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31 May - 19 July 2008
'Lost industrial Teesside Communities' by Derek Smith The project began in 1971, when Smith was sixteen years old and continued into the mid 1970s, developing into an extensive body of work documenting the communities that had grown up around the huge iron and steel works of the region. Among the pubs, clubs and streets Smith found often difficult working lives and hardship, but also rich expressions of solidarity, compassion and a stoical sense of humour. As an insider to these communities, whose family had worked and lived in Thornaby since the early 1900s, Smith was well placed to portray them without sentimentality or judgment but with dignity, curiosity and respect. Today, following de-industrialisation of the region, many of these once thriving working class communities have been lost from the national map and have been forgotten. In this light, Smith’s recently rediscovered negatives provide a fascinating and thought-provoking insight into the culture and living conditions of a section of the North East in the 1970s. Many of the images are being shown for the first time in this exhibition.
DMG, Blanche Pease Annexe, The Arts Centre, Vane Terrace, Darlington, DL3 7AX
Tue, Thu, Fri 12:00-19:00 Sat 10:00-16:00
19 June - 13 July 2008 * Last chance!
Commonplace images of nature, usually looked through rather than at, are forced into view in large digital and silk-screen textile prints. Within these un-romanticised scenes of summer and winter, taken from around the periphery of Gladstone Park, the viewer is invited to peer into tiny staged worlds depicting a shared fantasy, a desire for an idealised nature.
Gladstone Park, Dollis Hill Lane, London NW2 6HT
Thursday - Sunday 11am - 5pm
13 June - 12 July 2008 * Last chance!
OPEN THEME - Wall Based or Small Sculptures. Artist's must be living in Kent - Graduated, student, professional and Amateur all welcomedTo be exhibited in the New Charlton Art Centre, High Street, Dover and be offered for sale with a 30% commission taken by the Centre's owners the Targetfollow Group on all works sold.Deadline for submission Monday 9th June - 12 noon - works must be seen before submission dateFor more information please come and see Rachael in the White Nave project space at the front of the centre
Charlton Art Centre Upper Floor - Charlton Shopping Centre High Street, Dover CT16 1TT
10-4 Tuesday - Saturday
26 July - 2 August 2008 * Coming soon
A fantastic opportunity to be involved in the Dartmoor Arts Project, a week long summer school based in and around Drewsteignton. It is run by artists for artists and anyone interested in the arts. Tutors include Peter Randall-Page, Alan Lee, Andy Brown, John Burnside, Andy Griffiths, Chris Chapman.Courses include Stone Carving, Poetry, Drawing Masterclass, Printmaking, Iron Casting, Combined Cob and Ceramics, Documentary Film Making, Digital Photography, Painting...A delicious meal is provided each evening followed by music, films, and talks by Conrad Shawcross, Alex Dogherty, John Burnside and Chris Chapman
Various venues around Drewsteignton, Devon
14 June - 12 July 2008 * Last chance!
Collaborative show featuring:Fiona Chambers,Maire O'Mahoney,Lucy Sheridan & Anne Hendrick
3 Clare Street Dublin 2 087 960 1712
Mon - Fri by appointment only Open Sat 12-17.30
3 May 2008 - 27 November 2010
James Guthrie Orchar was one of Dundee's most prominent businessmen, and former provost of Broughty Ferry. A successful inventor, engineer and entrepreneur, today he is remembered primarily as a patron of the arts. His art collection - which contains over 400 paintings, drawings and prints - survives intact and is regarded as one of the most important Victorian collections of Scottish art in the country. This display, which is a new gallery for Broughty Castle, features 24 paintings from the Orchar Collection - a selection of portraits, landscapes and still lifes by artists of the Robert Scott Lauder Group, including William McTaggart, Hugh Cameron, George Paul Chalmers, John MacWhirter, John Pettie and William Quiller Orchardson. It also includes twentieth century paintings by Alec Grieve, Philip de Laszlo and James McIntosh Patrick. Admission free. Opening times: April - September Monday to Saturday 10am - 4pm, Sun 12.30 - 4pm; October - March Tuesday to Saturday 10am - 4 pm, Sunday 12.30 - 4 pm. For further information contact (01382) 436916.
Broughty Castle Museum Castle Approach Broughty Ferry Dundee
19 June - 20 July 2008
To mark the summer solstice, a new exhibition immerses the audience into the ever-changing midsummer and midwinter skies. The installation comprises two high-definition video projections, with an orchestral soundtrack, exploring time, memory and the cyclical patterns of nature.
Walpole Park Mattock Lane Ealing W5 5EQ
Tue-Fri & Sun 1-5 and Sat 11-5
2 - 30 August 2008 * Coming soon
Exhibition of commissioned public artworks by Alan Potter from around the UK, as well as drawings and paintings. Potter's public artworks attend to the concept of a collective unconscious and aim to determine a common identity for small communities.
51-53 Old Coach Road East Kilbride Lanarkshire G74 4DU
10:00am -8:00pm daily
8 May - 1 September 2008
Exhibition of Exciting new Art Works by Rosie Emerson.Rosie Emerson, an award-winning artist, recycles and fuses images of fashion models with visceral mark making creating striking silhouettes. Rosie illustrated models are etiolated giving the impression of subsuming the pedestals they were placed upon. They portray an elegance that is bold, graphic and seductive. http://www.rosieemerson.co.uk
30 Cheshire Street E8 4EA
fri, sat, sun 10-5
20 July 2008 * Coming soon
Art Off the Wall (promoted by Art on the River Exhibitions - www.artontheriver.co.uk) is an annual event in the splendiferous garden suite overlooking the lawns out to sea - where you can relax with morning coffee, light lunch or afternoon cream tea whilst delighting in the art work of some of Eastbourne's leading artists FOR ONE DAY ONLY. On show - paintings/mixed media of vibrant flower paintings including the latest in poppies and tonal canvasses of Pevensey Castle - by Mary Beaney, (founder and promoter). Jill Emslie's abstracts and abstractions of boats, land and sky scapes. Kate Sayer's large vibrant watercolours. Angela Perrin's unbelievable watercolours on canvas. Michele Findlay's sculptural ceramics/mixed media depicting the feminine body among other things. A vast variety of Julie Snowball's garden stoneware ceramics including birdbaths, raincatchers and decorative cornucopias to name just a few. The stunning wildlife photography, of Kenya, Alaska and Sussex, by Adam Beaney. So do come along - browse - enjoy - and possibly buy an original affordable work of art - off the wall. Mary promises you won't be disappointed - so see you there - you know it makes sense!
Hydro Hotel, Mount Road (just off seafront), Eastbourne, BN20 7HZ
11.00am to 5.00pm
1 June - 31 July 2008
ART @ da Vinci - DA VINCI EASTBOURNE is Eastbourne's premier ART hotel and dedicated to raising the profile of the art work by local professional artists. On-going, changing exhibitions are located in the refurbished spacious reception rooms where Victorian elegance meets the 21st century. Huge canvasses glowing with brilliant colour, extraordinary mixed media - abstracts to abstraction by Anthony McIntosh, inspirational flower paintings by Mary Beaney, (founder and promoter, www.artontheriver.co.uk), blow-torched canvasses by Viv Cecil, vibrant Zen works executed in inks by Elda Abramson, large expressive watercolours by Kate Sayers, stoneware garden ceramics by Julie Snowball, stunning images of Kenyan wildlife by photographer Adam Beaney -"Unwrapped" is an on-going exhibition of high quality art, by some of Eastbourne's leading professional artists, you can't afford to miss - see you there - you know it makes sense - and you won't be disappointed.OPEN - Saturdays and Sundays during June and July - 11.00am to 5.00pm (other times by appointment tel: 01323 727173) when the artists will be in attendance.
da Vinci Eastbourne (hotel) 9 - 10 Howard Square, Eastbourne BN21 4BQ
saturdays and sundays 11.00am to 5.00pm (other times by appointment tel: 01323 727173)
3 - 24 August 2008 * Coming soon
Work by Superflex and Copenhagen Brains, Elske Rosenfeld, Big Hope, Oliver Ressler, Andreja Kuluncic, Recetas Urbanos, Wochenklausur, Societe Realiste and Marta de Gonzalo and Publio Perez Prieto. Curated by Javier Marroqui and David Arlandis.
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25 Hawthornvale, Newhaven, EH6 4JT. 0131 551 4490 www.edinburghsculpture.org
Thurs-Sun 11-5
1 February 2007 - 1 January 2009
New Media Scotland is proud to announce the extension of the documentary oral history project [murmur] in Leith. Several new stories have now been added to the project and which has just been granted permission to extend until 2009 by Edinburgh City Council. Now that spring is on the way why not go for a walk in Leith with your mobile phone and keep an eye out for the distinctive green, ear-shaped signs. New signs have been added on Coburg Street, in front of Dalmeny Park, and Admiralty Street. [murmur] Edinburgh began in 2006 when the [murmur] project team collected people's personal histories about the places in Leith which were important to them. In each of these locations, a [murmur] sign was installed with a telephone number on it. Passers-by can use their mobile phones to listen to stories while engaging in the physical experience of being right where the stories took place.
24 February 2008 - 24 February 2018
When Scott reached the south pole the first thing he saw was Amundsen's Black flag. "Bugger" he said and headed home. The rest is history. This game revives that moment. The rules are simple. Take a black flack go somewhere and as long as there are no other flags in sight, plant it. Hang around and watch the disappointment of others when they arrive second. Admittedly at first the game will be easy but soon flags will cover the globe and things will get interesting. Possibly, but probably not the first Face Book based artwork. The game will run for ten years and participants can upload photographs, discuss adventures and invite friends to join in.
Everywhere
24hrs
25 May - 20 August 2008
Paintings and prints by Jo Talbot Bowen, a local artist and new fine art graduate inspired by the assorted animal life around the vineyard.Vine trail, wine tastings also available. See website for downloadable map.
Kenton Vineyard Helwell barton, Kenton Devon EX6 8NW
Thursdays and Sundays 11-5p.m.
26 July - 20 September 2008 * Coming soon
Spacex presents an international artists film programme and hosts a series of related events. The screening programme will include works by Ziad Antar, Iman Issa, Rosalind Nashashibi, Yael Bartana and the Atlas Group to name a few.
45 Preston Street Exeter EX1 1DF
10am-5pm Tues to Sat
17 May - 12 July 2008 * Last chance!
Spacex is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Finnish artist Axel Antas. The exhibition will consist of a new body of work including film, large scale drawings and a series of photographs taken in the harsh and vast Catalan Pyrenees. These pieces will be shown alongside a selection of earlier works from Antas’ Intervention series in which images of low lying mist and clouds hover in park landscapes. In these works the artist momentarily tampers with nature, changing the landscape for a fragile minute and capturing the event on film.
45 Preston Street Exeter EX1 1DF
10am - 5pm Tues to Sat
20 August 2008 * Coming soon
Artistic, crafted, creative, cutting edge, distinctive, experimental, ground breaking, imaginative, innovative, inspirational, talented. See the very best of our graduating students' creative work across London and at our five colleges in Kent and Surrey.
Falkner Road, GU9 7DS: 01252 722441. www.ucreative.ac.uk/galleries
4 - 26 July 2008
A installation by Moira Symons exploring themes of sanctuary and security.
45 Tontine Street, Folkestone, Kent, CT20 1JU
10.30-4.00 (Closed Mondays and Tuesdays)
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