Purveyors
Monday, 5 July 2010
I’m curating this exhibition at Rogue Project Space in August. It will feature new work from Manchester School of Art alumni Robert Emmet Dunne, Bryn Lloyd-Evans and myself.
“Purveyors is an exciting, inter-disciplinary exhibition of three emergent Manchester-based artists linked not
“A place where culture and nature collide”1
Saturday, 3 July 2010
Encounters with grey squirrels, Manchester, 2009.
Originally written about the park epithet, I found the above phrase interesting when thinking about art that explores the natural world. Collide seems a fitting word. Nature sometimes appears a polar opposite of culture: culture being a product
Why the long face?
Monday, 28 June 2010
A Horse walks into a Bar, Castlefield Gallery.
Chiz Turnross’s work in Windowlene and white-wash, Untitled (2010), on Castlefield Gallery’s exterior windows is a busy tableau of wings, teeth, legs and scratches where the subjects are as equivocal as some of the themes explored inside. A Horse
A Thrush
Saturday, 19 June 2010
A thrush seen from my studio window, reminiscent of Stephen Gill‘s photographs of birds in cityscapes.
A Horse walks into a Bar
Sunday, 13 June 2010
“Castlefield Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition A Horse walks into a Bar including work by Corey Arnold, Richard Billingham, Andrew Bracey, Lorraine Burrell, Maddi Nicholson, Dan Staincliffe, Chiz Turnross, UHC and Mark Wallinger. Using a range of media such as video, painting,
Tatton Park Biennial 2010
Saturday, 8 May 2010
Neville Gabie, A Weight of Ice Carried from the North for You, installation view, Tatton Park Biennial, 2010.Neville Gabie’s installation in Tatton Park’s Formal Gardens is comprised of a 2.5 ton iceberg presented inside of a purpose-built, solar-powered freezer. The title seems to portray the
Slate
Friday, 23 April 2010
Quote from Robert Macfarlane’s The Wild Places, scratched into slate.
In the blessed abyss of the eternal ether
Friday, 16 April 2010
Works such as Summit, depict a monochrome image of a mountain top. The pinnacle motif is echoed in its shadows and layers of contrasting black rock and white snow. It appears as though the image has been
Lost Language, Kraak
Tuesday, 6 April 2010
Kraak’s current exhibition, Lost Language, features a collection of artists working in refreshingly diverse media. Here’s some on the two works I enjoyed the most.
Jennifer McDonald’s installation takes the shape of a large Christian-type cross. The structure is about six feet tall and its
Volcano
Friday, 2 April 2010
Rob Dunne is currently resident at Laugarvatn, Iceland. He sent this link over, which streams live webcam footage of the volcano at Eyjafjallajoekulln:
My glue gun has a dock
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
A shiny new wireless glue gun and metre-lengths of pine are the beginnings of a project that, all being well, will help me present some of sunny Manchester’s more illusive inhabitants in a new light...
When China Rules The World
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
I’m currently reading ‘When China Rules The World: The Rise of The Middle Kingdom and the End of The Western World’ by Martin Jacques. I’ve been enjoying this book a great deal. Tackling our perceptions of westernisation and modernisation, a huge task; Jacques examines cultural differences,
unfinished business
Saturday, 20 February 2010
Rob Dunne, Non-Event # 77 : Sparrow Installation view.
Last week I made a trip to London to catch unfinished business at Waterside Project Space; a group show featuring ‘unattributed triumphs, non-events, bleak outlooks and empty poetry’. Finding the underground exhibition space in a warehouse
Images, thoughts and findings.
Detail from Splash, 2008.