Dirk Bell, Kate Davis, Alan Michael
dal 23/1/2003 al 15/3/2003
Segnalato da
23/1/2003
Dirk Bell, Kate Davis, Alan Michael
The Changing Room, Stirling
The exhibition brings together new work by three artists, from Glasgow and Berlin. It centres on their use of drawing and mixed media to make work with multiple meanings around notions of memory, representation, beauty and layering of images.
We would like to invite you to the private view of our next exhibition on Friday
24th January at 6.30pm - 9pm:*
Dirk Bell, Kate Davis, Alan Michael
25 January - 15 March
The exhibition brings together new work by three artists, from Glasgow and
Berlin. It centres on their use of drawing and mixed media to make work with
multiple meanings around notions of memory, representation, beauty and layering
of images.
Dirk Bell's drawings and watercolours contain ephemeral figures that reference
his everyday experience of the world and memories of other imagery. The
subjects are often extraneous within gothic landscapes, or abstracted, for
example as mirror images. Although relatively quickly rendered, his work
reveals a talent for handling different styles and a belief in the Romantic.
In her recent work Kate Davis pushes images from the natural and manufactured
world towards abstraction to make meticulously rendered drawings, that play with
the representation of beauty, symmetry and evolution. Using the pencil as a tool
to question how our expectation of an image can alter sight, Davis attempts to
offer an alternative pattern which is open to multiple readings.
Alan Michael composes complex images in different styles and media, at times
utilising figures appropriated from works by an eclectic mixture of Twentieth
Century figurative painters including Balthus, Lucien Freud, Modigliani, Georgia
O'Keefe and Phillip Pearlstein. Michael's interest is in transformations or
distortions of culture and in the currency and capital of quotation.
* A special bus is running to the opening event from Glasgow, leaving at 6.30pm.
To book a seat please contact the Changing Room in advance.
Events Programme
Artists' Talk: Get excited about drawing!
25 January 2pm Admission FREE
Join an open discussion with Kate Davis and Olivia Plender. Using slides, they
will talk about drawing with reference to work from the Twentieth Century to
contemporary practice, uncovering ideas in relation to the current exhibition as
well as from further afield. Olivia Plender is a London-based artist and editor
of the art magazine Untitled. She exhibited at The Changing Room in the group
show Department, May-June 2001.
Video Screening Evening
14 March 6.30pm Admission FREE
Alan Michael and fellow Glasgow-based artist Stephen Sutcliffe introduce a
selection of video work, showing in Stirling for the first time. Stephen
Sutcliffe graduated from MFA at Glasgow School of Art in 2002 and his work has
been screened at De Overslag, Eindhoven; Arnolfini, Bristol and Royal College of
Art, London.
Events are open to everyone, but have limited seats. Please call or email the
gallery in advance to reserve a place.
Exhibition and events supported by: Scottish Arts Council, Stirling Council and
Goethe Institute, Glasgow
The Changing Room
contemporary art space
35 The Crawford Arcade
King Street
Stirling
FK8 1AX
Tel/Fax: +44 (0)1786 479361