tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30188216803511360852024-03-05T15:37:29.925+00:00South Square GallerySouth Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384194207166902371noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018821680351136085.post-17191435849881711752014-10-08T16:44:00.001+01:002014-10-08T16:44:33.168+01:00Indelible Shadows by Malina Busch <h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last Friday, the London based artist Malina Busch, delivered an interesting talk where she guided visitors around her latest exhibition at South Square Gallery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Indelible Shadows is the result of the Joan Day Painting Prize, an annual bursary awarded to support emerging painters in the memory of the Yorkshire artist Joan Day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The exhibition although not curated chronologically, does show the gradual progression in technique within Malina’s most recent work. Displaying the different ways in which she has moved away from a traditional application of paint on stretched canvas to creased canvas with paint or chalk applied and finally ending in a manipulated piece of pre-dyed felt. For Malina even when not applying paint to the surface she is still painting; playing with the textures, shapes and shadows on the material. During the talk she discussed the evolution of her work, explaining that in the studio she became frustrated with her inability to capture the effect she wanted upon a stretched canvas. To solve this she intuitively removed the frame and began working freely with the canvas material itself manipulating the textiles until the folds and creases created the desired effect of light and shadow. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her paintings capture the ephemeral moments which fail to be fully experienced and recorded, but instead are fleetingly glimpsed. Whilst guiding us around her exhibition she explains that Indelible Shadows was inspired by the moon and its temporal qualities. The moon, as she describes, changes nightly in colour and intensity of light and it is this which she aimed to capture in the range of canvases on display. She is interested in a process of making as a way of lending physical form to the moon’s traces left behind by time, memory and imagination.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During installation, the second room within the gallery gradually became orientated around the colour purple. Each large scale piece displayed within the room displays a range of techniques for applying this deep and brooding colour to the canvas. When it came to adjusting lighting levels, there was a wonderful moment where, focusing a direct light on to one of the canvas, the intensity of the colour purple came alive on the painting’s surface. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Indelible Shadows is a playful representation of the annual painting prize. Malina has taken the traditional Joan Day bursary and flipped it in to something which not only explores colour, light and subject but texture and material. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Malina Busch’s Indelible Shadows is open 12-3pm Tuesday – Sunday at South Square Gallery, Thornton until the 23rd November. </span><br />
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South Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384194207166902371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018821680351136085.post-44846948402691254022014-08-12T15:04:00.001+01:002014-08-12T15:04:14.654+01:00Charlie Booth interviews Gayle Chong Kwan <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Curatorial Fellow, Charlie Booth, took a break from installing the current exhibition, Betwixt and Between, to catch up with artist Gayle Chong Kwan. Chong Kwan experiments with overlooked objects to explore the space between imagination and reality through constructed landscapes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over a cup of coffee she asked her a few questions about her artistic practice and the upcoming show and managed to gather some advice for my own project opening in December at South Square Gallery. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">CB: You have a long history of exhibiting in a diverse range of locations and countries, what drew you to show at Thornton and South Square Gallery? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">GCK: I first came to South Square Gallery over a year ago because there was a possibility of a commission with the Bronte Parsonage. I was initially drawn to apply for the opportunity because of my PhD research in which I am looking at artist’s imaginary worlds and I was interested in the miniature creations in the early books produced by the Bronte Sisters. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I came to South Square Gallery I was surprised to find a contemporary gallery so successfully combining the historical with the modern. My academic background is in history and politics and notions of archive and so historic spaces have been part of my research. I am also drawn to exhibit in slightly unconventional gallery spaces as well as in the public realm. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">GCK: In some way it’s strange when you go to art college; you think you almost have to let go of methodologies that you have previously developed. When I went to Central Saint Martins College of Art I soon realised that actually it was all those methodologies and interests that became the driving force behind my own artistic process. In a way with all the projects that I do there’s an element of research or engagement within a context or a particular community as well, quite a lot of my work are one or two year projects that will be rooted within very specific locations, such as a project I did in Berlin with the city’s allotments, or the large-scale photographic work I developed for London Underground. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think research and scientific methodologies weave in and out of my practice. I don’t really see a separation because I think they are all related. In fact, I have previously created work amongst historical collections as well as contemporary galleries; so sometimes I bring things to the venue as well as take things away. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">CB: As an artist who exhibits internationally, working amongst and with a broad range of communities and locations; has there ever been an instance where its felt problematic to come in to another new place as an outsider?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">GCK: I think in some way I’m looking for a place to belong and by doing these projects I’ve sort of become and been taken under the wing by particular areas and the people. I’m always curious by and slightly envious of people’s rootedness with landscapes in which they live or were born – perhaps because I’m betwixt and between myself. I believe it’s a sort of fruitful, creative thing being inbetween though. I think that by the end of my residencies and projects I do sort of end up belonging to those communities in a way, it complicates as well as reassures my sense of place and belonging.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">CB: Some of your earlier work has been influenced by your own diverse family identity – do you find that you are drawn to projects that you already have a personal connection to?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">GCK: I think in some ways experiences can become part of your personal background; your identity is not necessarily limited to your familial heritage. For example I helped fund my way through art college by working as a chef in large scale catering and so some of my earlier projects were based around food, but that is only one part of the work I make, and wider issues of post-colonial history, trade, and consumption have always interested me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">CB: South Square Gallery is committed to being a test-bed for experimental and original work? How have you found experimenting and creating Betwixt and Between without a set brief? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">GCK: I’ve used this opportunity as a chance to ask questions to myself and of my work. I find that often an experimental body of work has a different level of finish, it is more of an open-ended questioning, I sometimes prefer the conversational aspect than idea of a completely ‘finished’ work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">CB: I am currently planning a series of residencies here at South Square (Dec 14-Jan 15) and a lot of your previous commissions have been part of residencies- I’m eager to find out your experience of, and what you think about, residency programmes?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">GCK: There was a point when I had spent almost three or four years going from residency to residency; however that was a particular moment in my life where I could do that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Residencies are very interesting because it relates to how you reside in a space but there is a catching up needed; the art world needs to do to accommodate different people’s needs. Now I have a four-year old son, I have to approach residencies in a different way and negotiate them; however sometimes it’s just not possible to do them. As a female artist with children I would estimate that 70% of the residencies are not possible for me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think that during residencies there can be this emphasis on continuously making new things and quite often you don’t have the time to stop and reflect about what is important. Residencies leave you in a state where you are always arriving and making new work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">The residencies that I now look for involve much more focused bursts of activity or over a much longer timeframe, which is particularly important in terms of work within communities. There was one curator who said that going for one long stint of a residency just doesn’t work. They suggested that you go first for some initial visits, then you go away to ingest and finally come back to create the work, which I think is an interesting way of approaching them. People have to negotiate how they work for them because everybody has different techniques and processes. I do enjoy residencies because they get you get out of your own personal studio, though I’ve never been the kind of artist who just stays inside in their studio. I feel that studios for artists should not just be a fixed place but much more than that. They are in a world, within a context and made by the people who live there. </span><br />
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South Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384194207166902371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018821680351136085.post-16989123291962618242014-05-27T15:12:00.000+01:002014-05-27T15:12:02.577+01:00'MISS' by Roy Voss<!--[if !mso]>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On an unusually sunny day for March, David Knowles, Roy Voss and I took
a trip to the neighbouring village of Haworth to visit the meadow at the Brönte
Parsonage, one of the new sites for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">MISS</i>.
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">MISS</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> is the latest in a
series of annual commissions for South Square Gallery, developed in partnership
with the Brönte Parsonage Museum, which provide the opportunity for artists to
engage with the context of the surrounding landscape. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Roy Voss, a London
based artist will use the Brönte Meadow to site a series of ‘signs’ or
‘notices’ amongst the natural landscape, repeated three times they will spell <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">MISS</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Giving the heavy
significance Voss places on the single word within his work during the site visit
I asked him to expand on the significance of the word ‘Miss’:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">‘Given
we are in Bronte country, there is an idea of missing the three Misses. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Miss
is simply a title that suggests singleness or youth. It could also suggest a
longing for someone or something, but it has several other meanings of course:
To not hit a target, to fail to be somewhere, to overlook or not comprehend
something, to not take a chance, to fall short.’</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Voss’ signs will be
made from untreated steel which will gradually begin to rust, so as to form a
kind of physical proof of the weather, rather than being weatherproof. It is
possible to draw links between the literary work of the Bronte sisters and Voss
signs, as the Brönte sisters’ work are heavily influenced by the dramatic,
unruly nature of the Moor’s weather. I think his choice of material is
particularly fitting for the context of the piece, when you consider the
surrounding industries located on Thornton Road. As I travel to South Square
and drive through the outskirts of Bradford up to Thornton I pass many industrial
builders yards and steel works. By locating manufactured steel structures
directly in to the picturesque rural landscape, I see in Voss’ work the connotations
of the historical landscape of the area; a history of industry and
manufacturing in the heart of the picturesque Yorkshire countryside. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Running simultaneously alongside the work at
the Brönte Parsonage, Voss will open an exhibition within the South Square Gallery.
A theatrically over-sized backdrop cuts diagonally across the first space,
emphasising the domestic scale and feel of the room. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In what will become the second gallery space, small collages featuring
found images and words will hang. Synonymous with the tourist industry,
postcards are used as mementoes of the picturesque settings of destinations,
but also as correspondence between absent loved ones. In my opinion, by
selecting singular words frequently written on the back of postcards, such as
‘MISS’, Voss is highlighting the absence of the intended receiver. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> Located within some of Voss’ previous work there is a commentary on English
tourism marketing strategies. By simultaneously emphasising the depiction of
the ‘ideal’ countryside, as seen in his picturesque epic scenery, he suggests
that this ‘ideal’ is a façade to the reality of the countryside. That a
postcard selects what the visitor wishes to remember about the visit – an
idyllic holiday, or it serves to communicate with the absent loved one that
they somehow missed out, ‘wish you were here’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Personally, the hand-painted backdrop and the postcards placed together
in the exhibition comment on the attempt by the tourism industry have to
portray a realistic and authentic image of the countryside. Yet both are
selected and edited and become a constructed view designed to promote the
locale and attract more visitors. They ignore some of the many other less
attractive issues prevalent in rural communities. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Accompanying MISS, Voss has created a special edition print booklet
which will be available at sites, South Square gallery and Brönte Parsonage
Museum. </span></div>
South Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384194207166902371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018821680351136085.post-73106198648332562922014-05-20T13:18:00.000+01:002014-05-20T13:18:14.967+01:00Artist Talk: Samantha Donnelly <span style="background-color: #f4f5f7; color: #71767a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Artist Talk with Samantha Donnelly for Sampler exhibition 02 May 2014.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4f5f7; color: #71767a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="color: #71767a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/94992345" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <a href="http://vimeo.com/94992345">Samantha Donnelly at South Square</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user27966966">South Square</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; text-align: start;">Zabludowilz Addition, </i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; text-align: start;">2011. Image courtesy the Artist and Ceri Hand Gallery.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We are now busy installing in preparation for Samantha
Donnelly’s solo exhibition <i>Sampler</i> which
opens on Friday evening. Artistic Programmer David Knowles and I went to visit
Sam in her studio last month to see what she had got planned for the
exhibition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For an artist so acutely in tune with our relationships to
modern life and the impacts of advertising and consumerism on society, Sam’s
studio location in rural Mosley, beside the Pennine moors, came as something of
a surprise. Finally, after several wrong turns and confusion from sat nav, we
reached the studio spaces housed within a grim imposing – and very cold – ex
Lancashire mill. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Though a tiny studio space, I was immediately struck by the
wealth of material and imagery in Sam’s studio. Critical art books rubbed
against fragments of sculptures, with collage and photographic material spread
around. This notion of archiving, collecting and the found object is key to Sam’s
practice as her sculptural work combines ephemera with personal trinkets such
as tassels, beads and hair. In this way her sculptures form fragile, seemingly
temporal structures – often remade/reassembled for each new setting - that seem
to reference our own modern throwaway culture. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; text-align: start;">Long Player Lasting Finish,</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; text-align: start;"> 2013. Image courtesy of the Artist and Ceri Hand Gallery</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; text-align: start;">.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Forming a key focal point in her studio was a cyanotype photographic
series from images Sam captured whilst travelling in Japan. Quoting the camera
and the act of looking, this series speaks of what it is to see and be seen in
modern day life. The example of the Chinese and Japanese worship of material
culture asks us to consider the new ‘religion’ of the commercial, of idolatry
and shrines. </span></div>
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consider the architecture and heritage of the gallery space, specifically its domestic
and landscape associations, and the industrial and textile heritage of the
Bradford region. The show’s very title ‘<i>Sampler</i>’
references this directly, whilst also highlighting Sam’s eclectic and
experimental practice that brings together a multitude of cultural references
to bombard the viewer. With shifts in
scale and direct intervention with the gallery space (including applying
watercolour paint direct to the gallery wall!), the intimate sculptural works
will form an installation in dialogue with itself, activating the space around
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In referencing the consumerist, Sam’s work speaks of the
desired and the alluring – that which is so often humanised, associated with
female sexuality. In many of the works a guiding arm with a pointing finger, or
a beautiful outstretched leg asks us to come and look closer. Like all the
mythical male sailors, enticed by beautiful sirens, we cannot help but draw
closer. The meretricious, the idealised and the dreamlike combine together, yet
whether we should embrace or fear the material is left unanswered.</span></div>
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South Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384194207166902371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018821680351136085.post-43138564696818832392014-02-07T19:11:00.000+00:002014-02-07T19:11:02.393+00:00<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tonight is the launch of Lisa Denyer’s exhibition <i>Geode</i> at South Square Gallery. A recent
graduate of Coventry University in 2009, Lisa has begun to establish a critical
platform for herself in the North West since graduating. I took ten minutes
midst the bustle of install to catch up with Lisa and speak to her about her
artistic practice and professional experiences as a young emerging
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is your third solo exhibition to date. Talk to me about the
progression across these different exhibitions.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Geode </i>marks a
pointed departure from my previous shows that tended to be more landscape based
featuring large canvases, often 5 ft in size. The work for South Square is
smaller scale, more intimate and marks my development into abstraction. This
has been a gradual transition for me that I would date from my move to Manchester
after graduating in 2009. This was a key point in my practice as I encountered
the urban architecture of Manchester for the first time. For some time I
developed work that engaged with geometric abstraction. I also curated a number
of abstract painting shows including <i>Treatment
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Like many practising artists these days, you are also a curator. Tell
me your thoughts on curating and this new ‘breed’ of Artist/Curator. How does
one practice impact on the other and do you think it is beneficial? <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Although ‘networking’ is something of a dirty word in the
art world, it is something vital for survival and I do feel that working as an
Artist/Curator has opened up many opportunities for me. It is definitely
something I would recommend to artists when graduating from art school. I moved
to Manchester straight after graduating and I found it very hard to get
involved in the art scene there at first. I found that I needed to be
incredibly proactive and also to think about making my own opportunities. To this
end I set up PS Mirabel, an artist led project space, where I have been
involved with a number of curatorial projects. I have also found that my
curatorial work has very much led into my own artistic practice. With the
abstract painting show <i>Treatment </i>I
found myself influenced by the works I selected for exhibition.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What is your experience of developing as an artist since graduating
from art school. Do you have any advice to offer recent graduates?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For me, since graduating I have found myself being much more
spontaneous in the way I work. This has been important for me in reflecting on
my practice more critically in terms of honing in my interests. I have been
influenced by non-Western art forms after watching a documentary entitled ‘Outsider
Art’ and have found myself endowing my art with a childlike spontaneity. In
terms of advice, after graduating I was able to join the Castlefield Galleries
associates scheme in Manchester, which has been enormously beneficial. They
have opened up a large number of new art spaces across the city for which they
provide opportunities for emerging artists like myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Geode </i>is all new work
from 2013 onwards and draws upon my background as a landscape painter. There is
a sense of contrast between the micro and macro as I look at both geological
and microscopic formations alongside mountain panoramas. These inspirations
transfer into my methods of working as I now paint on found stones, which in
their rugged shapes closely resemble the contours of a mountain range. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This interest in found objects is key to my practice at
the moment, as I scavenge for found stones and plywood. I am fascinated by the
marks, fractures and faults in these materials. Rather than viewing them as
flaws I like to see how the paint reacts and responds to them. The stones are also significant in being
scavenged from the local area and thus reference the quarrying heritage of the
region. Referencing this post-industrial landscape more directly, the
exhibition features the inclusion of found coal placed as a sculptural artefact
within the gallery space. Challenging coal’s status as a polluting fossil
fuel, these individual pieces have been cleaned and display an unexpected
beauty as they shine like gemstones. </span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The exhibition also features a new limited edition print, specially
made for the show. Being primarily a painter what was your experience of
working with lino prints?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I’d not worked with printmaking since my degree show in 2009
so it was a really fun experience, providing me with the opportunity to work
more experimentally. I was quite innovative and used vegetables as well as
placing paint on the prints. In this way they fit more closely with, and can be
seen as a direct extension of my painting practice.</span></div>
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and direct them in any way?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I will shortly be doing a sixth month residency in
Federation House in Manchester with Castlefield Galleries. From engaging with
the stone heritage of Thornton and the surrounding area I have began to
consider ideas of masonry and architecture, thinking of particular man-made spaces
and shapes such as doorways and windows. I am also keen to use this residency
to consider my interests in found objects further, specifically thinking about surface
and materiality within the damaged found boards I paint on. </span></div>
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South Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384194207166902371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018821680351136085.post-76258441616070694532013-12-05T12:09:00.003+00:002013-12-05T12:09:35.654+00:00<h2>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This Friday evening is the
preview night for ‘<i>My Head is an Animal’</i>,
my first curated exhibition project, featuring the work of established artists
Linder and Margaret Harrison, alongside nine regional emerging artists. I would
like to take this opportunity to reflect on the experience of curating this
project and provide a little sneak preview of what can be expected on Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The ideas behind the exhibition came
from a diverse range of influences that have informed my academic and
professional practices. These are at once highly personal to me yet also universal,
addressing questions of humanity and our place within the world, which
naturally reach out to the wider collective imagination. I am interested in our
desire to shape a self and control and influence our identity and how this is
influenced by society’s constant desire for youth, beauty and success. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A choice of title for the
exhibition was obvious: the words <i>‘My
Head is an Animal’</i>(a direct quotation from the Finnish band Of Monsters and
Men) kept haunting me, repeating themselves in my head. This fascination with
dreaming ourselves as Other and animalistic was something that interested me;
the wealth of cultural myths of half humans, fauns, centaurs, talking animals,
beavers that have sewing machines, pigs that go to market. It felt appropriate
for the exhibition title to be a song lyric, since popular music and culture
was a key influence on the show. I like to think of song lyrics as ‘a 21<sup>st</sup>
century poetical form’, akin to the poetic inspirations that have long informed
artists across centuries of art history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pertinent: Lana del Ray’s ‘Young and Beautiful’ (commissioned for Baz Luhrman’s
2013 film adaptation of <i>The Great Gatsby</i>),
and Marina and the Diamonds’ <i>‘</i>Teen Idle’<i>. </i>I would like to take the opportunity
here to display them in full as I feel is their due:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> I’ve seen the world, done it
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Had my cake now.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Unbelieved now.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When you and I were forever wild.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The way you’d play with me like a child.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Will you still love me when I’m no longer young and beautiful?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Will you still love me when I got nothin’ but my aching soul?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I know you will, I know you will, I know that you will,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Will you still love me when I’m no longer beautiful?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I’ve seen the world, lit it up,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As my stage now.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Channelling angels<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In a new age now.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At summer days, rock and roll,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The way you played for me, all assured<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All the ways I got to know<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Your pretty face and electric
soul.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dear Lord when I get to heaven<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Please let me bring my man.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When he comes tell me that you’ll let him<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Father, tell me if you can.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All that grace, all that body, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All that face makes me wanna party<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He’s my son, he makes me shine, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Like diamonds.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Will you still love me when I’m no longer young and beautiful?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Will you still love me when I got nothin’ but my aching soul?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I know you will, I know you will, I know that you will,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Will you still love me when I’m no longer beautiful?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p><b style="text-indent: 47.266666412353516px;"><i>~</i>Marina and the Diamonds ‘Teen Idle’</b></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I wanna be a bottle blonde<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I don’t why but I feel conned<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I wanna be an idle teen<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I wish I had an insult clean.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I wanna stay inside all day<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I want the world to go away<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I want blood, guts and
chocolate cake<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I wanna be a real fake.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Shopping, shopping a teen teen
idle,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Shopping a prom queen fighting for the title<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">‘Stead of bein’ sixteen and
burning up a bible<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Feeling super super suicidal<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The wasted years, the wasted
youth, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The pretty lies, the ugly
truth<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The day has where I have died,
<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Only to find I’ve come alive.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I wanna be a virgin pure, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A 21<sup>st</sup> century
whore<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I want back my virginity <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So I can feel infinity.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I wanna drink until i ache<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I wanna make a big mistake<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I want blood, guts and angel
cake<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I’m going to puke it anyway<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I wish I wasn’t such a
narcisst<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I wish I didn’t really kiss<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The mirror when I’m on my own<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh God I’m gonna die alone<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And then a sense,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A little loss of innocence<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The ugly years of being a
fool, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The youth until you’re beautiful.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Both of these songs speak of the experience and state of
living in the modern world - disillusion, dislocation and ennui. They also have
a darker psychological level that speaks of paranoia, suicide and
disassociation. It was for these thoughts, as well as her strident feminism and
redefinition of self that I was attracted to the work of Linder. Born Linda
Mulvey, she became ‘Linder Sterling’ and then just ‘Linder’, a fantastical
being living in the mystical ‘Linderland’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was for Linder’s critique of gender values that I
began to start considering the relationship of her work to that of another
northern feminist artist – Margaret Harrison. As two different generation feminists
with similar issues of concern, it seemed an exciting dialogue to open up,
particularly as their work has rarely ever been shown together before. With my own cross-historical practice, I was
also interested in the way both artists engage with art history as a subject
matter to then rewrite and redefine. Linder’s latest body of work has drawn
upon her research into her “household god” Barbara Hepworth, which has informed
her recent exhibitions at The Hepworth Wakefield and Tate St Ives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEevDoEgC-lXEYQ1b-sUuEV1EFm_vENjPwQ3TrNmLjDTXSZeeyW6aLBhDMFjuBm1ytqF0q54rk_7qc90c_CBw5-rPvqmVKPYXMVH8aXeS4kodUxpnvVRzbtICCNU37bXl3eLQr7RmJ5z4/s1600/Ultimate-Form2+(510x640).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEevDoEgC-lXEYQ1b-sUuEV1EFm_vENjPwQ3TrNmLjDTXSZeeyW6aLBhDMFjuBm1ytqF0q54rk_7qc90c_CBw5-rPvqmVKPYXMVH8aXeS4kodUxpnvVRzbtICCNU37bXl3eLQr7RmJ5z4/s320/Ultimate-Form2+(510x640).jpg" width="255" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Barbara Hepworth/ Hannah Bateman as The Young Girl.<br />The Ultimate Form Study 1</i>, 2013. Photgraph by Christina Birrer.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Recent
exhibitions of Margaret’s work, including <i>On
Reflection </i>at Payne Shurvell, London and her work for the 2013 Northern Art
Prize have explored the role of the mirror as a composition device in Western
European painting and depictions of the male gaze in canonical works such as
Manet’s <i>Olympia </i>and Waterhouse’s <i>The Lady of Shallot.</i> Margaret produces
feminist reimaginings of these works that subvert the male gaze and question
the patriarchal power hierarchy implicit within them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After securing the support and involvement of Margaret
and Linder, I composed an open call to send out to recruit other artists for
the exhibition. After receiving over 40 proposals I selected nine artists to
work with: Mette Sterre, Holly Slingsby, Samantha Donnelly, Sarah Eyre, Jamie
Crewe, Rebecca Cusworth, Elizabeth Hudson, Lorna Barrowclough and Anna Turner. Mette
works with costume to create fantastical performances; Holly is a performance
artist interested in deconstructing and critiquing religious and classical
iconography. Samantha works in mixed media and sculpture, creating pieces
drawing on consumer culture and media; Sarah explores cultural definitions of
feminity and the uncanny in everyday objects. Jamie uses print and sculpture to
examine representations of homoerotic desire throughout history; Rebecca uses
sculpture, photography and reinactment to explore female Otherness. Elizabeth explores
the cultural significance of ruins and relics; Lorna creates sculptural works
that reflect upon the nature of transformation and anthropomorphism; and Anna
Turner has a materials based sculptural practice that explores the human
qualities of inanimate objects. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was a fantastic experience bringing the show together
– it grew, expanded, mutated and shape shifted. It still is in the process of
evolving and will very much likely continue to do so for the duration of its
display and in its afterlife also. Many alternatives were explored before the
final curated project came into being; processes of dialogue and engagement
with artists occurred as works were chosen and alternative narratives were
discussed. Works like Lorna Barrowclough’s <i>‘A
bed, a knot, a charm - fanciful coquilles’</i> (a series of intricate oyster
shells that interact with found objects and their gallery location) will move
throughout the show to form new formations; whilst Elizabeth Hudson’s <i>'Can't
Wait Till All The World Is Like This'</i> are living plant sculptural pieces that may grow or wither away during
the course of the show. In the final week of January the show will be recurated
and reconfigured as a reminder of its temporal nature (and that of exhibitions
more generally), thus performing itself a new identity also. </span><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>'My Head is an Animal' </i>opens on Saturday 7th December and runs until 2nd February. The opening night is Friday 6th December 6-9pm and there will be a closing event on 31st January 7-9pm.</span></div>
South Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384194207166902371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018821680351136085.post-21253217763070543942013-07-24T15:10:00.000+01:002013-07-24T15:10:32.823+01:00Sigbjørn Bratlie: Igloos in Thornton<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Sigbjørn<span style="color: black;"> Bratlie: Igloos in Thornton</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clare Nadal writes</span></span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Meltdown</i> by <span> Sigbjørn Bratlie</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Back in June we
announced the exciting news that for the first time ever our summer residency
would feature an international artist, Oslo born </span><span>Sigbjørn
Bratlie. I took some time to speak to Sigbjørn find out a bit more about him,
his artistic practice and his hopes for this summer project. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span>When South Square was constructed in
1852 it was originally designed as twelve adjoining cottages to house the local
stonemasons as they worked on the now famous Thornton viaduct. The annual South
Square summer residency celebrates this heritage by once again becoming a home,
and offering the gallery as a live in space for an artist in residence. In
2011, Alfie Strong became the first artist to spend the month of August living
and working within the gallery, choosing to live in a tent within the space,
whilst creating artwork in response to the gallery’s</span> past and our connection to it.<span></span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alfie Strong in residence at South Square Gallery </td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span>Taking this context for his starting
point, Sigbjørn will spend his residency period<span style="color: black;">
constructing a house-like structure, considering what it is to layer a house
within a house. However, in his typical humorously whimsical and mischievous way,
</span>Sigbjørn doesn’t want it to be a recognisable English house that he
builds, but a realistic white wooden igloo. Having worked for his uncle’s
interior decorating and carpentry business for over eleven years, he has the technical
skills to realise this aim. The project forms a perfect opportunity to incorporate
these practical skills into his art practice. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span>He says to me, <i><span style="color: black;">“</span></i></span><i><span>I wanted the structure to be a slightly absurd one; I
like the idea of building an impossible house, to invent a type of traditional
living that doesn't exist, and maybe doesn't even make sense. The wooden igloo
project is kind of crazy, which I like about it.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span>“I
want to present it as ancient lore, the age-old tradition of Norwegian wooden
igloo-building; that I am the representative of some tradition-bearing
institution. Obviously I know I am fooling no-one: everyone in Britain knows
that there are no igloos in Norway. But I intend to play my role with
conviction!”</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">In this way, </span><span>Sigbjørn<span style="color: black;">’s project will have a
performative element as he creates an extensive fictitious setting within the
gallery space, surrounding his wooden igloo.<span>
</span>This is a technique he has used in previous projects, specifically his
2007 installation </span></span><i><span>Vanlagnad</span></i><b><span> </span></b><span>('<i>sad destiny</i>') at Galleri 69 in Oslo,
which saw the gallery transformed into the home and workspace of a fictitious
Norwegian poet. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span>This show was an attempt at creating the antithesis to contemporary
popular culture: the home of a traditional eccentric Romanticist poet, living
by himself, removed from civilisation, churning out lyrical observations on nature,
animals and the imagination.</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Vanlagnad</i> Galleri 69, Oslo (2007)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>All Apologies </i>UKS, Oslo (2008)</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span>To make the fictitious setting
complete, </span><span>Sigbjørn</span><span> even took the time
to write the poet’s complete works, which featured around 400 short poems,
written in an archaic and partly incomprehensible Norwegian dialect. Surprisingly
enough however, during the entire exhibition, the poet himself remained “mysteriously
absent”. Visitors were able to occupy his living space, sit on his chairs and
bed, put their cigarettes out on his floor, and read the paper sheets of poetry
which lay scattered all over the place.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Båt på land </i><span style="font-weight: normal;">The White Tube, Oslo (2008)</span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Sigbjørn's South Square residency is titled My Wooden Igloo, a purposely simple, childlike title that reflects the humour always embedded in his art. Drawing on 'luftstott', the Norwegian word for 'pipe dream', this references Sigbjørn's notion of 'the artist as anti-hero', a concept key to his creative practice. This 'anti-hero' figure is one who desperately tries to create ground-breaking profound work, yet most often fails miserably, inspiring an absurdist humour.</span></span></span></div>
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Sigbjørn points out to me, constructing an intricate structure like an igloo is
not easy, "it may be that the igloo ends up being just a tad wonky and
askew, but I think that adds to the charm of the project." Likewise, a
dramatic irony exists in the knowledge the viewer possesses that this age-old
tradition of Norwegian wooden igloo-building is in fact hollow and
non-existent.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black;">Sigbjørn's projects, whether installation,
painting or performance, are always a humorous comment on contemporary culture,
art history and theatricality, and often tend to influence one another. His
most recent residency in Latvia, has involved him spending a month working with
a local theatre company to learn the famous <i>'To be or not to be'</i>
monologue from <i>Hamlet - </i>in Latvian - and create a video piece from this.
Like <i>The Wooden Igloo, </i>the finished video work will be an ode to
creative and literary genius, undercut by the knowledge that Sigbjørn (and many
other non-Latvian speaking viewers)</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">will be entirely unable to understand the true meaning of the piece, in many ways making it quite meaningless.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>The Wooden Igloo</i> is open from 3rd August until 22nd September. A closing event will be held on 20th September, open to all. I shall be blogging during the two-month residency period so look out for further updates from me on what is happening in the gallery. </span></span></div>
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the Hepworth before they journeyed to their next location, checking the
sculptures for any changes and damages. Then as the Scott loans arrived I donned
my white curators’ gloves and assisted the couriers and conservators,
documenting the packaging and checking the condition of the works. This was a
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archive display for the Scott exhibition. Having never worked with archives
before, this was hugely exciting for me, in particular being able to handle and
transcribe original correspondence between William Scott and Barbara Hepworth.
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artefacts for the display, I also created a timeline of Scott’s life, allowing
me to develop my research skills and increase my knowledge of Scott and his artistic
practice. I also assisted with editing the labels for the Scott works and was
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working on an exciting partnership with the Bronte Parsonage Museum to
commission a new outdoor artwork in the Parsonage Meadow with a sister
exhibition at South Square. The new works created will celebrate the local
heritage of the area, the relationship between the Thornton and Haworth villages,
and the Bronte sisters’ connections to these places. For this project I have been
a member of the selection and interview panels, providing me with the exciting
opportunity to interview artists and hear them speak about their work, practice
and ideas. Both the outdoor artwork and the South Square exhibition will be on
display at the time of Le Tour Yorkshire cultural festival, held when the Tour
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time for me as I spend some more time at The Hepworth, this time in
Collections, assisting with the auditing of the collection the gallery is
carrying out over the summer period. Last week I began work on this project, receiving
training in using MODES, the Museums and Collections Database, as well as art
handling and cataloguing. I will also be hopefully assisting artist Des Hughes
with some archive research he is carrying out into Henry Moore’s links with
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">On a
suitably grey and misty morning in March, Artistic Programme Manager David and
I drove over the moors to </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span lang="EN-GB">Hebden</span></st1:placename><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><st1:placetype><span lang="EN-GB">Bridge</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span lang="EN-GB"> to pay a studio visit to South
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this is central to understanding Sally’s work…. ‘<i>I find myself am amazed how quickly the green fields and hedgerows of </i></span><st1:city><st1:place><i><span lang="EN-GB">Thornton</span></i></st1:place></st1:city><i><span lang="EN-GB"> are left behind and
instead we find ourselves high up on eerie, mysterious moorland. It is a
different world up here; we haven’t seen snow for weeks down in the valley but
up here blocks of snow stubbornly remain, like some otherworldly relic. Then
without warning, we suddenly find ourselves dropping sharply down into the
steep narrow valley and suddenly we are back in civilisation, fallen down the
rabbit hole into the centre of </span></i><st1:place><st1:placename><i><span lang="EN-GB">Hebden</span></i></st1:placename><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><st1:placetype><i><span lang="EN-GB">Bridge</span></i></st1:placetype></st1:place><i><span lang="EN-GB">. Sally’s home lies up
another hidden fork in the valley, again taking us away from civilisation. As
we drive up the narrow road I am aware always of trees, dampness and rock,
covered in moss and lichens.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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constantly shifting world is the world Sally self-consciously engages with in
her artwork, exploring the interplay of the built and natural environment and
our relationship to the landscape around us. As she tells us, she regards her
role as an artist “somewhere in between that of a scientist, farmer and
gardener.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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exploring human intervention in the natural landscape, Sally is interested in
both how we cut into the environment and how we build onto it, physically
pinning it down. Consequently much of her photographic work explores images of ruins
on the nearby moors, in particular Top Withens, the famous ruin which is
popularly thought to have inspired Emily Bronte’s </span><st1:place><st1:placename><i><span lang="EN-GB">Wuthering</span></i></st1:placename><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><st1:placetype><i><span lang="EN-GB">Heights</span></i></st1:placetype></st1:place><span lang="EN-GB">.</span></span></div>
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Reservoirs also feature highly in both her
photographic and sculptural work. Sally tells us that she is intrigued by the
ability of both of these features to breach the divide between manmade and
natural landscape feature. Reservoirs become assimilated into the landscape
around them, eventually becoming a feature of beauty in their own right (such
as the popular Ladybower, Derwent and Howden reservoirs in the Peak District),
whilst ruins tend to become endowed with something of the sacred reverence of a
holy relic. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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features as these present in her sculptural work, ideas of history, time and
fragility are all evoked. Attached to the rough pieces of natural rock that
Sally scavenges for in her local quarry are Greek-like columns made from ice
and resin. Human presence is implied from the cast body parts she places in her
sculptures. These body parts, in particular the delicate nipple flowers and cast
heart, bring a sense of intimacy to these works; this is personal artistic
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is a highly personal process for Sally, both informing and being informed by
the course of her daily life. Her house is both home and studio space simultaneously.
In her dining room-come-workshop space, dvds share home with sculptures, vases
and architectural scaffolding structures sit side by side, and the piano and
photographic prints battle for centre of attention. The artist’s studio is not
some mysterious distanced and hidden entity, shut off in both physical and
metaphorical zones of creative expression, but something integrated into
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this, Sally continually scavenges for local organic raw and found materials for
her sculptural work, often from her very garden. She is always keen to
experiment, the process of making being integral to her work. Recently she has
been using YouTube to learn how to knit with sheep’s wool and stitch pieces of
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elements are also important to Sally and have featured in much of her previous
work and conceptual thinking. </span>Having built The <i>Sally Barker Gallery</i> (2000), <span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">a small
cardboard and polystyrene model which houses miniature versions of all of her artworks,
made on a scale of 1:100, she now has widened her horizons to “world domination”.
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realisation of this aim</span>, a project aimed at encouraging self-promotion
and empowerment through architectural hijacking, annexing and the imposition of
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Empire so far consists of a mix of models,
drawings, photographs and postcards: visions of galleries, studios and structures
designed and built in Sally’s name to promote her work. Some of these are
hi-jacked famous art institutions, subsumed into The Sally Barker Empire, such
as <i>Hi-Jack Tate Modern</i>.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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literally models which fuse architecture and sculpture. She is clear to
emphasise that whilst this playful connection to architecture exists, her
models inescapably remain sculptures ultimately. As she tells me, “I have no
desire to ever have them built; they exist as tiny monuments to artistic
vision. The intention is to offer total creative license, both with the models
and with the ideas they potentially house.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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several of her ‘invisible building’ sculpitectures, architectural plan-like
structures, made in three dimension out of natural grasses. Housed within are
model scale figures, providing an almost utopian vision of a potential future
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exhibition to engage with its locality. To this end, she is creating a new body
of work that critically engages with South Square Gallery’s stone heritage and
history as a series of stonemasons’ cottages. Central to this will be a new
photographic work of the famous Thornton Viaduct. For Sally, the viaduct
exemplifies many of her conceptual ideas about landscape; rather than seeing it
as simply a testimony to historic architecture, she sees it as humans stitching
the two sides of the valley together with stone, a bid to negotiate and mark
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currently showing in the gallery<i>, </i>Sally
Barker’s exhibition continues South Square Gallery’s summer season of exploring
contemporary art responding to space, landscape and habitation. During August
and September, the gallery space will once again be offered as a live in studio
for an artist to research</span> <span style="background: white;">and produce new
work whilst engaging with the gallery visitors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Gallery exhibition opens on Friday 7 June and will run until </span><st1:date day="28" month="7" year="2013"><span style="background: white;">28 July 2013</span></st1:date></span><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
South Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384194207166902371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018821680351136085.post-63994795697437727832013-05-01T14:26:00.000+01:002013-05-01T14:26:59.431+01:00<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">In February
2013 I began my ACE funded Curatorial Traineeship ran by South Square Gallery
in partnership with the Hepworth Wakefield. The scheme aims to provide support
for an aspiring curator by providing hands-on experience of developing and
delivering South Square Gallery’s artistic programme, culminating in the
opportunity to research and curate a show in the gallery. The trainee also has
chance to undertake a placement with the Collections and Exhibitions team at
the Hepworth Wakefield and gain experience of working on </span>contemporary art
exhibitions and/or museum collections in an organisation of international
significance.<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #06082c;">The scheme has been running
since 2007 and has a proven success rate with trainees going on to secure
employment within the arts sector or pursue further study. Trainee Stephen
White secured a full-time job as an Assistant Curator at the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="color: #06082c;">Walker</span></st1:placename><span style="color: #06082c;">
</span><st1:placename><span style="color: #06082c;">Gallery</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="color: #06082c;">, </span><st1:place><span style="color: #06082c;">Liverpool</span></st1:place><span style="color: #06082c;"> in 2008, whilst Elizabeth Holdsworth, trainee in 2011,
has recently been awarded a place at the Royal College of Art to study Critical
Writing in Art and Design. Most recent trainee Helen Thackray is soon to begin
a job working as Community Programmer at Nottingham Contemporary. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #06082c;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Speaking about her experience of
the traineeship, Helen said: “<span style="background: white;">Working amongst
the small team of staff and volunteers at South Square</span> <span style="background: white;">Gallery was a unique and hugely</span> <span style="background: white;">rewarding experience. The excellent balance of support
and freedom offered by all of my colleagues has allowed me to take on
responsibilities and explore my own interests and ideas,</span> <span style="background: white;">whilst always having the cushion of a</span> <span style="background: white;">team of professionals to give me advice and help where
ever I needed it.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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“<span style="background: white;">My placement at The Hepworth Wakefield gave the
invaluable</span> <span style="background: white;">opportunity to work in a large
national gallery. Not only was I able to assist with the installation of</span>
<span style="background: white;">exhibitions by artists such as Richard Long</span>
<span style="background: white;">and Luke Fowler, I was also taught specific
skills such as condition</span> <span style="background: white;">reporting and art
handling."</span></span></span></div>
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in mind, I have taken time to reflect upon my first two months as Curatorial Trainee and the experiences I have gained. Look out for further updates from me
in the forthcoming months!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">It was with
a mixture of nerves and excitement that I boarded the Cross Country train from </span><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB">Sheffield</span></st1:place><span lang="EN-GB"> to </span><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB">Leeds</span></st1:place><span lang="EN-GB"> for the first time on the morning
of Wednesday 25<sup>th</sup> February, a now highly familiar journey. There is
a reason I have spoken of ‘Journeying’ in this blog title, for it seems that in
the last two months I have undertaken so many different journeys and not just
of the physical kind. Commuting to an unfamiliar city each week has become
quite the adventure for me, one I have eagerly lapped up, desirous for change
and challenges after months of soul destroying job hunting. Finally I have been
able to join my fellow graduates in gaining the sought after ‘proper job’ and begin
to engage in professional development within curatorial practice, meet other
curators and artists, and build networks and contacts. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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much enjoying working in a rural gallery setting, being used to predominantly
urban arts organisations, and thus it has provided me with the chance to
observe the different practices adopted by the two. Escaping to the beautiful
rural </span><st1:city><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB">Thornton</span></st1:place></st1:city><span lang="EN-GB"> once a week has in itself become
soul-southing, there is a reason why they call </span><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB">Yorkshire</span></st1:place><span lang="EN-GB"> ‘God’s own country’.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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greatest things I have found about the traineeship is the level of importance
of my role within the organisation. Though this initially seemed daunting, I
have found it to be an invaluable experience. For the first time I have had a
real key role and responsibility in decision making and managing the artistic
programme, and my opinions are always very highly valued and considered. This
has helped me to gain confidence to put forward suggestions in a very supportive
environment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">I have had
the opportunity to meet exhibiting artists David McLeavy, Sally Barker and
Stuart Rushworth and discuss their work in detail, and from this produce
interpretative materials and articles. This has not only given me the chance to
engage with artworks at an in depth critical level, but also develop my writing
style, considering issues of tone and audience. From this I have rediscovered
my passion for writing, and have now taken responsibility for the </span><st1:street><st1:address><span lang="EN-GB">South Square</span></st1:address></st1:street><span lang="EN-GB"> blog and am excited about
developing ideas for future articles. I am also hoping to take my writing
beyond the traineeship and think about blogging regularly and writing articles
for local arts publications.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I was able to help co-curate the MA Visual Art students from </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span lang="EN-GB">Bradford</span></st1:placename><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><st1:placetype><span lang="EN-GB">College</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span lang="EN-GB">’s ‘Work in Progress’ show. From
this I learnt about some of the issues involved in curating a group show as
well as specific technical skills and theory of picture hanging. Since then I
have also been involved with curating David McLeavy’s solo exhibition <i>Villa, </i>a show that in its very nature
brings attention to the curatorial process. (See my previous blog for further
discussion of this).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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attended the February meeting of the Yorkshire Curators Group where I was able
to meet both institution based and freelance curators from around the region
and hear updates from a variety of galleries. As part of the meeting (held at
Cartwright Hall) we were given walking tours of the current exhibitions by their
respective curators. Being able to hear curators speak about developing shows
and the curatorial decisions made was a brilliant opportunity for me. I hope to
go to the next group meeting in May!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am
currently on the selection panel for selecting an artist for our summer
residency, as well commissioning an artist to develop a body of work at South
Square Gallery and the Bronte Parsonage. I have begun to review and update the
gallery’s marketing contacts start building a comprehensive database in which to
store these. I am excited to be beginning my placement at the Hepworth
Wakefield in a few weeks when I shall be assisting with the de-install of the
current Alice Channer, Linder and Jessica Jackson Hutchins exhibitions and the
install of the new Haroon Mirza exhibition. I am looking forward to working in
such a well renowned organisation and gaining new experiences and knowledge. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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domestic environment in the countryside, this time that of the fields and
valleys of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB">Thornton</span></st1:place></st1:city><span lang="EN-GB">. </span></span></div>
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the European Modernist architects and furniture makers, his inspirations also
lie much closer to home. As I walk into his studio I immediately spy a copy of
the John Lewis home and furniture catalogue which he is quick to refer me to
when telling me his aims. </span></span></div>
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between gallery and living space was piqued by visiting the 2012 Arts Council <i>British Modern Remade</i> exhibition held in
the refurbished show flats at </span><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB">Sheffield</span></st1:place><span lang="EN-GB">’s Park Hill estate. In their aesthetic beauty, behind which lie
deep seated flaws, the Park Hill flats embody something of the allure and
horror of European Modernism, which so interests David. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As he says to me, “the show flats at Park
Hill are highly attractive to the viewer, yet almost immediately you start to
notice the practical problems of living there, such as of where the kettle can
go or where to hang out your laundry”. As with Le Corbusier, Park Hill’s
utopian vision of ‘streets in the sky’ soon comes crashing down. </span></span></div>
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of stonemasons’ cottages makes it the perfect space for David to explore ideas
of interacting with the domestic space further. Unlike the homogenous ‘white
cube’ gallery, South Square retains original stone fireplaces, wooden ceiling
beams and windows looking out on the
beautiful Thornton countryside, all architectural features, David wants to
celebrate in his exhibition. </span></span></div>
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attracting artists to produce work engaging with their experience and
interaction of being in the gallery space. David refers me to Dominic Mason, whose
2012 residency at </span><st1:street><st1:address><span lang="EN-GB">South Square</span></st1:address></st1:street><span lang="EN-GB"> involved him living in the gallery space, something that clearly
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The long held conflict in design between individualism
and mass production is an important concern to David. Many of the items to be
presented in the show home take the appearance of mass produced items,
referencing the popular ‘flat pack’ furniture of stores such as IKEA. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">However David has actually tirelessly built them in the workshop himself.</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Likewise, he
has transformed the beautiful sourced pastel vases into sculptures in their own
right, decorating them with intricate parts from household objects such as
chopping boards.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">David closely engages with the performance
based nature of consumerism. In his studio sits a shelf of bright colourful
shirts. The exhibition will feature guest performers carrying out the mundane
task of regimentally folding these shirts. This is not merely a reference to the
domestic interior but also to the retail world. David refers me to shops of
startling aesthetic beauty, such as Abercrombie and Fitch, where we are
constantly confronted with glamorous retail assistants monotonously folding
clothes into exact piles. Like the show home, the retail world draws us in to
its apparent perfection. However, just as swiftly is the façade shattered: as
we pick up a shirt to examine it closer and carelessly return it to the pile,
so we break the spell of the fragile beauty of this retail art form. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Whilst creating a model show home, David
nonetheless self-consciously questions the very ideology he is buying into. As
he says to me, the show home is one that implies a certain social class and
hierarchy from the decorative accessories and ornamentation on display. David’s
intention is to playful question this hierarchy in curating the show. “Imagine
placing <i>Heat </i>magazine next to Le
Corbusier’s <i>Toward an Architecture</i>”<i> </i>he muses to me.</span></span></div>
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appear through the various redecorations the show will receive as Visual Arts
students from local colleges are invited to participate in re-curating the
show. Control is taken out of the hands of the artist, creating a new
exhibition, whilst self-consciously drawing attention to the curatorial
process. </span></span></div>
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South Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384194207166902371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018821680351136085.post-20170117082392078662013-01-09T16:43:00.000+00:002013-03-27T14:37:07.054+00:00What Happens at South Square?<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Do you know what happens at South Square? Here are ten facts about us.</b><br /><div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. Our mission is to <span style="text-align: center;">promote and support communities and artists in cultural
creativity, participation and appreciation</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;">2. South Square was founded in 1982 and is home to: 10 artists, 3 galleries, a vegetarian cafe and a frame maker</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">3. We are home to the Thornton Antiquarian Society Archive and manage the Project Stone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;">4. The structure of South Square consists of: a Board of Volunteer Trustees, two part time employees and a growing team of volunteers</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;">5. We train curators for the future through our year-long Curatorial Trainee Programme</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;">7. We hold seven exhibitions of emerging contemporary artists in our Main Gallery, ten art exhibitions in our Meeting Room Gallery and an ever changing programme of exhibitions and events in our Community Art Room each year</span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">8. We deliver arts workshops for the community, for artists, for families and for all</span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">9. We are housed in a Grade II listed building comprising of nineteenth century stone masons' cottages</span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">10. We have a delightful Sculpture Garden at the back of South Square where we curate an annual exhibition of contemporary art, specifically commissioned for the space</span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So come and see us or contact us at <a href="mailto:info@southsquarecentre.co.uk">info@southsquarecentre.co.uk</a> for more information. </span></b></span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can also follow us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/South-Square-Centre/105968146183890">Facebook</a>, visit our <a href="http://www.southsquarecentre.co.uk/">website </a>and join our <a href="http://www.southsquarecentre.co.uk/index.php?/contact/">mailing list</a>. </span></b></span></div>
South Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384194207166902371noreply@blogger.com0Thornton, West Yorkshire BD13 3LD, UK53.7901101 -1.85119420000000953.7895236 -1.8524547000000091 53.7906966 -1.8499337000000089tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018821680351136085.post-36553192434849475022012-01-18T11:20:00.001+00:002012-01-18T11:22:52.552+00:00New Year at South Square<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everyone's back to work now at South Square after the Christmas break and we're busy preparing for another year of engaging exhibitions.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A reminder for all artists, South Square has secured funding for two exhibition bursaries this year, to be awarded to emerging artists. Each bursary will be worth £500 to support an emerging artist to make new work for a month long exhibition at South Square gallery.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We hope to send out more detailed information on the opportunities and how to apply in the next few weeks.</span></div>South Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384194207166902371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018821680351136085.post-23006425037954991202011-12-10T17:08:00.001+00:002013-03-27T14:46:15.413+00:00Conrad Atkinson becomes a patron of South Square<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Following his exhibition here earlier this year (Dreams of Permanence, Hopes of Transience), internationally renowned artist Conrad Atkinson has agreed to become a patron of South Square. </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">In April 2011 I worked with the team at South Square Gallery on my solo show 'Dreams of Permanence, Hopes of Transience' and would like to put on record my appreciation of the team's work on this complex show. Their sensitivity to the work and the issues it raised were imressive as was their attention to detail and their work on the catalogue.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">They collaborated creatively with me and curated the pieces with such enthusiasm and care that much of the works gained more meanings and resonances than they had in other venues in Europe or New York. It is due to their input that the show meshed perfectly with contemporary contentious issues such as immigration and carefully integrated this with the legacy of the Brontes so present in Thornton still.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">The opening was revealing in the range of its demographic, and the presence of two yound women drawing Mehindi on the hands of a range of guests was an inventive initiative. The harmonious relationships with a diverse community and the negotiations with the works and the issues it excavated were very well considered.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">The success of the show was due in large part to the efforts of this unique team and its fertile relationship both with art and its practice and its integrity with the local community, its history, its traditions and its present concerns.</span></i></div>
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South Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384194207166902371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018821680351136085.post-68775363856352331552011-11-08T13:08:00.004+00:002011-11-09T10:26:43.208+00:00New Studio Holder : Stephan Marshall<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Stephen Marshall is an artist recently moved from Manchester, where</span><span style="font-size: small;"> he completed his Illustration degree specialising in Printmaking. His</span><span style="font-size: small;"> work is primarily drawing and print focused, most recently with large</span><span style="font-size: small;">scale woodcuts and colour reductions. He has also produced lithographs and etchings.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> His woodcuts were recently published in Varoom in an upcoming graduate feature. Juxtapoz magazine has described his work as "slightly off putting and wonderfully personal". He has exhibited throughout the UK as well as New York and Australia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> The work is large scale and full of details, with codes and private </span><span style="font-size: small;">jokes inviting the viewer to step closer and be directly involved in</span><span style="font-size: small;"> his work. Exploring universal themes and the human experience through personal narratives, Stephen describes his work as "holding a mirror up to myself then turning it outwards". Including fragmented memories and references to previous pieces, often a badly placed joke or highlighted mistake will be used to distract the viewer from a self conscious subject.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"> The private moments are there for all to see and invoke a personal response in the viewer. Text creates further imagery in the mind of the viewer, building up layers in the imagination to add to what is displayed on paper. Sometimes the text simply offers the viewer instructions to interpret the many layers of his work: clues to navigate the initial lack of order. </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Stephen prefers to talk about the work on an individual basis rather than a whole, and his new series of woodcuts work as pieces that stand alone as well as being part of a larger ongoing narrative. The woodcuts explore changes in situation and environment and the liberations and constrictions which accompany that. Stephen's recent work shows his developing interest in pattern and decoration and the aesthetics of mark making to communicate narrative, moving away from detailing the specifics of a subject.</span></div><a href="http://www.stephenmarshall.co.uk/">www.stephenmarshall.co.uk</a><br />
<a href="mailto:info@stephenmarshall.co.uk">info@stephenmarshall.co.uk</a></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></div>South Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384194207166902371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018821680351136085.post-53125090276404244202011-08-18T12:16:00.001+01:002013-03-27T14:47:59.029+00:00Alfie Strong | Artist in Residence | Review on artmagazine.co.uk<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
A review of Alfie's residency is now up on articlemagazine.co.uk. To read this review please click <a href="http://articlemagazine.co.uk/2011/08/the-shadow-of-the-valley/">here</a>.</div>
South Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384194207166902371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018821680351136085.post-50922534039987600792011-08-17T10:30:00.001+01:002011-08-17T16:14:04.118+01:00New studio holder: Christine Hinchliffe<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">South Square has recently welcomed a new studio holder, Christine Hinchcliffe, who currently has some works on display in our Sculpture Garden. Christine studied at Leeds College of Art 2006-2008 and gained a BA [Hons] Fine Art from Bradford College 2011.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Her most recent works include:</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the Edge Festival at the Temple Works Leeds July 2011 an installation using linen thread and wool slub.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bradford Open 2011 an embossed print </span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sculpture - Elder Web made using Elder and jute South Square Sculpture Garden May 2011</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sound Installation Bradford College 2010 a CD of this work is held in their permanent collection </span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">She is currently exhibiting and curating with a number of fellow recent graduates from Bradford College. The exhibition entitled “Sofa......so good” is on from Aug 3<sup>rd</sup> to Sept 3<sup>rd</sup> at Bradford Playhouse Cafe/Cellar Bar, Chapel Street, Bradford </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">'I work in an organic and intuitive way using natural and found materials that allow the beauty of the materials to be seen using a wide variety of mediums such as print, installation, sculpture, and sound. I like exploring the ephemeral quality of memory and the spaces it inhabits and the transient nature of our lives and the things we collect along the way.'</span></i></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">'I am excited and looking forward to my time at South Square and exploring the landscape around Thornton, an area that is new to me.'</span></i></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: small;">Christine Hinchliffe</span></div></div>South Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384194207166902371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018821680351136085.post-72217257458147230182011-06-29T11:56:00.002+01:002011-06-29T16:47:30.974+01:00Installation week: Emmy Twigge<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We are currently installing our July exhibition by Emmy Twigge, a collection of works (including pictures and sculpture) which attempt to manifest feelings as physical objects.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The preview night will commence at 7pm on Friday 1st of July and continue until 9pm. There will also be a live art performance from 6:30 to 7:30 at the Square. For more information about the exhibition and the performance please visit <a href="http://www.southsquarecentre.co.uk/">our website</a> and we hope to see you all there on the night!</span></div>South Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384194207166902371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018821680351136085.post-38178422712576912822011-06-23T13:39:00.003+01:002011-06-23T13:52:48.741+01:00Sculpture Garden at South Square<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On Saturday the 21st May the Sculpture Garden at South Square was opened with a lively afternoon tea party.</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The artists were joined by their familes and friends to celebrate the launch of the newly revamped outdoor exhibition space.</div><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Sculpture Garden is open to visitors during our normal opening hours at the gallery, Tues - Sun 12:00 - 15:00</div>South Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384194207166902371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018821680351136085.post-52792084496367897632011-04-21T11:48:00.003+01:002011-05-11T11:28:11.283+01:00Henna At South Square<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">In Conrad's Exhibition in the Gallery the artwork 'Let Me In' incorporates photographs of female hands decorated with Henna.</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Conrad worked with Asian ladies in West Yorkshire and the tattoo's have words from Emily Brontë's poems translated into Urdu and Gujarati. Here are some photographs of people having Henna tattoo's on Conrad's opening.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkGytY4Og0xIgiSXqIJepDQe2hnO0sf2XrOUUrVSsYi-ZuLeFoy28nWQhWq8ZyUFhIHDOUOHEBjEjd9pvBkoorgiw5YoK8vBn2y020oB3gpqnacIvZcQT0QeqCf6hcUDU6x-r3GIJ930c/s1600/P1000007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkGytY4Og0xIgiSXqIJepDQe2hnO0sf2XrOUUrVSsYi-ZuLeFoy28nWQhWq8ZyUFhIHDOUOHEBjEjd9pvBkoorgiw5YoK8vBn2y020oB3gpqnacIvZcQT0QeqCf6hcUDU6x-r3GIJ930c/s320/P1000007.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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</div>South Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384194207166902371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018821680351136085.post-88387969569859482572011-03-22T13:45:00.012+00:002011-03-23T14:03:52.591+00:00New Studio Holder | Lisa Naylor<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Lisa Naylor was born in Bradford 1983. She studied Art and Design at Bradford College, completing her degree in 2010. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Lisa’s work currently approaches the subject of control, of being made to conform to societal expectations. She explores expectations of performance, entrapment, and the balances between freedom and domination. Her work explores fear, violence (particularly within this so-called social recession), the supposed influx in violent behavior and deterioration of society and morals. She enjoys exploring social and political ideas and concepts through painting.</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhyphenhyphenbj-JnYxPgd-3mUmyMRH9OelzNXDgjTpMH5Udy59QMDjGFsyJUEXZkeuKW9z4NsowmmXTvAdT3-71SDv3BWoGUsD1h-vpgdT0M4kKLg_BK6zs4CqMCIQrhvITShvld0IehroIU_VBvg/s1600/DSC_2129-14-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhyphenhyphenbj-JnYxPgd-3mUmyMRH9OelzNXDgjTpMH5Udy59QMDjGFsyJUEXZkeuKW9z4NsowmmXTvAdT3-71SDv3BWoGUsD1h-vpgdT0M4kKLg_BK6zs4CqMCIQrhvITShvld0IehroIU_VBvg/s320/DSC_2129-14-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Solo exhibitions</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">2010 Rushworth's Fine Art</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Group exhibitions</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">2010 Bradford Degree show, Yorkshire craft centre</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">21<sup>st</sup> -24<sup>th</sup> July 2010 Bradford Playhouse, Little Germany, Bradford</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">2010 Saatchi Gallery, London</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">24<sup>th</sup> Aug – 24<sup>th</sup> sept Brahm Gallery, Headingly, Leeds</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Artist's Statement</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The area in which I work is mainly paint. I consider my work expressionist. Initially I work very fast, encouraging expressive mark making into something. Rather than controlling the paint, I let the paint do what it wants and select parts I feel are constructive in terms of form building. I find the journey from abstraction to realism really interesting. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">More recently I have been working from photographs as I feel it gives you a better chance to dissect the colors. I work with different types of paint. I enjoy experimenting and mixing different methods and techniques and trying to push the boundaries a little.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"> Rather than restricting myself to a strict brief I prefer to work quite freely, painting what I feel like at the time. When I have come up with a body of work I then go through it and decide what fits with my brief. </span></div>South Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384194207166902371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018821680351136085.post-47661193586819472432011-03-03T14:45:00.001+00:002011-03-23T14:02:13.280+00:00Refugee Workshops<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWRs9azQb3liu2RRA5SwF_z2Lqky4RMYjlKuye802p4gsUCjx248FDtcgT-0PUUvi9tp8IHWMf3Guyl3KoOed_3A5X4uRqUX-Huf2BZlJXjRW5u1wOK1OgEcJ5tuGvNY_BaI7QqmEWu7o/s1600/IMG_0213.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWRs9azQb3liu2RRA5SwF_z2Lqky4RMYjlKuye802p4gsUCjx248FDtcgT-0PUUvi9tp8IHWMf3Guyl3KoOed_3A5X4uRqUX-Huf2BZlJXjRW5u1wOK1OgEcJ5tuGvNY_BaI7QqmEWu7o/s320/IMG_0213.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">On Wednesday the 23rd of February South Square, in partnership with BIASAN(an organisation working with refugees in Bradford), held a day of workshops with a local group of refugees. They took part in creative and dancing workshops in response to the various exhibitions on display at South Square.</div>South Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384194207166902371noreply@blogger.com0