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marginendeavour website launched - www.marginendeavour.co.uk

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Helen Shaddock Website updated

Over the past year (yes, it really has been that long in the making) I have been working on redesigning and updating my website. Going through all the work I have made has been a time-consuming but worthwhile activity. 

http://www.helenshaddock.co.uk/

I hope that you find the new layout easy to navigate and accessible, and that you keep returning to the website to see my latest activity.














I have kept my blog as a separate entity as it works well that way. There is a link from the website that leads to the blog.

I've also included a link to the Drone Ensemble website. We are in the process of adding more sound and video footage at the moment so please keep looking at it for updates.

Please do let me know if there is anything that the new website is lacking or any improvements that I can make. 

Simulation of THEMSELVES HERE TOGETHER now available on YouTube

https://youtu.be/-9B2cY3hZ7k



A simulation of THEMSELVES HERE TOGETHER, an audiovisual installation in which a series of animations and audio are projected on 4 walls of the StoryWorld gallery space at The Word, South Shields

Free lemon-aid available now at preview of Bitter/Sweet at Assembly House, Leeds

Get along to Assembly House in Leeds to the preview of Bitter/Sweet, an exhibition of new work by

Neil Carribine / Emily Garvey / Jawbone Jawbone / Oliver Perry / Helen Shaddock

Curated by Emily Garvey & Liam McCabe


Free lemon-aid available 6-9pm, Thursday 15th March 2018


Exhibition open 15th-25th March 2018

10am-4pm on 17th-18th, 24th-25th March & by appointment

Contact Liam McCabe on 07828 104125

TONIGHT- Bitter/Sweet Preview - Assembly House Studios & Project Space - Preview 6-9pm

The final preparations are being done ready for the preview of Bitter/Sweet at Assembly House tonight. Escape the dreary gloomy weather and brighten yourself up with some delicious art and a dose of lemon-aid. Enjoy!

Bitter/Sweet

Assembly House Studios & Project Space

44 Canal Road, Armley, Leeds, LS12 2PL

Preview: March 15th 2018 - 6-9pm - Free lemon-aid

Exhibition runs: March 15th-March 25th

Open: 10am-4pm on 17th-18th & 24th-25th March & by appointment

Contact: Liam McCabe on 07828 104125

Featuring work by:

Neil Carribine / Emily Garvey / Jawbone Jawbone / Oliver Perry / Helen Shaddock

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Curated by Emily Garvey & Liam McCabe

Emotions are often fleeting and can be forever lost in a moment. A memory can be at one point beautiful, transient and wondrous and in the next filled with sadness and nostalgia - these experiences are unique for every individual and are the focal point for Bitter/Sweet

Bitter/Sweet brings together 6 artists from Newcastle and Sheffield to exhibit in Leeds for the first time. Each drawing upon their own Bitter/Sweet experiences and emotions, brand new bodies of work will be on display spanning animation, sculpture and a site-specific wall mural with free lemon-aid available at the preview.

REALITY CHECK - Preview: Friday 13th October, 6-8:30pm - The NewBridge Project : Gateshead,

REALITY CHECK
Lucien Anderson / Jon Cornbill / Oliver Doe / Emily Garvey / Louie Pegna / Alice Rout / Helen Shaddock / Olivia Turner

Preview: Friday 13th October, 6-8:30pm
Dates: 14th October – 28th October 2017 (Wed-Sat 12-5pm)

The NewBridge Project : Gateshead
232-240 High Street, Gateshead, NE8 1AQ

Reality Check is a new exhibition bringing together works by eight early-career artists, resulting from The NewBridge Project’s 2016-2017 Graduate Programme in partnership with Newcastle University.

Reality Check explores the role and identity of the artist and its connection to the everyday, engaging with a broad range of societal contexts from manual to emotional labour and introspective to extrospective ways of being and seeing.

The launch of Reality Check will mark the launch of The NewBridge Project : Gateshead, a new gallery and studio space on Gateshead High Street.

Lucien Anderson’s eclectic practice is tied together with the methodical approach of an engineer, replicating rudimentary research & development and prototyping. Collating spontaneous video footage, he attempts to coax out a rationale or theme, whilst exploring the day-to-day habits of the artist as a human being. Helen Shaddock’s work presents a similarly honest yet raw account of trivial everyday activities from the point of view of a narrator. Through live stream-of-consciousness writing, Shaddock reveals the narrator’s meandering thoughts; dubiety, tiredness, relationships, and the pressures of modern life.

Emily Garvey constructs otherworldly multi-media works that elaborate on ideas of escapism from modern reality, pulling from both popular culture and introspection. Focusing on identity and self-doubt and deprecation, Garvey presents an animated character turning his inner turmoil into moments of joy. Alice Rout offers work that is embedded in dissociation, allowing both the artist and audience to project their fantasies upon a vast virtual world, manifesting in the form of a blank avatar. This projection allows us to examine our reality from an objective viewpoint, lost within Rout’s huge virtual landscape.

Jon Cornbill roots his practice in social, cultural and political diagnosis, continuously questioning our ever-changing systems and communities. Cornbill responds by playing with both scale and the values we hold in regard to tradition, in both artistic and social terms, to create a sense of difference. Louie Pegna also aims to make an alien landscape out of the familiar, using uneasy images and sounds to create a sense of alienation, and directly referencing a pop-cultural idea of aliens through audio-visual tropes. Pegna’s works are playful, and invite the audience to decode a diverse mix of imagery and ideas.

Oliver Doe’s work looks both inwardly and at wider social circumstances to examine ways in which the queer body is manifested in broader societal and cultural contexts. Reduced to essential elements, his works interweave an ephemeral trace of the body with subtle queer coding and suggestiveness. Olivia Turner’s work also attempts to articulate the corporeal, focusing on the hands as communicators of non-verbal gestures, and as sensory sockets for perceiving the body. Her current practice explores the effects of mitochondrial diseases on the senses, and explores alternative modes of perception and communication.

Reality Check will be the inaugural exhibition in The NewBridge Project : Gateshead, a formerly vacant shop unit on Gateshead High Street. The space has been transformed into a base that will be home to NewBridge Gallery, which will host a rolling programme of contemporary art exhibitions and commissions; studio spaces for artists at any stage of their career; and, our pioneering new graduate development programme, The Collective Studio, a collaboration with Newcastle University’s Institute for Creative Art Practice.

Reality Check is supported by the Newcastle University Institute for Creative Arts Practice and Arts Council England.

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Artists’ Biographies:

Lucien Anderson (b.1992, Huddersfield) creates work that incorporates installation, sculpture, video, digital image and everyday object. Anderson was awarded the John Christie Prize in 2016 and was shortlisted for the Gillian Dickinson North East Sculptor Award. Recent exhibitions include I’ve got too much on my plate, The Northern Charter, Newcastle; As Above So Below, Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Allenheads; and Hollow Horse, XL Gallery, Newcastle.

Jon Cornbill (b. 1993, Gateshead) works between video, sculpture, performance and installation. Recent exhibitions include I’ve got too much on my plate, The Northern Charter, Newcastle; Moving on Up, Moving on Out, NewBridge Project, Newcastle; XMAS DINNER, M I L K Gallery, Newcastle; and Night of the Museums, Turbo Gallery, Warsaw.

Oliver Doe (b.1994, London) is a transmedia artist, writer and curator, whose practice focuses on queerness in visual culture. Recent exhibitions include You’re Reading Into It, Vane, Newcastle; Provocations, ICW, Blackpool; In Plain Sight, 35 Chapel Walk, Sheffield; and Distant Bodies, System Gallery, Newcastle.

Emily Garvey (b.1993, Barnsley) is an artist who works with 3D modelling and video software to create digital alternate realities. Recent exhibitions include Roots and Wings, House of Blah Blah, Middlesbrough and Sunday Screening I, Platform Southwark, London.

Louie Pegna (b. 1992, Bristol) is an installation artist and printmaker living in Glasgow, currently studying MLitt Fine Art Practice at the Glasgow School of Art. Recent exhibitions include Children of Tomorrow, Galleri Andromeda, Aarhus, Hollow Horse, XL Gallery, Newcastle, and After A Daily Century of Available Real, Splab Gallery, Aarhus.

Alice Rout (b.1994, Suffolk) is an artist based in Newcastle working with video, installation, text and sound. Recent exhibitions include ULTRA SUNRISE, SET Studios, London; Moving On Up, Moving On Out, The NewBridge Project, Newcastle; and Fünf Wochen Unendlicher Spass, Pathos München, Munich.

Helen Shaddock (b.1986, Dewsbury) works with video, sound, writing, installation, sculpture and performance. Shaddock recently completed a Spoken Word residency at The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Canada. Recent exhibitions include Flash Fwd, The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Canada; Everything will be alright, Cheeseburn, Northumberland; A lot can happen in a day, TURF Projects, London.

Olivia Turner (b.1992, Newcastle) is an interdisciplinary artist undertaking a practice-led PhD at Newcastle University. She is currently artist in residence at the Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research. Recent exhibitions include Valence, Vane, Newcastle; Moving on Out, Moving on Up, NewBridge Project, Newcastle; and Glasgow International (2016).

http://thenewbridgeproject.com/events/reality-check/

MFA Summer exhibition website up and running!

As we head towards the MFA Summer exhibition, check out the MFA Summer exhibition website containing information and images about all the artists involved:

http://fineart.ncl.ac.uk/ma2016/













Anna MacRae
Bex Harvey
Hannah Elizabeth Cooper
Harriet Sutcliffe
Helen Shaddock
James Quin
Jim Lloyd
Liying Zhao
Mehan Fernando
Michael Mulvihill
Mirela Bistran
Yein Son

The risographs have arrived!

Rather than designing a bound catalogue as such, we decided to produce a set of double sided A3 risograph prints for the MFA Summer Exhibition. We used Risotto, Each artist has chosen an image of their work for the front of their risograph, and on the back of all the risograph prints is an essay by Matthew Hearn  titled inbetweenness... which discusses the work of each artists in the exhibition.

Here is a sneak preview of the risographs, but as each print is an artwork in itself, the only real way to  appreciate the work is to see it in person. All the more reason to come along to the exhibition, and buy a print or two for you to enjoy in your own home. 

Helen Shaddock

Ute Kirkwood

Soon Hwang

Liying Zhao

Sofija R.L. Sutton

Paul Martin Hughes

Nigel Morgan

Sarah Dunn

Mirela Bistran

Alex Charrington

Yein Son

Send me an email if you would like to buy a signed limited editioned risograph print.

SNIPPET introduces... Helen Shaddock

https://www.facebook.com/snippet2015?fref=ts

SNIPPET - Preview: Tuesday 24th February 2015, 6-8pm, Fine Art Department, Newcastle University

A fragment. A glimpse. A squint to unveil the work of artists exploring painting, sculpture, textiles, sound and video. Geometric colourful shapes along with abstract moving images and experimental sculpture are brought together in SNIPPET.

Human emotions are expressed through subtle images creating an immersive environment. The works shown are manifested from the tensions between painting and sculpture, society and technology.

Artists: Mirela Bistran, Jodie Dunnill, Li Qingchan, Bartira Sena, Helen Shaddock, Yein Son, Liying Zhao, Tan Zou.

PREVIEW: Tuesday 24th February, 2015 6 - 8pm  
25th - 27th February 9am - 5pm 
Long Gallery, Project room, Tic Space. 
Fine Art Department. School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University 
Newcastle upon Tyne. NE1 7RU.

SNIPPET - Preview: Tuesday 24th February 2015, 6-8pm, Fine Art Department, Newcastle University

PREVIEW: Tuesday 24th February, 2015 6 - 8pm  
25th - 27th February 9am - 5pm 
Long Gallery, Project room, Tic Space. 
Fine Art Department. School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University 
Newcastle upon Tyne. NE1 7RU.