Welcome to the May issue of ArtSway Xtra, an e-newsletter containing information about the gallery, as well as the artists we work with and their activities. 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 and our own gallery exhibitions and events.
Alistair Gentry
Alistair Gentry’s Magickal Realism will be shown at Southampton Solent University on Wednesday 12 May 2010 as part of the University’s Interactive Research Group Networking Event.
Alistair will be performing from 6pm, following presentations and a screening centred around new media and interactive art. For more information and to register for the event please visit: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=110852912268823
Alistair is also currently part of Wysing Arts Contemporary: Presents, an artists’ own take on the art fair model, where Alistair is selling his limited edition busts of Dr John Dee (pictured right) until 23 May 2010. Details can be found here
Image right: Alistair Gentry’s John Dee
Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva
Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva will be talking about her current commission for St. Bede’s College on Saturday 8 May 2010 at Guilford Cathedral. This commission is part of Building Schools for the Future in Bristol, organised by Bristol City Council in consultancy with Art and Sacred Places.
In between spending time in Bristol researching the commission and working with the school on workshops, Elpida has also booked some taxidermy training, funded by the ArtSway Associates programme, to feed into her practice.
For more detail on the talk please visit http://www.artandsacredplaces.org/agm10.html
Image right: Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva, Angel III
Simon Faithfull
The long-awaited Simon Faithfull’s Liverpool to Liverpool public art commission will be unveiled on Thursday 22 April 2010 at Lime Street Gateway, Liverpool. Simon’s journey from Liverpool, UK, to Liverpool, Nova Scotia, was made by container ship, train, and ferry and recorded through a series of 181 drawings made on the artist’s Palm Pilot.
The drawings have now been etched into the glass arches and stone pavings around the entrance to Lime Street Station, commissioned by Liverpool Biennial. You can also watch Simon discuss his current exhibition, Recent Findings at the Harris Museum, Preston here
Image right: Simon Faithfull, Liverpool to Liverpool
Other News
Following a meeting with Anna Best last month, the ArtSway Associates programme are working with her on funding the completion of her website and of the archiving of her past projects. The programme is also financially supporting the accompanying publication for Dinu Li’s forthcoming exhibition at QUAD, Derby, and has organised a critically led studio visit for Hannah Maybank, from the Director of Raven Row, Alex Sainsbury, due to take place later on in the month.
Updates on the ArtSway Associates activities can be found on the dedicated website page
Current Exhibition
Christopher Orr
24 April - 20 June 2010
Christopher is a painter who was artist in residence at ArtSway in September and October of 2009. His paintings Ð usually very small in scale Ð are characterised by elements of Romantic art and the Sublime, and often feature intricately detailed figures within huge and ethereal landscapes.
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More information can be found on our Future Exhibitions
Exhibition Associated Events:
Art in Context: Painting
A lecture at ArtSway examining the act of painting by Professor Jim Hunter, Deputy Principal at the Arts University College at Bournemouth. FREE: Booking Essential.
Portfolio Day: Painting
A portfolio day specifically aimed at painters with ten half-hour slots for artists from all backgrounds for critiques, portfolio reviews and career advice from ArtSway Curator and painter Hannah Maybank. COST: £5 per person. Booking Essential.
To book a place on any event please contact Jack Lewis on 01590 682260 (ext.6) or email: jack.lewis@artsway.org.uk
Supported by the text+work programme at the Arts University College at Bournemouth with additional support from IBID PROJECTS, London and Hauser & Wirth ZŸrich.
Christopher Orr, The Hidden Way, oil on linen, 2010. Courtesy of the artist and IBID PROJECTS, London.
Future Exhibition
ArtSway is pleased to present a new online shopping cart for contemporary artworks, including limited and unlimited editions, artist video and artist prints, where all items can be purchased safe and securely.
Available works on the site come from a variety of ArtSway Associate Artists, including Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva, Alistair Gentry, Dinu Li and Charlie Murphy, and many of which are exclusive to ArtSway.
This shop has now gone live and can be visited at www.artsway.bigcartel.com
Be one of the first customers through the till!
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