Artists in residence: students celebrate 200 years of Heal s

18 students from the UCL Slade School of Fine Art are to take up residence in the windows of Heal's flagship Tottenham Court Road furniture store to create a unique piece of retail theatre. Heal's has been at the forefront of modern design for 200 years and is working with UCL as part of its bicentenary celebrations. From 1'7 February 2010 this inspirational design project will see interactive art installations being created day and night in Heal's 27-metre showcase window. Diana Taylor, referencing cartoons and Disney characters alongside archive Heal's patterns and prints to create a large scale mural in the Meal's Peyton & Byrne restaurant  Gavin Weber, screen printing 200 prints on a large 1830s wood block printer where wood blocks will be carved, printed and displayed Haruka Ono, collecting customer receipts which will be screen printed in fluorescent colours and printed as large scale keepsake posters. Jayne Wilton, creating the installation 'Catching Breath' where 200 breaths will be caught as copper plate etchings, acid washed and displayed as a large-scale collage John Shelvin, producing an installation of two clocks, one analogue set at the time 18.10 and one digital set at the time 20.
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