Mondegreen Ekphrasis

Mondegreen Ekphrasis - The Collection Just as a pebble thrown into a pond produces a series of ever-expanding rings, visual ripples of inspiration have emanated from great works throughout the history of art. Taking this precedent of emulation as a premise, MA Fine Art and MA Design students from The University of Lincoln are brought together by MA Contemporary Curatorial Practice student Ashleigh McDougall in a new exhibition at The Collection.

The concepts of collaborative practice and appropriation of images and ideas are explored in a changing installation that grow and evolve each week. This will expose the process of ekphrasis; the description of one work of art through the creation of another. With a new piece by lecturer Andrew Bracey as the starting point, the exhibition opens in The Collection’s Courtyard Gallery on 15 April and runs until 12 May, 2013.

Mondegreen Ekphrasis features the work of Shahira Allen, Andrew Bracey, Lewis Gaukrodger, Amir Ghazi-Noory, Diane E. Hall, Victoria Hall, Linda Hollaway, Laura Johnson, Chutatib Promgul, Gemma Rabionet, Jessica Rawlings, Duncan Rowland, Carlos Ruiz Brussain, and Miranda Jingyan Zhang, and is curated by Ashleigh McDougall. 

Misdirect Movies

Misdirect Movies is a touring exhibition that explores new possibilities of collage using material gleaned from cinema. It opens at The Royal Standard, Liverpool for a preview 6-9pm on Friday 15th march (16/3/2013 - 31/3/2013) and travels to Standpoint Gallery, London (5/7/2013 - 3/8/2013) Greyfriars, Lincoln (4/10/2013 - 26/10/2013) and Meter Room, Coventry (8/11/2013 - 1/12/2013). I have curated it with John Rimmer.

Orson Welles’ unfinished version of Don Quixote features a scene where Quixote slashes at a screen in a cinema. This scene acts as a lynchpin for the ideas contained within the curatorial strategy of this exhibition, expanding on the notion of Quixotic, intertexturality and the slippage of reality and illusion. The show features work by Rosa Barba, Andrew Bracey, Dave Griffiths, Cathy Lomax, Elizabeth McAlpine, David Reed and John Rimmer. The selected artists explore these ideas in diverse ways to work with narrative and new forms of materiality. With the access to digital formats, of the internet and the digitalisation of film, artists are now able to appropriate films to create different and innovative approaches to collage. This makes us look anew at, and re-address, the familiarity of moving image, media and the cinema space; a hybridised 'cinematic' experience.

I have re-worked an existing film piece,The Six Monst Beautiful Minutes in the History of Cinema into a wall sized print for the exhibition.

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There will also be a catalogue launched at the London leg of the show, more details here

Possession

I am delighted to be showing in Possession (1) at BACC in Bangkok alongside some fine artists, like Michael Day, Doug Fishbone and Susan Collins. The show is curated by Brian Curtin and Steve Dutton and "explores the potential for artists to work with questions of authorship and subjectivity, whilst engaging with the pervasive influence of internet culture and contemporary visual reproduction."

For Possession (1) I will be showing a new Reconfigure Painting Paul Delaroche's The Execution of Lady Jane Grey which will be created by blowing up my original painting on a small print to a large wall print, which is the same size as the original painting. The same process will happen on two companion pieces, each of which is also based on a painting from London's National gallery.

Andrew Bracey, Jon Barraclough, Emma Stibbon and Julie McCalden

I will be showing 3 ReconFigure Paintings that I produced during a residency at Standpoint Gallery last year at a 4 person show in Gloucester shortly.  The exhibition has been curated by Frances Disley and takes place in the South Wales and Severn Office of the Canal & River Trust which is situated within the historic Gloucester Docks. It is part of a series of exhibitions organised by Contemporary Art Society. The exhibition also features Jon Barraclough, Emma Stibbon and Julie McCalden. More information can be found here.

Art:Gwangju

I will be showing Clout, Reconfigure and Transitory Paintings with Castlefield Gallery at art:gwangju in South Korea. Other artists showing with Castlefield are Hilary Jack, Ultimate Holding Company UHC, Leo Fitzmaurice and Rafal Topolewski.

More details can be found here 

Still at Transition Gallery

I will be showing Frames in Still at Transition Gallery and Hackney Picture House, opening on Thursday 6th September until 30th September. The show features lots of other interesting artists and will be well worth a look for all film and art fans. 
"The moving magic of film lies in its frame-by-frame flickering approximation of life. The stilling of that movement re-directs the viewer’s gaze towards an entirely new reality. Context and meaning are rearranged and new beauties unearthed behind the seemingly banal. In halting, repeating or reconstructing, the image persists, becoming a thing in itself, which as film theorist Laura Mulvey notes ‘has its own visual pleasures and rewards that do not replace, but compliment those of watching a film’."
I have also written about Unrealised Films in a special Film issue of Garageland magazine. 
More details can be found here 

Still Ticking: A Clockwork Orange 2012

Still Ticking - A Clockwork Orange 2012  is an exhibition of works by the Media LAB, Manchester School of Art & Invited Artists, presenting new work in response to Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange celebrating the 50th anniversary of the book. Including photography, painting, sculpture, film and sound. On the private view night (Thursday 7th June) there will be Horrorshow White Russians courtesy of Korova Milk Bar, and after-party at the Temple of Convenience.


I have made a series of new paintings based on Burgess's own drawings. A Clockwork Orange appears to be the only text by Burgess where his distinctive drawings crept into the typed flow of words.  As a painter I became intrigued by why imagery might have been present in this book's draft (and recently discovered screenplay), above the masses of other texts Burgess produced in his lifetime. Furthermore Burgess grafittied a copy of the David Pelham designed cover. It has been speculated that Burgess might have been trying to reclaim authorship back to his most (in)famous material, as it risked being subsumed by Kubrick's interpretation. Intriguingly a doodled version of Alex is closer in look to Burgess than Malcom McDowell. I have turned Burgess’s sketched drawings into paintings, colour has been added. Burgess was colour blind, the paintings would have looked different to him, just as Kubrick's film (with all it’s brash colour and imagery) differed in details and feel to Burgess's book.

Artists in the show are Grace Allardyce, Andrew Bracey, James Cook, Miklos Csepely-Knorr, Joe Duffy, Michael Fowdrey, Andrew Glynn, Dave Griffiths, Lisa Joel, Mohammed Koosha and Andrea Zapp.

Exhibition continues Friday 8 to Sunday 10 June.

Hosted by International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Engine House, Chorlton Mill, 3 Cambridge Street, M1 5BY
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