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On the cover Claire Heathcote, David, detail, cotton thread hand-stitched into felt, 76x97cm. Claire’s work explores the process of drawing with thread. The majority of her work is hand-stitched, she also uses appliqué, screen printing and machine embroidery. She will be exhibiting her work at COLLECT 2006 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonSee news story on page 18. Photo: David Ramkalawon. an JANUARY 06 magazine 8/12/05 16:58 Page 4
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Layla Curtis, Message in a Bottle from Ramsgate to the Chatham Islands, (detail) live GPS drawing in gallery, 2004. To the ends of the earth Artist’s story: Layla Curtis
In December 2003 I undertook a resi- discovered a place called The Chatham British Antarctic Survey, ice-strength- whilst I am collecting photos, videos dency at Ramsgate Maritime Museum Islands. ened, oceanographic research ship, and sound recordings, the bases are in partnership with Turner Contempo- What followed next was an unex- heading to Antarctica. Having been opened up for the summer season and rary. On my first visit to Ramsgate I was pected collaboration with a local scien- awarded the Artists and Writers Fel- supplies and scientific equipment are intrigued by a sign above the door of tist. Together we developed a device lowship Award to Antarctica, I set sail dropped off, along with a handful of the museum that read ‘Ramsgate that would track the journey made by from the Falkland Islands in late Octo- research scientists – some of whom Mean Time is 5 min 41 sec faster than a message in a bottle. On 25 May ber. Antarctica’s profile reveals some will stay in these remote locations for this Clock’, a reference to a time when 2004, fifty bottles containing mes- exclusive geographical, historical and up to two and a half years. We hope to both local time and global position sages were released into the sea near political occurrences highly relevant to eventually reach Rothera Research Sta- were measured using astronomical Ramsgate Maritime Museum. A num- my practice. Meridian lines converge at tion on the Antarctic Peninsular, which observations. Throughout my practice I ber of these bottles included Global the pole; time zones become an irrele- will then be my base for several weeks. have explored and been inspired by the Positioning Systems (GPS) technology vance; there is no indigenous popula- However, due to excessive sea ice, such subjectivity inherent in mapping: differ- and were programmed to send lati- tion and international bodies work attempts have previously been ing world views, time zones, national tude and longitude coordinates back side by side following a freeze on terri- aborted... and regional identities, the etymology to Ramsgate hourly. Each bottle also torial claims. Additionally, Antarctica is Layla Curtis received an Artists and Writers Fellowship Award to Antarctica of place names and the notion of travel carried a message asking anyone who still a relatively unmapped region – a through a joint partnership between Arts which interlinks these entities. Another discovered it to visit the project web- rare occurrence in our increasingly Council England’s International Artist Fellowship Programme and the British discovery – a longitude line set into the site, log their find and return the bottle global society. Antarctic Survey. The resulting project and floor of the museum – set me thinking, to the sea to continue its journey. The I am tracking my entire journey website have been commissioned by where might that line take me if I was bottles’ progress was then plotted as a with a personal GPS device. Through- Locus+ www.polarwandering.co.uk www.fromramsgatetothechathamislands.co.uk to follow it to the opposite side of the real time drawing on the project web- out the duration of the residency I am www.laylacurtis.com earth? I consequently embarked on a site – the aim is that they will some updating the project website with my For more information about the Artists and project to make contact with this day reach The Chatham Islands. coordinates creating a continuous line Writers Fellowship Award see advert on page 30 and read Simon Faithfull’s profile abstract mathematical position; 800 At the time of writing I am on drawing charting my passage to and on www.a-n.co.uk>Time and kilometres to the east of New Zealand I board the RRS James Clark Ross, a from Antarctica. During this journey, space>Residencies. an JANUARY 06 magazine 8/12/05 16:58 Page 6
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Above: Installation view of ‘All at once, together, at the same time’. Below right: Juneau Projects, Untitled (foreground), model landscape with inbuilt audio soundtrack. Background: Peter Lloyd Lewis, detail from an ongoing series Blomb, mixed materials on canvas; Simon and Tom Bloor from an ongoing series of posters A species of punishment inflicted on innocence.
ALL AT ONCE, TOGETHER, rejected; every piece of work submitted biennales. The idea for the show opens same time can be picked apart to AT THE SAME TIME is included. The only selection process an opportunity for us to develop our delve deeper into the heart of the that has occurred is through the pres- own value systems, rather than be gov- landscape and make our own narra- Colony, Birmingham entation of each piece. As we journey erned and dictated to in a harshly lit tives with the artworks. 1 November – 10 December through this landscape, layers of ‘supermarket’ format. Yet, this ‘demo- ‘All at once…’ is successful due to meaning and potential meta-narra- cratic’ idea of ‘all-inclusive’ demands the control of ‘artist-curator’; a funda- Colony is a truly nomadic artist-run tives emerge. confidence from the artists who have mental idea is answered in a signifi- space based in Birmingham. In 2004, The show includes commissioned submitted their work and us, as view- cant and challenging way. More the first show accommodated a vacant work by Peter Lloyd Lewis and Simon ers, in Colony’s role as artist-curator. A specifically, this is an exhibition in the building in Digbeth; the current show and Tom Bloor; this offers a lucidity recent article in a-n questioned this Midlands that is a realistic representa- ‘All at once, together, at the same time’ and visual framework throughout. role, and I am drawn to the number of tion of what is happening in the con- occupies an industrial space in the Lloyd Lewis’ paintings are vibrant suggestions that it incurs ‘control’, temporary art scene. It is a substantial Jewellery Quarter. The installation cov- pauses in the journey through the through the notion of an artist reclaim- contribution to the region, both cre- ers one wall with an array of different landscape. They are investigations that ing ownership over an exhibition atively and theoretically. media all positioned, or staged, into a offer alternative interpretations to the whether or not their own work is Alli Beddoes is a freelance curator and co- founder of Birmingham-based Capital Art prolific landscape of artworks. We are idea of relation within the exhibition. included. For ‘All at once…’ this process Projects. reminded, momentarily, of what could The Bloors’ substantial collage of etch- of including all submitted works has be considered a ‘traditional’ structure ings of historical events in Birmingham simply made it all the more necessary of an exhibition, resembling an over- throughout the eighteenth century are and important to control the presenta- whelming display that leaves little def- tangible images that present an origi- tion, or re-presentation, of the works, inition between each piece. However, nal relationship between artworks and turning this notion of democracy back this similarity lapses, as we realise that experience of the everyday world on to itself. The exhibition challenges this show is a genuine installation, in beyond the doors of the gallery. our expectations in a creative way and the sense that it is neither medium- This idea of collage translates on to it is informed from a collective of expe- specific nor itself a medium. It stands the experience of the show, and we are riences. This is due to Colony’s role as for one clear idea established by able to consider the idea as a whole. artist-curator. Indeed, this exhibition Colony. This overlapping or layering of works presents an exploration into the cri- The exhibition shows work by over of art represents questions that are tique of utopian ideals, gallery sys- 100 national and international artists prevalent in today’s art scene, particu- tems, and ‘possibility’ through the who responded to an open call to be larly as we seem to be in the shadow extension of an idea. It can be appreci- part of the show. No piece of work was of this year’s festivals, art fairs and ated as a whole project, yet, at the
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FUTURE MAP 05 had. From a distance Andrea Voisey’s The Knowledge resembled a working The Arts Gallery, University map of London. On closer inspection it of the Arts, London revealed itself as a quilted record of 7 November – 23 December her journeys made up of mysterious clues to a story. ‘Future Map 05’ was another chance for A photograph entitled Athens by the public to see the achievements and Orpeas Emirzas depicted a residential potential of last year’s art and design area almost entirely overwhelmed by graduates from London universities. mist, the title enhancing the poetic. The Selection was made from painting, rose patterned and gently humorous installation, sound, photography, knitwear of Rebecca Nehar Ali Teasets ceramics, fashion and animation, on the and Twinsets was an elegant and witty basis of the “quality of production and juxtaposition of English themes, that original ideas”. The exhibition fulfilled was also found in Romy Westwood’s the criteria to a standard of excellence, Lady Lush, a porcelain My Fair Lady-type Andrea Voisey, The Knowledge (detail), mixed media, 6x6ft, 2005. yet on viewing the work I found myself figurine holding a parasol, trapped in a seeking the personal or the critical, and decanter of port. Reiko Kaneko’s Egg epic fight scene on a snow-capped ter- ment of possibilities, with its monster wondered how this generation of grad- Soldiers sculpture was another case of rain in Ben Otos’ Rahidian Gutterfish drops and peaks constructed architec- uates was different from my own. wit and narrative: toys with guns in a and the labour-intensive dissolves in turally in styrofoam board. I found myself applauding the pro- breakfast situation. It managed to dispel Tina Yuanyuan Wei Skia animation Before leaving the show I encoun- duction process while feeling engaged cosy domesticity and replace it with the were worthy of a cinema. The steep tered the interventionist piece Looking in varying degrees. Gonzo Drawing by dread of a gruesome imagined future. roller coasters and never-ending helter- For Palemo, by ‘Raymond Roussel’, aka Robert McNally was an impeccably A television on a plinth was used skelters in Bobby Parmar’s Variation on Oliver Castel. This trail of light bulbs executed piece of draughtsmanship. It for the screening of two short films. a Theme Park reminded me empatheti- brought the outside world in and the was made up of architecture and sce- This did not do justice to the amount cally of the point of graduation and inside world out, from a show which narios broken or detached, yet working of toil that goes into filmmaking, not feelings of accountability and the was a successful celebration of depar- as a cyclical whole, like an accurate to mention the skill and craft of picture unknown future. This work represented ture and new beginnings. description of a dream one has never and sound editing. For example an both feelings of dread and the excite- Lisa Wigham is an artist.
NICOLAS DESHAYES: ing of so many periods, art move- ments, processes and materials hinders NOBLE’S ISLAND the enjoyment of Deshayes’ real gift, Moot Gallery, Nottingham which is visual and sensual. Rather 15 October – 27 November than merely presenting us with half- destroyed golems of cultural history, The title of Nicolas Deshayes’ first solo there is a classical purity to be found in exhibition at the brand new artist-run the circles, cylinders, cuboids and Moot Gallery is taken from HG Wells’ cones that form the underlying struc- dystopian novel The Island of Dr ture of each object. The cleanly crafted Moreau, evoking sinister attempts to Element, a perfectly cylindrical and contain, control and evolve evenly coloured model log screwed to nature, splicing and combining to a plain metal support, could almost be create hybrid creatures with horrific a scientist’s dull cast of a fossilised results. specimen, ready for display in a With this in mind, Deshayes’ five museum of natural history. Yet the sculptures appear to hold captive contour is too regular to have been something spawned in a meeting of derived exclusively from nature. curiously selected members. Rock is a Agnés Martin described the pla- smoothed imitation of a 2000-year-old tonic quest for a glimpse of perfection, artefact with a slick coating of car found in ideal geometric shapes con- body paint. This almost-fusion results ceived only in the mind rather than in an aura of dignified sci-fi, also sourced from the outside world. recalling polished metallic minimalism. Deshayes’ love of geometry – some- Vernaculex collages rococo-painted times barely there as in the sagging pigs’ trotters, nautical rope and metal rope circles surrounding Vernaculex; into a fractured column. sometimes blatant like the mass-pro- Each piece feels like a strange duced polystyrene doughnuts of Taxi- object for study, a highly finished aid dermaus – is what makes travelling to to learning, as one might come across Noble’s Island worthwhile. in a classroom or museum. Although Rebecca Hunter is an artist living and there is no set lesson, there is a sense working in London. of discovering something for, or in, oneself in the effort to synthesise the Left: separate and sometimes jarring ele- Nicolas Deshayes, Infinite Raft (foreground), crystacal lamina, fibreglass, plaster, gloss paint; ments contained within one piece. Vernaculex (background), cast aluminium, cast However, the complex cross-referenc- cement, steel, rope, rubber. an JANUARY 06 magazine 8/12/05 16:58 Page 8
DANIEL BAKER: to an empty supermarket. Here they encounter the giant vacuum cleaner of DONKEY HEAD this first episode’s title and are sucked Episode One – into its bowels where the adventure The Giant Vacuum Cleaner will begin proper. Launch 17 November Running parallel to this at the foot of the page (like Tony Million- Comics are undoubtedly gaining aire’s syndicated daily strip Maakies, momentum in contemporary visual but with greater relevance to the arts practice. Artists who’ve recently main plot) is another narrative con- engaged with the format include Nick cerning Eric’s youth and the disap- Waplington, Rachel Cattle and Olivia pearance of his father. This first Plender, and others such as Mark installment then serves not only to Leckey have referenced comics in other introduce the main characters but media. An event like the Robert Crumb also to imbue a sense of unease that retrospective at Whitechapel last sum- will permeate throughout. Along with mer also lends weight to the medium. Blake, cultural influences that inform That said a great advantage of comics the continued work include Dante, (along with artists’ books, zines, etc) is Jonathan Swift and even David Lynch their ease of dissemination and subse- (Lynch, though best known for his sur- quent non-reliance on the gallery real cinematic endeavors, is also the structure. Daniel Baker has self-pub- creator of a comic strip, The Angriest lished Donkey Head, a comic book, as Dog in the World). Another influence, the central component of an ongoing visually, would appear to be Marcel body of work. Envisaged as “William Dzama, who also takes inspiration Blake does Tintin”, it not only adopts from Dante. Both convincingly por- the ‘clear line’ style pioneered by tray the fragility of human characters Hergé in his Tintin comics, but also having embarked, like Tintin (and points to the mysticism of Blake’s indeed comics in the contemporary (largely self-published) works. art world), on an adventure into the George, a donkey-headed man, unknown. leads Eric, a “young, naïve, Smiths- Phillip Marsden obsessed teenager” on a somnambu- Donkey Head is available in stockists nationally, go to www.donkeyhead.org for list’s journey through deserted streets more details Daniel Baker, Eric was dreaming about a black briefcase, 2005.
VICTORIA MELODY: appropriate way to present the pseudo-documentary, profiling a piece Open University-type scientists pressed research, referencing the anger, frus- of wearable technology created by the our consumer buttons but never satis- VENTILATION tration and boredom often provoked artist to enable the user to vent their fied them. Millais Gallery, Southampton by the genre. anger and re-use the energy expended. The earliest work in the show, a 4 November – 17 December Melody also borrowed formats Endorsements by QVC-style presenters, video piece entitled Pissed off Pump- from popular culture in Vent Head, a ‘man on the street’ interviews and kin (2001), showed the artist dressed In ‘Ventilation’ Melody presented her as a pumpkin in an elaborate theme ongoing research into popular strate- park character costume with an inter- gies for exercising anger – as you nal pump. As the character began to might imagine screaming and shout- inflate it started to shout. Seemingly ing featured quite prominently. more bored than angry the pumpkin Throughout the pieces on show there continually addressed the camera was an aesthetic of cabaret and telling it and us to “fuck off”. The grotesquery, with a little Benny Hill incessant repetition turned the words thrown in. This was most evident in into a meaningless sing song, no the performance that took place on longer a process of ventilation but a the opening night where Melody cause of frustration in itself. As with appeared as the sequinned hostess of all the pieces on show the combina- a game show that incorporated many tion of irony and dark humour gave Saturday teatime stalwarts. The audi- all the expressions of anger a cartoon ence were taken through popular ele- quality; the audience was never ments of ventilation such as physical made to share these feelings of violence (bashing each other with anger; we were not moved. Instead foam sticks, last seen on Gladiators) we could identify with the everyday and listening to sad songs (played in a trivialities resulting in the momen- Name that Tune style). Finally, they tary outburst that, for all its powers were invited to guess the top ten of release, usually leaves us back forms of ventilation, the results of where we started. which appeared on a homemade Fam- Rosemary Shirley ily Fortunes scoreboard. The game Victoria Melody, Hill Scream, still from film, show as performance seemed an duration 6 minutes 51 seconds, 2000.
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Aberdeen Phoenix Gallery 10-14 Waterloo Place, BN2 9NB. 01273 Peacock Visual Arts 603700 www.phoenixarts.org 21 Castle Street, AB11 5BQ. Tues-Sat 11-5 01224 639539 21 Jan - 4 Mar: ‘Outside the Frame’, Alexis www.peacockvisualarts.co.uk Zelda Stevens, site-specific installation Tues-Sat 9.30-5.30 takes painting beyond the canvas; Katie 10 Feb - 18 Mar: ‘The Cowboy and The Pugsley, Sarah Evans, Laura Mousavi, Spaceman’, Colin ‘Puck’ Kirkpatrick’s Marijke Vasey, Danny Wilson, painting, unique view of the Orcadian frontier. The installation and photography. film forms the central focus of an exhibition of photographs, prints and sculptural totems made by Puck.
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The Art Shop What’s on PREVIEWS 8 Cross Street, NP7 5EH. 01873 852690 Tues-Sat 9.30-5.30 February focus – London 13 Jan - 18 Feb: ‘New Year Mixed Show’, and the South East paintings and works on paper by our regular showing artists. Jewellery, textiles Increase your preview chances and ceramics. Mike Marshall, Front Garden 2, C-Type hand by booking a What’s on ad print. 114x147cm, 2005. Deadline 5 Jan for Febissue Accrington • £21 +VAT (max 30 words) Haworth Art Gallery • 1/16 £92+£15 setting +VAT Haworth Park, Manchester Road, Mike Marshall: Not Far From Here • 1/32 £47+£15 setting +VAT BB5 2JS. 01254 233782. T +44 (0) 191 241 8000 www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk Wed-Fri 2-5; Sat & Sun 12-4.30 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham Until 29 Jan: ‘Doing It for the Kids - An Until 22 January Accrington Story’, Richard Foster, Bristol illustrations for a cartoon story-book based Previous works have found London-based artist Marshall staggering on growing up in Accrington. ‘Land of My across the Egyptian desert reciting a string of quite frankly groan-inducing Here Gallery Fathers’, Sandra Thomas, imaginary jokes (The Earth Is Flat, 2001) and introducing the ambient sounds of a 108 Stokes Croft, BS1 3RU. compositions of her home. 0117 942 2222. Mumbai art gallery into Tate St Ives (The Sound of Bombay – A Place Not www.themonstermash.co.uk Unlike This, 2004). ‘Not Far From Here’ continues Marshall’s interest in 7-28 Jan: ‘Welcome to the Monster Mash’, Basingstoke sound as much as vision. In a clearing of tropical woodland, we see the heats of a tournament and exhibition sunlight glistening through the trees and bushes while birdsong can be featuring monsters created by over 30 UK Fairfields Arts Centre artists. Finals at Playlounge, London 2-25 Council Road, RG21 3DH. 01256 heard and branches creak. As Marshall’s camera moves around the clear- Feb. 321621 www.fairfields.org ing, gently toing and froing, the video work evokes a strange sense of fore- Mon-Wed 9.30-5.30; Thurs 9.30-1.30; Fri boding as the viewer increases their concentration in the search for Paintworks by appointment; Sat 9.30-1; closed BH Bath Road. 01179 723735. 16 Jan - 11 Feb: ‘Goya: The Disparates’, possible clues as to what might come next – a rampaging polar bear, per- Mon-Fri 2-7; Sat 12-11; Sun 12-4 etchings by celebrated eighteenth-century haps? This sense of something about to happen is continued in his photo- 21-27 Jan: ‘Lab, Smock and two steaming Spanish painter and etcher Francisco Goya graphic works. Dave Freak piles’, work by Jan Bennett, Alex Hirtzel, produced between 1819 and 1824. For more information visit www.ikon-gallery.co.uk Bradley Hogan, Liz Waterhouse and Noah Wood. Opening night 20 Jan, 6-11. Bedford Bury St Edmunds BCA Gallery paintings, jewellery and ceramics for £200 Mon-Fri 10-5 33 Castle Lane, MK40 3XD. 01234 or under. Until 23 Jan: ‘Creations’, part of Until 24 Feb: ‘Digital Dreams and New Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery 273580 www.bedfordcreativearts.com the Brilliantly Birmingham season, including Horizons’, Brechin Arts and Crafts group, The Market Cross, Cornhill, IP33 1BT. Tues-Sat 11-5 award-winning jeweller Dorothy Hogg. experimental digital textiles as part of the 01284 762081 7 Jan - 19 Feb: ‘Dating Surveillance Media Access Angus introduction to new www.burystedmundsartgallery.org Project’, Laurie Long, collection of film and the window media project. Tues-Sat 10.30-5 video stills recorded by and featuring the Arcade, off the High Street, City Centre 7-28 Jan: ‘The Jerwood Photography Prize American artist during a series of dates. B1. 0121 643 6040 2004’, Emma Hamilton, Travis Hodges, An Impressions Gallery Touring Exhibition. [email protected] Brighton Sarah Lynch, Richard Page, Leonie Purchas, Daily 9-6 the best of photographic art from art ’the window’ is a Birmingham Artists IO Gallery colleges in the UK. Birmingham project. Curated by Pamina Stewart and Brighton Designers and Makers, 39 Ian Skoyles. Sydney Street, BN1 4EP. 01273 671212 RBSA Gallery www.lumicube.com/iogallery Cambridge 4 Brook Street, St Paul’s Square, B3 1SA. Mon-Sat 10-6; Sun 11-5 0121 236 4353 www.rbsa.org.uk Brechin Until 4 Jan: ‘Small Paintings’. 4-30 Jan: ‘A Kettle’s Yard Mon-Wed & Fri 10.30-5.30; Thurs 10.30- Journey of Discovery’, Harriet Chapman, Castle Street, CB3 0AQ. 01223 352124 7; Sat 10.30-5 Angus Digital Media Centre digital and screen printed fabrics layered www.kettlesyard.co.uk 3-28 Jan: ‘Start’. Start your art collection Media House, Brechin Business Park, with vintage lace, formed into decorative Tues-Sun 11.30-5 (gallery); Tues-Sun 2-4 with work by members of the RBSA, DD9 6RJ. 01356 628910 www.admc.tv pockets for the home. (house) an JANUARY 06 magazine 8/12/05 16:58 Page 10
Until 15 Jan: Ian Jeffery, universal pictures; Colchester Sybille Berger, paintings. Until 22 Jan: ‘Slow Life’, Gary Stevens, five-screen video. Firstsite From 28 Jan: ‘Starting at Zero: Black at the Minories Art Gallery, 74 High Mountain College 1933-57’, including Street, CO1 1UE. 01206 577067 Raushchenberg, de Kooning, Albers, Cage, www.firstsite.uk.net Buckminster Fuller, Twombly and others. Mon-Sat 10-5 11 Feb - 18 Mar: ‘Freianlage’, Andrew Bracey, new body of work inspired by Cardiff research into zoo design. New work is shown alongside Palette, an ongoing oil Chapter painting; Healthy Snacks, a mountain of Market Road, Canton, CF5 1QE. colour created with pistachio shells; and 029 2031 1050 www.chapter.org Various Titles, hundreds of small canvases. Tues-Sun 11-8; Mon 11-5 Until 8 Jan: ‘Ghosting’, a series of newly Compton Verney commissioned works by Erika Tan, Harold Offeh and Ansuman Biswas exploring Compton Verney House Trust themes of archive, memory and CV35 9HZ. 01926 645500 ethnography through three visually and www.comptonverney.org.uk orally rich, moving image installations. Tues-Sun 11-5; Thurs until 8; closed Mon except BH Howard Gardens Gallery 4-5 & 11-12 Feb: ‘Folk Art Weekend’. 2006 School of Art & Design, Howard Gardens exhibition programme launches 31 March Campus, Howard Gardens, CF24 0SP. with ‘Van Gogh: Pioneer Collectors’. 029 2041 6608 Mon-Thurs 9-5; Fri-Sat 10-5 20 Jan - 15 Feb: ‘Wales Photography Open Darlington 2006’, 19 photographers from Wales, Myles Meehan Gallery selected by Bryn Campbell. Darlington Arts Centre, Vane Terrace, DL3 7AX. 01325 348843 Washington Gallery www.darlington-arts.co.uk 1-3 Washington Buildings, Stanwell Mon-Sat 10-8; closed Sun Road, Penarth, CF64 2AD. 02920 DJ Simpson, Everywhere and all over, laminate on birch Until 7 Jan: ‘Tectonics’, Kevin Laycock, 712100 www.washingtongallery.co.uk plywood, 360x300cm, 2001. Copyright: the artist. recent paintings seeking to examine the Jan: ‘Re-Worked: An Art Exhibition Courtesy: Stuart Shave Modern Art, London. musical associations of colour, finding a Employing Recycled Materials’, showcasing painted equivalent for the musical selected winners and entrants of a UK- structures and sounds that are discovered. wide competition to raise awareness of sustainability through art. ‘Trained is DJ Simpson Scotland’, Richard Strachan, meticulous Derby work in semi-transparent glazes are models Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry Q Gallery of geometry. Until 11 March 35/36 Queen Street, DE1 3DS. 01332 295858 www.q-arts.co.uk Carlisle Renowned for his large-scale paintings which cheekily reference the grand Tues-Fri 12-4; Sat & Sun 10-4 and masculine works of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and the 14 Jan - 12 Feb: ‘We Are Here’, exhibition Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery event showcasing the exciting diversity, Abstract Expressionists, Simpson’s first major UK show since ‘New Labour’ range and quality of FASED members’ Castle Street, CA3 8TP. 01228 534781 at the Saatchi Gallery in 2001, sees the artist unveil a new collection of work, a regional professional association of www.tulliehouse.co.uk freelance and self-employed disabled Mon-Sat 10-5; Sun 12-5 vibrant and energetic pieces that are as much objects as paintings. people working in the arts. Also at Derby Until 6 Jan: ‘Blood, Sweat & Tears’, images Employing a routing tool rather than the traditional paint brush, Simpson Dance Centre and The Guildhall. of Cumbria’s rich sporting heritage. Until gouges into large, colour-drenched surfaces such as laminated plywood, 29 Jan: ‘Flashback’, 50 years of The MDF, even mirrors, to create abstract works which also reference pop and Cumberland News photographic archive. Devon conceptual genres. During the exhibition works by other artists will also be on show, including pieces by artists with a strong eye for colour such as Devon Guild of Craftsmen Carmarthen David Batchelor, Peter Blake, Jack Bush, Ian Davenport, Terry Frost, Liam Riverside Mill, Fore Street, Bovey Tracey, TQ13 9AF. 01626 832223 Gillick, Allen Jones, Victor Passmore, Eduardo Paolozzi, and William Pye. DF Oriel Myrddin Gallery www.crafts.org.uk Church Lane, SA31 1LH. 01267 222775 For more information visit www.warwickartscentre.co.uk Daily 10-5.30; Fri & Sat until 8 Mon-Sat 10-5; closed BH 14 Jan - 26 Feb: ‘arttextiles3’, Contact gallery for details contemporary British artists working with final fantasy Japanese artists working in animation 14 January – 12 February 2006
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and around textiles, presenting the Farnham medium in a new, astonishing light. Eighteen artists giving a comprehensive Foyer & James Hockey Gallery overview of the best, most challenging University College for the Creative Arts, work currently being created. Farnham Campus, Falkner Road, GU9 7DS. 01252 892668 www.surrart.ac.uk/galleries Dumfries Mon-Fri 10-5; Sat 10-4; closed Sun & BH Contact gallery for details Gracefield Arts Centre 28 Edinburgh Road, DG1 1JQ. 01387 262084 Frome www.artandcraftsouthwestscotland.com Tues-Sat 10-5 Black Swan Arts Contact gallery for details 2 Bridge Street, BA11 1BB. 01373 473980 www.blackswan.org.uk Mon-Sat 10-5 Dundee Contact gallery for details Cooper Gallery University of Dundee Exhibitions Gateshead Department, DJCAD, 13 Perth Road, DD1 4HT. 01382 345330 Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art www.exhibitions.dundee.ac.uk South Shore Road, NE8 3BA. Mon-Fri 9.30-5; Sat 10.30-4.30 0191 478 1810 www.balticmill.com 24-27 Jan: ‘Collage Party’, an open Mon-Sun 10-6; Thurs 10-8 invitation to artists and public to produce Until 8 Jan: ‘British Art Show 6’, one of the collage together in a party atmosphere. most important landmarks in defining Hosted by Canadian artist Paul Butler. current trends and new directions in contemporary British art. ADVERTISE WITH US AND Durham The Gallery BENEFIT FROM OUR COVERAGE The DLI Museum and County Hall Gateshead Central Library, Prince Consort in The Grounds, DH1 5TU. Road, NE8 4LN. 0191 477 3478 0191 384 2214. www.gateshead.gov.uk “Flexible and willing to accommodate our needs.” www.durham.gov.uk/artsdevelopment Mon-Fri 9-7; Wed 9-5; Sat 9-1; closed Cathryn Rowley, Baltic Centre for arts, Gateshead Open daily Sun Until 26 Mar: ‘Sculpture in the Park’, an 6 Jan - 18 Feb: ‘Solace’, an exhibition of outstanding collection of outdoor photography and sculpture by Min Lynn. “Extremely effective.” sculptures, created by internationally Julia Philips, Hot Chilli Studios, Camelford recognised artists who have featured in Glasgow the previous five British Art Shows. Artists T +44 (0) 191 241 8000 include Antony Caro, Richard Wentworth Collins Gallery and Phillip King. University of Strathclyde, 22 Richmond Street, G1 1XQ. 0141 548 2558 Edinburgh www.collinsgallery.strath.ac.uk Mon-Fri 10-5; Sat 12-4 City Art Centre 14 Jan - 14 Feb: ‘Digital Perceptions’, 2 Market Street, EH1 1DE. Alison Bell, JR Campbell, Carol LeBaron, 0131 529 3993 www.cac.org.uk Philip O’Reilly, Kathy Schicker, Cathy Mon-Sat 10-5; Sun 12-5 Treadaway, Joan Truckenbrod, new Until 8 Jan: ‘Immortal Pharaoh: The Tomb technology in textiles, supported by two- of Thutmose III’, replica of the tomb in the day conference, 10-11 Feb. Valley of the Kings. Walls depict the Amduat, the oldest Egyptian book of the Glasgow School of Art netherworld, chronicling the pharaoh’s 167 Renfrew Street, G3 6RQ. 12hr journey to the afterlife. 0141 353 4500 www.gsa.ac.uk Mon-Fri 10-5; Sat 10-2 Until 13 Jan: ‘Maximum meaning, Ely minimum means’, Abram Games, retrospective exhibition of memorable Babylon Gallery graphic images from the Design Museum Babylon Bridge, Waterside, CB7 4AU. in London. 23 Jan - 24 Feb: ‘Jerwood 01353 616993 Drawing Prize 2005’, annual open drawing www.babylongallery.co.uk Tues-Sat 10-4; Sun & BH 11-5; exhibition. closed Mon 7 Jan - 12 Feb: ‘East Anglians’, Justin Halifax Partyka. Images documenting traditional A refreshing look at Art rural life in the region from farming to Bankfield Museum reed cutting and eel catching. 8 Jan 2- Boothtown Road, HX3 6HG. 4pm, launch evening. 15 Jan, 2pm Q & A 01422 352334 www.calderdale.gov.uk event in the Gallery. Tues-Sat & BH 10-5; Sun 2-5 Until 15 Jan: ‘Their Past Your Future’, work Exeter by local school children. 21 Jan - 12 Mar: ‘Miniature Museums’, created by local Focal Point primary schools. 28 Jan - 19 Mar: ‘Weaving Delta Centre, Verney Street, EX1 2AW. Lives’, Sue Lawty and over 200 people Prime Arts is about Art - because Art is About Life 01392 496066. from across Calderdale. 7 Jan - 5 Mar: www.focalpointphotographic.co.uk ‘Quilt Art 20’, celebrating the 20th Mon-Fri 9-5.30 anniversary of the founding of Quilt Art. Served fresh at Spring Fair Birmingham 16 Jan - 24 Feb: ‘Flatlands’, photographs Hall 2, Stand H22/G23, 5-9th February 2006. by Paul Cartwright focusing on flat Dean Clough Galleries landscapes such as the oyster-beds of Dean Clough, HX3 5AX. 01422 322527 Western France, the Venetian Lagoon and www.DeanClough.com tel: +44 (0)1225 707 500 www.prime-arts.co.uk saltpans of Slovenia. Daily 10-5 an JANUARY 06 magazine 8/12/05 16:58 Page 12
Until 8 Jan: ‘Cats and Dogs (... and their London Friends)’, Foyer Gallery. ‘Baubles for Christmas’, the Design Shop. Until 15 Jan: Friedhard Kiekeben, wall-sized photographs, Crossley Gallery. ‘Five Eyes’, work by five postgraduates, Photography Gallery.
Piece Hall What’s on PREVIEWS The Piece Hall, HX1 1RE. February focus – London 01422 358300. www.calderdale.gov.uk Tues-Sun & BH 10-5 and the South East Until 8 Jan: ‘Christmas Crafts’, by makers Increase your preview chances from all over the UK. 14 Jan - 12 Mar: by booking a What’s on ad ‘Images 29’, the best of contemporary British illustration, presented by The Deadline 5 Jan for Febissue Association of Illustrators. • £21 +VAT (max 30 words) • 1/16 £92+£15 setting +VAT Huyton • 1/32 £47+£15 setting +VAT Huyton Gallery T +44 (0) 191 241 8000 Huyton Library, Civic Way, L36 9GD. 0151 443 5619 198 Gallery www.knowsley.gov.uk/leisure/arts Mon-Fri 9.15-7; Sat 10-4; Sun 11-4 198 Railton Road, Herne Hill, SE24 0LU. Jo Fairfax, Untitled. 020 7078 8309 www.198gallery.co.uk Until 19 Feb: ‘Dazzle’, Blackpool Mon-Fri 11-5 illuminations come to Huyton. The magic 13 Jan - 24 Feb: ‘Kitchen Tables, Last of the lights in a scaled-down exhibition Threads’, Marcia Bennett-Male, stone featuring a section from the famous show carvings and drawings inspired by the including wall-based work. Jo Fairfax: Dream Time Afro-Carribean food heritage and Dutch and Spanish 17th century still life painting, Isle of Wight The City Art Gallery, Leicester as well as inward-looking embroidery Until 4 March pieces. Michael West Gallery Quay Arts, Sea Street, Newport, PO30 Blyth Gallery 5BD. 01983 822490 www.quayarts.org Building on his reputation for holography in public art, and such projects Level 5, Sherfield Building, Imperial Mon-Sat 10-4 as the five-storey lighting sculpture for the façade of Yorkshire Art Space, College, South Kensington Campus, SW7 2AZ. 020 7594 9354 28 Jan - 11 Mar: ‘Paintings of a Backwater Sheffield, Fairfax has created a virtual reality (VR) environment in which Visionary’, Billy Childish. Exciting residency [email protected] bringing together many facets of this the audience actively participates. Developed with the aid of a NESTA Mon-Sun 9am-10pm artist, musician, writer and revolutionary. Dream Time Award, Fairfax’s virtual world is accessed via a VR headset 10-28 Jan: ‘Where the Wild Things Are’, Opening 28 Jan, 6-8. Film screening and and rotating chair designed to generate a sensation of weightlessness installation of new works by Laura Youngston Coll and Tessa Farmer. night of conversation 31 Jan. and flight for the visitor, as if moving within a dream. Zipping between contrasting environments by triggering invisible teleports, occupants of Cafe Gallery Projects London Kings Lynn the work can find themselves thrust from calming and lyrical zones into The Gallery By the Lake, Southwark Park, more sinister arenas, the sound changing with visuals. Although exploring Bermondsey, SE16 2UA. 020 7237 1230 Kings Lynn Arts Centre www.cafegalleryprojects.org 27 King Street, PE30 1HA. different strands of Fairfax’s practice, this multimedia installation edges Wed-Sun 11-4 01553 779095 the artist into new territories. DF 18 Jan - 4 Feb: ‘Janus’, Jane Colling, Beth Tues-Sat 11-4; closed Sun, Mon & BH For more information see listing on this page Elliott, Charlie Fox, Paul Green, Sarah Contact gallery for details Reilly, Louise Sheridan, Harald Smykla, Karin Marie Wach, Annie Whiles, Jessica Kingswinford Wilkes, installation of printmaking, 01992 762128 www.gunpowderpark.org Lincoln photography, painting, performance, film, drawing and sculpture. Preview 15th Jan, Broadfield House Glass Museum Daily 11-4 2-5pm Compton Drive, DY6 9NS. Contact gallery for details Harding House Gallery Steep Hill, LN2 1LT. 01522 523537 01384 812745 La Viande Gallery www.glassmuseum.org.uk www.hardinghousegallery.co.uk 3 Charlotte Street, EC2 3DH. Tues-Sun 12-4 Leicester Contact gallery for details 07753 291582 www.laviande.co.uk Until 8 Jan: Mulika Glass, resident artists. City Gallery Usher Art Gallery Daily 11-6 90 Granby Street, LE1 1DJ. Lindum Road, LN2 1NN. 01522 527 980 Until 27 Jan: ‘8 Lines - Drawing Show’. Kirkby 0116 223 2060 Tues-Sat 10-5; Sun 1-5 Private view, 19 Jan, 6-9pm. Tues-Fri 11-6; Sat 10-5 8 Jan: ‘Wunderkammer: The Artificial Kirkby Gallery Until 7 Jan: ‘Open 17’. ‘Style-O-Rama’. 25 Kingdom’, opening the New Curtois Mall Galleries Federation of British Artists, 17 Carlton Newtown Gardens, L32 8RR. Jan - 4 Mar: ‘Dream Time’, Jo Fairfax, Gallery at The Collection, linking 0151 443 5617 archaeology and contemporary art. House Terrace, SW1Y 5BD. artwork that contains a haunting series of 020 7930 6844 www.knowsley.gov.uk/leisure/arts dreamlike worlds. Craig Mitchell, satirical Curated by Edward Allington in Mon, Fri 9.15-5; Tues, Thurs 9.15-7; Sat www.mallgalleries.org.uk and slightly surreal ceramic figures. coordination with Jeremy Webster. 10-4; Sun 11-4 Daily 10-5; final Sun until 4 Until 8 Jan: ‘Snow Storm’, installation of 11-22 Jan: ‘Designer Crafts 2006’, silhouette fairytale characters and Leigh Liverpool stunning collection of established makers sparkling lights creating a magical and work and that of exciting new graduates of Bluecoat Display Centre mysterious winter wonderland. Also Turnpike Gallery various disciplines, for sale, commission Bluecoat Chambers, College Lane, L1 and pleasure. Graham Marsden, delivering a series of Civic Square, WN7 1EB. 01942 404469 den-making workshops with the under 5s. 3BZ. 0151 709 4014 www.wlct.org www.bluecoatdisplaycentre.com Mall Galleries Mon, Thurs, Fri 9.30-5.30; Tues 10-5.30; Mon-Sat 10-5.30 Federation of British Artists, Lee Valley Wed 9.30-5; Sat 10-3 28 Jan - 25 Feb: ‘Where the Heart Is’, 17 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5BD. Until 28 Jan: ‘Designs for Life’, four unusual love tokens and cards for 020 7930 6844 Gunpowder Park Lee Valley established and emerging artists from the Valentines. Featuring jewellery by Emma www.mallgalleries.org.uk The Field Station, Sewardstone Road, region showing work in metal, textiles, Jay and innovative textiles by Jennifer Mon-Sun 10-5 Waltham Abbey, EN9 3GP. ceramics and surface design. Collier and many more. Contact gallery for details
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Oxo Tower Wharf Manchester the.gallery@oxo & Bargehouse Street, South Bank, SE1 9PH. 020 7401 3610 Castlefield Gallery www.oxotower.co.uk 2 Hewitt Street, Knott Mill, M15 4GB. Daily 11-6 0161 832 8034 Contact gallery for details www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk Tues-Sun 12-6 PM Gallery & House 28 Jan - 2 Apr: ‘British Art Show 6’, work by Walpole Park, Mattock Lane, Ealing, W5 fifty artists at venues across Manchester. 5EQ. 020 8567 1227 Marcus Coates, Chris Evans, Doug Fishbone www.ealing.gov.uk/pmgalleryandhouse and Eva Rothschild at Castlefield Gallery. A Tues-Fri 1-5; Sat 11-5 Hayward Gallery touring exhibition. Until 14 Jan: ‘Telling Stories’, artists and storytellers worked with local school Newbury students to create work in sculpture, video, illustration and textiles that combines New Greenham Arts theliterary with the visual and finds new 113 Lindenmuth Road, New Greenham ways of developing visual narratives. Park, RG19 6HN. 01635 817480 www.newgreenhamarts.com Space Station Sixty-Five Mon-Sat 10-4 65 North Cross Road, SE22 9ET. 020 Contact gallery for details 8693 5995 www.spacestationsixtyfive.com Thurs-Sun 12-6 or by appointment. Newcastle upon Tyne Closed 19 Dec - 4 Jan Until 27 Jan: ‘Thy Neighbours’ Ox 2’, a Red Box Gallery greedy abundance of new, recent and St Nicholas Chare, NE1 1RJ. –site-specific work from Anila Ladwa, +44 1912 457 121 Annie Whiles, Bada Song, Cathie www.redboxgallery.com Pilkington, Edwina Ashton, Emma Talbot, Until 2 Feb: ‘Witness’, paintings by Tom Gayle Chong Kwan, Paul Jones, Sam Jones, Moore. Viewing by appointment. Tel Jenny Jennings, 245 7121 or email Sarah Jones, Shane Waltener, Stephen [email protected] Nelson and Susan Collis. Writings by Paul O’Kane and Janis Jefferies. Curated by Vane Mark Dion, Les Nécrophores – L’Enterrement Rachael House and Jo David. Closing Kings House, Forth Banks, NE1 3PA. viewing 27 Jan, 5-7pm, all welcome. (from Homage à Jean-Henri Fabre), 1998. Collection Jean Albou, Paris. 0191 261 8281 www.vane.org.uk Wed-Sat 12-5 Stables Gallery 12 Jan - 11 Feb: ‘Ordinary monuments’, Gladstone Park, Dollis Hill Lane, work by Jorn Ebner and Alison Unsworth NW2 6HT. 020 8452 8655 exploring and examining the urban Thurs-Sun 11-5 Mark Dion: Microcosmographia environment, considering both its planned 19 Jan - 12 Feb: ‘The Twisted Mind of a and random nature and highlighting Broken Man’, Stephen Hennessy, paintings Harris Art Gallery, Preston aspects that often go unnoticed. and drawings which tell the tale of a man Until 12 March who is studying at the University of Life and failing miserably. Newtown Unlinked to Dion’s ‘Bureau Of The Centre For The Study Of Surrealism Studio Sienko Gallery And Its Legacy’ at Manchester Museum, in which the artist has created a Oriel Davies Gallery 57a Lant Street, SE1. 020 7403 1353 new department that blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction, The Park, Powys, SY16 2NZ. [email protected] 01686 625041 www.orieldavies.org ‘Microcosmographia’ continues his fascination with natural history. Dion’s Mon-Sat 10-5 Mon-Fri 11-6 or by appointment first UK solo exhibition since 1997, and the final venue on a three-date Until 28 Feb: ‘Beata Obst’, monumental Until 18 Feb: ‘Knit 2 Together: Concepts in monochrome paintings. UK tour, the exhibition’s centrepiece is a life-sized replica of a prehistoric Knitting’, fifteen international artists using aquatic reptile – an Ichthyosaur – with natural history relics spilling from both new and traditional techniques, pushing perceived boundaries within knitting. Westbourne Grove Church Art Space its guts. Causing much consternation among Victorian scientists when Westbourne Grove, corner of Ledbury first discovered as fossils, it’s joined by a suspended Les Nécrophores-L’En- Road, W11 2RW. 020 7034 0500 Northampton Mon-Fri 9-5; Sun 10.30-3 terrement, a reference to Nineteenth-century scholar Jean Henri Fabre 4 Jan - 14 Feb: ‘Maternal Gaze’, Karen who set out to prove the intelligence of insects through a series of strange Gallery 58 Johnson, solo show of photographic works experiments. DF 58 Bridge Street, NN1 1PA. that explore, expose and celebratethe way For more information visit www.preston.gov.uk 01604 633355. www.gallery58.com a mother sees her disabled child. Tues-Sat 11-7
BERGER ON DRAWING A new, illustrated anthology of texts which trace John Berger’s lifelong fascination with the activity of drawing, offering perceptive and often unexpected insights into the most primary and most primal of all art activities European Capital of Culture Published by Occasional Press 160 pp with 49 b/w illustrations Sbk £10.00 + p&p Hbk £15.00 + p&p Available from www.occasionalpress.net www.amazon.co.uk and from the Vangard Gallery, Carey’s Lane, Cork, Ireland. Published with support from Cork 2005: an JANUARY 06 magazine 8/12/05 16:58 Page 14
Original, Contemporary, Affordable. Three Yorkshire’, touring exhibition showcasing floors housing original paintings, the works of Italian artist Paolo DeNevi, sculptures and ceramics by local, national Dino De Simone, Josine Dupont and and international artists. Offering a full British artists Richard Clare, Helen and varied body of work for both Donnelly and Philip Turner. Interpretations commercial and individual clients. of their landscapes. Preview 7 Jan 7.30-9.
Norwich Scunthorpe 20-21 Visual Arts Centre Norwich Gallery St. Johns Church, Church Square, DN15 Norwich School of Art and Design, St 6TB. 01724 297070 George Street, NR3 1BB. 01603 756247 www.northlincs.gov.uk/20-21 www.norwichgallery.co.uk Tues-Sat 10-5 Mon-Sat 10-5 Until 14 Jan: ‘Handmade’, crafts. 12 Jan - 18 Feb: ‘Heavy Easel’, Paul ‘Translation’, Jo Berry, light drawings. Until Housley, paintings and watercolours. 21 Jan: ‘20-21 Open Art and Sculpture Conrad Shawcross, Light Perpetual, wood, Exhibition’. Until 18 Feb: ‘Fusion’, Perri Outpost mixed media, 2005. Copyright: the artist. Webster and Ruth Wurzburger, painting 10B Wensum Street, Tombland, NR3 and installation. Until 18 Mar: ‘Lourdes’, 1HR. 01603 612428 Susan Shaw, installation. 21 Jan - 25 Mar: www.norwichoutpost.org ‘Mend’, Shaeron Caton-Rose, installation. 21 Jan - 4 Mar: ‘Insect Nation’. Daily 12-6 Throughout January Outpost will be Conrad Shawcross: The Steady States closed. Regular programming will resume Seaford in February. For details about the future The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool programme please contact Until 26 February Crypt Gallery [email protected] Off Church Street. 01323 891461. www.lewes.gov.uk/leisure Shawcross’s wooden contraptions are remarkable feats of engineering. Mon-Sat 10.30-5 (closed for lunch Nottingham Melding scientific theory with obsolete and meaningless technology to 13 Feb - 4 Mar: ‘ContainedObsessions’, eclectic obsessions created and contained create marvellous machines with no apparent use – they are quite simply Angel Row Gallery by W M Hudson, Liz Padgham and Jane Central Library Building, 3 Angel Row, follies, but what impressive follies they are! Transferring from the New Art Churchill, ideas and objects in and out of NG1 6HP. 0115 915 2869 Gallery Walsall, ‘The Steady States’ features three new works: Space Trum- context. www.angelrowgallery.com pet, Loop System Quintet and Harmonic Tower, which call on cosmology, Mon-Sat 10-5; Wed 10-7; closed Sun quantum mechanics and musical theory. Sheffield Until 4 Feb: ‘The Animators’, Ann Course, The five inter-connected oak machines of Loop System Quintet spin and Katy Dove, Simon Faithfull, Dryden Cupola Gallery creak, the bright light bulbs on the end of each arm producing a 3D har- Goodwin, Paul Morrison, Vong Phaophanit 178a Middlewood Road, Hillsborough, and Claire Oboussier. Artist’s animations monic loop of light in the gloom of the gallery. Shawcross’s six-metre-high S6 1TD. 0114 285 2665 shown alongside other kinds of work they enlargement of a Victorian harmonograph draws pendulum-powered pat- www.cupolagallery.com produce. terns on huge sheets of paper while Space Trumpet’s imposing shed and Mon-Sat 10-6.30 Until 14 Jan: ‘Christmas Exhibition 2005’, Bonington Gallery funnel is inspired by his fascination with the birth of the universe. There is selected group exhibition, all media. Nottingham Trent University, Bonington romance and tragedy in these mad machines which highlight Shawcross’s Gallery, Bonington Building, Dryden understanding and sense of drama. DF Graves Art Gallery Street, NG1 4GG. 0115 848 6131 For more information visit www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk Surrey Street, S1 1XZ. 0114 278 2600. www.future-factory.org www.sheffieldgalleries.org.uk Coming up in March: ‘Sensitive Skin’, a Mon-Sat 10-5 season of interdisplinary arts. 14 Jan - 1 Apr: ‘Another Land’, Nicky Coutts, new work. ‘Visions of the Low NSAT Gallery Poole Rugby Countries’, Dutch and Flemish art. 28 Jan - Friar Lane. 0115 948 0476 22 Apr: ‘Revelation’, reflecting British Art Daily 10-4.30 Faith House Rugby Art Gallery & Museum in the Arts Council Collection. 28 Jan - 4 Feb: Russell Hatton presents Holton Lee, East Holton, BH16 6JN. Little Elborow Street, CV21 3BZ. 01788 533201 paintings using xyrallic and pearlescent 01202 625562 www.holtonlee.co.uk Millennium Galleries www.rugbygalleryandmuseum.org.uk Arundel Gate, S1 2PP. 0114 278 2645. paints applied by spray techniques, Until 23 Jan: ‘Beyond the Asylum’, Rachael Tues & Thurs 10-8; Wed & Fri 10-5; Sat www.sheffieldgalleries.org.uk encompassing abstract, landscape and Gadsden (to be confirmed) 10-4; Sun & BH 1-5; closed Mon Mon-Sat 10-5; Sun 11-5 portrait. Until 8 Jan: ‘Rugby Open 2005’, sixth annual open exhibition celebrating the 24 Jan - 17 Apr: ‘Palace and Mosque’, Portree creative talent of Rugby and surrounding Islamic treasures of the Middle East. 28 Ormskirk areas. Exhibits anticipated include Jan - 23 Apr: ‘Fairytales and Urban Myths’, An Tuireann Arts Centre ceramics, painting, photography, textiles inspired by traditional ethereal fables and Chapel Gallery Struan Road, IV51 9EG. 01478 613306 and sculpture. more sinister stories. Until 19 Mar: St Helens Road, L39 4QR. www.antuireann.org.uk Colorcalm, ‘by Design’, digital video Mon-Sat 10-5 exhibition in collaboration with Lovebytes. 01695 571328 www.westlancsdc.gov.uk Runcorn Until 7 Jan: ‘Home’, Julie Arkel. An Jan: ‘6000 miles’, Scotland’s changing coastal landscape speculating on how our exhibition of Julie Arkel’s distinctive The Brindley Arts Centre Shrewsbury characters, created using a process that relationship with the edge of the nation High Street, WA7 1BG. 0151 907 8360 incorporates recycled materials. might develop (gallery one). Michael Craik, www.thebrindley.org.uk Belmont Arts Centre paintings derived from images of Mon-Fri 10-4; Sat 10-3; closed Sun & BH 5 Belmont, SY1 1TE architecture (gallery two). 7-28 Jan: ‘Winter Fire and Light’, exhibition 13 Jan - 18 Feb: ‘In Disguise’, Sue Challis Petersfield of an arts and education project focusing and ‘Installations’, Matt Jones. New video, on the Bridgewater Way and Diwali, the digital and installation work from two Hindu Festival of Light. Bedales Arts Portsmouth residencies at Belmont. Bedales School, Church Road, Steep, GU32 2DG. 01730 711510. Aspex Gallery Scarborough Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery www.privateview.org.uk 27 Brougham Road, PO5 4PA. Rowleys House, Barker Street, SY1 1QH. Mon-Fri 2-5; Sat 10-1 023 9281 2121 www.aspex.org.uk Crescent Arts 01743 361196 12 Jan - 8 Feb: ‘And Then’, contemporary Tues-Fri 12-6; Sat 12-4 The Crescent, YO11 2PW. Mon-Sat 10-4; Sun 1-5 sculpture, paintings and photography by Until 21 Jan: ‘Emergency 2’, open 01723 351461 www.crescentarts.co.uk Until 21 Jan: ‘1835-2005: 170 Years of Carolyn Booker, Susan Cutts, Suzie Darcel, submission exhibition which seeks to Tues-Sat 10-1 and 2-5 Museums in Shrewsbury’. Museum objects; Barry Holt and Maria Levey. Inspired by an highlight the work of emerging and 10 Jan - 25 Feb: ‘Shades of Green - selection of lantern slides and other earlier group exhibition. establishing artists. Landscapes from Liguria to North images screened at The Old Market Hall.
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Southampton FK8 1AX. 01786 479361 Mission Gallery Weston-Super-Mare www.stirling.gov.uk/changingroom Gloucester Place, Maritime Quarter, John Hansard Gallery Wed-Sat 12-5 SA1 1TY. 01792 652016 Hans Price Gallery University of Southampton, Highfield, Gallery closed throughout January. Please Daily 11-5 CAD Weston College, Knightstone Road, SO17 1BJ. 023 8059 2158 call for information on upcoming Until 7 Jan: ‘Stories in the Making’, Julia BS23 2AL. 01934 411411 www.hansardgallery.org.uk programme. Griffiths Jones. ‘The Christmas Show’, Mon-Fri 9.30-4.30 Tues-Fri 11-5; Sat 11-4 9-26 Jan: ‘Missing’, Carolyn Thompson, unique design-led gifts. 14 Jan - 12 Feb: Until 28 Jan: ‘King Tat’, Shaun Doyle and text, drawing and installation exploring Stroud Mally Mallinson. In the murky depths of the ‘Final Fantasy’, Japanese artists working the transformation and reconfiguration of gallery, artists Shaun Doyle and Mally with animation, curated by Kwanyi Pan. existing texts and images to create new Stroud House Gallery Mallinson have created the decaying crypt of realities and fictions. Tues 10 Jan: Artist’s Station Road, GL5 3AP. 01453 750575 a modern recluse, a man they call King Tat. Talk, 2.30pm. www.stroudhousegallery.co.uk Sway Millais Gallery Until 11 Feb: ‘Flight’, exploring aspects of Southampton Institute, East Park Terrace, flight. Artists include Dilys Finlay Stephens, Artsway Wolverhampton SO14 0YN. 023 8031 9916 Claire Evans, Lizzie Ault, Madi Acharya Station Road, SO41 6BA. 01590 682260 www.millais.solent.ac.uk Baskerville. Curator Lyn Cluer Coleman. www.artsway.org.uk Wolverhampton Art Gallery Mon 1-5; Tues, Wed & Fri 10-5; Tues-Sun 11-5 Lichfield Street, WV1 1DU. 01902 552055 www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk Thurs 10-7; Sat 12-4; closed Sun Sunderland Until 19 Feb: ‘ArtSway Open05’, juried 13 Jan - 25 Feb: ‘After Hiroshima’, Kazuya exhibition with the best of local, regional Mon-Sat 10-5 Contact gallery for details Kanemaru, Mutsumi Tsuda, Keiji Usami, Reg Vardy Gallery and national contemporary art work Alexis Hunter, Jacqueline Morreau, Mircea University of Sunderland, School of Arts, submitted by artists. Explores the diversity Roman, Tolleck Winner, insights into the Design, Media & Culture, Ashburne and complexity of contemporary art Worksop aftermath of the atomic devastation. House, Ryhope Road, SR2 7EF. practice in various media. 0191 515 2128 www.sunderland.ac.uk Harley Gallery St Andrews Tues 10-8; Wed-Fri 10-5; Sat by appoint- Welbeck, S80 3LW. 01909 501700 ment Tenterden www.harleygallery.org.uk Crawford Arts Centre 24 Jan - 17 Feb: Julianne Swartz, Tues-Sun 10-5 93 North Street, KY16 9AD. unearthing the hollows within walls into oneonesix 14 Jan - 5 Mar: ‘Conceptual Craft - New 01334 474610 which she buries disarmingly simple 116 High Street, TN30 6HT. Art from Norway’, Norwegian makers www.crawfordarts.free-online.co.uk constructions of sparkling colour and 01580 761196 working between the boundaries of art Mon-Sat 10-5; Sun 2-5 bricolage on a budget. Mon-Sat 10-6; Sun 10-4 and craft. ‘The Collection: Art and 13 Jan - 5 Mar: ‘The Collector’s Garden’, 16 Jan - 4 Feb: ‘Hmm...’, paintings by Archaeology in Lincolnshire’, touring Pamela So. Includes material developed Jenny Miller. exhibition. Showcase: Anna Stina Naess, during recent Crawford Friends residency. Swansea Norwegian ceramicist Craft Showcase: Bobbie Coleman, glass; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery –Simon Dawdry, Clare Gillies, ceramics; Alexandra Road, SA1 5DZ. Welwyn Garden City –April Neate, Kathryn Williamson, jewellery. Wrexham 01792 516900 www.glynnviviangallery.org New Maynard Gallery Wrexham Arts Centre Stirling Tues-Sun 10-5 1st Floor, Campus West, The Campus, Rhosddu Road, LL11 1AU. Until 22 Jan: ‘Figuring Narratives’. Until 5 AL8 6BX. 01707 326109 www.chiltern- 01978 292093 Changing Room Feb: ‘Drawn’, Richard Monahan. Until 12 web.co.uk/digswell/sitefiles/maynard Mon-Fri 9.30-6.45; Sat 9.30-4 35 The Crawford Arcade, King Street, Feb: ‘Another Light’, Simon Fenoulhet. Contact gallery for details Contact gallery for details
APPROACHING COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE CHAIR SPEAKERS Greg Hilty: Director of collaborative Marie O’Mahony: Consultant, Emily Campbell: Head of Design brokering agency plusequals. A one-day conference at the Rootstein curator and author of SportsTech: at the British Council. Rob Kesseler: Professor of Ceramic Hopkins Space, London College of Fashion. Revolutionary Fabrics, Fashion Annie Cattrell: Arts & Humanities Art & Design at Central St Martins Thursday 16 February 2006 and Design. Research Council. Art & Science School of Art. Fellow in Fine Art & Sculpture, KEYNOTE ADDRESS De Montford University. BOOKING & CONFERENCE INFO Artquest is hosting a one-day conference to discuss Charles Leadbeater: Visiting Nipa Doshi: Partner at Doshi Levien Tickets £50. Concessions £20. collaboration between designers, applied and fine artists Fellow at the Skoll Centre for Social Design Partnership. Voted 2004 Ticket price includes lunch and an and professionals from other disciplines. The event is Entrepreneurship, Associate of the Product Designers of the Year by evening reception. For full conference designed to appeal to established practitioners who Design Council, independent writer, Blueprint magazine. and booking details please go to: want to hear first-hand from their peers about the speaker and adviser on innovation, Rebecca Earley: Senior Research www.artquest.org.uk/intersection critical, conceptual and practical challenges that arise entrepreneurship and the Fellow for the Textiles Environment For telephone bookings please call when working as collaborators in a variety of settings. knowledge economy. Design Project, Chelsea College of Sonya Dyer, Artquest Programme Art & Design. Coordinator on: 020 7514 2984
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with professionals from other disci- Intersection is chaired by Marie quals, an agency dedicated to broker- INTERSECTION plines, Artquest has organised Inter- O’Mahony, consultant, curator and ing collaborations between busi- section, a one-day conference in author of Cyborg the Man Machine, nesses and artists across creative Why do artists and designers collabo- February at the Rootstein Hopkins Sportstech and Technotextiles. The industries and disciplines; Rob rate with professionals working in Space, London College of Fashion, as keynote address is given by Charles Kesseler, NESTA Fellow and Professor other fields? Is there such a thing as a part of its strategic programme of Leadbeater, Visiting Fellow at the of Ceramic Art and Design at Central truly democratic collaboration? How professional development opportuni- Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneur- St Martins School of Art, and Emily does working in partnership affect ties for visual artists and craftspeople. ship, Associate of the Design Council, Campbell, British Council Head of authorship and control of intellectual This event is designed to appeal independent writer, speaker Design. property rights, commercial and cul- to experienced practitioners, particu- and adviser on innovation, entrepre- ‘Junction Box’, the Artquest mar- tural values? What ethical factors larly in the field of craft and design, neurship and the knowledge ketplace, will feature a-n and a range need to be considered, for example if curators and arts administrators who economy. of other organisations at the confer- a project is trans-national or cross-cul- want to hear first hand from their Speakers include: Annie Cattrell, ence. tural? Can collaboration offer new peers about the critical, conceptual Arts and Humanities Research Coun- Tickets cost £50 (full rate dele- research or creative possibilities for and practical challenges that arise cil Art and Science Fellow in Fine Art gate) and £20 (disabled delegate practitioners? What impact does it when working as collaborators in a and Sculpture at De Montfort Univer- with free places for carers accompa- have on individual practice from the variety of settings. sity; Nipa Doshi of Doshi Levien nying a registered disabled delegate) point of view of aesthetics, the nature The conference framework con- Design Partnership, voted 2004 and include lunch, refreshments and and scale of work achievable, the sists of a keynote speech, case studies Product Designers of the Year by an evening reception. development of specialised skills and by artists and designers to illustrate Blueprint magazine; Rebecca Earley, To book visit www.artquest.org.uk/inter- the development of shared lan- critical, contextual and practical con- Senior Research Fellow: Textiles Envi- section or telephone Russell Martin, Artquest Programme Coordinator on guages for descriptive and rendering siderations that arise when collaborat- ronment Design Project, Chelsea Col- 020 7514 8357 purposes when collaborating across ing, and presentations on facilitation, lege of Art and Design and curator of Artquest is offering a-n subscribers the different disciplines? strategic development and collabora- the forthcoming Crafts Council exhi- chance to win tickets to the Intersection conference on 16 February. See the To discuss collaboration by tive practice from the viewpoint of bition ‘Well Fashioned: Eco Style in Subscriber Prize on page 2 for more designers, applied and fine artists commissioners and brokers. the UK’; Greg Hilty, Director of pluse- details about the competition and the conference, see also advert on page 15.
YOU GOTTA FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO ARTY As UK citizens, we have a right to diverse and global environment. communities and of individuals • Artists will be acknowledged as housing, education and health. REALISE represents a powerful and • Increase the depth and scope of the pathfinders and visionaries Shouldn’t all of us also have the right expanding alliance of individuals and our understanding of other cul- that they are, generating new and to a share in the rich visual culture of organisations to endorse the above tures and of one another challenging thinking about the the nation? Shouldn’t all of us have statement of principle and aspiration. • Give people the chance to develop present and the future the opportunity to flourish as visually At its heart is the insistence that creative skills fit for the twenty-first • All new communities and regener- literate and creative citizens through- everyone has their right to participate century and contribute to the ation schemes will have art and out our lives? (The REALISE State- in culture and to enjoy the arts, as growth and diversification of the high quality design at their core ment) enshrined in the 1948 United Nations UK economy and the imaginative • All galleries, museums and visual These are just some of the ques- Universal Declaration of Human regeneration of communities arts organisations will be hubs for tions tackled in REALISE your right to Rights. REALISE proposes that action cultural, social, creative and artis- art – “a long term agenda for change must be taken to realise this right in Art at the heart of society tic development and learning, with to place visual culture at the heart of full. As a signatory to the Declaration If we begin now to put art at the heart programmes, commissions and col- people’s lives, public policy and the the British Government has a duty to of society, in ten years time: lections which reflect, celebrate political debate, creating a society make this ambitious aspiration a real- • Everyone will have the chance to and examine the abundant diver- where everyone is empowered to inter- ity. experience and enjoy the very best sity of our past and present pret and make choices about the in art, no matter where they live • With visual culture relevant and visual world” – which has been REALISE your right to art • All children and young people will immediate to everyone’s lives, the launched by VAGA. If everyone’s right to art was realised, have opportunities for making art, national conversation about the REALISE is a long term campaign it would: and for sustained and high quality unexpected and inspirational to place visual culture at the centre of • Bring personal enrichment, creative engagement with visual nature of art will be open to all people’s lives, public policy and the through enjoyment, inspiration, culture To add your name to the campaign and to receive updates on the REALISE pro- political debate, creating a society knowledge and the challenge of • Visual and design literacy will be gramme of advocacy, research, critical where everyone can participate as crit- the unpredictable recognised as essential to every- debate and policy development, email [email protected] ically empowered and creative citizens • Build the vital role that artists can one’s personal development, no www.righttoart.com within our increasingly dynamic, play in the life of the nation, of matter their age or circumstances www.vaga.co.uk
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THINKING OF THE OUTSIDE
‘Thinking of the Outside’ was a of 5,000 cars, exploring the lives of series of watercolour paintings, temporary exhibition of new contemporary seafarers. João Penalva, installed in the historic Custom House Subscriber prize artworks commissioned by Situations intrigued by the urban myths sur- in Queen Square. Originally planned We have 5 copies of Thinking of at the University of the West of rounding the Clifton Suspension as an elegant enclave for the city’s the Outside to be won. One lucky England, in association with Bristol Bridge, filmed the murky depths wealthiest residents, the square was subscriber will also win Situations’ Legible City and Picture This, Bristol, beneath. Susan Hiller scoured cine- the site of the Bristol riots in 1831 and earlier publication Contemporary in which six internationally matic footage to investigate the in the 1930s. Art: From Studio to Situation, acclaimed artists responded to superstitious tales that surround the Edited by Claire Doherty, curator which collects together texts and Bristol’s historic landscape in stereotype of the outsider. Nathan of the exhibition, the book features interviews with key artists, curators summer 2005. Coley produced a sculpture, using a essays on the new works, interviews and writers involved in the issue of Presented in unusual locations familiar architectural style, which with the artists and documentation of context and site-specificity in the around Bristol’s historic centre, the amplified the surrounding cityscape, contemporary international art work-in-progress and the public’s exhibition took the visitor on an installed in a disused churchyard. Phil scene, and includes such artists as response to the exhibition, the book intriguing route through the old city, Collins staged a series of live events Kathrin Böhm, Nathan Coley, Min- offers in-depth analysis and evalua- where they encountered moving throughout the duration of the exhibi- erva Cuevas, Adam Dant, Cather- tion of the scattered-site exhibition in image installations, paintings, sculp- tion, accompanied by information ine David, Jeremy Deller and context. Contributors include Jon tures and live events. The artists’ posters on bus stops throughout the Thomas Hirschhorn. The book Brett, Morgan Falconer, Alex Farquhar- research “took them beyond the limits city. Silke Otto-Knapp’s research costs £19.95 and is published by of the city’s mediaeval walls, to exam- began with the landscape gardener son, Jörg Heiser, Josephine Lanyon, Black Dog www.bdpworld.com ine present-day boundaries, architec- Humphrey Repton (1752-1818), who Francis McKee, Emily Pethick and To enter you must be a subscriber. Denise Robinson, with drawings by Send a postcard with your name and ture and attitudes that deal with the worked extensively in Bristol and the address, clearly stating which compe- relationship between outsider and surrounding countryside. Repton’s Joff Winterhart. tition you are entering by 25 January insider”. concept of the garden was an ide- Thinking of the Outside is published by to a-n Magazine, First Floor, 7-15 Pink University of the West of England and Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 5DW. Kathleen Herbert took a sea voy- alised version of ‘natural landscape’ Bristol Legible City in association with Only one entry per subscriber. Call age from Antwerp to Bristol with a through which one might ‘shut out Arnolfini and is distributed by 0191 241 8000 to subscribe and enter Cornerhouse, price £12.95. the competition. crew of twenty-eight men and a cargo the city’. This resulted in Otto-Knapp’s www.thinkingoftheoutside.com
Clockwise from top: Joao Penalva, The White Nightingale, filming in progress, April 2005. Photo: Jamie Woodley. Kathleen Herbert, Grande Spagna, video still, 2005 Phil Collins, The louder you scream, the faster we go, video still, 2005. Nathan Coley, Iceman, installation view in St. John’s Church, 2005. an JANUARY 06 magazine 8/12/05 16:58 Page 18
COLLECT 2006
COLLECT 2006, Europe’s annual art fair dedicated to the applied and dec- orative arts, takes place at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum in Febru- ary this year. Organised by the Crafts Council, COLLECT is an opportunity to see a myriad of different styles and schools of contemporary applied art under one roof. The forty-two galleries exhibiting at COLLECT 2006 are rep- resenting artists from America, Aus- tralia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Columbia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland, as well as from across the UK. For the first time, COLLECT will be complemented by a fringe programme of talks and gallery events under the umbrella title of London COLLECTion. As a preview to COLLECT 2006, on 8 February curator Amanda Fielding explains the role of the Crafts Council collection and reveals some of the strategies behind collecting. Karen Liv- ingstone will also be talking about crafts at the V&A, and will present some of the museum’s recent craft acquisitions, both from COLLECT and other exhibitions. Exhibiting artists include the ceramicists Ruth Duckworth, Eliza- beth Fritsch and Rupert Spira and art jewellers Wendy Ramshaw and Dorothy Hogg. There will also be tex- tiles by Olga de Amaral and Claire Heathcote, wood by Jim Partridge, Philip Moulthrop, and Bud Latven and silver by Ndidi Ekubia, Junko Mori, Hiroshi Suzuki and recent Jer- wood Applied Arts Prize winner Simone ten Hompel. The selection panel for COLLECT was chaired by Dan Klein of Dan Klein Associates and included Marjan Boot, Curator of Applied Arts and Design at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; Dr Elizabeth Goring, Prin- ciple Curator in the Department of World Culture at the National Muse- ums of Scotland; Alun Graves of the Above: Claire Heathcote, Beck, 30x30cm. V&A and Helen Waters, Curator of Far left: Claire Heathcote, David, detail. the New Art Sculpture Park at Roche Left: Claire Heathcote, Ruth.
Court in Wiltshire. Heathcote is exhibiting at COLLECT with Brigid Howarth Contemporary Applied Arts, London COLLECT 2006 takes place 9-13 February, open daily 11am – 5.45pm (until 4pm 13 February) and is located in the Exhibition Courts at the Victoria & Albert Museum. To book tickets for the COLLECTion pro- gramme contact the V&A booking office at 020 7942 2211 or [email protected] www.craftscouncil.org.uk/collect
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and Aesthetic Insight, an international SENSUOUS working conference on fundamental Victoria Todd, Director of the problems of artistic research and devel- A TIME FOR NCA says: “For years people have KNOWLEDGE opment. been talking about diversity in the What was remarkable about this CHANGE arts and some excellent initiatives As an increasing number of visual arts event was the breadth of creative and have been put into place. Funda- practitioners are drawn into MA and cultural disciplines involved: perform- The Diversity Manifesto was mentally, however, not enough has PhD research in Higher Education, ance, sound, visual arts (fine and launched at the Victoria and Albert changed. The Diversity Manifesto they join those already ensconced in applied), music, theatre, industrial Museum, London, in November. sets out to make people really think the system as lecturers or researchers design and architecture, were all repre- The manifesto, written by the about the implications of all their grappling with the debate on the very sented by practitioners, lecturers, National Campaign for the Arts decisions and actions. It is not just nature of creative practice. Within aca- researchers and professors, together (NCA) and produced in partnership about implementing brand new demia in the UK, research is inextrica- with theoreticians with key interests in with EQ (the UK’s national equality measures – it is about doing what bly linked to funding, and most the debate. Working groups debated and diversity agency working in the we are doing now, but doing it dif- institutions will be striving to maximise individual research proposals and proj- creative industries) aims to place ferently so that everybody has a their research profile in time for the ects and three keynote addresses diversity, equality and opportunity chance to be involved.” next Research Assessment Exercise. probed the practical, theoretical and at the heart of the arts sector. David McCall, Chief Executive Most visual artists engage in philosophical challenges. The Diversity Manifesto draws of EQ adds: “Diversity is a main- research as a natural, integral part of Working groups were deliberately upon the information gathered by stream issue. If the creative indus- their normal professional practice, but designed to be diverse in nature. As a EQ as part of its Creative Renewal tries do not wake up to the waste of articulating this process to others in a result a remarkable cross-disciplinary programme and is supported by talent and lack of workforce diver- coherent way is not so easy. understanding emerged; in under- NCA members – arts organisations sity it will put the UK’s competitive In the UK, using conferences and standing came recognition that and practising artists from across edge in jeopardy. The Diversity web published papers, the University research issues facing the creative dis- the country. Its recommendations Manifesto is an important step of Hertfordshire has taken the lead in ciplines are common to us all. are written for policy-makers and towards achieving full equality providing an arena for the debate – Sensuous knowledge is always dif- all those working in the arts. It aims within the arts sector.” most recently examining whether to “bring about meaningful and NCA is the UK’s only independent lob- ficult to articulate in terms other than visual art constitutes a kind of knowl- lasting change throughout the sec- bying organisation representing all of the medium it is expressed in, but in the arts www.artscampaign.org.uk edge (see www.herts.ac.uk/artdes1/ tor by making it accessible to all this event sound, textual, and visual EQ is the national equality and diversi- research/papers). people of talent”. ty agency working in the creative articulation together provoked The debate however, is not con- industries www.thinkeq.org.uk thought and provided illumination. fined to these shores. In Norway, the Paul Scott, PhD Fellow at Manchester Bergen National Academy of the Arts Institute for Research and Innovation in Art has also been pursuing the elusive. and Design, MMU Creative Arts Alsager. From 9-11 November it hosted Sensu- To read conference papers go to www1.khib.no/index.php/khib/ku_fou/kon- WHAT’S IN A NAME? ous Knowledge 2: Aesthetic Practice feranser_seminarer The Sculptors’ Society of Ireland (SSI), research and consultation undertaken Topiary Tree Levens Hall 2005, Cumbria. Image from Paul Scott’s Ireland’s largest membership body for in 2004, which included interviews research project Ceramics, Landscape, Memory and Confection. artists, has changed its name to Visual with over 200 artists, studio groups Artists Ireland. The change comes at the and artists’ networks. Visual Artists end of a year in which the organisation Ireland will also fulfill a distinct role has celebrated its twenty-fifth anniver- that has been missing in the sector sary. The new name is part of an overall since the Artists Association of Ire- rebranding for the organisation that has land (AAI) ceased trading in 2002. seen its membership increase by 250 The loss of the AAI left a significant per cent over the past three years to its gap in the provision of support and current level of over 1,100. The change representation for visual artists. This also heralds a wider developmental pro- new initiative is a strategic response gramme that sees a broadening of the to this lack of provision. In 2005 the organisation’s remit to include profes- SSI secured an additional 120,000 sional visual artists in all disciplines and in revenue funding from the Arts the delivery of significant new services Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon. and resources to the sector. The new Visual Artists Ireland is also core remit also includes a more proactive funded by the Arts Council of North- advocacy and lobbying role. This role ern Ireland. has been particularly visible recently in Speaking about the changes the the organisation’s campaign to retain SSI Chair Therry Rudin said: “Over the the Artists Tax Exemption scheme in Ire- past twenty-five years the SSI has con- land. tinually responded and adapted to the The newly named initiative will needs and concerns of artists and has include a comprehensive web-based thus remained relevant to its con- information resource for artists, an infor- stituency. This new phase of develop- mation and advice enquiry centre for ment is rooted in that same artists and an active programme of commitment to evolve with and national and international representa- engage with the major changes and tion and advocacy. developments in the landscape of the The new programmes have been visual arts sector.” developed in response to a process of www.visualartists.ie an JANUARY 06 magazine 8/12/05 16:58 Page 20
broadest sense and reflect the enor- don, Delfina provides thirty studios in the year, with the winner to be WIN WIN WIN mous diversity and range of practice total with twelve places being announced on 11 February. today. Jane Hamlyn, chair of the foun- awarded as a prize. The award pro- There is no theme to this year’s open SITUATION dation says: “The awards affirm the vides a studio and all related facilities exhibition, in response to artists’ con- foundation’s belief in the importance free of charge for either one or two cerns regarding the restrictiveness of a Paul Hamlyn foundation award of the creative process. They give years. International residents receive themed brief. Instead, ArtSway has for visual arts artists a chance to worry about their accommodation on the same basis. aimed to select work that reflects the The Paul Hamlyn Foundation has work rather than about how to pay the Often collaborating with major institu- plurality of current artistic practice. announced the names of the five win- rent. We want this award to be about tions, Delfina is able to provide the Artists were encouraged to submit work ners of its 2005 Awards for Visual Arts: the individual artists and not the art kind of short-term working space and that reflects their current practice, with Clio Barnard, Ian Breakwell, Jacqueline form, to help unlock people’s potential accommodation necessary for interna- no restrictions on content or media. Donachie, Factotum (Stephen Hackett and to underwrite the taking of risks.” tional artists to complete or develop ArtSway is the contemporary visual and Richard West) and Michael Landy. new projects in the city. arts centre in the New Forest focused The five artists each receive £30,000 Residences awarded The six UK-based artists in the final on “facilitating the development of spread over a period of three years. Ian Six international artists have been year of their two-year residencies are: new works by artists and offering cre- Breakwell died last October, after the awarded residencies at Delfina Studio Guy Bar Amotz, Anna Barriball, Sarah ative opportunities for audiences”. Last judging took place, but the award was Trust: Esra Ersen (Turkey, Visiting Arts Dobai, Grace Ndiritu, Janette Parris year, the centre celebrated the freehold accepted posthumously on his behalf Fellow), S&P Stanikas (Lithuania), Ivan and Toby Ziegler. purchase of its premises and grounds and will go towards sustaining the Grubanov (Serbia and Montenegro), www.delfina.org.uk (see November News). legacy of his work. Alisa Margolis (Ukraine), Stefan Saffer ‘Open05’ continues until 19 February Since 1998, the Paul Hamlyn Foun- (Germany) and Thomas Raat (The Artsway open www.artsway.org.uk dation has invested over £1 million Netherlands). ‘Open05’, the latest installment of Below left: through its Awards for Artists. Each Delfina is the largest international ArtSway’s annual open exhibition, Alisa Margolis, Years ago: our time, oil and resin on canvas, 160x130cm, 2005. Courtesy: Diana year twenty nominators put forward residency programme in the UK. The showcases the work of artists from the Stiger Gallery. See Residencies awarded. the names of artists who live or work in Delfina Studio Trust was established in UK and abroad. Selected by ArtSway Below right: the UK or Ireland. The awards are 1988 as a registered charity with the Director Mark Segal and Exhibition Clio Barnard, Road Race, 2004. See Paul Hamlyn given “on the strength of talent, prom- aim of providing high quality studio Officer Peter Bonnell, this year’s exhibi- award for visual arts. ise and need as well as achievement space and related facilities for visual tion drew the largest ever number of Bottom: Penny Klepuszewska, End, Part 1, colour and there are no strings attached”. The artists. Housed in a renovated factory submissions. One artist will be selected photograph, 30x88cm, 2004-05. Klepuszewska awards cover the visual arts in their in the Bankside area of central Lon- for a solo exhibition at ArtSway later in is exhibiting in ‘Open 05’ at ArtSway.
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EMACA RESPONSE Laura Dyer, Executive Director of the Arts Council England East Midlands region, responds to last month’s open letter from EMACA.
When I read the article by EMACA in enue funding required for when the EMACA and New Art Exchange was in Board, particularly when they have last month’s issue of a-n Magazine I building opens has also largely been direct response to discussions initiated already delivered so much. knew I had to respond. I am very sorry raised. These considerable achieve- by NAE and its partners about merg- Exciting arts programming is a key that EMACA feel so negative and ments are hardly consistent with ing their services in recognition of a objective of any developing arts organ- aggrieved about their relationship with EMACA’s claim that The New Art shared aim and vision. As Arts Council isation. The soon to be appointed Arts Council England and the other Exchange is a failing project. England we are not imposing a model Chief Executive and the Board will funding partners, but I am afraid that I Arts Council England is committed of how the New Art Exchange should decide on the programme of NAE. As must disagree with the view that they to trying to address the identified be managed. That is a decision for the the mission of the organisation is to have been bullied at any time during under-representation of Black and New Art Exchange. As such we refute support Black and Asian Artists I think the New Arts Exchange (NAE) develop- Asian artist led organisations. We were EMACA’s claims that Arts Council Eng- EMACA is incorrect in stating “Black ment process or that Black artists will supportive of the initiative to develop land has worked in anyway, either sep- artists will have to petition Asian peo- be disenfranchised because of it. EMACA and Apna Arts (the South arately or with any other organisation, ple if they want their work shown”. The NAE is an independent Black Asian Arts partner organisation) to “bully and force” EMACA for any Such statements can only be seen as and Asian led arts organisation. It is through the NAE, which was led and purpose or to make “a deal to dissolve divisive and have no place in our currently driving forward a major developed by APNA and EMACA. It EMACA’s work into the New Art understanding of the agreed mission visual arts project in Nottingham. It has not been foisted on anyone but Exchange”. of NAE. will have three galleries, artist in resi- has come about through their desire to The New Arts Exchange is a black- As previously said, NAE’s achieve- dency facilities and support provision grow, thus increasing opportunities for led arts organisation developing black ments in raising the funds for the capi- for emerging as well as practicing Black and Asian artists. arts practice in the region. Arts Council tal project and ongoing revenue costs, Black artists. NAE has received wide- Recently however EMACA has England are delighted that the NAE coupled with the considerable arts spread support and funding from Arts increasingly distanced itself from the Board includes former members of specialism possessed by the Board, Council England as well as East Mid- initiative. Far from being removed from EMACA’s board and staff, which pro- including former members of EMACA, lands Development Agency, Radford the NAE project EMACA has instead vides the project with considerable arts demonstrate that the New Art and Hyson Green New Deal for Com- removed itself from a major expertise in the contemporary visual Exchange has the experience, commit- munities, The Greater Nottingham opportunity of regional and national arts as well as knowledge of regional ment, skills and support to provide a Partnership and Nottingham City significance to champion the future developing artists. The NAE is an inde- project that will champion the future Council. In total the project will have development of Black visual arts. It is pendent organisation and as such the development of Black visual arts not raised nearly £5 million to create the sad that EMACA now sees this not as architect and project management just locally but at a regional and new visual arts centre. It does not have an opportunity for black visual arts but report directly to its Board and not as national level. For their own reasons a shortfall of £1.5 million but only as a threat. EMACA states to Arts Council Eng- the remaining EMACA Board and £200,000, which is expected to be Arts Council England’s decision to land. We do not share or recognise team unfortunately do not share this met in the near future. The annual rev- consolidate its funding to Apna Arts, EMACA’s disparaging view of the NAE vision.
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Above: Protestors on Sorry day, 15 December 2005. Below left: The Vacuum, issue 15 – God. Below right: The Vacuum, issue 16 – Satan. SORRY SEEMS THE HARDEST WORD John Beagles on The Vacuum’s case against Belfast City Council.
The court case resulting from a yearlong dispute between Belfast City Council and the free cultural newspaper The Vacuum was adjourned on 2 December 2005, with the judge reserving his deci- sion for up to six months. The coun- cil’s demand that The Vacuum provide an apology to ‘citizens of the city’ and ‘members of the Coun- cil’ for offence caused in previous issues is being challenged in the High Court by one of its editors, Richard West, as a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. The latest legal showdown involving the council comes amidst heated debate over the new Incite- Belfast’s Waterfront Hall and was an apology was provided. This artists as the official Northern Ire- ment to Religious Hatred Bill and subsequently cancelled by the prompted The Vacuum to hold a land presentation. They are also one its potential to curtail free expres- council. satirical ‘Sorry Day’ in December of the five recipients of this year’s sion. Earlier last year the Birming- The Vacuum controversy arose ridiculing the council’s demand for prestigious Paul Hamlyn Foundation ham Repertory Theatre closed the from a single complaint from a an apology, but also raising serious Awards for Visual Arts. The Vacuum play Behzti (Dishonour) after vio- member of the public concerning questions about censorship and currently has a circulation of 15,000, lent protests by the Sikh commu- ‘God’ and ‘Satan’ themed issues of freedom of speech. mainly in Belfast where it is available nity, and the BBC received the paper published in June 2004. In stark contrast to the attitude to pick up in cafés, bars, libraries, gal- unprecedented numbers of com- Councillors reacted by describing it of the city authorities towards The leries, cinemas and hotels, and is plaints about the broadcast of Jerry as “filth”, claiming that it was Vacuum, its publishers, Factotum, lauded for making a valuable contri- Springer: the Opera even before it “encouraging devil worship” and have recently returned from the bution to cultural life in the city. was shown. A tour of the produc- voting 24-12 to withhold an agreed Venice Biennale where they were www.thevacuum.org.uk tion had been scheduled to play in funding allocation of £3,300 until chosen as part of a delegation of John Beagles an JANUARY 06 magazine 8/12/05 16:59 Page 24
Networking artists’ networks
NAN facilitates exchange, dialogue and collaboration amongst visual artists, whatever their practice and location. Through its programme of bursaries, events and research it offers a focus for networking and feedback promoting the value of artists' initiatives. NAN is being developed through Arts Council England Revenue Support to a-n The Artists Information Company. Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, Scottish Arts Council and ESF provide funds for specific projects. For more information about NAN, visit www.a-n.co.uk>Networking>NAN or contact Emilia Telese, Artists’ Networks Coordinator, [email protected]
Thanks from NAN Another Product A big thank you to the fifty artists and Artist-led curatorial project based in twelve speakers from around the UK Manchester. Currently in its third year, and Europe who participated to the Another Product consists of two artist- Import/Export weekend event in curators – Dawn Woolley and James Newcastle last December, organised Moore. Each Another Product show is by the NAN team at a-n and artist different – both in concept and loca- group Normalife. National and inter- tion – as artists are invited to produce national curators and artist groups work around a specific theme or idea from around the country discussed chosen by the curators. The resulting projects as far apart as Venice, Kabul, shows are highly site-specific and offer Amsterdam and North Shields. a first-rate opportunity to see cutting- The NAN initiative wouldn’t be possible edge artwork from practitioners based without the support and endorsements in the UK. of the artists who are involved in its The projects are often informed by activities: events organisers who ensure concepts from Freud’s writings. ‘Show that NAN events respond to real and Home’ centred on the uncanny and current critical debate in the regions the invasion of domestic space, and involved; advisory group members who their current project, ‘Making love to ensure peer review of the NAN bursaries my ego’ is heavily informed by con- and activities; and the hundreds of cepts of the mind. Another Product artists who support NAN by simply tak- aims to create opportunities for artists ing part. Look out for more events in the to exhibit with their peers, and to help months to come, for an opportunity to the artists who become involved with meet like minded artists and take part in the group to achieve a distinct advan- exciting debates around the country. tage in their career. The group aims to strengthen the creative networks Artist’s networks between the regions involved in their This month we profile a selection of projects, and create possibilities for networks that have applied to NAN future collaboration. bursaries in the past two months. Contact: [email protected] www.anotherproduct.com AAS Marieke Haandrikman, Untitled, a 20 minute performance with Noah Fisher during ‘The Art is Dinner’ in Cack-U-Like International Week at Bookville, 27 Feb – 6 March, 2005. Photo: Graeme Walker A framework group based in Birming- ham. Formed in 2001 after the disso- Artist group started in 2000. Sickened lution of the art group Proto-mu. AAS by the commodification inherent in the curate exhibitions, organise events, London art scene, Cack-U-Like began make collaborative artworks and gen- by a performance called Demonstra- tion Against Toffs in Art. This was held a fluid approach to membership, with their ideas. Started in 2004 by erates connections between artists. outside London’s White Cube and new members joining on a regular AAS are interested in the places where Graeme Walker and Maggie Tran, involved the waving of placards with basis. Current members of Cack-U-Like artrists and audiences meet or coin- Bookville initially ran from an old the slogans ‘Toffs out of Art’ and ‘No are Jon Purnell, Miklos Kemesci, Nigel cide. AAS members vary from project hairdresser’s shop, offering artists’ to Toffs in Art’. In late 2002 the group Ashworth, Carlos Zonome, Mary Essex, to project, ensuring that the network books for sale, an open-access cre- sidestepped their anti-bourgeois Jean Hammond and Lee Whitfield. has no leaders and acts as an open ative area and video projection equip- stance and focused instead on cri- Contact: [email protected] system for artists who take part. Forth- ment. During the spring of 2005 over tiques of the stale or static quality of coming projects include ‘A strange fifty events took place in the space, many art institutions. The first of these Bookville drifts into town, or someone goes on a ranging from a mini performance fes- was entitled ‘Haunted Tate’ and An independently run artist-led journey’, a touring show curated by tival to international exchange events involved seven ghosts haunting the organisation based in Newcastle AAS for City Gallery, Leicester, which Tate Modern. Cack-U-Like has upon Tyne, specialising in small press with Ireland and the Netherlands. will be at MAC, Birmingham, in April attempted to forge links with other publishing and initiating live art Bookville now operates from Newcas- 2006, and ‘The Conversation’, a per- video artists by creating the Max5 events. Bookville provides representa- tle’s Byker area, with a small book- formance event in Leicester inspired by Video festival shown annually at Lon- tion, space and support for artists, shop and equipment room. the homonymous Martin Scorsese film. don’s Café Gallery Projects. Currently authors and performers who want to Contact: Maggie Tran Contact: Stuart Tait, [email protected], [email protected] www.aasinfo.net formed of seven artists, the group has experiment with, develop and exhibit www.bookville.co.uk
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NAN is being developed through Arts Council England rev- For your artist’s group or network to be featured, send a brief description enue support to a-n The Artists Information Company. Esmée including aims, history, future projects and contact details suitable for Fairbairn Foundation, Scottish Arts Council and ESF provide publication to [email protected] funds for specific projects. More artists’ networks listings on www.a-n.co.uk> Organisations
Kin Wah Tsang, installation view, part of Another Product exhibition ‘Show Home’. Photo: Dawn Woolley
[insertspace] project that developed through discus- ence by working across public sites network in the UK and abroad with an Artist-led organisation currently based sion with artists Andy Hewitt & Mel and contexts. interest in sports. in Birmingham, developing projects Jordan. Artists Dave Beech, Mark Contact: 9 Sandford Road, Moseley, Sports Day aims to build an inclusive Birmingham B13 9BP out of collaborations with artists and Hutchinson and Oliver Ressler were [email protected] online community for artists. The web- curators. invited by Hewitt & Jordan to produce www.insertspace.org.uk site will launch in 2006 as a place [insertspace] was formed in February text-based posters around notions of where artists can join the network, 2005 by Cheryl Jones, Charlotte Smith public, space, art and democracy. The Sports Day communicate with each other and and Matt Westbrook, evolving from four posters, when seen together, Artist network founded in 2005 by share their sporting achievements. As Space Banana, an artist-run space that aimed to form a context for these London-based artist Adele Prince and a focal point, Sports Day aims to hold showed work within the confines of ideas to be discussed. The posters were Nottingham based Ellie Harrison. its first yearly convention in April the Birmingham Voluntary Service displayed and distributed free from After discovering a mutual interest in 2006, in which members of the com- Council building in Digbeth. The space places accessible to the public in Birm- sports, they first collaborated in 2005 munity will get together for a week- ran for six years providing opportuni- ingham. Five sets of the posters were with The Quotidian Factor, a game end of physical challenges and fun ties for emerging artists in the city and also given as prizes to a-n magazine show style artists’ workshop at ARC, networking. nationally. [insertspace] launched last subscribers (June 2005). Aspex Gallery’s artists resource centre. Contact: Sports Day, c/o 66 Bemsted Road, Walthamstow, London E17 5JZ June with its debut project It‘s the only [insertspace] aspires to challenge the Following the success of this project, E [email protected] life I know – a poster and mail out relationship between art and audi- they realised the need for an artists’ [email protected] an JANUARY 06 magazine 8/12/05 16:59 Page 26
FUTURE FORECAST CURATED SPACE
Future forecast is a research programme that marks the 25th year of a-n The Artists Information Company and focuses on key issues for artists and their practice as we move into the next decade. Alongside four publications edited from longer interviews, we’ve been holding a series of invited think-tanks that are designed to heighten the debates and give visibility for new ideas and strategies. Designed to coincide with the reopening of Arnolfini in November, the Curated space think-tank brought together a selected group of artists, curators, academics and arts activists to address the commonalities and divergences in views about conditions for and benefits within the artist-curator relationship, and future infrastructures for the presentation of contemporary visual arts.
CREATIVE COLLABORATOR OR Curating is clearly a creative practice, where What might the ‘rules of collaboration’ be SELF-IMPORTANT IMPRESARIO? every curator should be seen as an individual, between artists and curators? Curator Nav Haq opens the debate so is it important to look solely at the question • artists are often baffled by the curatorial of encroaching on authorial territories, or are process – how to get into the mind of the Discourse around curatorial practice in this there much more important questions? curator? country has a particularly narrow focus. So to Recently in the media it has been stated that • artists need a critical conversation that goes look at this question of whether a curator is a a curator is best when they are behind the beyond practicalities “creative collaborator or a self-important scenes. The problem with this idea is that the • artists would benefit from a ‘less opaque’ impresario?” is a tricky one, particularly curator’s touch is always there, whether it is window within criticism. This is mainly due to the lack behind the scenes or not. An idea like this sug- • build research time into artists’ contracts of knowledge of the production side of curat- gests that there is a lack of understanding • curators – become the artist’s greatest fan ing, and also lack of understanding of the regarding the role of curator in terms of practi- (or not) position curators occupy as a point of inter- calities and the production of art. And if this is • curators have to put something out there, stice between artists, audience and institu- the case then how are we even to know how and artists can react or not tions (whatever you might interpret that to much curators are affecting exhibitions any • different kinds of communication – mean), and finds ethical working relation- way? Just because you set something up as appropriate communication ships between all three. being all about the artist, it certainly does not • does being an institution mitigate against With the rise of curating as a more visible mean that you are not subjecting artists to nurturing informally? and a professionalised activity and profession forms of cultural confinement. • hosting is a huge part of curating – over the last ten or so years, curatorial practice Ultimately there is not going to be a simple it’s good manners has come under scrutiny, and to many is con- answer to the title question; all curators are both • it’s impossible to set ‘rules’ – they can’t sidered a force of cultural confinement, fram- creative collaborators and self-important impresa- contain all situations ing artists and practice within a curator’s own rios, but in infinitely varying proportions. But the • making visible the ‘experiment’ remit. must significant issue to be raised from it is that it • process-based work requires an extended High profile curators such as Barbara Van- is increasingly important for artist to become relationship derlinden, Hou Hanru, Maria Lind, Hans- aware of the individual practices of curators. It is • reciprocity / personal relationships Ulrich Obrist, alongside a handful of others, are important for artists to not see curators as any • revealing the processes of ‘selection’ seen examples of curators dictating a discourse. kind of obstacle or barrier, but is more construc- • sometimes we think too much about the They are seen to be practicing ‘performative tive to see curators as a source for creative friction. audience curating’ – curating as something transparent Nav Haq is a curator at Gasworks, London, and and process led, often leading to highly experi- concurrently a guest editor at Book Works Lon- ential exhibitions. These curators are seen as don, initiating a short series of artists’ books. ‘auteur’ figures. But, despite this increased visi- He was previously involved in development of bility, has curating changed as much has people exhibition projects at Kunstverein Munich and think? Ultimately the old idea of the ‘exhibition Whitechapel Gallery, and in 2004 was curator maker’ – producing relatively traditional the- in residence at Spike Island Bristol. He has con- matic or monographic exhibitions – is still tributed to periodicals such as Bidoun, Art prevalent. In fact this is still the dominant prac- Review and the Yishu Journal. tice for curators. The idea that euro-conceptual- Read more think-tank evidence from Laura ist curatorial practice is widespread is perhaps Godfrey Isaacs, David Medalla and Sarah Wajid slightly misguided, as it is really not as preva- – click into www.a-n.co.uk>FutureForecast lent as what people think. thinktanks
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Selected comments from the Curated space No more imposed ideologies that lead to Removal of barriers to non-institutional curatorial think-tank discussions. self-censorship. projects (attitudinal / spatial / financial obvi- Nav Haq, curator ously), as these create a stranglehold on opportuni- WHAT WOULD MAKE MAKE A ties / spaces etc within which the artist-curator DIFFERENCE TO THE INFRASTRUC- Making spaces available for artists and curators to might operate. TURE FOR THE VISUAL ARTS? use – a transparency of structures and networks Kerry Harker, artist, curator, co-Director from local authorities to private developers and of Vitrine in Leeds …offering artists a platform autonomous quangos… clear guidelines as to how and who we to the curators… might make our approach. The Gift Economy – let’s be more giving, Adam Nankervis, Australian artist, Pippa Hale, artist and curator, co-director of sharing and exchanging (skills, ideas, knowledge based in Liverpool and Berlin Vitrine, Leeds and products). Manick Govinda, Artists’ Advisory Service Art- More medium-sized independent Black and Asian Increased crossover in dialogue… and… sadmin, editor Curated space publication for led arts organisations that can afford artistic risks. real possibilities to produce experimental a-n The Artists Information Company Sara Wajid, Project Director of SALIDAA collaborations and projects. (South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts), Jen Wu, artist, co-director of One thing makes difference. More time for process freelance feature-writer. temporarycontemporary (including evolution during show). Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art, Some kind of peer critique – a critical dialogue Investment in more ambitious long-term School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture, Uni- about shows and their successes and failures. projects from funders, policy-makers and versity of Sunderland, co-editor of the CRUMB Sandie Macrae, artist, Director of ROOM, Bristol institutions and an acknowledgement of original- website resource for new media art curators ity, significance and rigour. Artists shaping their environment. Claire Doherty, curator, Senior Research Louise Wirz, Director of Development, a-n Fellow in Fine Art at Bristol School of Art, JOIN IN WITH THE DEBATES Media and Design leading the Situations Social engagement should not be the priority. programme Go to www.a-n.co.uk>Publications> Gary O’Dwyer artist, curator Centre of Attention Future forecast to read the edited publications Breaking down of intellectual elitism and provin- and full interviews. Curators should be supported to be curators. cialism; the recognition of change and… the need Will there ever be the equivalent of a-n – for transparency in the artist-curator mechanics. Go to www.a-n.co.uk>FutureForecast c-n a publication specific to curating? Emilia Telese, artist, Artists’ Networks THINKTANKS for discussions on: Sally Shaw, Director of Media Art Bath, Coordinator, a-n co-founder of LOT, Bristol FUTURE SPACE – evidence from Space (defined spatially, conceptually and tempo- Dieneke Ferguson, Bruce Rosensweet, Training and professional development rally) for speculation, research, risk, production, test- Erika Tan, Martin Vincent. and research needs met. ing and reflection: both artists and curators require SOCIAL SPACE – evidence from Carolyn Black, artist, director of Independent this to envision another art world. JJ Charlesworth, Neil Cummings, Artists Network Renee Turner, writes, teaches fine art at Willem Nina Edge, Becky Shaw. de Kooning Academy in The Netherlands and With apologies for an element of pretence – part of the art/design collective De Geuzen CURATED SPACE – evidence from banish parochialism and pre-formed stereotypes. Laura Godfrey-Isaacs, Nav Haq, Empower the adventurer. Open space for intimate / overarching / David Medalla, Sarah Wajid. Alastair Snow, consultant for UK PROJECT ubiquitous / multi-channel / communications. awards scheme for Public Art South West, Susan Jones, Director of Programmes. a-n The Future forecast series has been an CABE and Arts & Business excellent way of kick-starting some really The intelligent collaboration of art critics and art pertinent debate. Revolutionary change to status of art in education historians with artists and facilitators, curators, for Lucy Lumb, Commissions East from nursery to postgraduate documentary purposes. Tim Eastop, Senior Visual Arts Officer, David Medalla, artist, founder of the The Future forecast research and publishing Arts Council England London Biennale programme is assisted by Scottish County Press. an JANUARY 06 magazine 8/12/05 16:59 Page 28
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Send SAE, photos (not slides, one GRADUATE ART & DESIGN 020 7930 6844, WHEN: June 06. entry and two support), and £25 www.mallgalleries.org.uk APPLICATION FORMS FROM: The cheques/postal orders to 'FPS': See display ad Festival Office, Hackwood Farm, Free Painters and Sculptors Society, 14, John St, London,WC1 2EB. Tunworth, Basingstoke RG25 2LB, www.piczo.com/FreePaintersAndSculptors An affordable marketing package for Network AD [email protected] See display ad Winners and runners-up included in Graduate artists & designers WHO: graduate artists and designers. 2006 London exhibition and given a WHAT: affordable marketing package. An annual membership fee of £60 guarantees year’s membership. Annual membership fee of £60 an exhibition at the Candid Galleries in af3 Deadline 30th April central London and your own website. guarantees exhibition at Candid Galleries in central London and your WHAT: the Hertfordshire Art Fair 06 Judges: Committee of Free Painters and For more information & application forms: plus the Artshed Open. Sculptors Society (Reg Charity: 246199) T: 020 7837 4237 E: [email protected] own website. W:www.candidarts.com INFORMATION AND APPLICATION WHEN: 29-30 Apr and 1 May. FORMS FROM: Candid Arts Trust, 3 INFORMATION FROM: 01920 466446, www.artshed-ware.com © Candid Arts Trust Torrens Street, London EC1V 1NQ, 020 BP Portrait Award 2006 3 Torrens St London EC1V 1NQ 7837 4237, [email protected] See display ad www.candidarts.com WHO: artists aged 18-40. See display ad WHAT: call for entries for Islington Art and Design Fair Commissions competition. WHAT: 3-5 Mar, painting, sculpture, WHERE: National Portrait Gallery. More Commissions updated time based media. 10-12 Mar, Puthall Park Sculpture Show TO APPLY: send SAE for entry form to weekly on www.a-n.co.uk photography, illustration, printmaking, WHO: 3D artists and makers, all media BP Portrait Award 2006, Ref 1, graphics. 17-19 Mar, fashion, jewellery, plus installation. National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s textiles. 24-26 Mar, furniture, ceramics, WHAT: artist-led, two-week selling Enhancing the Healing glass. exhibition of large-scale outdoor WHO: experienced visual artists in Place, London WC2H 0HE, 0870 INFORMATION FROM: Candid sculpture and exterior furniture in Sheffield and South Yorkshire. 1126772, www.npg.org.uk/bp Galleries, 3 Torrens Street, London established five-acre farmland setting. WHAT: opportunity to provide artwork DEADLINE: 19 March EC1V 1NQ, 020 7837 4247, WHERE: Marlborough. on the theme of ‘Light, Air and Space’ See display ad
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Curatorial Fellow in Cultural Diversity Bursary of £34,000 over 24 months King's Lynn Arts Centre Galleries have recently benefited from considerable capital investment in a programme of refurbishment, including the creation of a new multi-purpose gallery/education space. They are now seeking to enhance their reputation for dynamic and accessible visual arts & education by engaging a Curatorial Fellow to develop a programme that reflects the rich cultural diversity of Artists Bursaries 2006: West Norfolk. The Fellowship is a positive action initiative aimed at reducing the under- representation of Black and minority ethnic persons in the curatorial profession. It Artsadmin's scheme offers small bursaries to UK-based artists is therefore only open to Black and minority ethnic applicants. This positive action working in contemporary performance practice and in opportunity is offered under section 37 of the Race Relations Act 1976. The Fellowship is one of four established in the East of England supported by Arts Video/Media/Sound work with a strong performative element. Council England, East and will benefit from a training and professional The scheme aims to support good ideas, and is oriented development programme. towards research and process-based work. For further details and an application pack contact: Liz Falconbridge, King's Lynn Arts Centre, 29 King Street, King's Lynn, Norfolk PE30 1HA. For an informal chat please contact Full details & guidelines on how to apply downloadable from Liz Falconbridge on 01553 779095. www.artsadmin.co.uk/artistsadvisor/bursaryscheme.html Closing date for receipt of applications: 4th February 2006 Guidelines can also be made available in various formats, including audio-tape, large print, Braille, electronic formats. CURATORIAL FELLOW IN CULTURAL DIVERSITY AT WYSING ARTS CENTRE Deadline: Tuesday 1st March 2006 Bursary of £34,000 over 24 months Contact details: Wysing Arts Centre is a vibrant hub of artistic activity poised to become Nikki Tomlinson or Jo Hammett an innovative arts centre for the East of England. At this exciting period Artsadmin, Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street of transformation it is seeking to strengthen its team through the appointment of a Curatorial Fellow to explore the cultural diversity of the London E1 6AB area. The Fellow will receive training and professional development. Telephone: 020 7247 5102 Fax: 020 7247 5103 The Fellowship is a positive action initiative aimed at reducing the Textphone: 020 7247 5182 under-representation of Black and minority ethnic persons in the curatorial profession. It is therefore only open to Black and minority Emails: [email protected] [email protected] ethnic applicants. This positive action opportunity is offered under section 37 of the Race Relations Act 1976. The Fellowship is one of four in the East of England supported by Arts Council England East. Further details and application pack at www.wysingarts.org. For an informal chat please call Andrew Hunter, Curator or Donna Lynas, Director on 01954 718881. Closing date 4 February 2006. Wysing Arts Centre, Fox Road, Bourn, Cambridge CB3 7TX
© Brendan Walker © Michael Burton © Phoebe Von Held PULSE SCIART Young people’s arts inspired Funding arts projects informed by biomedical science by biomedical science
Pulse is a funding initiative to support arts projects The Sciart Awards Programme supports and developed by, for or with young people (up to 22), encourages imaginative and experimental arts which explore biomedical science and its impact on projects that investigate biomedical science. our lives. Projects should explore new modes of enquiry to stimulate interest, learning and debate. Applications are invited from a wide range of organisations working in education, science or Applications are invited from arts and science the arts. practitioners and organisations, broadcasters, academics and health professionals. Visit the website for more information and an application form. Visit the website for more information and an www.wellcome.ac.uk/pulse application form. www.wellcome.ac.uk/sciart Deadline for receipt of applications: 24th March 2006 Deadline for receipt of applications: 28th April 2006.
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+ plus 42)#9#,% /0%. the Artshed af 3 OPEN - prizes the Hertfordshire Art Fair 06 29/30 april & 1st may 06 4HE 4RICYCLE 'ALLERY IS SEEKING PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS Galleries & Artists FOR A YEAR LONG PROGRAMME OF CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTS IN A VARIETY OF TRADITIONAL AND NEW MEDIA exhibiting information contact : 4HE 'ALLERY WELCOMES APPLICANTS REPRESENTING 01920 466 446 THE ETHNIC COMMUNITIES OF "RENT RESIDENTS OF "RENT www.artshed-ware.com RECENT GRADUATES AND ALL OTHER ARTISTS OF NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL STATURE %XHIBITIONS WILL BE to download application & further information SELECTED ON THE BASIS OF EXCELLENCE
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!PPLICATION DETAILS CAN BE OBTAINED FROM Orleans House Gallery in Twickenham seeks submissions for a range of open exhibitions in different media: WWWTRICYCLECOUK Snapping Little Britain Comic Art OR EMAIL OPEN TRICYCLECOUK (18th March - 30th April) (27th May-2nd July) SUBJECT APPLICATION FORM Deadline: Friday 5th February Deadline: Friday 10th March OR BY VISITING THE 4RICYCLE "OX /FFICE Photographic images of everyday life. Comic art and illustration. +ILBURN (IGH 2D ,ONDON .7 *2 Twinings in Twickenham A Stitch in Time (6th May - 27th August) (26th August -24th September) Deadline: Friday 14th April Deadline: Friday 7th July !LL COMPLETED APPLICATIONS MUST BE RETURNED BY POST Contemporary botanical and plant Contemporary stitched textiles and illustrations. knitting. All submissions are £10.00 per artist (£7.50 concession)
For further information or to submit, please contact curator Mark De Novellis on 020 8831 6490 or email [email protected] 4RICYCLE 'ALLERY +ILBURN (IGH 2D ,ONDON .7 For a copy of the exhibition brochure visit www.richmond.gov.uk
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CALL FOR ENTRIES Ceramic Artists are invited to submit work to the following CALL TO exhibitions to be held at the MALL GALLERIES: ARTISTS Installation Submissions are invited for the 2006 Hackwood PASTEL SOCIETY on the list goes Art Festival – a major exhibition of high quality Art Receiving days: 13 & 14 January 2006 (10-5) which will take place in Hampshire in June 2006. For an application form please contact: Student
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Receiving days: 3 & 4 February 2006 (10-5) Collage ROYAL SOCIETY OF PORTRAIT PAINTERS *HSSMVY,U[YPLZ Receiving days: 3 & 4 March 2006 (10-5) ;OL3HUKTHYR(Y[Z*LU[YL ^LSJVTLZHWWSPJH[PVUZMYVT Many artists’ awards and prizes are on offer KLZPNULYZHUKHY[PZ[Z MVYV\YMVY[OJVTPUNMHPYZ For details and entry forms, please send a large SAE (35p) to: Federation of British Artists, 4PKZ\TTLY(Y[-HPY 1\UL 17 Carlton House Terrace, LONDON SW1Y 5BD (\[\TU(Y[-HPY6J[VILY ZLUKHU:(,MVY HUHWWSPJH[PVUWHJR MALL Find us at: www.mallgalleries.org.uk GALLERIES Tel: 020 7930 6844
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BP PORTRAIT AWARD 2006 CALL FOR ENTRIES
A COMPETITION FOR ARTISTS (AGED 18-40) FIRST PRIZE £25,000
CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES 19 MARCH 2006
FOR AN ENTRY FORM SEND S.A.E TO:
BP PORTRAIT AWARD 2006 Ref 1 National Portrait Gallery St Martin’s Place London WC2H 0HE T 0870 1126772 Downloadable form at www.npg.org.uk/bp
CALL FOR ENTRIES The Whittingham Riddell Shrewsbury Open Art Exhibition 2006 15th July - 3rd September Artists working in all art forms are invited to respond to the theme: Unnatural Selection Shortlisted works will be exhibited across 4 venues in Shrewsbury ARTISTS’ AWARDS AND PRIZES INCLUDE £3,000 first prize; £1,000 prize and £500 ‘People’s Choice’ prize Closing date for entries: 1st May 2006
For full details and application forms, visit: A journey into genetics www.mediamaker.tv through Art & Science e-mail: [email protected] or send medium SAE to Symposium curated by Dr Tom Shakespeare Open 2006 Enquiries, Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, Darwin Summer Symposium 06 Barker St, Shrewsbury SY1 1QH The Music Hall, Shrewsbury, UK Tel: 01743 361196 13th - 14th July www.darwinshrewsbury.org
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Courses WHEN: Sept 06. Birth Rites CONTACT: Emma Hodge, Cheshire WHO: artists from all disciplines. More Courses updated Open Studios, c/o Firbob and Peacock, WHAT: major touring exhibition weekly on www.a-n.co.uk 76 King Street, Knutsford WA16 6ED, exploring the politics and practise of 01565 621156, childbirth. We are looking to Cyprus College of Art [email protected] commission artwork through WHO: painters, sculptors and other art www.cheshireopenstudios.org.uk residencies with midwives and practitioners. DEADLINE: 27 January obstetricians. WHAT: eight-month Postgraduate INFORMATION: send SAE to Helen Diploma course in Fine Art. Knowles, Curator, 77 Thompson Street, WHERE: Cyprus. Crafts Council Professional Ada House, Womens EVH, Manchester WHEN: commencing Oct. WHO: anyone working in applied arts M4 5FY, 0161 8338812, DETAILS: course accredited by the who are within five years of setting up. [email protected] Ministry of Education and Culture, but WHAT: one-day event providing the DEADLINE: 14 February you will also have the option to study opportunity to develop or refresh the for additional British qualifications in basic principles of running a successful post-16 teaching and/or exhibition business. Burghley Sculpture Garden organisation. Tuition is in English. Fees WHERE: The University of WHO: sculptors/installation, light and are low for UK and EU applicants and Wolverhampton, Millennium City sound artists. simple rent-free living accommodation Lecture Theatre. WHAT: outdoor group exhibition of may be available. WHEN: Sat 25 Feb. Call for Artists sculpture entitled Heavenly Bodies: INFORMATION: www.artcyprus.org COST: £25 with discounted rate of £12 WHO: Astronomical and Anatomical. Seeking See display ad for students. Tickets must be innovative contemporary dynamic sculptural responses to the Artists who have graduated before purchased in advance. theme through the cult of the body INFORMATION FROM: the Professional 2002, who are interested in collaborative practice beautiful and celestial phenomena, Courses at Camberwell Development Team, 020 7806 2584, alchemy, the sublime etc. WHAT: full-time one year/part-time [email protected] WHAT: opportunity to apply for WHERE: Burghley Sculpture Garden, two year courses for MA Book Arts; MA See display ad exhibition/a residency/or a project Stamford. Conservation; Postgraduate Diploma in proposal that links gallery and WHEN: 15 May – 31 Oct, delivery and Conservation; MA Drawing; MA public art practice installation by end of April. Wireless Media Call for Entries Graphic Design; MA Digital Arts; MA WHERE: Myles Meehan Gallery, DETAILS: transport provided or WHAT: invitation to submit work to the Digital Arts Online; MA Illustration; Vane Terrace, Darlington, DL3 7AX contribution made to costs + San Francisco Film Society for MA Printmaking. publication of full colour catalogue. consideration to be included in the TO APPLY: send quality/detailed WHERE: Camberwell College of Arts. TO APPLY: send 8-12 49th San Francisco International Film proposals to Wendy Scott at the WHEN: open days 25 Jan, 6pm; 8 Feb, slides/photos/JPEGs, CV, statement, Festival. above address, marked ‘Submission’. 6pm; 15 Mar, 2pm. optional proposal for new works and WHERE: San Francisco. INFORMATION FROM: Camberwell DEADLINE: 14 February 2006 SAE for return of material to Michael WHEN: 20 April – 4 May. College of Arts, Peckham Road, Shaw, Curator, Burghley Sculpture DETAILS: this call is for a program that London SE5 8UF, 020 7514 6302, Garden, Burghley House, Stamford will focus on a series of visual works [email protected] visions in the nunnery PE3 9JY. made by and/or forwireless media www.camberwell.arts.ac.uk The Nunnery Gallery. Digital media DEADLINE: 20 January See display ad devices and signals. Roughly this event and short film screening. breaks down into three categories: March 24-26 2006. Open submission Deadline: Mon 20 February 2006. 1. Works made by mobile devices. 2. Eating Out in the Great Outdoors The Mill Studio Works made to be specifically viewed For full exhibition and format details contact Tessa Garland or Julie WHO: sculptors, installation artists, WHAT: courses run by painters for on mobile devices. 3. Works that use Reynolds at [email protected] 3D artists, mixed-media artists. painters in the Sussex countryside. wireless signals a new aesthetic bowartstrust WHAT: 5th MoDA Annual Outdoor CONTACT: New House Farm Barns, medium. The San Francisco Group Show. Contemporary responses Arundel, 01243 558880, International Film Festival will present toÊeating outdoors (e.g. picnics, a multi-varied Architecture [email protected] camping, snacking). program of ‘mobiley’ inspired work. We WHO: artists who are working within www.themillstudio.com WHERE: sited in the grounds of especially encourage works that use the realm of the ‘built’ environment. See display ad Museum of Domestic Design and mobile technologies, wireless signals, WHAT: exhibition inclusive of film, Architecture, Barnet, London. text or animation as new type of installation, photography, painting, WHEN: on-site visits Jan. Installation West Dean College recording tool or medium, and/or drawing, txtiles and 3D work. WHERE: Stroud House Gallery. dates, 19-23 April. Exhibition Dates, WHAT: specialist diplomas in Painting articulate the difference and urgency WHEN: 1 Apr – 5 May. 24 April – 9 July. & Drawing; Tapestry Weaving; of exhibiting on tiny, portable TO APPLY: send photos, proposals, CONTACT: e-mail [email protected] Sculpture, leading to MA Visual Arts screens. slides, CDs (Mac compatable), CV, for artist brief, 0795 7774791 for (validated by University of Sussex). SUBMISSIONS: short statement and SAE to Stroud on-site visit. WHEN: Open Day on 1 Feb. www.sffs.org/festival/wireless06.html House Gallery, Station Road, Stroud DEADLINE: 27 January CONTACT: West Dean College, INFORMATION: [email protected] GL5 3AP, 01453 750575. Chichester, West Sussex PO18 0QZ, DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: DEADLINE: 31 January 01243 818299, 3 January Eco Vandalism [email protected] WHO: artists in any discipline. www.westdean.org.uk Artworks members WHAT: Lookoutpost seeks expressions Exhibiting See display ad WHO: 2D and 3D artists living in East of interest for their 2006 exhibition. Anglia only. Artists are invited to consider this More Exhibiting updated WHAT: membership of Artworks and theme in light of the shows unique Events weekly on www.a-n.co.uk participation in an annual showcase external setting in Sydenham hill exhibition in a venue in West Suffolk. More Events updated Full involvement in all aspects of the woods. Work should be durable, weekly on www.a-n.co.uk group’s weather resistant, safe and vandal activities is required. proof unless deliberately designed for Cheshire Open Studios TO APPLY: application form from interaction. WHO: professional artists and Membership Officer, 4 Holly Cottages, WHEN: the show will run for a full craftspeople based in Cheshire. East End Lane, East Bergholt, Suffolk weekend in May 2006. WHAT: participate in the 9th open CO7 6XG, 01206 394338, FEE: funding is proposed for two days studios event, welcoming the public [email protected] at standard artists daily rate plus into your studio over your open www.artworksinfo.org.uk materials. Funding application awaits weekend. DEADLINE: 21 January confirmation.
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Café Bar To Let This is a rare opportunity for an experienced tenant to apply for the fixed-term lease of the popular Courtyard Bar, within the Arts Centre Washington. For further information please telephone Angela Etherington or Louise Blakelock in Sunderland City Council’s Property Services on 0191 553 2674. The closing date for application is 10 January 2006. www.artscentrewashington.co.uk
Crafts Council Professional Development Forum
Saturday 25 February 2005
The Crafts Council is co-hosting a Professional Development Forum in Wolverhampton with Bilston Craft Gallery and the University of Wolverhampton, with support from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
This one-day event is open to those working in the applied arts who are within five years of setting up, providing the perfect opportunity to develop or refresh the basic principles of running a successful business.
The Professional Development Forum will be held on Saturday 25 February 2005 at The University of Wolverhampton in the Millennium City Lecture Theatre.
The day costs £25 with a discounted rate of £12 for students. Tickets must be purchased in advanced.
For a full programme and booking details please contact the Professional Development Team: 020 7806 2584 or [email protected]
Crafts Council is committed to equal opportunities. Registered Charity No. 280956
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Public Art Commissions The Art House, Drury Lane, Wakefield
Applications are invited from artists and craftspeople wishing to undertake a number of public art commissions for this unique building due for completion in December 2007. The Art House is a visual arts organisation that works to create equality of opportunity for artists with and without disabilities. Six commissions are offered covering a range of art and craft practices: Work for front of building We are interested in receiving expressions of interest from artists who would work with the architect in exploring ideas for an intervention in any suitable material for the front façade of the building. Design and development: £5,000 Foundation Stone We wish to commission an 'alternative' foundation stone. The design could incorporate text and/or images. Design and construction: £2,000 Manifestation: "Etched" patterns on full height glass panels Designs for film attached to window and door treatments. To include two half-day outreach sessions, working with local groups to create motifs. Design fee: £1,000 Guide rail Design of guide rail for blind users, in material of artist's choice, with 'tactile punctuation' to signal each room. Design fee - £3,000, with a further £3,000 for construction costs Wall-based work A wall-mounted 'relief' work for a large meeting room - working in collaboration with artist Patricia Sutcliffe, founder of The Art House. Fee: £3,000 split between the two artists to include materials, construction and installation. Reception desk Front desk for reception. First point of contact with the artists and groups using the building. Design and construction: £5,500. Access support is available for disabled artists. Deadline for applications: 12 noon, Monday, 30th January, 2006 For detailed commission briefs and information on the Art House, stating which commission you wish to apply for, contact The Art House on [email protected] or send A4 s.a.e. to Commissions, The Art House, Wakefield College, Margaret Street, Wakefield, WF1 2DH.
public art commissions
Maidstone Borough Council is offering two commissions for site-specific, permanent public artworks. One as part of Elemental an ambitious public art project being developed along Maidstone’s riverside. The second being a split-site commission linking Greening the Town with Art at the Centre; projects that enhance the experience of the town centre.
Elemental – A Walk of Art £18K all-inclusive fixed fee Artists are encouraged to conceive a bold artwork for Maidstone’s town centre gyratory road system. Submissions will consider how the artwork could interact with the passing flow of car users and pedestrians and should support the use of environmentally friendly materials and energy resources. Greening the Town / Art at the Centre £38K all-inclusive fixed fee Artists are invited to respond imaginatively to demarcated green areas in Maidstone town centre. Multi-disciplinary, the artwork should engage with the town user, creating an alternative pocket oasis and a different cultural experience.
Both commissions will be looking for inspiring communicators with significant experience of making work in the public realm and developing ideas with local communities.
Deadline for both submissions is Friday 3 February 2006
Selection for both of the above projects will be by design competition, with a fee of £500 for each design proposal. We welcome individual and joint applications for one or both of these projects.
For further information and detailed commission briefs please visit www.maidstonearts.com or www.digitalmaidstone.co.uk/arts or contact the Arts Development Team at: Maidstone Borough Council, 26 Tonbridge Road, Maidstone, Kent ME16 8RT. T: 01622 302828.
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Public Art Commission – Hadley Learning Community
The Hadley Learning Community is a flagship £70m Education campus for the Borough of Telford & Wrekin. The Arts strategy for HLC aims to complement and maximise the build programme, in so doing marshal the arts into a transforming environment & engagement programme, over and above the perceived needs of high quality education and community facilities.
We are now seeking expressions of interest for three commissions • The ‘Light Wall’ is a glazed wall measuring 21.00m long by 6.93m high, on one side of the main community entrance, this is made up of white opaque panels that allow a filtered light into the swimming pool (it’s manufacturer name is Kalwall.) This wall is the perfect large white screen, for projection and light, we expect a high level of community involvement and an emphasis on technology/engineering. We have an opportunity to work with light/performance/projection. We are interested in expressions of interest from groups of light artists, media and performance artists to work on a project that can be transferred onto the Kalwall. Budget £25,000 • ‘Aerial Art’ is for the Learning Resource Centre, a completely shared public area, made up of the main library, secondary & primary library areas, 6 seminar rooms, 3 IT resource suites. The main library space has an open triple height ceiling; there is a spiral staircase up to the IT suites and further seminar rooms that overlook the central area, all of which overlooks the central forum. We would like to commission an artist to produce an aerial based work that takes lifelong learning as its central tenet. Budget £15,000 • The ‘Bridge Welcome’ Wall will utilise a rendered wall adjacent to the Bridge School and carpark. The Bridge is a 2-19yr old, 150 place special school for children with severe and profound disabilities, that will be relocated to the Hadley Learning Community. It will be a ceramics based permanent artwork developed with the Bridge Community and will utilise local links. Budget £8,000
For a detailed brief and further information please email: [email protected] Contact is Belinda Holden www.impactart.co.uk
Closing date for artists submissions: 30 January 2006
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INFORMATION FROM: Helen Morse artists with everything needed to Residencies with an exhibition of the artist’s work. Palmer, [email protected] develop new projects, opportunities WHEN: from April. More Residencies updated or John Deller, and networks in France. FEE: £13,201 pa plus accommodation weekly on www.a-n.co.uk [email protected] INFORMATION FROM: and studio. TO APPLY: send examples of relevant www.artquest.org.uk/artroute INFORMATION AND APPLICATION work in any format, with updated CV, See display ad FORMS: quoting ref no A182, from covering letter and SAE for return to Personnel and Staff Development Lookoutpost, 25A Mycenae Road, Dept, 01242 532819, London SE3 7SF. [email protected] DEADLINE: 10 January The artist ’s contracts toolkit www.glos.ac.uk/jobs SUBSCRIBER resource DEADLINE: 16 January See display ad Exposure Gallery The artist ’s contracts toolkit on www.a-n.co.uk WHO: any artist living in the UK. Legally-sound agreements for WHAT: Exposure Gallery is giving an SUBSCRIBER resource on www.a-n.co.uk • Direct sales • Exhibitions Wykeham Studentship in Art artist the opportunity to have a solo • Residency • Sale or return WHO: specialists in sculpture, painting show in our city centre gallery. Any Legally-sound agreements for + checklists for commissions, gallery, or printmaking. medium, no subject, you can use the dealer and agent, licencing • Direct sales • Exhibitions WHAT: the successful applicant will be space however you wish. • Residency • Sale or return reproductions. given similar facilities as an artist in WHEN: exhibition opens 7 May. + checklists for commissions, gallery, “Comprehensive and flexible” residence; access to studio facilities in ENTRY FEE: £15. dealer and agent, licencing Noah Rose, artist/trainer TO APPLY: send examples of your work, reproductions. the art department. Not a subscriber? 28-days access WHERE: Winchester College. ie CD or photos, CV, brief outline of “Comprehensive and flexible” £5 on www.a-n.co.uk>join in proposed exhibition and entry fee to Noah Rose, artist/trainer WHEN: one academic year from Sept. Daniel Staveley/Jon Powell, Exposure Not a subscriber? 28-days access SALARY: circa £10,500 plus furnished accommodation. Gallery, 9 College Street, Swansea SA1 £5 on www.a-n.co.uk>join in Cove Park 5AF, 01792 641313, TO APPLY: contact Personnel Office for WHAT: visual arts and craft application form on 01962 621404, [email protected] residencies. [email protected] Application forms www.exposureart.co.uk Publications INFORMATION FROM: Peaton Hill, must be accompanied by 20 DEADLINE: 7 April Cove, Argyll and Bute G84 0PE, slides/photos and SAE for return of all More Publications updated 01436 850123, work. weekly on www.a-n.co.uk [email protected] Orleans House Gallery DEADLINE: 31 January WHAT: submissions sought for a range www.covepark.org Berger on Drawing See display ad of open exhibitions – ‘Snapping Little See display ad Britain’, 18 Mar – 30 Apr, WHAT: new, illustrated anthology of texts which trace John Berger’s lifelong photographic images of everyday life. Digital Artist in Residence Selling Deadline: 5 Feb. ‘Twinings in fascination with the activity of WHO: artists with skills in digital Twickenham’, 6 May – 27 Aug, More Selling updated drawing. Published by Occasional photography/video and an interest in contemporary botanical and plant weekly on www.a-n.co.uk Press. 160pp with 49 b/w illustrations. working with people with varied illustrations. Deadline: 14 Apr. ‘Comic COST: Sbk £10 + p&p, special needs. Art’, 27 May – 2 July, comic art and Hbk £15 + p&p. WHAT: twelve-month fixed-tem illustration. Deadline: 10 Mar. ‘A Stitch CONTACT: Vangard Gallery, Carey’s contract. 50% of residency spent in Time’, 26 Aug – 24 Sept, developing own art practice and contemporary stitched textiles and Lane, Cork, Ireland, preparing new work for an exhibition knitting. Deadline: 7 July. www.occasionalpress.net in the Western Isles. 50% spent COST: submissions are £10 per artist www.amazon.co.uk developing collaborative work with (£7.50 concs). See display ad clients, again leading to exhibitions. INFORMATION FROM: Mark De Novellis, curator, 020 8831 6490, WHERE: the Grianan Centre, Isle of [email protected] Rag & Bone Lewis. www.richmond.gov.uk WHAT: new arts magazine exploring SALARY: £22,000pa, 35 hours per week. Production budget of £3k for See display ad folklore and folk issues from around own work, £4k for collaborative work. the world. Rag & Bone will bring Studio. together previously unpublished work Visions in the Nunnery INFORMATION FROM: Roddy Murray, WHAT: open submission for by contemporary writers and artists, An Lanntair, Kenneth Street, digital media event and short film who are exploring new creative or Stornoway, Isle of Lewis HS1 2DS, screening. critical possibilities for the language 01851 703307, [email protected] WHERE: The Nunnery Gallery. and imagery of folk and also publish DEADLINE: 23 January WHEN: 24-26 March. forgotten tales and songs that have See display ad INFORMATION FROM: Tessa Garland been lost to obscurity. or Julie Reynolds, DETAILS: we are looking for individual Gloucester Cathedral Residency [email protected] responses to folk culture: essays, short DEADLINE: 20 February WHO: artists of all disciplines with a stories, poems, and other writings; See display ad BA and MA in Fine Art, or related area, drawings, prints and other visual with substantial experience of Christmas Craft Fair material. exhibiting, research and working with 11-12 Nov 2006 Professional development TO SUBMIT: email your work as an the community as well as a range of High quality panel selected event attachment to technical skills and experience to deal More Professional Application details: 01344 416240 [email protected] For visual with the public, interact sensitively development updated weekly [email protected] work, please send low-resolution jpegs with the Cathedral community and work with the University students and Or send: 4-6 images of work, CV, on www.a-n.co.uk as guides for selection. If you would schools. statement, sample price list, SAE Artroute prefer to post your work, or for any WHAT: one-year fixed-term contract. (for image return) by 28 Feb 2006 T Freshwater, Craft Fair, WHO: visual artists and other enquiries, please call Zoë (editor), The appointment will be involved with 07796042146, or Yo (co-editor), South Hill Park Arts Centre, craftspeople. interpreting the life of the Cathedral Ringmead, Bracknell, RG12 7PA WHAT: online advice and information 07718537489. within the context of the visual arts. www.southhillpark.org.uk project from Artquest providing visual DEADLINE: 5 January The residency will open and conclude
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Christmas Craft Fair including all forms of painting, WHAT: high quality panel selected drawing, sculpture including wood, event. glass, ceramics, jewellery, etc. WHERE: South Hill Park. WHERE: Obsidian Art Gallery, Stoke WHEN: 11-12 Nov 06. Mandeville. TO APPLY: send 4-6 images of work, CV, WHEN: 11 May – 11 June. statement, sample price list and SAE COST: £10 charge per artist if work is for return to T Freshwater, Craft Fair, selected. South Hill Park Arts Centre, Ringmead, TO APPLY: send SAE to Obsidian Art, Bracknell RG12 7PA, 01344 416240, Layby Farm, Old Risborough Road, [email protected] Stoke Mandeville HP22 5XJ, www.southhillpark.org.uk 01296 612150, [email protected] DEADLINE: 28 February DEADLINE: 12 April See display ad
Studios New Talent WHO: students, recent graduates, More Studios updated artists new to the art world looking for weekly on www.a-n.co.uk gallery exposure. WHAT: opportunity for new and emerging artists to take part in a THE CREATIVE FOUNDATION special exhibition with the theme ‘New COURSES RUN BY P AINTERS The Creative Foundation is a charity Talent’ in an artist-run gallery. spearheading the regeneration of WHEN: 28 Feb – 27 March 06. Folkestone’s Creative Quarter. We redevelop FOR PAINTERS properties, making them available for COST: small participation fee of £25 creatives/artists and those business for one metre of wall, to cover complimentary to this. IN SUPERB insurance. Small commission on sales. • Studio space • Live/work space TO APPLY: send (not email) images of • Shop units SURROUNDINGS work with CV, statement and SAE to • Office/work space Sarah Miller, Artshed, 96 Old Milton For an application form and more IN THE SUSSEX COUNTRYSIDE Rd, New Milton BH25 6EB. information please visit our website: www.creativefoundation.org.uk DEADLINE: 1 March Mill The Creative Foundation NEW HOUSE FARM BARNS - ARUNDEL The Glassworks Mill Bay TEL: 01243 558880 Spring Open Show Folkestone WHO: 2D and 3D artists. CT20 1JG t: 01303 245799 www.themillstudio.com [email protected]
WHAT: unthemed selling exhibition The Studio e: [email protected] featuring work in any media or style, MOSTYN 2006 The Mostyn Open Exhibition £6,000 AWARD
For an application form, either Selectors Enrique Juncosa H email [email protected] Director, Irish Museum of Modern Art
H download a form from Bethan Huws www.mostyn.org Artist
H send an A5 SAE in an envelope Anders Pleass marked ‘mostyn open’ to Exhibitions Officer, Oriel Mostyn Gallery Oriel Mostyn Gallery, 12 Vaughan Street, Llandudno LL30 1AB Closing date for entries 10 March 2006
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WINCHESTER COLLEGE GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL Winchester College is a boys’ boarding school Artist-In-Residence of some 700 pupils. £13,201 per annum plus accommodation and studio It has a well-established Art Department. For September 2006 we wish to appoint to a 1 year fixed term contract Applications are invited from artists of all disciplines for this post which will run from April 2006, or as soon as possible thereafter, for one year. The appointment will take in all the events in the Cathedral Calendar Wykeham Studentship during the year and will therefore be involved with interpreting the life of the Cathedral within the context of the visual arts. The residency will in Art (Resident) open and conclude with an exhibition of the artist’s work. You will possess a BA and MA in Fine Art, or related area, and have substantial experience of exhibiting, research and working with the a specialist in sculpture, painting or printmaking. community; as well as a range of technical skills in your subject. You will The successful applicant will be given similar facilities as an also possess sufficient experience to deal with the public, interact sensitively with the Cathedral community and work with the University artist in residence; he/she will have access to studio students and schools etc. facilities in the Art Department. Salary will be circa £10,500 plus furnished accommodation. Further details and an application form are available from our This post is offered for one academic year. website www.glos.ac.uk/jobs or the Personnel & Staff Development Department (email: [email protected] or telephone: To apply, please contact the Personnel Office for an application 01242 532819). Please quote reference number A182. form and job description Closing date: 16 January 2006 Interviews: week commencing 6 February 2006 Tel: 01962 621404; email: [email protected]. Application forms must be accompanied by 20 slides or photographs. The University of Gloucestershire celebrates Please send a stamped addressed envelope for the return of all work. diversity and is committed to Closing date: 31 January 2006 providing equal opportunities for all staff and students
ONE YEAR STUDIO RESIDENCY IN SOUTHWARK Artist-in-Residence at National Eisteddfod Abertawe / Swansea 2006 Acme Studios and Southwark Council are offering a free studio for one year plus a grant of £10,000 to an artist resident in Southwark. Acme is currently under-represented with black and Offered through a collaboration between the Swansea & minority ethnic artists in its studios in Southwark and therefore District 2006 National Eisteddfod of Wales Visual Arts Sub- welcomes applications from artists from these communities. Committee, National Waterfront Museum, Swansea and Cywaith Cymru . Artworks Wales. The residency (starting in April 2006) will be based at Acme’s new-build studio development at The Galleria, Sumner Road, The project aims to make connections between the National London SE15. Waterfront Museum and the Eisteddfod Maes on the old steel The residency, additionally in partnership with the South London works site at Felindre, outside Swansea, and with local Gallery, will be a unique opportunity for an artist involved in communities. socially engaged practice to develop significant relationships, through their work, with cultural agencies and communities in The project is open to any Welsh or Wales-based artist(s). the borough. It is also a financial breathing-space, allowing an artist to focus on the development of their practice. A willingness to engage with the history and culture of the area will be necessary. For further information contact Acme Studios The artist(s) will be employed from April to August 2006. 44 Copperfield Road, London E3 4RR T 020 8981 6811, E [email protected]. Application deadline: 14th February 2006 Please state preferred format: print, large print, Braille or audio tape. For further info, please contact: [email protected] Application deadline: 10th February 2006 Interviews: 15th/16th March 2006 or send SAE to: ACME STUDIOS provides affordable studio space and Cywaith Cymru . Artworks Wales, Crichton House, accommodation for artists in London and is the UK’s leading 11-12 Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff CF10 5EE. development agency for artists’ space. Tel: 029 20 489543
Artist brief and guidelines also available at: www.cywaithcymru.org
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Digital Artist in Residence, at the Grianan Centre, Isle of Lewis Salary: £22,000 per annum (35 hrs a week) 12 month fixed term contract Closing date: Monday 23rd January 2006 Wanted: an artist with skills in digital photography/video and an interest in working with people with varied special needs. 50% of residency spent developing own art practice and preparing new work for an exhibition in the Western Isles. 50% spent developing collaborative work with clients of the Grianan Centre, again leading to public exhibitions of the work. Resources: Studio with digital photography/video cameras/projectors/editing equipment and a production budget of £3k for own work £4k for collaborative work. For more info. please contact: Roddy Murray at An Lanntair, Kenneth Street, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, HS1 2DS T. 01851 703 307 or e-mail: [email protected]
Specialist Diplomas in PAINTING & DRAWING TAPESTRY WEAVING SCULPTURE MA Contemporary Visual Arts leading to For further information,please visit MA VISUAL ARTS www.macva.org or telephone 01326 211077 (validated by University of Sussex) Through our Creative Enterprise Cornwall OPEN DAY: 1 FEBRUARY 2006 project, eligible students can receive a fees discount of up to £1,000. West Dean College, Chichester, West Sussex, PO18 0QZ, UK University College Falmouth, Tel: 01243 818299 Email: [email protected] WWW.WESTDEAN.ORG.UK Woodlane, Falmouth, Cornwall TR11 4RH
MA Interactive Art & Design The emphasis of our innovative MA course is on pushing the boundaries of what you, as a creative thinker and practitioner, can produce with art and design skills, digital technologies and outlandish ideas. With course leader and interactive artist Kate Southworth and other leading-edge practitioners
Art Design Media (www.falmouth.ac.uk/interactive) supervising your projects, you will have the opportunity to focus on your own interests within a supportive and collaborative environment. Our recent graduates are working in web design, multimedia production, visual communications, new media, interactive arts, research and teaching. With close ties to iRes, the Interactive Research Cluster (www.ires.falmouth.ac.uk), the MA course actively nurtures a generous, open-minded and collaborative culture, and as a student you become an integral part of this exciting community. Through our Creative Enterprise Cornwall project, eligible students can receive a fees discount of up to £1000. For further information, please contact Admissions on 01326 211077. To attend our next Postgraduate Fair, please contact the Education Liaison Office on 01326 213761.
University College Falmouth Woodlane, Falmouth, Cornwall TR11 4RH an JANUARY 06 magazine 8/12/05 16:59 Page 44
THE PRINCE’S SCHOOL OF TRADITIONAL ARTS VISUAL ISLAMIC & TRADITIONAL ARTS PROGRAMME HIGHER DEGREES IN TRADITIONAL ARTS The V.I.T.A. Course offers a unique opportunity to study both the theory and practice of Visual Islamic and Traditional Arts at higher educational level. As well as PhD degrees the following three courses are validated by the University of Wales: (1) M.A. (Practical Course) (2) M.A. (Project Course – half practical/half theory) (3) MPhil (Degree by thesis) The study of the theory and meaning of the traditional arts are a special feature of the V.I.T.A. programme. The course work is supported by first hand experience of the traditional arts through working sessions with traditional artists and craftsmen. Students are encouraged to pursue their own particular skills – whether it be painting, woodcarving, jewellery, stained glass, ceramics etc, at the same time as BA(Hons) Fine Art attending classes in geometry, methods and materials, clay 3 years full-time craft, arabesque and others. 5 years part-time For further details contact: The Administrator, V.I.T.A. programme, For further information, The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts, please visit www.falmouth.ac.uk 19-22 Charlotte Road, London EC2A 3SG. or telephone 01326 211077 Telephone 020 7613 8500 Facsimile 020 7613 8599 Email: [email protected] University College Falmouth Registered charity no. 1101527 Woodlane, Falmouth, Cornwall TR11 4RH Working to connect the art of building & the making of community
POSTGRADUATE STUDIO STUDIES IN CYPRUS
Painters, sculptors and other art practitioners are invited to apply for our eight month Postgraduate Diploma MA Illustration: course in Fine Art, commencing October 2006. Authorial Practice First run in 1978, the Postgraduate Diploma is an opportunity for recent graduates and more experienced This studio-based course is focused on the development artists to develop and reassess their studio practice in a of the authorial voice within illustration and the need unique artistic community and vibrant southern European to reassert the characteristics of personal origination, Manifesta 6 environment. Cyprus will also be home to ownership, storytelling and literary ideas within the Art Design Media from 2006 to 2008, bringing a wide range of visiting discipline. artists from all over the world to the island. This course is broadly addressed to illustrators who The course is accredited by the Ministry of Education and Culture, but you will also have the option to study have begun to explore the possibilities of authorship, for additional British qualifications in post-16 teaching and now wish to expand, extend or focus their interest and/or exhibition organisation whilst on the course. through reflective study and critical exchange. All tuition is in English. Through our Creative Enterprise Cornwall project, Fees are low for UK and EU applicants, and simple eligible students can receive a fees discount of up rent-free living accommodation may be available. to £1000. The Cyprus College of Art also offers courses at For further information, please contact Admissions on 01326 211077, email [email protected] foundation and degree level, and short stay opportunities or visit www.authorialillustration.co.uk To attend for artists and students of other art institutions. our next Postgraduate Fair, please contact the Education Liaison Office on 01326 213761.
CYPRUS COLLEGE OF ART University College Falmouth www.artcyprus.org Woodlane, Falmouth, Cornwall TR11 4RH www.falmouth.ac.uk
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