Welcome to the March 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 five 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.
21 February - 5 April 2009
Production still from Jordan Baseman's
Dark is the Night.
Image courtesy of the artist/Matt's Gallery, London
Jordan Baseman's Dark is the Night continues at ArtSway until 5 April 2009.
More information on Jordan Baseman's ArtSway exhibition can be found here
For further information about Jordan's work please visit his website: www.jordanbaseman.co.uk
Dark is the Night is an ArtSway and The Photographers' Gallery, London, co-commission and will be presented at The Photographers' Gallery, London between 24 April - 14 June 2009.
Gallery Talk and Performance: Sebastian Horsley
Saturday 4 April 2009 at 3pm
ArtSway is pleased to present a once in a lifetime event in deepest rural Hampshire: an afternoon of 'dazzling and controversial anecdote' with artist and writer Sebastian Horsley, author of 'Dandy in the Underworld'.
FREE: Booking Essential.
To book a place please contact Jack Lewis on 01590 682260 (ext.6) or email: jack.lewis@artsway.org.uk
Gayle Chong Kwan
Terroir and the Pathetic Fallacy
18 April - 14 June 2009
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 which plays upon pagan myths and weather elements, made out of inert edible vegetables. ÔTerroirÕ is an imaginary and all-encompassing tourist resort, populated by people whose real character is disguised through vegetable outfits and masks.
The installation will feature large-format photographic wrap-around images of the resort accompanied by portraits of the characters that inhabit this themed resort. Sound work will include secrets of this imaginary resort, as told by the characters.
Terroir and the Pathetic Fallacy is part of a touring project entitled The Grand Tour. The tour is a programme of new work by Gayle Chong Kwan presented at mac, Birmingham; Arts Co., London; Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy and ArtSway, Hampshire. Supported by Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester and funded by Arts Council England.
For more information on this exhibition please visit our Future Exhibitions page
Image from Gayle Chong Kwan's Veduta Romantica,
2007
www.gaylechongkwan.com
www.thegrandtour.gaylechongkwan.com
Free Coach: Preview and Reception for the Artist
Saturday 18 April 2009 at 10.30am
A free coach from London will leave from opposite Tate Britain on Millbank at 10.30am for the opening of the exhibition. The coach will return for London for 7pm. A light lunch will be provided.
FREE: Booking Essential.
Gallery Talk: Gayle Chong Kwan in Conversation with Peter Bonnell
Saturday 18 April 2009 at 3pm
London based artist Gayle Chong Kwan, in conversation with Peter Bonnell, ArtSwayÕs Curator, will discuss the themes and ideas behind her exhibition Terroir and the Pathetic Fallacy. Chong Kwan will place the exhibition in the context of her touring project The Grand Tour, and how each element of the tour, including Terroir and the Pathetic Fallacy, interrelate and connects to her practice as a whole.
FREE: Booking Essential.
To book a place on the above events please contact Jack Lewis on 01590 682260 (ext.6) or email: jack.lewis@artsway.org.uk
Dinu Li: Family Village
Xtra Coach Trip to the Arts Institute at Bournemouth
Saturday 21 March 2009
The opening of Dinu LiÕs Family Village is fast approaching and to celebrate the occasion ArtSway Xtra have organised a special coach trip from London to text+work, the Arts Institute at Bournemouth to view the exhibition and attend a talk by Dinu.
The free coach will leave from Tate Britain (opposite Millbank) at 10.30am and return to London by 7pm.
Further details of this trip and how to book can be found here
To book a place please contact Jack Lewis on 01590 682260 (ext.6) or email: jack.lewis@artsway.org.uk
Further details of Family Village (16 March - 17 April 2009) can be found on the text+work website
Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva: Motectum, Gloucester Cathedral
Xtra Coach Trip to Gloucester
Saturday 2 May 2009
As Elpida Hadzi-VasilevaÕs year-long residency at Gloucester Cathedral comes to an end, she is making the final touches to her exhibition, Motectum, which runs from 30 April - 31 May 2009. Motectum takes inspiration from Thomas TallisÕ (1505 - 1585) remarkable 40-voice Spem in Alium, and draws on the history of the cathedral, its cloisters, and GloucestershireÕs natural habitats.
An ArtSway Xtra coach trip will be taking place on Saturday 2 May 2009 to view the exhibition and attend a talk by Elpida.
For more information on Elpida please click here. Information on her Gloucester Cathedral Residency can be found at: a-n Gloucester Catherdral blog
To book a place please contact Jack Lewis on 01590 682260 (ext.6) or email: jack.lewis@artsway.org.uk
Charlie Murphy
An Experiment in Kissing
Charlie MurphyÕs Kiss-in event, which took place at the Dana Centre last month, was a hugely successful and fun evening. You can view images and read BBC coverage of the Kiss-in here
For more information on Charlie and her projects please see her website: www.charliemurphy.co.uk
Hannah Maybank
Hannah Maybank is currently busy in her studio working towards the forthcoming ArtSwayÕs New Forest Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia (June 2009).
She has been working on new versions of The Visit and The Invitation, versions of which were shown at ArtSway earlier this year.
For more information on Hannah please visit Gimpel Fils.
Hannah Maybank, The Visit. Image courtesy of the artist/Gimpel Fils, London
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