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21/7/2006

Two exhibitions

De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea East Sussex

Jeremy Deller

In 1998, British artist Jeremy Deller set up a digital recording studio at the De La Warr Pavilion, in a room overlooking the sea, and invited local retired people to make a record of their choice using computers and samplers.

The resulting work 'We are the mods is typical of Deller's evolving occupation over the past decade as artist, curator, producer, publisher and instigator.

His basic curiosity in trying to work out how everything is connected to everything else prompts him to generate collaborations between groups and individuals that would at first seem unlikely. The processes and outcomes of his work celebrate and reveal connections and histories between left field and mainstream, hi-tech and low-tech, old and new.

Deller's activity as an artist is varied, taking the form of documentary film and photography, prints, editions, publications and works which can be, by their nature, transient and brief. They all describe and document his engagement and enjoyment of 'culture'. His deliberately entertaining work has a recognisable lightness of touch that is both politically and socially charged.

This exhibition of the artist's work over the past decade presents seminal works including, amongst others, his well known The Battle of Orgreave (2001) a filmed re-enactment of the conflict that took place between the miners and the police during the miners' strike of 1984 and the celebrated Acid Brass, where a brass band from Stockport are recorded playing acid house anthems.

Jeremy Deller completed a BA in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London (1985-88) and an MA in History of Art, University of Sussex (1991-92). He was winner of the Turner Prize in 2004 and currently lives and works in London.

Get Involved!

Join artist Sheridan Quigley and gallery staff to contribute to an archive of work and iamge. Inspired by the exhibitions and by the Pavilion itslelf, it will form an evolving display over the summer. Sheridan will be working in the galleries on Wednesday and Saturday aftenoons in August but you can drop in to take part at anytime during gallery opening times.

The Fairey Band will play Acid Brass on Saturday 26 August as part of the Jour de Fete weeked

Galleries are open 10am - 6pm 7 days a week. From 28 July until 29 August, they are open until 8pm on Fridays.
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Mark Anstee

Occupation

British artist Mark Anstee's public works are large-scale temporary drawings, developed live in museums and galleries.

At the De La Warr Pavilion Anstee will be working in Gallery 2 over a 50-day period developing a site-specific drawing entitled Occupation, created directly on to a large scale, site-specific construction within the gallery. The construction, integral to the work, is a wedge-like slope taking up a third of the gallery area.

Typically, Anstee's drawings consist of individually drawn motifs taking reference from iconic poses found in heroic paintings, photo-journalism and tomb-sculpture. The accumulation of these motifs over a period of time and across a large area generates a sense of the monumental within the gallery.

Occupation draws inspiration from the De La Warr Pavilion. Anstee's working process focuses on the 'act' of drawing and the witnessing of that activity by the viewer.

This project follows other site-specific works including Encounter, a 72-day drawing at the In Flanders Fields Museum, Belgium; Early Redemption, a 25-day drawing at Fabrica Gallery, Brighton; and Indelible, a 12-day drawing at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin where Mark was in residence for four months last year.

More information about Mark Anstee is available at his website www.markanstee.com

Mark will be working in the gallery Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm except August Bank Holiday when he will be working Monday 28 August, not Sunday 27. He will give a short talk on the development of Occupation twice weekly - on Saturdays and Wednesdays at 12.40pm. He regrets he will be unable to engage in conversation with the public outside these times.
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Image: Jeremy Deller, Still from 'The Battle of Orgreave'

De La Warr Pavilion
Marina Bexhill on Sea East Sussex TN40 1DP
Tickets: Free

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