Welcome to the July 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.
ArtSway Director Mark Segal has been working with Charlie Murphy on developing funding applications to Pollock Krasner Foundation and Arts Council England, while also discussing a R&D Grants for the Arts application with Elpida Hadzi Vasileva. Anna Best has undertaken another training session on web maintenance with Marcus Lloyd.
Alistair Gentry
We are delighted to announce that Arts Council England have awarded a Grant for the Arts in support of Alistair Gentry's forthcoming ‘Magickal Realism’.
The project is inspired by Dr John Dee, the proto-scientist, court magician and fortune-teller to Queen Elizabeth I. The resulting work will form part of a much larger, long-term project that reconnects contemporary art with traditional British forms, narratives and genres.
For updates on the project, you can visit Alistair’s dedicated web page.
Simon Faithfull
Simon Faithfull's new solo exhibition ‘Gravity Sucks’, opened at the British Film Institute (BFI) Gallery, Southbank, at the weekend, and runs until 23rd September.
The exhibition brings together, for the first time, Simon Faithfull’s astonishing approaches and inventions to attempt to escape the earth’s gravity, through the use of Escape Vehicles: rockets, chairs and flies among others. The early experiments fail heroically but improve as the series progresses, and Escape Vehicle no.6 follows the successful journey of a general household chair as it travels upwards into space.
A publication on Simon’s battles with gravity titled ‘Going Nowhere’ is published by Film and Video Umbrella, supported the ArtSway Associates programme, and was also launched at the weekend. It features essays by Steven Bode, Alain de Botton, Philip Hoare, Lisa Le Feuvre and Robert Macfarlane, and copies can be purchased from ArtSway.
For more information please visit: www.fvu.co.uk
Simon Faithfull, Gravity Sucks.
Image courtesy of the artist.
Dinu Li
Dinu Li has an exhibition in London as a direct result of ArtSway's New Forest Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. His Family Village will be shown at Danielle Arnaud between 25 September and 25 October 2009.
More details can be found here: www.daniellearnaud.com
First conceived as a co-commission with ArtSway's academic partner, The Arts University College at Bournemouth, it premiered in The Gallery, The Arts University College at Bournemouth, last year before moving on to ArtSway later in 2008. It then had its international debut at the 53rd International Venice Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia and we are all very excitied to hear that Danielle Arnaud with be making its London debut a realisation.
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 (details below), 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!
27 June Ð 23 August 2009
Re-enactment by Eamon OÕKane 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 artistÕs own family background, and how history can be both fabricated and manipulated. For the first of his two new films OÕKane 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 artistÕs parents. The second film is a re-enactment of a hunt - or skirmish - led by James II in Ireland, as he searched for enemy combatants, that supposedly took place at the same time as the meal.
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.
Image from filming day for Eamon O'Kane,
Re-enactment, 2009
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
Henry Coombes, Laddy and the Lady, 2005.
Image courtesy of Sorcha Dallas.
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 Ôde-historiciseÕ 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 Ômodernist cityÕ.
For more information please visit our Future Exhibitions page
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 BekerÕs 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
Benjamin Beker, Chair, White Court, 2008
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 Ð 24 January 2010
(Closed: 21 December 2009 - 4 January 2010)
Application packs are available to download from the website. Alternatively please contact Peter Bonnell on 01590 682260 (+4) or email: peter.bonnell@artsway.org.uk to be sent a pack in either email or hard copy form.
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