Tagged: Blackpool

Cardboard City

I spent last week and today working with school groups up in Blackpool for Collaborate and Make. I was commissioned by the Grundy Art Gallery there to create this exhibition and it will be on show until January 30th.

The children have made some great work, plus some of the buildings are big enough to go inside like dens! Grab a torch and go exploring, but be warned – some of the connecting tunnels are quite small so don’t get stuck. There is more cardboard available in the gallery, so visitors can make their own building to add to the city, or an item for the cardboard museum’s collection (it currently only has one cardboard dinosaur).

Happy Christmas

I will mainly be letting my hair down at the studio Christmas party tonight before having a bit of time off (maybe) over the hols.

In January I will be doing a week long project at the Grundy Gallery in Blackpool called ‘Cardboard Cities’. This will involve a lot of school children, cardboard, parcel tape and should end up with some fantastic structures, which will then be exhibited for a week.

ChristmasFollowing that it’s straight back to Yorkshire to get back on with the project there…

from this filthy sewer pure gold flows

My piece ‘From the Mountain to the Abyss‘ is in this show opening in Blackpool tomorrow night:

from this filthy sewer pure gold flows

supercollider
contemporary art projects

2nd Floor / 32 Clifton Street / Blackpool / Lancashire / FY1 1JP
SAT / SUN 1 PM – 4 PM (or by prior appointment only)

Please see www.supercolliderhq.org.uk for more details

26 SEPT – 18 0CT 2009
PRIVATE VIEW: 24 SEPT 2009 / 6 – 9 PM

‘From this filthy sewer pure gold flows’ is a group exhibition bringing together the work of a group of artists working in the north of England. Whilst working across various disciplines and following different conceptual agendas the works in the exhibition share a common bond through their celebration of the unusual, unpopular, absurd, redundant, discarded and disenfranchised.
Working in various media from photography to low-tech sculpture through to ‘gonzo’ style video and ‘no-tech’ assemblage the work in ‘from this filthy sewer…’ discusses ideas of wealth, status, loss, obsolescence and seeks to explore the relationship we have with the material world around us .

Many featured works seek to find the monument in the unmonumental as the artists search for beauty and potential in the ‘things’ that fill our everyday.
The exhibition features works by Emily Speed, Martin Hamblen, Stephen Forge, Susan Massey, Fiona Shaw, Sophie Lisa Beresford, Tom Ireland, Noel Clueit and Richard Cook.