JOSEFINA POSCH EXHIBITION PREVIEW, ONE TO ONE SURGERIES AND CRITIQUE Friday 19, Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 November

ARC  is pleased to be able to offer one to one surgeries and a critique with Josefina Posch, the 2010 Art Space Portsmouth International Artist in Residence.  Josefina's exhibition - The Logic of Basho - an installation and video, opens at GASP (Gallery Art Space Portsmouth) on Friday 19 November from 6.30 to 8.30pm and is then open to the public on 20, 21 and 22 November from 12 - 4pm.

Josefina's work has been exhibited in Europe, China and the USA.  She has also successfully completed residencies in New York and Shanghai.  Her work explores interactive and kinetic sculpture, new media and moving image, with particular interest in the 'intersection between man and machine'.  During Josefina’s residency in Portsmouth she is developing a project that includes body castings from live local models.  As Josefina explains in her blog: “The idea is that these body parts from different individuals will be assembled into one figure. This figure becomes the representation for the "average" Portsmouth inhabitant. To reflect the demographics of Portsmouth I have been casting male and females white British 20-40 year old average height and weight but also representatives from the less than 10% non-white British minority communities in the area as well as persons of much older age.

The starting point for my project is the techniques of the old renaissance masters Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo’s usage of several different models in order to create one ideal figure. With the Vertruvian man Da Vinci illustrated his ideas of the ideal human (proportions) which he saw as a “cosmografia del minor mondo” (cosmography of the microcosm) believing the workings of the human body to be an analogy for the workings of the universe. But my ideas, living in the 21st century, of the perfect figure or human being is rather based upon the beauty of a multiethnic collage ofcultures existing within the same figure. It might be more connected to a baroque (from barrocco meaning imperfect pearl) idea of the necessity of imperfection in order to achieve perfection.” 

For more information, follow Josefina’s blog at:http://aspinternationalresidency2010.blogspot.com/

On Thursday 25 November from 6.30 to 8.30pm artists are invited to attend a critique with Josefina when she will consider the results of her residency.  The critique will be led by arc Lead Artist, Jonathan Parsons and held at aspex.  Please email arc@aspex.org.uk to reserve your place.

On Wednesday 24 November we have four one to one surgeries available toartists in the South East.  Artists can use these sessions to gain feedback on their work or to discuss any aspect of career development, fundraising, making proposals, or a particular project. Surgeries last 50 minutes.  To register your interest, please email a copy of your CV, artist’s statement, 4 jpeg images of current work and a paragraph or two about what you would like to discuss to arc@aspex.org.uk. 

You can find out more about Josefina and her work at http://www.wooloo.org/artists/694

6by4 Secret Postcard Exhibition & Sale this weekend!

Don't forget this weekend is the preview of the 6by4 Secret Postcard Exhibition and Sale at GASP (Gallery Art Space Portsmouth)  - so go get yourself a bargain!
Preview: Friday 12th November, 6pm - 9pm
Sale of artwork commences at 7pm on a first come first served basis

Exhibition and sale continues:
Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th November, 12noon - 5pm
at GASP, Art Space Portsmouth, 27 Brougham Road, Southsea, Hampshire, PO5 4PA

This is a one-off opportunity to buy an original art work for just £20 the perfect Christmas gift!

To help celebrate their 30th Anniversary Art Space is hosting an exhibition full of  surprises. They've asked artists, designers, musicians, TV personalities and assorted creative types to make and donate an original postcard-sized artwork in their medium of choice. The artists' identity will remain secret until the point of purchase.

Emerging talent will be shown alongside established artists and media superstars giving art lovers and collectors the chance to purchase a hidden gem at the very reasonable flat rate of £20.

Contributors include Martin Parr, Wayne Hemingway, Sir Paul Smith and Richard Wilson. They've had entries from all over the world including the Ukraine, France, USA and the British Virgin Islands. Many submissions come from artists with international reputations, some of whom have played a significant role in the history of Art Space Portsmouth and Aspex Gallery.

All proceeds from the sale of postcards will help support future Art Space projects and initiatives.

Art Space Portsmouth is a charitable organisation providing much needed support for artists in the region. 28 of the 45 members rent studio space in a converted chapel and the group makes a significant cultural contribution to the city and beyond through exhibitions, workshops and public art projects.

For further information please visit the Exhibitions section of web site:
http://www.artspace.co.uk/?page_id=3D85

Images:  Some of the postcards received - preview all of the postcards on Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/groups/6by4/

400 Women

12-18 November 2010
Shoreditch Town Hall Basement, 380 Old Street, London EC1V 9LT

A portrait project featuring new work by 200 artists including Tracey Emin, Maggi Hambling, Swoon, Humphrey Ocean and Portsmouth based artist Mike Bartlett in response to the widespread murders of women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

This ambitious project was conceived by artist Tamsyn Challenger in response to the brutal murder and rape of more than 400 women over a decade in the US border town of Ciudad Juárez and the region of Chihuahua in Mexico. Some 200 exceptional artists have each painted one of the murdered women, confronting us with and safeguarding in our memory the dead and disappeared. The exhibition raises important questions about the capacity of art to represent tragedy and commemorate the dead, as well as the potential for art to affect an audience and the collective nature of grief. The exhibition is curated by Ellen Mara De Wachter, a curator and writer based in London.

The exhibitions website: 400women.tumblr.com
Shoreditch Town Hall: shoreditchtownhall.org.uk
Mike Bartlett's website: michaelbartlett.org.uk

An Orchestra Of Strings

4-14 November
The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church, Euston Road, London, NW1 2BA

While fear of love and loss can be a heavy subject to tackle, a group of 17 artists have come together to explore the related themes with humour and imagination. In the show, An Orchestra of Strings the artists use a variety of media including paint, sculpture, photography and film to make artworks about motherhood, ageing, absences, the memorial and overcoming fears. The result is a far- from- depressing experience.

Throughout our lives intimate attachments to other human beings are essential to our well being. The experience of loss at an early age, as we separate from our mothers, is a natural part of our psychological development. As we grow up falling in love and loving can re-stimulate these early feelings of loss leading to fears of emotional attachment. By risking loving others, a person draws strength and enjoyment of life and can contribute to give the same to others.

More details at The Crypt Gallery's website: cryptgallery.org.uk

Pictured: Saudade by Jane Tudge, see more of her work at janetudge.com

Brilliant Cloud

28 October – 19 December 2010
at Sir James Matthews Building, 157-187 Above Bar Street, Southampton, Hampshire, SO14 7NN

"Brilliant Cloud is the name given to boredomresearch’s latest work, in which hundreds of bands of vibrant colour combine to create cloud-like formations. Inspired by patterns formed in agate (a form of volcanic quartz) they are neither cloud nor rock but play with the space between these two very opposite substances."

Collaborating as boredomresearch, Southampton-based Vicky Isley and Paul Smith make artworks inspired by the diversity that exists in nature. Their practice uses computer modelling techniques to explore the creative potential of diversity. Inspired by pattern formations such as the marks on butterfly wings, boredomresearch create new, intricate and diverse forms of intrigue and beauty. In many of their artworks they have employed artificial techniques to bring these forms to life, creating works that unfold in real time.

Also included in the exhibition are boredomresearch’s latest software objects, Lost Calls of Cloud Mountain Whirligigs – a world populated with mysterious flying life forms called Whirligigs, inspired by birds of paradise, flower petals and mechanical flying machines. As time passes, unique Whirligigs are created with new forms, colours and their own song. Each visitor gets to see just one slice from the immense diversity explored over time.

Millais Off-Site Projects, Part of Southampton Solent University, presents a contemporary visual arts programme which supports and promotes artists and innovative exhibitions around the city of Southampton and Southampton Solent University Campus.

Beyond the Looking Glass

28 October 2010 - 28 February 2011

at Sir James Matthews Building, 157-187 Above Bar Street, Southampton, Hampshire, SO14 7NN

In Beyond the Looking Glass Katayoun Dowlatshahi imagines the reflections in the windows as another reality; a reality in which the many reflections of cars, buses and passers-by are captured and simultaneously layered by the camera shutter. Using photography, Katayoun applies all the technical possibilities of the medium – the lens to catch the view of traffic flowing by, the layering of the reflections in the windows, double exposures – to build an image that is both realistic and illusory. This technology allows us to capture the smallest moments in time. The artist takes the pictures, builds up the scene and edits the result so that we can glimpse a new world.

Millais Off-Site Projects, part of Southampton Solent University, presents a contemporary visual arts programme which supports and promotes artists and innovative exhibitions around the city and Southampton Solent University Campus.

It has to be this way1.5

23 October 2010 – 2 January 2011
Preview: Saturday 23 October, 2 – 4pm
at aspex, The Vulcan Building, Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth, PO1 3BF

"In 1999 a young woman was involved in a moped accident. She suffered damage to both her short and long-term memory and was left unable to decipher her experiences. A year later she went missing in Rome and has subsequently not been found."

It has to be this way1.5 is a new commission by aspex and marks Lindsay Seers’ continued attempts to unravel the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the young woman, her stepsister, Christine Parkes.

What constitutes the artistic practice of Lindsay Seers is not mere storytelling, but a matrix where there is no formal separation between the conceptual investigation of the act of photography, the camera as apparatus, the common desire for film and photography to act as evidence of events, and the complex historical and personal synchronicities of the events themselves. What we are witnessing in the work of Seers is not so much a detached systematic outline of these relationships, but the unfolding of the creative process, where the act of observation and understanding influences the outcome of events.

Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, will also be exhibiting the work of Lindsay Seers. The installation It has to be this way2 will be exhibited from 9 October until 11 December 2010.

Artist David Burrows will give a critical response to Lindsay Seers’ work on Thursday 11 November at 6pm.

Heft: Weight and Touch in Contemporary Sculpture

24 September - 14 November 2010
Now showing at The Gallery, Winchester Discovery Centre, Jewry Street, Winchester, SO23 8SB

"How much does a sculpture weigh? And if we cannot lift it, if we cannot even touch it, how important is its weight to the way it looks and the way we understand it?"

Heft is an exhibition of a dozen challenging sculptures by contemporary artists, selected by sculptor Tony Hayward. It examines the significance of weight, density, and tactile qualities, in what are primarily visual objects.

The project is a collaboration between Winchester Discovery Centre, Hampshire Sculpture Trust and Winchester School of Art.

Taking part are

Thomas Adank Jason de Caires Taylor Maurice Citron Sophia Olivia Clapham Katayoun Dowlatshahi

Noemie Goudal Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva Caroline Holt Julia Kubik Liane Lang

Philip Morris Myles Painter Nicholas Rena Gavin Turk Fabien Villon

TRASH CARNIVAL

Have you heard about The Trash Carnival - it's taking place on Saturday 14 August, 12 noon to 4pm in Havant Park - 

it should be great fun and 

has a serious message.

Havant Transition Network are behind the event which is aimed at increasing the awareness of our dependancy on oil by using 

the everyday items that are made from oil and making Sculptures, Art, music and Fashion with them.

On the day there will be: Batala Samba band,  live music from Dub band DubbleBubble, Omnimoda record label are supplying 

the Trash Band shennanigans which you are invited to join in with, Trash Sculptures, competitions, free childrens workshops, f

ace painting, circus skills tent and local produce stalls plus lots lots more....

If you want to get involved, help with the workshops or want your group to perform on the day then contact

markwillenbruch@yahoo.co.uk

TOMORROW - THE HOUSE OF FAIRY TALES

Don't miss The House of Fairy Tales - opening tomorrow and partying all weekend!

Once upon a time...

in an Arts Centre not so far away a Visual Arts Programmer discovered a Travelling Art Troupe

who were just too exciting for words!  She invited them to the Arts Centre and there they began

a thrilling  residency featuring murals and clay story making in which everybody could  get involved.

And so the people came and admired magnificent art, created  magical characters and had a play

with clay. At the end of the day they left enthused and inspired and lived...
happily ever after.

Friday 6 August from 6pm - 8pm The House of Fairy Tales  Exhibition Opening Party 

As well as offering you the usual glass of wine (or juice)  we will be giving you the chance to make

your mark on the Clay Story Mountain  and the giant blank canvas that will become the 

Metamorphoses Mural!  Unleash your creativity and add your own special touch to a central part  

of this exhibition, which will feature work by national and  Wiltshire-based artists.

Don't  think you're artistic enough? It doesn't matter; everyone's welcome to  come and get involved.

Can't make  it to the Opening Party? Do not fear - we're so excited about the  exhibition

that we'll be celebrating all weekend!

Join  us in the Arts Centre grounds on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 August from 12 - 5pm.

Artist  Gavin Turk and writer Deborah Curtis have enlisted the help of visual  artists who have frequently

worked with Salisbury Arts Centre in the  region, as well as artists, performers, musicians and inventors

from The  House of Fairy Tales... don't miss the results! The exhibition will run until Saturday 18 September.

 
Call 01722 321744 or visit www.salisburyartscentre.co.uk 

for further  information or RSVP to boxoffice@salisburyarts.co.uk. We hope to  see you there; the mural just won't be the same without you.

 

LAURA HENSER CITY PORTRAITS SOUTHAMPTON

Laura Hensser: City Portraits - 16 July until October 2010 - Guildhall Square, Southampton

16 July sees the launch of City Portraits, a major new public artwork organised in association with John Hansard Gallery,

artist Laura Hensser and Paul Sweetman, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Southampton.

Twenty of Southampton's residents agreed to be photographed for a series of full-length, life-sized portraits, which will be installed on banners in and
around the newly refurbished Guildhall Square. These minimal images will portray each participant suspended within the ceaseless activity of the busy
street, secluded within their own space.

The portraits will celebrate the lives of each individual as well as representing the diversity of the city's population.

City Portraits will be the first in a series of events welcoming people into Southampton's new Cultural Quarter.

The artwork is underpinned by Paul Sweetman's research with City Portraits participants exploring the experience and possibilities of representation and
recognition, and issues of ethics and anonymity in sociological research.

City Portraits forms part of the Creative Campus Initiative, a consortium of South East Universities working together in support of the Cultural Olympiad.

Laura Hensser is a Southampton-based artist. In 2009 she was awarded the ARC Award at Aspex

Gallery, Portsmouth and was a recent participant on the NES artist residency program in Iceland.

Creative Campus Initiative is recognised by the London 2012 Inspire programme.

LIFE CASTING CLASS

· 1 day, 3 techniques & a cast to take away

· Discover a skin safe rubber, capable of capturing incredible detail

· Later immortalise your friends, family and colleagues

Booking deadline: Friday 23^rd July

ASPEX CALL FOR ARTISTS FILMS

ARTIST STUDIO FOR RENT AT BEDFORD CREATIVE ARTS

Bedford Creative Arts are in the process of accepting applications for renting of our Brand New Artists’ Studios.

www.bedfordcreativearts.org.uk

Bedford Creative Arts has seven newly renovated artists' studios available to rent in central Bedford. For more info and application details go to: www.bedfordcreativearts.org.uk or email KateL@bedfordcreativearts.org.uk

Deadline for applications is 21st July 2010

SEE ROAD BUZZ AT THE LONGBOARD LOUNGE

Road Buzz Screening

Date:	Sunday, July 11, 2010
Time:	3:00pm and 6:00pm
Location:	Woking YMCA
Street:	Chobham road
City/Town:	Woking, United Kingdom
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The Longboard Lounge present ROAD BUZZ at 3pm and 6pm, so come see the movie on the big screen. Running time 80 minutes. Entry is £2, which also enters you into the Longboard Lounge Random Raffle..(you can win something..maybe!) with all proceeds going to the YMCA.

The Lounge will be open all day and after the 6pm screening. http://www.longboardlounge.com

For advance tickets please call the shop on 01483 720620

Here's a review and press release...

Lush Longboards Blog: Road Buzz DVD - The Review

downhillskateboarding.blogspot.com

HOMEGROWN II AT THE DEPOZITORY

Private View in partnership with On the Wight - 10th July, 6 - 9pm.

Homegrown II The Depozitory, Nelson Street, Ryde. Part of Ryde Arts Festival 2010

Saturday 3rd - 11th July / 12 - 6pm daily Private View Saturday 10th July, 6-9pm

Lisa Traxler, Adrienne Wroath, Steven Sales and Ergo Phizmiz. Special Guest: Toxic

The surreal disused basement of a former Wesleyan chapel plays host to a two week residency by four contemporary artists to create an immersive environment.

Lisa Traxler, Adrienne Wroath and Steven Sales will collaboratively create a 3D imagined landscape from paper and fabric whilst sound artist and ‘one man movement’ Ergo Phizmiz will form an accompanying audio soundscape.

Homegrown’s special guest Toxic will by creating a huge outdoor urban art piece live throughout the week so come along and see the process behind the art.

'I AM NOT AFRAID': Lisa Traxler and Karen Grainger: Homegrown II

2 July - 11 July FREE Exhibition

St Thomas' Church (Ryde) St Thomas’ Street Ryde PO33 2DL

Part of Ryde Arts Festival 2010

Friday 2nd - 11th July / Open 24/7 // St Thomas’ Churchyard

Brought to you by Homegrown as part of the Ryde Arts Festival 2010

Nestled in the centre of Ryde, St Thomas' churchyard will play host to 'I am not afraid' a series of other worldly installations from island artists Lisa Traxler and Karen Grainger.

Inspired by cultural beliefs and perceptions of life and death and the rituals we follow, you are invited to immersive yourself in this contemporary public art piece that will question what is here and what is there?

OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW WORK AT THE BELGIAN CAFE IN RAMSGATE

SeaART is back for 2010!!!

YOU ARE INVITED TO REGISTER YOUR INTEREST TO SUBMIT ARTWORK
This year's theme theme is 'Marine Life', and the 'Coastal and
Marine' environment

Exhibition Dates: 13 - 25 August 2010
at Belgian Café Ramsgate

Please register your interest & work before 9 August
You can register to submit your artwork by agreeing and returning the
'SeaART2009 Exhibition Artist Terms of Agreement' (in Word
document attached) to the
Thanet Coast Project
E-mail: thanet.coast@thanet.gov.uk
Post: c/o TDC, PO Box 9, Cecil St, Margate CT9 1XZ


'SeaART2010' aims to promote the wealth of work by artists inspired
by our coast and marine environment, that live or work in North East
Kent.

LINKS & THEME:
SeaART2010 is the seventh annual exhibition celebrating our seas and
wildlife organised by the Thanet Coast Project, and this year links in
with Ramsgate's summer events - the Monster Bass Festival (14-15 Aug,
fishy celebrations) followed by Ramsgate Week (16-21 Aug,
www.ramsgateweek.com).
This year's SeaART theme is 'Marine Life' - linking to
"International Year of Biodiversity" - and the 'Coast and
Marine' environment.

We welcome the submission of all types of new exhibits of contemporary
visual artwork, sculptures, installations and photographs. The
contemporary art exhibitions will be focussed at the Belgian Café in
Ramsgate, with a small outreach of exhibits in 4c York Street window and
Spencer Square (Tennis Courts Café).
There is no cost to artists to exhibit.

PLEASE see the PDF document attached - and reply on the SeaART2010
Terms of Agreement to register your interest and Work to submit

We look forward to seeing your works!

Best wishes,
Thanet Coast Project Team


Thanet Coast Project
Tel: (01843) 577672 & 577409
c/o Thanet District Council,
PO Box 9, Cecil Street, Margate, Kent CT9 1XZ
E-mail: thanet.coast@thanet.gov.uk
Web: www.thanetcoast.org.uk

MASTERS FINE ART SHOW AT GASP

You are warmly invited to the next event at GASP

(Gallery Art Space Portmouth)

Masters Fine Art

An exhibition of selected works from the University of Portsmouth MA in Fine Art

Preview: Friday, 16th July 2010 6-8pm

FREE - All welcome

Also open: Saturday, 17th July 12-4pm
Sunday, 18th July 12-4pm
Friday, 23rd July 12-4pm
Saturday, 24th July 12-4pm

All other times by appointment only.

Contact: Emma Seymour on 07745 950581 or email tattybird@hotmail.co.uk

Venue: GASP (Gallery Art Space Portsmouth)

Art Space Portsmouth

27 Brougham Road

Southsea

Portsmouth

PO5 4PA

Tel: 02392 874523

www.artspace.co.uk

NEW EXHIBITION OPENS AT ARTSWAY

Great new exhibition opened today at ArtSway - and there are some brilliant associated events. The exhibition - Based on a True Story - "features artists whose work explores the varying levels of reality and fiction that shapes and informs our collective experiences and shared histories".

If you cannot see the images below please click the following link: http://www.artsway.org.uk/email/BOATSinvite

Cover image: Emily Allchurch, Urban Chiaroscura 2: London (after Piranesi), 2007, transparency on lightbox. Image courtesy of the artist.

Based on a True Story

3 July - 30 August 2010

Preview and Artist Reception:

Saturday 3 July 2010, 2pm - 5pm

Exhibiting Artists:

Emily Allchurch, Ronnie Close, Andrew Cross, Michelle Deignan Sarah Dobai, Rachel Goodyear, Jock Mooney, Kirk Palmer

Exhibition Associated Events:

Preview, Director’s Welcome and Book Launch

Saturday 3 July 2010, 2pm - 5pm

ArtSway Director Mark Segal will give an official welcome at 3pm, followed by the launch of a publication featuring works by all of the artists included in Based on a True Story. FREE: All Welcome.

Free Coach from London for Preview of Based on a True Story

Saturday 3 July 2010

A free coach from London will leave from opposite Tate Britain, Millbank at 10:30am for the opening of the exhibition. The coach will return to London for 7pm. Refundable deposit: £5 per person to reserve a seat which will be refunded on arrival at ArtSway. Please contact the gallery for payment options.

Portfolio Day

Friday 16 July 2010, 10am - 4pm

Ten half-hour slots for artists from all backgrounds for critiques, portfolio reviews and career advice from ArtSway Curator Peter Bonnell and ArtSway Associate Artist, Dinu Li.

COST: £5 per person. Booking Essential.

’INTERVENTION, projected’ by Tim Simmons

Thursday 22 July - Saturday 24 July 2010, dusk - 11pm each day

ArtSway is pleased to present a presentation of Tim Simmons’ ‘INTERVENTION, projected’, a companion event alongside Based on a True Story. A large screen will be situated in ArtSway’s courtyard, onto which Simmons will project examples of his many photographic works.

FREE: All Welcome.

Gallery Talk: Tim Simmons: ’INTERVENTION, projected’

Friday 23 July 2010 at 7pm

Photographer Tim Simmons will give a talk on his work, and his installation ‘INTERVENTION, projected’, situated in ArtSway’s courtyard.

FREE: Booking Essential.

Art in Context: Curator’s Talk: Based on a True Story

Wednesday 11 August 2010 at 7pm

Join ArtSway Curator Peter Bonnell for a special tour of the exhibition Based on a True Story. Following the tour there will be a lecture focusing on the work and ideas that inspired the exhibition. FREE: Booking Essential.

Special Screening and Gallery Talk: Andrew Cross

Saturday 28 August 2010 at 7pm. Screening: dusk - 11pm

As part of Based on a True Story, Andrew Cross will give a talk, at ArtSway, about his work and ideas. Following his lecture, there will be a special screening of Andrew’s new film The Solo (2010) in ArtSway’s courtyard, from dusk to 11pm. The Solo is a film made in collaboration with Carl Palmer, the drummer from 70s rock group Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

FREE: Booking Essential

To book a place on any event please contact Jack Lewis on +44 (0)1590 682260 (+6) or email: jack@artsway.org.uk

ArtSway

Station Road

Sway

Hamphire, SO41 6BA

T: +44 (0)1590 682260

E: mail@artsway.org.uk

W: www.artsway.org.uk

Come by train: Sway station is on the London Waterloo - Weymouth line: London 1hr 53m; Winchester 50m; Southampton 25m; Bournemouth 22m; Weymouth 1hr 40m.