Three exhibitions
dal 20/9/2005 al 19/11/2005
Segnalato da
Becky Bowley
Hemanti Chauhan
Ruth Claxton
Francois Dupre'
Simon Le Ruez
Anna Ray
Simon Withers
Adele Prince
Germaine Koh
20/9/2005
Three exhibitions
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
(dis)comfort: a group show where domestic fabrics and familiar objects are manipulated and nudged out of their usual context. Germaine Koh - Knitwork: a life-long piece of work. Since 1992 the artist has been unravelling used garments and re-knitting the yarn into a single continuously growing object. Adele Prince - place-non-place: the work uses animation to examine the similarities between the small movements and gestures of 2 different groups of people.
(dis)comfort
Becky Bowley, Hemanti Chauhan, Ruth Claxton, François Dupré, Simon Le Ruez, Anna Ray, Simon Withers.
(dis)comfort brings together a group of artists who question our emotional and physical response to material. Throughout the exhibition domestic fabrics and familiar objects are manipulated and nudged out of their usual context, provoking a sense of unease. For more information please visit http://www.fabrication05.co.uk
The intricacy of Anna Ray's silk embroideries seduces us into a world of beauty, yet on closer inspection the detailed hand stitched illustrations reveal an irrational world of fears, anxieties and pleasures.
Simon Le Ruez uses sculpture and drawing to construct a range of un-nerving scenarios and narratives, generating unsettling feelings by a deliberate and subversive use of domestic materials.
Ruth Claxton's sculptural installation I thought I was the Audience and then I looked at You, consists of an ever-evolving number of cheap figurines which have each been lovingly suffocated by of variety of brash decorative materials including: sequins, feathers, hair bobbles, fringing and glitter.
Françoise Dupré uses processes and materials which have been traditionally associated with crafts, the domestic and the decorative, to transform the paraphernalia of daily life into curious symbolic objects.
Little Pleasures' Simon Le Ruez (2002) Becky Bowley's durational performances question what happens when materials and experiences associated with safety and reassurance begin to push us out of our comfort zones. Still Changing is
Simon Withers - Simon Withers undermines our expectations of tapestry as a demure pastime. The smooth surfaces of the work hide an underside of tangled threads that form disturbing growths, or reveal a troubling subject matter.
Hemanti Chauhan photographs provocative environments, both rural and urban, in Britain, India and Nepal. By placing an unfurled sari within these sites Hemanti explores issues of territory, ownership and social, cultural and sexual identity.
(dis)comfort
is part of Fabrication, an autumn season of exhibitions throughout Nottingham which explore the use of material in contemporary art
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Germaine Koh: Knitwork
Knitwork is a life-long piece of work by Canadian artist Germaine Koh. Since 1992 Koh has been unravelling used garments and re-knitting the yarn into a single continuously growing object. Both sublime and resolutely absurd, excessive and banal, rigorous and formless, Knitwork is a practical test of the imagination. Forming a visual record of the passage of time and the expense of effort the work is also a monument to the massiveness of everyday labour.
Knitwork: Germaine KohWe are pleased to welcome Germaine Koh to Angel Row Gallery on the 18th, 19th and 20th October when she will be continuing to add to Knitwork. Come along between 12-5pm to watch her knit, and chat to her about the installation. Group and schools visits are welcome on these days, and activity packs will be available for teachers. ( For more information and to arrange a visit please phone Bo on 0115 915 2867.)
Knitwork, courtesy of Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Knitwork is part of Fabrication, a season of exhibitions which explore the use of material in contemporary art. For more information please visit http://www.fabrication05.co.uk
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Adele Prince: place-non-place
place-non-place is a new commission by Adele Prince created specifically for the foyer space of Angel Row Gallery, as part of Window 05. The work uses animation to examine the similarities between the small movements and gestures of two different groups of people: those passing time at the bus stop outside the gallery and those spending time viewing the exhibitions inside.
Window 05 is an experimental programme of exhibitions inviting artists to celebrate Angel Row Gallery's position on the high street, focusing on our own 'shop window'.
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Image: Simon Le Ruez Little Pleasures (2002)
Angel Row Gallery
Central Library Building - 3 Angel Row
Nottingham