Anna Francis Participatory artworks "create a sculpture from the HALLelujah Gallery cutlery drawer" by Raymond.
Tuesday, 21 April 2009
HALLelujah! Documentation
GOD DOG by Laurence Payot 
Anna Francis Participatory artworks "create a sculpture from the HALLelujah Gallery cutlery drawer" by Raymond.
Anna Francis Participatory artworks "create a sculpture from the HALLelujah Gallery cutlery drawer" by Raymond.
HALLelujah! Documentation
Andrew Reynolds drawing "Growth".
Alex Hetherington installation, "Sarah Winchester Made Me Hardcore" with LCD Screen, Free Posterwork and Neanderthal drawing by J. Nicoll; Alice Bradshaw "Refuse"; Bootsie with new "girlfriends' Rebecca and Roisin, (Anna Francis assignment Documentation).
Alex Hetherington installation, "Sarah Winchester Made Me Hardcore" with LCD Screen, Free Posterwork and Neanderthal drawing by J. Nicoll; Alice Bradshaw "Refuse"; Bootsie with new "girlfriends' Rebecca and Roisin, (Anna Francis assignment Documentation).
HALLelujah! Documentation
Anna Francis assignments documentation, Raymond and random guy 'being Boyfriends'; drawings by Stevie Hurrell of Ellen Burrough's Petty Criminal exhibits; playing cards sculpture; fixed item using repair kit by Rachel Mimiec;
Self Portrait using bits and bobs, by Paul aged 10.
Self Portrait using bits and bobs, by Paul aged 10.
HALLelujah! Documentation
Anna Francis assignments went down a storm at the opening along with the Fridge Gallery exhibits.
Here we have assignments to: 'make a sixties intervention out of string' by Margarete Skinner, 'make a flock of birds out of today's newspaper' by Fran Schoppler. The Fridge with poster and 2 participatory artworks, by Nolan Love and Paul. The Headless Rabbit Sculpture and mini viewers in the Fridge Gallery.
Wednesday, 15 April 2009
HALLelujah! Artworks
Richard Higlett will be showing the 15 minute video of "A Song For Jack" canine choir event that took place in Swansea last year.
A Canine Choir tribute to Dog Hero Swansea Jack from Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. Between 1930 and 1937 Jack rescued 27 people from drowning in Swansea docks. This film is by the artist Richard Higlett for Locws International 08. Recorded at the Swansea Metropolitan University on 8th September 2008 following auditions on 17th August. A Live One -off Concert was performed at the National Waterfont Museum, Swansea on October 5th 2008.
For further information visit: www.artacrossthecity.com or www.richardhiglett.com
Studio Recording version can be seen at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24_oXJvWPA
Tuesday, 14 April 2009
Jamie Radcliffe Exhibition Artwork
Here's my artwork for the Jamie Radcliffe exhibition, by Oliver Braid at SWG3 details below. "Loves Me, Loves Me Not, Daisy chain Medallions". Its a large scale installation containing several hundred Jamie R. medallions.. If you look closely, that's a medallion made up of 57 images of Jamie's head... Obsessive, Yah??!!
Still haven't decided on an artwork for HALLelujah!. It will probably be a wall drawing, from a projected image, but not exactly sure at this stage, taking it to the wire as usual.....
Monday, 13 April 2009
Jamie Radcliffe Exhibition by Oliver Braid opens Saturday 18th
Also as part of Glasgow Gallery Weekend, Lowsalt is pleased to announce:
Oliver Braid Presents Jamie Radcliffe: The Exhibition The Ultimate Romantic Gesture for One Night Only._
Saturday 18th April 2009, 6pm – 10pm
Studio Warehouse: 100 Eastvale Place, Glasgow
"Thanks for sending me the PP. Good luck with it. I still cannot understand you tho!! When all the world is racked with war and terror and hope for change, Why would you choose such a subject matter… You baffle me…do keep in touch tho." Tim Chamberlain, Invited Artist
This is an exhibition dedicated to Jamie Radcliffe, an upholsterer and part time footballer that I have been secretly in love with since I met him in a local pub when I was seventeen. Although we have rarely spoken, every time I go back to my home town at Christmas I think maybe this will be the time. I still can’t imagine that we won’t get married one day.
Whenever I was away from home I used to search MySpace and Facebook trying to find him and last August he finally appeared. I added him as a friend and waited for our virtual connection to blossom. Not only did he deny me, but he blocked me as well. I think he may have deciphered my not so subtle glances over the last seven years.
Luckily he didn’t deny or block my friend Sally and so it was with her login details that I began to be able to regularly visit his profile and keep watch on his life.
In January 2009 I produced a Power-Point presentation consisting of images and information I had taken from Facebook. I sent the Power-Point to 100 artists and asked them if they would be interested in producing an artwork based on Jamie, his life or my unrequited longing. Presented here are the works from all the artists who responded positively.
Artists Included: Simon Bayliss, Julie Burrows, Jon Burgerman, Aagje Buzink, Amelia Bywter, Celeste Carballo, Cordelia Cembrowicz, Kaifeng Chun, Matthew Collier, Alexis Dirks, Claire Dorsett, Caroline Douglas, Solveig Einarsdottir, Hannah Ellul and Ben Knight, Marc Elsner, Erica Eyres, Kitty Finer, Leo Fitzmaurice, Sarah Forrest, Patrick Gantert, Claire Greenshaw, Michelle Hannah and The Kingdom of Perpetual Muin, Ellie Harrison, Tom Harrup, Sean Hawkridge, Lena Henke, Anna Henson, Katharina Kiebacher, Paul Knight, Harry Lawson, Alice Maplesden, Amy Marletta/Patty Melt, Jack McLean, Alison Mellor, Jenny Moore Koslowsky, Shelly Nadashi, Christian Newby, Janie Nicoll, Sally Noall, Laurence Payot, James Price, Charlotte Prodger/Sophie MacPherson/Brina Thurston/ Kate Roberston, Paul Sammut, Rosemary Scanlon and Tytus Hardy, Peter Schoeffer, Maayke Schurer, Cheyenne Seeley, Anna Louise Shipley AKA Miss Shippers, Fiona Short, JP Somerville, Theodoris Stamatogiannis, Anna Tanner, Daren Tesar, Nancy Tomkins, Sally Tarbutt, Deniz Uster, Leah Watt, Daniel Simpkins and Penny Whitehead, Alberta Whittle, Emily Womack, Tobias Wootton, Jamie Wright, Burcu Yagcioglu.
www.swg3.tv
www.lowsalt.org.uk
co-production
To download the Glasgow Gallery Weekend program of exhibitions and events happening across Glasgow April 16- 19th 2009, go to http://lowsalt.org.uk/Gallery_Weekend_program.pdf
Saturday, 11 April 2009
HALLelujah! Artworks
Artworks from Ellen Burroughs "Bus Fare Evaders" part of a series of mugshots of petty criminals; and Alice Bradshaw, "Refuse".
Work arriving
Yesterday was a bit like Christmas as I received five packages containing artworks from various locations; Hondartza Fraga's drawings from Sheffield, Alice Bradshaw's sculpture form Halifax, Andrew Reynolds drawing from Birmingham, Ellen Burroughs small etched drawings from Leeds, and Olivia Irving's paintings from Edinburgh. Bootsie (my cat) did his best to sleep through the whole proceedings.... I've already received the panels for 'Milk Two Sugars', projection and all the video works. Other works are more site specific, so still to come are Alex Hetherington's LCD screen, Anna Francis 's assignment packs and fridge sculpture, Elizabeth Rowes collage works, Laurence Payot's interaction with Sparky, and my own piece which is still at the planning stages.. I think I will be making an artwork that reacts to the exhibition as a whole, last minute as ever......
Thursday, 9 April 2009
HALLelujah! images
Images from Alex Hetherington "Sarah Winchester Made Me Hardcore" poster work installation piece, "A Funny Little Dance" Video projection by 'Milk, Two Sugars' and "Growth" a drawing by Andrew Reynolds.
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
More images relating to HALLelujah!
Dramatically detailed drawings by Hondartza Fraga "Grounded" and "Sperm Whale"; photo image by Laurence Payot "Rouge Blanc Bleu".
Images from artists relating to HALLelujah!
Some of these images will be in the show, some wont. Richard Higlett's dog orchestra print that accompanies the video "Song For Jack"; Olivia Irvine's beautifully renderred oil paintings on egg tempera on canvas; Elizabeth Rowe's marvelously complex collage works.
Friday, 3 April 2009
DOG-GOD
Laurence Payot (www.laurencepayot.com) came up to Glasgow for the 'Make It Break It' exhibition (www.nownowprojects.wordpress.com/). She came and visited the flat and was quite taken with Sparky, here's a photograph she took.
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HALLelujah!
HALLelujah! A group exhibition curated by Janie Nicoll
Opening Friday 17th April, 6pm– 9pm
212 West Princes Street, Woodlands, Glasgow G4 9DL, Scotland
Tel 0141 5757 9773
Featuring artwork by :
Alice Bradshaw, Halifax
Ellen Burroughs, Leeds
Hondartza Fraga, Sheffield
Anna Francis, Stoke on Trent
Alex Hetherington, Glasgow
Robert Hope, Keighley
Richard Higlett, Cardiff
Olivia Irvine, Edinburgh
Jean McEwan, Keighley
Milk, Two Sugars, Huddersfield
Janie Nicoll, Glasgow
Laurence Payot, Liverpool
Andrew Reynolds, Birmingham
Elizabeth Rowe, Birmingham
Catherine Weir, Glasgow
Rebecca Wilcox, Glasgow
With a performance event, Saturday 18th April at 4pm:
“Jonathan Monk Made Me Hardcore, with Jack Daniels and Ms Happiness Amah” by Alex Hetherington and “Email Scam Popsong” by Mikaela Skogsberg.
These performances form elements of “A Million Lies; Once and Only Revealed After Death (Triangle of Need)/Sarah Winchester Made Me Hardcore”, funded by Alt-W, New Media Scotland and developed at a Creative Lab, CCA, April 2009 (www.alt-w.com)
Exhibition will be open 2-6pm Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th April, and by appointment. All welcome.
For more details, images or information please contact Janie Nicoll, 0141 575 9773 or on 07971602270 or janienicoll@yahoo.co.uk.
HALLelujah! A group exhibition curated by Janie Nicoll
The exhibition “HALLelujah!” has come about partly as an open call for artworks but also as a result of connections made by Nicoll at various networking events and artists residencies in the last couple of years. She has attended NAN networking events in Liverpool, Cardiff, Bristol, Newcastle and most recently in October “The Winner Takes It All” symposium in Liverpool during the Capital of Culture. Connections have also been made through other artists led initiatives such as Ayling and Conroy’s Shining Cliff Residency (My House Projects) and the Deviant Art Festival in Sweden. This exhibition exemplifies the Do-It-Yourself ethos intrinsic to these endeavors and actively brings together a selection of artists who are dynamically involved in grassroots artist-led initiatives and projects in a variety of locations nationally.
Held within the curators own flat resolutely out-with the white cube gallery space, the artworks on show explore and interrogate the notion of the domestic setting and the possibilities and limitations that this inevitably creates.
The exhibition aims to showcase the diversity of approaches of these artists across a range of media including Alice Bradshaw’s dysfunctional household objects, Ellen Burrough’s drawings of petty criminals, Elizabeth Rowe’s thought provoking collage works, and Anna Francis participatory assignments. Alex Hetherington has created a provocative LCD text and poster work, while a sound work by Robert Hope explores the more holistic nature of the domestic space. Hondartza Fraga uses the dolls’ house as an analogy for a darker domestic malaise, while video works by Richard Higlett, Jean McEwan, ‘Milk, Two Sugars’, Catherine Weir and Rebecca Wilcox work to engage the viewer in a variety of different ways, either semi-abstract, shocking, inane or surreally comical. Contemplative works in the shape of beautifully rendered paintings by Olivia Irvine, and the other worldly drawings of Andrew Reynolds contrast with the site specific works of Laurence Payot and Janie Nicoll.
In addition to the exhibition artworks there will be a one-off performance event where Mikaela Skogsbers (Fool For a Pretty Face) collaborates with artist Alex Hetherington in “Email Scam Pop Song” and “Jonathon Monk Made Me Hardcore, with Jack Daniels and Ms Happiness Amah” as part of Hetherington’s Alt-W commission and Creative Lab residency at CCA, Glasgow.
Nicoll sees her role as more of a chef than a curator, bringing together in one place a mixed assortment of surprising works deliberately sited within a domestic rather than a gallery setting. None of the work has been shown in Glasgow before and an interesting concoction is predicted…
For more details, images or information please contact Janie Nicoll, 0141 575 9773 or on 07971602270 or janienicoll@yahoo.co.uk.
Artists Information
Alice Bradshaw is one of the founders of ‘CONTENTS MAY VARY’, a Manchester based artists collective, and also a co-director of Temporary Art Space, Halifax. She works with a wide range of media and processes involving the manipulation of everyday objects and materials.
www.alicebradshaw.co.uk/
www.contentsmayvary.org/
www.temporaryartspace.co.uk/
Ellen Burroughs works drawings into paper and card with scalpel scratches and white ink marks, then polishes with wood dye to create a smooth print like finish. Peculiar and miserable grimacing faces appear labelled with their curious selection of petty crimes. The imaginary mug shots, reminiscent of the odd caricatures that illustrated the quack physiognomy theories of the 19th century, are a reminder of what it takes to commit a crime in a country overwhelmed with CCTV.
Hondartza Fraga works with video, photography and drawing. Her work researches the emotional dependency relation between person, object and image. Interested in tensions between different image-making systems, analogue and digital technologies and how they affect the way we understand images; her work seeks to create a space where to question our individual and collective notions of loss and displacement, representation and communication. Originally from Catalonia, she is now based in Sheffield having completed a MA Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University in 2007. She has exhibited nationally (Liverpool, London, Sheffield) and internationally (Portugal, Spain, The Netherlands) and has collaborated in several occasions with HAG (Host Artists Group).
www.hondartzafraga.com
Anna Francis examines private histories and narrative using forms of mapping, photography and action to investigate the city. Recent practice saw 2008 becoming The Year of Finding Spaces in the City for Art. The project examines the impact that art and cultural activity are having on our cities, and the problematic nature of finding adequate and appropriate research methodologies which can measure that impact. This has lead to the recent projects, What This City Really Needs, a public consultation which involves finding out what the people of a city feel about their environment, and the recent Official Tour Guide project, in which Francis becomes an ambassador for a city. Francis is interested in initiating projects that allow opportunities for others to participate, question and comment on their surroundings.
www.annafrancis.blogspot.com/
www.annafrancis.com
Alex Hetherington is a performance-based visual artist and writer. He is currently producing a performance work developed as a result of an Alt-W Award from New Media Scotland, which includes a workshop project with Franko B at Tramway, Glasgow and a residency at Creative Lab, CCA. Future presentations include I Am Curious Oranj, DCP, San Francisco, USA, Edinburgh International Festival 2009 and Edinburgh Art Festival 2009. Recent exhibitions and work include The Colony Room, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, Skank Bloc Bologna, Tart, San Francisco, Videoholica, Varna, Bulgaria, Fools in Print, Edinburgh and a year-long residency at Callendar House, Falkirk.
www.alexhetherington.com
Robert Hope is an artists based in Keighley, Yorkshire and graduated from Bradford College and Leeds Metroplitan University, He is one half of Popup Films.
www.myspace.com/popupfilms
Richard Higlett has exhibited nationally and internationally and is currently presenting a sound work through the International SoundLAB Project. Selected exhibitions include; Winner of the Oriel Davies Open, Newtown, Wales / Anima at Gallerie B-312 Montreal, Canada / Rotate at Contemporary Art Society, London and Flourish at the Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic. He is also a curator and co-founder of Mermaid and Monster, Librarian of ARC Artists Resource Cardiff and a nominator for Axis' Open Frequency Programme.
Higlett's work involves actions that on the surface could be viewed as acts of folly. Previously he has photographed planets with a low resolution digital camera, reducing huge masses into single pixels, recreated notice boards with the information rendered unreadable and sited a mirror surfaced signs deep in a wooded areas awaiting for discovery. He is increasing working in sound and moving image, looking at the moments before an idea exists, presenting this as a creative act, as the process of creative is embedded within the nature world on every level and nothing ever beginnings for its own sake.
www.mermaidandmonster.com
www.richardhiglett.com
Olivia Irvine graduated in Drawing and Painting, from Edinburgh College of Art BA Honours. She creates beautifully rendered paintings in oil or egg tempera, of figures, objects and interiors that are of a fantastical nature. She is interested in the depiction of space as well as surface qualities, and her works often have a theatrical feel to them.
www.axisweb.org/artist/oliviairvine
Jean McEwan is a West Yorkshire-based artist filmmaker and curator. Jean gained a First Class Honours degree in Fine art from Leeds Metropolitan University in 2005, and was awarded the Esmee Fairbarn Foundation Emerging Artist Bursary at South Square Gallery, Bradford in 2006. She was recently commissioned by B r a d f o r d C i t y o f F i l m to make a short film based in the city. Jean’s practice ranges from documentary to experimental film, to music video, to creating film for live performance. Her work has been shown in and at a wide range of exhibitions, screenings, and events nationally.
Jean also practices as a curator. With 'popup' films she produces and curates projects and events to showcase moving image, sound, performance and multi-media work by Bradford based artists and filmmakers - recent projects include STIR, Bradford's arts festival in 2007, and The Saltaire Arts Trail. She is now currently one of the curatorial team organising "Hatch", a new arts showcase event at Bradford Playhouse.
www.myspace.com/jeanmcewan
www.myspace.com/popupfilms
www.myspace.com/popupandtribeofone
‘Milk, Two Sugars’ is two people. They write, paint and draw, brew beer and make films and create galleries. They live, work and play in Yorkshire. One day, they might take this ‘art’ thing more seriously. Selling work, networking, applying for funding and being po-faced about their vision is a concern they leave for other people with plenty of time on their hands. They have fun, as they believe, “We are all flecks of dandruff on the shoulders of eternity”. Think on that and sleep well.
www.milktwosugars.org
Janie Nicoll is an artist based in Glasgow, she makes installation works often with mutiple repeated images and a low tech punk aesthetic. Alongside artists Alex Hetherington she has curated a number of video screenings, ‘The Consequence’ at Low Salt and Edinburgh Sculpture Worskhop, ‘High Rise Cinema’ at Callendar Park high Flats during Big In Falkirk 2008.
http://www.axisweb.org/artist/janienicoll
http://www.consequencescreening.org/
Laurence Payot is a French artist based in the North West of England who works with with local, national and international artist groups, galleries and cultural organisations, and Co-Directs The Royal Standard, Liverpool, where she also has a studio. She has exhibited in a number of successful group and solo exhibitions in England, Scotland, Wales and France, with a recent award from the Arts Council of England, and a residency in Libya with the British Council and Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art.
The main catalysts for her work are patterns found in everyday life. She asks the viewer to question patterns that have become mundane and almost invisible, by altering them slightly and turning them into something uncanny. Her work uses “chameleon techniques”, allowing her to create site-specific work that looks like it has always belonged there. “I don’t intend my work to stand out at a first glance, but when a person discovers it, what is revealed is unexpected and disturbing – a small shock or revelation that something has been altered”.
www.laurencepayot.com
Andrew Reynolds graduated in Fine Art from Staffordshire University in 2007, where he made videos, sculptures, paintings, essays and sounds. He currently lives in Birmingham and his recent practice has been mostly concerned with drawing, exploring the space between visceral, automatic drawing and a preconceived idea. Reynolds chooses the medium of drawing for it seems to him the most honest. Reynolds's work can best be described in one word 'congested'
www.myspace.com/spastiserendipitous
Elizabeth Rowe is originally from Leicester but currently lives and works in Birmingham. Previous group exhibitions include, SALE, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, 2009, ZOO art Fair, Eastside Projects, 2008 and Collage Party by Paul Butler at MOCA, Los Angeles, 2004. She recently had a solo exhibition, Tiny Details Grotesque Proportions, The New Art Gallery Walsall, 2008.and was interviewed for This is not a Circular, podcast by Ayling and Conroy, 2009.
www.elrowe.com
Rebecca Wilcox is originally from Manchester and studied at Glasgow School of Art and UDK Berlin, graduating in 2006 and is currently completing a 'Master of Research in Creative Practices'. She has been involved in the ‘Now, Now’ artists initiative and ‘As We Speak’ video Screenings, and has shown her own work in Beck’s Fusions at the Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow, Darkspace at the Royal Scottish Academy, and Terra Nova in conjunction with Map magazine, at GSA..
www.nownowprojects.wordpress.com/
Catherine Weir is a recent graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee, and is involved in the ‘Now, Now’ artists initiative and ‘As We Speak’ video Screenings. Catherine’s video work "Eles Não Sabem O Que Perderam" uses faux and real suicide footage as a comment on youtube
www.aswespeakglasgow.wordpress.com
Opening Friday 17th April, 6pm– 9pm
212 West Princes Street, Woodlands, Glasgow G4 9DL, Scotland
Tel 0141 5757 9773
Featuring artwork by :
Alice Bradshaw, Halifax
Ellen Burroughs, Leeds
Hondartza Fraga, Sheffield
Anna Francis, Stoke on Trent
Alex Hetherington, Glasgow
Robert Hope, Keighley
Richard Higlett, Cardiff
Olivia Irvine, Edinburgh
Jean McEwan, Keighley
Milk, Two Sugars, Huddersfield
Janie Nicoll, Glasgow
Laurence Payot, Liverpool
Andrew Reynolds, Birmingham
Elizabeth Rowe, Birmingham
Catherine Weir, Glasgow
Rebecca Wilcox, Glasgow
With a performance event, Saturday 18th April at 4pm:
“Jonathan Monk Made Me Hardcore, with Jack Daniels and Ms Happiness Amah” by Alex Hetherington and “Email Scam Popsong” by Mikaela Skogsberg.
These performances form elements of “A Million Lies; Once and Only Revealed After Death (Triangle of Need)/Sarah Winchester Made Me Hardcore”, funded by Alt-W, New Media Scotland and developed at a Creative Lab, CCA, April 2009 (www.alt-w.com)
Exhibition will be open 2-6pm Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th April, and by appointment. All welcome.
For more details, images or information please contact Janie Nicoll, 0141 575 9773 or on 07971602270 or janienicoll@yahoo.co.uk.
HALLelujah! A group exhibition curated by Janie Nicoll
The exhibition “HALLelujah!” has come about partly as an open call for artworks but also as a result of connections made by Nicoll at various networking events and artists residencies in the last couple of years. She has attended NAN networking events in Liverpool, Cardiff, Bristol, Newcastle and most recently in October “The Winner Takes It All” symposium in Liverpool during the Capital of Culture. Connections have also been made through other artists led initiatives such as Ayling and Conroy’s Shining Cliff Residency (My House Projects) and the Deviant Art Festival in Sweden. This exhibition exemplifies the Do-It-Yourself ethos intrinsic to these endeavors and actively brings together a selection of artists who are dynamically involved in grassroots artist-led initiatives and projects in a variety of locations nationally.
Held within the curators own flat resolutely out-with the white cube gallery space, the artworks on show explore and interrogate the notion of the domestic setting and the possibilities and limitations that this inevitably creates.
The exhibition aims to showcase the diversity of approaches of these artists across a range of media including Alice Bradshaw’s dysfunctional household objects, Ellen Burrough’s drawings of petty criminals, Elizabeth Rowe’s thought provoking collage works, and Anna Francis participatory assignments. Alex Hetherington has created a provocative LCD text and poster work, while a sound work by Robert Hope explores the more holistic nature of the domestic space. Hondartza Fraga uses the dolls’ house as an analogy for a darker domestic malaise, while video works by Richard Higlett, Jean McEwan, ‘Milk, Two Sugars’, Catherine Weir and Rebecca Wilcox work to engage the viewer in a variety of different ways, either semi-abstract, shocking, inane or surreally comical. Contemplative works in the shape of beautifully rendered paintings by Olivia Irvine, and the other worldly drawings of Andrew Reynolds contrast with the site specific works of Laurence Payot and Janie Nicoll.
In addition to the exhibition artworks there will be a one-off performance event where Mikaela Skogsbers (Fool For a Pretty Face) collaborates with artist Alex Hetherington in “Email Scam Pop Song” and “Jonathon Monk Made Me Hardcore, with Jack Daniels and Ms Happiness Amah” as part of Hetherington’s Alt-W commission and Creative Lab residency at CCA, Glasgow.
Nicoll sees her role as more of a chef than a curator, bringing together in one place a mixed assortment of surprising works deliberately sited within a domestic rather than a gallery setting. None of the work has been shown in Glasgow before and an interesting concoction is predicted…
For more details, images or information please contact Janie Nicoll, 0141 575 9773 or on 07971602270 or janienicoll@yahoo.co.uk.
Artists Information
Alice Bradshaw is one of the founders of ‘CONTENTS MAY VARY’, a Manchester based artists collective, and also a co-director of Temporary Art Space, Halifax. She works with a wide range of media and processes involving the manipulation of everyday objects and materials.
www.alicebradshaw.co.uk/
www.contentsmayvary.org/
www.temporaryartspace.co.uk/
Ellen Burroughs works drawings into paper and card with scalpel scratches and white ink marks, then polishes with wood dye to create a smooth print like finish. Peculiar and miserable grimacing faces appear labelled with their curious selection of petty crimes. The imaginary mug shots, reminiscent of the odd caricatures that illustrated the quack physiognomy theories of the 19th century, are a reminder of what it takes to commit a crime in a country overwhelmed with CCTV.
Hondartza Fraga works with video, photography and drawing. Her work researches the emotional dependency relation between person, object and image. Interested in tensions between different image-making systems, analogue and digital technologies and how they affect the way we understand images; her work seeks to create a space where to question our individual and collective notions of loss and displacement, representation and communication. Originally from Catalonia, she is now based in Sheffield having completed a MA Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University in 2007. She has exhibited nationally (Liverpool, London, Sheffield) and internationally (Portugal, Spain, The Netherlands) and has collaborated in several occasions with HAG (Host Artists Group).
www.hondartzafraga.com
Anna Francis examines private histories and narrative using forms of mapping, photography and action to investigate the city. Recent practice saw 2008 becoming The Year of Finding Spaces in the City for Art. The project examines the impact that art and cultural activity are having on our cities, and the problematic nature of finding adequate and appropriate research methodologies which can measure that impact. This has lead to the recent projects, What This City Really Needs, a public consultation which involves finding out what the people of a city feel about their environment, and the recent Official Tour Guide project, in which Francis becomes an ambassador for a city. Francis is interested in initiating projects that allow opportunities for others to participate, question and comment on their surroundings.
www.annafrancis.blogspot.com/
www.annafrancis.com
Alex Hetherington is a performance-based visual artist and writer. He is currently producing a performance work developed as a result of an Alt-W Award from New Media Scotland, which includes a workshop project with Franko B at Tramway, Glasgow and a residency at Creative Lab, CCA. Future presentations include I Am Curious Oranj, DCP, San Francisco, USA, Edinburgh International Festival 2009 and Edinburgh Art Festival 2009. Recent exhibitions and work include The Colony Room, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, Skank Bloc Bologna, Tart, San Francisco, Videoholica, Varna, Bulgaria, Fools in Print, Edinburgh and a year-long residency at Callendar House, Falkirk.
www.alexhetherington.com
Robert Hope is an artists based in Keighley, Yorkshire and graduated from Bradford College and Leeds Metroplitan University, He is one half of Popup Films.
www.myspace.com/popupfilms
Richard Higlett has exhibited nationally and internationally and is currently presenting a sound work through the International SoundLAB Project. Selected exhibitions include; Winner of the Oriel Davies Open, Newtown, Wales / Anima at Gallerie B-312 Montreal, Canada / Rotate at Contemporary Art Society, London and Flourish at the Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic. He is also a curator and co-founder of Mermaid and Monster, Librarian of ARC Artists Resource Cardiff and a nominator for Axis' Open Frequency Programme.
Higlett's work involves actions that on the surface could be viewed as acts of folly. Previously he has photographed planets with a low resolution digital camera, reducing huge masses into single pixels, recreated notice boards with the information rendered unreadable and sited a mirror surfaced signs deep in a wooded areas awaiting for discovery. He is increasing working in sound and moving image, looking at the moments before an idea exists, presenting this as a creative act, as the process of creative is embedded within the nature world on every level and nothing ever beginnings for its own sake.
www.mermaidandmonster.com
www.richardhiglett.com
Olivia Irvine graduated in Drawing and Painting, from Edinburgh College of Art BA Honours. She creates beautifully rendered paintings in oil or egg tempera, of figures, objects and interiors that are of a fantastical nature. She is interested in the depiction of space as well as surface qualities, and her works often have a theatrical feel to them.
www.axisweb.org/artist/oliviairvine
Jean McEwan is a West Yorkshire-based artist filmmaker and curator. Jean gained a First Class Honours degree in Fine art from Leeds Metropolitan University in 2005, and was awarded the Esmee Fairbarn Foundation Emerging Artist Bursary at South Square Gallery, Bradford in 2006. She was recently commissioned by B r a d f o r d C i t y o f F i l m to make a short film based in the city. Jean’s practice ranges from documentary to experimental film, to music video, to creating film for live performance. Her work has been shown in and at a wide range of exhibitions, screenings, and events nationally.
Jean also practices as a curator. With 'popup' films she produces and curates projects and events to showcase moving image, sound, performance and multi-media work by Bradford based artists and filmmakers - recent projects include STIR, Bradford's arts festival in 2007, and The Saltaire Arts Trail. She is now currently one of the curatorial team organising "Hatch", a new arts showcase event at Bradford Playhouse.
www.myspace.com/jeanmcewan
www.myspace.com/popupfilms
www.myspace.com/popupandtribeofone
‘Milk, Two Sugars’ is two people. They write, paint and draw, brew beer and make films and create galleries. They live, work and play in Yorkshire. One day, they might take this ‘art’ thing more seriously. Selling work, networking, applying for funding and being po-faced about their vision is a concern they leave for other people with plenty of time on their hands. They have fun, as they believe, “We are all flecks of dandruff on the shoulders of eternity”. Think on that and sleep well.
www.milktwosugars.org
Janie Nicoll is an artist based in Glasgow, she makes installation works often with mutiple repeated images and a low tech punk aesthetic. Alongside artists Alex Hetherington she has curated a number of video screenings, ‘The Consequence’ at Low Salt and Edinburgh Sculpture Worskhop, ‘High Rise Cinema’ at Callendar Park high Flats during Big In Falkirk 2008.
http://www.axisweb.org/artist/janienicoll
http://www.consequencescreening.org/
Laurence Payot is a French artist based in the North West of England who works with with local, national and international artist groups, galleries and cultural organisations, and Co-Directs The Royal Standard, Liverpool, where she also has a studio. She has exhibited in a number of successful group and solo exhibitions in England, Scotland, Wales and France, with a recent award from the Arts Council of England, and a residency in Libya with the British Council and Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art.
The main catalysts for her work are patterns found in everyday life. She asks the viewer to question patterns that have become mundane and almost invisible, by altering them slightly and turning them into something uncanny. Her work uses “chameleon techniques”, allowing her to create site-specific work that looks like it has always belonged there. “I don’t intend my work to stand out at a first glance, but when a person discovers it, what is revealed is unexpected and disturbing – a small shock or revelation that something has been altered”.
www.laurencepayot.com
Andrew Reynolds graduated in Fine Art from Staffordshire University in 2007, where he made videos, sculptures, paintings, essays and sounds. He currently lives in Birmingham and his recent practice has been mostly concerned with drawing, exploring the space between visceral, automatic drawing and a preconceived idea. Reynolds chooses the medium of drawing for it seems to him the most honest. Reynolds's work can best be described in one word 'congested'
www.myspace.com/spastiserendipitous
Elizabeth Rowe is originally from Leicester but currently lives and works in Birmingham. Previous group exhibitions include, SALE, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, 2009, ZOO art Fair, Eastside Projects, 2008 and Collage Party by Paul Butler at MOCA, Los Angeles, 2004. She recently had a solo exhibition, Tiny Details Grotesque Proportions, The New Art Gallery Walsall, 2008.and was interviewed for This is not a Circular, podcast by Ayling and Conroy, 2009.
www.elrowe.com
Rebecca Wilcox is originally from Manchester and studied at Glasgow School of Art and UDK Berlin, graduating in 2006 and is currently completing a 'Master of Research in Creative Practices'. She has been involved in the ‘Now, Now’ artists initiative and ‘As We Speak’ video Screenings, and has shown her own work in Beck’s Fusions at the Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow, Darkspace at the Royal Scottish Academy, and Terra Nova in conjunction with Map magazine, at GSA..
www.nownowprojects.wordpress.com/
Catherine Weir is a recent graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee, and is involved in the ‘Now, Now’ artists initiative and ‘As We Speak’ video Screenings. Catherine’s video work "Eles Não Sabem O Que Perderam" uses faux and real suicide footage as a comment on youtube
www.aswespeakglasgow.wordpress.com
HALLelujah! flyer back and front
This image plays around with the mirror image, echoing some previous works of Laurence Payot, who features in the exhibition. I first saw the work of Laurence at the New Slaughterhouse Gallery in Liverpool, during the Winner Takes It All weekend organized by Red Wire Gallery and Royal Standard, through NAN (Networking Artists Networks). Laurence is one of the Directors of Royal Standard as well as having a studio there.
Sunday, 22 March 2009
Thursday, 12 February 2009
HALLelujah
Open call for submissions of domestic scale artworks in any medium for an exhibition to take place in April in a flat in the Westend of Glasgow. Artworks will be sited in the large hall of a ground floor tenement flat, with an opening on Saturday 18th April.
Artworks in 2D, 3D, installation; film and video will be considered.
Please submit a CD of proposed artworks (maximum 6 jpegs); a current CV, a brief explanation of work or proposal of planned work, together with contact details and a stamped addressed envelope for return of material, if required to:
Janie Nicoll
212 West Princes Street
Glasgow
G4 9DL
Deadline for submissions Monday 3rd March.
Artworks in 2D, 3D, installation; film and video will be considered.
Please submit a CD of proposed artworks (maximum 6 jpegs); a current CV, a brief explanation of work or proposal of planned work, together with contact details and a stamped addressed envelope for return of material, if required to:
Janie Nicoll
212 West Princes Street
Glasgow
G4 9DL
Deadline for submissions Monday 3rd March.
Sunday, 8 February 2009
Bored With Art - A Journey
Bored with Art I want to make music now... any offers.....???
Seriously, anyone out there want to make some music I am up for it...
Save me from a quagmire of art nothingness.....
contact janienicoll@yahoo.co.uk
Thank you
Seriously, anyone out there want to make some music I am up for it...
Save me from a quagmire of art nothingness.....
contact janienicoll@yahoo.co.uk
Thank you
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
Black Money
Banknote of Princess Mariam Faso, one time Magyar heroine and role model for a generation, now by a circuitous and mysterious route finds herself living in abject poverty in Burkina Faso. The tale will unwind as the good lord and time itself allows it.....
Tuesday, 16 December 2008
Calendar Project
I made a slide projection for Isobel, using slides that her husband had taken while he was alive. They are all shots of Isobel with her family, archetypal 'Seventies' shots, and had been sitting in a box for years. I wanted to unearth them for her so she could see them again. I wanted the image to be a projection because that is how they were originally seen, and also because of its transient nature. Its positioning is over the bed and seemed the most poignant place, with the suggestion of intimacy and the idea of the dark and light, the allusion to night time. the finished photo documentation is actually the piece of work, not the projection.
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