Charlie Tweed, We are the above, 2008
Friday 2 April - Sunday 11 April 2010
Multichannel is a screening programme of artists film and video, organised and curated by ArtSway and SCAN in ArtSway’s galleries. The programme, which previously took place at ArtSway in 2007 and 2008, will once again feature both established practitioners, as well as ground breaking video works by artists from across the UK, and around the world.
Artists Selected for Multichannel: Variable Economies
George Barber (UK), Nicky Coutts (UK), Katie Davies (UK), Tajinder Dhami & Zonar Mahir (UK), Rob Heppell & Ben Jones (UK), Kypros Kyprianou (UK), Yaron Lapis (UK), Agnieszka Pokrywka (PL), Alistair Ruff (UK), Barry Sykes (UK), Nick Tobier (US), Charlie Tweed (UK), Dan Walwin (UK), Neil Wissink (UK)
Gallery Talk: Saturday 10 April 2010 at 3pm
Join Multichannel co-selectors Gary Thomas of Animate Projects, Helen Sloan of SCAN and Peter Bonnell of ArtSway for a discussion of the themes on display in this year's screening programme.
FREE: All Welcome.
For more information please contact Peter Bonnell on 01590 682260 (ext.4) or email: peter@artsway.org.uk
Multichannel 2010 is presented in partnership with the following organisations:
Christopher Orr
24 April - 20 June 2010
Christopher Orr is a painter, based in London, who was artist in residence at ArtSway in September and October of 2009. His paintings – usually very small in scale – are characterised by elements of Romantic art and the Sublime, and often feature intricately detailed figures within huge and ethereal landscapes.
The figures, objects and animals that crop up in Orr’s work are appropriated from an array of early to mid twentieth century books and manuals – with the artist deliberately playing with the placement and sizes of the figures in his work. Orr’s recent body of work – exhibited at IBID Projects in London in the summer of 2009 – were paintings based on small black and white appropriated images, lacking in details that, as the artist comments, ‘…forced my own hand to be more apparent in the work’ and leading to a much looser, fractured style of painting.
For his most recent series of paintings, begun whilst in residence at ArtSway, Orr has included references to works by old masters, particularly French Rococo painters such as Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Jean-Antoine Watteau – whilst retaining elements of the more bombastic and romantic ideals of the German painter Caspar David Friedrich. Orr also saw his time at ArtSway as affording him the space – both mental and physical – to refresh his practice, to take himself out of his usual urban context, and to embark on a new body of work. This new work, which will be exhibited at ArtSway in April 2010, will be a mixture of old and new techniques and ideas.
Christopher Orr’s forthcoming exhibition at ArtSway will be accompanied by a book of new work, supported by the text+work programme at The Arts University College at Bournemouth.
Exhibition Associated Events:
Private View and Gallery Talk: Christopher Orr in Conversation with Peter Bonnell
Saturday 24 April 2010 at 3pm
Christopher Orr will discuss his new series of paintings on display in ArtSway's galleries, as well as his recent residency at the gallery, with ArtSway Curator Peter Bonnell.
FREE: Booking Essential.
Book Launch
Saturday 24 April 2010 at 4pm
Join us at ArtSway for the official launch of a book featuring new work by Christopher Orr, with a critical essay by John Slyce. This book is supported by the text+work programme at The Arts University College at Bournemouth.
FREE: All Welcome.
To book a place please contact Jack Lewis on 01590 682260 (ext.6) or email: jack.lewis@artsway.org.uk