auto-italia south east: Double Blind
Double Blind
06.07.08 - 06.07.08 / ends today
At auto-italia south east in London
Screening | Film / Video
You are invited to a screening of Double Blind by Sophie Calle and Greg Sheppard
To coincide with ALLES IST IN ORDNUNG at auto-italia south east
Beverley Knowles Fine Art: They Paved Paradise
They Paved Paradise
05.07.08 - 03.08.08 / ends in 28 days
At Beverley Knowles Fine Art in London
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary
New Exhibition
Beverley Knowles Fine Art presents the recent works of Ilona Szalay, Kirstie Macleod and Charmain Ponnuthurai.
These three artists work very differently. Ilona Szalay is a painter in oils on canvas, Charmain Ponnuthurai is a sculptor and installation artist whilst Kirstie Macleod has been described as a conceptual costume artist. Inherent in all their work are questions of control; the balance between the desire to protect and the point at which preservation, advertently or otherwise, begins the process of destruction.
Kate MacGarry Gallery: Swans Reflecting Elephants
Swans Reflecting Elephants
05.07.08 - 03.08.08 / ends in 28 days
At Kate MacGarry Gallery in London
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary
Varda Caivano, Renee So, Rose Wyle
The Approach E2: Feeling gave way to structure
Feeling gave way to structure
05.07.08 - 03.08.08 / ends in 28 days
At The Approach E2 in London
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary
Alexander Heim
Florian Roithmayr
Giles Round
John Martin Gallery: Drawing A Diversion
Drawing A Diversion
05.07.08 - 02.08.08 / ends in 27 days
At John Martin Gallery in London
Exhibition | Drawing
Benjamin Jones, Chris Hipkiss & Farina Alam
Mushroom Works: Comfort Zone
Comfort Zone
05.07.08 - 27.07.08 / ends in 21 days
At Mushroom Works in Newcastle Upon Tyne
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary
A collaborative exhibition by the artists from the Mushroom Works and Bricks Works studios.
The show explores the mix of media, with work from print makers sitting along side jewellery and paintings teamed up with contemporary furniture. Some of the regions best creative talents will be exhibiting, including Jim Edwards, famous for Newcastle cityscapes, and furniture designer and maker Nick James.
Architectural Association: PROJECTS REVIEW 2008
PROJECTS REVIEW 2008
05.07.08 - 26.07.08 / ends in 20 days
At Architectural Association in London
Exhibition | Architecture
PROJECTS REVIEW 2008
The work of over 500 AA students will be shown in a combination of displays from small-scale models to 1:1 furniture, lighting and other installations. This array of architectural media, imagery and models will reveal the incomparably wide spectrum of activities that form the basis for the AA???s renowned forms of teaching and learning through experimentation.
Rathbone: Present - Past
Present - Past
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05.07.08 - 25.07.08 / ends in 19 days
At Rathbone in London
Exhibition | Photography
Richard Heeps nostalgia-laden imagery
Present - Past includes work never exhibited before and unites Richard???s Americana with English work It shows elements which balance and compliment each other, with similar colour and intensity but reflecting different moods - there???s no mistaking the sombre melancholy of the British Isles.
Richard points to childhood journeys as inspiration
???My father used to drive the whole family to the Fens, north of Cambridge on Sunday afternoons. There was no direction or intent to the different routes that we journeyed along, we were simply responding to the landscape; exploring what seemed exciting at the moment. From the confines of the car, the world was framed for our view.???
Richard???s English work follows the same craft he uses for all work; only using film cameras and hand printing his own pictures full frame. His use of colour and composition heightens the cinematic quality and ambiguity of situations found, not arranged. In Richard Heeps??? world the present exists as an extension of a past; a past re-lived and re-invented but one around us as we live through the fading ripples of a previous age.
Bloc: Mr Palomar a?? Sarah Hughes & Patrick Farmer
Mr Palomar a?? Sarah Hughes & Patrick Farmer
05.07.08 - 20.07.08 / ends in 14 days
At Bloc in Sheffield
Exhibition | Installation
For their exhibition at Bloc Sarah Hughes and Patrick Farmer have installed a series of loudspeakers in the gallery that emit macro sound recordings of melting ice.
The title is taken from Italo Calvino???s philosophical novel Mr Palomar, which considers the significance of a mundane and anthropocentric view of life, and the apparent insignificance of the world around us.
Hughes and Farmer use macro recordings of nature, time immemorial, to draw our attention to frequencies and life cycles that are either too high, too low, or too quiet to be heard. In this way the artists offer new perspectives that invite us to consider where we place ourselves within our environment.
The work highlights the vastness of the unseen world, and the relative insignificance of the hectic ethos of modern civilization. By utilising one to demonstrate the other we see that the two can???t live without each other.
A limited edition of 27 3-inch CDR???s will be available for sale in the gallery during the exhibition, featuring recordings of ants in the artists??? garden; underwater tree roots and pumpkin seeds.
See the artists??? blog for more information about their work.
www.compostandheight.blogspot.com
Florence Trust: The Florence Trust 2008 Exhibition
The Florence Trust 2008 Exhibition
05.07.08 - 16.07.08 / ends in 10 days
At Florence Trust in London
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary
The Florence Trust Annual Residency Exhibition
Elisabetta Alazraki, Luke Brennan, Owen Johnson, Miranda Lopatkin, Rebecca Mears, Samantha Mogelonsky, Suzanne Moxhay, Cate Shindler, Matthew Swift, Masaki Yada, Kalim Yoon.
???While it is a viciously competitive time for an artist to begin a professional career, there is plurality of chances: to work in published, real and virtual settings; with independent or museum or corporate curators; within further studio groups.
Each artist ??? whether from America, Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, or the UK ??? has the body of work, association with the Florence Trust and conviction to take them where they wish to be.???
Gill Hedley, Florence Trust Catalogue 2008
The 2008 Exhibition showcases the work of eleven international artists selected for the year long Florence Trust Studio Residency Programme. Housed in St. Saviours, an inspiring Grade 1 listed Victorian church, The Florence Trust provides the opportunity for a small group of exceptional international artists to create new work, push the boundaries of their practice and to explore fresh ideas. The Trust offers a complete experience well beyond the normal provision of studio space with access to art world networks, individual career support and professional opportunities. For many artists, their period with The Florence Trust has been a turning point in their career.
Although each artistic practice is radically different, all artists share the Florence Trust experience. Over their twelve month residency the artists have either been attracted or repelled by the magnificent gothic interior of the church, with many artists taking their inspiration from this new environment and creating site-specific works. Other artists have used their time at the trust to strengthen and develop their existing artistic concerns. Works in this exhibiton span a broad range of medium, from large scale sculptural structures, to vanitas inspired painting, dystopian landscape photography and immersive sound installation.
The exhibition is accompanied by a full colour catalogue with a foreword by the Director, Paul Bayley and a catalogue essay by curator and writer Gill Hedley.
Badger Badger: Through the Looking Glass (and what we found there)
Through the Looking Glass (and what we found there)
05.07.08 - 12.07.08 / ends in 6 days
At Badger Badger in Carlisle
Exhibition | Installation
Badger Badger presents new work from Iris Priest
Lewisham Arthouse: Mosaic
Mosaic
05.07.08 - 12.07.08 / ends in 6 days
At Lewisham Arthouse in London
Workshop | Multi-disciplinary
Make a modern item of memory ware
Have you broken a favourite piece of china? Would you like to make something new with it? Do you have a collection of pebbles, trinkets or glass beads that you would like to do something with? Make a very special and personal mosaic mirror frame which incorporates a personal selection of objects.
In the first session we will use the direct method to mosaic the mirror frame. In the second session we will grout and finish the mirror ready for hanging on the wall. 
Stables Gallery: Treasure Island
Treasure Island
05.07.08 - 06.07.08 / ends today
At Stables Gallery in London
Performance | Architecture
Treasure Island arts Festival
Brent Arts Council are producing an arts festival based on Robert Louis stevenson's classic tale pf piracy on the high seas, Treasure Island. There will also be dance performances, storytelling for children, a photographic exhibition by the Camera Club, treasure hunts, refreshments and lots more.
Performances are 2pm and 5pm and start outside the Stables Gallery building. Gladstone Park, London NW2 6HT
Danielle Arnaud: Machinic Alliances
Machinic Alliances
04.07.08 - 10.08.08 / ends in 35 days
At Danielle Arnaud in London
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary
The 'machinic' is a process that expresses our capacity as humans to form alliances with non-human forces, be they animal, insect, plant or virus. The exhibition 'Machinic Alliances' takes this Deleuzian premise as the basis from which to propose unholy affiliations between categories of human/animal/technological.
The artworks in this exhibition seek to question, challenge, and flirt with traditional concepts of Western subjectivity. Thrown to the wind is the plot of an original wholeness and purity. Instead, 'machinic alliances' scramble and graft singular identities, creating perverse formations that escape the Oedipal trap of filiation (Donna Haraway 2004). These formations or assemblages have no father, like Frankenstein, and eschew anthropocentric identification. In their multiplicity, they push against the limits of form.
Categories are undone.
Awkward conjoinings arise.
Inhuman differences emerge.
But paradoxically, it is here in the interstitial spaces proposed by 'machinic alliances' that we can learn how to live differently. In these spaces, we can experience the 'mutual interdependences and productive mergers of forces' that characterise subjectivity at the end of the postmodern (Rosi Braidotti, 2006). The ???new??? alliances explored by the artworks in this exhibition do not reproduce the antagonism of one self against another self, but generate a bestiary of possible selves, liberating us from the alienating problematics of narcissistic recognition and opening us up to the creative becomings of being. The artworks in this exhibition propel us to imagine wacky and wonderful possibilities for our identities. Disturbing, yet pleasurable, these 'machinations' acknowledge the difficulty of difference, yet relish in the production of anomalous differences that exceed categorization.
HTTP Gallery: How To Talk To Images - Richard Wright
How To Talk To Images - Richard Wright
04.07.08 - 03.08.08 / ends in 28 days
At HTTP Gallery in London
Exhibition | New Media
No one is sure how many images there are on the Internet. Google has nearly a billion. Some say it is hundreds of times more than that. People say that you can find a picture of anything on the Internet, as though the entire visual world is reflected there.
For How to Talk to Images at London's HTTP Gallery, Richard Wright has compiled a database of 50,000 random Internet images as the raw content for two artworks, which explore new conceptions of the image, called for by the sheer quantity of visual information now available via the Internet.
As part of How to Talk to Images, Richard Wright???s first solo exhibition in London, a selection of Wright???s animated films demonstrates the development of his current interest in the Baroque. The exhibition is also the occasion of publication of a limited-edition poster featuring an essay by the artist illustrated by the entire visual history of the Western alphabet ??? from its pictorial Egyptian origins 5,000 years ago to its perfected form under the Romans, as well as a new book documenting the artists twenty year long practice.
About the artist:
Richard Wright is a visual artist working in the fields of digital moving image and networked interaction. During the 1990s, Richard was one of the pioneers of digital animation as a distinct artistic form, with films being shown at numerous festivals and exhibitions and broadcast by television channels around the world. In 1998 he received a PhD in the aesthetics of digital film making and has published nearly forty book chapters, articles and reviews. In 2004 he joined Mongrel ??? an artists group internationally recognized for their work in software art and 'free-media'. Since 2007 Richard has been Artist in Residence at Furtherfield.org in London.
Concrete Hermit: More or Less
More or Less
04.07.08 - 02.08.08 / ends in 27 days
At Concrete Hermit in London
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary
An exhibition of new work by Kate Mcmorrine and Alec Strang.
