Dan McDermott - 'Second Focus' at Alon Zakaim Fine Art, 30 Cork
Tuesday 13th May 2008 - Friday 30th May 2008
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Duration: Between the times 09:00:00 and 18:00:00
Location: London
Exhibition details:
Dan McDermott 'Second Focus'
Alon Zakaim Fine Art
30 Cork Street
London
W1S 3NG
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday 13th - Friday 30th May 2008
Opening Hours: Monday - Friday 9am - 6pm, Saturday 10 am - 1pm
Free Admission
Contact: Anstice Oakeshott / Ben Springett
e mail: gallery@alonzakaim.com
tel: 0207 287 7750
Alon Zakaim Fine Art has the pleasure of hosting Second Focus, an exhibition of oil paintings by Dan McDermott. Returning to Cork Street with his second solo exhibition of photorealist work, McDermott's latest collection breathes new life into scenes and figures from decades past.
Born of a childhood fascination with the glamour of adult life captured in movies and film, McDermott's work is directed by his attraction to the reproduced image. Drawing upon archives of photographic stills collected from film, internet, television and documentary footage from the 1940s to the present, McDermott reintroduces the subjects of these stills to the contemporary eye.
Dan McDermott has exhibited extensively throughout Britain and abroad since graduating from the University of Northumbria in 1995. Most recently he has been involved in a number of solo and group exhibitions in London and New York, including shows held at the Northcote Gallery, London, The Clapham Gallery, London and The Silas Marder Gallery, New York.
Surrey Artists Open Studios
Saturday 7th June 2008 - Sunday 22nd June 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: South East England
290 participating artists and craftspeople offering a diverse range of studios, from the domestic to the commercial, will be open across Surrey for two weeks in June and for the first time ALL the studios will be open during the middle weekend. www.surreyopenstudios.org.uk for details
Lemn Sissay 'Under the Influence' of the Liverpool poets
Thursday 26th June 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: London
The Poetry Society presents
Under the Influenceâ
In association with the Arts Theatre,
6/7 Great Newport Street, London WC2H 7JB
The highly popular âUnder the Influenceâ series, where one poet looks at the influence another poet has had on their work, continues in 2008 will see Lemn Sissay âunder the influenceâ of the Liverpool poets:
Thursday 26 June at 7pm
Lemn Sissay under the influence of the Liverpool Poets
Lemn Sissay was born in 1967, the year The Mersey Sound was first
published,but he wasn't given a copy until 15 years later when his head
teacher spotted his burgeoning talent. Within its pages Lemn found the
confirmation he had been looking for, that poetry should be for the
people, by the people. It is a beat he has worked to ever since.
This event is part of Liverpool 08.
The host for the event will be the Poetry Societyâs Chair, Anne-Marie Fyfe.
The event will be taking place in a new venue - the wonderfully atmospheric and historic Club Room at the Arts Theatre in London's West End, 6/7 Great Newport Street, London, WC2H 7JB.
Tickets are ÂŁ10 and ÂŁ7 (concessions and Poetry Society members).
Ticket Bookings on 0844 847 1608 or in person at the venue.
Find out more on www.poetrysociety.org.uk
The Poetry Society is delighted to be supporting Liverpool 08.
Ba Degree Show CAnterbury Christ Church University
Saturday 24th May 2008 - Saturday 31st May 2008
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Duration: Between the times 11:00:00 and 17:30:00
Location: South East England
This is an exhibition in two parts. Part one profiles the work of BA Fine Art Degree students from Christ Chruch University, showing painting, print making, sculpture and ceramics across various sites in Canterbruy. 24th-31st May. Part two brings together selected works from each discipline in the Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury. 5th- 12th June.
GALLERY 1
Wednesday 20th February 2008 - Tuesday 30th November 1999
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Duration: Between the times 10:00:00 and 00:00:00
Location: Scotland
Ongoing exhibition of artist Gerry Cameron at GALLERY 1 Bathgate, West Lothian EH48 1HH
Gerry is the artist in residence at GALLERY 1, Gerry specialises in Modern Art & Cult Pop Art
www.gallery1online.co.uk
Call 01506 655631
Mare Tenebrarum at Transition Gallery
Saturday 3rd May 2008 - Sunday 1st June 2008
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Duration: Between the times 12:00:00 and 18:00:00
Location: London
Dreaming the life and fictions of Edgar Allan Poe and using him as a master and spirit guide, Katherine Tulloh and Gary McDonald use painting and meticulously constructed animations to consider death, beauty, imagination and inspiration.
Transition Gallery, Unit 25a Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, E8 4QN www.transitiongallery.co.uk info@transitiongallery.co.uk 020 7254 4202 / 0794 120 8566 Open Fri-Sun 12-6
ARTSPACE
Wednesday 5th March 2008 - Tuesday 30th November 1999
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Duration: Between the times 10:00:00 and 00:00:00
Location: South East England
Annual contemporary art extravaganza. 80 invited artists in unique setting of ancient barns and extensive gardens. Sculpture, painting, ceramics, metal, jewellery and heaps more. It's amazing. It's too good to miss. AA signed. Barn Galleries. Aston, Henley on Thames RG9 3DX www.barngalleries.com
Contemporary jewellery showcase
Wednesday 20th February 2008 - Saturday 30th August 2008
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Duration: Between the times 10:00:00 and 17:00:00
Location: North England
Showing 10 of the most innovative and creative jewellery designers
Gordon Dalton & S Mark Gubb: Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere
Thursday 12th July 2007 - Tuesday 30th November 1999
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Duration: All day event
Location: North England
Artists Gordon Dalton & S Mark Gubb went on a road trip through America as the basis of their exhibition at Castlefield Gallery.
Yang Lian 'Under the Influence' of Ezra Pound
Wednesday 16th July 2008
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Duration: Between the times 19:00:00 and 21:00:00
Location: London
The Poetry Society presents
Under the Influence
In association with the Arts Theatre,
6/7 Great Newport Street, London WC2H 7JB
The highly popular âUnder the Influenceâ series, where one poet looks at the influence another poet has had on their work, continues in 2008 will see Yang Lian âunder the influenceâ of Ezra Pound:
Wednesday 16 July at 7pm
Yang Lian âunder the influenceâ of Ezra Pound
How could an American poet influence a Chinese poet? Not only influence his writing in general, but influence him to develop his understanding of Chinese, his native language? Chinese poet Yang Lian will discuss not only the influence of one poet on another but one poetic culture on another.
This event is part of CHINA NOW.
The host for the event will be the Poetry Societyâs Chair, Anne-Marie Fyfe.
The event will be taking place in a new venue - the wonderfully atmospheric and historic Club Room at the Arts Theatre in London's West End, 6/7 Great Newport Street, London, WC2H 7JB.
Tickets are ÂŁ10 and ÂŁ7 (concessions and Poetry Society members).
Ticket Bookings on 0844 847 1608 or in person at the venue.
Find out more on www.poetrysociety.org.uk
The Poetry Society is delighted to be supporting CHINA NOW.
Ba Degree Show Canterbury Christ Church University
Saturday 24th May 2008 - Saturday 31st May 2008
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Duration: Between the times 11:00:00 and 17:30:00
Location: South East England
This is an exhibition in two parts. Part one profiles the work of BA Fine Art Degree students from Christ Chruch University, showing painting, print making, sculpture and ceramics across various sites in Canterbruy. 24th-31st May. Part two brings together selected works from each discipline in the Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury. 5th- 12th June.
Bryan Hawkins and Tim Long, Ghosts and Grotesques
Saturday 19th July 2008 - Thursday 31st July 2008
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Duration: Between the times 11:00:00 and 17:30:00
Location: South East England
Ghosts and Grotesques, Sidney Cooper Gallery Canterbury
Bryan Hawkins and Tim Long
The exhibition investigates the significance of the fantastic and the forgotten, the ghostly and the grotesque, as images and as thoughts.
Bryan Hawkins and Tim Long employ a range of primitive, contemporary, invented and neglected technologies, ranging from the shadow to interactive drawing machines.
The exhibition forms part of a Research Informed Teaching project sponsored by Canterbury Christ Church University.
Admission free
Edward Bawden in the Middle East
Monday 23rd March 2009 - Sunday 28th September 2008
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Duration: Between the times 14:00:00 and 17:00:00
Location: South East England
An exhibition of watercolours executed by Edward Bawden while working as an Official War Artist in Iraq in 1944. The works have been loaned by the Imperial War Museum and the Government Art Collection.
The Fry Art Gallery,Castle Street, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 1BD
Admission Free
For further details see our website www.fryartgallery.org
Postcards From Other Worlds
Saturday 8th March 2008 - Thursday 1st May 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: North England
Paintings by Carol Saunderson
Paintings that tell stories of lives on imaginary islands and little worlds that look a bit like our ownâŠ. but where anything can happen. People meet, people part, people go on journeys and, sometimes, meet again.
Works on canvas, board and paper in oil and mixed media.
The Edge Gallery
20-22 King Street Lancaster LA1 1JY
10 till 5pm Tuesday Saturday
www.theedgegallery.co.uk
Artists Surgery
Tuesday 30th November 1999
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Duration: All day event
Location: North England
Artists Surgery, is all about building your skills in order to manage and maintain your creative output. Marketing, funding and promotion of your work are some of the key areas we will cover as well as practical suggestions to develop your practice.
Artists Surgery brings together some of the leading figures in the northern art scene to share their knowledge and experience in this field. Keynote speakers are Kwong Lee, Director of the Castlefield Gallery, Manchester and Sara Trentham, Visual Arts Officer, Arts Council England, Yorkshire. Also get the chance to hear from Timandra Gustafson, Executive Director, AXIS, about how this national organisation promotes and encourages creative practice.
In the afternoon you will get the chance to attend two workshops, choosing from key topics such as CV Writing, approaching galleries and how to get funding.
Tickets: Ł10, Ł5 concession
Fringe Arts Bath 08
Friday 23rd May 2008 - Sunday 8th June 2008
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Duration: Between the times 18:00:00 and 17:00:00
Location: South West England
Annual surge of contemporary art exhibitions and events from up and coming national and international artists, colonising unexpected places in the heritage city. This year's programme theme is "location". Highlights include open submission show locus' guest curated by Daphne Wright; a one-day outdoor Art Fair on Sunday 1st June; the first FAB Photomarathon; tours and workshops for young people and mini events in the peripatetic Portaspace hosted by South Central.
For full details go to www.fringeartsbath.co.uk
Lemn Sissay 'Under the Influence' of the Liverpool poets
Thursday 26th June 2008
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Duration: Between the times 19:00:00 and 21:00:00
Location: London
The Poetry Society presents
Under the Influence
In association with the Arts Theatre,
6/7 Great Newport Street, London WC2H 7JB
The highly popular âUnder the Influenceâ series, where one poet looks at the influence another poet has had on their work, continues in 2008 will see Lemn Sissay âunder the influenceâ of the Liverpool poets:
Thursday 26 June at 7pm
Lemn Sissay under the influence of the Liverpool Poets
Lemn Sissay was born in 1967, the year The Mersey Sound was first
published,but he wasn't given a copy until 15 years later when his head
teacher spotted his burgeoning talent. Within its pages Lemn found the
confirmation he had been looking for, that poetry should be for the
people, by the people. It is a beat he has worked to ever since.
This event is part of Liverpool 08.
The host for the event will be the Poetry Societyâs Chair, Anne-Marie Fyfe.
The event will be taking place in a new venue - the wonderfully atmospheric and historic Club Room at the Arts Theatre in London's West End, 6/7 Great Newport Street, London, WC2H 7JB.
Tickets are ÂŁ10 and ÂŁ7 (concessions and Poetry Society members).
Ticket Bookings on 0844 847 1608 or in person at the venue.
Find out more on www.poetrysociety.org.uk
The Poetry Society is delighted to be supporting Liverpool 08.
Oxfam Literary Events
Thursday 31st January 2008 - Thursday 27th November 2008
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Duration: Between the times 19:00:00 and 21:00:00
Location: North England
A series of Literary Events to be held on the last Thursday of each month (ex August)at Friends Meeting House, Friargate, York at 7.30pm
Poetry and fiction read by the writer, discussions and bookstall. All profits in aid of Oxfam.
Next event Thursday 28th February 2008.
Phone for details on 01904 640615 or 07761 642160
Robert Minhinnick 'Under the Influence' of Derek Walcott
Thursday 22nd May 2008
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Duration: Between the times 19:00:00 and 21:00:00
Location: London
The Poetry Society presents
Under the Influenceâ
In association with the Arts Theatre,
6/7 Great Newport Street, London WC2H 7JB
The highly popular Under the Influence series, where one poet looks at the influence another poet has had on their work, continues in 2008 and starts with Robert Minhinnick under the influence of Derek Walcott:
Thursday 22 May at 7pm
Robert Minhinnick under the influence of Derek Walcott
West Indian poet Derek Walcott's collection Sea Grapes inspired Welsh
poet, Robert Minhinnick to explore his own language and landscape and
find that the bwlch and gwter of his own scrap of coast could be poetic.
The host for the event will be the Poetry Society's Chair, Anne-Marie Fyfe.
The event will be taking place in a new venue - the wonderfully atmospheric and historic Club Room at the Arts Theatre in London's West End, 6/7 Great Newport Street, London, WC2H 7JB.
Tickets are Ł10 and Ł7 (concessions and Poetry Society members).
Ticket Bookings on 0844 847 1608 or in person at the venue.
Find out more on www.poetrysociety.org.uk
ART IN THE PEN
Saturday 16th August 2008 - Sunday 17th August 2008
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Duration: Between the times 10:00:00 and 16:00:00
Location: North England
The North's Major Art Fair
ART IN THE PEN, Skipton, North Yorkshire
16& 17 August 2008
10am to 4pm each day
No commission taken on sales!
Download your application and guidelines from www.artinthepen.org.uk
ART IN THE PEN is now an established major selling event in North Yorkshire and is part of a unique agricultural arts initiative based in Craven Cattle Mart, Skipton.
Over 3500 attended the exhibition in 2007 with artists selling in excess of Ł30,000 of work and commissions, The invitation is now open to all artists to participate in the 2008 showcase. ART IN THE PEN allows artists and makers to introduce and to sell their work direct to both new and regular buyers and collectors
For 2 days artists are invited to come together to present the very best of Modern and Contemporary art in this spectacular and innovative venue on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
The Influence of Heritage
Tuesday 30th November 1999
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Duration: All day event
Location: North England
In Association with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts and the National Art Gallery Islamabad Pakistan
Curated by Alison Darnbrough & Marjorie Husain
This major exhibition showcases the work of leading artists living and working in Pakistan and the UK and looks at the influence of culture and heritage.
At a time when freedom of expression and information have been suppressed in the country the four artistsâ - Shahida Ahmed, Jamal Shah, Iqbal Husain and Nahid Raza â are able to speak through their art about such issues as oppression, the role of women in a male-oriented society, personal freedom and religion.
As exhibitions go, this one couldn't be more timely, with Pakistan in the midst of a political crisis, yet another layer of meaning is added to what is already an ambitious and far reaching show.
(Dan Jeffrey Dig Yorkshire)
Me and Mickie James Launch
Tuesday 22nd July 2008
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Duration: Between the times 18:00:00 and 19:30:00
Location: Midlands
Official launch of the book Me and Mickie James, published by Jonathan Cape.
Location; Waterstones, Market St, Leicester
Ryan Gander: Heralded as the New Black
Friday 25th April 2008 - Sunday 22nd June 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: London
Comprising a new body of work made during a year off from exhibiting, and including a number of works made exclusively for the SLG space, Ryan Gander's show is highly anticipated both in the UK and internationally. The exhibition consists of entirely new installations, interventions, films and by-products which derive meaning from their location and context. The exhibition is a diverse and playful investigation into facets of the making, presentation, history and documentation of art and design.
Paperworks 2008 International Juried Competition
Tuesday 30th November 1999 - Saturday 31st May 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: London
Paperworks 2008 International Juried Competition / // b.j. spoke gallery , NY
Paperworks 2008 International Juried Competition
b.j. spoke gallery, 299 Main Street, Huntington, NY 11743
Entry deadline, May 31, 2008. Winners' show August 1-31 2008. Innovative artists who use paper as their primary medium (or would like to take the challenge) are invited to submit up to three works of art; Drawings, graphics, sculpture, 3D, bound books. No paintings or photography. Judge, Samantha Rippner, Associate Curator, Dept. of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. All submissions must be in JPEG format on CD. $35 entry fee, US funds only.
Download prospectus at www.bjspokegallery.com, call gallery at 631 549 5106 or send SASE to address listed above
Now Then at the Bluecoat
Saturday 15th March 2008 - Sunday 4th May 2008
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Duration: Between the times 10:00:00 and 18:00:00
Location: North England
Now Then - Alec Finlay, Janet Hodgson, Hew Locke, Paul Morrison, Yoko Ono
Date: From Saturday, 15 March 2008 - 10:00am To Sunday, 04 May 2008 - 6:00pm
Location: All Galleries
Ticket Prices: Free admission
An immense wall painting, an disorienting film installation, spectacular sculptural pieces and 'colonies' of brightly painted bird boxes in the Bluecoat's trees.
Now Then celebrates the Bluecoat, engaging with its new architecture, highlighting its incredible history and heralding its bright future, in the stunning new gallery spaces.
The exhibition showcases specially commissioned work by 5 exceptional and diverse artists. Yoko Ono shows in the galleries forty one years after her first ever paid UK performance was given at the Bluecoat in 1967.Hodgson and Morrison both previously exhibited at the Bluecoat earlier in their careers while Finlay and Locke are eagerly welcomed for the first time.
Gallery tours
Every Friday throughout Now Then - 28 March, 4, 11, 18 and 25 April, 2 May
Meet at the Hub - 12.00pm
Free admission - Tours last 45 minutes and are open to all.
Artist talks
Free admission - Taking place on Tuesday nights throughout April
Further details wll be announced here.
During Now Then you can view other artworks around the building.
* Alec Finlay shows a specially commissioned sculpture and poetry installation in the new restaurant â bar, Upstairs at the Bluecoat.
* Amrit and Rabindra Kaur Singh as Twin Studio celebrate Liverpoolâs vibrant year as European Capital of Culture in a painting specially commissioned by the Liverpool Culture Company.
* Hans van der Heijden of biq, lead architect of the Bluecoatâs redevelopment, presents a series of minimalist drawings of the buildingâs new arts wing in the Vide.
* Susan Walsh evocatively documents the studio in the garden courtyard once occupied by artist Herbert Tyson Smith, through video and photographs.
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Paul Rooney, a Liverpool born artist, presents his new text work I Can Travel Far From Here, a fictional monologue by a relentlessly upbeat female Christian evangelist from the US West Coast on the Bluecoat's website.
The Waitng Room Radio Show
Wednesday 20th February 2008 - Wednesday 4th January 2012
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Duration: Between the times 22:00:00 and 22:00:00
Location: Wales
The Waiting Room - a weekly radio-style music + chat show (Every Wednesday, 10pm-Midnight (GMT), via www.ErrorFM.com) hosted by one half of Drunk Country + Guests.
If you miss it on the night you can alwats re-listen otr download the recorded podcast via CRACK.PODBEAN.COM
Expect chaos, fluff, nonsense, blather, cheek, poetry, flannel +, of course, brilliant new music from around the world.
Painting and Printmaking BA Degree Show
Thursday 5th June 2008 - Thursday 12th June 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: South East England
Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury
This exhibition profiles the work of BA Fine Art degree students from Canterbury Christ Church University specialising in painting and printmaking.
Part two 5th - 12th June, brings together selected works from each of the four disciplines.
Admission free
Celebrating the art of drawing - Drawing Out exhibition
Monday 21st April 2008 - Friday 9th May 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: Midlands
Sketches and doodles by art and design staff at Nottingham Trent University are to be shown as part of a major exhibition celebrating the practice of drawing. Drawing Out will feature hundreds of illustrations by both academic and support staff, which will be combined to create a huge âdrawing wallâ for the event from April 21 to May 9.
Everybody from the Dean of the School of Art and Design, right through to academics and support staff are being invited to contribute to the exhibition, being staged in the universityâs Bonington and 1851 Galleries.
The event will also feature a curated show of work by artists based in the School, which will attempt to look at drawing in its widest sense.
This will range from working drawings for set and costume design, to illustrations that use new laser-cutting technology as a drawing tool; and a series of illustrations produced for publication in international newspapers, to photographic responses to archived drawings in the university's international lace collection.
"Drawing is and always has been seen as a core element within art and design education, and is an activity that pervades all courses within the School of Art and Design," said Professor Terry Shave, exhibition co-ordinator and Academic Team Leaders for Visual Arts.
He added: "Everybody has a view of what drawing is and what drawing should be in art schools and this will be an opportunity to push boundaries and pose questions on the subject. It is also a celebration of the university as a place for dynamic, contemporary art and design, as well as a community of people who meet on a daily basis in a work environment."
As well as The Drawing Wall and curated show, the exhibition will feature hands-on drawing sessions for staff and students, which will include the creation of a white board animation. There will be a roundtable discussion on what drawing means to different people, an online spotlight of images which have significant meanings for staff, and invited speakers from the School of Art and Design.
For more information visit http://www.ntu.ac.uk/art/
Norrie Harman exhibition
Saturday 26th April 2008
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Duration: Between the times 09:00:00 and 17:00:00
Location: North England
Artco Gallery in Leeds will be showing new works by artist Norrie Harman. This will signify a new direction for the artist and be the first opportunity for art collectors to experience his photography. The exhibition will also hold figurative works, created with the more traditional mediums of charcoal and paint. Harman, who has been hailed by the Royal Scottish Academy as one of Scotlandâs key young artistsâ work will be available from ÂŁ500.
LAURA BUCKLEY+ALEXIS HARDING at Bruun Bazaar, with Carter Presen
Thursday 15th May 2008 - Wednesday 4th June 2008
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Duration: Between the times 12:00:00 and 17:00:00
Location: London
Carter Presents has teamed up with Bruuns Bazaar in a new concept space on Albemarle Street in Mayfair London. The new Bruuns Bazaar project space is devoted to providing a platform for artists to develop new work. The gallery on Albemarle Street, Mayfair, is in a listed Georgian building and comprises of two inter-connected rooms. The concept and format for the exhibition is two solo shows in self-contained spaces where each artist's practice interrelates and plays off of the other.
For the inaugural exhibition, Laura Buckley and Alexis Harding, two London based artists, each separately explore materiality through a conceptual framework initially influenced by modernist reductionism. Both artists approach their medium (painting and film projection) in a sculptural manner, expanding the traditional boundaries of the support/screen.
Alexis Harding explores the processes and physicality of paint literally bringing the painting to earth as the viscosity and liquidity of the medium follows Newton's Laws to fall to the gallery floor and create new forms. For Harding, painting is a process, a skin, a physically tangible and alchemical substance. The kinetic nature of the wet media simultaneously teases and critiques the very nature of painting. Bringing to mind Anish Kapoor's early pigment sculptures of the 1960's, this work playfully engages with the serious ongoing debates of endgame painting which gained prominence with Stella and Ryman the 60's. As the paint slips off the canvas into a pool on to the floor the painting becomes sculptural. Unanswered questions are reinvigorated and brought back to the fore.
Laura Buckley's work demystifies itself by structural and material means. She exposes the process of making and presenting work.
Her works are often semi-performative, featuring reflective supports within the natural environment, both framing and dramatically contrasting the setting.
Studio activities are juxtaposed with real life events, exploring and blurring points of separation and overlap.Hers is a multi-layered referential conversation between component materials.
Buckley uses the devices of kinetic sculptural installation and video projection to question art and illusion, reality and perception.Place : BRUUNS BAZAAR - 48 Albemarle St - London
W1S 4JLÂ
PRIVATE VIEW WEDNESDAY 14TH MAY 2008 6PM - 9PMÂ
Opening Times Wednesday - Friday 12pm - 5pm and by appointment
Contact : Carter Presents 29 Orsman Road London N1 5RA www.carterpresents.com email: carterpresents@gmail.com tel :07828 553080
Spring Show
Saturday 1st March 2008
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Duration: Between the times 11:00:00 and 17:00:00
Location: South West England
Paintings at Alexandra Dickens Studio Gallery
Hawkins & Co
Friday 7th March 2008 - Monday 5th May 2008
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Duration: Between the times 11:00:00 and 06:00:00
Location: North England
15 Contemporary Artists - One 16th century sailor
More than 70 art works by fifteen UK-based and international contemporary artists. Each piece explores the transatlantic African-Caribbean diaspora in the wake of Elizabethan naval commander Sir John Hawkins, whose 16th-century voyages pioneered Britain's slave trade.
Hawkins & Co is one of the opening exhibitions at Liverpool's new Contemporary Urban Centre, as the former slave-trading port becomes the 2008 European Capital of Culture. Curated by Kimathi Donkor for Novas Arts and sponsored by the Novas Scarman Group.
Kofi Achiampong | Faith Bebbington | Donna Berry | Jean-François BoclĂ© | Marcia Brown | Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy | Paul Clarkson | Kimathi Donkor | Raimi Gbadamosi | Tam Joseph | George âFowokanâ Kelly | Keith Piper | Barbara Walker | Pauline Wiggins | Jane Woolner
11am until 6pm Tuesday to Sunday
(Open Bank Holiday Monday)
FREE ENTRY
Contemporary Urban Centre
41-51 Greenland Street
Liverpool UK
L1 0BS
T: +44 (0)151 708 3530
E: rosita.mohamed@novas.org
www.novasscarman.org
The Red Door Gallery
Friday 21st March 2008 - Wednesday 31st December 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: Scotland
This year, The Red Door Gallery are proud to be celebrating 5 years as one of Edinburghs most distinctive boutique art spaces. We support the work of independent and emerging designers and are dedicated to presenting original, inspirational and affordable artwork.
We also have a fantastic collection of artists books, accessories, affordable prints, jewellery, homewares, lomography cameras and cards which compliment not only the artwork but also our unique space.
Visit us throughout the year for a variety of solo and group shows
182nd RSA ANNUAL EXHIBITION
Friday 9th May 2008 - Wednesday 25th June 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: Scotland
The RSA Annual Exhibition showcases around 350 works by the best of both established and emerging artists, presenting a comprehensive cross section of contemporary art in Scotland. The exhibition takes up all 12 of the magnificent RSA Galleries and includes painting, sculpture, film making, photography, printmaking, architecture and installation. Most works are for sale.
Royal Scottish Academy
The Mound, Edinburgh
Visit: www.royalscottishacademy.org
Love, War & Peace
Tuesday 8th July 2008 - Sunday 13th July 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: South West England
Solo exhibition of work by Yve Sturgeon - for one week only.
Galleryeight, 8 Market Place, Glastonbury, Somerset BA6 9HW.
Admission Free
Renowned artist Yve will exhibit her unique collection of 2D and 3D work around the themes of Love, War & Peace.
Yve's work is about our journey through the planet's life - from the birth of time itself until the present day - and the emotions caused by the moments that touch our lives both spiritually and physically.
The exhibition includes installations, ceramics, sculptures, paintings and drawings ... a journey through life ...
Upstairs at Galleryeight
Opening Times:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday 10.30am - 5.30pm
Thursday 1pm - 5.30pm
Sunday 11am - 5.30pm
Closed Monday
For more information Tel: 01458 833574, www.galleryeight.com
Hell & High Tea
Tuesday 3rd June 2008 - Sunday 15th June 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: South West England
Hell and High Tea
Exhibition of work by Nancy Farmer at Galleryeight, 8 Market Place, Glastonbury, Somerset BA6 9HW
Mythology, fairytale, satire, fetish and a dash of domestic reality blend together in these paintings. Medusa is here in several guises; the little-known Mrs Minotaur reclines in the labyrinth; devils strive to grow cacti in hell, while fairies snigger improperly over amusingly-shaped flowers. Undertones of subversion and overtones of humour colour the re-working of stories we thought we knew.
Nancy's art: Sullen fairies, belligerent demons and other curious monsters - dark, whimsical contemporary art, all with a satirical edge and a twist of humour Nancy's paintings could be mistaken for fantasy art â but this is not quite accurate, rather, she holds a murky and distorted mirror up to ordinary life.
Her characters resonate with modern-day decadences - the fairies are delinquent; the devils bored, half-heartedly persecuting the Dammed merely because it is their job to do so; the guardian angel is fat and indolent, her rose-tinted spectacles shielding any wrong-doing from her 'watchful' eyes. A sad lost gentleman is found in a bar full of curious demons, but refuses to leave and admit heâs in the wrong place, while the smartly dressed devil is equally on edge in a rather tacky wine bar full of âordinaryâ people. Here are monsters and demons, certainly, but here are also our colleagues, friends and relations, and it is often uncertain quite which are which.
Nancy is largely self-taught as a painter. Having completed a degree in jewellery design at Glasgow school of Art, and an MA in Metalwork conservation at the V&A Museum, she turned to painting in around 1999. In 2002 she moved to Somerset and took up her artwork as a full-time career.
For more information Tel: 01458 833574 www.galleryeight.com
Cecil King: A Legacy of Painting
Wednesday 27th February 2008 - Sunday 18th May 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: Ireland
Cecil King: A Legacy of Painting at the Irish Museum of Modern Art spans the later career of the highly-regarded Irish artist Cecil King. The exhibition presents some 40 works, concentrating mainly on the hard-edge paintings for which the artist was particularly well known and includes many of the finest works from his celebrated Baggot Street, Berlin, and Nexus series.
An Exhibition of Works by Paolo Bigazzi
Wednesday 14th May 2008 - Wednesday 28th May 2008
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Duration: Between the times 10:00:00 and 17:00:00
Location: North England
Paolo Bigazzi, Italian artist, was born in Livorno and studied at the Academy of Fine Art in Florence at the "Scuola del Nudo". Living a stone's throw from the Duomo, he imbibed the artistic atmosphere of the city which would prove to have a profound influence on him.
After five years he sought inspiration in the South of France and settled for some time in Cap d'Antibes. He spent his time living and working alongside the painters there and ceramic artists from the nearby village of Vallauris.
On returning to Italy, he became a member of the "Cenacolo" group of artists, led by Pietro Annigoni. During this time, interest in his work started to grow and galleries throughout Europe and the United States introduced him to a wider audience.
In the last ten years, he has divided his time between England and Tuscany, where he continues to produce and exhibit the work which has given him the stature he enjoys today.
Chicken or Egg?
Saturday 1st March 2008 - Tuesday 4th November 2008
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Duration: Between the times 10:00:00 and 16:00:00
Location: North England
New work is hatching down at the Cooper Gallery, Barnsley where 15 local artists, collectively known (for their rarity!) as Hens Teeth have been brooding over a whole new body of work. This exciting, diverse and stimulating display of original new pieces in a wide variety of materials questions our understanding about originality and precedence in art creation.
The artists participating in the new exhibition have all used as their starting point at least one of the paintings and sculptures in the Cooper Gallery Permanent Collection. It will be intriguing to see these works (some of which have not been on public view for a long time) on display alongside the new paintings, ceramics, glass, jewellery, textiles & more, that have evolved in direct response to them. To compliment the exhibition each artist will additionally provide their own supporting sketchbooks giving a rare peek into the processes of art creation.
There will be workshops with the artists for local school children during the exhibition. For more information or to register interest in attending a workshop please contact the Cooper Gallery on 01226 242905 or, for information about Hens Teeth and examples of members previous work please visit their website www.hensteeth-visualarts.co.uk
The exhibition is supported by the Arts Council England.
âChicken or Egg?â from 29 February to 11 April.
Open Monday to Friday 10.00 - 4.00, Saturday 10.00 - 3.00, closed Sunday
The Cooper Gallery, Church Street, Barnsley S70 2AH
Telephone 01226 242905, Email coopergallery@barnsley.gov.uk
Long Established Mediums harmonize with new media
Saturday 26th April 2008 - Friday 23rd May 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: South West England
âLong established mediums harmonize with new mediaâ
curated by Lloyd Gill
CLARE CARTER + ROSS MARKLEW + KATE BASSETT + ED ASHTON + TIM SKINNER + JONATHAN MOSS + IAN PENNA + MANUEL CAPURSO
The title of this group exhibition is âlong established mediums harmonize with new mediaâ and the Lloyd Gill Gallery has gathered eight participating Artists. This group exhibition has investigated into the divisions of Contemporary Art, by showing an exhibition that elevates new media with older techniques. The gallery has selected Artists that work in Sculpture, Painting, Printmaking, with Artists working in Video and Photography.
Clare Carter, who has recently finished a residency in Norway this year, is showing three paintings from a series of
work produced from another residency in Cyprus last year. Her work epitomises distinct narratives through
transforming everyday scenes of gesture and rural landscape to slowdown human characteristics. Clare has
received numerous awards including a Scholarship from Sandnes Kommune for 10 week residency at Stasjon
K Studios, Sandnes, Norway in 2008. In 2007, Clare was awarded a Leonard Da Vinci grant (Grampus Heritage
Fund) for 3 month residency at Cyprus College of Art, Pafos, Cyprus. The Arts Council England supplied Clare
with a grant for a 3 month residency at Upernavik Museum, Upernavik, Greenland in 2006. Clare studied for a
BA in Fine Art (hons) at Batley School of Art & Design (UK) and continued her studies at the Cyprus College
of Art for a Post-Graduate Diploma Fine Art and a ASET Exhibition Organisation during 2006.
Ross Marklewâs paintings made a sudden transition from representation to abstraction after an experimental period while studying in Cardiff for a BA (hons). His work âview of Newport Roadâ is a mystical interpretation with loss of perspective to enhance the dreamscape quality. Ross graduated with a BA in Fine Art (hons) at the University of Wales Institute Cardiff, 2003 â 2006, (First Class)
Edward Ashton creates multiple depictions using collage which evolve into finalised paintings. Material is collected from a number of sources including old postcards. The images tend to be of a non-personal nature, and have predominantly focused on landscape and architecture. The landscapes tend to be dramatic, inspired by romantic paintings, while the buildings are often monumental. Edward graduated with a BA in Fine Art (hons) at the University of Wales Institute Cardiff, 2003 â 2006, (First Class)
Kate Bassett is a printmaker based in Cardiff. Kate is a dedicated printmaker working primarily in the intaglio
processes of collagraph and drypoint. These techniques require physicality and demand a âhands onâ approach
which I respond well to. Kate develop ideas for her work by studying drawings and photographs of streets and
communal gatherings. The work is often melancholy yet humorous. Kate feels this is reinforced by my drawing
style which gives a theatrical and dramatic sense of space. Kate graduated with a BA in Fine Art (hons) at the University of Wales Institute Cardiff, 2003 â 2006,(First Class).
Tim Skinner will be showing a number of videoâs which explore his fascination of understanding sound as a visual
format. Each video inhabits the movements of sound, which corresponds as a visual representation our perception
recognises, such as the film âButterflyâ. Tim will be showing a number of prints along side his video work. Tim
graduated in 2003 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Colchester School of Art and Design. He later received a Graduate
scholarship award in 2003-2004 at the Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester.
Jonathan Moss works in video, painting and printmaking. Elements of nineteenth century European northern
romantic landscape painting are important to Jonathan for example, a search for God in nature and
adopting light and darkness as metaphors, whilst he simultaneously takes inspiration
from modernism, especially the Abstract Expressionists acknowledging the painting as a thing in itself,
the importance of the act of making and exploring the tension between abstraction and figuration.
Jonathan will be showing videos that are in conjunction to paintings and prints which contribute
to the series âRivesaltes (Shoah)â. Jonathan has currently completed his studies at the Royal College of Art,
London. PEP, Department of Printmaking in 2006. He studied for a PGCE at Oxford University during
1995â1996 and completed a MA in Fine Art and Art History at The University of Wales, Aberystwyth,
UK during 1991 â 1993.
Ian Penna works in Sculpture and the selected work for this exhibition transpires the use of correlating
materials to collect into a state of formulating matter. He combines his skills of preparation, investigation,
manipulation and the application of the materials in space. Ian graduated from Falmouth University with a
BA in Fine Art (hons) and was one of the four finalists for the 2007 Midas Award, Artonomy Fine Art, Truro.
Ian is a member of the N.S.A ( Newlyn Society of Artists).
Manuel Capurso is showing a selection of Photography from the series of work âbeyond the darknessâ,
which was generated while studying at the London College of Communication. The work in this series
embodies a delusional state of perception, through the use of targeted light thwarted into darkened social arenas.
Manuel graduated with an MA Photography, with distinction from the London College of Communication in 2007.
He completed a Graduate Certificate in Digital Lens Based Image making from the London College of
Communication, London in 2006. Manuel studied for a Masters degree in Labour Science, Statale University,
Milan, Italy - Universidad de Granada, Spain in 2000. He has also completed a first degree in Political Science,
specialisation in International â Politics Statale University, Milan, Italy during 1997/98. Manuel has been selected for
the Photo Espana, Descubrimientos 2008 â finalist and also the Student discovery award â selection 100 finalists
in 2007.
Private View: Saturday 8th March 2008, 7 to 10pm
Lee House 13 Beaconsfield Road Weston - Super - Mare Somerset BS23 1YE
Tel. +44 01934 623449 enquires@thelloydgillgallery.com / www.thelloydgillgallery.com
Moor Music Festival 2008
Thursday 7th August 2008 - Saturday 9th August 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: North England
Moor Music Festival is a small and beautifully formed weekend party filled with creativity, music, mayhem, great food and drink (not at rip off prices!) and enjoys a truly unique atmosphere.
Put together by a group of friends who've come from a background of some of the great woodland, wasteland and wildland parties held throughout North Yorkshire over the past fifteen years, the festival is run independently and without sponsorship.
So come along, meet friends and make friends at what is coming to be known as the good vibed reunion weekender for people in the north and beyond.
Imagine a village fete with a twist, wild camping with benefits or your eccentric aunt's parties in the seventies and you'll be just about there.
But don't take our word for it, jump in... the water's lovely.
Writing from memory workshop with THE SOUTH
Saturday 10th May 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: South East England
All of us have a story to tell. We donât need to have climbed Mount Everest or to have wrestled with a crocodile, we donât need to have won an Olympic medal or have been born with a voice like Pavarottiâs, but we all have a story to tell.
âWriting from Memoryâ with Maggie Sawkins and writers hub THE SOUTH, is a one day workshop that will help writers of any genres and levels delve into their creative reserves by delving into their past.
To write an account of every moment of our lives would be impossible. Most autobiographies are selections and re-workings of truths. One way to begin is by sifting through our memories, by reliving moments from our past, by finding ways of recording. Of course our memory of an event may be entirely different from that of a sibling, a parent, or friend. But thatâs what makes our stories unique, they carry our signature, they are our stories.
Maggie comments: âIt is often the little things that are left untold that have mean the most. But where do we start? How do we decide which bits to leave in and which to leave out? This workshop will help anyone wanting to write a personal account answer those questions.â
WHEN: Saturday 10 May, 12 â 3 pm
WHERE: Brighton Writers Centre, 49 Grand Parade, Brighton
COST: ÂŁ16/ÂŁ15 concs
To book and for further information on this and other workshops please visit www.thesouth.org.uk.
Rough Image: An Exhibtion By Homeless Artists
Saturday 19th April 2008 - Sunday 4th May 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: South East England
Figura Gallery and the national homelessness charity Crisis are working together on an unusual exhibition this April. Comprised of art and craftwork created by the homeless community, the Rough Image exhibition will be mounted in support of the London & Slough Run, a local charitable organisation which has been helping to feed and support the homeless of Slough and London for over 20 years.
The exhibition aims to highlight an issue which affects thousands of people in Great Britain, and the excellent work of the charities and volunteers which support them. The artwork itself will be provided by homeless members of Crisis Skylight which encourages homeless people to take part in free practical and creative workshops.
Visit the Figura Gallery at 24 High Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1LH or go online at www.figuragallery.co.uk. For customer enquiries please call 01753 498 534.
ROMANCE
Wednesday 2nd April 2008 - Friday 6th June 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: London
ROMANCE
2 April - 6 June 2008
Celebrating the season of spring in leap year, Romance brings together sculptures, ceramics, paintings, prints and photography by over 30 artists including Sir Peter Blake, Rose Hilton, Tom Phillips RA, Shani Rhys James, Stuart Semple and many more.
Exhibiting artists:
Naomi Alexander, Maggie Angus Berkowitz, Catherine Barne, Ellen Bell, Sonja Benskin Mesher, Rob Bibby, Peter Blake, Julian Brain , Jo Broughton, Anna Ellerington, Peter Ford, Tom Hammick, Marcelle Hanselaar, Bridget Heriz, Rose Hilton, Horatio Holzbein, Magnus Irvin, Andrew James, Caroline List, Alan Macdonald , Angela Malone, Simon Manby, Elizabeth Neylan, Tom Phillips RA, Fran Richardson, Shani Rhys James, Stuart Semple, Prue Seward, Andrew Tyler, Anthony Whishaw , Albert Williams, Muna Zuberi
Most works in the exhibition will be for sale.
Venue: The Kowalsky Gallery at DACS, 33 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DX
Phone: 020 7336 8811
Email: info@kowalskygallery.co.uk
Times: Monday - Friday, 10 am - 5 pm by appointment
Tube: Barbican / Farringdon
Special Thursday late night openings until 9pm: 3 April, 1 May & 3 June 2008. Visit www.kowalskygallery.co.uk for details
Cathy Wilkes
Wednesday 16th April 2008 - Sunday 8th June 2008
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Duration: Between the times 09:00:00 and 17:00:00
Location: South East England
Milton Keynes Gallery presents the most comprehensive exhibition in the UK by artist Cathy Wilkes. Born and raised in Belfast, Wilkes is one of a generation of artists who was educated in Glasgow and emerged at the forefront of British visual arts practice the mid 1990s. The exhibition, which comprises new and recent work, will be accompanied by an illustrated catalogue.
Wilkes's work is characterised by the creation of a slowly emerging, distinctively personal vocabulary of sculptures and paintings which she makes and re-makes in evolving assemblages and environments. Her processes are measured and refined, drawing on the most intimate of personal experiences to create a compelling autobiographical thread, coupled with a precise and liberated formal language. Wilkes confidently and unapologetically selects the most abject and awkward of domestic, everyday objects; a widescreen Sony television, a Maclaren's push chair or a jar of Bonne Mamam apricot preserve have all been incorporated in Wilkes's expansive installations.
Rough Image: An Exhibtion By Homeless Artists
Saturday 19th April 2008 - Sunday 4th May 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: South East England
Figura Gallery and the national homelessness charity Crisis are working together on an unusual exhibition this April. Comprised of art and craftwork created by the homeless community, the Rough Image exhibition will be mounted in support of the London & Slough Run, a local charitable organisation which has been helping to feed and support the homeless of Slough and London for over 20 years.
The exhibition aims to highlight an issue which affects thousands of people in Great Britain, and the excellent work of the charities and volunteers which support them. The artwork itself will be provided by homeless members of Crisis Skylight which encourages homeless people to take part in free practical and creative workshops.
Visit the Figura Gallery at 24 High Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1LH or go online at www.figuragallery.co.uk. For customer enquiries please call 01753 498 534.
This Et Al UK tour
Sunday 6th April 2008 - Monday 5th May 2008
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Duration: Between the times 19:00:00 and 23:00:00
Location: North England
Sun 6 Apr - LEEDS Cockpit
Ł8 / Doors 7:00pm
with Future Of The Left
Fri 11 Apr - LEICESTER Rockfood / Repeater @ Level 1, De Montfort University
Free entry / Doors 8:00
with Kyte and Her Name Is Calla
Sat 12 Apr - OXFORD The Wheatsheaf
Ł6 / Doors 8:00
with The Winchell Riots and Her Name Is Calla
Fri 18 Apr - MANCHESTER Club Ubik @ Cafe Saki
Ł5 / Doors 9:00
with Vessels, Kontakte and Laymar
Mon 21 Apr - YORK The Junction
ÂŁ5 / Doors 8:00
with The Fibres and The Novelties
Wed 23 Apr - NEWCASTLE Get Involved @ The Head Of Steam
Ł5 / Doors 8:00
with I Concur
Sat 26 Apr - WAKEFIELD Louder Than Bombs @ Escobar
Ł4 / Doors 8:00
with Dinosaur Pile Up and The Spills
Sat 3 May - LEEDS Live At Leeds @ The Cockpit
Mon 5 May - LANCASTER Yorkshire House
ŁTBC / Doors 8:00
with Adventures Of Loki and Pulled Apart By Horses
an-Aesthetic
Sunday 11th May 2008 - Saturday 31st May 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: Wales
'A Mind Numbingly Good Show' - A Hybrid exhibition at TactileBOSCH Gallery, Andrews Road, Cardiff CF14 2JP www.tactilebosch.org www.hybrid-art.org
Hybrid present their latest take on the weird and wonderful world of art, science and health in an-Aesthetic. The exhibition presents work sourced from both the operating table and the psychiatrist's couch, with artists exploring ideas of consciousness, pain and sentience in relation to medicine and health, it includes sculpture, video, photography, installation and performance.
Aspects of British Printmaking, c. 1860-1980
Wednesday 5th March 2008 - Friday 6th June 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: North England
Until June, the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery (University of Leeds) is showing Aspects of British Printmaking, c. 1860-1980' from the University art collection. The display explores the development of printmaking in Britain from the Etching Revival through to Pop and Op art screenprints.
Whitechapel at War: Isaac Rosenberg and his circle
Monday 16th June 2008 - Friday 5th September 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: North England
Touring from the Ben Uri Gallery, London, this is the first exhibition in 15 years to explore the work of WW1 poet-painter Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918), in the context of his Whitechapel peers. The exhibition coincides with the publication of a new biography of Rosenberg, by Dr. Jean Moorcroft.
Opening hours: Monday-Friday 10:00-17:00
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery
Parkinson Building
University of Leeds
LS2 9JT
+44 (0)113 343 2777
gallery@leeds.ac.uk
www.leeds.ac.uk/gallery
no more studio please
Monday 24th March 2008 - Saturday 31st May 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: Wales
Recent arts council creative award in anmation/ painting is now available for viewing at the studio which will be open every fri 2- 4pm...entry free more unit 21 addison road porttalbot s.wales. sa11 6hz info at www.artistnealehowells.ds4a.com
Four Normal People by Valerie Whitworth - Gormleys Fine Ar
Friday 23rd May 2008 - Friday 6th June 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: Ireland
Gormleys Fine Art, Omagh are delighted to be hosting for the first time an exhibition by Valerie Whitworth. Known for her exciting use of light, colour and animated lines, which gives a shimmering architectural depth to any subject matter, Valerie has based her collection around the highly successful comedy show by Kevin McAleer - The comedy show which has become a cult classic on the London circuit and has been screened on programmes such as Channel 4's "Friday Night Live". For further information log onto www.gormleys.ie
Mid Summers Garden Sculpture Exhibition - Gormleys Fine Art
Tuesday 24th June 2008 - Sunday 6th July 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: Ireland
Gormleys Fine Art will host an International Sculpture Exhibition this summer in the beautiful setting of Brackenstown House. The Exhibition will explore the prominence of sculpture in Ireland over the past few decades, exhibiting well-established Irish and International names along with emerging young talents. Including artists John Behan, Edward Delaney, Debbi OâHeir and Anna Duncan. The award winning twenty-eight acre grounds are situated 5 minutes from Dublin Airport, combining the beauty of the natural landscape with eloquent creative design. The grounds provide the perfect setting for an International Sculpture Exhibition, with over 50 artists, combining life size pieces, and large installations of over 14 feet high, with smaller indoor sculpture pieces.
Combined with International artists and emerging sculptors, Gormleys aims to present a sculpture exhibition, which is capable of bridging the cap between two generations of emerging and established artists, offering a significant overview of sculpture in Ireland.
Exhibition by appointment only, to arrange a viewing please contact the Dublin Gallery on +353 (0)1 6729031
Signs: Photographs by Mark Power
Thursday 10th April 2008 - Sunday 18th May 2008
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Duration: Between the times 09:00:00 and 19:30:00
Location: South East England
Signs: Photographs by Mark Power, which opens at Churchill College, Cambridge, on 10 April 2008, is a panoramic overview of Mark Power's eclectic and groundbreaking work over the last twenty years. The exhibition is curated by Jorge Calado, who has been responsible for more than 20 international exhibitions of photography, and includes large-format photographs from works realised in 18 nations, from Finland to Brazil and from the United States to Japan.
Mark Power is a member of Magnum Photos and Professor of Photography at the University of Brighton. His first major project was The Shipping Forecast (1996), a poetic response to the Met Office weather forecast broadcast daily on BBC Radio 4, which won him the Yann Geffroy International Documentary Prize and the Mosaique European Photography Award among others. Since 1997, he has produced a number of works combining large-scale commissions from the industrial sector with self-initiated projects. These include Superstructure (2000), which documents the construction of Londonâs Millennium Dome, and The Treasury Project (2002), which captured the refurbishment of HM The Treasury Building, in Whitehall. In 2007, he curated the exhibition Theatres of War at the Oskar Schindler factory in KrakĂłw, Poland, whilst completing â26 Different Endingsâ, a project inspired by the London A-Z. He is currently working on "The Sound of Two Songs", a long-term project on Poland.
Berwyn Festival of Music, Art and Food
Friday 16th May 2008 - Sunday 18th May 2008
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Duration: Between the times 10:00:00 and 16:00:00
Location: Wales
Festival of music, food and art:
2 days of folk, blues and roots music with local, national and international performers.
3 day Art exhibition
1 day Food fair
1 day Craft fair
www.BerwynFestival.co.uk
Green Fuse
Friday 7th March 2008 - Saturday 31st May 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: Wales
GREEN FUSE
For its next show St Dogmaels Gallery has invited artists to respond to Dylan Thomas's "The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower." The poem explores the power that brings the rebirth of spring, sparking the new growth of the annual cycle. This same force simultaneously and inevitably moves all things towards aging and death, re-igniting the fuse.
Bharti Kher
Thursday 30th April 2009 - Sunday 17th August 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: North England
Transforming the gallery into a hallucinatory space of myth and synthesis, artist Bharti Kher presents a new installation for BALTIC. Raised in London, educated in Newcastle, and now living and working in New Delhi, Kher creates surreal environments that are both fantastical and seductive.
Mariko Mori
Wednesday 21st May 2008 - Sunday 14th September 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: North England
Japanese, New York based artist Mariko Mori is best known for her video and self-portraiture focusing on the imagination and fantasy. The exhibition at BALTIC includes new drawings from the Primal Particles and Parallel Brane series and also includes the installation Miracle.
Writing Out Loud
Tuesday 6th May 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: South East England
Short Fuse and THE SOUTH join creative forces for Brighton Festival Fringe
With the growing number of short story festivals, flash fiction competitions, and live lit nights cropping up in the South East and nationally, there is now a greater opportunity for developing writers to âexhibitâ or âperformâ their work.
To help them on their way, live lit organisation Short Fuse has teamed up with writers hub THE SOUTH to run a four week workshop, âWriting Out Loudâ. It is aimed at people who are interested in taking their work to an audience, and seeks to help develop their writing skills on the page, as well as the production of a short story that works well off the page too.
Polly Tuckett and Tara Gould, directors of Short Fuse, the cult monthly short fiction night held at Brightonâs Komedia, will be running this innovative course.
Writers themselves, Tara and Polly understand the creative needs of the those that work with words. Tara comments: âWriting doesn't have to mean doing time in a lonely garret. Learning how to write a story that delivers both on and off the page, in terms of content and performance is an invaluable tool in today's literary world, where self-promotion through presenting ones work at live lit events is an important part of being a writer.â
Polly continues: âBy the end of the course, students will experience the satisfaction of reading their work out to an audience that hangs on every word.â
Tara Gould has taught creative writing for CCE at Sussex University, and privately, since 2000. She has won two awards for her short fiction and has had two plays on BBC Radio 4. After a degree in theatre she completed an MA in Art, Education and Creative Writing. Polly Tuckett has taught creative writing and writes for children and adults. She has been shortlisted for prestigious short fiction competitions and has had work published in writing magazines.
WHEN: for four Tuesday evenings, 7 â 9 pm starting 6 May
WHERE: Brighton Writers Centre, 49 Grand Parade, Brighton
COST: ÂŁ44/ÂŁ40 concs
For further information on this and other workshops please visit www.thesouth.org.uk. Book via Brighton Festival Fringe.
KING FISHER'S TALES at Union Gallery
Thursday 19th March 2009 - Saturday 3rd May 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: London
In association with Workplace Gallery
Artists:
ERIC BAINBRIDGE / DARREN BANKS / NEIL BAKER / CATHERINE
BERTOLA / RICK BUCKLEY / JOE CLARK / DAVID RAYMOND CONROY /
FRANCINE DEMARCO / PETER J. EVANS / COLIN GUILLEMET / HENRY
KROKATSIS / AIDAN LATIMER / TONICO LEMOS AUAD / RORY MACBETH /
JOHN NEGUS / RICHARD RIGG / CECILIA STENBOM / MATT STOKES /
MILES THURLOW
PV 03/18/08 From 6 to 9 PM at Ewer Street
Exhibition at both premises Ewer St & Teesdale St
UNION
57 Ewer Street
London SE1 0NR
MONDAY - FRIDAY 10AM - 6PM
SATURDAY 12PM - 5PM
UNION TEESDALE
94 Teesdale Street
London E2 6PU
CONTACTGALLERY FOR
OPENING HOURS
www.union-gallery.com
Wey Valley Workshop
Saturday 3rd May 2008 - Saturday 24th May 2008
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Duration: Between the times 10:00:00 and 16:00:00
Location: South East England
An exhibition of embroidery by this talented group, featuring historic samples, daily demonstrations and modern techniques.
Admission Free
Guildford House Gallery, 155 High Street, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 3AJ
Tel: 01483 44742
www.guildfordhouse.co.uk
Creative Connectivity
Saturday 17th May 2008
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Duration: Between the times 10:00:00 and 16:00:00
Location: South East England
It's a common problem as a writer or poet. You have so many ideas, so many inspirations, but how to form them into a piece of work? To the rescue comes writers' hub THE SOUTH, with poet Mandy Pannett, and a one day workshop, Connections that will solve just that dilemma.
Connections aims to help fledgling writers and poets discover all sorts of connections and associations between images, sounds, ideas, traditions, meanings, words and whole poems themselves. Participants will take part in collaborative and individual exercises and writing activities and will have several pieces of work in progress by the end of the day.
Mandy comments: Connections is aimed at new writers and anyone that wants to come along to explore what might happen. The day will be hard work but also a lot of fun, exciting and stimulating.
WHEN: Saturday 17 May, 10 am - 4 pm
WHERE: Brighton Writers Centre, 49 Grand Parade, Brighton
COST: Ł32/Ł30 concs
To book and for further information on this and other workshops please visit www.thesouth.org.uk.
Double Agent
Wednesday 21st May 2008 - Sunday 17th August 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: North England
Touring group exhibition featuring artists who use other people as a medium. The exhibition tours to three venues in the UK, and includes the British premieres of a number of significant works, as well as new commissions specific to each venue.
Yoshitomo + graf
Saturday 14th June 2008 - Sunday 26th October 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: North England
Yoshitomo Nara is well known for his drawings, paintings and sculptures of children with seemingly adult expressions.At BALTIC Nara +graf will reinterpret two cross-shaped house structures, part of the continuation of the A- Z project, built in Berlin and the Netherlands.
Eve Poland: Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Eternal Punishments
Saturday 3rd May 2008 - Sunday 25th May 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: South East England
Nua, Ship Street, Brighton
So you think you know the Seven Deadly Sins? But do you know the punishments meted out to each of the sinners? The lustful are forced to writhe in flames for all eternity, the proud are crushed beneath heavy stones and the envious have their naughty covetous eyes sewn shut with wire.
In a new exhibition of paintings at Nua, Eve Poland depicts each sin and its punishment in her irreverent illustrative style, incorporating typographic elements into each beautiful piece.
A Brighton local, Eves work features in private collections across the country. Using recurrent themes of power, beauty and sexuality, Eve likes the art to speak for itself.
www.evepoland.com
Julie Ellison Spring 2008 Tour
Wednesday 7th May 2008 - Saturday 28th June 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: London
Acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter Julie Ellison hits the road again taking her unique mix of acoustic guitar instrumentals and original songs to acoustic clubs, theatres and arts centres across the UK.
Mar 7 - "Live Lincs", St Margaret's Church, Laceby, N Lincs
Mar 8 - "Live Lincs", West Butterwick Village Hall, N Lincs
Apr 27 - Grimsby Folk Club at The Spider's Web, Grimsby, N E Lincs
May 9 to 11 - Folk on the Pier festival, Cromer
May 22 - Tump Music Club, Brinklow, Warwickshire
May 24 - Maltings Arts Theatre, St Albans
June 6 - Farncombe Music Club, Surrey
June 12 - Garstang Unplugged, Lancs
June 13 - Square Chapel Centre for the Arts, Halifax
June 14 - Riverhead Theatre, Louth
June 27 - Eastgate Theatre and Arts Centre, Peebles
June 28 - Cumbernauld Theatre, Cumbernauld (afternoon guitar workshop & evening concert)
Full details of all concerts can be found at http://www.julieellison.co.uk, along with music downloads and video.
For more information contact John Robinson at Acoustyistics Ltd on 01724 735 349 or email john@acoustyistics.co.uk.
The Spring Show 2008
Thursday 3rd July 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: North England
Mike Bell will be exhibiting new work in the Quarterly Exhibition at The Biscuit Factory in Newcastle,, Europes largest Commercial gallery
visit www.thebiscuit factory.com
Aesthetica Annual Creative Works Competition
Saturday 1st March 2008 - Sunday 31st August 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: North England
Exciting new opportunities are underway at Aesthetica magazine New Aesthetica Annual Creative Works Competition \r\n\r\nThe Aesthetica Annual Creative Works Competition will champion new talent in the genres of visual arts, photography, poetry and fiction. \r\n \r\nThe competition is separate from Aesthetica Magazine, however the annual event is organised by the founders of Aesthetica Magazine. \r\n \r\nDetails of the Annual Competition:\r\n \r\n1. The competition will accept entries of creative writing (poetry & fiction) as well as artwork and photography.\r\n2. Each section will have one winner that will receive a prize of Ł500 and a subscription to Aesthetica Magazine\r\n3. The new Aesthetica Annual will be a book that will present winning entries and runners-up in the genres of artwork, poetry and fiction. \r\n4. Entry allows the submission of either five images of artwork, three short stories (up to 2000 words each), or five poems (up to 40 lines each). \r\n5. The entry fee for the Aesthetica Annual Creative Works Competition is Ł10. \r\n6. Deadline for entries is 31 August 2008.\r\n \r\nFor further information please go to http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/submission_guide.htm\r\n \r\n\r\nAesthetica Magazine will still continue to be published bi-monthly covering visual arts, literature, film, music and theatre all in one issue. We will still continue to distribute through WH Smith and Borders. However our literature section is evolving and we will be working with major publishers to bring you exclusive excerpts from newly published novels \r\n \r\nBest Wishes\r\n
Anita Mandl:From Aardvark to Zebra
Monday 19th May 2008 - Friday 27th June 2008
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Duration: Between the times 10:00:00 and 18:00:00
Location: South West England
Bronze sculpture by Anita Mandl at Gallery Pangolin Tel: 01453 886527
email: gallery@pangolin-editions.com
Coventry comes to Wells
Friday 21st March 2008 - Friday 31st October 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: South West England
Monumental bronze sculpture by Terence Coventry against the stunning backdrop of the grounds of the Bishop's Palace, Wells, Somerset
Springheeled 2008
Tuesday 4th March 2008
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Duration: Between the times 20:00:00 and 00:00:00
Location: London
Now in its third year, Springheeled returns to feature an exciting range of interdisciplinary work by young choreographers including a performance by Cathy Seago and Evolving Motion, Etta Ermini Dance Theatre and visiting Taiwanese artist Wen-Shing Ho.
This year's platform will also feature a performance project created by the artists working in the Camberwell community with local students.
Time: 8pm
Tickets: Ł10 (Ł6 conc.)
www.blueelephanttheatre.co.uk
Edward Bawden in the Middle East
Monday 23rd March 2009 - Sunday 28th September 2008
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Duration: Between the times 14:00:00 and 17:00:00
Location: South East England
An exhibition of watercolours executed by Edward Bawden while working as an Official War Artist in Iraq in 1944. The works have been loaned by the Imperial War Museum and the Government Art Collection.
The Fry Art Gallery,Castle Street, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 1BD
Admission Free
For further details see our website www.fryartgallery.org
York Youth Mysteries
Saturday 21st June 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: North England
Revived.Remixed.Retold.
A unique interpretation of the Mystery Plays with young people reclaiming the streets and entertaining us in a series of indoor and outdoor performances. Including live art, physical theatre, dance and circus, this event promises to be a unique and exciting day for everyone.
Writing from Memory with Maggie Sawkins
Sunday 5th October 2008 - Tuesday 30th November 1999
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Duration: All day event
Location: South East England
All of us have a story to tell. We donât need to have climbed Mount Everest or to have wrestled with a crocodile, we donât need to have won an Olympic medal or have been born with a voice like Pavarottiâs. All lives are important - it is often the little things that are left untold that have mean the most. But where do we start? How do we decide which bits to leave in and which to leave out? To write an account of every moment of our lives would be impossible. Most autobiographies are selections and re-workings of truths. One way to begin is by sifting through our memories, by reliving moments from our past, by finding ways of recording. Of course our memory of an event may be entirely different from that of a sibling, a parent, or friend. But thatâs what makes our stories unique, they carry our signature, they are our stories.
Maggie Sawkins spent her childhood in Leigh Park, a large council housing estate north of Portsmouth. She began writing poetry at the age of nine after being inspired by her head teacher. Her first poems were published in Hampshire Poets when she was seventeen. In 2004 Maggie co-founded the popular Tongues & Grooves Poetry and Music Club in Southsea where she now lives with her husband, younger daughter and a growing menagerie. Flarestack published a pamphlet collection, Charcotâs Pet, in 2003. The Zig Zag Woman (Two Ravens Press) is her first full collection.
Cardigan Open Studios 14th Exhibition
Saturday 9th August 2008 - Saturday 6th September 2008
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Duration: Between the times 10:00:00 and 18:00:00
Location: Wales
Now in its 14th year, Cardigan Open Studios Exhibition showcases the work of artists in the West Wales area who will be opening their studios to the public this August. The exhibition is at Oriel Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan.
Ceredigion Artists at the Urdd Centre, Llangrannog
Friday 1st August 2008 - Sunday 31st August 2008
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Duration: Between the times 10:00:00 and 17:00:00
Location: Wales
Artists in the South Ceredigion coastal area showcase their work at Gwersyll yr Urdd, the Urdd Centre, Llangrannog, Ceredigion throughout August. Work on show in the new Gallery is from artists who welcome the public to their Open Studios throughout August. Further details and brochure available in June from cardiganopenstudios.co.uk
Diane Walkey - New Works
Friday 15th August 2008 - Sunday 31st August 2008
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Duration: Between the times 10:00:00 and 18:00:00
Location: Wales
Diane Walkey exhibits New Works at TĆ· Twt Studio, Cardigan. Contemporary works in oil on canvas, abstract and landscape based colourful and gestural paintings. Preview the artist's work on www.dianewalkey.com
Essentials: Dreams-The Secret Masterpieces of Cinema
Tuesday 29th April 2008
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Duration: Between the times 18:30:00 and 00:00:00
Location: Midlands
Essentials: Dreams' collects together the mythic, the nightmarish and the psychadelic to present pioneering artists' wondrous visions, revealing cinema in all its magical intensity. Featuring work by Luis Brunel, Salvador Dali, Lawrence Jordan, Jan Svankmajer, and Suzan Pitt.
Cert 15. Tickets Ł6.20, concessions Ł4.50
Broadway Digital Media Centre
Broad Street
Nottingham
NG1 3AL
0115 9526611
www.broadway.org.uk
'Essence' New Works by Ger Sweeney, Sean Cotter, James May, & Jo
Thursday 1st May 2008 - Sunday 18th May 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: Ireland
The highly anticipated exhibition in Gormleys Fine Art Belfast will showcase the work of four artists using a language of abstraction to explore the visual essence of the landscape. Each artist generates images, which are a creative response to the shapes and structures of the Irish landscape.
The work presented in this exhibition reflects four very different interpretations of the formal elements of composition, form, light and colour, and yet maintain a recognisable essence of the Irish landscape. These artists have the strength in their work to convey the relentless energy, combined with the enduring calmness of the elemental forces of nature. For further information contact www.gormleys.ie
7 Deadly Sins Art Exhibition
Thursday 3rd April 2008 - Saturday 5th April 2008
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Duration: Between the times 10:00:00 and 17:00:00
Location: Ireland
The James Joyce Centre and the seven deadly sins will merge on the 3rd of April, in an exciting and unique art exhibition.
Displaying the winning pieces from the competition, in which artists were asked to interpret the theme of the seven deadly sins, the exhibition promises to be a vibrant and eclectic mix of mediums, styles and colours.
This exhibition will be a brief affair, being open to the public on just two days, (Friday, April 4th, 10-5 and Sat, 5th, 10-3) so people are encouraged to pencil it into their diaries because it is certainly not one to be missed!
Asia Triennial Manchester 08: Channel_A and p-10
Saturday 5th April 2008 - Sunday 1st June 2008
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Duration: Between the times 10:00:00 and 18:00:00
Location: North England
To what extent does location, nationality and geography play a role in the production, direction and dissemination of contemporary art? For ATM08, Castlefield Gallery has invited two artist groups from the islands of Taiwan and Singapore to present new site-specific work in the island of Great Britain. Channel_A (Hongjohn Lin and Ella Raidel) from Taiwan and p-10 (represented by Woon Tien Wei, Jennifer Teo working with collaborators Jeremy Chu and Kai Lam) from Singapore have both developed work that engages with the cultural, political and social climates they operate in, through different avenues of enquiry.
In addition to the new work by Channel_A and p-10, Castlefield Gallery will host the teahouse hub in the Upper Gallery in which visitors will be able to drink tea brought to Manchester by the artists showing at the various ATM08 venues across Manchester thereby representing the participating countries of Mainland China, Hong Kong, India, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. There will also be a travelling teahouse located throughout Greater Manchester, a network of temporary sites that will host a range of talks, panel discussions, performances, workshops and events commonly linked under the teahouse idea. Please see the ATM08 website for updates. www.asiatriennialmanchester.com
The Puzzle Box, Chapter 3
Friday 4th April 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: South East England
"There are lots of faces like this in old churches faces made out of leaves. Some of them are in wood and some in stone. They're always called Green Men."
"Why does this one look so horrible?"
I believe they're supposed to represent the plight of an immortal soul when it's forced to live in a mortal body..."
Dora starts to find out about the first clue. She converses with a vicar. One of the cards is stolen. The black beetle reappears.
http://www.edwardpicot.com/puzzlebox/
- Edward Picot
http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website
Marginalia Part 1: How the words came into being.
Sunday 20th April 2008
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Duration: Between the times 13:00:00 and 17:00:00
Location: Wales
Marginalia: Parts 1 & 2 - a two-site installation by Richard Bowers.
Part 1: How the words came into being.
Part 2: The passage through Hell is a spiral.
The Washington Gallery, Penarth, and the School of Psychology, Cardiff University, are the locations for two installations presenting readings through a translation of the 'Inferno' of mediaeval Italian poet, Dante. Large-scale images create a backcloth for a drama of sound: an exploration of the transitions between intelligible vocal utterance and noise. Speech is decimated and regurgitated as a composition taking on 'mobile form' within the spaces. The sounds are a commentary on the text: marginal notes; underlinings; crossings out; pages torn out and defaced.
Similarly the images, derived from the nineteenth century illustrations for a translation of the Inferno, are excisions with 'notes' added to them - writings, effacements, reinforcements - that recombine to form original compositons.
Taken as a whole, the two installations can be seen as an aggressive reworking of a physical book.
The installation at the Washington Gallery runs from April 20th until May 20th and the School of Psychology installation shall run throughout the Summer Term.
About the artist:
Much of Richard's sonic and musical work balances the spontaneity of live performance with the reflective, editorial control to be found in the studio. He uses software tools to transfigure the spectral integrity of the sounds in order to extend the timbres of the sound objects. He frequently obtains the source material from musical instruments and, in Marginalia, he has worked exclusively with recordings of speech to form the palette of sounds.
His pieces have been played on radio and in concerts, sometimes with live instruments, sometimes as pure acousmatic works. A collaboration with Ian Watson and Gwilly Edmondez under the collective name 'The Sound of Aircraft Attacking Britain', commissioned by Sightsonic Digital Arts Festival in 2001, led to further collaborations including 'Botanising on the Asphalt' and 'Seasonally Affected', which were selected for performance at Experimentica and Sonic Arts Network's 'Expo '07' respectively. Recently, solo works were presented at Futuresonic '07 and broadcast on ArtRadio from the Cornerhouse, Manchester, and a selection of 'Seven Intermezzo's' are included on the Brave New Wales CD.
Marginalia, the first major solo project by the artist, represents a culmination of many years working within sonic art and music fields and draws upon his experience as a painter and printmaker.
Marginalia is made possible with the financial support of the Arts Council of Wales with additional support from Cardiff University (School of Psychology) and the Washington Gallery.
Addresses:
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Tower Building, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT.
Oriel Washington Gallery, 1-3 Washington Buildings, Stanwell Road, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, CF64 2AD.
Contact: saab@richardbowers.co.uk
Tel: 029 20 331242.
Websites:
The artist: www.richardbowers.co.uk
The project: http://marginalia.richardbowers.co.uk
Washington Gallery: www.washingtongallery.co.uk
The School of Psychology: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/psych/
Arts Council of Wales: www.artswales.org.uk
Poison and Antidote
Tuesday 30th November 1999
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Duration: Between the times 00:00:00 and 00:00:00
Location: London
Sat 29th March 2008, 12:00pm - 7:00pm
Whitechapel Art Gallery, E1 7QX
Further information: www.whitechapel.org
A chance to pose questions and hear creative proposals from artists, academics, scientists, activists, politicians and opinion makers on issues of climate change and the environment. The day of debate concludes with a special Cultural Question Time panel discussion.
Ticket Information:
Ł7/5 concessions and Whitechapel Members
Free for Whitechapel Patrons and Associates
Booking essential
UKAuthors Prose/Poetry/Live Music event
Saturday 26th July 2008
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Duration: Between the times 18:00:00 and 23:30:00
Location: London
We hope loads of you will be able to join us this year for yet another evening of prose and poetry readings and live music.
For more info and to book a slot, visit UKAuthors at http://www.ukauthors.com
Doors open : 6pm
Readings : 7.30-9.30
Entry : Free
Venue : The Lucas Arms, Grays Inn Road, London.
GGC exhibition at Great Barrington
Saturday 17th May 2008 - Sunday 1st June 2008
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Duration: Between the times 10:00:00 and 18:00:00
Location: South West England
Members of the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen would like to invite you to
THE GUILD SPRING EXHIBITION
WHEN: 17th May - 1st June 2008
WHERE: Great Barrington Village Hall, near Burford, Oxfordshire, OX18 4US
OPEN: 10am -6pm daily
Entrance fee: Ł1.75 (accompanied children free)
GGC: Contemporary makers of textiles, ceramics, jewellery, furniture, millinery, leather and glass
See www.guildcrafts.org.uk for more information and directions.
Starting The Novel with Anthony Cropper
Tuesday 30th November 1999
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Duration: Between the times 10:00:00 and 16:00:00
Location: South East England
10 am until 4 pm at Brighton Writers' Centre
Ł32/Ł30 concs, Friends of the South Ł30/Ł28 concs
Thinking of starting a novel? Tried before and found yourself getting bogged down? Think again. This class aims to unlock your novel writing potential. Break your novel into fragments, build it piece by piece, construct your novel from memories, anecdotes, stories, scenes. Create charismatic characters and learn some techniques on how to control description, on how to create meaningful dialogue. Lead the reader into the story, let them see and feel the characters you create. Whether your approach is to meticulously plan, or if it is chaotic, disorganised, this is the course for you. We will look at how to allow a story to develop and will write about people, places, events, and then see how to gradually piece a novel together. There's no one way to write a novel, this course will help you unlock the way that best suits your style.
Anthony Cropper has published two highly acclaimed novels (Jack and Sal, Weatherman) and has co-edited three collections of short stories. In 2005 he won the prestigious BBC Alfred Bradley Award for Radio Drama and has written for Radio 4 (afternoon play). He works full-time as a writer and has worked with many arts organisations on experimental text/music CDs and installations. He has held residencies in this country and abroad and is an experienced tutor of creative writing. He is currently working on his third novel.
Watercolour Through The Ages
Saturday 31st May 2008 - Saturday 5th July 2008
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Duration: Between the times 10:00:00 and 04:30:00
Location: South East England
A nostalgic exhibition of watercolours from Guildford Borough's own collection. Includes landscapes and townscapes of Guildford in the 18th 19th and 20th centuries.
Peter Blake : Alphabet
Saturday 12th July 2008 - Saturday 9th August 2008
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Duration: Between the times 10:00:00 and 16:30:00
Location: South East England
A touring exhibition from the Hayward Gallery of silk screen prints produced by Sir Peter Blake in 1991 - one for every letter of the alphabet
Surrey Hills: Then and Now
Saturday 16th August 2008 - Saturday 13th September 2008
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Duration: Between the times 10:00:00 and 16:30:00
Location: South East England
Celebrating 50 years as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, this exhibition features old photographs alongside new pictures of the same view as well as 18th, 19th and 20th century paintings. Visit www.guildfordhouse.co.uk for details of talks and events.
Guildford House Gallery, 155 HIgh Street, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 3AJ
Recycled By Design
Saturday 20th September 2008 - Saturday 11th October 2008
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Duration: Between the times 10:30:00 and 16:30:00
Location: South East England
An exhibition of quality art and design objects made from recycled materials.
Visit www.guildfordhouse.co.uk for a list of talks and events and exhibiting artists.
Guildford House Gallery,
155 High Street, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 3AJ. Tel: 01483 444742.
Guildford Art Society
Saturday 18th October 2008 - Saturday 15th November 2008
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Duration: Between the times 10:00:00 and 16:30:00
Location: South East England
This popular exhibition of contemporary work in a variety of media and genre returns for the 76th Annual Exhibition.
ALl works are for sale.
Guildford House Gallery,
155 HIgh Street, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 3AJ. Tel: 01483 444742
Admission Free
Kaleidoscope Craft Group
Saturday 22nd November 2008 - Saturday 20th December 2008
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Duration: Between the times 10:00:00 and 16:30:00
Location: South East England
Returning to the Garden Room at Guildford House, this talented group of craftsmen have a range of work on display for Christmas including glass, jewellery, textiles, ceramics and photographs.
Guildford House Gallery, 155 High Street, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 3AJ
Tel: 01483 444742
Coastal Landscapes " Light and form - William Swann"
Saturday 3rd May 2008 - Wednesday 28th May 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: South East England
Les Livres Gallery
Colchester Library Trinity Square
An exhibition of original paintings and oil sketches painted on location, celebrating the unique heritage landscapes of the Essex salt marshes, mudflats and creeks.
In 2002, William Swan moved to Colchester and discovered the little known and remarkable Essex coast. The empty marshlands and creeks have become an obsession and his work investigates the light and atmosphere of the area. The paintings are in oils and comprise rapidly executed oil sketches and larger studio work.
Open Mon - Fri 8.30am - 7.30pm
Sat 8.30am - 5pm
Sun 12.30pm - 4.30pm
Michael Symmons Roberts and Ian McGuire
Wednesday 23rd July 2008
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Duration: Between the times 13:00:00 and 14:00:00
Location: North England
Poet, fiction-writer and broadcaster Michael Symmons Roberts won the 2004 Whitbread Poetry Award for his fourth book of poetry, Corpus, and has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize for best collection, and the Griffin International Prize. His first novel, Patrick's Alphabet, appeared in 2006, and his latest, Breath, was published in March.
Ian McGuire's novel, Incredible Bodies, was published in March 2006 to acclaim from The Times, who described it as "hugely entertaining" and "a 21st century Lucky Jim", and The Guardian, which noted that âMcGuire's comic timing is faultlessâ.
The reading will take place in the Committee Room at Manchester Central Library, and is completely FREE to attend - just turn up!
www.manchester.ac.uk/arts/newwriting/events/
Bryan Hawkins and Tim Long, Ghosts and Grotesques
Saturday 19th July 2008 - Thursday 31st July 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: South East England
Ghosts and Grotesques, Sidney Cooper Gallery Canterbury
Bryan Hawkins and Tim Long
The exhibition investigates the significance of the fantastic and the forgotten, the ghostly and the grotesque, as images and as thoughts.
Bryan Hawkins and Tim Long employ a range of primitive, contemporary, invented and neglected technologies, ranging from the shadow to interactive drawing machines.
The exhibition forms part of a Research Informed Teaching project sponsored by Canterbury Christ Church University.
Admission free
wee publication
Thursday 1st May 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: London
Wee Novella
A new miniature novella, in pocket-book format, is being published this May by the small, independent, Skrev. Greybill by Cassandra Passarelli was one of this year's winner of the "Books for Borges" competition.
Jason Greybill and his companion, the omniscient gecko, capture the last day of a man driven from his homeland's contradictions. The voyage culminates in an event of mythic congruity.
To read more about the novella or order copies of Greybill go to http://www.skrevpress.com/27.html, it costs Ł9.99 including postage to anywhere in the world.
Greybill was inspired by the leg of a journey between Xcalak, a Mexican village, and Belize City, on which the author accompanied a life-long sailor to the place he wished to die.
Expressions of Life by Paul Donaghy - Gormleys Fine Art, B
Thursday 22nd May 2008 - Thursday 5th June 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: Ireland
Gormelys Fine Art is proud to host the much anticipated exhibition of new works by one of their most successful emerging artists, Paul Donaghy. This exciting exhibition follows the success of his first solo show last year and promises to deliver his signature style. In this exhibition of new works Paulâs subject matter expands to that of the urban landscape and nautical seascape, which he treats in the same manner as his still life, creating a balance of composition with simple geometric forms but with a slightly more subdued palette.
For further information log onto www.gormleys.ie
NEW MUSICAL!! Turkish Delight the Opera
Tuesday 30th November 1999
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Duration: All day event
Location: London
An unusual and burlesque new musical called Turkish Delight the Opera by Giles Howe and Katy Lipson returns to London for a one week long run at the Rosemary Branch theatre, Islington! A peerless show with an all-star cast, Turkish Delight is fantastic and you will just love it. Alternative, a bit bohemian, a bit Jewish, a bit Turkish, a bit gay, a bit unexpected, fun, a big bit unusual and even postmodern? Visit www.myspace.com/turkishdelighttheopera for more details including show times etc.
Reeth Rug Retreat
Tuesday 30th November 1999
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Duration: All day event
Location: North England
In the Yorkshire Dales International rug makers Cilla Cameron and Heather Ritchie run the Residental Rug School Reeth Rug Retreat now in its 9th year here we offer specialized classes in Traditional Rug Hooking and Proddy technique (Rag Rugs)with teachers from England, America and Canada. Tasters sessions, main workshops, exhibition and a shop full of rug making equipment.
Booking is essential as numbers are limited for brochure and booking forms contact
Cilla Cameron 0775 277 2474 www.ragrugsuk.co.uk
Creative Art Gallery
Saturday 10th May 2008 - Sunday 25th May 2008
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Duration: Between the times 10:00:00 and 17:00:00
Location: South East England
As part of the Artweeks celebration we are featuring the work of 4 emerging talents - Alison Parry, Rowan Boughton, Liane Moona and Jack Boughton. Jack's photography is a vibrant account of the world around him. Alison, Rowan and Liane have each created their own response to an inspiration friend, Alice Duncan, who studied Fine Art Photography at Glasgow School of Art, who sadly died in 2004. Their work reflects Alice's Joie de Vivre.
'10' at the Printspace, with Carter Presents
Thursday 8th May 2008 - Wednesday 28th May 2008
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Duration: All day event
Location: London
Gavin Turk, Mark Titchner, Gary Webb, Bob And, Roberta Smith, Cedric Christie, Dallas Seitz, Danny Rolph, Lee Maelzer, Thomas Draschan, Daniel Jackson, Jonathan McLeod, Mark Wright
Will Tuck, Claire DeJong, Jamie Robinson and Brian Reed.
Carter Presents is delighted to be working closely and collaboratively with The Printspace in Hoxton London on this new venture of Commissioning limited edition prints by some of the most exciting artists working in Br
