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 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 eight 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. Information on artists involved in this scheme can be found in this newsletter.
Dates for your Diary:
ArtSway, Saturday 23 May 2009 at 3pm
Publication Launch: The Grand Tour by Gayle Chong Kwan
The 72 -page, full-colour publication, coinciding with Gayle Chong Kwan's exhibition at ArtSway will officially be launched at the gallery. FREE: All Welcome.
ArtSway, Saturday 6 June 2009, 2pm - 4pm
Emilia Telese: Artist’s Practice: Local to Global
Emilia will be at ArtSway to discuss her professional practice and its development, her artistic career, and how she balances the two. FREE: Booking Essential.
Xtra Coach Trip to BFI, Southbank, London
Sunday 19 July 2009
Join Simon Faithfull for the opening of his new exhibition at the BFI, with the chance to hear a talk by the artist himself and a look at the accompanying show publication.
COST: FREE to 'Friends of ArtSway'. £12.50 other / £7.50 student discount. For more information and to book a place please contact Jack Lewis on 01590 682260 (+6) or email: jack.lewis@artsway.org.uk
palazzo zenobio | fondamenta del soccorso | dorsoduro 2596 | venice | italy
open: 7 june 2009 - 28 june 2009
hours: tuesday - sunday 10.00 - 18.00
exhibitors day: wednesday 3 june 2009 10.00 - 18.00
vernissage (press & preview days): thursday 4, friday 5 and saturday 6 june 2009 10.00 - 18.00
press & arts professionals launch: saturday 6 june 2009 at 10.30 [prosecco and pastries will be served]
Once again we are off to the Venice Biennale! This will be the third time ArtSway have been in attendance at the Biennale, and for the 53rd International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia, ArtSway are exhibiting ArtSway's New Forest Pavilion for the month of June showing 5 artists who have previously worked with the gallery: Alex Frost, Jordan Baseman, Dinu Li, Hannah Maybank and Nathaniel Mellors.
There is a dedicated page on ArtSway's website with information and images on our Venice exhibition. Click here for further information.
If anyone is making a trip to the Venice Biennale in June please get in contact with myself on 01590 682260 (ext.6) or email: jack.lewis@artsway.org.uk for an invitation to the launch event.
18 April - 14 June 2009
Current exhibition Gayle Chong Kwan's 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 all made out of inert edible vegetables. For more information on this exhibition please see our Future Exhibitions page.
www.gaylechongkwan.com
www.thegrandtour.gaylechongkwan.com
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.
Gayle Chong Kwan, Terroir and the Pathetic Fallacy, 2009.
Future Exhibition at ArtSway
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 Future Exhibitions page.
Image from filming day for Eamon O'Kane,
Re-enactment, 2009.
Exhibition Associated Events:
Gallery Talk: Eamon O'Kane in Conversation with Peter Bonnell
Saturday 27 June 2009 at 3pm
Eamon O'Kane will discuss the international touring project CASE HISTORIES and his new work Re-enactment, commissioned by ArtSway, with curator Peter Bonnell. O'Kane will outline the genesis of his two new films for Re-enactment, which were filmed on location in Beaulieu in the New Forest with authentic mid-17th Century re-enacters. FREE: Booking Essential.
Art in Context (Living History): The Art of Re-enactment
A talk by Helen Down, Treasurer, Earl of Essex Regiment of Foote
Wednesday 15 July 2009 at 7pm
English Civil War re-enacter Helen Down will talk about her involvement in Eamon O'Kane's two new films for his exhibition at ArtSway. Helen is the Treasurer for the Earl of Essex Regiment of Foote - an organisation that seeks to educate children and adults about mid 17th century life and the English Civil War. Helen will talk about the activities and background of her regiment and the importance of 'living history'. FREE: Booking Essential.
Publication Launch: CASE HISTORIES by Eamon O'Kane
Saturday 25 July 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.
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
Associates Meeting
The second ArtSway Associates meeting was held in London this week, and was used to introduce the tailored ArtSway Associates contracts between the artists and ArtSway. A presentation covering copyright and other IP, contracts, artists’ tax status, fees and insurance was led by Nicholas Sharp, a commercial solicitor with a special interest in the visual arts, who is also a director for a-n the Artists’ Information Company and a consultant for Swan Turton, London. The Associates also used this session to raise any legal related questions and as a good catch-up. Comments included: “I thought yesterday's meeting was very good, useful and thought-provoking”.
Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva
Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva’s exhibition, Motectum at Gloucester Cathedral, opened on Thursday 30 April 2009 to great acclaim.
You will soon be able to view a video of the night’s performance on her website, and in the meantime you can hear samples of Elpida’s incredible sound installation (installed in the Cathedral’s cloisters) as well as view images of the exhibition on her website. You can catch Motectum at Gloucester Cathedral until Sunday 31 May 2009 - is it well worth a visit.
ArtSway recently organised an Xtra Coach Trip to visit Elpida's Gloucester Cathedral exhibition (see image right).
Emilia Telese
Artist’s Practice: Local to Global
Saturday 6 June 2009, 2pm - 4pm
Emilia Telese will be giving a professional practice talk at ArtSway on Saturday 6 June 2009: Artist’s Practice: Local to Global. The free talk will coincide with the launch of ArtSway’s New Forest Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition Ð la Biennale di Venezia.
Alongside her practice as an artist, Elpida also works as Artists' Networks Coordinator for a-n The Artist Information Company and as a freelance art writer and trainer in artists' survival skills as well as being a regional member of Arts Council South East. This is a unique opportunity to hear an artist speak about the industry and their thoughts on the future of the scene, both regionally, nationally and internationally.
She will be discussing her experience of being part of ArtSway’s New Forest Pavilion in 2005, international and collaborative practice, and the impact that this has had on her career. Later this month, Emilia will also be leading a 'Dodge the Shredder' taster session at Fabrica (Fundraising and Proposal Writing Toolbox, Thursday 28 May 2009, Fabrica, Brighton).
Simon Faithfull
ArtSway Xtra Coach Trip
Gravity Sucks, BFI, Southbank, London
Sunday 19 July 2009
Extensively showing internationally, Simon Faithfull will soon be showing closer to home from 17 July to 6 September 2009 at The Gallery at BFI Southbank. The exhibition, Gravity Sucks, will bring together, for the first time, works representing all of Simon Faithfull’s quixotic attempts to escape the earth’s gravity.
As part of the ArtSway Xtra Coach Trip you will be able to view the exhibition and meet the artist, as well as attend Simon's opening public lecture on Gravity Sucks which will be followed by the launch of the accompanying publication.
For more information on Simon please visit his website: www.simonfaithfull.org. More information on Gravity Sucks can be found here.
COST: FREE to 'Friends of ArtSway'. £12.50 other / £7.50 student discount. For more information and to book a place please contact Jack Lewis on 01590 682260 (+6) or email: jack.lewis@artsway.org.uk
Anna Best
Anna Best is currently in the process of giving her website a brand new look which will allow her to upload the video footage of her art projects. She has scheduled in a couple of sessions at ArtSway to do this with the help of Markus Lloyd.
Alistair Gentry
Alistair Gentry will also be helping us to celebrate ArtSway’s presence in Venice, with a special one-off collage Kids’ Workshop on the theme of remodelling Venice. Alistair will be working with a local primary school on transforming Venice’s most famous sights by using collage.
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