A short excerpt of ‘Build-Up’ on Vimeo below (url link HERE.) Not sure it really works too well as documentation – the layers and the way the bodies interact with them gets lost somehow, but perhaps it gives an idea…
Category Archives: exhibitions
Castlefield dates
The exhibition with Hayley Newman is open and will be in until 7th April. There’s a couple of events coming up at Castlefield Gallery… 23rd March at 3.30pm – A panel discussion with Hayley Newman, curator Bridget Crone and moi. 7th March – Build-Up: A practice at 3.30pm. Four acrobats will perform a series of …
Head to Head at Castlefield Gallery
The next exhibition I will be showing in is ‘Head to Head’, a two-person show with Hayley Newman at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester. Opening is Thursday 28th February. More information HERE.
Axis & NAP
Chris Sharratt recently visited me in my studio for Axis to have a chat about the upcoming Northern Art Prize, you can read that here The Northern Art Prize team also asked me some questions for their blog too: Here
Roma
I’m leaving for Rome today to install new work for Oredaria Gallery. It will be part of the exhibition ‘Subjective Involvement in Physical Spatial Entities’ with Aeneas Wilder and Esther Stocker. The work is based around façades and here is one of the drawings to give you a taste.
Architectural Cake
I left Linz last week, after a great six weeks in the studio at the Salzamt. For the final exhibition ‘Expand, Explore, Expose’ I made a cake. This cake (a battenberg) was also a copy of the wooden model made for Hitler by Albert Speer, of the new Führermuseum (a place for the art collection …
Northern Art Prize Shortlist
Still getting used to the fact that I’ve been short-listed for the Northern Art Prize! Very pleased and looking forward to making some new work for the exhibition next March…. huge thanks to Sally Tallant for nominating me in the first place.
Human Castle
It happened! It rained, of course. No one fell. Below is gathered a few words, images and the commissioned film of the project. Documentation film by Daniel Warren: https://vimeo.com/46924459 Review by Alex Hetherington: http://www.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/2355544#.UB-w9MnHYhY.twitter Blogpost on a BlurofWoodSmoke: http://blurofwoodsmoke.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/mostly-art-human-castle-melvin-moti-and-spl/ Photo set by Yellow Book on Flikr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/yellowbookltd/7698808970/in/photostream/
Topophobia on frieze.com
Review of the exhibition HERE
City walk
Back in the UK, but I had time to take ‘Inhabitant (St Louis)’ out into the city for the day before I left. I also performed at the opening in the park so will add the work to my website properly as I gather all the footage and images together. For now, the City Gardens, …