POSSESSION (II) at Lanchester Gallery in Coventry

I am showing in the next incarnation of the Possession exhibition at Lanchester Gallery in Coventry, curated by Steve Dutton and Brian Curtin. The exhibition explores practices of appropriation in contemporary art. POSSESSION (I) was shown at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Thailand in early 2013. I am showing completely new painting in my Reconfigure Paintings series of work.

The show opens on Thursday 13 March 6 – 8pm for the private view and then runs from 14 March - 13 April 2014. More details can be found below and here

POSSESSION (II) acknowledges the distinct lineage of heavily theorised notions of appropriation from Anglophone art critical contexts. The project moves through an expanded set of concerns including internet and network cultures, conflicts of current and outmoded technologies of image production and contemporary visual art from disparate cultural and national contexts. Central to the two iterations of the exhibition is the idea that different versions of the exhibition format can possess and re-possess the objects of its own inquiry: the ideological and aesthetic instrumentality of forms, critically intrinsic and extrinsic relationships for contemporary art, and comparative questions of an artist’s agency in making and re-making visual and material culture.

POSSESSION (II) highlights the question of whether cultural and national comparisons provide a basis for considering what appropriation is and can do; and what exchange might mean in an international context of different and competing markets.

Other artists include;

Chan Dany, Michael Day, Doug Fishbone, Lesley Guy, Steve Hawley, Maud Haya-Baviera, Viet Le, Michael Lee, Olivia Notaro, Manuel Ocampo, Julia Schwadron, Chris Shaw-Hughes, Andrew Spackman.

A Machine Aesthetic in Lincoln

A Machine Aesthetic continues on its tour around the country at ProjectSpacePlus in Lincoln from 5th March till 4th April. The group show is curated by Eric Butcher and Simón Granell.
Details about the show are below and please visit the galleries website here

A Machine Aesthetic explores the various manifestations, uses and influences of mechanisation within the practice of a diverse range of contemporary artists.om the first daubings of pre-historic caves, through the invention of the camera obscura and ready-made oil paint in tubes to the use of digital media, artists have been among the first to embrace and exploit new technologies. The focus of A Machine Aesthetic, however, is at once narrower and broader, concerning itself specifically with the notion and implications of ?mechanisation? in its widest sense in contemporary art.

Since the late 1950s/early 60s there have evolved a plethora of artistic practices that involve the manufacture of machines to produce the artistic ‘product’. Where Jean Tinguely led the way, artists as diverse as Rebecca Horn, Chris Burden, Roxy Paine and Damien Hirst followed. While earlier analyses have tended to conceive of the machine in a narrow sense, A Machine Aestheticproposes a different perspective, achieved by consideration of the full range of artistic practices that embrace both subtle and sophisticated notions of mechanisation.

As the human condition moves further and further from a state of nature we become not only surrounded by machine-made objects, but the products and qualities of mechanised intervention. Even our experience of nature is modified and mediated by human agency and facilitated by the machine. Contemporary practices reflect this increasing dependence on machine production, whether celebratory or critical, artists exploiting machine produced products or components in both the development and construction of their work.

A Machine Aesthetic - Bournemouth

My work The Jump is currently showing in A Machine Aesthetic  at The Gallery, AUB in Bournemouth, This is a group show curated by Eric Butcher and Simón Granell featuring lots of really excellent artists, more details are found here: 
http://aub.ac.uk/event/machine-aesthetic/

Machine Aesthetic

I am showing in a really interesting touring exhibition, Machine Aesthetic, curated by artists, Simón Grannell and Eric Butcher. The exhibitions responds to contemporary fine art practices that "engages with the notion of mechanisation in a sophisticated range of ways; from artists who exploit the materials, processes and techniques of machine production, incorporating machined materials into their work, to those who do not engage physically with machines at all, but adopt a mechanised methodology in the process of manufacture, disciplining their minds and bodies to behave like machines." 

The exhibition opens at Gallery North in Newcastle with a private view on Monday 9th December and carrying on until 30th January before moving on to Arts university Bournemouth, University of Lincoln, Norwich University of the Arts and Transition Gallery, London through 2014. I will be showing The Jump, a painted version of Chris Marker's classic short film, La Jetee. Other artists in the show include Emma Hart, Dan Hays, Michael Roberts, Natasha Kidd andTim Knowles. More details can be found here

Atomic -

Atomic is an opportunity to purchase some fantastic art from some great artists in an "exhibition of small works with big ideas". It is organised by Alli Sharma from Transition Gallery at the intimate and homely 60 Ravenscourt Road in Hammersmith in London. The show is on 8-15 December 2013, Opening Hours: 12-6pm, or by appointment with a Private View: 7 December, 6-9pm / RSVP required, follow the link here to find out more of how to rsvp and more about the artists.

I will be showing some of my Transitory Paintings and other artists include David Dipre, Annabel Dover, Alex Pearl, Mali Morris, Mimei Thompsonhere to find out more of how to rsvp and more about the artists.

Atomic

In a fusion between East and West London, Transition Gallery travels from Hackney to Hammersmith to present an exhibition of small works with big ideas by more than 40 selected artists at:

60 Ravenscourt Road, London W6 0UG

8-15 December 2013
Opening Hours: 12-6pm, or by appointment

Private View: 7 December, 6-9pm
RSVP alli@transitiongallery.co.uk

Artists include: Michael Ajerman, Carolina Ambida, Michael Bartlett, Lucy Boyle, Andrew Bracey, Benjamin Bridges, Kirsty Buchanan, Lindsey Bull, Nick Carrick, Jake Clark, Gary Colclough, Charlie Day, David Dipre, Sarah Douglas, Annabel Dover, Sarah Doyle, Luci Eyres, Genieve Figgis, Andrew Graves, Damian Griffiths, Julia Hamilton, Michael Hammond, Kirsty Harris, Stephen Harwood, Georgia Hayes, Paul Housley, Paul Kindersley, Cathy Lomax, Alex Massouras, Alex Michon, Mali Morris, Nina Ogden, Alex Pearl, Alli Sharma, Corinna Spencer, Emma Talbot, Kathleen Thompson, Mimei Thompson, Katherine Tulloh, Jacqueline Utley, Virginia Verran, Ben Walker, David Webb, Mary West, Andy Wicks and Jo Wilmot.

I will be showing some of my Transitory Paintings including the one above.

Misdirect Movies - Meter Room

Misdirect Movies at Meter Room, Coventry - 9/11/13 – 1/12/13

Artists: Rosa Barba, Andrew Bracey, Dave Griffiths, Cathy Lomax, Elizabeth McAlpine, David Reed and John Rimmer. Dave Griffiths, John Rimmer.

Misdirect Movies is an exhibition that explores new possibilities of collage using material gleaned from cinema. Meter Room, Coventry is the final leg of the exhibition tour that has visited The Royal Standard, Liverpool; Standpoint Gallery, London, and Greyfriars, Lincoln. Dave Griffiths will be showing a new commission made especially for the exhibition at Meter Room. The private view is at 6-8pm on Friday 8^th November, all are welcome to attend this free event.

This exhibition has developed from the research interests and artworks of the curators, Andrew Bracey and John Rimmer. The selected artists employ cinematic imagery to re-employ film narrative and explore new forms of materiality outside of cinema. With access to the internet and the digitalisation of film, artists are now able to appropriate films to create different and innovative approaches to collage. The exhibition features a wide range of media, from projections and monitor-based work through to digital prints, artist’s books, painting and even a microfiche viewer.

The artists bridge the analogue and the digital. Rosa Barba exhibits every issue of Printed Cinema. These artist’s books have been published alongside her film projects and include film stills, text and photographs. Andrew Bracey is interested in the power of the still image in film. Ensemble Cast is a new animation that features a cast of 1500 film stars reduced to one restlessly moving head. Dave Griffiths’ recent work dwells on the physical and fictive borders of cinema, often employing the projectionist’s cue dot to activate the narrative potential of marginal images. Cathy Lomax keeps an on-going visual diary of all the films that she has watched, selecting one image from each to make into a small, rapidly executed painting. Elizabeth McAlpine compiles the missed footage from Nicolas Roeg's cult thriller Don't Look Now that a viewer did not see, due to them blinking. David Reed's animation references John Ford's western The Searchers. It also recalls an earlier personal experience where the artist accidently discovered a cave used in the Ford’s film. John Rimmer’s Interference gathers together personal and filmic references. Found footage of Philosopher and theorist’s heads, scenes from Annie Get Your Gun, commercials and other sourced material combine to form a mental landscape.

Nottingham Castle Open 2013

Nottingham Castle Open 2013 - Nottingham Castle I am showing 2 Reconfigure Paintings in The Nottingham Castle Open this year. One is a small Gouache on a lithograph of Paul Delarouche's Execution of Lady Grey and the other is a blown up vinyl piece of Ingres' Grande Odalisque. My original painted version was a small acrylic paint on book illustration that has been increased in size and printed at the size of Ingres' original painting that hangs in the Louvre. The selectors were Holly Slingsby, Emily Speed and Roger Malbert. Other artists include Tether, Yelena Popova, Wayne Burrows, Simon Raven, Steven Ingman and Craig Fisher.