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She has turned my world totally upside down and I am ridiculously happy and totally in love.
So to turn mind back to work has been difficult but when I finally managed with working towards the LOCWS International (Locws International is an artist led organisation that works with UK-based and international artists to create temporary visual arts projects for public and accessible spaces across the city of Swansea in south Wales, UK) commission during the summer it was quite exciting to get back into my own head again for a bit. Exciting challenge and fantastic organisation to work with! The result was two installations/interventions; Sjung Sjöng Sjungit and Hemhörigheter at the National Waterfront Museum .
More about the Locws project and my work there can be viewed here–> http://www.locwsinternational.com/
I have also been part of an exhibition in newcastle at the Globe Gallery, fastforward>>NCL showing new drawings. Check out http://www.globegallery.org/fastforward-exhibition-2011.php
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From the opening of Scintilla, at CoExist Gallery in Southend Feb 26th.
Team Scintilla
My piece ‘You Dreamt It. [Pause.] Time Passes. That Is All.’ in the foreground.
The doorway to the little gallery which hosted my piece “We Met Yesterday. [Silence.] Do You Not Remember.”
“[Pause. Calmer.] If We All Speak At Once We’ll Never Get Anywhere.”
There are interviews (video..) and more pics on the blogsite IDEA13 as well as on the CoExist gallery website.
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‘Above Serious’ The Gallery, Stoke Newington, London. Curated by EEL Projects, which is a curatorial collaboration between Elisabed Chachkiani, Leonie Grainger and Elena Martsenko.
Opening- Saturday, November 27 · 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Show Runs
November 28 – December 9, 2010,
The Gallery, Stoke Newington Library, Edward’s Lane (off Stoke Newington Church Street)
eelprojects@yahoo.co.uk
EEL PROJECTS1 is happy to present artwork of 13 contemporary artists whose practice can be characterized as “playful”. The title of the show is based on a quotation from “Homo Ludens” (1938), a brilliant work of Johan Huizinga, the founder of the theory of play: “In play we move below the level of the serious, as the child does; but we can also move above it — in the realm of the beautiful and the sacred.” Thus, the exhibition features the works by those artists for whom the so-called “play-element”, brought out by Huizinga, is particularly important. For some toys and games are a source of inspiration, others actually use children’s toys as a material, while others create imaginative worlds, or just play with materials, messages and contexts and get unpredictable results. But the meaning of the exhibited artworks often goes far beyond their playfulness, inviting us to explore the relationship between play and art.
Leslew Halliwell creates her elaborate drawings, sometimes delicate and similar to lace-work, or lush, rich and clogging up the paper with thick sticky ink, using a spirograph wheel from her childhood. For Helen Flanagan the game of Chinese whispers became an inspiration for the production process of her series of nine intriguing prints. Each print evolves from the previous one, giving plenty of room to experiment and for chance. Eduardo Padilha’s sculptural work is also based on a game, the old Brazilian sport of Peteca, which is still very popular in this country. For Beata Rafflewska and Michael Ward childhood toys became a point of departure. While Michael depicts his four surviving toy soldiers in delicate watercolors, Beata’s sculpture “A forgotten melody of my childhood” emerged from her memories of music boxes that she liked as a child but never owned. Jane Fairhurst uses massproduced children’s toys as a material to create her ambiguous and darkly humorous pieces. Daniel Lehan is going to play a game with people walking along Stoke Newington Church Street on Saturday November 27, the day of our private view. Small pieces of driftwood with his instructions will be found in various locations all along the street. Hondartza Fraga constructs clandestine interiors that can only be seen on a screen of CCTV camera. Bele Albrecht’s tiny figures of plasticine – the same plasticine that is used by children for playing – use no language for their communication, only their body. The marionette by Helén Edling is directly connected with the idea of theatre, only here we don’t have a traditional ‘puppetmaster and passive audience’ situation: everyone can pull the strings and become part of the show. John Strutton’s “Sixstring” is bound with music, which is play in its purest form. For Marcus Cope the play-factor unquestionably defines all his process of artistic creation. The notions of the figurative versus the abstract, of a painting versus an object, of the content versus the form become parts of his sophisticated game. Walter Swennen’s practice is also inseparable from playingwith media, themes, styles and meanings.
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exhibition at the Globe still going, until the 6th November at The Globe Hub in North Shields
This Globe Gallery show has been travelling from the ThinkTank @ Hoults Yard 24th to 27th September, via the artfair at The Sage Gateshead to recently land at the Hub in North Shields.
It is a great sho featuring Rachael Allen, Alex Charrington, Simon Leahy-Clark, Helen Edling, Edmund Francis, Alexander Gorlizki, Yvette Hawkins, Ben Jeans Houghton, Zuzana Lola Hruskova, Peter Ashley Jackson, Bridget Kennedy, Caterina Lewis, Jock Mooney, Iris Priest, Antonio Riello and Helen Schell so if you haven’t seen it do pop over to North Shields to have a look!
97 Howard Street, North Shields, NE30 1NA
