Purveyors Exhibition Images

Sun, 5 Sep 2010 21:57:22 +0100

Here are some images from Purveyors, Rogue Project Space, 20-28 August 2010. Bryn Lloyd-Evans, Bower (installation view) and Rob Dunne, Non-Event # 23 : Last Pages (installation view), Rogue Project Space, 2010 Bryn Lloyd-Evans, Plumage (installation view) and Rob Dunne, Suggestion (installatio

Northern Futures

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:22:49 +0100

“Northern Futures is a new, annual art & design award. It recognises and rewards the best emerging creative talent in the north of England” Receiving a runner up prize in the Fine Art category at the inaugural Northern Futures Awards was both exhilarating and humbling, considering I was exhib

Note to self

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:31:28 +0100

Note to self: check hand for notes to self.

Purveyors

Mon, 5 Jul 2010 20:56:12 +0100

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 thematically

“A place where culture and nature collide”1

Sat, 3 Jul 2010 11:25:43 +0100

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 of

Why the long face?

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:29:36 +0100

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 walk

A Thrush

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:50:46 +0100

A thrush seen from my studio window, reminiscent of Stephen Gill‘s photographs of birds in cityscapes.

A Horse walks into a Bar

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:14:32 +0100

“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, photo

Tatton Park Biennial 2010

Sat, 8 May 2010 13:42:03 +0100

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 wor

Slate

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:28:27 +0100

Quote from Robert Macfarlane’s The Wild Places, scratched into slate.

In the blessed abyss of the eternal ether

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:22:30 +0100

Last Thursday I caught the preview of Tom Hobson’s solo exhibition at Rogue Project Space. 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 ma

Nottingham

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:10:28 +0100

Erica Eyres, The Lunatic Box, Prussian Projekte.

Lost Language, Kraak

Tue, 6 Apr 2010 16:58:35 +0100

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 exterio

Volcano

Fri, 2 Apr 2010 09:47:47 +0100

Rob Dunne is currently resident at Laugarvatn, Iceland. He sent this link over, which streams live webcam footage of the volcano at Eyjafjallajoekulln: http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-fimmvorduhalsi/

My glue gun has a dock

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:41:29 +0100

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

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:52:16 +0000

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, East A

unfinished business

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:03:36 +0000

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 in