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Sunday, 8 May 2011
Saturday, 7 May 2011
HASTINGS ART FORUM - Forthcoming Exhibition
12 – 24 May in AF1. Danny Mooney. New painting and sculpture..
©Danny Mooney. Painting and wire sculpture
19 – 24 May in AF2. Emily Johns. “Conscious Oil”. A series of lino etchings which examines the pervasive grip that ‘oil’ has on the unconscious part of our daily lives. Emily showed this exhibition in Rye last year, but it was largely missed by people outside Rye.
©Danny Mooney. Painting and wire sculpture
19 – 24 May in AF2. Emily Johns. “Conscious Oil”. A series of lino etchings which examines the pervasive grip that ‘oil’ has on the unconscious part of our daily lives. Emily showed this exhibition in Rye last year, but it was largely missed by people outside Rye.
THE TOWNER EASTBOURNE FRIDAY 13TH MAY
Launch of artist designed membership card with David Dimbleby & Peter Liversidge
PRIVATE VIEW Friday 13 May 7–9pm
Gin Performance
by Peter Liversidge
An exciting opportunity to take part in a performance installation, in which Hendrick’s gin and tonic will be offered in glasses etched by the artist. The installation forms part of a one night solo exhibition of Peter Liversidge’s work. Peter, who is renowned for his creative proposals will give a short talk on his proposals for Towner, including his design for the new limited-edition collectable artwork for Towner members.
RSVP
Email:rsvp-towner@eastbourne.gov.uk
Tel: 01323 434682
Towner
Devonshire Park
College Road
Eastbourne BN21 4JJ
01323 434670
With support from accommodation
partner The Devonshire Park Hotel
www.devonshire-park-hotel.co.uk
This event is free and open to all, but if you do feel inspired to support Towner by becoming a
member, you will be able to sign up and reserve your limited-edition membership card on the night.
PRIVATE VIEW Friday 13 May 7–9pm
Gin Performance
by Peter Liversidge
An exciting opportunity to take part in a performance installation, in which Hendrick’s gin and tonic will be offered in glasses etched by the artist. The installation forms part of a one night solo exhibition of Peter Liversidge’s work. Peter, who is renowned for his creative proposals will give a short talk on his proposals for Towner, including his design for the new limited-edition collectable artwork for Towner members.
RSVP
Email:rsvp-towner@eastbourne.gov.uk
Tel: 01323 434682
Towner
Devonshire Park
College Road
Eastbourne BN21 4JJ
01323 434670
With support from accommodation
partner The Devonshire Park Hotel
www.devonshire-park-hotel.co.uk
This event is free and open to all, but if you do feel inspired to support Towner by becoming a
member, you will be able to sign up and reserve your limited-edition membership card on the night.
Friday, 6 May 2011
TURNER CONTEMPORARY MARGATE - WHAT'S ON IN MAY
Easy Sundays: Doodle Drawings Photo: Carlos Cortes
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| Easy Sundays Weekly family workshopsEvery Sunday 1 - 4pm Clore Learning Studio £2 (under 3s and accompanying adults free)Join us every Sunday for creative activities, including Mirror Buildings, Doodle Drawing and Open the Box. No booking required, please pay on the day at reception. Read more > | Space for the Imagination: Hand Held Lava Performance 7 May 4pm Foyle Rooms £5 concessions £4 An artist, archaeologist and curator give a performative lecture that examines the status of volcanoes in contemporary culture. Book now > | |||
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| What is the Sublime? Course Tuesdays, 10 May-21 June 6-8pm Foyle Rooms £95, concessions £76 University of Kent lecturer Mike Walker leads a six-week course that explores the much debated aesthetic of the Sublime, from the historical through to the contemporary. Book now > | Page Turner exhibition Exhibition 14 May 10am-7pm Clore Learning Studio FreeArtwork and writing entered for the Page Turner competition, inspired by our second exhibition Nothing in the World But Youth. Read more > | |||
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| 14 May 11am-4pm (animation) 1-4pm (Perspex Etching) Foyle Rooms Free just turn up To celebrate Adult Learners' Week (14-20 May), we are offering free taster sessions to give an insight into our one day courses on animation and Perspex etching). Read more > | Cultural Ambassadors Short Course Mondays 6 June-22 August 10.30am-4.30pm Clore Learning Studio Free (18+ years)Adults living in Thanet (who have not had a chance of entering Higher Education) can work with professional artists to engage in the cultural regeneration of the area. Read more > | |||
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| Welcome to Blank Canvas Course open day 17 May 3-5.30pm Clore Learning Studio Free just turn up (13+ years) Taking place during Adult Learners' Week, Thanet residents can find out more about Blank Canvas, our artist-led intergenerational group. Read more > | Speak Up! Talking on Art Workshop 21 May 11am-4pm Clore Learning Studio £25, concessions £20 Gallery Educator Lucy Wilson builds confidence in facilitating a discussion around art, inspired by works exhibited in Revealed: Turner Contemporary Opens. Book now > | |||
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| Perpsex Etching One day course 28 May 10am-4pm Clore Learning Studio £50 per person, £40 concessions includes materials, excludes lunch (18+ years) Work with a professional printmaker to create your own Perspex Etching, inspired by exhibiting artist Ellen Harvey. Book now > | Every Typeface tells a Story Talk 25 May 6-7.30pm Foyle Rooms £5, concessions £4 Graphic Designer John Morgan, nominated for the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year for the book series Four Corners Familiars, shares his approach to typography. Book now > | |||
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
LUCY BELL GALLERY ST LEONARDS ON SEA. NEW EXHIBITION OPENS 10 MAY
Gallery open Wednesday-Saturday
11am-4pm or by appointment.
gallery@lucy-bell.com
Lucy Bell Gallery is pleased to introduce new works by photographer Vicky Wetherill, the result of a series of trips to Las Vegas which were taken over a period of ten years.
Vicky Wetherill has been documenting the life of Casinos and Las Vegas, creating a unique and in-depth portrait, of this surreal environment. Previous work from Vicky Wetherill includes ‘Peep-Show’ (2002) published by Dewi Lewis, also solo show with Tom Blau Gallery, and various group shows including Dazed & Confused Gallery.
The Gallery is producing an Artists book of Vicky Wetherill work which will be available at the Gallery for £25 or £35 with a 10 x 8 print.
Essay by Suzanne Patterson:
The public we meet in these pictures may believe, or prefer to believe, that they have a winning touch which could negate the power of the casino - giving them an edge against the house.
These images capture the topography of the enclosed and sanitised world of Vegas, which is still strangely attractive and hypnotic for the visitor.
Yet Wetherill is aware that for all the seemingly democratic optimism of Las Vegas for the people who frequent the hotels, shows, and casinos there is no such thing as a permanent winning streak and that eventually the house must win. There is a poignancy to this realisation, which has resonances for life in general- mortality loses out to the inevitable parameters of death.
But for now, the people in these pictures are winning- enjoying their moment in the sun.
Engaged Couple shows one such pair. Here we have a newly engaged couple who are not quite in the flush of youth, wearing white sports clothing. They look tanned, clean, hopeful. They smile at the camera – they seem to be at an optimistic point in their lives. However easy it may be to be scathing about the fantasy aspect of these Vegas dreamers, it is clear that Wetherill has a more forgiving touch. In fact the composition of Engaged Couple betrays a kind of tenderness for the subject matter. On the path edged by pansies, the woman’s foot appears to touch the ground hesitantly, almost girlishly. There is something engaging about this unmannered pose.
Nature is often at odds with its prefabricated version in this environment. In Foliage we see real leaves encroaching onto concrete flooring, their shadows seeming to lurch forward, grasping. In Refurbishing the Volcano we see the bizarrely polite notice telling the public that the ‘volcano’ is closed until a certain date, and that the management apologise for any inconvenience this closure has caused. If only catastrophes in nature were similarly controllable! Perhaps as a reference to this point, in Seigfried and Roy Plaza we see a monumental bronze edifice portraying the two magicians with a huge tiger in the middle – one of their show animals. In reality, we know that one of the men was savaged by the tiger and the animal is obviously now retired. In contrast to this violent episode, Casino Lions are so lethargic and disengaged that they seem to have lost the will to live. They slump under the spotlights, cordoned off by the glazing, demoralised by the slot machines and the dazed punters who hope for a spark of recognition, movement - maybe even just a hint of animal ferocity.
However, for the most part nature remains contained and organised for our enjoyment. The water here is recycled endlessly around the city in a kind of liquid loop - yet no-one would know this as they take a gondola upon the electric blue ‘Grand Canal’, looking at the escalatored ‘Rialto Bridge’, breathing in the pervasively sweet manufactured air.
There are no clocks in Vegas, time has no marker. All we have to do is float by, as in the picture Lazy River.
Suzanne Patterson 2011
*by Suzanne Patterson - previous published works include contributions to ArtWorld Magazine, essays for Saatchi at Underwood Street Gallery, Timeout.
Previous work from Vicky Wetherill includes ‘Peep-Show’ (2002) published by Dewi Lewis, also solo show with Tom Blau Gallery, and various group shows including Dazed & Confused Gallery
11am-4pm or by appointment.
gallery@lucy-bell.com
Lucy Bell Gallery is pleased to introduce new works by photographer Vicky Wetherill, the result of a series of trips to Las Vegas which were taken over a period of ten years.
Vicky Wetherill has been documenting the life of Casinos and Las Vegas, creating a unique and in-depth portrait, of this surreal environment. Previous work from Vicky Wetherill includes ‘Peep-Show’ (2002) published by Dewi Lewis, also solo show with Tom Blau Gallery, and various group shows including Dazed & Confused Gallery.
The Gallery is producing an Artists book of Vicky Wetherill work which will be available at the Gallery for £25 or £35 with a 10 x 8 print.
Essay by Suzanne Patterson:
The public we meet in these pictures may believe, or prefer to believe, that they have a winning touch which could negate the power of the casino - giving them an edge against the house.
These images capture the topography of the enclosed and sanitised world of Vegas, which is still strangely attractive and hypnotic for the visitor.
Yet Wetherill is aware that for all the seemingly democratic optimism of Las Vegas for the people who frequent the hotels, shows, and casinos there is no such thing as a permanent winning streak and that eventually the house must win. There is a poignancy to this realisation, which has resonances for life in general- mortality loses out to the inevitable parameters of death.
But for now, the people in these pictures are winning- enjoying their moment in the sun.
Engaged Couple shows one such pair. Here we have a newly engaged couple who are not quite in the flush of youth, wearing white sports clothing. They look tanned, clean, hopeful. They smile at the camera – they seem to be at an optimistic point in their lives. However easy it may be to be scathing about the fantasy aspect of these Vegas dreamers, it is clear that Wetherill has a more forgiving touch. In fact the composition of Engaged Couple betrays a kind of tenderness for the subject matter. On the path edged by pansies, the woman’s foot appears to touch the ground hesitantly, almost girlishly. There is something engaging about this unmannered pose.
Nature is often at odds with its prefabricated version in this environment. In Foliage we see real leaves encroaching onto concrete flooring, their shadows seeming to lurch forward, grasping. In Refurbishing the Volcano we see the bizarrely polite notice telling the public that the ‘volcano’ is closed until a certain date, and that the management apologise for any inconvenience this closure has caused. If only catastrophes in nature were similarly controllable! Perhaps as a reference to this point, in Seigfried and Roy Plaza we see a monumental bronze edifice portraying the two magicians with a huge tiger in the middle – one of their show animals. In reality, we know that one of the men was savaged by the tiger and the animal is obviously now retired. In contrast to this violent episode, Casino Lions are so lethargic and disengaged that they seem to have lost the will to live. They slump under the spotlights, cordoned off by the glazing, demoralised by the slot machines and the dazed punters who hope for a spark of recognition, movement - maybe even just a hint of animal ferocity.
However, for the most part nature remains contained and organised for our enjoyment. The water here is recycled endlessly around the city in a kind of liquid loop - yet no-one would know this as they take a gondola upon the electric blue ‘Grand Canal’, looking at the escalatored ‘Rialto Bridge’, breathing in the pervasively sweet manufactured air.
There are no clocks in Vegas, time has no marker. All we have to do is float by, as in the picture Lazy River.
Suzanne Patterson 2011
*by Suzanne Patterson - previous published works include contributions to ArtWorld Magazine, essays for Saatchi at Underwood Street Gallery, Timeout.
Previous work from Vicky Wetherill includes ‘Peep-Show’ (2002) published by Dewi Lewis, also solo show with Tom Blau Gallery, and various group shows including Dazed & Confused Gallery
CALL FOR ENTRIES - SELECTED EXHIBITION, ONLINE GALLERY....
PURE ARTS GROUP art uncovered.... see experience explore
Annual selection call for entries NOW OPEN
* ART FAIR WITH £3K PRIZE FUND
* ONLINE GALLERY
* ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE OPPORTUNITIES
* MENTORING
* EXHIBITION CALENDER
* SELECTED ARTIST WEBSITE EXCLUSIVE CONTENT
Comments from the inaugural Battle Contemporary Fine Art Fair 2010 included;
" Wonderful variety"
" Better than the summer exhibition at the RA"
" Unmissable"...."Very Impressed"
The 2011/2012 Selection Panel includes Brenda Hartill RE, Ali Pettit, London Gallery owner and curator and Guy Portelli VPRBA, FRBS
Submission open 1 APRIL - 3 JUNE 2011.
www.pureartsgroup.co.uk
Annual selection call for entries NOW OPEN
* ART FAIR WITH £3K PRIZE FUND
* ONLINE GALLERY
* ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE OPPORTUNITIES
* MENTORING
* EXHIBITION CALENDER
* SELECTED ARTIST WEBSITE EXCLUSIVE CONTENT
Comments from the inaugural Battle Contemporary Fine Art Fair 2010 included;
" Wonderful variety"
" Better than the summer exhibition at the RA"
" Unmissable"...."Very Impressed"
The 2011/2012 Selection Panel includes Brenda Hartill RE, Ali Pettit, London Gallery owner and curator and Guy Portelli VPRBA, FRBS
www.pureartsgroup.co.uk
Monday, 2 May 2011
PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
The latest show presented by the Blackshed gallery
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