Art and Artists Newsletter
Welcome to the new and improved AAAI Newsletter from ArtSway. I hope you enjoy the new format, which allows for lots of pictures and detailed information about our six AAAI artists. This issue highlights Charlie Murphy Ü her practice, recent achievements and upcoming projectsYou are all invited to a private view of Charlie’s Open Studio on Friday 14 October, 6-9pm. The Open Studios continue on Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 October, between noon and 6pm. Tea and drink will be served and you will have a chance to see and buy a wide variety of prints, pictures in glass, rosettes, and other artworks.The address is: 2nd Floor East Acava Studios, 1-15 Cremer St, London E2 8HD
As most of you know, Charlie exhibited with us in New Forest Pavilion exhibition in Venice this June. It was a very successful exhibition, for which Charlie made a special edition of her Rosettes (the picture above on the left is of Charlie in the Palazzo Zenobio - the venue in Venice - wearing one of her Rosettes).Charlie will now be going back to Venice to do a live art event - La Kiss-innale on 23 & 24 September, from 9pm-midnight at CZ95, Giudecca 95, Venice. This 'kiss-in' is a cheeky event, in which Charlie celebrates the extraordinary diversity of kissing through a parody of dental and medical procedures.
Charlie is currently involved in two projects which require flying ability, hence she has been taking trapeze lessons! One project is a live performance involving swinging from chandeliers and, as Charlie claims: “Progress has been made! I am very proud to say that I can now point my toes and smile occasionally, despite having been green and speechless with fear and vertigo for the first six weeks”
The other project is her upcoming live performance ‘Salute’ which is in the research and development stage. This includes mentoring sessions with the acclaimed choreographer and Director Lea Anderson and her companies, giving Charlie an opportunity to discuss her project with a dance professional and learn how choreographed movements and sequences are constructed through exact calculations of space and timing. As part of this project, Charlie is doing workshops with the corde lisse artists and ship crew on shipyards of Zebu in Liverpool in order to get ideas for constructing the performance. Charlie hopes that with the support of Aspex gallery in Portsmouth, she will be able to make applications towards staging the first of these events for the opening of their new gallery space at Gunwharf Quays in the late spring of 2006.
Some photogram prints from Charlie’s ongoing series ‘Optic’ will be exhibited with jaggedart at the Affordable Contemporary Art fair in New York (for more information: www.aafnyc.com)
Charlie would like to extend the use of techniques she employed in creating the ‘Optic’ series and create a new body of work with a selection of chandeliers whose status, optical qualities or the context in which they hang have particular historic significance or interest. She is hoping to gain access to the Glass Depratment at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Apsley House and other famous chandelier interiors in order to create a range of unique chandelier prints that will perform a kind of photographic trompe l’oeil, such as using silver gelatin emulsion to print images directly onto walls to achieve the impression of the shadow of a chandelier no longer present.
Charlie is looking for more opportunities to display this series.
Coming up at ArtSway:
'Alison Turnbull' exhibition is opening this Saturday, 17 September.
You are cordially invited to the opening reception from 2 to 4pm
The exhibition continues until 20 November 2005
Alison Turnbull is a renowned painter, who was artist in residence at ArtSway in May and June of this year. Alison's work investigates the varied ways in which we conceive and transform the spaces we inhabit, fusing the representational with the abstract. Her work is inspired by architectural plans and botanical gardens.
Saturday, 8 October at 2pm: Gallery Talk. FREE
Alison Turnbull will be in conversation with author Philip Hoare, who has written critical texts about her work and recently published England's Lost Eden, a book about the New Forest which the Sunday Times describes as "Quite startling beautythis is a terrific, idiosyncatic piece of popular social history" (Robbie Hudson, Sunday Times)
Wednesday, 12 October from 7 to 9pm: An informal social evening about accesss to visual art for the visually impaired. FREE
Alison Turnbull and art consultant Les Buckingham will discuss ways of making visual arts available to the visually impaired audience, as well as the contributions this audience can make to art.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ArtSway Open05
We are calling for submissions of artworks to our Open exhibition, which will be on view from 3 December 2005. Artists are encouraged to submit works in any style or medium.
Prize: Solo exhibition at ArtSway in 2006.
Deadlines: Friday 21 October for slides, Friday 28 - Saturday 30 October for actual works
Submission fees: £15 for up to 3 slides, £6 per actual work for up to 3 works
For an Application Pack: Send an SAE (21p) marked 'ArtSway Open05' to ArtSway, Station Road, Sway, Hampshire SO41 6BA or DOWNLOAD from our website, following the Open Exhibiton link.
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