Welcome to the November issue of ArtSway Xtra, an e-newsletter containing information about the gallery, as well as the artists we work. 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.
In this month's edition: Forthcoming Xtra Coach Trip to see Hannah Maybank's exhibition at Gimpel Fils, London. There is also information about all our active ArtSway Associate Artists, as well as details on our next exhibition opening in a week - ArtSway Open 09 and the range of events and participation opportunities scheduled throughout December and January.
Also included is information on our future exhibition in early 2010. Dave Lewis and his exhibition Field Work will open at ArtSway in February 2010. This is an exciting collaboration with Autograph ABP and Oriel Davies Gallery. Dave is a photographer and film maker concerned with the 'stranger' entering a new area and their observations.
Exciting New ArtSway Xtra Coach Trips:
Hannah Maybank at Gimpel Fils
Saturday 12 December 2009
Our last ArtSway Xtra coach trip for 2009 will take us to Hannah Maybank’s solo exhibition at Gimpel Fils, London, on Saturday 12 December, where Hannah will be present to discuss her work and take questions. The exhibition runs from 27 November 2009 Ð 16 January 2010 at Gimpel Fils, London. For more information on the exhibition please visit the Gimpel Fils website
More information on Hannah Maybank's previous exhibition at ArtSway can be found here
FREE to 'Friends of ArtSway' / £10 other / £8 Student Discount
Places will be limited. If you are interested please contact Jack Lewis on 01590 682260 (+6) or email: jack.lewis@artsway.org.uk
Hannah Maybank, The Visit, 2008.
The ArtSway Associates programme has just celebrated its first year, supported by the Leverhulme Trust, to great success. In recent updates, a number of international arts professionals have agreed to mentor some of the Associates in the forthcoming year, including Robert Klassnik, Director of Matt’s Gallery, London, for Emilia Telese; Andrew Wheatley, Co-director of Cabinet, London, for Simon Faithfull; Charles Esche, Director of van Abbemuseum and a judge for this year’s Turner Prize, will mentor Dinu Li; and Paula Orrell, Curator at Plymouth Arts Centre has agreed to mentor Anna Best.
ArtSway as part of the Associates Programme will be investing in ArtFacts.net, a contemporary art portal for collectors and gallerists to find information on artists and galleries, whilst at the same time elevating their profile and marketability. The ten ArtSway Associates will soon become a part of this service.
Charlie Murphy
Luce Irigaray, major Belgian feminist and cultural theorist, has agreed to write for the catalogue for Charlie Murphy's show, The Anatomy of Desire, at text+work, the Arts University College at Bournemouth in February 2010. Other confirmed writers include Leonore Tiefer, New York based author and psychiatrist, and fellow ArtSway Associate, Alistair Gentry.
The Anatomy of Desire (image right) is a major body of work that visualises intimate spaces of desire through a powerful range of strategies and media. It continues on from Charlie's 'kiss-in' earlier this year which culminated in an event at the Science Museum, London.
More information on this project can be found on Charlie's website as well as on the Arts University College at Bournemouth website
Hannah Maybank
ArtSway Associates has also been supporting additional international advertising for Hannah Maybank's forthcoming solo exhibition at Gimpel Fils, London (27 November 2009 Ð 16 January 2010).
Hannah has spent the last few months working on a series of new paintings for this exhibition, and you can hear her talk about these by joining us on our next ArtSway Xtra coach trip on Saturday 12 December 2009 to Gimpel Fils. Full details can be found here.
ArtSway’s Xtra most recent coach trip took us to Maureen Paley, London, to see Anne Hardy’s new photographs. Anne-Sophie Dinant, Assistant Curator at South London Gallery, gave the audience a talk on Anne Hardy’s practice and influences, and spoke in detail about each of the photographs in the exhibition. The exhibition runs until 22 November 2009. For more information see the Maureen Paley website.
SPECIAL OFFER FOR ARTSWAY XTRA SUBSCRIBERS
WIN AN ORIGINAL HANNAH MAYBANK INK DRAWING!
An exciting opportunity for all ArtSway Xtra subscribers! To coincide with Hannah Maybank’s solo exhibition at Gimpel Fils, London, we are offering our audience an exclusive chance to win an original ink drawing by the artist. The winner will be drawn at random and will be notified on Monday 18 January 2010. Only one entry per household is permitted.
To be in with a chance to win please e-mail your name and postcode to Jack Lewis at jack.lewis@artsway.org.uk
Hannah Maybank, Churchside Pines Pair, 2008
Alistair Gentry
Alistair Gentry has recently completed his new performance/animation work, Magickal Realism, and ArtSway Associates are currently supporting him in finding a suitable venue to showcase this piece of work.
You can watch some of this new feature here. He has also been commissioned by fellow ArtSway Associate, Charlie Murphy, to write a text for Charlie’s Anatomy of Desire publication.
More information on Alistair can be found on his website
Dinu Li
Dinu Li has reached the final stage of his three-month residency in China, where he has been doing some research for the third part of Nation Family, his film trilogy.
During his absence, Family Village made its London debut at Danielle Arnaud Gallery and it will be at the PULSE Art Fair in Miami in December with Amelia Johnson Gallery.
More information on DInu can be found by visiting his website
Ancentral Nation, 2007
Emilia Telese
Emilia Telese is currently working towards a major public commission for Southampton city centre, in association with Jonh Hansard Gallery, and recently spoke at Tate Britain for The 28th State: European Borders in an Age of Anxiety.
Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva's work can currently be seen as part of the year-long exhibition Climate Change, Cultural Change at The World Bank Centre, Skopje, Macedonia. The exhibition will bring together a group of artists from Macedonia to raise awareness on climate change and to draw attention to the power of art on social development.
The image (right) is one of Elpida's works installed at The World Bank.
See Elpida's website for more information.
boredomresearch
Their solo exhibition having just finished at [DAM] Berlin, boredomresearch are now getting ready for their work to be showcased at ARCO Madrid, the international art fair which will take place in February.
As well as Lost Calls of Cloud Mountain Whirligigs (2009), boredomresearch will be showcasing a brand new piece of work. ArtSway Associates are also working with boredomresearch on researching and funding a suitable writer for a planned digital catalogue to coincide with their presence at ARCO Madrid.
For more information see the boredomresearch website.
Lost Calls of Cloud Mountain Whirligigs, 2009
Back in the gallery...
21 November 2009 - 21 January 2010
Private View and Artist Reception
Saturday 21 November 2009, 2pm - 5pm
Please join us for the opening of ArtSway Open 09, with a chance to talk to a number of the participating artists about their contributed work.
FREE: All Welcome.
ArtSway is pleased to announce the return of our highly-popular annual Open exhibition. Each year the ArtSway Open brings together local, national and international artists, displaying the highest quality contemporary visual art in a wide range of media, and covering a broad variety of themes.
This year's exhibition opens on Saturday 21 November 2009 at 2pm with a chance to meet a number of the artists and see a fresh new crop of exciting work. We hope you can join us on the day.
Selected Artists:
Stuart Bailes, Dave Ball, Paul Becker, Ronnie Close, Gary Colclough, Richard Cook, Ellie Davies, Afshin Dehkordi, Katayoun Dowlatshahi, Pippa Gatty, Robert Lang, Tom Lovelace, Moira Lovell, Suzanne Moxhay, Andrew Rowe, Dolly Thompsett, Noam Toran & Onkar Kular, Susan Trangmar, Alex Veness, Fabien Villon, Kate Walters, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa.
Exhibition Associated Events:
Open Studios
Saturday 21 November 2009, 2pm - 5pm
To coincide with the first day of Open 09, ArtSway's studio residents are opening their workshops for the day. Come along and talk to the artists about their practice, and perhaps find a one-of-a-kind gift in time for Christmas.
FREE: All Welcome.
Artists' Professional Development Day
Saturday 5 December 2009, 2pm - 5pm
ArtSway Associates Simon Faithfull, boredomresearch (Paul Smith and Vicky Isley), and Emilia Telese will be at ArtSway during the Open 09 exhibition for an afternoon of talks to discuss their individual practices and career progression, offering advice on professional artistic development and answering any questions you may have about becoming a professional artist.
FREE: Booking Essential.
Gallery Talk and Winner Announcement
Saturday 12 December 2009 at 2pm
Join ArtSway Director Mark Segal and Curator Peter Bonnell for an informal tour of Open 09 and a discussion of selected works in the exhibition. Following the tour the winner of Open 09 will be announced by Peter Lashmar, whose organisation Lashmars Accountants of Lymington has sponsored ArtSway's annual Open exhibition since 2006. The winner of Open 09 receives a prize of a solo exhibition at ArtSway in 2010.
FREE: All Welcome.
Portfolio Day
Friday 22 January 2010, 10am - 4pm
Ten half-hour slots for artists from all backgrounds for critiques, portfolio reviews and career advice from ArtSway Director Mark Segal.
COST: £5 per person. Booking Essential.
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
The ArtSway Open 09 is sponsored by Lashmars of Lymington with additional support from Arts & Business.
Ellie Davies, Smoke and Mirrors 2, 2009
Dolly Thompsett, Night Flight, 2009
Suzanne Moxhay, Migration, 2009
Tom Lovelace, Red Trolley (from series Unit 2), 2008
Dave Lewis
Field Work
6 February - 28 March 2010
Dave Lewis is a photographer and film maker who is interested in the role of the individual within society, and the impact that individual can have on a place, and the inhabitants of a place.
LewisÕ new body of work, called Field Work, is inspired by the idea of the artist as a mythical 'Stranger' who ventures into a place, or site, exploring what the artist describes as 'an unknown site', and gathering first-hand information as ethnographic research. The sites that Lewis explored - the New Forest in Hampshire and Newtown and its environs in Wales - are linked by their respective rural locales. By analysing and contrasting these areas, interviewing residents and documenting events such as local festivals and carnivals, Lewis attempts to evaluate ideas around belonging, identity and migration viewed by the stranger as an impartial observer.
For his exhibition at ArtSway Lewis will present a series of film-based ÔJourneysÕ Ð containing footage of his research into the New Forest and Newtown. These films will feature the ÔStrangerÕ (or outsider, played by Lewis) Ð a enigmatic figure who appears within the landscape and towns of Wales and the New Forest as a metaphor for the unease felt in arriving in a new place.
Dave Lewis: Field Work is a co-commission by Autograph ABP, ArtSway, and Oriel Davies Gallery. Field Work will be exhibited at Oriel Davies Gallery from 17 April - 9 June 2010.
Exhibition Associated Event:
Private View and Gallery Talk: Dave Lewis in Conversation with Peter Bonnell and Indra Khanna
Saturday 6 February 2010 at 3pm
Photographer and film-maker Dave Lewis will discuss his newly commissioned project Field Work with ArtSway Curator Peter Bonnell and Autograph ABP Curator Indra Khanna.
FREE: Booking Essential.
To book a place please contact Jack Lewis on 01590 682260 (ext.6) or email: jack.lewis@artsway.org.uk
Dave Lewis, New Forest, image from
Field Work, 2009
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