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Welcome to the July edition of ArtSway Information. This month's newsletter features infomation on our current exhibition and forthcoming publication launch; Eamon O'Kane's Case Histories. This book is set to be launched at the gallery on Saturday 22 August 2009 at 3.30pm - we do hope you can join us and celebrate a fitting finale to Eamon's fantastic show.
In August ArtSway gets ready for a special screening programme showcasing the work of a range of artists. This is My Land will open on Saturday 29 August 2009 with a Private View between 2pm and 5pm. Expect a range of high quality film and video work from an exciting array of artists including: Mike Marshall, Sophy Rickett, Henry Coombes, Andrew Cross, Crystel Lebas, Ben Rivers and Simon Faithfull.
Coinciding with the Private View of This is My Land is ArtSway's Summer Party; please join us between 2pm and 5pm for food, drink and celebration! There is also a FREE coach from London for the day - full details below.
Also included in this newsletter is information on our future exhibition opening in September; Benjamin Beker: Monuments. Benjamin Beker was the winner of ArtSway Open 08 and returns to the gallery for his winning prize of a solo show. This is set to be an exciting exhibition by a fresh RCA photography graduate. Don't miss it!
Following on the ArtSway Open theme, we announce details of this year's Open competition. We are currently accepting submissions for this year's event - full details on this below. The ArtSway Open 09 begins on 21 November 2009 and runs until 24 January 2010.
Workshops are being offered at the gallery throughout July and August. These include a bumper selection of special Children's Summer Holiday Workshops - scroll down to see the range of opportunities. These are booking up fast so get in touch now to save your place!
We look forward to seeing you in the gallery soon!
Eamon O'Kane, Re-enactment, 2009
27 June – 23 August 2009
Re-enactment by Eamon O’Kane features two films commissioned by ArtSway that were shot on location at Beaulieu in the New Forest. The films, and the relating drawings and sculptures in the exhibition, explore the artist’s own family background, and how history can be both fabricated and manipulated. For the first of his two new films O’Kane staged a re-enactment in the New Forest of a meal King James II had on his way to put down a rebellion in Ireland in 1688, under a sycamore tree adjacent to a house that is now owned by the artist’s parents. Both the films for the meal and the hunt were reconstructed featuring, in period costume, members of the Earl of Essex Regiment of Foote - authentic re-enacters and proponents of ‘living history’.
For more information on this exhibition please see our Current Exhibitions page.
Publication Launch: Case Histories by Eamon O'Kane
Saturday 22 August 2009 at 3.30pm
A 100-page, full-colour, hardback publication Case Histories will be officially launched at ArtSway. The publication will feature images from each part of O'Kane's major international touring project, with a critical text by Dan Cameron and transcripts of O'Kane's public discussions with Paul O'Neill and Paul Hobson.
FREE: All Welcome. Refreshments provided.
Henry Coombes, Laddy and the Lady, 2005.
Image courtesy of Sorcha Dallas
This is My Land
29 August - 31 August 2009
This August Bank Holiday sees a special weekend at ArtSway with a film and video screening programme as well as a summer party!
This is My Land is a screening programme featuring video works by internationally acclaimed artists: Mike Marshall, Sophy Rickett, Henry Coombes, Andrew Cross, Crystel Lebas, Ben Rivers and Simon Faithfull. The programme features works that highlight various aspects of rural life, and in particular how land is utilised and managed by human endeavour.
Private View and Reception for the Artist:
Saturday 29 August 2009, 2pm - 5pm
Please join us for the opening of This is My Land and a chance to meet and discuss the work with the artists themselves.
FREE: All Welcome
FREE COACH FROM LONDON
Saturday 29 August 2009
We will also be running a free coach on the day for both people attending the private view of This is My Land as well as those coming to the summer party. The coach will leave from Tate Britain (opposite Millbank) at 10.30am and return to London for 7pm.
Places will be limited. If you wish to book a place on this please contact Jack Lewis on 01590 682260 (+6) or email: jack.lewis@artsway.org.uk
ArtSway's Summer Party
29 August 2009, 2pm - 5pm
On Saturday 29 August 2009 ArtSway will be hosting a summer party! Come and join us for food and drink and help toast in the half-year mark on another busy year! The party coincides with the opening of This is My Land, so not only will there be great food and drink on offer but great video as well.
If you would like to attend please contact Jack Lewis on 01590 682260 (+6) or email: jack.lewis@artsway.org.uk
FREE COACH FROM LONDON
Saturday 29 August 2009
We will also be running a free coach on the day for both people attending the private view of This is My Land as well as those coming to the summer party. The coach will leave from Tate Britain (opposite Millbank) at 10.30am and return to London for 7pm.
Places will be limited. If you wish to book a place on this please contact Jack Lewis on 01590 682260 (+6) or email: jack.lewis@artsway.org.uk
We hope you can join us on this weekend!
Benjamin Beker, Chair, White Court, 2008
Benjamin Beker
Monuments
5 September - 8 November 2009
Benjamin Beker was the winner of ArtSway Open 08. For his exhibition at ArtSway, Beker will exhibit his War and Liberation Monuments and Interiors of Power series. These two bodies of work were attempts to ‘de-historicise’ various Serbian monuments and interiors, removing them from their usual context. Beker will also exhibit a new series of work, based on research into the architecture and politics of building projects constructed on dried marshland in New Belgrade, in the former Yugoslavia, in the 1950s and 1960s - inspired by original plans, drawings and images for a proposed ‘modernist city’.
The final series of images will feature digitally manipulated photographs the artist took whilst in Serbia; the artist will isolate them and place them in a fictional context, stripping them of their environment. They will be a mixture of fact and fiction – dark socialist housing estates will be transformed into toy-like objects. Beker is interested in the way that political events and Post-Communist Capitalism has affected the urban planning of cities in the former Eastern Bloc.
For more information visit: www.benjaminbeker.com
Exhibition Associated Events:
Private View and Gallery Talk: Benjamin Beker in Conversation with Peter Bonnell
Saturday 5 September 2009 at 3pm
ArtSway Open 08 winner Benjamin Beker will discuss, with ArtSway Curator Peter Bonnell, his thoughts on winning Open 08. Beker will also talk about his recent research trips to Serbia, and his new body of photographic work examining housing developments in Communist era New Belgrade.
FREE: Booking Essential.
Portfolio Day
Friday 9 October 2009, 10am - 4pm
Ten half-hour slots for artists from all backgrounds for critiques, portfolio reviews and career advice from ArtSway Director Mark Segal and Curator Peter Bonnell. COST: £5 per person. Booking Essential.
Curator Talk
Saturday 24 October 2009 at 2pm
Join ArtSway Curator Peter Bonnell for an informal tour and discussion of Benjamin Beker’s exhibition.
FREE: All Welcome.
To book a place on any of the above events please contact Jack Lewis on 01590 682260 (ext.6) or email: jack.lewis@artsway.org.uk
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
ArtSway is seeking artists from across the UK and around the world working in all media to submit work for ArtSway Open 09. One artist selected for Open 09 will be awarded the prize of a solo exhibition throughout the ArtSway galleries in 2010.
Selection Panel:
Amanda Farr (Director, Oriel Davies Gallery)
Peter Bonnell (Curator, ArtSway)
Benjamin Beker (Winner of ArtSway Open 08)
Christopher Orr (ArtSway Artist in Residence)
Deadline for Submissions: Friday 25 September 2009 at 5pm
Submission Fee: £8 for one work, £16 for two works, £20 for three works
Exhibition dates: 21 November 2009 – 24 January 2010
(Closed: 21 December 2009 - 4 January 2010)
Application packs are available to download from our website. Alternatively please contact Peter Bonnell on 01590 682260 (ext.4) or email: peter.bonnell@artsway.org.uk to be sent a pack by email or in hard copy.
*Have you also applied to 'Salon 09' yet? (www.salon09.co.uk)*
This year sees the launch of the £1000 selectors prize, and the John Jones Award for Contemporary Painting. The deadline is 31 July 2009 at 5pm
For more information please visit the Salon 09 website or email: salon09@mattroberts.org.uk
Children's Summer Holiday Workshops
‘Creating Creatures’
Wednesday 29 July 2009, 10.30am - 3.30pm
For 5-8 years olds
Do you dream of daemons, find orcs disgusting, think flanimals are the best or wish you could catch yourself a fire elf? Then why not have a go! Some of the most memorable and amazing creatures are made of paper and ink! Take some time to discover what fantastical creatures are lurking in the world around you or in your own imagination. Create a sculpture and design a factfile so that your characters come alive, and entwine them in stories that will have your readers hooked right from the start. With artists Creative Creatures. Please bring a nut-free packed lunch.
COST: £25 including all materials.
‘Clock Mania’
Wednesday 5 August 2009, 10.30am - 3.30pm
For 8-12 years old
Join artist Roy Brown on an all day workshop where you will design and make your own working clock for your room! Using a variety of materials you will make a sculptural clock that will be both the fantastical and unusual! Please bring a nut-free lunch.
COST: £25 including all materials.
‘Peasy Easy Printing’
Wednesday 12 August 2009, 10.30am - 3.30pm
For 7-12 years
Come and have fun trying out new ideas and techniques with printmaking. Bring ideas with you with a nut-free packed lunch. With local artist Jackie Giron.
COST: £25 including all materials.
‘Crazy Costumes’
Wednesday 19 August 2009, 10.30am - 3.30pm
For 8-12 year olds
Join ArtSway for costumes, creations and creativity. Inspired by works in the current Eamon O’Kane exhibition ‘Re-enactment’ artist Joel Papps hosts a day for children to dress up in costume, create their own props for their portrait photograph to go into. The second half of the day will be used to make elaborate gold picture frames as a home for their photographs. Please bring in old clothes and a nut-free lunch.
COST: £25 including all materials.
‘Under The Sea'
Wednesday 26 August 2009, 10.30am - 3.30pm
For 5-8 years olds
Use moving images to generate drawings of weird and wonderful underwater creatures. Using re-cycled materials, make individual sculptures joining together at the end of the day in an outdoor (weather dependent) mobile hanging deep-sea sculpture display. With artist Charlotte Knox-Williams. Please bring a nut-free lunch. COST: £25 including all materials.
To book a place on any of the above courses please contact Anastasia on 01590 682260 (+2) or email: anastasia@artsway.org.uk
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If you are interested in becoming an ArtSway Ambassador, please contact Jack Lewis on 01590 682260 (+6) or email: jack.lewis@artsway.org.uk
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