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ASSIGNMENTS

The Assignments is a new platform for artists. We create open briefs based on a theme or an idea. Artwork can take the form of words, images or film.

Creativity in Lockdown

We launch the Assignments during the UK-wide coronavirus lockdown of 2020.

Making art helps many people express themselves freely, particularly at this time, when our mental-welling being is challenged daily in isolation through a loss of social connections with our friends, family and workplace.

For our first theme, we revisit The Wing Assignment, a project we initially launched in 2011. The Wing has long been referenced in art history as a symbol of freedom and spirituality, related to the cognitive faculty, imagination, thought and victory. The broken wing often depicts the opposite.

In isolation we are faced with the juxtaposition of oppressed freedom and clipped wings yet we can hear the birds in the trees again.

For this lockdown Assignment we invite you to explore these ideas, within the limits of your environment and available materials.

BRIEF AND ARTWORKS

The Wing Assignment, 2012

In 2012 we invited 80 creatives from around the world to
respond to a package sent from the UK via Royal Mail, the package contained a dried preserved birds wing.

Creatives from all disciplines from architects to writers created over 100 works of art. With the help of sponsors like Red Bull we exhibited in three unique locations in London.

Wing Artworks:

Icarus and the
Shoreditch Siren

Pete Manley
Created for The Wing Assignment in 2012
Mallard Wing

Anatidae 1-3

Russell Brown
Created for The Wing Assignment in 2012
Mallard Wing

The Geometry of Flight

Gemma Bayly
Geocentric Mandala
Created for The Wing Assignment in 2012
Digital wing scans

News

…The Wing Assignment project was an integral part in my subsequent return to working in clay. The exhibition’s theme helped me re-evaluate clay as a more dynamic medium to enable me to evoke lightness and the movement of birds wings during lift off.

SOPHIE-ELIZABETH THOMPSON

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Nina Simone. A song of fiery, righteous anger. Nin

Nina Simone. A song of fiery, righteous anger. Nina Simone boldly went where no black woman had gone before when she performed her song “Mississippi, Goddamn” in public for the first time at a Carnegie Hall concert in New York in 1964.
It was set over a furious tempo and was introduced unapologetically.
“The name of this tune is ‘Mississippi God-DAMN,’” she declared to the mostly white audience, “…and I mean every word of it.”
In the first verse she refers to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Alabama in 1963 that killed four children and the violence over desegregation in Tennessee before setting her focus on Mississippi, where civil rights leader Medgar Evans was assassinated in 1963.
“Alabama’s gotten me so upset
Tennessee made me lose my rest
And everybody knows about Mississippi goddamn” #blackouttuesday

#blackouttuesday

#blackouttuesday

Nina Simone. A song of fiery, righteous anger. Nin

Nina Simone. A song of fiery, righteous anger. Nina Simone boldly went where no black woman had gone before when she performed her song “Mississippi, Goddamn” in public for the first time at a Carnegie Hall concert in New York in 1964.
It was set over a furious tempo and was introduced unapologetically.
“The name of this tune is ‘Mississippi God-DAMN,’” she declared to the mostly white audience, “…and I mean every word of it.”
In the first verse she refers to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Alabama in 1963 that killed four children and the violence over desegregation in Tennessee before setting her focus on Mississippi, where civil rights leader Medgar Evans was assassinated in 1963.
“Alabama’s gotten me so upset
Tennessee made me lose my rest
And everybody knows about Mississippi goddamn” #blackouttuesday

The Dreamers A collaborative short film by Beatri

The Dreamers

A collaborative short film by Beatrice Dadswell @beatricee.x and Nina Farrell @ninjakahlo for The Wing Assignment.
When I dream of flying, I’m underwater. When I swim I am free, weightless, graceful. Negativity disappears, energy shifts and my thoughts go deeper. Under the water is when I feel the most connected to creativity.
In this film we explore freedom in confinement. Fabric moves with fluidity, twisting around the figure with an ethereal quality.
In Lockdown, time has shifted day and night merge, we are living in a dreamlike reality.
I wanted to work with Bea on this project, she’s 16, exams cancelled and in lockdown. She’s also an excellent swimmer, creative, naturally talented at making films and is my neighbour.
Together we collaborated on this film over 3 days. During lockdown we have access to a private pool. I filmed, Bea swam, Bea edited, I (with the help of Asa) recoloured and adjusted the final cut. Bea asked her friend Prosper to create the music track.
All two metres apart.
Bea Dadswell – Muse, Model and Editing
Prosper Challis – Music
Nina Farrell – Art Direction, Filming and Colour

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The Dreamers A collaborative short film by Beatri

The Dreamers

A collaborative short film by Beatrice Dadswell @beatricee.x and Nina Farrell @ninjakahlo for The Wing Assignment.
When I dream of flying, I’m underwater. When I swim I am free, weightless, graceful. Negativity disappears, energy shifts and my thoughts go deeper. Under the water is when I feel the most connected to creativity.
In this film we explore freedom in confinement. Fabric moves with fluidity, twisting around the figure with an ethereal quality.
In Lockdown, time has shifted day and night merge, we are living in a dreamlike reality.
I wanted to work with Bea on this project, she’s 16, exams cancelled and in lockdown. She’s also an excellent swimmer, creative, naturally talented at making films and is my neighbour.
Together we collaborated on this film over 3 days. During lockdown we have access to a private pool. I filmed, Bea swam, Bea edited, I (with the help of Asa) recoloured and adjusted the final cut. Bea asked her friend Prosper to create the music track.
All two metres apart.
Bea Dadswell – Muse, Model and Editing
Prosper Challis – Music
Nina Farrell – Art Direction, Filming and Colour

#thewingassignment2020 #film #underwater #water #shortfilm #wingassignment2020 #wingassignment #contemporaryart #cameralessphotography #darkroom #darkroomart #art #birdwing #bird #painting #theassignment #theassignments #thecreativeassignments #artexhibition #artistsoninstagram #covidartchallenge #artwork #artist #peckham #filmedoniphone7 #underwaterfilming #iphone7 #underwaterphotography

The Dreamers A collaborative short film by Beatri

The Dreamers

A collaborative short film by Beatrice Dadswell @beatricee.x and Nina Farrell @ninjakahlo for The Wing Assignment.
When I dream of flying, I’m underwater. When I swim I am free, weightless, graceful. Negativity disappears, energy shifts and my thoughts go deeper. Under the water is when I feel the most connected to creativity.
In this film we explore freedom in confinement. Fabric moves with fluidity, twisting around the figure with an ethereal quality.
In Lockdown, time has shifted day and night merge, we are living in a dreamlike reality.
I wanted to work with Bea on this project, she’s 16, exams cancelled and in lockdown. She’s also an excellent swimmer, creative, naturally talented at making films and is my neighbour.
Together we collaborated on this film over 3 days. During lockdown we have access to a private pool. I filmed, Bea swam, Bea edited, I (with the help of Asa) recoloured and adjusted the final cut. Bea asked her friend Prosper to create the music track.
All two metres apart.
Bea Dadswell – Muse, Model and Editing
Prosper Challis – Music
Nina Farrell – Art Direction, Filming and Colour

#thewingassignment2020 #film #underwater #water #shortfilm #wingassignment2020 #wingassignment #contemporaryart #cameralessphotography #darkroom #darkroomart #art #birdwing #bird #painting #theassignment #theassignments #thecreativeassignments #artexhibition #artistsoninstagram #covidartchallenge #artwork #artist #peckham #filmedoniphone7 #underwaterfilming #iphone7 #underwaterphotography

The Dreamers A collaborative short film by Beatri

The Dreamers

A collaborative short film by Beatrice Dadswell @beatricee.x and Nina Farrell @ninjakahlo for The Wing Assignment.
When I dream of flying, I’m underwater. When I swim I am free, weightless, graceful. Negativity disappears, energy shifts and my thoughts go deeper. Under the water is when I feel the most connected to creativity.
In this film we explore freedom in confinement. Fabric moves with fluidity, twisting around the figure with an ethereal quality.
In Lockdown, time has shifted day and night merge, we are living in a dreamlike reality.
I wanted to work with Bea on this project, she’s 16, exams cancelled and in lockdown. She’s also an excellent swimmer, creative, naturally talented at making films and is my neighbour.
Together we collaborated on this film over 3 days. During lockdown we have access to a private pool. I filmed, Bea swam, Bea edited, I (with the help of Asa) recoloured and adjusted the final cut. Bea asked her friend Prosper to create the music track.
All two metres apart.
Bea Dadswell – Muse, Model and Editing
Prosper Challis – Music
Nina Farrell – Art Direction, Filming and Colour

#thewingassignment2020 #film #underwater #water #shortfilm #wingassignment2020 #wingassignment #contemporaryart #cameralessphotography #darkroom #darkroomart #art #birdwing #bird #painting #theassignment #theassignments #thecreativeassignments #artexhibition #artistsoninstagram #covidartchallenge #artwork #artist #peckham #filmedoniphone7 #underwaterfilming #iphone7 #underwaterphotography

The Dreamers A collaborative short film by Beatri

The Dreamers

A collaborative short film by Beatrice Dadswell @beatricee.x and Nina Farrell @ninjakahlo for The Wing Assignment.
When I dream of flying, I’m underwater. When I swim I am free, weightless, graceful. Negativity disappears, energy shifts and my thoughts go deeper. Under the water is when I feel the most connected to creativity.
In this film we explore freedom in confinement. Fabric moves with fluidity, twisting around the figure with an ethereal quality.
In Lockdown, time has shifted day and night merge, we are living in a dreamlike reality.
I wanted to work with Bea on this project, she’s 16, exams cancelled and in lockdown. She’s also an excellent swimmer, creative, naturally talented at making films and is my neighbour.
Together we collaborated on this film over 3 days. During lockdown we have access to a private pool. I filmed, Bea swam, Bea edited, I (with the help of Asa) recoloured and adjusted the final cut. Bea asked her friend Prosper to create the music track.
All two metres apart.
Bea Dadswell – Muse, Model and Editing
Prosper Challis – Music
Nina Farrell – Art Direction, Filming and Colour

#thewingassignment2020 #film #underwater #water #shortfilm #wingassignment2020 #wingassignment #contemporaryart #cameralessphotography #darkroom #darkroomart #art #birdwing #bird #painting #theassignment #theassignments #thecreativeassignments #artexhibition #artistsoninstagram #covidartchallenge #artwork #artist #peckham #filmedoniphone7 #underwaterfilming #iphone7 #underwaterphotography #bbc6musicart

The Dreamers A collaborative short film by Beatri

The Dreamers

A collaborative short film by Beatrice Dadswell @beatricee.x and Nina Farrell @ninjakahlo for The Wing Assignment.
When I dream of flying, I’m underwater. When I swim I am free, weightless, graceful. Negativity disappears, energy shifts and my thoughts go deeper. Under the water is when I feel the most connected to creativity.
In this film we explore freedom in confinement. Fabric moves with fluidity, twisting around the figure with an ethereal quality.
In Lockdown, time has shifted day and night merge, we are living in a dreamlike reality.
I wanted to work with Bea on this project, she’s 16, exams cancelled and in lockdown. She’s also an excellent swimmer, creative, naturally talented at making films and is my neighbour.
Together we collaborated on this film over 3 days. During lockdown we have access to a private pool. I filmed, Bea swam, Bea edited, I (with the help of Asa) recoloured and adjusted the final cut. Bea asked her friend Prosper to create the music track.
All two metres apart.
Bea Dadswell – Muse, Model and Editing
Prosper Challis – Music
Nina Farrell – Art Direction, Filming and Colour

#thewingassignment2020 #film #underwater #water #shortfilm #wingassignment2020 #wingassignment #contemporaryart #cameralessphotography #darkroomart #art #birdwing #bird #painting #theassignment #theassignments #thecreativeassignments #artexhibition #artistsoninstagram #covidartchallenge #artwork #artist #peckham #filmedoniphone7 #underwaterfilming #iphone7 #underwaterphotography #bbc6musicart

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he Wing Assignment 2020. The lockdown edition

Bingo Wings Flapping in the Sun

By Liz Bentley @msliz.bentley
The poem is based on my response to the Wing Assignment during lock down. Coronavirus travels like a fart, we can’t see it and don’t know how deadly it will be. From my reading of ’Staring in the Sun’ Irvin Yalom, I link overcoming my dread of death with the sun of life, creativity and sex. We all have bingo wings. As we get older, gravity sinks them further to the earth, and then we all die.
I am a writer/performer and therapist, known as ‘Psychotherapist by day/Comedian by night” check out my website mslizbentley.com

M wings are 5.5 decades old

In 5.5 weeks of lockdown

The slow metabolism of carrying weight

As the wait of uncertainty

Begins to create

The worldwide break

Down of life, as my wings knew it

My bingo wings flap

What goes up
Must come down
40,50,60,70, lengths of the Pioneer pool

Will not change time

I stretch my arms up and down

And down and up

The wings still hang down, wise and weary

Writhing in the snake pit below

As the divide strengthens, to conquer

I look up at the sun

Soaking in the vitamin D

That will conquer CV

Eros, equated with the sun

Breathes the spirit of life

The erotic, the creative, and in the psychoanalytical world, it is sometimes said ‘you live your life in the same way you experience sexual intercourse’

My bingo wings, flapping in the sun

Over cum ing, Cummings
And the dread of death

The voices behind the WHO (not of the Roger Daltrey kind)

Have clipped my wings

The little boy in ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ screams “It is the soil, not the germ”

As we learn

My bingo wings WILL keep flapping in the sun

#thewingassignment2020 #poem #comedy #bingo #bingowings #wingassignment2020 #wingassignment #photogram #bauhaus #contemporaryart #cameralessphotography #darkroom #darkroomart #art #birdwing #bird #painting #theassignment #theassignments #thecreativeassignments #artexhibition #artistsoninstagram #covidart #birds #artwork #artist #peckham #london #london🇬🇧

The Wing Assignment 2020. The lockdown edition Bi

The Wing Assignment 2020. The lockdown edition

Bingo Wings Flapping in the Sun

By Liz Bentley @msliz.bentley
The poem is based on my response to the Wing Assignment during lock down. Coronavirus travels like a fart, we can’t see it and don’t know how deadly it will be. From my reading of ’Staring in the Sun’ Irvin Yalom, I link overcoming my dread of death with the sun of life, creativity and sex. We all have bingo wings. As we get older, gravity sinks them further to the earth, and then we all die.
I am a writer/performer and therapist, known as ‘Psychotherapist by day/Comedian by night” check out my website mslizbentley.com

M wings are 5.5 decades old

In 5.5 weeks of lockdown

The slow metabolism of carrying weight

As the wait of uncertainty

Begins to create

The worldwide break

Down of life, as my wings knew it

My bingo wings flap

What goes up
Must come down
40,50,60,70, lengths of the Pioneer pool

Will not change time

I stretch my arms up and down

And down and up

The wings still hang down, wise and weary

Writhing in the snake pit below

As the divide strengthens, to conquer

I look up at the sun

Soaking in the vitamin D

That will conquer CV

Eros, equated with the sun

Breathes the spirit of life

The erotic, the creative, and in the psychoanalytical world, it is sometimes said ‘you live your life in the same way you experience sexual intercourse’

My bingo wings, flapping in the sun

Over cum ing, Cummings
And the dread of death

The voices behind the WHO (not of the Roger Daltrey kind)

Have clipped my wings

The little boy in ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ screams “It is the soil, not the germ”

As we learn

My bingo wings WILL keep flapping in the sun

#thewingassignment2020 #poem #comedy #bingo #bingowings #wingassignment2020 #wingassignment #photogram #bauhaus #contemporaryart #cameralessphotography #darkroom #darkroomart #art #birdwing #bird #painting #theassignment #theassignments #thecreativeassignments #artexhibition #artistsoninstagram #covidart #birds #artwork #artist #peckham #london #london🇬🇧

The Wing Assignment 2020. The lockdown edition Bi

The Wing Assignment 2020. The lockdown edition

Bingo Wings Flapping in the Sun

By Liz Bentley @msliz.bentley
The poem is based on my response to the Wing Assignment during lock down. Coronavirus travels like a fart, we can’t see it and don’t know how deadly it will be. From my reading of ’Staring in the Sun’ Irvin Yalom, I link overcoming my dread of death with the sun of life, creativity and sex. We all have bingo wings. As we get older, gravity sinks them further to the earth, and then we all die.
I am a writer/performer and therapist, known as ‘Psychotherapist by day/Comedian by night” check out my website mslizbentley.com

M wings are 5.5 decades old

In 5.5 weeks of lockdown

The slow metabolism of carrying weight

As the wait of uncertainty

Begins to create

The worldwide break

Down of life, as my wings knew it

My bingo wings flap

What goes up
Must come down
40,50,60,70, lengths of the Pioneer pool

Will not change time

I stretch my arms up and down

And down and up

The wings still hang down, wise and weary

Writhing in the snake pit below

As the divide strengthens, to conquer

I look up at the sun

Soaking in the vitamin D

That will conquer CV

Eros, equated with the sun

Breathes the spirit of life

The erotic, the creative, and in the psychoanalytical world, it is sometimes said ‘you live your life in the same way you experience sexual intercourse’

My bingo wings, flapping in the sun

Over cum ing, Cummings
And the dread of death

The voices behind the WHO (not of the Roger Daltrey kind)

Have clipped my wings

The little boy in ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ screams “It is the soil, not the germ”

As we learn

My bingo wings WILL keep flapping in the sun

#thewingassignment2020 #poem #comedy #bingo #bingowings #wingassignment2020 #wingassignment #photogram #bauhaus #contemporaryart #cameralessphotography #darkroom #darkroomart #art #birdwing #bird #painting #theassignment #theassignments #thecreativeassignments #artexhibition #artistsoninstagram #covidart #birds #artwork #artist #peckham #london #london🇬🇧

The Wing Assignment 2020. The lockdown edition Th

The Wing Assignment 2020. The lockdown edition

There’s something in the Air

By @ninjakahlo “There’s something in the air, anxiety, chaos, tension. Thick, the smell before the storm. Electric. Intoxicating. Breathe. It’s ok. I can hear the birds again..” My work explores emotion and movement through abstraction. I’m interested in expression and simplicity through mark-making. I aim to create works with minimal marks that can still convey a compelling and lively narrative.

This project has given me an opportunity to look back at my archive of photograms combined with my love of painting, mark-making and design.
Nina co-runs The Assignments and &Agency @andagencylondon with @asa.medhurst
A digital composite of photograms and mark making.

#thewingassignment2020 #digital #digitalcollage #wingassignment2020 #wingassignment #photogram #bauhaus #contemporaryart #cameralessphotography #darkroom #darkroomart #art #birdwing #bird #painting #theassignment #theassignments #thecreativeassignments #artexhibition #artistsoninstagram #covidart #birds #artwork #artist #london #design #designagency #artdirector #designinspiration

The Wing Assignment 2020. The lockdown edition Th

The Wing Assignment 2020. The lockdown edition

There’s something in the Air

By @ninjakahlo “There’s something in the air, anxiety, chaos, tension. Thick, the smell before the storm. Electric. Intoxicating. Breathe. It’s ok. I can hear the birds again..” My work explores emotion and movement through abstraction. I’m interested in expression and simplicity through mark-making. I aim to create works with minimal marks that can still convey a compelling and lively narrative.

This project has given me an opportunity to look back at my archive of photograms combined with my love of painting, mark-making and design.
Nina co-runs The Assignments and &Agency @andagencylondon with @asa.medhurst
A digital composite of photograms and mark making.

#thewingassignment2020 #digital #digitalcollage #wingassignment2020 #wingassignment #photogram #bauhaus #contemporaryart #cameralessphotography #darkroom #darkroomart #art #birdwing #bird #painting #theassignment #theassignments #thecreativeassignments #artexhibition #artistsoninstagram #covidart #birds #artwork #artist #london #design #designagency #artdirector #designinspiration #bbc6musicart

The Wing Assignment 2020. The lockdown edition Th

The Wing Assignment 2020. The lockdown edition

There’s something in the Air

By @ninjakahlo “There’s something in the air, anxiety, chaos, tension. Thick, the smell before the storm. Electric. Intoxicating. Breathe. It’s ok. I can hear the birds again..” My work explores emotion and movement through abstraction. I’m interested in expression and simplicity through mark-making. I aim to create works with minimal marks that can still convey a compelling and lively narrative.

This project has given me an opportunity to look back at my archive of photograms combined with my love of painting, mark-making and design.
Nina co-runs The Assignments and &Agency @andagencylondon with @asa.medhurst
A digital composite of photograms and mark making.

#thewingassignment2020 #digital #digitalcollage #wingassignment2020 #wingassignment #photogram #bauhaus #contemporaryart #cameralessphotography #darkroom #darkroomart #art #birdwing #bird #painting #theassignment #theassignments #thecreativeassignments #artexhibition #artistsoninstagram #covidart #birds #artwork #artist #london #design #designagency #artdirector #designinspiration

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