GOMA art intervention
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Travelodge art intervention
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Travelodge Art Intervention 2
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Spring has Sprung
I wanted to share this piece of work, which is part of a series to do with fragility. The eggs are goose eggs and there is a sense of freshness and new starts in this work. Have a great bank holiday weekend!
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Jurys Inn Art Intervention
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Karla Black: GOMA Glasgow 2012
I enjoyed seeing Karla Black at GOMA in Glasgow. I love the way her work explores the following:
artifice
edifice
transience
decoration
femininity
reality
the unreal
theatre
drama
pretense
Karla Black will present major new sculptures in the grand ground-floor exhibition space of the Gallery of Modern Art.
Black is an artist who has achieved increasing international acclaim and attention in recent years, with the past two years showing a substantial shift in the scale and ambition of her work.
Black has exhibited nationally and internationally, recently with major presentations: for Scotland at the Venice Biennale, and at the Turner Prize exhibition at the Baltic, Gateshead (both 2011).
Her works range from the small scale to the monumental, from delicate suspended paper pieces to giant swathes of cellophane. Black makes process- based sculptural works; at GoMA she uses 16 tonnes of sawdust from pine, maple, yew, teak and oak trees. The site-specific sculptures are often fleeting, with unstable surfaces existing only for the duration of the exhibition.
This exhibition is supported by Gi – Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art.
www.glasgowinternational.org
http://scottishartblog.com/2012/05/01/gi2012/
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BBC News – Pomp and pageantry on the Thames.
A really interesting film about the Thames Pageant taking place tomorrow
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/the-listening-project
I really enjoy this archive from the BBC and the British Library. Some really moving conversations.
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Rhôd | An Urban/Rural Dialogue
Rhôd | An Urban/Rural Dialogue.
I can’t get to this at the weekend but it looks great.
Rhôd is now in its fourth year at Melin Glonc, each year the show has been curated by different artists who have previously been exhibitors. This year the curator is Kathryn Campbell Dodd :
“Over the previous 3 years Rhôd has hosted over 40 artists at Melin Glonc, the underlying theme of the event has been to open a dialogue between artists who work in urban and rural environments.
For 2012 I have invited 10 artists to exhibit at the event, Jonathan Anderson (Swansea), Phil Babot (Cardiff), Antonia Dewhurst (Conwy), Eddy Dreadnought (Sheffield), Maura Hazelden (Ceredigion), Anne-Mie Melis (Cardiff), Seren Stacey (Carmarthenshire), Clare Thornton (Bristol), Jobina Tinnemans (Pembrokeshire), Elizabeth Tomos (Carmarthenshire).
The artists work in various disciplines and are at different stages of their careers, they are based in a variety of locations in Wales and UK. All will respond site-specifically to the location of the mill, developing their responses and activities from their relationship to Melin Glonc and the Rhôd project.”
The exhibition will open on 3 June and remain open to the public until 9 June 2012.
Eleni bydd y bedwaredd Rhôd yn cael ei chynnal ym Melin Glonc, a’r curadur a ddewiswyd o blith artistiaid a ddangosodd eu gwaith yn y sioeau blaenorol yw Kathryn Campbell Dodd:
“Dros y tair blynedd ddiwethaf mae Rhôd wedi croesawu gwaith gan dros 40 o artistiaid gyda’r bwriad o ymchwilio’r berthynas rhwng artistiaid sy’n gweithio mewn amgylchedd dinesig a gwledig.
Ar gyfer 2012,‘rwyf wedi gwahodd 10 artist: Jonathan Anderson [Abertawe], Phil Babot
[Caerdydd], Antonia Dewhurst [ Conwy], Eddy Dreadnought [ Sheffield], Maura Hazelden
[Ceredigion], Anne-Mie Melins [ Caerdydd], Seren Stacey [ Sîr Gâr], Clare Thornton [Bryste], Jobina Tinnemans [ Sîr Benfro], Elizabeth Tomos [ Sîr Gâr].
Maent i gyd yn gweithio mewn gwahanol ddisgyblaethau ar draws Cymru a’r DU, ac yn amrywio o ran profiad. Byddant i gyd yn creu gwaith allan o’u hymateb i’r lleoliad ym Melin Glonc ac i brosiect Rhôd yn gyffredinol.
Mae’r arddangosfa yn agor Mehefin 3ydd a bydd ar agor i’r cyhoedd tan Sadwrn Mehefin 9fed.
Opening Day Performance Schedule:
Antonia Dewhurst – all day
Elizabeth Tomos – 14:15/16:15/18:15 (each performance 5 mins)
Phil Babot – 15:00 – 16:00
Jobina Tinnemans – 16:30 – 17:00 Maura Hazelden – 17:15 (4 minute performance)
Eddy Dreadnought – 17:30 – 18:00
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A great morning in Wrexham to welcome the London 2012 Olympic Torch. Wrexham-based band Heal the Last Stand got the crowd in the mood for the arrival with their wonderful folky acoustic song “and celebrate”
I love this one too…
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My new favourite people Heal the Last Stand
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The Torch could be seen arriving on Llwyn Isaf.
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It was welcomed to the town by the Mayor, before the choir from Ysgol Morgan Llwyd sang beautifully.
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Hoola Nation took to the stage after a local body-popping sensation
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Before the kiss point exchange took place.
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And then it was off on its way to Pontcysyllte and beyond…
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Oriel Wrecsam had flag and windspinner workshops on Llwyn Isaf
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Artist Jo Marsh showed people how to make them…
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Some of the members of the incredible Wrexham Community Choir arrived to sing on the stage.
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Before moving into the gallery for even more wonderful singing. The whole thing was spine-tingly
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And then the incredibly talented artist Estelle Woolley did a performance piece based on Gershwin’s Summertime involving her clarinet and post-it notes… fantastic
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Thank you everyone for making it Wrexham’s moment to shine!
#bbctorchcam
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The English seaside town of Margate has had a strong impact on artist Tracey Emin’s output, inspiring everything from her intense neon pieces to the embroidered statements emblazoned on appliquéd blankets and chairs. ‘Whatever I do, part of Margate always comes with me,’ she once declared. So it is with much excitement (and nervousness) that Emin embarks on her first major exhibition in the town of her childhood.
Hot on the heels of the London-based artist’s 2011 ‘Love is What You Want‘ retrospective at the Hayward Gallery, ‘She Lay Down Deep Beneath the Sea’ is a specially-conceived show for Margate. Visitors expecting to see evidence of Emin’s dysfunctional childhood will be in for a surprise. The artist seems to have made peace with her troubled past in this confrontation-free show, instead exploring themes of love, sex and eroticism. For Emin, these echo the spirit of Margate: ‘There is an eroticism here, it’s a very passionate place, it’s very gritty,’ she said in a recent interview with art historian Tim Marlow.
The show takes place at Turner Contemporary, David Chipperfield‘s landmark building, which dominates the seafront next to the harbour. Displayed throughout the gallery is a showcase of over 100 mostly-new works, including drawings, monoprints, sculptures, tapestries, embroideries and neons.
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BBC – Olympic Torch Relay – Chester to Stoke-on-Trent.
Watch live here. I will be on the stage in Wrexham so watch out for me and give us a wave. Really looking forward to Heal the Last Stand performing at just after 7.30am
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