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Dr Iain Biggs elected
RSA Fellow Dr Iain Biggs, Reader in Visual Arts in the Faculty of Creative Arts, Humanities and Education at UWE, Bristol, co-convenor of LAND2 and Director of PLaCE, has recently been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA). Iain has recently returned from the USA where, together with LAND2 members Dr Judy Tucker (Leeds) and Dr Victoria Walters (UWE), he attended the “Mapping Spectral Traces” symposium at Virginia Tech organized by Prof Karen Till, also an associate member of LAND2. Judith and Iain also each exhibited work in one of the two exhibitions accompanying the symposium - get a pdf of catalogue at: http://www.isce.vt.edu/files/MappingSpectralTracesCatalogFull.pdf Iain commented: “I am delighted to have been honoured in this way, not least because I believe it demonstrates the growing and very positive impact that the work of PLaCE and LAND2 are now having in the national and international arena”. |
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All Over
the Place: Drawing Place, Drawing Space. Recent drawings by 17 contemporary artists will be featured in a forthcoming exhibition at the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds. Selected works will be exhibited by artists from the LAND2 group and the Drawing Research Group (University of Lincoln) that explore the relationship between the act of drawing and the experience of place. The exhibition, ‘All Over the Place: Drawing Place, Drawing Space,’ runs from 22 June - 23 October 2010. The Gallery is open Mon-Sat, 10-5pm, and admission is free. The exhibition celebrates the artists’ ongoing research into the experience of drawing. Participating artist Anne-Marie Creamer explains, ‘I see drawing as a spatial practice, touching quite literally on an intertextual labyrinth of references.’ Using a range of media, the artists investigate how the act of drawing influences how we understand and engage with spaces, as well as how places can influence drawing practice itself. LAND2 is a national research network of artists, lecturers and students with an interest in contemporary landscape and place-oriented art practice; the exhibition is a result of its collaboration with the Drawing Research Group. The participating artists are Catherine Baker, Iain Biggs, Jayne Bingham, Anne-Marie Creamer, Paul Edwards, Paul Fieldsend-Danks, Deborah Gardner, Polly Gould, Mick McGraw, John Plowman, Gill Robertson, Doris Rohr, Dan Shipsides, Emma Stibbon, Andrea Thoma, Judith Tucker, and David Walker-Barker. All Over the Place is a title borrowed from Lucy Lippard’s The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multi-centred Society, in which she describes place as a temporal, spatial, personal and political map of a person’s life – tracking its past, present and future. In their drawings, the artists explore places as locations layered with human histories, identities and memories. As artist David Walker-Barker commented: ‘Drawing is one way of touching a landscape and whatever that landscape enfolds. Responses are strongest where humanity and the landscape have formed an alliance, coming together in exacting and striking relationships.’ Artist-lecturers Dr. Iain Biggs (University of the West of England) and Judith Tucker (University of Leeds) established the LAND2 group in 2002. This network of artists, art lecturers and students share a core of common interests around how art practices can engage with the possibilities and problems of contemporary landscape and place. Jayne Bingham (Norwich University College of the Arts) and Judith Tucker co-convened the current show, a version of which was exhibited at the University of the West of England, Bristol in 2008. Tucker hopes to show how considering place inflects her dramatic monochrome pieces, as well as how that practice might contribute to an affective understanding of a specific place. Her intention is that drawings ‘become places between, interstitial areas, uncanny spaces between past and present: arguably holding the potential for a postmemorial affect’. Paul Edwards agrees, he sees ‘drawing as a means of making a connection in a specific way with the physical world. It is an act of contemplation; drawing takes time and contains time.’ The exhibition will be accompanied by a programme of events, including an academic symposium and a family fun day. Full event details can be found on the gallery website: www.leeds.ac.uk/gallery/exhibitions-future.htm The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT www.leeds.ac.uk/gallery Tel: +44 (0)113 3432778 Fax: +44 (0)113 3435561 E-mail: gallery@leeds.ac.uk Admission/ Hours: 10.00 - 17.00, Mon-Saturday Admission: FREE |
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Calvert22 is delighted to present Distance and Sensibility, featuring work by Pavel Büchler, Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Margarita Gluzberg, Marysia Lewandowska and Lily Markiewicz and curated by David Thorp. Each of the five artists taking part in Distance and Sensibility originates from a different part of Eastern Europe and Russia and they have each, for different reasons, decided to settle in the UK. This exhibition will examine the sensibility that such movement has engendered in the work of these artists. The spread of people around the globe has proved fertile ground for artists both as individuals as well as collectively. Frequently the focus in the West is on the Asian or African Diasporas but the largest dispersion of peoples around the world after the Chinese originates in Poland. However, the exhibition acknowledges that there is much more to the production of art than concerns with individual identity and considers the work of these artists as part of the global phenomenon that is contemporary art. The exhibition does not seek to address the position of the migrant from a sentimental or nostalgic point of view or as an extension of the notion of the “other”. It instead invites the audience to reflect upon how the sensibilities that led to the production of these works were formed. German-born artist Lily Markiewicz explores displacement, language and territory through the media of video, photography and sound. She depicts everyday, domestic images that can be read as simultaneously familiar and foreign to the viewer. Her work is rooted in a history of migration, placelessness and the act of remembering. For Markiewicz, the function and even purpose of memory are both theme and question. Tarkovsky’s Mirror (1-2-3, 2010 takes the form of a triptych comprised of three diptychs. Each diptych is made from a combination of found objects, photographic images and video in order to investigate the often-obscure relationship of reality to fantasy and memory, and the role they play in our understanding of the world and our place in it. Address: 22 Calvert Avenue, London E2 7JP Opening Hours: Wednesday - Saturday: 10am - 6pm; Sunday: 11am - 5pm Admission: Free Contact: +44 (0) 20 7613 2141| info@calvert22.org Nearest Tube: Old St / Liverpool St Website: www.calvert22.org |
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Louise K Wilson Thursday February 11th 2010 18:00 - 20:00hrs RSVP by February 4th to Louise K Wilson at lkwilson@dircon.co.uk The Theatres Trust First Floor 22 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H OQL Nearest Tube : Leicester Square You are invited to a seminar and screening event to mark the end of Louise K Wilson’s NESTA Fellowship. This evening event will explore ideas around sound, the uncanny, resonance, architecture and haunting. Participants include writer and composer David Toop, artist Jacob Kirkegaard, curator Lina Dzuverovic and artist Louise K Wilson. Discussion will be accompanied by film extracts and sound clips to illustrate various perspectives on the sonification of space. |
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Over the course of her Fellowship, Louise travelled inside numerous military and scientific sites in pursuit of the acoustics of resonant spaces. She explored the ways in which technologies of the audible create new ways of engaging with the lost traces of institutional places that are ordinarily overlooked and was interested in how these sites resonate with cinematic narratives. The participants in the event have been invited based on conceptual and thematic overlaps with this line of enquiry. Please note that wheelchair users may need assistance to access the lift inside the building. |
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| Faculty of Arts A symposium/debate: ‘Drawing, Place and Memory’ Friday15th January 2010, 2pm -5.30pm Sallis Benny Theatre, Grand Parade, Brighton, Sussex BN2 OJY |
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What kind of role
can drawing have in researching and reflecting on the appearance of
places (where we are) and our relationship to them physically and
in memory (how we are)? Timed to coincide with
Emma Stibbon's exhibition ‘StadtLandschaften’
in the University gallery, Dr Iain Biggs,
Anne Marie Creamer and Emma Stibbon will
be making individual presentations and debating these issues in subsequent
conversation between themselves and the audience. The event chaired
by Peter Seddon is open to all and will be of particular interest
to those exploring drawing and its use in rural/wild/urban locations. Dr Iain Biggs is Reader in Visual Art Practice in the Faculty of Creative Arts, University of the West of England, Bristol. Trained as a painter and printmaker, he is currently engaged in a collaborative deep mapping project in north Cornwall, employing a range of different media, including drawing. www.land2.uwe.ac.uk/ibiggs.htm |
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| Anne-marie Creamer
is an artist and academic. Her films, drawings and objects collectively
form a kind of expanded narrative that tread a line between documentary
& fiction, realism & illusion. www.amcreamer.net
Emma Stibbon is an artist who places drawing at the centre of her practice, she teaches on the Fine Art: Printmaking BA(Hons) course at the University of Brighton Faculty of Arts. Her practice spans the extremes of the natural and the urban landscape and focuses on the constant transformation of place. artsresearch.brighton.ac.uk/research/academic/stibbon This event is open to all, there is no need to prebook. For more information please contact Madi Meadows on 01273 643720 |
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