48:Eight
Issue #5, October / November 2014
Cover: Set III, 2013, blanket, ceramic, 46 x 85 x 13 cm phot. Alicja Bielawska
CONTENTS: p. 5, All Change! p. 7, Realms, Open Studios exhibition recap p. 18, Cover Story: Alicja Bielawska p. 36, Deadlines p. 41, Get Involved
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All Change! The School Creative Centre is changing. With new management and a host of new faces. Here’s the low-down. During the summer The School Creative Centre entered into a transisitional phase, with the introduction of a new Artistic Director and Assistent. Sarah Money is now the person to get in touch with about events and exhibitions, and she is being expertly assisted by the wonderful Alice Pitts. And all under the watchful eye of Gemma Vliers. Here’s how to get in touch with them by email:
Sarah: arts@theschoolcreativecentre.co.uk Alice: assist@theschoolcreativecentre.co.uk Gemma: info@theschoolcreativecentre.co.uk
Realms The 2014 Open Studios Resident Exhibition Bethan Hopkins Jonathan Hills Beverley Thornley Lucy Makin Carol MacDonald Nick Archer Caroline Fraser Paula MacArthur Debbie Dix Rob McCaig Elizabeth Barton Sarah Seymour Georgie Watson Stephanie Rubin Jenny Edbrooke Sue Prince Jenny Pockley Yulia Podolska Jillian Eldridge
As part of the School Creative Centre’s Open Studios event, an exhibition of resident’s artworks was held in the Gallery Space. The show featured work from 19 of the studio holders, and saw sculpture, painting, drawing and video works all being presented. The show was a beautiful showcase of the skills, talents and imagination on offer from resident artists at the centre and was yet again another statement of intent, pushing forwards the innovation and expertise of this fabulous group of artists. The show ran from the 15th until the 26th of September and was attended by well over 200 people, a record for the creative centre, and yet further proof of the bright future ahead for artists from the centre. Here are some images from the show, for those who didn’t make it and for those who would like a reminder of the beautiful works on show. Enjoy!
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Bethan Hopkins, Camber During the Floods (top) Look What I Found (Bottom) Nick Archer, Flood Sarah Seymour, Tired Bones
Next: Jenny Edbrooke, Menstrual Flower Debbie Dix, Fossil Pot
Jillian Eldridge, Float
Paula MacArthur, But I Know That You Are Mine to Keep
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Jillian Eldridge, Eclipse
Caroline Fraser, Hooper’s Inlet
Paula MacArthur, But I Know That You Are Mine to Keep
Stephanie Rubin, Landscape Barometer Pressure Reading 1 + 2
Georgie Watson, Storm Sculpture
p. 13 Jenny Pockley, Syon Park Study Sue Prince, The Pool (top) Fishing Nets (Bottom) Elizabeth Barton, Black Venus Remuera Garden The Journey: Niamh & Oisin
Cover Story:
Alicja Bielawska
Who are you? I’m a sculptor and drawer, these are, for me, the ideal mediums to visualize ideas.
Four Colors on a Gray Background (Four curtains to the Auditorium) 2013, polyester, 1000x920 cm x4, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw phot. Bartosz Górka
Previous page: From the series ‘Patterns’, 2013, pencil, collage on paper, 70 x 100 cm
What do you do? Everything starts with drawing. It allows me to extract the unexpected links and connections between memories, feelings, objects, interiors and their intimate relations with geometry and mathematics. A drawing is a primary attempt at describing a space and objects. It is also a record, processed by memory. It allows me to move freely in more than two dimensions, where the laws of perspective and geometry may be bent.
Previous pages: l-r When Things Find Their Place, 2013, BWA Zielona Góra phot. Bartosz Górka Excercises for Lines, 2013 metal, textile, 195 x 160 x 170 cm phot. Bartosz Górka
Works on paper are created in parallel to sculptures. Sometimes they anticipate them or they are a reflection on them. They form an autonomous visual language, describing the potential spatial relationships often possible only on paper. It is an exercise in perception. I make poetically transfigured forms – sculptures. They show a distant echo of functionalities of objects with which they have indirect but common features. I describe my sculptures as existing “in between”, referring to their status as objects placed on the border between the remembered and the partially forgotten.
When working on sculptures, I am confronted with materiality and limitations of materials. Metal rods with a few layers of oil paint on them, a stretched fabric, modelling clay, a soft blanket, fired clay – they all recall a memory of touch. Forms tightly wrapped with textiles, surfaces covered with blankets, interiors screened with drawn curtains or vertical lines of strings, blocked with bricks, outlined with the curves of the rods; they determine the half-open spaces in which hiding and covering can take place alongside unveiling. The materials freeze in the shapes that arise upon the disintegration of objects, which occurs in the state of forgetting and remembering.
Sculptures constitute threedimensional drawings, which may be engaged with and seen from different sides and angles, every time changing their perspective and the set of lines.
From the series ‘Handy Shapes’, 2014 ink & crayon on paper, 40 x 40 cm
Where do you do it? I’m currently at the residency at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. It’s a place where I’ve met the most inspiring people.
Nebulae, 2014 aluminum, lead, textile 201 x 300 x 350 cm phot. Ayako Nishibori
Triangulum, 2014 aluminum, textile, polymer clay, 159 x 158 x 206 cm phot. Ayako Nishibori
From the series ‘Between lines (Objects)’, 2011 pencil, felt tip pen on paper 30 x 42 cm
What are you currently working on? I’m working on an exhibition of my new works at the Akademie Schloss Solitude. The works will be shown in the ‘Cabinet’ room. I mainly work with rather large scale sculptures and I see a challenge to develop small ones. The Cabinet’s space is a perfect opportunity to concentrate on a small scale. I have in mind showing both drawings and sculptures and creating a situation in which drawings will be as spacious as sculptures, or even more.
What or who inspires you? I’m currently reading a novel Il Gattopardo by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. I have a great pleasure in diving into a world described by words. Reading novels and poems provides me with the most intimate and inspiring moments. I think it’s a matter of translating one language into another, words into images, thoughts into words. Living for the past few months near vast woodland I take long walks which give my thoughts another kind of space in search of loose associations.
Four Colors on a Gray Background (Four curtains to the Auditorium) 2013, polyester, 1000x920 cm x4, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw phot. Bartosz Górka
For more information & contact details visit; www.alicjabielawska.com
DEADLINES 25th October VMA Gallery “101” Lithuania
Open Call for Exhibition Proposals www.gallerija101.it galerija101@gmail.com
30th October
BLACK MARKET ART FAIR GERMANY Art Fair bewerbung@blackmarketartfair.com www.blackmarketartfair.com
30th October
BUBEC SCULPTURE STUDIO CZECH REPUBLIC Residency
www.bubec.cz info@bubec.cz
31st October SCHLOSS SOLITUDE GERMANY Residency akademie-solitude.de ab@akademie-solitude.de
31st October
HIDDEN ROOMS ITALY
Call for Video, Performance, installation lucacurci.com/artexpo/call-hidden-rooms internationalartexpo@gmail.com
31st October
31st October
WERNER THONI ARTSPACE SPAIN Residency
www.wernerthoeni.com residencia.wta@wernerthoeni.com
31st October
HIAP FINLAND
GLOBAL EXCHANGE CENTER CHINA
Residency
Residency
www.hiap.fi info@hiap.fi
global-chinaprinting.com/vap art@glexchange.net
from 1st Nov Sculpture Space New York
Funded Residency www.sculpturespace.org info@sculpturespace.org
1st Nov
Paradise Air Japan
Residency matsudo-artline.com/residence pair@matsudo-artline.com
2nd Nov Arquetopia mexico
Residency www.arquetopia.org info@arquetopia.org
3rd Nov
gyeonggi creation center south korea
Residency old.gyeonggicreationcenter.org/engl gccinfomail@gmail.com
3rd Nov quartier21 austria
Residency www.quartier21.at ehajek@mqw.at
11th Nov
Polin, museum of the history of polish jews Poland
Residency www.polin.pl
9th November
15th Nov
Exhibition Opportunity
Residency
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