6 October 2008
BlindArt Permanent Collection @ Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro
26 July – 4 October 2008
BlindArt Forum
Exciting new Feature
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BlindArt Permanent Collection @ MOMA, Wales
March - April 2008
BlindArt Permanent Collection @ Catmose Gallery
January - February 2007
BlindArt Permanent Collection @ Menier Gallery
May 2007
Sense & Sensuality @ Richard Attenborough Centre
December 2006 - January 2007
Sense & Sensuality Debuts in New York
October 2006
Winners of Sense & Sensuality 2006
Joint First Prize
Mauro Perucchetti
Nick Hornby
BlindArt Purchase Prize
Andrew Senior
Sense & Sensuality 2006
Bankside Gallery
14 September – 8 October 2006
Link to leaflet
BlindArt in New York
BlindArt @ Art Beyond Sight
October 2005
Education Projects
Sense2Sense Education Project
4Senses Education Project
BlindArt Needs Volunteers
to help us TOUCH ART.
Please email info@blindart.net for details.
• Sense & Sensuality 2005 catalogue
• Sense & Sensuality 2006 catalogue
• BlindArt Permanent Collection catalogue
• Postcards
• Tactile images
available.
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