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über kitsch – german contemporaries

Michael Lovelock — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:30:28 +0000

über kitsch – german contemporaries takes place at the Vyner Studio in East London, 2nd til 4th September 2010.

Celebrate the First Thursday in East London the German way!

7 young artists from fine art academies in Nürnberg and München combine living tradition with a playful freudian irony to create a happy but broken nostalgia.

Colourful camp oil paintings, animation videos and quirky photographies let your living room die a pink retro death.

Sigmund freud was from austria, which feels much closer to artists from cozy southern german cities like Munich or Nuremberg than cold Prussian north. Fuck Berlin, Cologne or Leibzig, here comes the south.
Kitsch ‘n‘ sink rules!

Less is a bore.

too much is not enough.

Light Sensitive – Brand New Photography Show

Michael Lovelock — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:00:39 +0000

Exhibition September 3rd – 7th 10:00 – 18:00
Private view September 2nd 18:00

London’s most talked-about degree show returns: 14,000 sq ft of the best new photography

Light Sensitive brings together artists from across the globe to showcase their latest photographic work.

A brand new collection of thought-provoking work by award-winning photographers goes on show this September as part of the prestigious MA in Photographic Studies at the University of Westminster.

Light Sensitive presents 24 photographic artists at P3, an exciting venue in the heart of central London. The exhibition showcases emerging as well as established international talent, with many on the course already recipients of prestigious bursaries from institutions such as the Royal Photographic Society and the Arts Councils, and multiple award-winners in high-profile competitions including the International Photographers’ Awards and The Lucie Awards.

As in the past the MA show is professionally and independently curated. With over seven thousand visitors attending the past three summer shows it is anticipated Light Sensitive will see around 2000 people attending on opening night. The expansive venue in the centre of London provides a stunning environment for this exciting show. Exploring themes of space, wandering, abstraction and identity this collection demonstrates exhilarating freshness and vitality. Curator Elizabeth Upper said: “Light Sensitive showcases the newest work of talented image-makers. It’s a rare opportunity to see new and thought-provoking work in an exciting setting.”

Beautiful Bowls: Gilles Jones Glass

Michael Lovelock — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:30:13 +0000

From Mon 26 July until Sunday 22 August 11am-3pm North Yorkshire glassmakers Gillies Jones invite you to discover the drama of their craft when they open up their rural studio, in the village of Rosedale on the North Yorkshire Moors.

Enjoy an exhibition of glass ‘The Beautiful Bowl’ at the Gillies Jones Studio which explores their signature piece with new patterns and colours inspired by the elemental beauty of their North Yorkshire location. Also Gillies Jones will blow glass and take questions, demonstrating the making of their signature ‘Beautiful Bowl’ from Mon 26 July until 30 July 11am – 3pm. Step inside their rural studio and see Stephen Gillies, one the UK’s finest contemporary glassmakers at work. This is a unique chance to find out more about the ancient and dynamic process of glass blowing whilst watching him create the forms of their beautiful bowls.

Suitable for all ages
Gillies Jones Studio, Rosedale Abbey, Pickering, North Yorkshire YO18 8SA.
tel 01751 417550
email info@gilliesjonesglass.co.uk

Emily-Kriste Wilcox at GGC Summer Show

Michael Lovelock — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:30:19 +0000

Ceramicist Emily-Kriste Wilcox will be participating in this annual exhibition with other members from the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen.

31st July – 30th August 2010
Painswick Centre, Painswick, Glos, GL6 6QQ

- and also at the gallery show during August
“Sculptural Crafts”
1st – 31st August 2010
Guild Gallery, Painswick, Glos, GL6 6QQ

Directions and more information regarding the shows can be found at www.guildcrafts.org.uk

For further details of Emily-Kriste’s work, see www.emily-kriste.co.uk where you can also sign up for regular updates and event invites.

BLAST! 2010

Michael Lovelock — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:30:55 +0000

BLAST! 2010
Cohesion Glass Network – Annual selling exhibition
September 9 – November 6, 2010
Zest Gallery is hosting BLAST! – the Cohesion Glass Networkʼs annual selling exhibition, for the second year running. This exciting collaboration will showcase some of the best British contemporary glass art, featuring sculptural and wall mounted work selected from Cohesionʼs talented members, both newcomers and more established artists.

This year, glass expert and collector Alan Poole is a co-curator of the exhibition. Alan is a director of North Lands Creative Glass in Lybster, Scotland, and runs Dan Klein Associates, which has been collecting and promoting British and Irish contemporary glass for three decades.

In close collaboration with Alan, we have selected 16 amazingly versatile artists whose work embodies a broad spectrum of processes and techniques. Glass is a fascinating medium for artists to explore and the results can be breathtaking. In the hands of Bruce Marks, a skilled glassblower with a keen interest in colour, molten glass becomes a solid substantial vessel. By contrast, Inge Panneels, a pate de verre expert, creates fragile floating vessels, granular and textured, from the same core substance.

A very special feature of the exhibition is a tribute to Dan Klein, the UKʼs pre-eminent glass advocate, writer and collector who died last year. Adam Aaronsonʼs glass studio, adjacent to Zest Gallery, has made a glass bowl for each of the 16 artists to turn into a unique work of art. These will be priced at £125 each and the full proceeds of these one-off pieces will be donated to North Lands Creative Glass for Dan Klein’s Memorial Fund.

Suupa Pupa Doompadee Dah!

Michael Lovelock — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:30:53 +0000

Studio 106 Art Gallery
Dates: July 8th – 24th
Private view: Wednesday 7th of July 6.30pm to 8.30pm
Contact: enquiries@106studio.com/ 020 73855618

In partnership with UCA, Studio 106 Art Gallery has selected works by recent graduates from their final exhibition at UCA, a show that represents the culmination of the year’s study on the Foundation Programme. At an extremely important stage in the students’ professional and personal development, Suupa Pupa Doompadee Dah! aims to support their progression into higher education and ultimately toward a career in the creative arts.
The exhibition brings together works by Laura Alabaf, Esther Chung, Emily Hills, Lewis Ryland, Frances Tomlin, Alexandra Constantine and Amanda Woodcock.

The exhibition is directly inspired by the chant of the Oompa Loompa workers of Roald Dahl’s ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, a story that can be read as an analogy for the trials associated with the coming of age to adulthood. Referencing this period of growth and change, the exhibition aims to highlight the important stage on which the selected artists are embarking. In this vein, the title of the exhibition also refers to the Latin term ‘Pupa’, denoting the chrysalidian process through which insects undergo transformation. These transformative processes are inherently relevant to the work presented, addressing as it does themes of organic process, creativity and change.

The selected artists have a polymorphic approach and explore a variety of contemporary media. The works selected are the result of complex and thoughtful investigation into a range of diverse themes such as identity construction, psycho-geography, environmental issues and the body. Encouraging investment in talented young people, Suupa Pupa Doompadee Dah! provides support to these artists at an age when strengthening confidence and establishing support are a crucial part of their future.

60l40 Starting Point Series 2010

Michael Lovelock — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:30:50 +0000

A textile artist, a furniture maker and a potter are the latest artists to showcase new work at Siobhan Davies Studios this summer.Linda Florence, David Gates and Chris Keenan are creating work which explores the relationship between the Studios’ activities and their own practice.

This is the second in the Starting point series at Siobhan Davies Studios, devised by 60|40, a crafts collective which encourages new thinking in the applied arts and expands the environment for experimental applied arts. The exhibition opens on 9 July and admission is free.

Serena Partridge: New Work at Ryedale Gallery

Michael Lovelock — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:00:28 +0000

The Gallery at Ryedale Folk Museum shows new work by Serena Partridge from Saturday 26 June to Sunday 8 August.

Serena makes fantastical miniature pieces of attire inspired by a passion for European costume dating back some six hundred years. These tiny pieces form an imagined costume collection which creates a decadent foil to the rural exhibits of the Ryedale Folk Museum.

Serena’s particular interest is for the flamboyant fashions paraded by the wealthy élite, such as sixteenth century Venetian platform shoes rising to heights of twenty inches or the superfluous coiffures worn by Marie Antoinette. Although her works contain strong references to the past, Serena is not concerned with producing historically accurate replicas and classes her art as ‘sculptural textiles’.

The exhibition opens daily from 10am to 4.30pm. Contact Andrew Dalton for further details – T. 01751 417367 E.gallery@ryedalefolkmuseum.co.uk

Michael Cooper @ Pangolin

Michael Lovelock — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:30:27 +0000

Through the medium of stone and bronze Michael Cooper has created a powerful body of sculptures; a jungle of animals so full of character and movement it would hard not to be captivated by their enchanting presence.

Oxfordshire based artist, Michael Cooper, is a master of stone carving. His technique means that mass and gravity are ever present in the animals he depicts. Indeed the essential character of his subjects are allowed to materialise through the slow process of chipping away at blocks of intractable stone.

Many are familiar with Cooper’s work by his high profile public commissions of recent years. Cooper’s ability to depict the sheer force of the animals he sculpts has led to countless commissions, including a 4 ton Gorilla for Lord Carrington’s Sculpture Garden, a 5ft Bear for Bicester Village, Oxfordshire and a reclining figure carved in Travertine Marble for Covent Garden.

For the lucky few Cooper’s work has been sighted at his wife, Julie Giffiths’s, notorious restaurant, The Sir Charles Napier. Set upon a hill overlooking the Chiltern Beechwoods, Cooper’s animals stand proud in their idyllic surroundings. With an occasional make shift helipad on the lawn, made out of Kitchen plates spelling a wobbly ‘H’, the Charles Napier attracts the elite far and wide, who have continually expressed a passion for Cooper’s sculpture. It is long overdue that a comprehensive collection of Cooper’s work is accessible to a wider audience. The summer exhibition at Pangolin London will have creatures, great and small, inhabiting both the gallery and the outside spaces at Kings Place.

LIGHT DREAMS

Michael Lovelock — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:00:44 +0000

Light Dreams features the work of two London-based artists, Neda Dana-Haeri and Virginia Waterhouse, who both use watercolour to create abstract evocations of light, cultural memory and the sublime.

In her stark, deceptively simple paintings, Neda Dana-Haeri is inspired by Persian poetry and Sufi philosophy, exploring concepts of cultural memory.

London-born artist Virginia Waterhouse finds much of her inspiration in music and poetry. For the past year she has been exploring Paradise Lost, developing an abstract language through which to convey the vivid drama and the unknowable sublime of Milton’s vision. She works mainly in inks and watercolour, creating richly coloured and multi-layered images.

Light Dreams is at AandD Gallery, 51, Chiltern Street, WIU 6LY from June 29th to July 3rd. 20100. Opening hours 10.30am – 7.00pm.

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