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Two Minutes To Midnight

11 – 26 October

Preview: 11 October 7-9pm

Here Gallery

108 Stokes Croft

Bristol

BS1 3RU

Here Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by emerging contemporary artist Zanne Andrea. Andrea will present a new installation of work incorporating a variety of sculptural objects and images made from fabric, digital print, collage, found materials, and wall projections. She will create the installation using an active process of assemblage, layering and editing her selections to reveal connections and construct narratives, intentionally highlighting the theatricality of both objects and gallery.

In Two Minutes to Midnight Zanne Andrea addresses the notion of a nearing Doomsday, an apocalyptic countdown to unimaginable catastrophic events. A starting point for this exhibition is The Doomsday Clock, used by the Board of Directors of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists since 1947 to measure how close the human race is to destroying the world. This idea of a figurative midnight mirrors much of the anxiety felt during the atomic age and the Cold War, but is also relevant to the more recent anxiety of living in a post 9/11 world with terrorism threats, economies on the brink of collapse, uprisings, protests, world disasters and nuclear meltdowns.

Two Minutes to Midnight coincides exactly with the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a nearly catastrophic nuclear standoff that lasted 13 days between the Soviet Union and The USA, which occurred in October 1962. This exhibition also happens in the months preceding what is known as the end of the Mayan calendar, 21 December 2012, and to some has become yet another predictive date of destruction and/or renewal of the human race.

www.thingsfromhere.co.uk

www.zanneandrea.com

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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