After a great opening at Danielle Arnaud Gallery, the exhibition is open and the publication on sale. There are some fantastic essays in the book and it’s beautifully designed by Ken Kirton – great use of different paper stocks and embossed cover. The book will be available as an e-book on Amazon shortly. I will be talking about my work in Topophobia at the Symposium at Central St Martins on 10th February – more information on this, the publication, artists, exhibition etc HERE.
I am in the studio until January now working on some new things.
I’m very happy to say I shall be in a group show ‘Topophobia’ at Danielle Arnaud Gallery (opening January 12th), which tours to the Bluecoat, Liverpool in March and to Spacex, Exeter in May.
I’m also making some work for a project at artist Jo Ball‘s house in London, which will open in late January.
Lastly, I will be making a new version of ‘Inhabitant’ (it was going to happen eventually) for an exhibition called ‘Camp Out’ at Laumeier Sculpture Park in St Louis, summer 2012.
Next Saturday at Yorkshire Sculpture Park Deputy Curator Sarah Coulson and I will host an informal day of discussion looking at the spaces we inhabit and how they affect us. The study day will include a walking tour round parts of the estate that have influenced my work. A selection of short texts will used (and circulated before the day) and read at specific points around the park. The order will be this:
Bothy Gallery – to see MAKE SHIFT exhibition
Screening of Buka (13:30 mins), a short film by artist Boldi Csernak
Greek Temple
Octavia from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Obelisk
Space (Continuation and End) from Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec
Boathouse
Extract on the miniature from The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
Bird Hide
Extract from Box Man Kobo Abe
The Beach
Picnic by the lake
Shell Grotto
Extract from In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanazaki
West Bretton College Student Halls
Excerpt from Geography of Home by Akiko Busch
Ersilia from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Book a space for £4 (includes parking) HERE
A very fitting title given how busy things have been – this is a mini residency at Burlington Arts Club taking place this week. Invited by Andrew Bracey and working alongside Kevin Hunt, Frances Disley and Dave Evans, we are spending the week making, playing, experimenting and talking. Yesterday we watched The Shining. There will be a private viewing event on Thursday 28th from 6 – 8pm.
As I trundle ever closer to my exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in July, I am keeping track of my thoughts, works-in-progress and bits of research material in a new blog here. The exhibition title is MAKE SHIFT, hence the blog name… can’t promise complete coherence, but hopefully it will give a bit more insight into what’s going into the work.
If I met you at the Manchester Artists Book Fair and promised to send you an email about artists books and things, please get in touch. You think I would learn not to write email addresses on scraps of paper wouldn’t you?
After a great week at YSP last week I am fully stuck into some research on the park and making some models for new works. Today though, I am taking slides in the studio for work that will be shown in Roaming – Heterotopias, a group exhibition opening on 4th December at the Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne.
The exhibition is part of ‘Les Urbaines’ a festival of contemporary art taking place across the city. The work in this Roaming exhibtion is made in response to the idea of a temporary exhibition, and the theme of Heterotpias. As the work will be shown alongside and inbetween the permanent collection of the museum, currently curated under the theme of light, this might also have an impact on some of the works.
Exhibiting Artists: Sophie Bueno Boutellier, Andy Boot, Alice Cattaneo, Ermanno Cristini, Victor Man, Goran Petercol, Luca Scarabelli and Emily Speed, with an online r-roaming project by Michele Lombardelli.
Roaming -Heterotopias is curated by Alessandro Castiglioni and Noah Stolz.
Happily I am going to Lausanne to install so looking forward to a bit of snow, so I can eat fondue… maybe?
After a long but enjoyable day yesterday at Manchester Artists’ Book Fair (thanks to everyone who bought things!), I am just packing up to go to Yorkshire Sculpture Park tomorrow. After the education bursary, which finished in July, this will be the start of the research and work for my exhibition there in July 2011. I’m just there for a week this time but will be packing my waterproofs, hot water bottle and wellies!
Off to a rainy start, but the sun did come out eventually this afternoon. I am working at YSP for a couple of days doing drop-in workshops to mark the end of my bursary there (this really is the end now, honest).
I’ve also had a great time being shown around the working areas of the park and being introduced to the gorgeous boathouse where I will be able to work in the run up to my exhibition there next July. First residential dates are in November and I can hardly wait!
Last Friday was the launch at of ‘A House Like Me’ at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The event was to mark the end of my year as bursary holder for the Feiweles Trust at the Park. I have compiled the book and it is a mix of digital printing with screen printed dividers.
It was a lovely day and great to get some feedback on this thing that has been filling my house with piles of paper for weeks.
‘A House Like Me’ is intended for educators wanting to work with conceptual art and is based around the themes in my own practice and the projects I have been doing in schools since last September. The book is not for sale, but a pdf version will be online soon, I will post a link as soon as it’s available. Some images can be viewed in the bookworks section on this website.
ISBN 978-1-871480-85-6, Yorkshire Sulpture Park, 2010. Digital print on paper with screenprinted, card dividers. Digital printed folder.