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What's on in CONTEMPORARY ART
Your guide to contemporary art events, shows, exhibitions,
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UK -
West Midlands
João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva: On the Movement of the Fried Egg and Other Astronomical Bodies |
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Location:
IKON
1 Oozells Square
Brindleyplace
Birmingham
West Midlands
B1 2HS |
Event dates:
03/02/2010 - 21/03/2010 |
Ikon presents the first major UK exhibition of work by Portuguese artists João Maria Gusmão (Lisbon, 1979) and Pedro Paiva (Lisbon, 1977). The pair create objects, installations and short films which they describe as poetic philosophical fiction. Having worked together since 2001, in recent years there has been increasing international interest in their practice, culminating in their representation of Portugal at the 2009 Venice Biennale.
The work of Gusmão and Paiva constitutes a deeply curious investigation into the nature of reality, in which there is constant circulation between fact and fiction. Their projects are informed by a wide range of references, including historical literature, mythology and the occult, which they draw into their own pseudo-scientific investigations.
The exhibition at Ikon focuses solely on their short 16mm films, featuring those recently made in Brazil alongside a selection from the last five years. They reflect the artists’ ongoing preoccupations: blindness and vision, metaphysics, the void and infinity. Usually set in deserts or other spartan landscapes, some incorporate a strange cast of characters who enact anarchic rituals or demonstrations, while others are unpopulated, their dream-like quality created by the artists’ use of slow-motion or multiple exposure of the film. All are silent. Projected in a darkened space, the films en masse operate as a visual essay that evokes anthropological mystery.
In Experiment on the Effluvium (2009), a slow-motion film of a stone skimmed across the water’s surface resembles a mythological planetary event, while Astronomy Of The End Of The Boot (2009), in which a man observes the skies through a hole in his shoe, demonstrates a more literal way of experiencing the world.
Different subjective positions are brought together in a complex conceptual narrative that demonstrates a smart humour. This also informs our reading of an accompanying publication, featuring essays by the artists, writers Marcus Steinweg and Sarah Robayo Sheridan and selected excerpts from the Kabbalah tradition, Fernando Pessoa, Pascal and Nietzsche. |
| www.ikon-gallery.co.uk |
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West Midlands
Claudia Borgna |
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Location:
The Rea Garden,
1 - 8, Floodgate Street, Digbeth
Birmingham
West Midlands
B5 5ST |
Preview:
12/02/2010
6pm - 9pm |
Event dates:
11/02/2010 - 14/02/2010 |
| Claudia Borgna is the 2nd artist in residence at The Rea Garden, artist project space. She is working at the site during January February and March 2010. During her residency Claudia will be creating temporary and evolving installations using recycled materials. On Thursday 11th February the site will be open to the public for the first of two openings giving the audience a chance to see the work evolving, over the course of the residency.
Thursday 6 - 9pm, Friday, Saturday, Sunday 11am - 4pm
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| www.behindcloseddoors.org.uk/?page_id=535 |
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West Midlands
Cov: Art Fair (spring edition) |
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Location:
The Lock Gallery, Canal Basin
Coventry
West Midlands
Cv1 4LY |
Event dates:
07/03/2010 - 07/03/2010 |
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Art and Craft Fair for local (and beyond) artist to sell direct to the public! just a big exhibition really with a bit of music and food. 11am-4pm |
| www.TheLockGallery.co.uk |
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West Midlands
The Unwanted Gift Shop |
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Location:
The New Art Gallery, Walsall,Gallery Square
Walsall
West Midlands
WS2 8LG |
Event dates:
18/01/2010 - 18/04/2010 |
| Do you have any unwanted gifts or bad purchases tucked away at the back of your wardrobe? Do not fear as you can now have your item transformed into works of art! Visit artist in residence Mitra Memarzia at The Unwanted Gift Shop and bring along your kitch ornaments, jumpers and useless gadgets. Mitra's 3 month residency coincides with the gallery's 10th Birthday! Visit the website for further information and to follow and comment on The Unwanted Gift Shop blog. Monday - Saturday and Bank Holidays 10-5pm, Sunday 11-4pm
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| www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk |
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West Midlands
Clare Rojas: We They, We They |
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Location:
IKON, 1 Oozells Square
Brindleyplace
Birmingham
West Midlands
B1 2HS |
Event dates:
03/02/2010 - 10/03/2010 |
Ikon presents the first UK museum exhibition by American artist, Clare Rojas (b. 1976, Ohio, lives and works in San Francisco). Best known for her folk-inspired practice, Rojas uses a wide range of media, including painting, installation and print-making. Her work is characteristically made by using flat areas of colour betraying her origins as a printmaker, its naïf, homespun style thrown into relief by a knowing subject manner. Thus Rojas challenges, with humour and irony, stereotypical representations of the sexes.
The exhibition at Ikon, comprising much new work, marks a shift in Rojas’ practice. Paintings of empty domestic interiors suggest people have just departed, leaving clues of their identities, subtle revelations of gender and class. In other paintings, images of women are increasingly abstracted and yet retain a deceptive playfulness. Stacked conglomerations of shape, colour and pattern evoke figurative presence – a crescent of hair, a waist of a figure – all rendered in Rojas’ distinctive, flat style. It is as if she is reclaiming tropes from early modernist masters, visual languages that were particularly focused on feminine subjects such as the cubism of Picasso or the surreal biomorphism of Miro.
Rojas’ paintings will form centrepieces in a larger installation that is the entire exhibition, walls of the gallery covered by a patchwork of painted panels akin to a quilt. Some are focused on particular imagery; others are assemblages of colour and pattern. They combine to recall a myriad of references from West Coast modernism, to Latino folk or Native American craft, outsider art and street graffiti.
Ikon’s Tower Room will contain paintings on antique banjos, drawing together Rojas’ musical and literary interests where lyrics describe relationships, sometimes with tenderness, sometimes with pointed humour. Around the time of the exhibition opening there will be a concert in which the artist will perform songs taken from her albums released under the name of her alter-ego Peggy Honeywell.
Tuesday - Sunday 11am-6pm. Closed Mondays except Bank Holidays. |
| www.ikon-gallery.co.uk |
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Warwickshire
Jerwood Sculpture Prize Commission Unveiling |
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Location:
Jerwood Sculpture at Ragley,
Ragley Hall.
Alcester
Warwickshire
B49 5NJ |
Event dates:
12/06/2010 - 31/12/2010 |
Starting twenty-four metres below the ground, Juliet Haysom's ephemeral sculpture Spring is an innovative work that has a direct and active relationship with the landscape.
The Jerwood Charitable Foundation is delighted to announce that the unveiling of this unique commission by Juliet Haysom will be on the 12 June 2008 at Ragley, Alcester, Warwickshire. Juliet won the 2007 Jerwood Sculpture Prize for Spring in April 2007 and has since been preparing for the day she can literally 'turn it on'.
To create this transient sculptural form, Juliet drilled a borehole down to a local aquifer below the grounds of Ragley. Water present in the ground is then pumped to the surface and driven through a series of nozzles.
Its appearance will vary depending on weather and light conditions, but the reliable water source means that it will remain a permanent feature of the within the grounds. The visible vapour created will sustain the turf and surrounding plants before vanishing into the atmosphere and ultimately returning to the ground. It is a special addition to the Jerwood Foundation's Sculpture Collection at Ragley.
“Haysom is particularly intrigued by the ways in which each piece of sculpture can make use of the invisible qualities of a place.”
Rachel Campbell-Johnston, Art Critic, The Times
The Jerwood Sculpture Prize was launched in 2001 as a major initiative of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. The aim of this commissioning prize is to give strong support and encouragement to emerging talent within the medium of outdoor sculpture and to commission new work for the Jerwood Foundation's Sculpture Collection, sited within the grounds of Ragley, Warwickshire. Previous winners include Benedict Carpenter, Gereon Krebber, and Judith Dean. |
| www.jerwoodsculpture.org |
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Avon
10 Seconds or Greater |
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Location:
Sydney Row & Mardyke Ferry Road, Spike Island,
Bristol
Avon
BS1 6UU |
Event dates:
23/01/2010 - 06/03/2010 |
| 10 Seconds or Greater is a new work by London based artist Rachel Reupke.
Formally based on the production of royalty-free stock footage, 10 Seconds or Greater maps the logical progression of a director through a check list of popular scenarios designed to illustrate such commercially lucrative concepts as ‘communication’, ‘relaxation’ and ‘healthy life-style’.
Four young actors, two women and two men, good-looking, slim and sensibly dressed, perform a series of domestic rituals in their ready furnished new build apartment. From shot to shot, drinking red wine, preparing food, using wireless technology and working out, progressive variations in role and nuance of social convention are played out while superficially mirroring contemporary trends and popular symbols of personal and professional success.
Compiled as an ‘assembly edit' of shots, long fluid camera movements remain whole, leaving visible all available material. The result is a film whose attention wanders between action and art direction, laying equal emphasis on props, performance, emotional and technical content.
With an original R&B score by Simon and Matt Ward.
10 Seconds or Greater was commissioned by Picture This and Film London Artists' Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) as part of the Bristol Mean Time Residency.
Opening on the same night at Spike Island is Sanity Assassin by Amanda Beech. Following the preview there will be a joint party with dj's in the Spike Island Canteen til late. |
| www.picture-this.org.uk |
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Gloucestershire
Winter Paintings by Ange Mullen-Bryan, |
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Location:
1 Middle Street ( previouslyy Illustration Gallery )
Stroud.
Gloucestershire
GL5 1DZ |
Event dates:
05/02/2010 - 20/02/2010 |
| Exhibition of Winter paintings inspired by the lakes and forests of central Sweden. 'Ange Mullen-Bryan describes her paintings as being, 'Somewhere between comfort and unease'. Certainly when confronted by her work the viewer is struck by a sense of loneliness; a quiet, unsettling beauty. These stark landscapes of ice and water, and straight, dominant trees, plunge the viewer into a world where the real and imagined seem to co-exist. The lack of human figures increases the sense of awe and wilderness, as do the remnants of human presence: a discarded boat, an empty hut. What has happened in this landscape; what is the forest hiding, revealing? This landscape is the landscape of Sweden, which has a wildness, in terms of its extremes of weather, and its open, sparsely-populated vastness. Ange makes frequent trips to Sweden, where she sketches and photographs the changing landscape, and absorbs its atmosphere. Yawning Lake, 2007, shows still, sleepy water, smothered by snow and frost; framed by the barest of trees. Vemod, 2009, shivers with the bleakest of winters. The contrast between the black background of night, and the white of the snow-clad branches, creates a mood of disquieting mystery. This is a primal landscape, where the viewer can imagine the footprints of wolves...' Press release by Laura Kinnear.
10am -4pm daily closed Sundays and Mondays
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| www.angemullenbryan.com |
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Worcestershire
Worcester Open 2010 Contemporary Art |
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Location:
Worcester City Art Gallery
PITT artist-led space
62 Chestnut Walk
Worcester
WR1 1PR
Worcester
Worcestershire
WR1 1PR |
Event dates:
24/04/2010 - 26/06/2010 |
| In collaboration with Worcestershire Contemporary Artists and the PITT
Studio, Worcester City Art Gallery will be co-hosting the fourth Worcester
Open Exhibition. As well as exhibiting work from practicing artists in the West
Midlands and surrounding counties, the Open will support professional arts
development in the region through a range of additional opportunities and
events. The exhibition is not themed but will be exploring the methods of
selection and curatorial processes associated with Open type exhibitions
and the role of mentor and protégé in visual art galleries.
The Worcester Open 2010 Contemporary Art welcomes submissions from
artists living in the West Midlands region, incorporating Staffordshire,
Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. Submit up to
3 works made since January 2006.
2-D all mediums
3-D sculpture assembleage or installation
Video and Audio, time based and digital
Live Art proposals with previous documentation
Curators: Matt Roberts, Charlie Levine and Nathaniel Pitt
Selectors: Matt Price, Anne de Charmant, Andrew Mania,
Simon Rees and Sophie Hope
Texts by Dave Beech, Freee and Chris Brown
Protégés: Alexandria Clark and Nick Ranga
DEADLINE 1st MARCH 2010 |
| www.worcesteropen.co.uk |
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Worcestershire
Valentines Exhibition |
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Location:
Tigerarts Gallery
271 Worcester Road
Malvern
Malvern
Worcestershire
WR14 1AA |
Preview:
05/02/2010
5pm - 9pm |
Event dates:
05/02/2010 - 19/02/2010 |
| Valentines Exhibition with Life Drawings by Sheena Lees. Mint Lingerie and Hand made Local unusal Jewellery. |
| www.tigerarts.co.uk |
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West Midlands
ENTER ARTS Showcase |
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Location:
Adult Education Foyer, Building City Learning Quarter,
Wolverhampton
West Midlands
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Preview:
26/01/2010
6pm - 8pm |
Event dates:
26/01/2010 - 15/02/2010 |
| You are cordially invited (because you are very special) to attend an exhibition of Midlands based artists who have taken part in the Enter Arts professional development scheme at Wolverhampton Adult Education Service. Light refreshments served, all welcome Arts and Crafts for sale the exhibition continues until Monday the 15th of February and is open Mon-Thur 9-8pm Fridays 9-3pm For further information about the exhibition and the Enter Arts programme email enterarts@hotmail.com or telephone 01902 558164, The next Enter Arts courses will commence on the 23rd of February.
Mon-Thur 9-8pm Fridays 9-3pm
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Avon
To Be Confirmed |
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Location:
The Bristol Gallery, Building 8, Unit 2, Millennium Promenade, Harbourside,
Bristol
Avon
BS1 5TY |
Event dates:
16/01/2010 - 25/02/2010 |
Chantal Powell is a Hampshire based artist whose three dimensional works and installations explore the relationship between emotive found objects and our memories, desires, and dreams. Chantal Powell will be showing works in The Bristol Gallery's next group show, To Be Confirmed, running from January 16th – February 25th 2010. The Bristol Gallery is a contemporary art gallery representing international, national and regional artists working in a wide range of media.
Monday – Friday: 9am – 6pm, Saturday: 10am – 5pm, Sunday: 11am – 4 pm, Late night opening: Thursday until 8pm |
| www.thebristolgallery.co.uk |
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Gloucestershire
the open west 2010 |
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Location:
Cheltenham Art Gallery + Museum, Clarence Street(also at Summerfield Gallery),
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
GL50 3JT |
Event dates:
17/02/2010 - 21/03/2010 |
| In this second year of the open west, an annual open competition for the contemporary arts, 34 UK and 6 international artists have been selected to exhibit. The submission covered installation, film, paint, sculpture, print, photography and drawing. The panel of selectors for 2010 included the curators Lyn Cluer Coleman and Sarah Goodwin, together with artists Terry Duffy and Clara Clark. A major award of £1,500 and two additional awards of £750 will be awarded on the night of the preview.
10-4 Mon-Sun |
| www.theopenwest.org.uk |
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Gloucestershire
the open west 2010 |
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Location:
Summerfield Gallery, Pittville Studios, University of Gloucestershire, Albert Road, , (also at Cheltenham Art Gallery + Museum)
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
Glos GL52 3JG |
Event dates:
17/02/2010 - 13/03/2010 |
| In this second year of the open west, an annual open competition for the contemporary arts, 34 UK and 6 international artists have been selected to exhibit. The submission covered installation, film, paint, sculpture, print, photography and drawing. The panel of selectors for 2010 included the curators Lyn Cluer Coleman and Sarah Goodwin, together with artists Terry Duffy and Clara Clark. A major award of £1,500 and two additional awards of £750 will be awarded on the night of the preview. Mon-Fri 10-4, Sat, Sun 12-4 |
| www.theopenwest.org.uk |
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Location:
The Lloyd Gill Gallery Lee House, Beaconsfield Road
Weston-Super-Mare
Somerset
BS23 1YE |
Preview:
13/01/2010
7pm - 10m |
Event dates:
13/02/2010 - 12/03/2010 |
| Mark Morris showing at The Lloyd Gill Gallery ‘In absence’ curated by Jamie Durling, Preview night will commence on Saturday 13th February and start at 7pm and finish at 10pm. Free wine on arrival. The exhibition will include painting, photography & sculpture. Under Jamie Durling’s curation, the exhibition will show works which express a sense of absence, solitude or emptiness. This could mean a fleeting moment of solitude experienced by the artist or the subject of the image. Participating artistsMark Morris Jo Seong HeeTsendpurev Tsegmid Tahnee Lonsdale www.markmorris-artist.com
Gallery opening hours are Tuesday to Saturday 10am till 4.30pm |
| www.thelloydgillgallery.com/futureshows.html |
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Nottinghamshire
Last Orders at the Bar: The Demise of the Great British Pub |
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Location:
Surface Gallery
16 Southwell Rd
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG1 1DL |
Preview:
15/01/2010
6pm - 9pm |
Event dates:
16/01/2010 - 30/01/2010 |
Just because something is broken doesn't mean it is not beautiful.
The exhibition presents a series of photographs documenting the loss of the traditional British pub from todays society.
Open 12 - 6 Tuesday to Friday and 11 -5 on Saturdays
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| www.surfacegallery.org |
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Suffolk
Colin Moss 1914-2005: Artist & Teacher |
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Location:
Town Hall Galleries, Cornhill
Ipswich
Suffolk
IP1 1DH |
Event dates:
10/01/2010 - 12/06/2010 |
A unique opportunity to see a significant number of art works by Colin Moss, from the Ipswich Borough Council collection.
An artist, teacher and journalist, he became well known for his honest depictions of ordinary life. He was born in Ipswich but studied at Plymouth and the Royal College of Art. In his mid-twenties he worked on murals for the British Pavilion at the New York World Fair. Then later designed camouflage for the Ministry of Defence. In 1947 he became senior lecturer at the Ipswich School of Art where he taught for 32 years. He founded the Six in Suffolk Group of artists in 1976 and be
came chair of the Ipswich Art Club from 1980-1982.
Our everyday lives became Moss’ subjects; a woman brushing her hair, people watching a film, a couple kissing and soldier’s playing cards. An inventive artist he could capture these moments in oil, watercolour, prints and drawings. The art on show will reveal the diversity of Moss as an artist and his observations of life.
This exhibition is accompanied by a full programme of events.
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| www.townhallgalleries.org.uk |
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West Midlands
Space Lands by Paul Freeman |
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Location:
Three White Walls
Wharfside Street
The Mailbox
Birmingham
West Midlands
B1 1XL |
Event dates:
08/01/2010 - 15/02/2010 |
| Space Lands is the result of a project executed between 2007 and 2009 in the south west states of the USA.
Freeman was drawn to New Mexico in 2007 when he heard of the extraordinary plan by Sir Richard Branson to launch a space tourist business from a spaceport in the New Mexico desert. This initial visit meant that the artist developed a fascination with the region and its people, influencing him to return many times.
Space Lands incorporates pictures of artifacts from the ‘first space age’ (which ended with the Apollo landings), and the remnants of the space and missile tourism that accompanied this period. It also contains photographs of the landscapes and early development of ‘Spaceport America’ which is currently under construction, and portraits of some of the local people who are connected to the past and future of space exploration. Space Lands explores the uncanny and alien spaces of the desert and the arcs of fantasy, hope and failure that characterize the history of space exploration and its inextricable relationship with militarism and power.
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| www.threewhitewalls.co.uk |
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West Midlands
Anthony Boswell - New Work. 'Revealed, Retrieved' |
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Location:
White Tree Gallery, 21 Chapel Ash
Wolverhampton
West Midlands
WV3 0TZ |
Event dates:
12/03/2010 - 19/03/2010 |
| New work exploring the use of drawing and the domestic interior.
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| www.whitetreestudioandgallery.com |
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Shropshire
Imperfectly Natural - by Andrew Howe |
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Location:
The Gateway Arts Centre, Gallery3,
Chester Street
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY1 1NB |
Event dates:
16/01/2010 - 22/02/2010 |
An exhibition of paintings and mixed media constructed reliefs, exploring rhythm, transition and connections. Natural cycles and the birth of a baby daughter, Eliza, are a source of inspiration to Andrew. He has contemplated the links and changes taking place at this time when a new generation emerges. The work here focuses on hands, as a symbol of our unique identity, but also as a means of feeling, connecting with, and exploring the world. Beyond this brief moment when two hearts beat in resonance, it is the realisation of a parent, and later the child that, however strong the bond between them, or with other loved ones, we are all alone.
09:00-21.30 mon-fri, weekends vary |
| www.gateway-gallery3.co.uk |
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Avon
ICIA Art Space 1, University of Bath |
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Location:
University of Bath,
Claverton Down
Bath
Avon
BA2 7AY |
Event dates:
04/01/2010 - 18/06/2010 |
Margareta Kern - Guest
Free Admission. Box Office: 01225 386777, Kern's new installation follows her two month residency in Berlin where she investigated the organised mass labour migration from socialist Yugoslavia to capitalist West Germany in the late 1960s. Mainly female, these ’guest workers' (Gastarbeiter) were employed by large companies, and often never returned home. Artists Talk: Thurs 6 May, 7pm-8pm, free. Margareta Kern in Conversation,
Mon-Sat 10am-5pm
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| www.bath.ac.uk/icia |
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Location:
The Old Science Museum, 144 Newhall Street
Birmingham
West Midlands
B3 1RZ |
Preview:
15/01/2010
6pm - 8pm |
Event dates:
15/01/2010 - 31/01/2010 |
| For the forthcoming exhibition at TROVE this January 2010, curator Charlie Levine and artist Hayley Lock have invited friends and acquaintances from the social network facebook to partake in a Christmas card/collage exchange. All works posted through the physical and therefore traditional routes are to be traditionally displayed together in plan chests at TROVE. The exhibition will be an amalgamation of works responding to the idea of ‘Post’.
Artists include:
Darren Banks, Liz Bradshaw, Martyn Cross, Vicky Cull, David, Tracy Eastham, Anna Francis, Anneka French, Lulu Horsfield, Hayley Lock, Renauld Loda, David Miller, Malcolm Moseley, Sarah Sparkes, Lucy Wilson, Jennifer Zoellner
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| www.trove.org.uk |
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Worcestershire
Before Your Very Eyes |
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Location:
PITT, 62 Chestnut Walk
Worcester
Worcestershire
WR1 1PR |
Preview:
06/03/2010
7pm - 10pm |
Event dates:
06/03/2010 - 14/03/2010 |
| 'Before Your Very Eyes'.
An exhibition exploring the unique qualities of the instant photograph. A diverse selection of subject matter is being sought. There is no theme. All formats of instant photographs are eligible. Selected photographs to be supplied unframed and will be exhibited unframed.
Call to artists to submit Polaroid / instant photographs for a group exhibition at Pitt artist led project space in Worcester (www.pittstudio.com)
Deadline: 1 February 2010
WHEN: March 6th - March 14th 2010
PAYMENTS: None
CHARGES: £3 per submission (up to 4 images) to cover costs. Checks payable to Pitt Studio.
APPLY: Send up to 4 jpeg images on disc (max 300dpi / max 500 pixels wide) or paper prints to Pitt, 62 Chestnut Walk, Worcester, WR11PR. Do not send originals in the first instance. Please include your name, address and email address. CVs and short statements may also be supplied but are not essential.
CONTACT: info@pittstudio.com
www.pittstudio.com
Deadline: 1 February 2010
Organiser/curator: Charlie Hurcombe
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West Midlands
Water-shed, new work by Edmund de Waal |
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Location:
Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum. Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade
Leamington Spa
West Midlands
CV32 4AA |
Event dates:
22/01/2010 - 11/04/2010 |
| Edmund de Waal is one of Britain's leading artists working with ceramics. His work is represented in many international collections and has been exhibited widely at art galleries and museums including Tate Britain, MIMA (Middlesbrough), Kettle's Yard (Cambridge), and Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum. Recent commissions have included his ambitious 'Signs and Wonders' installation which opened at the V&A Museum in September 2009. In this exhibition de Waal will explore the use of vessels in medical treatments, drawing inspiration from the collection at Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum. As well as examples of the artist's earlier work, the exhibition will feature a new artwork titled 'water-shed', which reimagines a medical cabinet filled with vessels glazed in aquatic blues and greys.
Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat 10.30am - 5pm. Thurs 1.30 - 8pm. Sun 11am - 4pm. Mon closed except Bank Holidays |
| www.warwickdc.gov.uk/royalpumprooms |
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Cambridgeshire
MARK AERIAL WALLER: THE CASSIOPEIA PLAN |
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Location:
Wysing Arts Centre, Fox Road Bourn
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB23 2TX |
Event dates:
16/01/2010 - 28/02/2010 |
| Exhibition launch: Saturday 16 January, 4-6pm. Special family launch: Saturday 16 January, 2-4pm Wysing. Arts Centre will officially launch the centre’s year of The Improbable with a solo exhibition by London based artist Mark Aerial Waller. Waller is a film-maker, sculptor, installation artist and occasional writer and editor. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of cinema and brings cinematic references into the gallery through his immersive installations, screenings, events and elaborate films; in which action has been improvised by the cast in fantastical settings, such as a foam cave or a half completed housing development in Dakar. Science fiction meets Greek mythology in some of the most compelling – and improbable – artworks imaginable. A series of readings, screenings, performances and events curated by Mark Aerial Waller will be taking place during and after the exhibition: Thursdays 21 January, 4 & 18 February, all 6-8pm; Weekends 6/7 & 20/21 March, all 12-4pm. Join us for our special FAMILY LAUNCH of the Year of THE IMPROBABLE – a free, drop-in, family workshop in a fantastical setting.
12-5pm daily during exhibitions |
| www.wysingartscentre.org |
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UK -
Essex
Making Tracks - Performing Place. |
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Location:
Online at www.performingplace.com
Colchester
Essex
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Event dates:
26/08/2009 - 26/08/2010 |
| What shape is your community? Working with community groups in the historic town of Colchester the artist Gordon Flemons has tracked volunteers performing their routine journeys through the streets and surrounding countryside. These paths in space and time were recorded using GPS loggers and used to create 3D drawings and virtual sculptures unique to each group. View the animated drawings on line at: www.performingplace.com |
| www.performingplace.com |
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Leicestershire
Newarke Point - Unknown Student - Michael Pinsky |
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Location:
Newarke Point, 8 Newarke Close,
Leicester
Leicestershire
LE2 7GZ |
Event dates:
20/05/2009 - 14/05/2011 |
| Detailed drawings of students' rooms are displayed in animated neon on two exterior facades of Newarke Point. They can be seen across Leicester. This process transfers the personal domain to the public domain. Unknown Student celebrates particular students' life by accurately documenting all their possessions. These objects date in time allowing the observer to guess the time that the artwork was installed. Unknown Student is concerned with the most pressing issues which students deal with when they first leave home, which tend to focus on domestic survival rather than academic success. The artwork is a monument to individual students, picked at random, whether they become a great 'success' or simply carry on unknown within the mass of society. |
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Avon
ICIA Art Space 2, University of Bath |
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Location:
University of Bath Claverton Down
Bath
Avon
BA2 7AY |
Event dates:
21/01/2010 - 19/03/2010 |
| Swindon College - Lines of Enquiry 6
The sixth in a series of exhibitions showing work by graduates of the BA Fine Art Drawing at Swindon College’s School of Art & Design. Free Mon-Sat 10am-5pm |
| www.bath.ac.uk/icia |
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UK -
Tyne and Wear
DAMIEN HIRST - Pharmacy |
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Location:
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Gateshead Quays South Shore Road, UK
Gateshead
Tyne and Wear
NE8 3BA |
Event dates:
24/12/2009 - 07/02/2010 |
| Hirst’s wide-ranging practice challenges the boundaries between art, science and popular culture. His work poses fundamental questions and explores the basic foundations of human experience to expose the fragility of our existence. Hirst’s Pharmacy could be seen as an exploration of the wide range of philosophies, theories and belief systems available to influence and structure our lives.For Hirst, medicine, like art, provides a belief system which is both seductive and deceptive. |
| www.balticmill.com |
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UK -
Greater London
Love London Recycled Sculpture Show |
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Location:
WWT London Wetland Centre, Queen Elizabeth's Walk, Barnes
London
Greater London
SW13 9WT |
Event dates:
04/06/2009 - 04/04/2010 |
| The Recycled Sculpture Show is an engaging and unique art exhibition. It communicates a positive message in support of sustainability, wildlife conservation and the protection of natural habitats. Artists interpret and express these ecological themes through the medium of sculpture, utilising salvaged, reclaimed and recycled materials. This thought-provoking, entertaining and inspiring exhibition has captured the imagination of a worldwide audience. 9.30 - 18.00 |
| www.recycledsculptureshow.co.uk |
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UK -
Avon
Alex Pearl - Goodbye to most of the daydreams |
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Location:
ICIA Art Space 1, University of Bath Claverton Down
Bath
Avon
BA2 7AY |
Preview:
04/11/2009
7pm - 8pm |
Event dates:
04/11/2009 - 19/02/2010 |
| Goodbye to most of the daydreams are words taken from Captain Scott’s diary as he began his trek back from the South Pole. His Norwegian rival, Amundsen, had claimed the Pole with his celebratory black flag 34 days earlier. Alex Pearl applied to the British Antarctic Survey proposing not to go to the South Pole. He then documented his non-journey whilst in-residence at BCA Gallery, Bedford. Both haunting and humorous, his mini epic films, texts, drawings and sculptures carry an acceptance of failure and disappointment as important parts of the human condition. Pearl playfully makes light of his work’s own limitations and his hopeless desire for greatness. Visitors are invited to play The Black Flag Game on Facebook: ‘The rules are simple. Take a black flag, go somewhere and as long as there are no other flags in sight, plant it. Hang around and watch the disappointment of others as they arrive second’. Pearl’s storytelling, ‘fibbing’ and exaggerations can be found online. He has exhibited internationally including Holland, Germany, France, Australia and the USA. Exhibition Opening & Talk - Wed 4 Nov, 6.30pm & In Conversation 7pm-8pm Alex Pearl & JJ Charlesworth, Mon-Sat 10am-5pm |
| www.bath.ac.uk/icia |
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UK -
Lancashire
Unresolved |
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Location:
Castlefield Gallery, 2 Hewitt Street,
Manchester
Lancashire
M15 4GB |
Event dates:
04/12/2009 - 31/01/2010 |
| When Castlefield Gallery approached the artist and influential teacher Pavel Büchler with an open brief for an artistic or curatorial project, he responded by proposing to reclaim the stripped-down identity of the gallery as, simply, ‘a place where art and the public encounter one another’. He presents a sparse selection of works chosen with a preference for an economy of means which they share with his own practice – paintings by Kris Fierens from Antwerp and Gregor Hylla from Berlin; small photographic and installation pieces by the Swiss artist Pamela Rosenkranz; and from Manchester, the improvised sculptures by Ian Rawlinson and Maeve Rendle’s asynchronic video recording of a pianist’s rehearsal. Wed-Sun 1-6pm. |
| www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk |
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