The Aspex Gallery’s Artist Resource Centre (ARC) now has a new blog that provides information and images of past, present and future exhibitions and artists working with the the gallery and ARC itself. Well worth keeping an eye on.
artistsresourcecentre.blogspot.com
Reminder post that ARC and the Aspex Gallery will be holding their annual Christmas party this year on Thursday 17th December. The party is free and open to everyone, whatever your practice, this is a great opportunity to network and socialise in relaxed and informal surroundings.
Please email resource@aspex.org.uk to reserve your place and check the Facebook event for more info.
Since 1999 Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt have worked with digital animation to reveal our physical world in flux. In this informal presentation of their work, they will discuss their practice and screen some of their innovative moving image works. Transcending the constraints of time, scale and natural forces they explore the world beyond human experience questioning our very existence. Take a look at some of their work on www.semiconductorfilms.com
Places are limited, so be sure to reserve your place today! Check out the Facebook events page.
Black Rain from Semiconductor on Vimeo.
Alice Kettle, a contemporary textile/fibre artists talks about her projects and her process. Alive has established a unique area of practice by her use of a craft medium on a unparalleled scale. Individual stitches combine to form great swathes of colour in her painterly works.
This talk is being held on the 2nd April at the Aspex gallery and is filling up fast so call 02392 778080 or email resource@aspex.org.uk to book your place. Also head on over to the ARC Facebook Group for updates on all current and future events.
Designer and artist Karen Ryan, recipient of the arc award 2008, presents an installation of work in progress. February 26th at 6pm.
“I am presently addicted to drawing and painting lines on large while pieces of paper for the single purpose of screwing them up. Intentionally disrupting the 2 dimensional, forcing it to become a 3 dimensional state. At the same time I can not drop the conceptual idea of designing ‘litter’ as a subversive comment on product design. Both of these current obsessions run parallel without answer”.
A more concise view of Karen’s work can be seen on her website.
You can also join the ARC Facebook Group for information on upcoming events and view Karens flickr photostream.
ARC (Aspex Gallery’s Artist Resource Centre) is now accepting submissions for their Artist Award 2009. Two Arc awards of £1500 each are given to one designer/maker and one fine artist to develop new work to be presented in a solo exhibition at Aspex, with ongoing support from the Arc team.
Applicants for the awards must have completed an undergraduate programme of study and be resident in the South East region, if you wish to apply visit ARC website, get in contact via email or phone 02392 778080.
A new installation by Karen Ryan, the current Arc Award recipient, can be seen at Aspex from 3 February – 15 March.
ARC and Aspex are putting on a ‘Winter Solstace’ party at the gallery for the current exhibit ‘Solstice’ by artist Neeta Madahar and composer Miguel d’Oliverira.
“Filmed during the Summer and Winter Solstices in rural England, Neeta Madahar’s high definition video installation presents an intimate and immersive encounter with ever-changing midsummer and midwinter skies. Accompanied by an atmospheric orchestral soundtrack, Solstice explores time, memory and the cyclical patterns of nature…For each film, a fixed camera was pointed at the sky, with Polaris (the North Star) appearing in the centre of the frame. A team of camera operators working shifts then recorded for 24 hours from midnight to midnight, with the camera on time-lapse mode shooting 25 times a minute. Each hour was condensed into a minute of footage, so, in total, the 24 hours of each solstice were captured in 36,000 stills and subsequently translated into a 24-minute film.”
Sounds amazing as does the party. For more information check out Aspex Events and ARC on Facebook. Be sure to contact ARC on 02392 778080 or resource@aspex.org.uk if you want to go, it’s free but places are limited.
This coming new year we will be proud to announce our latest exhibition PRIMARY, a Phoneography exhibition by Strong Island and we are even happier to announce that it’s open to you, the readers.
With the continuing increase in impressive camera technology in mobile phones and the ability to alter, tweak, post process and upload the photos to social media networks and websites like Instagram, the popularity of Phoneography has never been greater.
The ‘of the moment’ ability to take a photo at almost any time and any place by most people has really driven the fact that the camera does not make the photographer. By which I mean, you don’t need an expensive camera to take outstanding photos.
Agreed, the quality of the physical image may not stand up to the big guns, but new learnings in composition, style and aesthetic by a new generation of camera users via online media has really driven this popularity, and encourage people to go beyond a ‘quick shot’.
PRIMARY invites you to get out and about around Portsea with your mobile phone camera and take photos of anything and everything based around the three primary colours red, yellow and blue. What you photograph is entirely up to you, but submissions will only be accepted if they stick to the theme.
The call for entires has now begun and the deadline is the 31st of January 2012 with the exhibition being held in March of 2012. Photos can be taken on any mobile phone model and we ask that a maximum of 3 photos per applicant are sent in to primary@strong-island.co.uk.
Please submit along with your photographs your name, photo title, phone model, location of photo on the island and any post process apps you used, if any, to achieve the final shot.
We look forward to seeing all the entries, and the final installation will be something special using every photo submitted in a slightly different fashion from your average photographic exhibition. CLICK HERE TO PRINT YOUR OWN POSTER
Poster by Tristan Savage & Photo by Paul Gonella
Righto chaps, it’s time to clean shave your boat race and get that mighty moustache on the grow in support of Movember for The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. For 30 days of November you can help support and raise awareness through selflessly parading your top lip for charity.
You can sign up yourself, as I’m sure many of you already have, or you can join the Strong Island team and seek out sponsorship as a team. Through the Strong Island Movember page you can ask people to join the group, make donations, upload photos and post updates via the MoSpace page, Facebook and Twitter.
Head over to www.mobro.co/StrongIsland if you would like to get involved and grow a Strong Moustache to help raise awareness, or simply head over to www.uk.movember.com and sign up to personally raise money.
The funds raised in the UK support the number one and two male specific cancers – prostate and testicular cancer. The funds raised are directed to programmes run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together, these channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programmes in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.
Poster: Tristan Savage
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