the latest arty news from me...

Friday, May 27, 2011

I like screenprinting...


I hadn't ever tried it before until yesterday, and now I really want to do more MORE!!! The opportunity arose as I am taking part in a Print Box project entitled 'Trace' with Manchester Metropolitan University. I will give details of the exhibition soon, but here is a little preview of the rejects from yesterday, that I still really love!!!




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Monday, May 16, 2011

Sugar Paper 7: toadstools, dancing and bears - OH MY!


Check out the SUPER ACES latest 70s stylee issue of my pals Seleena and Kandy's craftacular zine!!!
p.s. I painted the 2-page spread cover! x


Sunday, May 15, 2011

Housework

Come to The International 3 this Friday to see new art from me in this exciting group show:



House Work
Hannah Dargavel-Leafe, Alison Erika Forde, Erin Javes, Jo Lansley + Neeta Madahar, Amy Poole, Charlotte Squire,
Daniel Taylor, Matt Wand.

PREVIEW : FRIDAY 20th MAY 2011 6pm - 8pm

EXHIBITION CONTINUES: Saturday 21st May - Friday 17th June 2011.
OPENING TIMES: Wednesday - Saturday 12pm - 5pm

Combining drawing, painting, sculpture, sound works and video, House Work brings together nine artists whose works variously use the domestic setting as both the content and context for making art.

Sound works Kitchen Trio and Door Device by Hannah Dargavel - Leafe use recordings of chance occurrences to create new rhythmic compositions from common household activities.

Alison Erika Forde and Charlotte Squire recycle and reconfigure domestic objects to create new structures. Made from discarded cardboard boxes painted to resemble a fairytale cartoon roof, Forde’s 2010 piece Shelter provides comforting if somewhat inadequate protection whilst Charlotte Squire playfully constructs luminous towers from salvaged lampshades, light fittings and furniture for her ongoing series, Strange Fruit.

The video works of Erin Javes and Amy Poole use the domestic setting as playground and backdrop respectively. Through task-based activities, Erin Javes physically investigates the domestic space around her whilst Amy Poole uses it to set the scene for her performances to camera. In their individual practices, each expresses anxiety and uncertainty in every day surroundings allowing the viewer to eavesdrop on the private activity of one home alone.

In Scape, their first collaboration, Jo Lansley + Neeta Madahar construct a photographic diptych that uses the language of landscape, both interior and exterior. These images charge the common space of the bedroom with ideas of escape, fantasy and longing.

Daniel Taylor uses his extraordinary draughtsmanship to create coloured pencil drawings of his family’s reaction to the death of his Grandmother and of the spaces and objects left behind. These images, mostly rendered from snapshots taken on mobile phones, capture the poignancy inherent in the end of life.

Matt Wand’s 2002, 7” single, Blow Down : Inside & Out presents the sound recording of a block of empty flats, ready for demolition, as it is blown up. This double A side comprises of the audio collected by the artist from placing specially reinforced microphones inside the block of flats juxtaposed with the reaction of a watching crowd; creating a real time document of the final five minutes of a domestic building’s existence.



Hopefully catch yer there!
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