Blue Cedar: Bird
Bird
05.02.12 - 29.03.12 / ends in 53 days
At Blue Cedar in Glastonbury, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary
BIrd
An exhibition by Glastonbury Artists
Wysing Arts Centre: The Starry Reubric Set
The Starry Reubric Set
05.02.12 - 18.03.12 / ends in 42 days
At Wysing Arts Centre in Cambridge, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary
The Starry Reubric Set
A group exhibition that considers classical astrology as a device to bring together new work produced by artists-in-residence during 2011, and to introduce the three themes of our programme for 2012: The Cosmos, The Mirror and The Forest.Artists include: Marolijn Dijkman, Ruth Beale, Nicholas Deshayes, Rob Filby, Karin Kihlberg +amp; Reuben Henry, Kate Owens, Laure Prouvost, Giles Round, Hilary Koob-Sassen, John Latham, Francesco Pedraglio, Cally Spooner and Emma Smith.The preview on the 4th February 6-8pm includes live performaces and the launch of a new publication by An Endless Supply.
Orleans House Gallery: ARThouse Open Studios festival 2012 - application deadline 20th Feb!
ARThouse Open Studios festival 2012 - application deadline 20th Feb!
05.02.12 - 20.02.12 / ends in 15 days
At Orleans House Gallery in Twickenham, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary
Richmond Upon Thames Annual Open Studios festival
ARThouse is the annual Open Studios Festival for the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames this year taking place over two weekends, from Friday 22 June through to Sunday 1 July. We would like to invite all individuals, artists, school, collages, and groups to take part - deadline the 20th of February!The festival is open to all artists and creative craftspeople living or working in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames who would like to open their houses, studios or an alternative space to the public. ARThouse aims to promote the creative communities based within the Borough, and showcase the range of work produced in the local areas. Please visit www.richmond.gov.uk/arthouse_open_studios to download Application Forms, 2012 Guidelines for Entry +amp; FAQ+rsquo;s and to make online application payments.
The New Art Gallery Walsall: Epstein's Rima: 'A Travesty of Nature'
Epstein's Rima: 'A Travesty of Nature'
04.02.12 - 02.06.12 / ends in 118 days
At The New Art Gallery Walsall in Walsall, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Drawing
Displaying a selection of Jacob Epstein's preparatory drawings for the W.H. Hudson Memorial (1925), Hyde Park, London, this exhibition provides a rare opportunity to explore Epstein's creative imagination, as well as delving into the extreme controversy that surrounded his work.
Ingleby Gallery: Roger Ackling
Roger Ackling
04.02.12 - 21.04.12 / ends in 76 days
At Ingleby Gallery in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Installation
Like his friends and colleagues Richard Long and Hamish Fulton, Roger Ackling belongs to the generation of artists who graduated from St Martins School of Art in the late 1960s challenging traditional notions of sculptural production. Sculpture, they decided, could be anything they wanted it to be: a walk in the Cairngorms; a bicycle ride through France, or in Ackling+rsquo;s case a small piece of wood marked by an invisible ray of light channeled straight from the sun. For more than forty years Ackling has made all of his work by the same method: focusing sunlight through a magnifying glass to burn lines of tiny dots onto found and rescued materials: bits of driftwood, scraps of card, or most recently the contents of his garden shed: discarded wooden boxes and the handles of old tools. Roger Ackling was born in Isleworth, London in 1947, and studied at St. Martin+rsquo;s from 1965-1968. His work has been included in many public collections including those at Tate, the V+amp;A and The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. He was recently one of the invited artists working in collaboration with particle and theoretical physicists at CERN European Organisation for Nuclear Research. He lives and works in Norfolk.
Kettle's Yard: Saturday Drawing: fortnightly drawing workshop for adults/16+
Saturday Drawing: fortnightly drawing workshop for adults/16+
04.02.12 - 14.04.12 / ends in 69 days
At Kettle's Yard in Cambridge, United Kingdom
Workshop | Drawing
An opportunity to draw in the house at Kettle's Yard when it is normally closed, and take inspiration from exhibitions. Led by artists Jane Waterhouse and David Kefford. Spring Term: 21 January; 4, 18 February; 3, 17, 31 March; 14 April.+pound;8 (+pound;5 conc.) per session.
Zimmer Stewart Gallery: Original Prints
Original Prints
04.02.12 - 24.03.12 / ends in 48 days
At Zimmer Stewart Gallery in Arundel, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Prints
Original Prints
Since printmaking is becoming more popular amongst both artists and collectors, we felt that we should recognise this and put together a group show which features pritns by some well established artists in their field as well as some interesting editions by some lesser known but equally as exciting Sussex based printmakers.In addition to Wall Plate - Highlights (1987) by Patrick Caulfield we will show his Dressed Lobster (1980) and Red, Jug +amp; Lamp (1992). From Terry Frost we have Camberwell Green (2001), an etching with woodblock and the Headingley series of lithographs from 1969 by John Walker.There will also be recent editions by Tracey Emin (etchings), Jake +amp; Dinos Chapman (photogravure with chin colle), Tom Hammick (woodcuts), Giles Penny (linocuts), Gary Goodman (screenprints), and Betsy Dadd (monoprints) Some artists produce +ldquo;artist books+rdquo;: These are deluxe limited editions of a book, usually is a special case and often with an original print. We have such works by Paula Rego (O Vinho), Jake Chapman (three novels), Jim Dine (Entrada Drive and Peter Doig (L+rsquo;Alpiniste - The Wonders of Skiing).The exhibition will demonstrate the broad range of printmaking techniques used by artists - screenprints, woodcuts, lithographs, etchings, dry point and some monoprints - as well as the range of artists creating original prints both locally and internationally.Many editions may be in folders or not on show, so do ask to see more works by any particular artist in the show.
Mission Gallery: Keith Bayliss | The Enclosed Garden
Keith Bayliss | The Enclosed Garden
04.02.12 - 24.03.12 / ends in 48 days
At Mission Gallery in Swansea, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Painting
Keith Bayliss | The Enclosed Garden
Responding to the themes of love, loss and need, Mission Gallery will be transformed through poetic imagination into an ethereal place of contemplation using figurative construction, painting and sound.+lsquo;We are lost. Spiritually adrift. Road side shrines. Make shift memorials+rsquo; +ndash; Keith Bayliss (2011)As a former place of worship, Mission Gallery is the ideal place for The Enclosed Garden to be presented. Contemporary society has gradually moved away from the use of traditional places where religious celebration and personal contemplation takes place. Instead we see an alternative use of make-shift memorials to lost loved ones and the mass mourning of national celebrities. Responding to the themes of love, loss and need, which have occupied his career, Bayliss examines society+rsquo;s continuing need for spirituality. Expanding the variety of mediums he is predominantly renowned for, including pencil and ink on paper, oil on canvas and relief printing to create an encompassing environment. An environment that contains half life size figurative constructions of painted tissue and wood, placed in a space filled with sound and surrounded by paintings that are figurative, expressive and large scale.
Babylon Gallery: Printmaking from Gainsborough+rsquo;s House, Babylon Gallery
Printmaking from Gainsborough+rsquo;s House, Babylon Gallery
04.02.12 - 11.03.12 / ends in 35 days
At Babylon Gallery in Ely, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Prints
Work from ten contemporary printmakers from the Gainsborough House Print Workshop based in Sudbury, Suffolk .Babylon Gallery, Waterside, Ely, CB7 4AU
Ingleby Gallery: Andrew Miller
Andrew Miller
04.02.12 - 10.03.12 / ends in 34 days
At Ingleby Gallery in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Installation
Andrew Miller is a Glasgow based artist working across a variety of media +ndash; drawing, sculpture, photography and site-specific installations. Through a process of drawing, altering, transforming and making Miller seeks to gain an understanding of the ambiguity between notions of form and function. He works with the worn and the discarded, and in salvaging, reassembling and re-presenting familiar objects he attempts to ask questions about the way things are placed, valued and used. This serious and rigorous approach is underpinned by a light touch born of his obvious affection for the visual underdog +ndash; the jettisoned and the redundant. Miller+rsquo;s work has been presented in numerous gallery exhibitions and public art commissions. Recent shows includeIndustrial Aesthetics, Hunter College, New York 2011 and You, Me, Something Else, GOMA, Glasgow 2011. 
S1 Artspace: Jennifer West: Aloe Vera +amp; Butter
Jennifer West: Aloe Vera +amp; Butter
04.02.12 - 10.03.12 / ends in 34 days
At S1 Artspace in Sheffield, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Film / Video
Jennifer West: Aloe Vera + Butter
S1 Artspace is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new and recent work by Los Angeles-based artist-filmmaker, Jennifer West. This exhibition is the first UK solo show of the artist's work to be presented by a public gallery.West approaches filmmaking like an alchemist, experimenting and transforming the surfaces of blank film stock, shot footage, found photographs or off-cuts from Hollywood blockbusters into abstract kaleidoscopes of colour, allusion and direct reference. Working directly onto 16, 35 and 70mm film leader, West subjects the film+rsquo;s surface to a catalogue of materials, chemicals and substances that she describes as +lsquo;marinades+rsquo;. These include anything from nail varnish, mascara, pizza and whiskey to cigarette smoke, LSD, lithium and urine. West applies and exposes these substances directly to the film allowing their natural properties to alter the celluloid in unpredictable ways. Strips of film simultaneously undergo processes of destruction such as scraping, cooking, burning, drumming, head-banging and licking; a series of performed assaults and collective gestures delivered by willing participants.Deeply rooted within the history of experimental and more specifically, structural film, West produces camera-less films through a number of processes and actions that reference influential avant-garde artists including Tony Conrad, Carolee Schneemann, Allan Kaprow, Linda Benglis and Ed Ruscha. As a former student of Mike Kelley and Diana Thater, it was Thater who encouraged West to consider how the form or structure of any artwork can meet the subject or content as they each produce their own meaning.Biography:Jennifer West (born Topanga, California, lives and works in LA) has exhibited widely internationally with solo exhibitions in 2011 at Vilma Gold, London, and Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis. She has also presented solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Western Bridge, Seattle and Kunstverein N+uuml;rnberg (all 2010). In the UK, West has exhibited with George Ziffo at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, 2008, and was featured in the 2007 exhibition, If Everybody had an Ocean, at Tate St Ives. In 2009 she was commissioned to produce special project, Skate the Sky, for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London, and in 2011 she was Artist in Residence at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge Massachusetts. Upcoming projects include an exhibition at the new Highline Channel and a performance based work for Highline Art, New York. West is represented by Vilma Gold, London and Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles.
Dulwich Picture Gallery: Ragamala: Composing with the Figure
Ragamala: Composing with the Figure
04.02.12 - 07.03.12 / ends in 31 days
At Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, United Kingdom
Workshop | Multi-disciplinary
Inspired by the exhibition Ragamala: Paintings from India, this mixed media class will teach observational drawing from the life model in situ. You will then build up your drawings into a finished narrative painting With artist Rebecca Allen
The Royal Standard: //My Five New Friends// by Olver Braid featuring David Hoyle +amp; Lee Baxter, Maayke Schurer, Patrick Staff, Tether, Roxy Topia +amp; Paddy Gould with It's Our Playground
//My Five New Friends// by Olver Braid featuring David Hoyle +amp; Lee Baxter, Maayke Schurer, Patrick Staff, Tether, Roxy Topia +amp; Paddy Gould with It's Our Playground
04.02.12 - 03.03.12 / ends in 27 days
At The Royal Standard in Liverpool, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary
//My Five New Friends//
+ldquo;Pretty early into the conversation he just came out with +lsquo;maybe I don+rsquo;t really love my girlfriend+rsquo;+hellip;He was asking something about my parents and we were talking about my Dad and his penchant for buying wives. He instantly made the comparison between me and my Dad, like these boys being objects in a frame. I think those were his actual words+hellip;My therapist says I have no real idea how to relate to men. My mum says all men are bastards and I+rsquo;m probably autistic. My dad says I should meet his new girlfriend, Danni, she+rsquo;s 19 and looks cracking in a pair of hot pants.+rdquo;Text from the artist+rsquo;s documentation. (Available at www.myfivenewfriends.com)Last year artist Oliver Braid embarked on a mission to develop relationships with the five most attractive young male undergraduates from Glasgow School of Art. The documentation and interpretation of these encounters will form the basis for +lsquo;My Five New Friends+rsquo;.French artist/curatorial team It+rsquo;s Our Playground have been working alongside Braid on this journey to build an onlinedatabase housing the archive of his relationship documentation. Following the opening of his exhibition at The Royal Standard this database will become publically accessible at www.myfivenewfriends.com, enabling the viewer to gain a personal and excruciating insight into Braid+rsquo;s project.The developing narratives documented during this process have been further interpreted by five selected film artistsgiven private access to the evolving online database for five months leading up to the exhibition. With each artist focusedtowards one of the five friendships their engagement acted as an online residency. The culmination of this will be newlycommissioned short films cum-psychological assessments made in response to these monitored relationships. The commissioned residency artists are David Hoyle +amp; Lee Baxter, Patrick Staff, Maayke Schurer, Roxy Topia +amp; Paddy Gould and Tether.The exhibition at The Royal Standard will juxtapose the newly commissioned short films alongside meticulously hand crafted +lsquo;gift objects+rsquo; created by Oliver Braid, one for each of his new +lsquo;friends+rsquo;, all re-presented in a bespoke installation environment designed by It+rsquo;s Our Playground.Reeking of Lynx, take-away food and desperation, +lsquo;My Five New Friends+rsquo; is one part teenager+rsquo;s bedroom and one partlabyrinthine fantasy film. Exploring the impact of art-making on human interactions through a lens of DIY psychotherapy itopens a portal into a domain fuelled by heavy drinking and a search for happiness.
Saffron Gallery: New Recruits - Annual Exhibition
New Recruits - Annual Exhibition
04.02.12 - 25.02.12 / ends in 20 days
At Saffron Gallery in Battle, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Painting
3 Award-Winning Painters, 1 Highly Accomplished Sculptor
Saffron Gallery�s first exhibition of 2012 is an annual showcase of some of its new artists for the year ahead. This year the line up is better than ever and includes three talented, award-winning painters and one exceptionally accomplished and rather famous sculptor. +lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;Claire Wiltsher is an award winning painter whose work was recently acquired by the House of Lords to be exhibited as part of their permanent collection. Claire�s MA is in fine art, with a BA (Hons) in fine art painting. Her oil and mixed media landscapes combine layers of paint with fragments of collage. She scratches through sections of the painting to allow colours from underneath to emerge. �I want to create evocative paintings of land and sea that show a sense of place - different weather conditions are key elements�. Claire uses brushes and different sized palette knives to build up layers and create depth. Paint is also flicked or carefully thrown on selected areas, evidence of which can be found all over her studio floor!+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;Another award-winning artist, Susan Evans, regularly shows throughout the UK, Europe and the US and has enjoyed solo shows in London, Bath and Brighton. Susan is collected privately and publicly, by institutions including Exeter College, Oxford and the Peterborough Museum. She creates powerful skyscapes on canvas, constantly blending to give a soft, blurry effect. She often works quickly, sometimes using cloths to make the paint as thin as possible. She then builds up a canvas with slightly thicker paint, sometimes using a small amount of palette knife work. Fascinated by horizons and the mystery of distance, skies and cloud patterns have been her main inspiration while influences include Constable, Rothko and Turner.+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;Acclaimed Scottish artist Colin Brown enjoys a strong international career with regular exhibitions throughout the UK, Europe and America. His paintings have received a number of awards, most notably a major artist's grant from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation of New York in 1996. In his current work Brown pulls together random elements and fragments into closely controlled compositions. The paintings run a fine line between impulse and calculation, continuously shift context and meaning rather than attempting to realise a predetermined concept. He follows a specific process which allows the painting to emerge through its implementation.+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;Last, but notably, award-winning sculptor Guy Portelli VPRBA FRBS joins Saffron�s ranks bringing with him a selection of his famous Pop Icons series of sculptures. Guy, Vice President of the Royal Society of British Artists, shot to fame when his pitch on Dragons Den so impressed the dragons that three of them invested in his Pop Icons collection and launched his major solo exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London. Major commissioned sculptures are exhibited at The Commonwealth Institute in Kensington, at Covent Garden, Piccadilly Circus, and Spitalfields in London, The Trafford Centre in Manchester and private commissions include his �Peace +amp;amp; Love� sculpture for Ringo Starr. Guy is currently working with Jeff Beck to create a new addition to the Pop Icon series.+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;The exhibition runs from this Saturday 4th February to Saturday 25th February at Saffron Gallery, Saffron House, 59-60 High Street, Battle, TN33 0EN. Further information can be found on www.SaffronGallery.co.uk and www.facebook.com/SaffronGallery or by phoning 01424 772 130. +lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;Gallery opening times are 10.00am � 5.00pm Monday to Saturday.+lt;br /+gt;
Zillah Bell Gallery: Charlotte Barker +amp; Robbie Fife
Charlotte Barker +amp; Robbie Fife
04.02.12 - 25.02.12 / ends in 20 days
At Zillah Bell Gallery in Thirsk, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary
Sculpture and Paintings
Bath Contemporary: Moments in Time: Paintings by Clive Jebbett
Moments in Time: Paintings by Clive Jebbett
04.02.12 - 17.02.12 / ends in 12 days
At Bath Contemporary in Bath, United Kingdom
Event | Painting
CLIVE JEBBETT, born 1951 in North London, attended Colchester School of Art before leaving to define and hone his own distinctive style of painting.+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;His use of colour and shade both intrigues and provokes, leaving the viewer with a sense of familiarity and intimacy, encouraging a longer look into the fleeting figures and shadows and stimulating a desire to learn more.+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;Clive�s work is in both private and public collections in the UK, Europe and North America and in 2010 he was listed as one of a select few British artists to appear in the 34th edition of �Who�s Who in Art�.+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;�It is the function of the artist to evoke the experience of surprised recognition; to show the viewer what he knows, but does not know what he knows.� William S. Burroughs+lt;br /+gt;To quote the artist, �I like that!�
Nucleus Arts Centre and Gallery: David Minton
David Minton
04.02.12 - 16.02.12 / ends in 11 days
At Nucleus Arts Centre and Gallery in Chatham, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Painting
Paintings and drawings by David Minton
David Minton presents 'The Bird Series', which consider the idea of spaces, loss, tension, being and not being; art is empathy.
QUAD: v.01
v.01
04.02.12 - 12.02.12 / ends in 7 days
At QUAD in Derby, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Installation
v.01 Interactive Digital Audio Visual Exhibition
v.01 is an interactive digital audio visual environment created especially for QUAD Gallery. Masterminded by TechsQUAD artists, working alongside the chromatic architect Aaron Bradbury, v.01 showcases an interactive audio and video installation that can be manipulated by you, the public. Via a sculptural control panel visitors are invited to create new compositions that use fully controllable large scale projections and original moving image samples along with a manipulated soundtrack.Also including work by; Angelo Plessas, Stanza, Han Hoogerbrugge, Seaquence, and the Johnny Cash Project.
Pump House Gallery: SCREENING: Art and Activism
SCREENING: Art and Activism
04.02.12 - 05.02.12 / ends today
At Pump House Gallery in London, United Kingdom
Screening | New Media
Screening: Art and Activism -
This weekend of film screenings presents a rare opportunity to see performance and experimental film work of key individuals and art collectives who explore the intersections of art and activism.Saturday:CONJURING SELVESTakahiko Iimura, Performance / Myself (Or Video Identity) (1972-1995), DumbType S/N (1995), Cho Yukio, Pandemic (2010) - First UK screening, Yutaka Tsuchiya, Identity? (1993), Mayumi Kimura, Amnesian (2004)RADICAL ACTION REPLAYEDMotoharu Jonouchi Document 6.15 (1961), Shinjuku Station (1974) +amp; Tatsumi Hijikata (1967); Tatsumi Hijikata Summer Storm (2010) - First UK screening, Takahiko Iimura, Fluxus Replayed (1991)Sunday:CONTESTED HISTORIESSoni Kum, Beast of Me (2005) +amp; Foreign Sky (2005) - First UK screenings, Chikako Yamashiro: Okinawa Tourist (2004), Seaweed Woman (2008) +amp; Your Voice Came Out Through My Throat (2009) - First UK screeningsART, ACTION, ACTIVISM+ldquo;Louder than Bombs+rdquo;: Art, Action +amp; Activism, 7 Weeks, 7 Residencies, 7 Ways to Activate Change (2010) +ndash; Steven Levon Ounanian +amp; Thomas Thwaites / +Aacute;ine Phillips / Sean Burn / Ansuman Biswas / Stacy Makishi +amp; Yoshiko Shimada / Prick Your Finger / the vacuum cleaner - a co-curated live art season by David Falkner, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University and Lois Keidan, Live Art Development Agency (LADA) (supported by Arts Council England and British Council)The Lost Runway Kyoto (2010), collaboration between performance artist +Aacute;ine Phillips and film-maker Rachel Davies - First UK screening (supported by Culture Ireland, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, Japan Foundation)This screening has been curated by Fran Lloyd and Eliza Tan, with special thanks to the participating artists, Stephen Barber and Julian Ross.Daily screenings from 11am +ndash; 4pm in the Project Space throughout the weekend, no booking necessary
Toynbee Studios: Artsadmin Weekenders: You Me Bum Bum Train
Artsadmin Weekenders: You Me Bum Bum Train
04.02.12 - 05.02.12 / ends today
At Toynbee Studios in London, United Kingdom
Workshop | Performance
Kate Bond and Morgan Lloyd's You Me Bum Bum Train has become one of the biggest successes to hail from East End London. Their unique, immersive theatre experience has been over eight years in the making, perfecting the art of catapulting passengers into completely unimaginable situations.In 2010 the event won the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award, leading to a co-production with the Barbican in Bethnal Green that received exceptionally high critical acclaim, including The Evening Standard Theatre Award 2010 for +quot;Outstanding Newcomer+quot;. Since then Bum Bum Train has continued to return annually, selling out in a matter of hours, with shows happening in a variety of undisclosed, disused buildings across London.For this Weekender Kate and Morgan will take participants on a different kind of Bum Bum Train journey; using their inspirations from video and animation to discuss the roots of their work, whilst encouraging participants to find their own sources and starting points.
Chapter: Lothar G+ouml;tz: Wait Until Dark
Lothar G+ouml;tz: Wait Until Dark
03.02.12 - 01.04.12 / ends in 56 days
At Chapter in Cardiff, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Painting
Lothar G+ouml;tz+rsquo;s practice ranges in scale from site-specific wall paintings and room-sized spatial installations to framed drawings and paintings. There is a clear coherence and dialogue across his body of work through its continual referencing and engagement with ideas about architecture and space, and its characteristic use of abstract geometric forms, fields and lines of intense colour.His work is informed by real factors of circumstance, site, or the particular inhabitants or histories of a building, space or place, but mixes these factors with further imaginary or fantasy ones. Similarly many of his drawings represent the floor plans of idealised dwellings, sometimes for specific people or historical figures, sometimes for those imagined.Colour in these drawings is used to denote the functions and atmospheres of rooms, or the situations and qualities of the surrounding landscape and take their cues from the identity of the person who is thought to live there, in a web of imaginative factors that continually feed into the geometrical arrangement for each drawing. For Chapter, G+ouml;tz has created a number of new works that reference the use, architecture and history of the building. He has also been commissioned to produce a work for the Chapter lightbox that will both reveal and affect the exterior and interior of the building and its inhabitants.Lothar G+ouml;tz was born in Germany and studied in Aachen, Wuppertal and D+uuml;sseldorf before completing an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London. He has exhibited internationally and has had solo shows in London at The Economist, Chisenhale Gallery and Gasworks. Most recent projects include exhibitions at the Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal; Landesgalerie Hannover; SMART, Amsterdam; National Gallery Prague and the Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven. Recent commissioned works on site include commissions for the Ministry of Justice, London, the National Arts Council Offices, London and Westminster College, London. He has a solo exhibition with domobaal, London in 2012.For further information about the artist, images of his work or to arrange an interview please contact Hannah Firth or Lauren Jury on +44 (0) 29 2031 1050 or email visual.arts@chapter.org
Green Cardamom: Hajra Waheed 'The Scrapbook Project'
Hajra Waheed 'The Scrapbook Project'
03.02.12 - 09.03.12 / ends in 33 days
At Green Cardamom in London, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary
The Scrapbook Project is Hajra Waheed+rsquo;s first UK solo exhibition. Over recent years, Waheed's work has comprised partly of producing single and multi-page visual diaries whose primary purpose is to reconstruct personal and popular histories, narratives and memories that reference her many lived experiences between the Middle East and North America. Her practice is as much about (re)constructing narratives and (re)claiming memories as it is about navigating place and displacement.Made up, primarily of drawn transfers, paintings and collages but also incorporating expired Polaroid film onto aged paper from as early as 1935, these fragile works seem to act as archives for all those lost amongst the rapid development and/or political strife of the Middle East and Gulf region today. In continuation with her long-standing interest in producing undisclosed documents/documentation, the work remains rich in reference but spare in form +ndash; a combination that makes them seem like secret notes or ciphers.Elements of the artist's biography hold clues for their de-cryption. Born in Canada to Indian parents, she was raised within the gated community of Saudi ARAMCO +ndash; home to a quarter of the world+rsquo;s oil exports, and hence protected by American and Saudi air bases, strict regulations regarding access, and the prohibition of civilians to use photographic equipment. She lived through the end of the Cold War and the first Gulf War in these conditions of secrecy and isolation, developing a childhood obsession with identifying aircraft, tracking flight routes, and keeping a log of her observations in her own secret visual language.The Scrapbook Project is a peek into this world.
Bristol Folk House: Photography Exhibition by Barry Cawston
Photography Exhibition by Barry Cawston
03.02.12 - 01.03.12 / ends in 25 days
At Bristol Folk House in Bristol, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Photography
Much of Barry Cawston+rsquo;s photography is cinematic in approach and often has a sociological/political element which, coupled with a strong sense of composition, gives a painterly quality to his photography.He works mainly on a large format camera and learnt much of his craft in the darkroom. In 2010 He added a Nikon digital camera to his travel bag which he now uses in tandem with his +lsquo;old style+rsquo; Wista though still in a considered (analogue) style. Cawston+rsquo;s work has been increasingly recognised within a fine art context which has seen him win several awards including the Paintworks South West Art Award for 2010 and being an invited artist for the RWA+rsquo;s second Open Photography Competition in 2011.
Gallery at Hackney Picturehouse: The Communal Bath: Where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity
The Communal Bath: Where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity
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03.02.12 - 29.02.12 / ends in 24 days
At Gallery at Hackney Picturehouse in London, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary
LAST TIME
In a transition state of our gallery spaces we are bringing together this exhibition; Here the past meets the current, and the variety and the complication of �the group exhibition�. +lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;The curators have chosen inspiring contemporaries whose work rages from planetary map-making to 3D Video experiences. +lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;As always, to coincide with our private view, we are holding an Audio-Visual event as a part of First Thursdays in association with Whitechapel Gallery.+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;Private view: 2 February at 7pm+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;Artists:+lt;br /+gt;Paul B. Davis � Video +lt;br /+gt;Duval Timothy - Painting+lt;br /+gt;Carlos Laszlo � Video +lt;br /+gt;Tomas Percival / Nevine Mahmoud - Sculpture+lt;br /+gt;Drew Hoad - Print+lt;br /+gt;Malin Weindenbusch - Video+lt;br /+gt;Tania Dolvers � Moving Photography+lt;br /+gt;Kyrone Oak - Print+lt;br /+gt;Laurene Pijulet-Balmer - Print+lt;br /+gt;Lewis Rainsbury and Ciaran Wood (Vondelpark) � Video+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;Curators: Miloslav Vorlicek and Ciaran Wood+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;Main Artists Bio:+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;Paul B. Davis+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;�Paul is an artist and lecturer, currently living and working in London, UK. Paul pioneered the use of video game cartridges as an artistic medium and created the first hacked video game artworks. His Nintendo cartridge work was premiered in 2000, he formed the programming collective BEIGE shortly afterwards, and BEIGE members subsequently used his hacked Nintendo.�+lt;br /+gt;http://www.post-data.org/~paul/+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;Duval Timothy+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;�Timothy is a multi disciplinary artist mainly focusing on working with object, function and the politics of color... Best described as �self-curational�, and working mainly with self-imagery, Timothy contradicts the ideas of �narcissism� and �humility� whilst letting the viewer decide...�+lt;br /+gt;http://www.duvaltimothy.co.uk+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;GalleryHackPH contact details:+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;Email: art.hackney@picturehouses.co.uk+lt;br /+gt;Twitter: @GalleryHackPH+lt;br /+gt;
John Martin Gallery: american mama gun run
american mama gun run
03.02.12 - 25.02.12 / ends in 20 days
At John Martin Gallery in London, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Painting
artist neale howells
Neale Howells+mdash;American Mama Gun RunPart 1, John Martin Gallery London 3 +ndash; 25 Feb 2012Part 2, Edward Cutler Gallery Milan 9 Feb +ndash; 4 Mar 2012John Martin Gallery, London and Edward Cutler, Milan are delighted to present the first major show of Welsh artist Neale Howells for nearly four years. The exhibition is divided into two parts taking place in Milan and London during February with works also being previewed at Arte Fiera Bologna at the end of January. The private view in London will be on Thursday 2 February 6 +ndash; 8pm and the private in Milan will take place on Thursday 9 February, 6-9pm.Howells+rsquo;s paintings absorb the seemingly relentless stream of information which crowd our daily lives sourced from television, radio, the internet and print media. Words, phrases and images are harvested, almost arbitrarily and repositioned on found panels and pieces of wood: tiny details and passages of text which are continually developed, obliterated and enlarged.+ldquo;... the smallest part becomes the most important. You have to believe in the work through every part of it so it's identity runs through every line like DNA+rdquo;.His obsessive, time-consuming process of painting is coupled with a desire to overwhelm and give the viewer a near-cinematic experience through scale, achieved in such monumental works as Captain America vs The Rest of the Worldwhich spans nearly five metres in length.The starting point for much of Howells+rsquo;s work is the graphic language of 1950's Americana, filtered through elements of abstract expressionism, street art, graffiti and pop art. However the intense re-working and continual process of creation and obliteration negates the intentional anachronisms of his work. He is obliterating the chronology of art history in the same way he erases the texts of which the paintings are composed. Indeed, the finished works often suggest that the artist is searching back further to find an older classical painting standard, finding the rhythms of harmony in the order and placement of colours, images and words.Please contact the gallery for further information, catalogue and images.info@jmlondon.comJohn Martin Gallery38 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4JG020 7499 1314www.jmlondon.comEdward Cutler GalleryVia Dell'Orso 12, Primo Cortile, 20121 Milano, Italia+39 02 39 831 032 gallery@edwardcutler.com www.edwardcutler.comabove: Neale Howells - Captain America vs The Rest of the World DETAIL (2011), acrylic, oil, pastel and pencil on wood 175 x 490 cmsbelow: Neale Howells - Mama with a Gun (2011), acrylic, oil, pastel and pencil on wood 238 x 300 cmsArte Fiera Bologna, 27-30 Januarystudio unit21addison roadport talbotsouth wales.www.artistnealehowells.webs.com 
