Welcome to the October 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 Trips to see Anne Hardy's new exhibition at Maureen Paley Gallery and 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 current exhibition - Benjamin Beker's Monuments, as well as our forthcoming ArtSway Open 09 exhibition and the range of events and participation opportunities scheduled throughout December and January.
If we don't see you in the gallery before then, please do have a very pleasant holiday season.
Exciting New Xtra Coach Trips:
ArtSway Xtra Coach Trip: Saturday 7 November 2009
Anne Hardy at Maureen Paley Gallery
Join us as we visit ArtSway Associate Anne Hardy's new exhibition at Maureen Paley Gallery in London. Anne-Sophie Dinant, Associate Curator at the South London Gallery will be at the gallery to discuss Anne's work. See the Maureen Paley website for information about the show.
More information on Anne Hardy'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
Image right: Anne Hardy, Prime, C-print diasec mounted, 2009.
ArtSway Xtra Coach Trip: Saturday 12 December 2009
Hannah Maybank at Gimpel Fils
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
Image right: Hannah Maybank, The Visit, 2008.
ArtSway Associates is currently supporting Alistair Gentry in finding partners and venues to showcase his current project, Magickal Realism. See Alistair's website to see examples of his wide-ranging practice.
Charlie Murphy has been helped in making an ACE Grants for Arts application and in contacting potential writers for her forthcoming text+work exhibition The Anatomy of Desire at The Arts University College at Bournemouth early next year.
ArtSway Associates will contribute towards marketing costs for Hannah Maybank’s solo exhibition at Gimpel Fils, as well as towards a reprint of Dinu Li’s publication Family Village.
Associates will be providing production costs for Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva’s prints that form part of the Climate Change, Cultural Change exhibition at the Swiss Embassy in Skopje, Macedonia (see below). You can visit the Skopje Swiss Embassy website where there is a PDF with more information about the show.
Image right: Alistair Gentry, Magickal Realism, 2009.
Anne Hardy
Anne Hardy has been spending the past few months working towards her forthcoming solo show at Maureen Paley, for which she will be exhibiting a new body of work. The exhibition runs between 9 October Ð 22 November 2009 and there will be an ArtSway Xtra coach trip on Saturday 7 November 2009 to see the show and attend a talk by Anne Sophie-Dinant, Associate Curator at the South London Gallery, discussing Anne’s new body of work.
Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva
Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva has been selected to be 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 exhibition opens on 24 September 2009 for one year and is organised by The World Bank and The Embassy of Switzerland. See Elpida's website for more information.
Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva, Butterflies in the Stomach, 2008 (detail)
Simon Faithfull
Simon Faithfull recently spent a few days on location in Mobile Research Station No.1 in Berlin: a half hi-tech Antarctic Research Station / half rusty-broken-dumpster. This was used by a group of eccentric researchers to investigate the wilderness and urban zones of uncertainty that still lie at the centre of Berlin.
To find out more on the Mobile Research station no.1 please visit Simon’s website
Simon Faithfull, Mobile Research station no.1, 2009
Dinu Li
Dinu Li’s Family Village exhibition opened to great acclaim at the Danielle Arnaud Gallery last Friday night, making its London premiere. If you weren’t able to catch it in Bournemouth, or at the Venice Biennale earlier this year, it will be on show at the Danielle Arnaud Gallery until 25 October 2009.
For more information please visit the Danielle Arnaud Gallery website
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.
For more information please visit our Future Exhibitions page
For more information on Benjamin please visit: www.benjaminbeker.com
Exhibition Associated Events:
Art in Context: Yugoslavia and Present-day Serbia
Saturday 24 October 2009 at 2pm
A lecture at ArtSway by Dr Marko Attila Hoare, Senior Research Fellow at Kingston University, that will examine the history of Communist era Yugoslavia in relation to the modern state of Serbia.
To book a place please contact Jack Lewis on 01590 682260 (ext.6) or email: jack.lewis@artsway.org.uk
Benjamin Beker, Untitled Block no.1,
Lambda print, 2009
ArtSway Open 09
21 November 2009 - 21 January 2010
The deadline has just finished for submissions to ArtSway Open 09. In the next week or so the appointed judging panel will be selecting the works for display - keep an eye on the website in the coming weeks for further details. One artist selected for Open 09 will be awarded the prize of a solo exhibition throughout the ArtSway galleries in 2010, with the exhibition itself opening on Saturday 21 November 2009 and running until 24 January 2010.
Exhibition Associated Events:
Private View and Artist Reception
Saturday 21 November 2009, 2pm - 5pm
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.
Portfolio Day
Friday 4 December 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 ArtSway Curator Peter Bonnell.
COST: £5 per person. Booking Essential.
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
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