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What Does Your Screen Smell Like?

26 July – 28 July

Private view Thursday 26 July 6-9pm
Talk Friday 27 July. 6-8pm
Speakers: Anna Baker, Thomas Cuckle and Jeff Dennis

The Garage,

Hoxton,

London,

N1 6RE

The idea behind this exhibition is to see art in reality. In this post digital era, everything can be seen on-line, it is all available to everyone all the time. We can see everything ranging from the large institutions of The National Gallery to individual artists setting up their own web-page. This of course can be seen as a wonderful thing, however the real experience of seeing, hearing, feeling and smelling art is a different experience. To stand where the artist has stood and see the marks they have made, to get up close is to experience a connection that is not possible through a screen.
Most artists’ dream of huge gallery spaces, polished concrete floors and white walls, we have not attempted to go for this option. Instead we are exhibiting our work in an untraditional gallery. There are no white walls here. It is a very raw space of concrete, steel and breeze block. It is also a place of work, with workshops, leading directly off.
For us to be able to exhibit our work here means it has to speak for itself and hold its own ground. It hasn’t been tweeked for a computer screen, there is no digital enhancement, manipulation or special lighting. You will be able to walk around the sculptures and put your nose close to the paintings. 
As artists we want our work to be seen in the flesh, warts and all. We will not be putting up images of the exhibition before the opening. You are invited to come and experience the work in the raw.
After all, ‘What does your screen smell like?’

Artists: Ralph Anderson, Tim Barnes, Sasha Bowles, Josue Borges, Karen David, Alice Eikelpoth, Philip Elbourne, Matt Gee, Ann-Marie James

http://www.facebook.com/events/234526456664068/

http://www.what-does-your-screen-smell-like.blogspot.co.uk/

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Artefacts Of Failure

27 July – 7 October

QUAD,

Market Place,

Cathedral Quarter,

Derby,

DE1 3AS

Collated from a national open call featuring paintings that were never completed; exhibition proposals that were never realised; rejection letters; broken sculptures; over exposed photographs and any other works that initially weren’t a success.

Artists include:
Jonathan Alibone & Alexander Small, Richard Bradley, Sophie Cullinan, Joseph Davis, Sarah Dixon, Bryan Eccleshall, Nansy Ferrett-Campbell, Mira Graham, Charlie Hurcombe, Susan Martin, Paul Matosic, Ingrid Berthon-Moine, Barry Morris, Marc Renshaw, Miriam Robson, Heather Rudd, Frances Ryan, Estelle Rocca-Serra, Martha Webster, Elizabeth Wewiora and Simon Withers.

http://www.derbyquad.co.uk/exhibition/artefacts-failure

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BLANK PROMISCUITY

Gill Anderson, Julia Bardsley, Wayne Lucas, Kira O’Reilly, Simon Vincenzi, Jacqueline Utley


St Paul's Project Space,
125 Deptford High St,
London,
SE8 4NS

27 July – 12 August 2012

Open: Friday-Sunday 12-6pm

Preview: 26 July, 6-8pm, All welcome

(27 July open for SLAM last Fridays until 9pm)

Saturday 4 August 2pm guided conversation with Leila Galloway

Part of Deptford X contemporary Art Festival 2012

Building upon the success of Fleeting Resonance, BLANK PROMISCUITY aims to re-surface the notion of furtive excess. Each practice has a defined subjectivity and distinct sensibility; there is no perceived common ground either formally or conceptually. However when placed in close proximity to each other the inherent singularity of the work presented begins to bleed and fuse to form an exchange where tiers of embellishment emerge and come to light. Proposing a possible pleasure of difference, or an awkward and critical dialogue of surface tension.

www.stpaulsprojectspace.wordpress.com

www.facebook.com/events/159886050813971/

www.deptfordx.webeden.co.uk

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290.25m3

Spike Island

133 Cumberland Road

Bristol

BS1 6UX

Thursday 19 July 2012

6-8pm

For one night only, artists from Top Floor Studios present 290.25m3. This pop-up exhibition is the second in a series of shows being organised by members of the Spike Island community in a new, temporary gallery space. The events showcase and experiment with the breadth of activity that goes on in the building.

290.25m3 features new video, photography, print, painting and installations from Noe Baba, Angela Baum, Richard Broomhall, Julian Claxton, Matt Davies, Carol Jackman, Gina Lundy, Milo Newman, Darn Thorn and Kamina Walton.

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Review by John F.B Tucker:

http://www.neoartists.co.uk/blog/?p=2998

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neo:gallery22,
The Market Place,
Bolton,
BL1 2AL

14 June - 28 July
Thursday - Sunday 11am - 5pm

The art prize is the first in a series of high profile exhibitions planned by Bolton based neo:studios, a not-for-profit organization founded in 2007. ‘neo:artprize’ is an open exhibiton inviting the work from artists of all ages, and nationalities, who practice contemporary art in the UK. The independent jury included Kwong Lee, Director of Castlefield Gallery, and Aileen McEvoy, the former executive Director at Arts Council England. Works were selected anonymously, and this year over 350 entries were received.

An exhibition showcasing the work of all the final shortlisted artists will be held in neo:gallery22 from 14 June - 28 July.

http://www.neoartists.co.uk/artprize.asp

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Server

Z-Shed, Harbourside, Bristol

15-18 June

Private View 14 June 6-10pm

Fragmentation and appropriation are the determining factors of twenty-first century narratives; as the first generation of digital natives comes to age, it constructs its own story, around and through its interactions with the screens and surfaces of mass culture.

This exhibition brings together five artists that have grown up within the development of digital culture, from the early days of text-only chat rooms, to the point where our immersion in the digital realm affects our reading of ontological reality, and vice-versa, so that we are caught in a feedback loop, where each platform and narrative is influenced by the other, on and on; always on.

Artists:

Alex Cotterell

Jack Addis

Tom Johnson

Will Kendrick

Trevor H Smith

Lewk Wilmshurst

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CHROMA

6 July – 29 July, Blankspace, Manchester

Preview 5 July 6-9pm

Artist Talk 18 July 6.30pm

Free Entry

Systems of ordering, classification and coding are applied in the development and generation of Liz West’s work in her first major solo exhibition, Chroma at Blankspace, Manchester. “I establish boundaries which determine both what is collected and where it is collected from. Accumulating only purely coloured objects, I consider the psychological influence of colour and it’s affect and sensory impact on the viewed”. West invokes the monumental, whilst utilising commonplace objects found and collected from the world around her.

West will be showing three new, site-specific works at BLANKSPACE gallery, opening to the public on 6 July. The work embodies her ongoing research and interest in colour theory, light and the physical construction of real and illusory space. “I am interested in the methodologies within order and collections found in the home environment, museums, shops and in library archives. Everyone has their own personal formula for classification and arrangement of these objects”.

West is interested in the visual collision of densely massed objects and also in more formal collections and arrangements of objects found in shops, markets and museums. Orange Chamber is a illusive landscape of detritus giving the impression of a unbounded field of intensely coloured and richly saturated forms. West’s work immerses the viewer and creates a scenic space that is both evocative and magical allowing the viewer to form personal experiences and moments where time stands still.

“West’s work pursues a logic and in doing so brings some of the mad logic of commercialism, how it arranges the world into relief. The works find and offer a poetic and abstract beauty in only apparently sterile environments.”
[New Blood Art]

Through half remembered childhood memories or emotional association, colour, light and form can dramatically alter our perception and reality. Whether it is to be discovered or hidden within the space and objects or dissecting through the fabric of the building, Liz West’s work creates juxtaposition between what is real and blurred palpability.

Chroma is a culmination of West’s interests and ideas over a five-year period during which she has investigated and tested sculptural and spatial collections of manufactured and found colour to produce work in a range of media.

Chroma is curated by Blank Media Collective and is kindly supported by Arts Council England, ASK Developments, Sandbar and Full Circle Arts. Admission to the exhibition will be free. Accompanying the exhibition will be a limited edition exhibition catalogue.