Richard Penn is a self - taught animator with a Masters Degree in Fine Arts (with distinction) from the University of the Witwatersrand.

He has co - animated and co - directed two short films with Mocke J Van Veuren, and has directed and animated three short films of his own. In 2004, he was awarded the overall winners prize in The Sasol New Signatures Art Competition.

Penn held the position of Head of Animation at AFDA Johannesburg (The South African School for Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance) from 2002 until 2009.

This year he started STRANGE Blue duck, an animation training company, which teaches stop frame animation to children from nine years and up, and facilitates corporate animation team - building and creative enrichment workshops. He works in pastel, pen and ink on paper, animation, video and various print media.

BLUE NOTE: A work by Richard Penn in pastel on paper (1.3m X 1.3m) entitled Sedna

Lester Adams is an artist and curator who studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and is currently is the coordinator of public programmes at the Market Photo Workshop.

Since being featured as part of the Impossible Monsters and Perfect Lovers shows at Art Extra (before the gallery became Brodie/Stevenson) in 2007 and 2008, his work has part of Real Presence at the Castello di Rivoli in Turin, Italy, and The Outerworld of the Innerworld of the Outerworld of the Innerworld at Galerie der HfbK in Hamburg, Germany.

'His work stems from this detailed inventory of stories, linked to each other by a sense of a utopian/dystopian binary,' writes Nina Barnett. 'Adams creates pristine and immaculate icons that evolve from a voracious study of the abnormal and the unfortunate.

He calls this process "a baroque distillation", a method that both concentrates the essence of his stories and their particularities, and pays homage to their dramatic and indulgent elements.'  

SHORT FLIGHTED: In an installation by Lester Adams, called Deep Roller, tumbler pigeons, frozen mid - fall, are placed sequence - like above one another, their stagnant poses indicating the falling stages of a bird bred to tumble in this way, with the ultimate consequence of fatality

The 15th Tallinn Print Triennial, with the theme For Love Not Money, will take place from January - April 2011 in Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn, Estonia.

The theme and title have been developed to reflect upon the agency of contemporary art in times of global financial crisis (that impacts upon the production, exposition, and reception of contemporary art inasmuch as it affects every sector of society).

Meanwhile, 'love' is an eternal and multi - dimensional phenomenon that can radiate within an artwork - unsullied by finance and crisis-regardless of the times in which it is produced and exhibited. It remains, like money, a timeless subject for artistic exploration and popular fascination.

Thematically the 15th Tallinn Print Triennial will explore a range of concepts embodied within the project's title, including: addiction, desire, dedication, duty, family, love, lust, objectification, romance, religion, political commitment, and sex.

Theoretically it will encourage reflexive examinations of these concepts from perspectives such as Walter Benjamin's on reproducibility in art, Marx and Freud's theories of fetishism, Aquinas, Pascal and Montaigne's theories of faith, Roland Barthes, Michael Fried and Susan Sontag's descriptions of the camera's role in prescriptions of the public imaginary and its links to consumer culture, and Sean Cubitt and Boris Groys' writing on the aesthetic and cultural affects of digitisation.

As reproducibility is now manifold in the digital era the exhibition will aim to present artworks that - working within the thematic-reflect upon their technical status: and develop a relationship or refer to earlier modes of production (such as 'printmaking').

Of course, artists who apply themselves to block - printing, lino - cutting or press - printing will be given special consideration, especially artists that are moving these techniques into a conceptual demesne.

Explorations of more recent, but out - moded, technologies will also be encouraged as times of hardship often encourage recycling. The 'confessional' nature of the exhibition theme is apposite to expression in book form; and artist's books continue to be a vehicle for experimentation and expression. This confessional modality might also spill into the new zones of mediation associated with digital communication and the Internet.

Contact: tallinn@triennial.ee - Jaanika Okk
Phone: +37253832034
Address: Tallinn Print Triennial,
Weizenbergi 34 / Valge 1,Tallinn, 10127, Estonia

Application deadline: 30 May 2010

Six residence scholarships will be awarded to international visual artists.

Each scholarship lasts six months.

All of them begin in April 2011 and are endowed with 1 200 euros per month and include free accommodation at the Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral.

Eligible to apply for the international residence scholarships at the Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral are international artists of any age from the disciplines painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, printmaking, design, photography, video, new media and landscape art.

To foster dialog between research and art, Balmoral also awards a residence scholarship to a young scholar in the humanities (preferably art history) for a curatorial project to be developed by the scholarship holder and the Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral.

The scholarship lasts six months and begins in April 2011. It is endowed with 1 200 euros per month and includes free accommodation at the Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral.

The foreign and exchange scholarships are endowed with 1,200 euros per month.

Additional information and PDF application forms are available HERE

Application deadline:
2 July 2010 (date of postmark)

Contact:
Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral,
Villenpromenade 11,
56130 Bad Ems,
Germany,

Email:
info@balmoral.de