For ten weeks this summer, S1 Artspace has invited artist Keith Wilson to be artist-in-residence. The gallery, which is currently acting as Keith's studio, will host a number of public and private events over the next few weeks influenced and based on Keith's research into the influential modern art movement, Unit One, founded by painter Paul Nash in 1933.  The events programme will commence with an Introduction & Build Event this Thursday 23rd August from 6pm, where Keith will discuss his practice and invite the audience to help contribute to the build and completion of his monumental sculpture Calendar. This is followed by a Screening Event on Friday 31st August which presents films of significant influenc e to Keith, including A Question of Feeling (1973). On Saturday 1st September, the gallery will open to the public for one day only to present CALENDAR, the completed version of Calendar (2011-12). The events programme concludes on Thursday 13th September with the invite only event UNIT 1: plus 1, a group discussion based on a topic proposed by Keith to be had between Keith and five curators he has invited, who have then in turn, extended the invitation to five artists.   Full event details are below, to book a place for any of the events please email: pippa@s1artspace.org.
Keith Wilson installing Calendar, 2011-12	Introduction & Build Event Thu 23 Aug | 6 - 8pm To commence the events programme, Keith Wilson will introduce his practice in the context of his monumental sculptural work Calendar (2011-12). Partially installed, Keith invites the audience to participate in the on-going building and completion of Calendar throughout the evening.  Keith will also present the short film Steles which documents the making of his 2012 work for the Cultural Olympiad, currently installed in the Olympic River. To reserve a place email: p ippa@s1artspace.org
'A' Course, 'Sitting Project' 1971. Photo courtesy of Peter Venn	The Locked Room: Screening Event Fri 31 Aug | 6 - 8pm Keith Wilson presents a selection of films that have had a significant personal impact on himself, his work and ways of thinking. Excerpts will be shown from Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972); Roberto Rossellini’s The Flowers of St. Francis (1950) and the 1973 BBC Omnibus programme A Question of Feeling by Christopher Burstall. One of the most radical episodes in art education A Question of Feeling documents the first days of The ‘A’ Course at St Martin’s School of Art. Attempting to erase pre-existing notions of the art object; tutors Garth Evans, Peter Harvey, Gareth Jones and Peter Kardia paradoxically imprisoned their twelve students in the studio, in order to liberate them. Shown along side A Question of Feeling, Aguirre: Wrath of God and The Flowers of St Francis focus the event’s theme on unconventional practices, extremes of creativity, value systems and attempts at liberation.  To reserve a place email: pippa@s1artspace.org
The beginnings of Calendar, 2011-12 at S1 Artspace	Keith Wilson: Calendar Sat 1 Sep | 12 - 6pm To mark the completion of Calendar (2011-12), the gallery will be open to the public for one day only. Completed in collaboration with S1 Artspace studio-holders and public participants earlier in the residency, audiences are invited to view the work in its entirety for one day only.  Calendar (2011-12), which is constructed from multiple cubic units, represents the familiar monthly calendar grid system used for wall planners or as computer applications. The shelf-like units present a flexible, permeable form for the temporal display of myriad found or donated objects. Each unit holds the potential to be filled with significant events, appointments and reminders, or simply left empty. The gallery will be open to the public from 12 - 6pm.
The cover of the publication Unit 1, edited by Herbert Read, 1934	Unit 1: plus 1 Thu 13 Sep The second in a series of events hosted by Keith Wilson based on the original Unit One group, Unit 1: plus 1 invites an intimate group of artists and curators to discuss current issues around contemporary practice. In order to diversify the discussion group, Keith has invited an initial group of five curators to extend their invitation to one additional artist as a ‘+1’, further expanding the degree of separation between the participants. Exploring themes relating to the relationship between the private production space of the studio and the public exhibiting space of the gallery. To take place in the gallery which is currently acting as Keith's studio, this environment directly reflects the tension between the private and the public with open-plan artists’ studios direc tly overlooking the exhibiting space. This event is by invitation only, however excerpts from the event will later be available online.  The avant-garde modernist movement Unit One was founded by Paul Nash in 1933 and included prominent artists, architects and critics including Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and Henry Moore. The group sought to champion British modernism, advocate avant-garde practice and revitalise British art in the inter-war period.
Keith Wilson biography
Keith Wilson is a London and Sheffield-based artist who has had major solo exhibitions at Camden Arts Centre, London; Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston; Milch Gallery, London; Compton Verney, Milton Keynes Gallery; Eastside Projects, Birmingham and the Wellcome Collection, London. Over the past two decades he has contributed to numerous group shows and projects, including the Hayward Project Space, London; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, and received numerous commissions both nationally and internationally. In 2002 he co-curated The Object Sculpture at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (with Tobias Rehberger and Joëlle Tuerlinckx). His latest c uratorial project (with Penelope Curtis, Director of Tate Britain) was Modern British Sculpture at the Royal Academy of Arts (2011), and major new works have been exhibited throughout 2011 as part of the British Art Show 7. He recently returned to London after an Arts Council England Oxford-Melbourne Fellowship and has also recently completed a major new commission ‘Steles’ for Olympic Park in London. Over the past twenty years he has taught at most of the major art schools around Britain – particularly as a tutor at the Royal College of Art, London, as a senior lecturer at the University of the Arts London and as a reader at the University of Westminster. He has been a trustee on the Boards of both Whitechapel Art Gallery and Camden Arts Centre for many years, working directly on their major refurbishment projects. He is co-founder and currently Chair of Trustees of Art House Foundation. 
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