Welcome to the April issue of ArtSway Xtra, an e-newsletter containing information about the gallery, as well as the artists we work with and contemporary arts news from around the region. ArtSway Xtra offers you a deeper experience of contemporary visual arts, keeping you up-to-date with the artists we are working with on a regular basis as well as our ArtSway Xtra events schedule.
Since its launch six months ago ArtSway Associates has successfully started to support professional development of the ten artists who have previously undertaken an ArtSway residency. All of the artists are receiving support; through studio visits, training, advice, advocacy and marketing development.
ArtSway Associate Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva has a new exhibition, Motectum, opening at Gloucester Cathedral at the end of the month. ArtSway are organising an Xtra Coach Trip on Saturday 2 May 2009 to see this new work and hear a talk by the artist herself, as a well as a tour by the Canon of Gloucester Cathedral. Further details in this newsletter.
Emilia Telese returns to ArtSway on Saturday 6 June 2009 to give a talk on her professional practice and its development, her artistic career, and how she balances the two. This will be a very interesting event, and a chance to hear first-hand from an artist their experiences of the industry.
Jordan Baseman's Dark is the Night exhibition has closed at ArtSway and will be presented at The Photographers' Gallery in London opening on 24 April and running until 14 June 2009. Thanks to all who visited the show and attended the exciting events throughout. Thanks to Sebastian Horsley who gave a great performance and talk at the gallery to close the final weekend of the exhibition (see image: right).
Jordan Baseman will feature as part of ArtSway's New Forest Pavilion this summer at the 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale de Venezia. Keep an eye on the website for further details in the upcoming weeks and much more on ArtSway's Venice Biennale adventures in next month's newsletter. For more information about Jordan and his work please visit his website: www.jordanbaseman.co.uk. More information on Jordan's exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery can found here
Dark is the Night is an ArtSway and The Photographers' Gallery, London co-commission.
18 April - 14 June 2009
Terroir and the Pathetic Fallacy is a large-scale installation inspired by ArtSwayÕs rural location, incorporating sculpture, photography and sound work, of an imaginary tourist resort which plays upon pagan myths and weather elements, made out of inert edible vegetables. ÔTerroirÕ is an imaginary and all-encompassing tourist resort, populated by people whose real character is disguised through vegetable outfits and masks.
The installation will feature large-format photographic wrap-around images of the resort accompanied by portraits of the characters that inhabit this themed resort. Sound work will include secrets of this imaginary resort, as told by the characters.
Terroir and the Pathetic Fallacy is part of a touring project entitled The Grand Tour. The tour is a programme of new work by Gayle Chong Kwan presented at mac, Birmingham; Arts Co., London; Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy and ArtSway, Hampshire. Supported by Chinese Arts Centre, UK and funded by Arts Council England.
Gayle Chong Kwan, Terroir and the Pathetic Fallacy, 2009.
For more information on this exhibition please see our Future Exhibitions page
www.gaylechongkwan.com
www.thegrandtour.gaylechongkwan.com
FREE COACH FROM LONDON: Preview and Reception for the Artist
Saturday 18 April 2009 at 10.30am
A free coach from London will leave from opposite Tate Britain on Millbank at 10.30am for the opening of the exhibition. The coach will return for London for 7pm. A light lunch will be provided. FREE: Booking Essential. Please contact Jack Lewis on 01590 682260 (+6) or email: jack.lewis@artsway.org.uk to reserve your place.
Gallery Talk: Gayle Chong Kwan in Conversation with Peter Bonnell
Saturday 18 April 2009 at 3pm
Gayle Chong Kwan will discuss the themes and ideas behind Terroir and the Pathetic Fallacy with ArtSway's Curator, Peter Bonnell. Chong Kwan will place the exhibition in the context of her touring project The Grand Tour, and how this interrelates and connects to her practice as a whole. FREE: Booking Essential.
Art in Context: The Evolution of The Grand Tour
Wednesday 29 April 2009 at 7pm
An evening lecture by Professor Edward Chaney, Professor of Fine and Decorative Arts at Southampton Solent University, will discuss the origins of The Grand Tour, and how it became an essential trip for gentlemen to take and better themselves in the 16th and 17th Centuries. FREE: Booking Essential.
Publication Launch: The Grand Tour by Gayle Chong Kwan
Saturday 23 May 2009 at 3pm
The 72 -page, full-colour publication, coinciding with Gayle Chong Kwan's exhibition at ArtSway will officially be launched at the gallery. The Grand Tour is an ambitious book, documenting Chong Kwan's six-part touring exhibition, featuring a critical text by curator Camilla Brown, and an essay discussing the origins of the historic Grand Tour by Professor Edward Chaney. FREE: All Welcome.
To book a place on any of the above events please contact Jack Lewis on 01590 682260 (+6) or email: jack.lewis@artsway.org.uk
Dinu Li: Family Village
text+work, the Arts Institute at Bournemouth
16 March - 17 April 2009
Dinu Li's exhibition Family Village, and its accompanying publication was successfully launched on 23 March, at text+work, the Arts Institute at Bournemouth, following a panel discussion between the artist, Peter Bonnell and Stephanie James, which was chaired by Jim Hunter. You can catch the exhibition Family Village Ð the second part of LiÕs trilogy which follows Ancestral Nation - at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth until 7 April, before it goes to Venice as part of ArtSwayÕs New Forest Pavilion.
The publication Family Village which contains a critical text by Professor Gerard DeGroot and the artist in conversation with Teresa Gleadowe, can be obtained from ArtSwayÕs bookshop or by contacting text+work, the Arts Institute at Bournemouth.
Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva: Motectum,
Gloucester Cathedral
30 April - 31 May 2009
Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva's Motectum, a collection of works that form the outcome of a year long residency at Gloucester Cathedral, opens at Gloucester Cathedral on 30 April and runs until 31 May 2009. Motectum presents a sound installation of pre-recorded human and bird voices and live relay in the Cloister, a sanctuary in the Garth that will remain and continue to evolve beyond the residency, and portrait heads made out of chickens', pheasants' and ducks' heads. The opening night's performance (30 April 2009, 6.00 - 8.00pm) will confuse the discarded and the ceremonial in a gown made out of chicken skins.
ArtSway Xtra Coach Trip
Saturday 2 May 2009
An ArtSway Xtra coach trip will be taking place on Saturday 2 May 2009 to view the exhibition and attend a talk by Elpida. The day will include a talk by Elpida, as well as tour of Gloucester Cathedral and its history by the Canon. More information on the trip can be found here. For more information on Elpida please click here. Information on her Gloucester Cathedral Residency can be found at: a-n Gloucester Catherdral blog
For further information and to book a place please contact Jack Lewis on 01590 682260 (+6) or email: jack.lewis@artsway.org.uk
Emilia Telese
In her role as Artist Advisor and Artists' Networks Co-ordinator for a-n the Artists, Information Company, Emilia Telese is currently busy offering her professional advice to young and mid-career artists as she leads Dodge the Shredder workshops, intended for artists developing or planning funding applications to improve their proposal writing skills and "Dodge the Shredder". Her radio programme, Radio Sofia, on non-mainstream Italian culture, is now being aired every Tuesday afternoon from 3pm on Radio Reverb, and she is currently supporting emerging rock musicians as part of the ARE Rock Festival (the Italian version of Battle of the Bands) as she will invite the winners to perform in Brighton in June.
Emilia also has a range of exhibitions coming up in 2010 - 2011, with plans afoot for a public art commission from the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, and she is preparing a piece of work about her No Borders in Arts theory for the Tifariti Humanitarian Arts Festival in the Western Sahara desert, Algeria for October this year.
Simon Faithfull
Simon Faithfull is currently showing at the Bienal del Fin del Mundo (End of the World Biennale), which takes as its central theme the fragility of life when exposed to the elements, until the end of May.
He will also be unveiling his first major public art commission outside Liverpool Lime Street Station later this year: 175 drawings that record a journey from Liverpool, UK to Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada, made in a container ship.
Dates for your Diary:
Red Boaster, Brighton, Thursday 23 April 2009
Emilia will present a talk about Art against social stereotypes: beauty, race, borders at Pecha Kucha Night, Red Roaster, Brighton.
ArtSway Xtra Coach Trip: Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva: Motectum, Saturday 2 May 2009
ArtSway Xtra coach trip to view Elpida's new exhibition and attend a talk by the artist. The day will also include a tour of Gloucester Cathedral and its history by the Canon. More information on the trip can be found here.
ArtSway, Saturday 6 June 2009, 2pm - 4pm
Emilia will be at ArtSway to discuss her professional practice and its development, her artistic career, and how she balances the two.
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