Feeling honoured to be exhibiting alongside some of the greats

Last chance to visit Bitter/Sweet

This weekend is your last chance to visit Bitter/Sweet, the group exhibition at Assembly House, Leeds that I am participating in.


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Featuring work by:

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

Curated by Emily Garvey & Liam McCabe

The artists have drawn upon their own Bitter/Sweet experiences and emotions, to produce new bodies of work spanning animation, sculpture and a site specific wall mural.

The gallery is open 10am-4pm
For access please contact Laim McCabe: 07828 104125

Here is a sneak peek

BITTER/SWEET Install - Day 3

On arrival at the gallery, I was delighted to see that the second coat of paint that I had applied last night to 3 of the colours had really made a difference in terms of the depth of the colours. 

Emily started to paint the areas on the left side of the wall with teal while Liam and I masked out the rest of the design on the right side of the wall.

The taping of the design is very time consuming, and one needs to plan and be systematic in the order of painting so as not to paint two colours that are directly next to each other.

With two coats of paint on the vast majority of the wall on which the lettering was to go over, we made a start on mapping out the text, first using the thicker tape, and then completing each letter with the thinner tape. 

As I left for my return train back to Newcastle in the evening, I was really pleased with the work, but disappointed that I had run out of time to complete everything. There are a few elements that still need to be done. I feel very fortunate that the curators, Liam and Emily are going to follow my instructions to finish the work. As they have been assisting with the execution of the wall painting over the three day install, I am confident that they know what they are doing and will do a remarkable job at the final touches.

I will post more images once the exhibition has opened but I do not want to reveal too much now, and spoil the surprise for those who are able to visit the exhibition. 

Gill Shreeve exhibits as part of Newcastle University Summer exhibition

"Using installation, video, photography and drawing, I experiment with light, space, perception and motion. My work references the vitality of original experience, the presence and energy of first hand observation, helping us to make sense of our external and internal landscapes, the tangible and intangible. I incorporate visual ambiguities to prompt curiosity and questions rather than resolutions." Gill Shreeve

Hannah Elizabeth Cooper exhibits as part of Newcastle University Summer exhibition

The world is chaotic, and in such disarray one tries to cope and find some semblance of peace. I create optically stimulating work which utilises colour, space, repetition and layering. The paintings become visual manifestations of my inner reality, providing equanimity.

hecooper.net

Jim Lloyd exhibits as part of Newcastle University Summer exhibition

Can you meet me in the country
In the summertime in England
Will you meet me?

Did you ever hear about Wordsworth and Coleridge?
They were smokin’ up in Kendal
By the lakeside

Take a walk with me
Take a walk with me down by Avalon

And I will show you
It ain’t why, why, why
It just is.

Van Morrison, Summertime in England

www.jamesjosephlloyd.com

Liz Green exhibits as part of Newcastle University Summer exhibition

‘Where is it, this present?

‘…gone in the instant of becoming.’

William James

My work creates a space between two states so that they can be felt simultaneously. A place between being observed and observing, between the past and the present, somewhere between remembering and experiencing.
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Fang Qi exhibits in Newcastle University Summer exhibition

'Fang Qi is a Chinese artist and illustrator currently undertaking a practice-based PhD at Newcastle University on the relationship between illustration and installation art. Her research will contribute to new visual narrative strategies in illustration which aim to reconstruct the self and identity.



Fang Qi’s works encompass drawing, illustration, video, animation, installation and creative writing. She has been deeply influenced by the artists Song Yongping, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Marc Chagall and novelist Woolf Virginia, as well as the open art theory of Umberto Eco and the power theory of Jean Baudrillard. Her works attempt to arouse audience’s self-awareness and values of their roles in the powers, trying to construct a legal position of “independent self” in modern China.'



"In the dialogues and puzzles aroused in her unsettled shapes and tangled metaphors she unveils the absence of ‘self’ in oriental philosophy and collectivism."



http://cargocollective.com/FangQi/About

https://breezecreatives.com/abject-gallery/fang-qi

Peter Hanmer exhibits as part of Newcastle University Summer Exhibition

Blending the uncanny and fantastical, Peter creates largely sculptural works seeking to offer an explorative often satirical perspective on themes ranging from the ideological to the environmental. 

His figurative works are designed to provoke the senses and the mind, while resisting easy interpretation. 

Offering what the literary theorist Terry Eagleton calls ‘the great humanist function of culture;’ the cultural critique.

Shaney Barton exhibits as part of Newcastle University Summer exhibition

‘Existence is vibration. When we separate something into its smallest parts, we always enter a strange world where all that exists is particles and waves. The fact that everything is in a state of vibration also means that everything is creating sound. And as sound is created, there is a master listener to receive the sound: water.’

Masuru Emoto

Kate Stobbart exhibits as part of Newcastle University Summer exhibition

Outstanding Life Changing Sculptures made by other people (and me)


Sculptures mostly made with other people when talking about something else.



'Without question one of the most indecisive artists of her generation Kate Stobbart is influenced by a strong sense of inadequacy and a deep-seated desire to succeed. Stobbart has had major national and international rejections, including the Jerwood Drawing Prize (2011), SPILL National Platform, London (2011), Bristol Live Open Platform, Arnolfini Gallery (2010), International Streaming Festival, The Hague (2010), New Contemporaries, London (2009), Madrid Abierto (2008), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (2008), Saatchi Gallery, London (2008). Stobbart has not been selected for the 2012 Daiwa Foundation Art Prize.



Kate is currently doing a practice based PhD at Newcastle University.



Kate Stobbart lives and works in Newcastle and just wants to be loved.

http://www.katestobbart.uk/

Mehan Fernando exhibits in Newcastle University Fine Art Summer exhibition

"My work explores intricate paintings on objects that portray nature, decay and science. The different images present affinity and symbolism. I am interested in the reactions of viewers when confronted by the beautiful, sometimes horrifying oil paintings on different materials that propels curiosity and thought."

Mehan Fernando

http://www.mehanfernando.com/

Anna MacRae - Newcastle University Summer exhibion

"Like a portal, my work for this show was instigated by painting objects and places taken from the inside and outside spaces I inhabit." 

Anna MacRae













The Stars squawked in the sky like geese.

The picture itself represents a room. On the the window sill there is a bowl of goldfish. Through the open window a rural landscape can be seen: the soft -blue sky, rounded like a dome, rests along the horizon on the jagged outline of the woods. In the foreground , at the roadside, a little girl, barefoot in the dust.

Georges Perec, Life A User’s Manual

Newcastle University MFA exhibition - Paul Jex

Paul Jex makes observations regarding the distances and boundaries as to how art is approached.



Jex uses systems of shared knowledge, observations and perceptions to explore authenticity and how an audience engages with art whether this be art institutions, publications, the internet or during conversation.

Paul Jex is focused on the tangential, the liminal spaces and boundaries of art. At the centre of his practice is the act of collecting, appropriating and referencing of art. His selections of artworks are supported by anecdotes that reveal the sequence of the artists’ investigations – the chances and discoveries.

www.pauljex.com

www.instituteofmonochromeart.com

Toby Phips Lloyd exhibits Between Eating and Sleeping at Newcastle University Summer exhibition

Between Eating and Sleeping questions how we spend our time and the value that we place on our activities by asking the following questions:

What did you want to be when you were growing up?

What gets you out of bed in the morning?

What would you do if you had a year off?


Toby started to hand paint the questions on to the walls of the gallery and completed them during the opening hours of the exhibition to allow visitors to discuss their answers with him.

A3 Risograph poster (edition of 200)

http://tobyphipslloyd.co.uk/between-eating-and-sleeping/