WOUND has gone audio for your listening pleasure!
So, just when we thought we’d maxed out on help and support from so many different sources for our WOUND exhibition, Ruth Barnes of The Other Woman radio fame cut us a great podcast to help promote our show. Unreal! Kate, Carianne and I recorded our musings about WOUND over the weekend, and Ruth has notched us up as this week’s Girl(s) About Town. We’re right at the end of the podcast, but there’s loads of great stuff on there including the funky, dark pop sounds of THE HORN THE HUNT [check out their ace website; they're also on Facebook] and info about Woolly Hat Day [because it's a great cause...and it's getting freeeezing!], so it’s worth kicking back for the whole 40 minute special. Obviously, we owe a huge thanks to Ruth for her general amazingness — check out her show on Resonance FM and keep an eye out for her weekly Other Woman podcasts, which feature great soundbytes from emerging alternative musicians, record labels, events, updates from the music biz and loads of other great stuff. Ruth Barnes – yeah, she’s so hot right now.
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Set your Sights on WOUND
Get your mitts on the new WOUND flyer!
Isn’t it great when things finally come together in visual form? Sometimes its hard to believe something is really happening, until you actually see what the fuss is about. So it was awesome to wake up this morning to our brand spanking new WOUND flyer in my inbox, courtesy of the fabulous Carianne Whitworth, of Playground fame, and her super-talented designer Joe Hales. And suddenly, WOUND is really happening! I’m loving the faded 80′s blue and the retro textbook feel; we’re very indebted to Joe for making his polished aesthetic available for our project. And big thanks to Matt Simmons for the promo image, from his Projections lightbox series: the duality and misalignment of the image, refering to the construction of identity and masked reality, sets a great tone for the exhibition. You’ll be able to see this image, and several other great pieces from Matt, at WOUND; in the meantime, check out our new WOUND site on Tumblr, for a taste of other work in the show. Again, we have Carianne to thank for our online presence, which is cool and smart, just like her.
So, see you at our WOUND private view on THURSDAY o4 NOVEMBER 2oIo, 7-9pm! The first 100 visitors get free Desperados beer and gear, thanks to Tom Price’s top-drawer negotations. The gorgeous Ruth Barnes from Resonance FM will be cutting us some great music to play on the night, and the House bar will be open for business.
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Veil 25, 2010.
I want to go Nowhere…
Leafing through the latest issue of TATE ETC (Issue 20 – Autumn 2010) on the tube recently, I stumbled across a full-page spread on Paul Winstanley, whose new exhibition Everybody Thinks This is Nowhere, was currently running at the Alan Cristea Gallery on Cork Street in London. The promo image was arresting: navy washes of bare forest in the early darkness of an evening. So when I met up with the wonderful Immi – of The Dog Show fame, see my earlier post – for lunch that same day, I mentioned this exhibition to her and we decided to go for a wander down Cork Street and see what was on offer.
When we got to the Alan Cristea Gallery, a new show was being hung — shock! I couldn’t believe we had missed our chance — we stood outside a little dejectedly, figuring out what to do next, when one of the gallery staff came out, and told us that the Paul Winstanley show was in its final day at the other Alan Cristea gallery on the same street. Phew! So we swung with relief through the big glass door at 34 Cork Street…and our jaws literally dropped in unison. This was one beautiful show. On every wall, there were beautiful painted aquatints, photo-etches, water colours and oil paintings of empty interiors and landscapes, executed with such delicate mastery that we were literally speechless. In front of the enormous Veil 25 [see image above] especially, we just stared and stared in amazed silence. And then, we dashed from wall to wall, debating excitedly if this was a photograph or a painting? A screenprint or a watercolour? Paul Winstanley technical prowess was legendary; it wasn’t until we picked up the exhibition catalogue that we could verify what techniques he had actually used. We spent a long time in front of his Landscape [2010] series, an entire wall of sugar-lift aquatints with handpainted forest scenes, discussing which was our favourite – for Immi the forest of grey washes, for me the forest of navy blue – and marvelled at the outstanding quality of the work.
But it’s not just for his handling that Winstanley is worth following: the conceptual force in his work is also highly engaging, with his ideas of exterior-as-interior, the painting as membrane between the present and the beyond, the space of ‘nowhere’ which is both some-place and no-place, and the suspension of self within a ‘non-space’. There is a slowness to the work, a quiet unfolding of information, that is very beautiful; Winstanley talks about how his paintings reflect a certain “desirable condition” in the self, and this, to me, is a condition of emptiness — a theme which I am currently very engaged with, and which will, I hope, find some realization in the works I am making for the WOUND exhibition. But back to Winstanley – we left the exhibition on a high, and none of the other exhibitions on Cork Street seemed to come close as an aesthetic encounter. The Alan Cristea Gallery gets my vote, for being both unexpectedly friendly and helpful, and presenting a superb exhibition of contemporary art in west London. Unfortunately, I came to the exhibition late and the show is now closed, but you can see more of Winstanley’s work on his website. Don’t miss Winstanley’s next show: he’s currently based in south-east London, so I’m hoping for plenty more forays into Nowhere.
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We love WOVEN…
Recently, I was introduced to the photographic work of Nicola Dellard-Lyle by the ever-wonderful Kate Mercer, and was instantly sold on her beautiful WOVEN series. It won’t come as a surprise that Nicola has already achieved recognition in Wales, after exhibiting at force : vision, the second year BA (Hons) Photographic Art exhibition run by the University of Wales, Newport earlier this year. In her WOVEN series, Nicola explores the tactile and repeatedly contradictory relationship between body and cloth, where fabric holds a power over the way our bodies are perceived and represented. The engulfing and enveloping nature of cloth uncovers such paradoxes as a coexisting of revealing and concealing, protection and separation – where the covering of the body represents an uncovering and the line between a shield and a constriction is very thin. Nicola perceives the conflicting personality of cloth as something at once homely and uncanny, comfortable and uneasy; see two images from her WOVEN series [above]. Moving into her final year at the University of Wales, Newport, Nicola is clearly one photographer to watch; keep an eye out for her new blog too, currently under construction, but soon to be brimming with images from Nicola’s fantastic catalogue of work.
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WOUND: Artists Finalized!
Laura Degenhardt, Nest, 2010. One of a series taken with a Canon AE1 on Ilford 400 film.
WOUND is go…
The exciting news for the week is that the artists for WOUND: A Photographic Exhibition have been finalized! We’re so lucky to have the cream of the photography crowd from University of Wales, Newport involved in this show, with their polished work and extensive exhibition experience. A great group has been lined up from both graduate and post-graduate Fine Art courses at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, too; these artists have all specialized in photography within their art practice, and are coming in fresh from the summer exhibition circuit. And so, without further ado, the artists representing Newport and London will be:
Kate Mercer
Matt Simmons
Tom Price
Keren Oertly
Lina Rukeviciute
Nadia Witte
Laura Degenhardt
Each artist is exploring the notion of the wound from a variety of perspectives, including the aesthetics of politics, the culture of identity, the forms of the non-visible, projected experiences, doubles/multiples, and symbolic migrations. See Laura’s gorgeous test shot [above] for her conceptual series which documents the passing of the swifts through the Oxford University towers; more great tasters will be posted to this blog in the coming weeks, so don’t be a stranger. This is one show you don’t want to miss!
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Road trip ahoy…
It’s exciting times for some of my favourite artists in the land, and right now the focus is on Immi Johns, who is achieving some amazing successes down in gorgeous Cornwall. After a selling all her artworks in a recent group show at STONEMAN GALLERY, Immi has been invited to take part in Stoneman’s latest offering, THE DOG SHOW, currently open, and in its final days. If their fantastic promo material isn’t enough to lure you in on its own [left], then check out IMMI’S BLOG to see some examples of the exquisite work she has in the show. Any excuse for a road trip to Cornwall, right? But this show will definately be a highlight.
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WOUND: A Photographic Exhibition
A new project, a new look…
I decided my blog needed a bit of TLC and a lot more attention, and what better time than now, with a new exhibition on the cards! Last year’s big summer project was the GO HOME exhibition at East Gallery in London; see the GO HOME promo blog for the show, selected images, and a full list of participants.
This summer’s project has been reading around Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida, discussing various interpretation of and approaches to the essay with co-organiser Kate Mercer, and finally drafting an exhibition proposal around Barthes’ concept of the punctum, or wound. Finally, the proposal has been finalized, the gallery has been booked, and the invites have been sent out to artists. This show will explore the notion of the “wound” via photography, photographic processes and/or photographic referents, and bring in the very best artists in this medium from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and the University of Wales, Newport.
Watch this space for updates!
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Painting is Always a Mistake
Laura Degenhardt, Dichotomy [Detail], 2008. Oil on canvas.
This exhibition will showcase the summer studio work of the Fine Art students at Oxford Brookes from 22-24 September, 2008. It will be showing at The Arena in the Richard Hamilton Building, Oxford Brookes University, so come along and check out some great local Oxford talent! One artist to look out for in particular is Laura Degenhardt, who is diversifying from her best-selling urban landscapes to delicate portraiture and gorgeous natural landscapes [see detail above]. You can catch some highlights of her amazing work on her BLOG. Love her already? Same.
See you there…
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Welcome to my blog!
Let me introduce myself: My name is Keren Oertly, artist and painter, born in Switzerland, raised in New Zealand and currently studying Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. Within my work, I combine drawing, painting, photography, animations, semiotics and installations with writing and conceptual practice, and have recently explored various themes such as the location and manifestation of memory, the apparition, and the figures and spaces of absence. This blog will be updated regularly with my news, pictures of recent work, information on exhibitions I have seen or am involved with, and anything else that might be worth a mention! Any comments are welcome.
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