Exchanges around Exhibition 1 - construction 16th March - 5th May 2012 The Slade School and Construction explores archive material from An exhibition series curated by Andrew Bick Jean Spencer’s colour studies,

The idea of this new series Robert Adams, , the work of her partner Malcolm of three exhibitions is to set Anthony Hill, Kenneth and Mary Hughes, who set up a pioneering up potential exchanges and Martin and and art and computing MA at dialogues with the wider reflected a dynamic relationship the Slade School of Art in the history and legacy of British between art, design and 1970s, recent work from Norman Constructivism and suggest architecture, giving this new Dilworth (who studied at the ways that their work and short exhibition project licence Slade in the 1950s) and work of thinking might continue to be to do the same. It is also a current Slade tutor and frequent re-evaluated in the light of way to bring the constructive collaborator in exhibitions of current practice and thought. tradition, as an important and both Construction and Systems overlooked part of the history group artists, Gary Woodley. This project celebrates the of British Art with roots in connection between Fitzrovia Fitzrovia, into a positive and the tradition of British relationship with the proposed Constructivism, which has its new developments for the area. roots in the area. The site of artist Adrian Heath’s studio at Andrew Bick is a practising artist and All exhibitions will be open 22 Fitzroy St, where he hosted researched British Construction with support Thursday - Saturday, 2pm - 5.30pm the original series of three from a Henry Moore Institute Fellowship, at Derwent Gallery exhibitions of the British 2008 and has also curated The North Sea, 43 Whitfield Street, Construction artists in 1952-53, Legacies of Pier + Ocean, Laurent Delaye London W1T 4HD is nearby. These historic Gallery, 2009, Construction & its Shadow, www.derwentlondon.com exhibitions were among the first Leeds Art Gallery, 2010/11, Anthony Hill, manifestation of what became an The Conversation, Peter Lowe, Jeffrey Steele, important and radical group for , Galerie Von Bartha, Basel, the development of abstraction 2011 & Norman Dilworth, Turnpike in the UK. The group included Gallery/Huddersfield Art Gallery, 2011.

Exhibition 3 - 27th september - 24th November 2012 Designing an echo brings Exhibition 2 - the sculptural/installational 1 14th June - 18th August 2012 experiments of design1 duo Construction & Architecture; El Ultimo Grito into the Parallels connects the gallery. The idea here is that experimental artist/architect their playful use of structures, collaboration of Stephen Gilbert reminiscent of Buckminster Fuller and Peter Stead with a work from and more particularly of German- the 2010 Huddersfield Art Gallery born Venezuelan artist Gego, are commission of artist Liadin fully ‘functioning’ art works, but Cooke. Cooke was invited to which echo the design questions respond to one of Stead’s El Ultimo Grito deal with in modernist residential buildings, their more client-based design sited just outside Huddersfield. briefs. In this instance the Cooke’s sculpture responds parallel is blind, by chance, in a lyrical way to both but demonstrates how echoes the architecture and its of Constructivism re-emerge in arrangement of domestic joyful and unpredictable forms spaces, echoing Stead’s work and that a visual working out of with a sculptural practice that a set of mathematical principles converges on the constructive is not merely a dry sequential from outside this idiom. process of replication. Architects Hawkins\ Brown have been working on the refurbishment of Park Hill in Sheffield, a noted and controversial social housing 3development by the city architects which originally contained a mural and play 2area designed by the Constructivist John Forrester, who also advised the architectural team on the grid and facade detailing of the building. 3