Forthcoming Events
'Hold My Coat'
Jane Evans. Jeremy Cosmo Davies. Ricky James. Ian Metcalfe. Annie O'Donnell. Annie Ravazzolo.
Sarah Riseborough. James Woolley.
Curated by Kimberley Gaiger and Ricky James
'Hold My Coat' brings together contemporary art works by a selection of emerging artists that are currently MA, PhD, final year and recently graduated students.
Showcasing new sculptural works, installations and drawings from artists based in Newcastle, Sunderland and Leeds.
The artists in 'Hold My Coat' each have their separate practices but there are underlying themes of art history, re-contextualising the everyday and the use of traditional and non-traditional materials.
The empty shop space will be alive with contemporary art, allowing visitors to encounter the art works through the windows of the shopping centre and on select days in July, the space will be open to the public, allowing individuals to investigate the works further and observe the otherwise disregarded or overlooked aspects of the work.
Location: Entrance to the Park View Shopping Centre, Whitley Bay, NE26 1DG
Preview: 30th June 2012
12 - 3pm
Exhibition Continues: Sunday 1st July - Saturday 21st July 2012
Space open to the public: Sat 7th, Sat 14th, Sat 21st July 2012
12 - 3pm
Showcasing new sculptural works, installations and drawings from artists based in Newcastle, Sunderland and Leeds.
The artists in 'Hold My Coat' each have their separate practices but there are underlying themes of art history, re-contextualising the everyday and the use of traditional and non-traditional materials.
The empty shop space will be alive with contemporary art, allowing visitors to encounter the art works through the windows of the shopping centre and on select days in July, the space will be open to the public, allowing individuals to investigate the works further and observe the otherwise disregarded or overlooked aspects of the work.
Location: Entrance to the Park View Shopping Centre, Whitley Bay, NE26 1DG
Preview: 30th June 2012
12 - 3pm
Exhibition Continues: Sunday 1st July - Saturday 21st July 2012
Space open to the public: Sat 7th, Sat 14th, Sat 21st July 2012
12 - 3pm
Artists:
Jane Evans
I am intrigued by the way in which colour affects how I feel, the process of combining colour with traditional and non-traditional materials, and as a vehicle in itself is fundamental to my practice. Exploring the relationship between colour, light, space and form I work intuitively to create an outcome, using the opportunity to investigate further into the unforeseen.
My recent work is concerned with research into the decorative arts. Using pattern and repetition as a starting point I am investigating the qualities of materials such as wire, wallpaper, yarns and steel combined with colour.
I am intrigued by the way in which colour affects how I feel, the process of combining colour with traditional and non-traditional materials, and as a vehicle in itself is fundamental to my practice. Exploring the relationship between colour, light, space and form I work intuitively to create an outcome, using the opportunity to investigate further into the unforeseen.
My recent work is concerned with research into the decorative arts. Using pattern and repetition as a starting point I am investigating the qualities of materials such as wire, wallpaper, yarns and steel combined with colour.
Jeremy Cosmo Davies
I am interested in developing my art practice around the utilization of‘off-cuts’ from projects and commissions which I have been intimately involved with. Over the past year I have become particularly interested in how an object evolves into a new narrative by giving new meaning to unnamed forms, either produced by chance or through a formal presentation.
Ricky James
"The Motivating element of the drawing, the line, is thus-defined in two ways: as the 'contour of an object' and as the 'trace of a subject'.
Clemens Krümmel. ‘Drawing – A Medium Art’
Ian Metcalfe
Within my work there is often potential for a reading that points to narrative, but given my methodology the work is as much about art itself in that my practice is intrinsically looking to reinvent these things within the context of art, and I embrace the symbiotic nature of this dialogue. The genesis of a work can be from as diverse a range of concerns as ‘the ego’ to abstract philosophical ideas about consciousness or ‘eternity’, but over time the meanings of these works will evolve whereby they can act as propositions that lend themselves to objective reflection from an aesthetic standpoint. My practice then is an exploration of the intuitive and experimental ‘personal’ amidst the undamentally incoherent ‘universal’: which references the historical [or contemporary], in an attempt to reconcile an entirely new position.
Website: http://www.ianmetcalfe.co.uk/
Annie O'Donnell
Annie O’Donnell uses materials, colours and words drawn from her immediate environment, to examine relationships between people, objects and places. Through a process of ‘testing-out’ in installations and sculpture, she questions place identity narratives in contemporary sculpture; context and intentionality; and the use of myth in both monumental official art projects, and in unmonumental hyperlocal art practice. O’Donnell is a Ph.D researcher at Newcastle University where she gained an MFA in 2009. Her research is funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Doctoral Award.
Annie Ravazzolo
Using everyday materials and drawing from consumerist methods of display I make small intervention onto the materials/objects that I use. By exploiting natural properties in order to transform their reading, this method provides an opportunity to give attention to the otherwise disregarded.
I am involved in exploring the unsteady relationship between receiver/conductor and the notion of ‘idea’. By utilizing drawings drafted from memory, I marry these ‘diagrams of experience’ with seemingly unrelated materials to create pieces
that explore a ‘moment’ of encounter.
Sarah Riseborough
I use both specifically art materials and non-art materials, imply accident and aim to set up an opportunity for something to happen which is not entirely controlled.
Website: http://sarahriseborough.tumblr.com/
James Woolley
The visual object is a catalyst for the work to manifest itself as a work of the mind. This challenges questions of art and also how people approach entities that cannot be explained. My work attempts to withdraw from the approach that there is an explanation for everything but rather signatures viewer reluctance towards acceptance of the unknown or unexplainable.
Images coutresy of the atists
Visual Arts Degree Show 2012
It's approcaching that time of year again...
The Visual Arts Degree Show presents the work of BA (Hons) Fine Art and BA (Hons) Contemporary Photographic Practice graduates.
Special Preview: Thursday 14 June 2012
Exhibition: 15 June - 26 June 2012
The exhibition is the culmination of undergraduate studies for 2012 and, as in previous years, the exhibition will demonstrate an extremely high level of creative achievement with each student cultivating an individual practice that is distinctively their own, and that reflects the diversity of contemporary ideas and culture.
The Visual Arts Degree Show provides graduating students with an opportunity to showcase their work before embarking on careers in the arts and creative industries. Through their individual art works, our graduates demonstrate original and innovative approaches to art practice.
The event is open to staff, current and future students as well as the general public, enabling all visitors to view the new generation of artists as they make their distinctive mark on contemporary ideas and culture.
This popular event, which is eagerly awaited each year, attracts hundreds of visitors.
The 2012 Visual Arts Degree Show will exhibit works by over 100 artists and it is an ideal opportunity to wish our graduates every success in their future careers.
Save the date as this exhibition should not to be missed!
The Visual Arts Degree Show presents the work of BA (Hons) Fine Art and BA (Hons) Contemporary Photographic Practice graduates.
Special Preview: Thursday 14 June 2012
Exhibition: 15 June - 26 June 2012
The exhibition is the culmination of undergraduate studies for 2012 and, as in previous years, the exhibition will demonstrate an extremely high level of creative achievement with each student cultivating an individual practice that is distinctively their own, and that reflects the diversity of contemporary ideas and culture.
The Visual Arts Degree Show provides graduating students with an opportunity to showcase their work before embarking on careers in the arts and creative industries. Through their individual art works, our graduates demonstrate original and innovative approaches to art practice.
The event is open to staff, current and future students as well as the general public, enabling all visitors to view the new generation of artists as they make their distinctive mark on contemporary ideas and culture.
This popular event, which is eagerly awaited each year, attracts hundreds of visitors.
The 2012 Visual Arts Degree Show will exhibit works by over 100 artists and it is an ideal opportunity to wish our graduates every success in their future careers.
Save the date as this exhibition should not to be missed!