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26/10/2006

Supernature Part 3

Transition Gallery, London

Supernature
A season of solo shows, projects, talks and workshops which examine man's relationship with nature


Supernature Part 3
Sigrid Holmwood
PastTimes and REcreation

In PastTimes and REcreation, Sigrid Holmwood's paintings are shown in a reconstructed 16th Century environment. The corner of the gallery houses a hovel built from timber coppiced in a traditional way from the Wilderness Wood in East Sussex and thatched with long straw from The Weald and Downland Museum in West Sussex. Around the gallery are strewn traditional agricultural and carpentry tools such as a sickle, scythe and vice as well as equipment that a Tudor artist may have used to paint and prepare pigments with.

This meticulous attention to detail is typical of Holmwood's approach to the subject of her paintings, which in PastTimes and REcreation is the landscape. The paintings themselves have a luminous quality, utilising natural pigments such as Buckthorn that she has ground and prepared herself.

In this reconstructed environment the clues to the pedigree of her painting practice are all around. The paintings themselves however remain defiantly contemporary, their natural pigments juxtaposed with splashes of fluorescent egg tempera taking the paintings away from a nostalgic re-enactment of the past and into a fantasy future, a vision of an alternative reality where the traditions of the past are harnessed to give us a more sustainable tomorrow.

As part of our Ask the Expert Series there will be a talk by Sigrid and Ruth Goodman of the Tudor Group at 3pm on Suday 12th November. There will also be a demonstration of 16th Century paint-making techniques by Sigrid and Tudor expert Mark Goodman on the same day between 1 & 5pm. Both events at Transition are free, no booking necessary.

Sigrid is also featured in the new Garageland Magazine, which is themed around nature.


Supernature Project
The Pansy Project
Paul Harfleet
meet the artist and take part on
Sunday 11 November 2006 between 2 & 4pm

Paul Harfleet’s Pansy Project involves revisiting city streets and planting pansies as close as possible to where he and his collaborators have received verbal homophobic abuse. These self-seeding pansies act as a living memorial to this abuse and operate as an antidote to it.

For Supernature he will be planting and documenting pansies at notorious sites of abuse in London and holding a drop in session at the gallery where you are invited to come in and collect a pansy to plant at a site where you have received abuse. Participants are then invited to photograph their planting and submit it for inclusion on http://www.thepansyproject.com

Make Do and Mend
Hilary Jack
view and take part on
Sunday 3 December 2006 at 2pm

Jack's interactive project focuses on the concept of obsolescence and the way it impacts on our lives. She collects, repairs and redistributes discarded objects from city streets including umbrellas, plastic bags and clothing. These are taken back to her studio, renovated and then returned to the street for re-use.

For Supernature Jack will visit the gallery and the surrounding area and collect broken objects. These will be repaired and will be on show at the gallery on Sunday December 3 when you are invited to accompany Jack on a walk to return the objects to their original locations.

Documentation of the project can be seen at Transition during the remainder of the Supernature run.

Supernature Part 2
Oriole: The Birds of the British Isles
Annabel Dover
30 September - 22 October 2006

Annabel Dover’s Oriole brings to life the Collins Guide with sculpted plaster polychromed birds installed directly into wooded environments in the gallery. These birds would rarely if ever be seen together in the wild, and yet here they are, mimicking the impossible illustrations that 'naturalise' the apprenticeship of birdspotting, itself an act of culturally acceptable collective longing. The miracle of birds and the touching perverseness of the making-strange of them through the work of culture is brought to bear with equal force materialising the intrusion of the mind of man, both troubled and amazed, into the very fabric of the environment.
(adapted from a text by Dr. Martha Fleming)

On Saturday 14 October between 1 and 6pm you are invited to come to the gallery to draw birds with Annabel and artist Alex Michon as part of The Big Draw 2006. All ages are welcome and pencils and paper will be provided.


Supernature Part 1
Into the Cold Light
Laura White
2 - 24 September 2006

Laura White is interested in the way we read and view nature. Particularly with the frameworks we set up such as visiting safari parks, zoos, and aquariums or watching wildlife documentaries on television, activities designed to seduce and provide us with unthreatening pleasure and entertainment.

White takes images from these seemingly benevolent pleasure domes and projects them onto mundane household objects a process which reveals the a precarious and threatening instability caused by the disturbance of the balance between man and nature. This process of bifurcation, where the image moves from one state to another transforms the object, altering its appearance, which then affects the way we engage with both object and image and reflects the complex relationships between humans and nature, which the artist believes cannot be seen in opposition.

This work created for Transition responds to the artists concerns around the production of electricity and in particular light, generated, on one hand from depleting resources of fossil fuels, and in a very different way through the natural production of phosphorescence created by boneless sea creatures. Excessive use of electricity lights up our homes and workplaces, from the functional to the decorative, while sea invertebrates effortlessly create enough light just to survive. Jelly fish show off their firework display of lights in dark deep waters, which most of us will never experience first hand, and yet we are all familiar with these beautiful creatures through our television and cinema screens. It is a distanced and technological experience of nature where Jellyfish can't sting.

There will be a talk to accompany the show as part of our Ask the Expert Series: Nature's Lamps will feature a short presentation by Laura White followed by a talk by Mandy Holloway; zoologist from the Natural History Museum. The talk is free and will take place at 5pm on Sunday 17th September.

Talk: NATURE'S LAMPS

Date and Time: Sunday 17 September 2006 at 5pm
(space for this talk is limited and will be allocated on a first come basis)

A talk by the zoologist Mandy Holloway from the Natural History Museum to accompany Laura White's Into the Cold Light Installation which features images of deep water Jellyfish projected onto piles of obsolete electrical equipment in a magical and thought provoking light show.

Talk: TUDOR LIFE

Date and Time: Sunday 12 November 2006 at 3pm

Ruth Goodman, professional historian specialising in Tudor and Jacobean social and domestic history and founder of the Tudor Group will be giving a talk to accompany Sigrid Holmwood's exhibition Past Times and Recreation.

Talk: CHINOISERIE

Date and Time: Monday 11th December 2006 at 7pm

Gill Saunders, Senior Curator of the Word and Image Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum will be giving a talk about the decorative art of Chinoiserie which has influenced the painter Chris Humphreys in his Woodland Chicken World series of paintings.

Talk: ESCAPE CLAWS: adventures with absconding zoo animals

Date and Time: Saturday 27th January 2007 at 5pm

Judith Palmer, writer, broadcaster and Critical Writer in Residence at Manchester Metropolitain University will talk to accompany Andrew Bracey's Freianlage .


Part 4:
25 Nov - 17 Dec 2006
Chris Humphreys
Woodland Chicken World

Part 5:
6 - 28 Jan 2007
Andrew Bracey
Freianlage

Supernature Projects:
Oct 2006 - The Pansy Project - Paul Harfleet
Nov 2006 - Make Do and Mend - Hilary Jack

Transition
Unit 25a Regent Studios
8 Andrews Road London E8
Gallery open Fri, Sat, Sun
All events at Transition gallery are free.

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