ArtSway New Forest Pavilion 2011

ArtSway’s New Forest Pavilion
Gayle Chong Kwan, Dave Lewis, Hew Locke, Mike Marshall, Christopher Orr, Sophy Rickett

54th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia
Palazzo Zenobio, Fondamenta Del Soccorso, Dorsoduro 2596, Venice, Italy
Open: 4 June – 26 June 2011, Tuesday – Sunday, 10.00 – 18.00

ArtSway, the innovative contemporary art gallery based in England’s New Forest, in collaboration with the Arts University College at Bournemouth (AUCB), presents the fourth iteration of ArtSway’s New Forest Pavilion.

Kihlberg & Henry - Apeirophobia

ArtSway is pleased to present Apeirophobia, an exhibition of new work by internationally acclaimed artists Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry. ‘Apeirophobia’ means a fear of the future - a phobia that compels sufferers to plan every element of their lives so that they know exactly what the future has in store for them.

Hew Locke - Starchitect

ArtSway is pleased to present, in collaboration with the Arts University College at Bournemouth, an ambitious new work by internationally renowned artist Hew Locke…..

ArtSway Open 2010

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…..

Dolly Thompsett - New Paintings

ArtSway presents an exhibition of eight new paintings by ArtSway Open 09 winner Dolly Thompsett. The exhibition will be accompanied by a new publication featuring the artist’s work with commissioned texts by Barry Schwabsky and Nick de Ville, published by ArtSway and generously funded by London Metropolitan University and Goldsmiths…..

Based on a True Story

ArtSway presents Based on a True Story, an exhibition featuring artists whose work explores the varying levels of reality and fiction that shapes and informs our collective experiences and shared histories…..

Christopher Orr

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…..

Dave Lewis - Field Work

ArtSway is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Dave Lewis bringing together photographs and video. Dave Lewis is a photographer and filmmaker interested in identity and how people belong to a place…..

ArtSway Open 2009

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. Applications are accepted from all artists of all levels, from all stages of their career…..

Benjamin Beker - Monuments

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 ‘de-historicise’ various Serbian monuments and interiors, removing them from their usual context…..

This Is My Land

This Is My Land is a screening programme featuring video works by internationally acclaimed artists Henry Coombes, Andrew Cross, Simon Faithfull, Chrystel Lebas, Mike Marshall, Sophy Rickett, and Ben Rivers. The screenings will take place across ArtSway’s three galleries.

Eamon O'Kane - Re-enactment

Re-enactment by Eamon O’Kane 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 artist’s own family background, and how history can be subjective and open to numerous interpretations…..

ArtSway's New Forest Pavilion - la Biennale di Venezia 2009

ArtSway is pleased to announce the third ArtSway’s New Forest Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia and its second time as an official collateral event. Presented in partnership with the Arts Institute at Bournemouth, ArtSway’s New Forest Pavilion will show work by Jordan Baseman, Alex Frost, Dinu Li, Hannah Maybank and Nathaniel Mellors…..

Gayle Chong Kwan - Terroir and the Pathetic Fallacy

Terroir and the Pathetic Fallacy is a large-scale installation inspired by ArtSway’s 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…..

Jordan Baseman - Dark is the Night

Commissioned by ArtSway and The Photographers’ Gallery, Jordan Baseman has made new film works in and around Soho interviewing residents who range from the notorious to the anonymous, including hedonists and faded actors…..

Dinu Li - Ancestral Nation

Dinu Li has been co-commissioned by ArtSway and The Arts Institute at Bournemouth to research and develop a new film entitled ‘Family Village’, the second in a trilogy of films which take their titles from the three most common ways to say the word ‘country’ in Chinese…..

Just World Order

ArtSway presents Just world order, a curated group exhibition that explores ideas of control, identity and anxiety as it affects modern society…..

Phyllida Barlow - fence

Phyllida Barlow is one of the UK’s leading artists. fence was commissioned by the South Bank Centre as part of its Art on Site programme and its placement here in the New Forest fulfils Phyllida’s idea of the work being situated in a rural setting…..

Multichannel 2

Multichannel is a screening programme of artists’ film and video, organised and curated by ArtSway and SCAN…..

Hannah Maybank

Hannah Maybank’s paintings and ink drawings embody an ethereal, contemplative beauty inherent in the natural world…..

Alex Frost - BBQ

ArtSway is proud to present an exhibition of new work by the Glasgow-based artist, Alex Frost. The exhibition will include a range of new sculptures and drawings that relate directly to the residency Frost undertook in late 2007…..

ArtSway Open 2007

ArtSway is once again pleased to announce the return of the highly-popular annual ArtSway Open. The Open07 exhibition is a nationally and internationally recognized event and is open to applications from all artists, regardless as to the current stage of their career…..

Nathaniel Mellors - The Time Surgeon

ArtSway is delighted to announce The Time Surgeon, a new film-based installation from Nathaniel Mellors, co-commissioned with the Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon 2007…..

Ma Yongfeng - The Cretaceous Period

The Cretaceous Period is the first UK solo exhibition of art work by Ma Yongfeng.  Ma Yongfeng is a Beijing-based artist who has received international recognition for his photographic and video pieces examining the ways that humans position themselves in relation to the natural world…..

Joel Papps - goodpasture's

ArtSway is pleased to present Goodpasture’s: an exhibition of new artwork from the winner of the Open06 exhibition, Joel Papps…..