Friday, 5 September 2008

Forget me


Before the collapse
Pencil and watercolour on paper
2008



Jane Archer, Mike Bartlett, Vanessa Bird, Arturo Casciaro, Rachel Cattle, Nina Clough, Matthew Corbin Bishop, Annabel Dover, Natalie Dowse, Kier Eyles, Patrick Galway, Rebecca Gould, John Green, Paul Harber, Nicole Ingham, Sanam Khatibi, Liz Kent, Noemi Lakmaier, Cathy Lomax, Kate Marshall, Alex Michon, Matthew Parsons, Rachel Potts, Harry Pye, Iain Rayner, Fran Richardson, Keara Stewart, Margaret Sturton, Annabel Tilley, Jo Tindal, and Sam Treadaway.

Forget me revolves around the theme of memory, how drawing can provoke and stimulate the imagination with regard to personal delusion and the possible narratives found in architecture. Each artist has contributed a drawing depicting a story or situation from their past. These stories are either based on completely real events or are a total fabrication. Drawing is a highly personal activity; it generally requires an intimate and immediate response. The work included in the exhibition deals predominantly within the realms of the handmade and heartfelt.

Gristle Mountain founder and artist/curator Patrick Galway said: ‘Fort Brockhurst has an intense psychological atmosphere, with the space lending itself well to framing the artwork. A cloying nostalgia, a teenage overreaction, a retired hobbyist aesthetic, and a complacent misery, this and much more will be found at Forget me.’

The drawings will be exhibited in the central keep and visitors will also have the chance to see a Dada-South GO MAKE! artist residency Hidden Battles lead by Artist Caroline Cardus.

11:00 am - 3:00 pm on 13th-14th September 2008
Fort Brockhurst, Gunners Way, Gosport, Hampshire PO12 4DS
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Soft Architecture





Soft Architecture
5th- 12th September 2008
University of Portsmouth Library
Second Floor








University of Portsmouth Library
Second Floor

http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/studentsupport/library/

Open Studios



Art Space Portsmouth
27 Brougham Road
Portsmouth
PO5 4PA

www.artspace.co.uk/

The Painting Room





OTT EARRING
2007
watercolour on paper
59x42cm


The Painting Room
12 January - 10 February 2008
Transition Gallery

Combining the romance of a 19th century salon with a multitude of contemporary themes, The Painting Room showcases a comprehensive selection of the most exciting new painting today. The transformative quality of painting's language, its current vitality and its continuing ability to re-invent itself are all represented, showing how painting today is a multifaceted media of expression where ideas ranging from the playful to conceptual, fairytale to melancholic and historical to ultra-modern combine to reiterate the sheer exuberance of painting.

Henny Acloque, Michael Ajerman, Carolina Ambida, Eleni Bagaki, Kim Baker, Mike Bartlett, Olly Beck, Paul Becker, Patricia Beja, Julie Bennett, Amie Bolissian, Guy Bourner, Andrew Bracey, Joanna Bryniarska, Jake Clark, Jessica Coates, Katie Cuddon, Tahu Deans, Karen Douglas, Sarah Douglas, Annabel Dover, Tamara Dubnyckyj, Katarina Forss, Marenka Gabeler, Patrick Galway, Kirsten Glass, David Gledhill, Géraldine Gliubislavich, Paul Green, Julia Hamilton, Stephen Harwood, Teiji Hayama, Nadia Hebson, Camilla Hicks, Sigrid Holmwood, Rod Hunt, Luke Jackson, Sarah Jeffries, Annie Kevans, Rebecca Knapp, Adam Latham, Rob Leech, Jesse Leroy Smith, Iwan Lewis, Richard Livingston, Cathy Lomax, Lee Maelzer, Andrew Mania, Kate Marshall, Gary McDonald, Fiona Michie, Alex Michon, Eleanor Moreton, Ryan Mosley, Carlos Noronha Feio, Laura Oldfield Ford, Rachel Potts, Kelly Pretty, Emma Puntis, Harry Pye, Polly Read, Alli Sharma, Emma Talbot, Mimei Thompson, Hitoko Urago, David Webb, Jo Wilmot, David Wojtowycz, Simon Wright, William Wright, Rose Wylie

www.transitiongallery.co.uk/