tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85840262263264188942024-02-07T10:32:23.487+00:00Musing on SpinesThis blog has been created as a review of the art scene in every facet. Watch this space for the latest news on shows, opportunities and more...Sarah Silverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01665942383904569571noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584026226326418894.post-57373432436399803352015-10-02T19:54:00.001+01:002015-10-02T19:54:24.222+01:00Kathaline Page-Guth: A New Unique Jewellery Brand from Florence<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We love what we do and we also love working with start-ups. Here's a recent press release we wrote for Kathaline Page-Guth, a new, online brand of luxury jewellery that is launching today. I wish we were in Florence to pop open a bottle of champagne with her!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.kathalinepageguth.it/"><b><span style="color: windowtext; line-height: 200%;">Kathaline Page-Guth</span></b></a><span style="line-height: 40px;">, a fine jewellery designer based in Florence, Italy, will be unveiling her new online store on the 30th September 2015.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 40px;">Through her designs, </span>Kathaline<span style="line-height: 40px;">, who was born in Geneva in 1961 and has studied at the Gemological Institute of America, explores the female world, drawing inspiration from her own personal experiences, travels and passion for ancient geometry, cultural contaminations and precious materials.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.kathalinepageguth.it/empowered/"><b><span style="color: windowtext; line-height: 200%;">Empowered</span></b></a><span style="line-height: 40px;"> is a unique range of assertive, statement pieces, showcasing an eclectic selection of designs with meticulous artisanal accents. The height of the collection is the striking ‘</span><a href="http://www.kathalinepageguth.it/product/claw-ring/"><b><span style="color: windowtext; line-height: 200%;">Claw</span></b></a><span style="line-height: 40px;">’ ring, featuring a generous, London Blue Topaz stone in a Diamond pavé, feline claw setting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 40px;">Glamourous and indulgent, the </span><a href="http://www.kathalinepageguth.it/burlesque/"><b><span style="color: windowtext; line-height: 200%;">Burlesque</span></b></a><span style="line-height: 40px;"> collection is the epitome of feminine sensuality and luxury. The range features a sophisticated, ‘<b><a href="http://www.kathalinepageguth.it/product/black-passementerie-ring-2/"><span style="color: windowtext;">Passementerie</span></a></b>’ ring with curvaceous, snake-like lines, punctuated with a shimmering array of brilliant cut, white or black Diamonds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 40px;">As the name dictates, the </span><a href="http://www.kathalinepageguth.it/romance/"><b><span style="color: windowtext; line-height: 200%;">Romance</span></b></a><span style="line-height: 40px;"> collection, pampers to the gentler side of a woman’s nature. And it is here that the designer gives free reign to her creativity, crafting unusual, playful and extravagant designs of a timeless yet contemporary quality. One of these pieces is ‘</span><a href="http://www.kathalinepageguth.it/product/greedy-brooch/"><b><span style="line-height: 40px;">Greedy</span></b></a><span style="line-height: 40px;">’, an exquisitely colourful dragon broach, made of a striking array of minute <span style="background: white;">Tourmaline cabochons, Sapphires, Tsavorites, Diamond pavé, and a single Chrysoprase briolette.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 40px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I wanted to create a collection that expresses the true spirit of the modern-day woman. An independent woman who knows what she wants; a woman who doesn’t have to wait for a man to buy her a ring or a special piece of jewellery. For me, a piece of fine jewellery is more<span style="background: white;"> than just an ornamental accessory. It’s a rare and valuable work of art; a symbolic and emotional investment piece to be worn and treasured for generations to come”, states Kathaline Page-Guth about her new collection.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; line-height: 40px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each piece is made entirely in Italy, by highly skilled Florentine artisans, using only the finest quality materials, and all of the diamonds, precious and semi-precious stones are ethically sourced and certified<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>through the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; line-height: 40px;">Kathaline Page-Guth jewellery is available on the official website and in selected online stores, with prices ranging from €2000 to €24.000.</span></span><span style="background: white; line-height: 40px;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 40px;">For further information visit </span><a href="http://www.kathalinepageguth.com/"><span style="line-height: 40px;">www.kathalinepageguth.com</span></a><span style="line-height: 40px;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Press contact<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For further information or to arrange an interview, please contact:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Kathaline Page-Guth</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>E-mail</b>: <a href="mailto:k@kathalinepageguth.com">k@kathalinepageguth.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">About Kathaline Page Guth<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Born to Hungarian and American parents, in 1961, Kathaline Page-Guth grew up in Geneva, where she first studied Art. After graduating in Business Administration, in 1982 she moved to Milan where she worked as an Art Director at an advertising agency for five years, continuing to design and create in her own free time.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She finally went freelance and channelled her passion for design, aesthetics, luxury objects, cultural crossovers and pattern making into everything, from furniture and home objects, to fabrics and clothes.<span style="color: #cc9966; letter-spacing: 3pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Convinced this was the ideal way to vent her obsession with sacred geometry, symbols, history and intercultural aesthetics, she enrolled on a number of courses at the Gemmological Institute of America and began designing and creating her own jewellery collection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This exclusive range of limited edition jewellery is inspired by the raw and multi-faceted vitality of the female experience. Women’s desires, sexuality and emotions, embodied in luxurious yet understated designs that express the dynamic and independent spirit of the modern-day woman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">Meticulously crafted heirlooms that aren’t necessarily worn just on special occasions or chosen for us by someone else, but sophisticated pieces that radiate the true essence and complexity of who we are.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">On 2<sup>nd</sup>-3<sup>rd</sup> of August, <b><a href="http://www.lsa-artists.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Leamington StudioArtists (LSA)</a></b> will be holding Leamington’s first ever <b>Art in the Park</b> event in <b><a href="http://www.leamington.co.uk/jephson-gardens.htm" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Jephson Gardens</a></b>.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Sponsored by <b>LSA </b>and the <b>Warwickshire District Council</b> <b>Arts Development Grant scheme</b>, the two-day event will be showcasing an eclectic selection of painting, photography, sculpture, crafts, jewellery, live music, dance, theatre and demonstrations by local and regional artists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Among the many artists involved will be Birmingham sculptor, </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://gmjwoodcarving.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Graham Jones</a></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, who will be creating a chainsaw sculpture live, and Leamington artist, </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.sonia-bublaitis.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Sonia Bubliatis</a></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, whose works are currently on show at Ryton Gardens, will be presenting an installation of her ‘log canvases’ created using recovered or dying wood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Local organisation <b><a href="http://www.swirls.org.uk/page/default.asp?title=Home&pid=1" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Swirls</a></b>, who promote collaboration between schools, providing a wide range of engaging learning activities, will be presenting <b>Birdsong</b>, an exhibition of art works created by <b>South Leamington Schools</b>, in the <b>Glasshouse</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">At 3-5:45 pm on Saturday afternoon, <b><a href="http://www.heartbreakproductions.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Heartbreak Productions</a></b> will be holding a free performance of their innovative adaption of <b>Macbeth</b>, directed by <b>Oliver Hume</b>.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; color: black; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 5px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Sponsored by <b><a href="http://www.wrighthassall.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Wright Hassall</a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brink-Contemporary-Arts/194112833954709" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">BRINK Productions</a></b>, will be bringing a dynamic, urban edge to the event with a live painting demo in the <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Pump_Room_Gardens" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Pump Room Gardens</a></b>. During the event, Leamington’s iconic bandstand will be ‘wrapped’ in canvas and the creativity of five of the UK’s top street artists will be unleased to create a colourful contemporary mural that will be visible from every angle. The entire event will be documented in a stop motion video.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; color: black; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 5px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Children will also be able to take part in a <b>balloon art card competition</b>, where they will be able to decorate their cards and launch their balloons throughout the weekend or in the group balloon launch on the last day of the event. The winners will be the art cards that are sent back or phoned in as having travelled the furthest distance. People can also report and/or photograph their balloon art finds by posting them on the <b><a href="http://twitter.com/artintheparkLSA" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Art in the Park LSA Twitter</a></b> or <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Art-in-the-Park-LSA/489395867826742" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Facebook page</a></b>. The prizes have been kindly donated by WH Smiths Leamington.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">As well as these events, there will also be <b>live Salsa</b>, <b>Hair Art</b> by <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/offyour.hd" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Jane Ward</a></b> and <b>garden-inspired body painting</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Long-standing <b>LSA</b> member, <b>Mo Finnessey</b>, who is the mind behind the event said: “The idea for Art in the Park came to me after seeing Art in Action, at Waterperry Gardens, in Oxford. It was so exciting to see so many artists doing live demonstrations of their work and I thought how wonderful it would be if LSA could hold an event like that in Jephson Gardens. There is such an active and vibrant, local arts community and it has always been my dream to organise an event where artists can promote their art or craft and engage directly with the public.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Refreshments will be provided throughout the weekend by <b><a href="http://www.stmarysleamington.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">St Mary’s Church</a></b>, with the proceeds donated to <b><a href="http://www.mytonhospice.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Myton Hospice</a></b>. Food and drink will also be available at the newly-opened ‘<b>Larder</b>’, in the <b>Aviary</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">If you would like to take part or would like to help at the event, please contact <b>Carole Sleight </b>on <b>07768 617081</b> or e-mail </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:Carole@artinpark.co.uk" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Carole@artinpark.co.uk</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Art in the Park</b> will open its doors on <b>Saturday, 2<sup>nd</sup> of August</b>, from <b>11am-6pm</b> and<b>Sunday, 3<sup>rd</sup></b> from <b>11am-4pm</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">On the 2<sup>nd</sup> and 3<sup>rd</sup> of
August 2014, <a href="http://www.lsa-artists.co.uk/" target="_blank">Leamington Studio Artists (LSA)</a>, will be holding their first ‘<b>Art in
the Park</b>’ event in <a href="http://www.leamington.co.uk/jephson-gardens.htm" target="_blank">Jephson Gardens</a>.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">As well as live painting, performance, music, activities, dance and theatre,
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free, <b>contact Carole Sleight </b>on 07768 617081, e-mail: </span><a href="mailto:Carole@artinpark.co.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Carole@artinpark.co.uk</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, or pop into Gallery
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Founded in October 2010, <b>COEA</b> is a not-for-profit company and registered charity that provides a rich and varied programme of day and evening courses, including <b>watercolour</b>, <b>acrylics</b>, <b>oils</b>,<b>drawing</b> and <b>pen and wash</b>. The centre also runs one-off art and crafts workshops for people of all ages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">COEA</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> will be opening its doors to the public on <b>Saturday and Sunday</b>, <b>from 10.00am until 4.00pm</b>, at <b><a href="https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=B92+0LT&ll=52.430295,-1.682539&spn=0.012743,0.042272&hnear=Hampton-in-Arden+B92+0LT,+Regno+Unito&gl=uk&t=m&z=15" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Centre of England Arts, Patrick Farm Barns, Meriden Road, Hampton in Arden, B92 0LT</a></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sarah Silverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01665942383904569571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584026226326418894.post-14735091494617617962013-08-04T19:22:00.000+01:002013-08-04T19:22:11.705+01:00Art in Rure Debut Exhibition at John Lewis<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;">
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13px;">In collaboration with <b>John Lewis</b> <b>Solihull</b> and <b><a href="http://www.solihullfairtrade.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Solihull Fairtrade</a></b>, <b>Art in Rure</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13px;"> will be showcasing an eclectic selection of original, contemporary oil paintings, acrylics, etchings, wood cuts, silkscreen prints, photography and video art by established and emerging artists from the UK, Europe and the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13px;">All the art works on display are available for sale and a part of the profits will be donated to<b><a href="http://www.solihullfairtrade.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Solihull Fairtrade</a>, </b>a group that promotes fair-trade products and ethical trading throughout the borough, and <b><a href="http://www.northleigh.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Northleigh House School</a></b>, in Hatton, which provides educational facilities and support to secondary school children who have been victims of bullying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13px;">The inauguration, which will be officially opened by the Mayor of Solihull, will be held on Thursday, 12<sup>th</sup> September 2013 from 5.30-7.30 pm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13px;">This event is the launch of the <b>Art in Rure Fest</b>, scheduled to take place throughout Solihull during the school summer holidays of 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13px;">Local businesses, members of the local Fairtrade network and artists who would like to get involved in the up-coming festival can contact Sarah Silver on 07971-022369 or visit<a href="http://www.bastiancontrarian.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;">www.bastiancontrarian.co.uk</span></a> for further information.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bastian Contrarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699822015473963755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584026226326418894.post-42200157678117334282013-07-05T12:24:00.004+01:002013-07-05T12:24:47.711+01:00On Common Ground: textile and stitch by Fiona Robertson & assemblages and drawings by Douglas Robertson<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Exhibition:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"> <i>On Common Ground: textile and stitch by
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Childhood
memories of a landscape rich in folklore and tradition, where the footprints
and legacy of people who’ve passed over the land previously were not only a
memory but part of everyday life, inspire Douglas to dig deep into the
environment and experiences of his past to create wood assemblages that
resemble museum relics and atmospheric drawings that pay homage to coastal
life. Meanwhile, Fiona digs deep into
the sumptuousness of landscape, exploring how light can make nature’s colours
appear soft and muted, or sharp and exaggerated. She then painstakingly transforms that
landscape imagery into stunning works of art that incorporate hand dyed silk,
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Sarah Silverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01665942383904569571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584026226326418894.post-35793797718667423982013-05-09T16:43:00.001+01:002013-05-09T16:43:12.431+01:00Sustaining the Person Within: Personal responses to working creatively with the elderly in care<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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promotes fair-trade products and ethical trading throughout the borough, and <b>Bastian Contrarian</b>, a local agency that
provides PR, co-branding and curatorial services to businesses, galleries,
artists and not-for profit organisations, have joined forces to launch a new
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Rure</b> (<b>AIR)</b> <b>art trail</b> will consist of numerous indoor and outdoor art
exhibitions, workshops, live performance, sculpture, installation, photography
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download the information pack <b><a href="http://www.bastiancontrarian.co.uk/#!art-in-rure/c1ljx" target="_blank">here</a></b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sarah Silverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01665942383904569571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584026226326418894.post-84487363542718651862013-02-13T12:25:00.000+00:002013-02-13T12:26:49.494+00:00West Ox Arts Turns Forty!<br />
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the founding members and key personnel who paved the way for the gallery. On display will be paintings by Charlie Mussett, photographs by Gunnel
Rosengard and Hilda Kent, and watercolours by Ann Manly. Several photographs and articles
from the WOA archive will also be available for visitors to enjoy. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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held from 1 – 3pm on Wednesday 6 March, Friday 8 March, Saturday 9 March,
Tuesday 12 March and Wednesday 13 March, will feature printmaking, jewellery
making, painting and book making. Contact the WOA Gallery. for further information. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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snow and caught the train to Marylebone Station. Hyper-cynical as I can often
be about art fairs, I was actually feeling quite excited about visiting this
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Before making our way through the ice-cold sleet to buzzing
and grungy Islington, we stopped off at the <a href="http://www.npg.org.uk/">National
Portrait Gallery</a>, where <a href="http://paulemsley.com/">Paul Elmsley</a>’s
‘controversial’ painting of Kate Middleton is currently on show. Labelled as
“bland and predictable” by David Lee and “a rotten portrait” by Robbin Simon, I thought it was well-executed, but a rather stark,
hyper-realist portrayal; a little too ordinary for my tastes. And,
certainly, given the opportunity, this would not have been my own choice for a “first
official portrait”. One of the invigilators </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">explained that the painting had been moved, as the
constant barrage of visitors, eager to get a peek at the Duchess’s
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back at HRH, there was something that appealed to me a lot more: a series of
minimal, beautifully executed studies of <a href="http://www.akramkhancompany.net/">Akram Khan</a>, <span style="background: white;">by the American-Iranian artist <a href="http://www.darvish.com/">Darvish
Fakhr</a>. The nine oil panels, which were taken from stills of the dancer in
motion, are inspired by the Khatak dance principle of the nine<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>rasa</em>,
traditionally expressed by a dancer through bodily and facial movements.</span></span><br />
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another exhibition there was a painting
of Nobel Prize winning scientist, </span><a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2001/nurse-autobio.html" style="background-color: white;">Sir
Paul Nurse</a><span style="background-color: white;"> (former </span><span style="background-color: white;">Chief Executive of <a href="http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/home/">Cancer Research UK</a>, </span><span style="background-color: white;">famous
for his </span><span style="background-color: white;">important discoveries on how cancer
cells divide</span><span style="background-color: white;">), skilfully painted by acclaimed British artist </span><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1021440/Picture-perfect-The-paintings-look-just-like-photographs.html" style="background-color: white;">Jason
Brooks</a><span style="background-color: white;">. “The largest realist painting that the National Portrait Gallery
has acquired”, the work – commissioned by the Trustees and made possible with
support of J.P. Morgan through the Fund for New Commissions – was developed over a series of meetings
between the artist and sitter in New York and London.</span></span></div>
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the photograph doesn’t really do the painting justice, as you need to see the
incredible details up close, but this large, black and white ‘snapshot’ is meticulously
air-brushed, showing every pore, bristle and wrinkle. “I didn't want it to
reference science overtly,' explains the artist “but it does explore genealogy,
the make-up of the human form.” From a distance the image is sharply defined, photographic,
but it is actually composed of abstracted forms; an attempt, in the words of
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me,” says Brooks “is having that pornographic gaze, that forensic detail. The
flaws, the marks - they're the things that I fall in love with.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Paintings
of ‘Sirs’ abounded with ‘<a href="http://www.johntavener.com/inspiration/" target="_blank">Sir John Tavener’</a> by </span><a href="http://www.mrtaylor.co.uk/" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Michael Taylor</a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"> and ‘<a href="http://www.davidcobley.com/sir-martin-evans/" target="_blank">Sir John Evans</a>’, by
award winning painter </span><a href="http://www.davidcobley.com/" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">David Cobley</a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">,
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we were swept from one time warp to another, it was interesting to be reminded
of how, unlike today’s ‘superstars’, the artist was once merely considered a
lowly ‘craftsman’. Browse through the earlier centuries, and most of the labels
read: ‘artist unknown’. Then, suddenly, it is as if an artist’s rebellion has
begun and ‘audacious’ self-portraits begin to crop up here and there, sometimes
hiding among the brushstrokes of a royal or papal commission, rapidly followed
by artists commissioning their own portraits from fellow colleagues.</span></div>
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the nostalgics among us, the absence of a name is very sad, but it also creates numerous problems for future observers, as has occurred with ‘The Somerset
House Conference 1604’ – again, here, the digital image does not do this
large-scale painting justice -, probably of Flemish origin, which allegedly
bears the false signature of </span><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Juan_Pantoja_de_la_Cruz" title="Juan Pantoja de la Cruz"><span style="background: #F9F9F9; color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Juan Pantoja de la Cruz</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: #F9F9F9; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">. But, I don’t suppose you could blame him for wanting to
be associated with such a fine and fascinating painting...</span></span></div>
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were too many gems to mention, but among the many traditional portraits, I
particularly liked this moody yet impish depiction of Welsh artist </span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/augustus-edwin-john" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Augustus
Edwin John</a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"> (</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">),
by </span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/william-orpen" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">William
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painting that absolutely fascinated me was ‘</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">Private View of the Old Masters
Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1888’ by </span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: transparent; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/henry-jamyn-brooks">Henry
Jamyn Brooks</a>, an incredible snapshot of the openings of the times.</span></span></div>
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back to the future, is the ‘Artists and Sitters’ section, with a series of
works spanning 1960-90. There was a painting of critically acclaimed poet </span><a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/113" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Ted Hughes</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrie_Cooke" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Barrie Cook</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">, which made me
smile, as many years ago the poor man was given what was probably the painful
task of reading my early poems, saying, however, that I had managed to invent a
metric!</span></div>
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also really enjoyed Larry Rivers’ quirky and minimal interpretation of </span></span><a href="http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw81545/David-Sylvester-Mr-Art?LinkID=mp66588&search=sas&sText=Larry+Rivers&role=art&rNo=0"><b><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">David Sylvester ('Mr Art')</span></b></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, an
‘outsider’ art critic and curator, who was particularly famous for promoting
the works of <a href="http://joanmiro.com/">Joan Miró</a>, <span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian_Freud" title="Lucian Freud"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lucian Freud</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon_(artist)">Francis Bacon</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="apple-converted-space" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">‘</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1888’ <br />by </span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/henry-jamyn-brooks">Henry Jamyn Brooks</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: start;">©National Portrait Gallery</span></span></span></i></b></td></tr>
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the bus, which allows you to get a ‘bird’s eye view’ of London. It was bitterly
cold and despite being a Saturday afternoon, the city streets were strangely laid-back
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On arriving at the bustling and labyrinthine London Art
Fair – and, after brushing quickly past the glitzy <a href="http://www.damienhirst.com/">Damien Hirst</a> skull prints et al., -
first up, for me at least, was ‘Monotheism’, a spooky interior by <a href="http://www.gilesalexander.com/Home.html">Giles Alexander</a>. Exhibited
by <a href="http://www.faslondon.com/">The Fine Art Society Contemporary</a>,
the works, which are inspired by quantum physics, have a glossy, almost photographic
quality. The looming spaces, filled with symbolic objects, are gloomy and
blurred; a wa</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">rped and eerie, possibly parallel reality, as if seen through the
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">One of the most interesting galleries by
far was </span><a href="http://www.charliesmithlondon.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Charlie Smith London</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">, directed by </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.zavierellis.com/">Zavier Ellis</a> – a very welcoming and
friendly fellow – and co-founder of <a href="http://www.thefuturecanwait.com/">THE FUTURE CAN WAIT</a>, who has
curated exhibitions as far afield as Berlin, Helsinki, Klaipeda, London, Los
Angeles, Naples, New York and Rome</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">.
With works ranging from around 2,500 to 30,000 pounds (more or less, the stand
was too crowded to check all of the prices), they present an eclectic and
high-quality selection of works.</span></div>
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wonderful, almost Boschian-style oil paintings on wooden panels. In the
‘Apiculture’ series, each image leads the viewer on a fascinating and
disturbing journey to an oneiric world. Monk-like, hooded ‘keepers’ tend to
hives full of a mysterious, glowing liquid in a strange, apparently ‘utopian’
universe, still scattered with what seems to be the remains of a lost
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always hidden or they seem to be engaged in some esoteric and ritualistic activity,
with their backs towards the viewer. They successfully unsettle the viewer,
morbidly drawing you in, urging you to piece together the artist’s unfinished
tale. As you observe, a myriad of questions bubble to the surface: Are they
free or have they been enslaved? And if so, by what?; Has the world been
invaded by an alien race?; Is he referencing the theories of Interventionism?; Are
they guardians of a dying world or the architects of a brave new one?; Are they
lovingly protecting the world’s resources or are they but mere ‘drones’ intent
on exploiting them?; Is Stark referring to humanity and our own hive-like
mentality?... You could go on and on. Looking at his production, the evolution
of his work is not only prolific but also coherent. Worthy of an entire
article, a good critique by artist-curator </span><a href="http://www.fieldgategallery.com/warp-bolivar.html"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Juan Bolivar</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">can be found on the
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interesting artist on the stand was <a href="http://tomormond.com/home.html">Tom
Ormond</a> with his intriguing and dynamic oil paintings of dereli</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">c</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">t </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">buildings.
</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">These complex, futuristic paintings reveal a fascination for architecture,
space-colonisation and war technologies, whilst exploring the dualities of
problem solving and failure, utopia and dystopia. In fact, it looks as if the
worlds could suddenly implode, fall down like a stack of dominoes, disintergrate, or recompose
themselves in one swoop. Inspired by <a href="http://www.franklloydwright.org/">Frank
Lloyd Wright</a> and <a href="http://www.archdaily.com/tag/paolo-soleri/">Paolo
Soleri</a>, Ormond also draws inspiration from his visits to a number of locations,
such as <a href="http://www.b2science.org/">Biosphere 2</a>, in Tuscon, Arizona
and the <a href="http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/atomic/trinity/index.html">Trinity
test site</a>, in New Mexico, where the first atom bomb was tested, and the imagery
of nuclear explosions, clouds of gas, scaffolding and electrical components are
all incorporated in his dynamic compositions.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Emma Bennet<span style="line-height: 14px; text-align: start;">, ‘Thief of Time</span></span></i></b></td></tr>
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It is as if somehow the tradition’s of the past are fading, passing us by,
their mark receding and shrinking with the passing of time, like a distant memory.
Her works are reminiscent of Flemish paintings, but here the bounty is reduced,
cut down to size, almost pushed out by the suffocating presence of a dark, foreboding
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the fair that used Readymades, found objects and doctored books – obviously, not
everything can be ‘new’, but the words of the composer </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.rprf.org/PDF/Busoni_Bio.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">Ferruccio
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">Busoni</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> come to mind: “The function of the creative artist consists </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">of
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and a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">few installations, there was very
little sculpture at the show, so I was pleased to see two rather saucy,
pregnant, ceramic statuettes, knelt in prayer, by <a href="http://www.caro-suerkemper.de/">Caro Suerkemper</a>, exhibited by a
Frankfurt-based gallery that was sharing the Charlie Smith stand. These kitsch and
erotic works, with echoes of Japanese erotica, brought to mind the terracotta
works of Italian sculptor, <a href="http://www.paolocassara.com/Opere.html">Paolo
Cassarà</a>. Suerkemper, who also produces gouache works on paper and plates,
shamelessly and playfully explores the realms of sexuality, the kinky, the
forbidden and the downright dirty, culminating in a series of writhing,
orgiastic limbs and figures in three-dimensional form.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Meanwhile, </span><a href="http://www.charliesmithlondon.com/artists-gavin-nolan.htm" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Gavin Nolan</a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">’s
juxtaposition of portraiture and modernist-style geometric forms still leaves
me teetering on the edge of indecision, but he’s certainly someone to keep an
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to explore, not only for the combination of good quality work but also the
techniques used by the artists, who have, in my opinion, ably combined the ‘new’
with traditional techniques and mediums. I’m definitely looking forward to
seeing what this gallery comes up with in future. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.longandryle.com/" target="_blank">Long & Ryle</a> also had an array of impressive artists, including <a href="http://nicholasarcher.com/" target="_blank">Nick Archer</a>, <a href="http://www.simoncasson.co.uk/" target="_blank">Simon Casson</a> and <a href="http://www.longandryle.com/artists/john-monks/" target="_blank">John Monks</a> (see highlights below).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Moving on, ‘<span style="background: white;">Intertwangleism’<span class="apple-converted-space"> by </span></span><a href="http://www.butchanthony.com/">Butch Anthony</a> is <span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;">a </span></span>humorous
series of ‘defiled’ paintings and photographs. And, by the sounds of it, this
American folk artist has grand designs: <span style="background: white;">“Intertwangleism
is how I look at people and break them down to their primordial beginnings.
Almost like x-ray vision, seeing through a person’s clothes, through their
skin, and muscles and veins and bones even their shadow. These first
skeletonised paintings are just the first phase of my theory to take over the
art world as we know it.” <i>[cited from the
article Upcoming event: Butch Anthony’s Interwangelism’ by Chris Wilson,
Société Perrier]. </i>Hmm, we shall see...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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still some interesting works (I’ll be mentioning some of these in the photo
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I think one of my favourite in this area had to be <a href="http://www.patrickdaviesca.com/home.php">Patrick Davies Contemporary</a>,
from Hertfordshire, who made what I thought was the rather risky decision of
exhibiting only one artist – not because the work wasn’t valid, but more for
economic reasons... </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">This artist was </span><a href="http://www.ernestocanovas.com/ernesto_canovas/ernestocanovasindex.html" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Ernesto
Canovas</a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">, a graduate from the </span><a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Slade
School of Fine Art</a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">, who was shortlisted for </span><a href="http://www.artcatlin.com/" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The Catlin Guide</a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">, in 2010, as one of “the
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">In the ‘Obscure Truth’
series, Canovas draws from history and popular culture transferring images and
stills from old and new media onto wooden panels, which he then covers in
layers of resin, intervening directly on the image, almost like a laboratory
technician, painting and rubbing out, until parts of the composition almost
vanish. They feel and look like a real labour of love. The process in itself,
struck me as being similar in nature to photographic development, but also
relies on traditional painting techniques and mediums, which can be seen in the beautiful sheen and the rings of the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">wood that peek through the surface,
begging to be touched. Here the artist plays on our desires and uncertainties:
you have the very palpable sense of something slipping away; the painful impossibility
of definitively crystalising a fading face, voice, or recollection in our minds.</span></div>
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Sarah Silverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01665942383904569571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584026226326418894.post-68624759735503600912013-01-14T09:25:00.003+00:002013-01-14T09:34:14.742+00:00Thought-provoking art from Iris Berger and Josh King<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">The New Year opens at </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.gallery150.co.uk/" target="_blank">Gallery150</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"> with two thought-provoking shows by </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.artandannefrank.co.uk/default.html" target="_blank">Iris Berger</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.artandannefrank.co.uk/default.html"> </a>and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.joshkingphotography.co.uk/" target="_blank">Josh King</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In ‘<b>Empathy and Reflection. Anne Frank.</b>’, Iris Berger takes us on a journey into the harrowing reality of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Germanic_Reich" style="text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Nazi occupation</a> and the horrors of the concentration camps. Inspired by her own personal response to the young girl’s diary and a visit to the house in Amsterdam, where the family hid from the Germans for two years, Berger explores <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Germanic_Reich" style="text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Anne Frank</a></b>’s inner life, thoughts, feelings and the circumstances surrounding the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust" style="text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Holocaust</a>. With this series, the artist, who uses art as a vehicle for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>engendering empathy and compassion, investigates the duality of hope and despair, stating: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Josh King said:<b> </b>“I was struck by the similarities between his early life and my own and I realised there was nothing separating me from his situation except luck. I decided then that I wanted other people to see it too. Every person on the street is an individual with a history of their own. It’s important to me that I meet the person first and take photographs second, so that hopefully my images share a little something of their story.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">This series of thought-provoking portraits and street scenes, which aim to raise awareness of this often overlooked issue, depict people from a broad range of circumstances, who, for various reasons, including mental health, martial breakdown and financial difficulties, have found themselves without a home. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Donations will also be welcomed on behalf of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Leamington-Spa-Way-Ahead-Project/143493089035964?sk=page_map" style="text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Leamington Way Ahead Project</a> – <a href="http://saleamington.ca/index.php" style="text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">SalvationArmy</a>, <o:p></o:p><span style="line-height: 12pt;">who provide
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The private view will be held on the<b> 22<sup>nd</sup> January</b> and both shows will be run until <b>10<sup>th</sup> February 2013</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Situated at 9 Livery Street, in Leamington, <b>Gallery150</b> is open Tuesday to Saturday from 11am - 6pm and Sunday from 11am to 4pm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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already then don’t miss the last few days of the ‘</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Xmas Artist Showcase</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">’ at
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The exhibition, which closes on Sunday, 20th January
2013, is an eclectic and colourful display, featuring the works of a good
thirty artists and photographers, from all over the UK and beyond, including: </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Paul Cheshire</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, whose sultry <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Raphaelite_Brotherhood" target="_blank">Pre-Raphaelite</a> style paintings, featured in the first
episode of the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/" target="_blank">BBC</a>’s ‘<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0117755" target="_blank">Show me the Monet</a>’, in 2012; </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://www.lsa-artists.co.uk/" target="_blank">Leamington Studio Artists</a>
(LSA) Chairman, </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://www.biggegg.co.uk/section543459_205526.html" target="_blank">Clive Engwell</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">, who presents a series of works
inspired by Pop Art and comic books; </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://www.davidlewisart.co.uk/" target="_blank">David Lewis</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">, the highly regarded </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">local
landscape painter, </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">who supported the appeal for the </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://leamingtonobserver.co.uk/2012/03/08/news-Linden-Arches-project-close-to-completion-32315.html" target="_blank">Linden Arches</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">, restored to its former
glory early last year; </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">S<a href="http://www.sourenmousavi.co.uk/" target="_blank">ouren Mousavi</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">,
Iranian artist and activist with her intriguing works, focused on the female world
and the human condition; Gallery150 Trustee, </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Gerry Smith,</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> and his fascinating photograph’s that take the viewer
on a voyage around the world, as well as the works of </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Libby January</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Kit Leck</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Neil
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February 2013, the gallery will be hosting a controversial double solo show
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Sarah Silverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01665942383904569571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584026226326418894.post-33601557524199643242012-11-26T09:08:00.002+00:002012-11-26T09:30:26.502+00:00Bastian Contrarian: Call for Artists and Makers<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are an artist or you create original and unusual art, craft or design objects, Bastian Contrarian would love to hear from you!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">We are also interested in anyone wishing to create exclusive, one-off pieces or limited edition collections specifically for the Bastian Contrarian store.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interested? Please send information and images of your work/products with prices and product description to <a href="mailto:bastiancontrarian@gmail.com">bastiancontrarian@gmail.com</a>. Visit the Artist Opportunities section of the website for further information.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bastian Contrarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699822015473963755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584026226326418894.post-1150224228892974272012-11-22T11:51:00.002+00:002012-12-06T14:01:53.044+00:00From Documenta to the Affordable Art Fair<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Although I have always nurtured a more than passionate interest in the arts, one
of the first important contemporary art shows I ever had the fortune to see was
the 1997, <a href="http://d13.documenta.de/" target="_blank">Documenta</a> X, in Kassel, Germany, when I was twenty-five. Never before
had I seen so much cutting-edge art all in the same town. It was a truly libidinous eye-opener for a
young art enthusiast.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">There was <a href="http://universes-in-universe.de/artnexus/no27/lad1_en.htm" target="_blank"><b>Tunga</b></a>’s ‘<a href="http://universes-in-universe.de/doc/tunga/e_tunga1.htm" target="_blank">Inside out, upside down</a>’</span>, eerily suspended on the station platform; the 'A-Z
Escape Vehicle' of <a href="http://www.zittel.org/" target="_blank"><b>Andrea Zittel</b></a> - which I quite fancied curling up in - and then
there was 'Resident Alien' by Israeli artist <a href="http://www.sigalitlandau.com/" target="_blank"><b>Sigalit Ladau</b></a>, which involved
a ‘perilous’ hike in what externally presented itself as an abandoned cargo container. This
was a very interesting and poignant piece and the first interactive work of art
I had ever ‘physically’ engaged with; an interaction that the artist certainly didn’t
make easy. She had deformed the floor of a container with heat, creating an undulating
landscape that represented the Judean Desert. The sound of a heavy hammer beating
against a smaller hammer and a distant radio could be heard, as you comically
attempted to scale the slippery mounds of the container floor. On reaching the
other side of the ‘hill’ the viewer was presented with a hole in the right
corner of the container, which you just had to look inside, that was, until you
realised you had your head in a toilet – a clean one, I hasten to add –
listening to an Arab radio station. There were obviously many more fascinating
works throughout the town, but these are the ones that have remained most
impressed in my mind.</span></div>
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that experience, things have never quite been the same. And, although, in truth,
an art fair is by no means comparable to an event like the one in Kassel, because it is
a showcase of allegedly ‘meticulously’ selected commercial galleries and not really
an ‘exhibition’ in the true sense, of
the word, I still often come away feeling a little bit cheated by the art world.
Couple this with the fact<i> </i>I lived in
Italy for nearly twenty years, </span></div>
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<tr><td><a href="http://www.sigalitlandau.com/images/project/resident%20alien/Sigalit%20Landau_resident%20alien_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="Resident Alien I, 1997" border="0" height="210" src="http://www.sigalitlandau.com/images/project/resident%20alien/Sigalit%20Landau_resident%20alien_2.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">frequented many artists, critics, gallery owners,
and visited as many art fairs and exhibitions that I possibly could, it might
well be that I’ve subjected myself to some form of visual and intellectual asphyxiation
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I can't deny that this ‘disappointment’, along with my passion for art, continues,
so when we popped down to the <a href="http://affordableartfair.com/battersea/" target="_blank"><b>Battersea Affordable Art Fair</b></a> on 26<sup>th</sup>
of October, I was already mentally prepared and had persuaded myself to put my
expectations aside, repeating the words “it is what it is”, over and over in my
mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A sea of visitors were swarming around
the bright white entrance hall, with its splashes of fuchsia-coloured carpets and
signs, where we were greeted by the recent graduates exhibition, curated by
<b>Jessica Hall</b>. In my opinion, one of the works that stood out the most was ‘Downfall’ by
<b>Hollie MacKenzie</b>, a hand-crafted, ‘melting’ wooden staircase, that looks like
paint drips. And, although the artists states, “...</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">explores the notions of utopia and dystopia,
creating my own version of a dystopian landscape in the form of installation.
[...] I take a part of the site, whether it is the ceiling, walls or the stairs,
and distort it to a point that it no longer functions as an element in the design
of the building, but becomes something dystopian, distorting its surroundings
and environment to present an alternative, deviant reality. The theatrical and
absurd realities of the installations present extreme and unfamiliar situations
for the viewer to engage in and interpret its proximity to the reality we live
in. [...] I investigated the notion of the 'stairway to heaven' – stairway to utopia
– and created 'Downfall'. An installation which presents a distortion of a
staircase and its passage way, reflecting the impossibility of reaching
utopia”, I initially thought the sculpture alluded to the art world and the difficulties
and delusions of an artist attempting to climb the ‘ladder of success’ in today’s
socio-economic climate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Another artist that really appealed to me was <b><a href="http://wonbeomsik.com/" target="_blank">Beomsik Won</a></b>, with his 'Archisculpture Project', a limited edition series of alien, yet familiar black and white digital montages, featuring a curious and lysergic juxtaposition of landscapes, composed of ancient and urban architecture that unfold like an oneiric and freakish excursion in Disneyland - or possibly even one my own nightmares...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 15.866666793823242px;">Inspired by the </span>Flâneur concept of the metropolis, <span style="line-height: 15.866666793823242px;">t</span>he purpose of this fascinating project is to "create a gigantic sculpture using architectural elements by different architects". Along with a number of references to consumerism, the works also brought to mind the concept of the '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_city" target="_blank">Ideal City</a>', particularly toyed with during the Rennaisance, which can be traced back to the days of <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato/" target="_blank">Plato</a> and possibly even further. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beomsik explains: "<a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes/" target="_blank">René Descartes</a> claimed that in general, the design of the architecture built by
one master is more beautiful and perfect than that of buildings by many
architects. However, the purpose of the Archisculpture Project is to make a
gigantic sculpture with a variety of building design characteristics by many
different architects. [...] If there is the Punctum in photography, the elements of architecture I chose here
would be my real Punctums, and the fabrication of these Punctums becomes the basis of the work. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Within this project, various architectural
elements are reborn as a gigantic and historic new sculpture. The </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Archisculpture Project creates new stories,
connecting every meaning of architecture, or makes comments by dismantling a
cityscape, rather than being merely an aesthetically pleasing artwork."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">Puns on the art world ensued in </span><a href="http://www.celesteprize.com/member/idu:58740/" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;" target="_blank"><b>Andrew Reeve</b></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">’s works, ‘Gathering the Harvest’, which consisted of a
series of found framed pictures – an evident fetish of the artist - that have
been turned to face the wall, whilst the back of the canvas has been pierced
with the price they will be sold at, which can range from a few to a trillion
pounds, depending, I presume, on how cynical the artist is feeling
about the art market at the time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.bartholomewbeal.co.uk/" target="_blank">Bartholomew Beal</a></b>’s atmospheric paintings show great promise and a love of tradition, with
their solitary figures, often suspended in an indefinite space or set against
geometrical forms. “Each
painting begins as a pared down illustration of an Imagist poem, but there is
consistently a point that the paint takes over, and each addition or
subtraction that follows lies as evidence of its poetic mood. I would like my
paintings to be a healthy tussle between the considered specifics of poetry and
a deliberate surrender to the unpredictability of paint, because my paintings
gain as </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">much from trial, error and accident as they </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">do from painterly
proficiency”, affirms the artist.</span></div>
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large-scale works by </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sanghyun Kim</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, who seems to be exploring ancient Japanese
traditions in a new key, with his tumultuous waves and ‘mushroom clouds’, created
using burning incense on Asian paper, which have a subtle and compelling uniqueness.</span></div>
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where more than 100 galleries awaited with their fare, we were met by the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sweltering dry heat, customary at trade shows and in department stores; an endless array of landscapes, still life, Athena poster-style hyper-realism and
supposedly ‘provacative’ photography that always remind me of images from
masturbatory coffee table books, ‘Reader’s
Wives’ Polaroids or photo shoots for fashion magazines. In synthesis, nothing that
made me go “Wow”. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This said, I really enjoyed it and, although a little repetitive at times, the overall quality of the exhibits were good.</span></div>
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think the exhibitor that stood out the most for me was <a href="http://cfag.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b>The Contemporary Fine Art Gallery, Eton</b></a>. Established twenty years ago by Elizabeth Bayldon Pritchard,
the gallery principally specialises in contemporary Scottish and British
painters </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and </span><a href="http://www.zimsculpt.com/index.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Zimbabwean Shona sculpture</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. With an interesting selection of artists, I was particularly taken by </span><a href="http://cfag.co.uk/exhibition_single.php?exhibition_id=228" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><b>Graeme Wilcox</b></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, who currently lives and
works in Glasgow. Beautifully executed and engaging, the artist often depicts
solitary figures caught in a moment of action or emotion. Since graduating from
the </span><a href="http://www.gsa.ac.uk/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Glasgow School of Art</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, he has exhibited in the UK, America, Canada and
Russia and has been awarded a string of prizes, including the Black Swan
Publishers Award and the Celeste Art Prize.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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also really loved the works of <a href="http://www.ryanmutter.com/" target="_blank"><b>Ryan Mutter</b></a>, another Glasgow School of Art
graduate, which, judging by the gallery’s website are selling out fast and
furiously. Influenced by the likes of <a href="http://www.edwardhopper.net/" target="_blank">Edward Hopper</a>, <a href="http://www.gagosian.com/artists/anselm-kiefer" target="_blank">Anselm Kiefer</a>, <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cmon/hd_cmon.htm" target="_blank">ClaudeMonet</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muirhead_Bone" target="_blank">Sir Muirhead Bone</a> and <a href="http://www.turnersociety.org.uk/index.htm" target="_blank">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>, this skilful artist is
inspired by industrial subjects, which are quite rightly described as: “bold
realism combined with sometimes expressionistic brushwork, that transports you
into a world of arresting detail and mechanized splendour”.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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too has brought home several prestigious awards and has works in collections worldwide.
The artist is particularly fascinated by Britain’s industrial heritage and
Glasgow’s significant role in the ship building industry. “At the time of the
First World War, shipbuilding provided work for 70,000 men in more than 50
yards spread along 11 miles of quayside. But today, the Clyde sits empty, a
shadow of its former self, with executive flats and empty </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">waste ground
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The advances in technology and design </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">methods
superseded the old, making once important skills and craftsmanship redundant.
This is what drives me to observe, capture and remind people of how important
this work force was in the development of the modern world”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His
use of a limited palette, chiefly black and white with the odd flash of
colour, and striking imagery of imposing ships and workers bent against the elements,
takes the viewer on a suggestive journey to these grey and laborious days gone
by.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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From 20th November until 10th December, Stratford-based artist, Barry R. Willis will be holding a solo show at<a href="http://www.gallery150.co.uk/" target="_blank"> Gallery150</a>, in Leamington.</div>
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Born in Southampton, Hampshire, in 1949, Barry’s interest in art began at a very early age. After taking his Fine Art degree at <a href="http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/adm/" target="_blank">Portsmouth College of Art and Design</a>, he then went on to an Art Teacher Certificate course at the <a href="http://www.sussex.ac.uk/" target="_blank">University of Sussex</a> in Brighton.</div>
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On finishing his education he started working as a secondary school art teacher, firstly in Berkshire and then in Wiltshire, later moving to the West Midlands, where he worked as head of department at a comprehensive school in Solihull for twenty years. Today, he works as a part-time leisure tutor for adults, with an emphasis on teaching mixed media.</div>
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While studying at Portsmouth, his earlier studies consisted of a series of iconic paintings of rock artists, such as <a href="http://www.mickjagger.com/" target="_blank">Mick Jagger</a>. He then went on to a different subject matter, based on figures in landscape, which was very much influenced by <a href="http://www.thomas-gainsborough.org/" target="_blank">Thomas Gainsborough</a>’s painting of 'Mr and Mrs Reynolds'. This project involved costume hire and locating figures in landscapes with an emphasis on social celebration. Photographs of the scenes were then taken to form a series of starting points for paintings.</div>
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This led on to a series of works inspired by his extensive travels, including an overland trip from London to Delhi, in the late 1970s, and other locations, such as Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Iceland, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, New York, Norway and Sri Lanka.</div>
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Over the last twenty years, Barry’s practice is chiefly centred around environmental paintings. The artist said: “I find the impact of certain places extremely interesting, particularly their atmosphere, beauty and dreamlike quality, which sets them apart from other places. They often have a surreal feel to them, which is an area that I have always found interesting. The intrigue and tension between what could be and what could never be is a fascinating area and one that I often use within my work.”</div>
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Although photographs are usually the starting point, he often deviates from the original image, exaggerating some areas and bypassing others, evoking an air of mystery and fascination.</div>
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In his solo show at Gallery150, the artist will be presenting a series of meticulously detailed landscapes and cityscapes in acrylics, using techniques that vary from light washes to heavy impasto, resulting in an intriguing play on light, colour, distance and depth that leave the eyes of the viewer hovering on the edge of realism.</div>
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The private view will be held on Tuesday, 20th November from 7pm.</div>
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Gallery150 is situated at <span style="background-color: white; color: #333344; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> 9 Livery Street, Regents Court, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, CV32 4NP</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A voyage into stories of dots and plots, linear dialogues, figurative speech, marking, mapping, weaving, sense and value, thread and trace. You will attempt to go right there: to the edge between the verbal and the visual.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Since its launch at the gallery on 7<sup>th</sup> August, 300 people have come to leave their mark on the internationally renowned wall, started by <b><a href="http://candychang.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Candy Chang</a></b> in New Orleans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The photographs of the participants, which were kindly sponsored by the<a href="http://www.lcegroup.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">L<b>ondon Camera Exchange</b></a>, and their “Before I Die I Want to...” statements will be exhibited and presented to the public in a private view, held from 4 – 6 pm on Sunday.<o:p></o:p></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></div>
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As part of the appeal to save the <b><a href="http://www.solihullobserver.co.uk/2012/02/23/news-Thieves-target-statue-for-metal-31008.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Horse of Tamar</a> </b>statue, which was damaged by metal thieves in February this year, local artist, <b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/nickloganartist" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Nicholas Logan</a></b>, has created a work of art in a bid to raise money for the cause.</div>
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On hearing the news about the statue, the artist, who grew up in Solihull and acquired his BA (Hons) in Fine Art at the <b><a href="http://www.gsa.ac.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Glasgow School of Art</a></b>, decided he wanted to help <b><a href="http://www.solihull.gov.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Solihull Council</a></b> raise money to restore one of the borough’s few existing public art works.</div>
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“I have always found the Horse of Tamar inspiring and when I heard it had been damaged, I felt that it was my duty as an artist to do something to help save the statue and conserve a piece of Solihull’s heritage”, states Nicholas Logan.</div>
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The oil painting, which features a dramatic depiction of the borough’s <b>iconic horse and trainer</b>,<b>Malvern Park</b>, the <b>Church of Saint Alphege</b> and the <b>River Blythe</b>, will be unveiled at the <b><a href="http://www.solihull.gov.uk/artscomplex/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Solihull Arts Complex</a></b> on Thursday, 27 September at 6.00 pm. The original artwork, which will be on show at the complex for several months, is available for sale and the same painting will also be reproduced as a signed, limited edition series of 100 prints, with the proceeds donated to the Horse of Tamar restoration appeal. </div>
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<b>Councillor Ken Meeson</b>, Leader of Solihull Council, said: “I’d like to express my thanks to Nick Logan for his kind offer of donating the proceeds of the sale of this painting to our fund. The public have been very generous already with donations, which along with the sale of the painting, will take us some way towards our overall target of £15,000.”</div>
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The original oil painting costs £2000, whilst the limited edition prints, which are available unmounted, mounted, mounted and framed, cost from £80 to £180. 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Sarah Silverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01665942383904569571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584026226326418894.post-11783554653439757472012-08-13T11:27:00.001+01:002012-08-13T11:29:11.078+01:00LSA Announce Summer Show Winner<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />
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<span style="text-align: left;">On Friday, 10th of August, on the back-drop of the '</span><a href="http://bastiancontrarian.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/before-i-die-comes-to-leamington-spa.html" style="color: #888888; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><b>Before I Die...' exhibition</b></a><span style="text-align: left;">, the </span><b style="text-align: left;">People’s Choice</b><span style="text-align: left;"> winner of the </span><a href="http://www.lsa-artists.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><b>LSA</b></a><span style="text-align: left;"><b> </b>2</span><b style="text-align: left;">012 Summer Show</b><span style="text-align: left;"> was announced at</span><b style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.gallery150.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Gallery150</a>, </b><span style="text-align: left;">in Leamington</span><span style="text-align: left;">. </span></div>
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<b>Christina Callaghan</b> came first and was awarded a cheque of £500 and a feature in the LSA magazine ‘<b><a href="http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1socq/ArtSpaceNo33AutumWin/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lsa-artists.co.uk%2F" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Artspace</a></b>’; <b>Sonia Bubliatis</b>, took second place, and celebrity painter <a href="http://www.pauloz.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><b>Paul Oz</b> </a>came in third. They were closely followed by <b>Paul Cheshire</b> – whose work was recently featured in the BBC series, ‘<a href="http://www.showmethemonet.tv/artwork-show3.php" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><b>Show me the Monet</b>’</a> and who has also been selected for the <b>Coventry Open 2012</b>, at <b><a href="http://www.theherbert.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum</a></b> – and Pam Smallshaw.</div>
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Visitor to the gallery, Angela Kandil, whose voting slip was drawn out of the hat, took home the limited edition print, ‘<b>Not the Usual Suspects</b>, by photographer <b><a href="http://www.jamescallaghan.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">James Callaghan</a></b>.</div>
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This year, the popular <b>LSA Summer Show</b>, which featured over 100 works by 68 local and regional artists, attracted a good 2407 visitors. </div>
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Sarah Silverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01665942383904569571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584026226326418894.post-72487180835553023602012-08-06T09:10:00.003+01:002012-08-06T09:14:11.531+01:00The Gallery Trio<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">On </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Friday 10th
August</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2012</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, ‘</span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.gallerytrio.fav.cc/" target="_blank">The Gallery Trio</a></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">’
will be rehearsing at </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.gallery150.co.uk/" target="_blank">Gallery 150</a></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> in
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Composed of <b>Maura Barnett </b>(violin), <b>David Pattenden </b>(accordion) and <b>Martin Lammyman</b> (double-bass),
<b>The Gallery Trio</b> is an acoustic band that bring together the talent of three musicians
from different backgrounds, creating a unique combination of sounds. Their
stylish repertoire includes light classical pieces, elegant waltzes, fiery
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The trio's open rehearsals at the gallery are a rare meeting between the
visual arts and music, providing the public with an opportunity to see the
creative process of preparing music for performance. It also provides a chance
for anyone interested in hiring the band for social functions to come and hear
the music and have a chat in an informal atmosphere. The rehearsal, which
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<br /></div>Sarah Silverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01665942383904569571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584026226326418894.post-60505217987082095462012-07-30T07:16:00.001+01:002012-07-30T07:43:47.763+01:00Before I Die Comes to Leamington Spa<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Spa will be able to take part in ‘</span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://beforeidie.cc/" target="_blank">BeforeI Die</a></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">’, a moving and thought-provoking, public participatory art project that
will be hosted at </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.gallery150.co.uk/" target="_blank">Gallery150</a></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> in </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.regentcourtshoppingcentre.co.uk/" target="_blank">Regent Court Shopping Centre</a></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">When <b>Candy Chang</b>, from New Orleans, lost
someone very dear to her, she struggled to maintain perspective and wanted to find
out what was important to the people around her. With the help of friends, she turned
the side of an abandoned house into a giant chalkboard and stencilled it with
the sentence “Before I die I want to_______”. Anyone walking by could pick up a
piece of chalk, reflect on their lives, and share their personal aspirations in
a public space. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">To Candy’s
amazement, the very next day, the wall was covered with the hopes and dreams of
hundreds of people and continued to grow. But, what initially started out as an
experiment has fast gained worldwide momentum, appearing as far afield as Australia,
Canada, Lebanon, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Scotland, Spain and the United Arab Emirates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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next few weeks, the public will be able to add their own thoughts to a dedicated
wall at Gallery150, and, if they wish, they can also have the moment captured
by a professional photographer, using equipment kindly sponsored by the <b><a href="http://www.lcegroup.co.uk/" target="_blank">London Camera Exchange</a></b> in Leamington. Each
day, the best of these portraits and statements will be documented and
exhibited in the gallery, becoming an integral part of the exhibition. The
event will culminate in a human and fascinating reflection on life, death and
love, which will be presented in a private view on Sunday, 26<sup>th</sup>
August 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Gallery150 is open Tuesday-Saturday 11am to 6pm and Sunday 11.00am to 4.00pm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Sarah Silverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01665942383904569571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584026226326418894.post-61035964766231358352012-07-06T09:49:00.002+01:002012-07-06T09:49:45.565+01:00Andy Farr Brings the Spirit of the Olympics to Leamington<br />
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>“The power of the
sprinter; the poise of the gymnast; the joy of victory; the exhilaration of the
dive; the agony of defeat; the audacity of the high jumper… Every sport has its
own unique rhythm, its own secret pattern, its own code.”</b></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After the success of his solo show ‘T<b>he Space Between</b><i>”</i> in 2011, <a href="http://andyfarr.com/" target="_blank"><b>AndyFarr</b> </a>will be bringing the spirit of the Olympics to <a href="http://www.gallery150.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b>Gallery150</b></a>, in Leamington
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After a period of experimentation with abstract
landscapes and cityscapes, the artist, who returned to painting in 2008, after
what he refers to as “a brief pause of twenty years”, has shifted his focus to
capturing the essence of movement. </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This fascination has led to a series of works inspired by carousels,
dance, horse racing and sport. The artist begins each work by watching a slow-motion
film of the subject to isolate the underlying rhythms, which he sketches then
builds into a pictorial composition.<span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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July-5<sup>th</sup> August 2012</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt;">, this highly experimental artist will be
presenting a series of works inspired by sport, movement and the emotions and achievements
of athletes. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt;"> </span><span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">In an impressive play of
brushstrokes, depth, colour and light, this series of considered works show
echoes of Kandinsky, Boccioni and Rothko, culminating in a complex blend of
styles and textures, that hover on a line between Abstract Expressionism,
Cubism and Futurism.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The<b> private view</b> of the Rhythms in Motion exhibition will be held on <b>17<sup>th</sup>
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Regent Court Shopping Centre, 9 Livery Street, Leamington Spa CV32 4NP.</span></div>
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times:</b> Tuesday- Saturday from 11am- 6pm</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> and Sunday 11am- 4pm. <span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>Sarah Silverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01665942383904569571noreply@blogger.com0Leamington Spa, Warwickshire CV32 4NP, Regno Unito52.2902792 -1.534082352.2878512 -1.5390177999999999 52.2927072 -1.5291468tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584026226326418894.post-63141368103209799202012-06-25T11:47:00.002+01:002012-06-25T17:28:00.750+01:00Not the Usual Suspects for LSA's Summer Show<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year, <strong><a data-mce-href="http://www.gallery150.co.uk/index.html" href="http://www.gallery150.co.uk/index.html" target="_blank" title="Gallery150">Gallery150</a></strong> will be hosting the ‘<strong>2012 LSA Summer Show’,</strong> ‘<strong>Not the Usual Suspects</strong>’ in the Livery Street gallery, in Leamington, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Warwickshire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">This coveted annual exhibition will feature the work of</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><strong style="background-color: white;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.lsa-artists.co.uk/" href="http://www.lsa-artists.co.uk/" target="_blank">LSA</a> </strong><span style="background-color: white;">members and non-members from Leamington and across the Midlands.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With a steady rise in members in recent years, the show has become increasingly more popular and covers a broad range of mediums, including painting, drawing, photography and sculpture by talented emerging and established artists alike. And, this year, there will be over 100 works by a good 68 artists, some of whom will be exhibiting with the fifteen-year old organisation for the first time. Visitors to the show will also be able to get a preview of works by a number of artists participating in the up-coming <strong>Warwickshire Open Studios</strong> (30th June to the 15th July).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The audience will also have the opportunity to vote for their favourite artist, and the winning artist will be awarded a cash prize of 500 pounds, as well as a special feature in <a data-mce-href="http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1socq/ArtSpaceNo33AutumWin/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fcontent.yudu.com%2FLibrary%2FA1socq%2FArtSpaceNo33AutumWin%2Fresources%2Fflipbook.swf" href="http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1socq/ArtSpaceNo33AutumWin/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fcontent.yudu.com%2FLibrary%2FA1socq%2FArtSpaceNo33AutumWin%2Fresources%2Fflipbook.swf" target="_blank"><strong>Artspace</strong></a>, the <strong>LSA</strong> arts journal, which has been in print since 1998. All of the voters’ names will be entered into a prize draw and the winner will recieve a Giclée print of ‘Not the Usual Subjects’ by <a data-mce-href="http://www.jamescallaghan.co.uk/" href="http://www.jamescallaghan.co.uk/" target="_blank"><strong>James Callaghan</strong></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Not the Usual Suspects</strong> will run from <strong>26<sup>th</sup> June until 15<sup>th</sup> July 2012</strong>; the private view, will be held at <strong>Gallery150</strong>, on <strong>Tuesday, June 26<sup>th</sup> from 7 pm</strong>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Gallery150, 9 Livery Street, Regents Court, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, CV32 4NP</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><strong>Opening times: </strong>Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 6pm / Sunday 11am - 4pm.</i></span></div>
<br />Sarah Silverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01665942383904569571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584026226326418894.post-55385333393140473232012-06-22T16:47:00.000+01:002012-06-22T16:48:43.599+01:00Ginger The Art of Print in the Warwickshire Open Studios<br />
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Ginger The Art of Print are very proud to be exhibiting three talented local artists this year as part of <span style="color: #f5a21a;">Warwickshire Open Studios</span> running from<br />
<span style="color: #f5a21a;">30th June to 15th July 2012...</span></div>
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Monday – Sunday 10.00 – 4.00pm<br />
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Friday 6th July and Friday 13th July<br />
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Ginger The Art of Print<br />
The Iron Yard, 64 Market Place<br />
Warwick, CV34 4SD, Warwickshire<br />
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Diane’s raw passion for love, life and journeys, are her inspiration. Colour, emotion and movement are themes throughout her work.</td></tr>
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<tr><td><img alt="*" height="143" src="http://i1.createsend1.com/ei/r/5A/7EF/287/062922/jennine.jpg" width="126" /></td><td style="color: #716558; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #f5a21a; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21px;">Jennine Parker </span><br />
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Elena Cecchinato was born in Venice in 1974 and studied in Italy before graduating from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London).</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" style="color: #716558; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px;">She learned Korean and Chinese Painting at Koryo University, South Korea. Her art explores the immanent reordering that exists between inner experience and outer occurrence. Their nuanced discrepancy finds a provisional and evolving coherence in the interaction between the audience, writing and drawing. </td></tr>
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</tbody></table>Sarah Silverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01665942383904569571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584026226326418894.post-74213275814654379832012-03-23T19:41:00.001+00:002012-03-29T12:56:05.286+01:00Coventry & Warwickshire Society of Artists Celebrate Centenary Year<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Coventry and Warwickshire Society of Artists
celebrates its centenary year with a host of exciting exhibitions and events in
Kenilworth and Coventry.</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This year, <b><a href="http://www.covwarsocart.co.uk/" target="_blank">Coventry and WarwickshireSociety of Artists (CWSA)</a></b> will be celebrating the organisations one-hundredth
anniversary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Founded in February 1912, by the Mayor of Coventry, Colonel William Wyley, CWSA’s history
has been studded with many successes, as well as many frustrating trials and
tribulations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Disheartened by the fact that so little
was being done for the visual arts in Coventry and the surrounding area, Wyley proposed
to expose the wealth of talent in the region by founding a society and an</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> art gallery and museum
for Coventry and North Warwickshire. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The beginning of this initiative was marked by CWSA’s debut exhibition at
the </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Corn Exchange (no longer in existence), where
a good 354 works were displayed. The
then President Solomon J. Solomon RA, sent a large painting entitled ‘Eve’
which had to be delivered by carriage as he was unable to attend. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The
society worked hard to secure an art gallery in Coventry and was eventually
rewarded when Sir Alfred Herbert, a philanthropist and local manufacturer, offered
to fund the project. However, despite
enormous efforts, together with the advent of World War II, this dream was not
fulfilled until 1960, sadly after the death of Sir Herbert. But, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">this fortune was to be relatively short lived, and, despite a lengthy
campaign to save their hard-earned exhibition space, the society were forced to
seek alternative exhibition spaces. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Today, the Herbert Art Gallery’s permanent collection
still contains a significant number of works donated by members, patrons and
other people who were involved with the CWSA, and the actual existence of the
gallery is certainly thanks to the early endeavours of the society’s members.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">A
number of highly distinguished artists have supported CWSA over the years,
including the first woman President Dame Laura Knight, David Shepherd, Sir William
Orpen, William Roseblade, and the watercolourist Herbert Edward Cox, whose
paintings of old Coventry (1930s) can be seen in the Herbert Art Gallery.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">In
more recent times, a number of CWSA members have received awards, including
Sheila Fitzgerald who received The Chancellors Medal for her outstanding
service to Warwick University and Vivienne Robinson, who won the Warwick
Business School Logo Competition in 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Initially, CWSA was</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> an extremely selective
organisation, open only to artists, but over the years the organisation has
adapted to the ever-changing times, collaborating with a variety of arts
organisations, museums and galleries on a national and European scale, opening
its doors to artists and art lovers alike. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Today, the original spirit and
objectives of the organisation continue to live on, and, to mark their
centenary, CWSA will be holding a variety of exhibitions and events in the
local area.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The celebrations will commence
this summer, when the society will be exhibiting in the MOSAIC Art Trail, in
May, Art on the Edge 2, in June, and The
Tiltyard in August, under the umbrella of BRINK, where the society will be presenting
a special anniversary showcase.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">But, the most exciting event will
occur in October, when the CWSA will hold their centenary
exhibition at the Herbert Art Gallery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“This is a very important and exceptional year for
us. We are absolutely delighted that we will be able to hold our Centenary Exhibition
at the </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Herbert Art Gallery in
October and it will be an incredible opportunity to showcase the wealth of
local talent that exists in Coventry and Warwickshire today. To date the CWSA
has 93 members, many of whom will be exhibiting at the Herbert in October. The artists and our committee are working
very hard in preparation for this event, which will be feature painting and
sculpture by both past and current members.”, states CWSA President Jane
Powell.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">For further information on Coventry & Warwickshire Society of Artists, please visit: </span><a href="http://www.covwarsocart.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.covwarsocart.co.uk/</span></a>Sarah Silverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01665942383904569571noreply@blogger.com0