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Tuesday
Apr232013

Worcester Open 2013: Call for artists

The Worcester Open is open to all national and international artists 18+.

All work must be original, and completed since 2010. Selectors include Wendy Law, Director of Turning Point West Midlands, Anne De Charmant (Director at Meadow Arts), Juneau Projects (Artists), Nada Prlja (Artist) and Gavin Wade (Artist, Curator and Director at Eastside Projects)

Entry fee applies. Deadline Tuesday 11 June 2013. 
 
Thursday
Dec202012

Season's Greetings from Turning Point West Midlands!

Image: Matt Brown - Force Quit Instillation shot. Pictured foreground: I Hate the Beach (Acrylic on Canvas, Beach ball and Deck chair. Fake Snow Dimensions Variable 2012); Wall: Layers (Embroidery on Vinyl Weave 2006)

We recommend you see this truly great show and gallery!

Force Quit
MATT BROWN
'Down Stairs at Great Brampton House, Madley, Herefordshire.
Exhibition open until 27 January 2013
Now open by appointment

Down Stairs is proud to present Force Quit, an exhibition of work by artist Matt Brown that mediates between the ever increasingly blurred boundaries of virtual and real, artificial and actual, analogue and digital.

Showing a range of sculptural and two dimensional work produced over a twelve year period, Brown harnesses a diverse range of mediums including digital image creation, model making, painting, print making and embroidery. With a zealous and labour intensive attention to detail, Brown’s work utilises’s aesthetics from a more innocent age of virtual immersion to perhaps ask the question where actually are we when sat daily interacting with and via technology for the most part of our waking hours.

When writing his own synopsis of the exhibition, Brown’s original statement became digitally mangled through the transferal from one computer program to another. Reflecting upon this inadvertently remixed version, he decided it said as much as it had originally, if not indeed more:

“der and chaos.reating a turf war of ora random equivalent is overlaid ceate exquisite patterns to which red to crdere oronment. These cubes (pixels) arblocks of this enviesent the building reprthe cube as a bases to eciously constructed pieces user- His painstakingly peady faithful following.rconsequences to this alor this type of evolution with what realm soon mirrthe lightening fast development of the digital own raises the question willrcious thought, Bseate amazingly complex systems without any conrcIf assumed that the natural world is comprised of unthinking simple rules having the power to e of ourselves.resulting in technology becoming the centroportion of our everyday livesrge prough a larcomputer letting it become the pilot guiding us thol to there giving over contre aW world. ’ealronments rather than n the ‘rconstraints of virtual envie socially signicant in the isolatedronic ideal of becoming more even shifting into a perversely irae Wganized logical existence. rheir seemingly otinferior of their ability to multi-task and jealous of e than we believe in ourselves, feeling rome have come to believe in technology Wcomputers. elationships with ring a huge shift in peoples cSince the birth of the internet the world is experienStatement”

Showing alongside Force Quit in Down Stairs’ screening room is a video walkthrough of Computer Love, an exhibition that explores our love affair with computers. It takes the form of a virtual gallery that showcases the work of artists and research from the University of Sheffield’s Department of Computer Science in collaboration with Human Studio.'

 

Tuesday
May082012

Graduate exhibitions, June 2012

The end of year exhibition programme for visual arts graduates kicks off at University of Worcester on 23 May and closes at Walsall College on 26 June.

Please find further details below on each of the exhibitions in the region. Click on the headings for more information.


Birmingham City University

School of Art, Margaret Street and Bournville

Opens: Monday 11 June (Private view: 6 - 8pm)

Ends: Sunday 17 June

Opening Times: Monday - Friday 10am - pm, Saturday 10am - 5pm, Sunday 10am - 4pm

Coventry University

Graham Sutherland building, Coventry University

 Opens: Friday 1 June (Private view: 6 - 9pm)

Ends: Sunday 10 June

Opening Times: 10am - 5pm (closed bank holidays)

Hereford College of Arts

Folly Lane, Hereford

Opens: Saturday 16 June

Ends: Wednesday 20 June

Opening Times: Saturday and Sunday 11am - 3pm, Monday - Wednesday 11am - 8pm

Staffordshire University

Henrion Courtyard, College Road, Stoke

Opens: Friday 15 June (Private view from 6.30pm)

Ends: Saturday 23 June

Opening Times: Saturday and Sunday 11am - 4pm, Monday and Wednesday 11am - 8pm, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 11am - 6pm

Walsall College

Littleton Street West, Walsall

Opens: Wednesday 20 June

Ends: Tuesday 26 June

Opening Times: TBC

University of Wolverhampton

Molineux Street, Wolverhampton

Opens: Saturday 2 June

Ends: Saturday 9 June

Opening Times: Saturday and Sunday 10am-4pm, Wednesday - Friday 9am - 5pm

University of Worcester

Digital Arts Centre,  St John’s Campus and The Garage, Hylton Road 

Opens: Wednesday 23 May (private view from 6pm)

Ends: Saturday 26 May

Opening Times: 10am-4pm

 

Thursday
Mar222012

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Nov242011

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Nov102011

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Oct272011

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