FINE ARTS SECTION
Updated 17 December 2003
New Contemporary Crafts Fair
The Crafts Council is launching a new fair for contemporary craft at the V&A in February next year. Entitled Collect, it will showcase the work of internationally renowned artists and include presentations from leading UK and international galleries.
For more information contact the Crafts Council Tel. 020 7806 2512 or Email: collect@craftscouncil.org.uk
Manchester Art Gallery
Manchester Art Gallery has launched an on-line collections database, enabling visitors to the website at www.manchestergalleries.org to have access to the gallery's collection via the internet.
The database is part of a project to document the 50,000 items in the collection electronically. Initially, it holds 20,000 records, including 1,500 colour images. The collection will be developed on a continuing basis, with virtual tours of the gallery being added and themed sections from the Gallery of Costume in Rusholme.
Access to the database will also be available from computers in the Gallery cafe.
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By Local Painters 1 December 2003 – 18 January 2004 Urban Coffee Lounge, 349 Smithdown Road Liverpool L15 FITSOSCRENANIA!… |
Studios Available in Manchester
Manchester Craft and Design Centre houses 16 studios of contemporary craft-workers and artists working in a range of media from ceramics, textiles and jewellery to sculpture and furniture. Rents range from around £200-£600 per month.
The centre provides a sympathetic working environment, encouraging the development of new and young businesses and supporting the growth of established business. As well as a thriving production space, it is a professional retail centre, complete with cafe.
The Centre also acts as a venue to promote arts-based events and is host to a regularly changing programme of exhibitions.
For information, call into the manager's office or contact Manchester Craft and Design Centre, 17 Oak St, Manchester M4 5JD Tel. 0161 832 4274 Email: manager@craftanddesign.com
Barcelona Angel
Former Arts Council Setting Up Scheme artist, Lorraine Berry from Chorley, is having her installation Angel, originally produced at St Philips Church, Salford, installed at the former Chapel of Angels Convent - now a gallery in Barcelona.
The work uses laser marking and ultra-violet light to show the image of an angel onto matching floor tiles, laid over the original floor. Viewers trigger the lights as they walk across the floor.
Lorraine followed her period as a Setting Up Scheme artist with a course at City College, Manchester, exploring new technologies and their application to artistic practice. The Barcelona exhibition is the culmination of this course, and the exhibits from it will subsequently be shown in Manchester.
Exhibition Opportunity
A brand new gallery on Lake Ullswater in the Lake District seeks contemporary artists for its new exhibition programme -'probably the first of its kind with broadband access'.
For more details contact Kate, Tel. 07866 638159 Email: art@thecumbrianetwork.co.uk Send images of work to: 14b Angel Lane, Penrith, Cumbria CA11 7BP.
Developing the style of the street and drawing inspiration from the city. A 'work in progress' show for 2 talented Manchester artists, this is a unique opportunity to look behind the scenes of the artist's studio and see work at different stages of completion.
Deborah Steggel will be showing a selection of pieces, including a series of digitally printed collages using images from journeys to and from Manchester, Liverpool, London and Paris. She is also showing large format samples of printmaking work for an outside textile piece, and some initial research pieces of collage and photography.
Annette Cobley will be showing a series of canvasses inspired by graffiti collages and a series of graffiti-style stencils on clothing. The highly original images have been created using the technique of graffiti stencils, but depict traditional life drawing poses and show strong confident women.
Annette crosses over life drawing poses into stencils, which are then transferred onto women's clothing using sewing, printing or painting techniques and worn in the urban environment.
Craft Galleries Guide 2004/5
Work has now started on compiling the 7th edition of the Crafts Galleries Guide (due for publication in December 2003). The Guide is updated every other year and has become an indispensable resource for all who are seriously interested in contemporary crafts - see website: www.bcfbooks.co.uk for more info.
Any galleries who would like to be considered for entry, or makers who wish to be included with a gallery should contact Caroline Mornement, Burton Cottage Farm, East Coker, Yeovil, Somerset BA22 9LS Tel/Fax. 01935 862731 Email: cm@craftgalleries.co.uk
PRESTON GALLERY
A new publicly funded gallery, Room 107, is opening in Preston this January, dedicated to exhibiting exciting contemporary arts and crafts. Any artists interested in exhibiting should send a current CV and images. The opening exhibition is titled ‘Urban’, and later exhibition themes include ‘Blimey!’ and ‘Beyond Personality (Secret Lives>’.
Contact Mike Hesketh, c/o Room 107, Oyston Mill, Strand Rd, Preston, Lancs PR1 8UR
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National Exhibition of Wildlife Art New Dates and New Venue for 2004 Open Exhibition to artists living in the UK and Ireland. Artists can submit up to 3 pieces of work in either 2 or 3 dimensions. All works MUST be for sale. There will be collection points strategically placed around the UK. NEW Exhibition Dates are Friday 16th July until Sunday 1st August 2004 (Preview Evening 15 July 2003) NEW Venue - Gordale, Burton, Wirral (Situated on the A540 Chester High Road. Registration Forms available March 2004 from Dennis Oakes, 3 Brian Avenue, Irby, Wirral, Merseyside CH61 3UX Further information from NEWA Chairman, Marion Tuffrey Tel. 07940 474 013 Email: newa@mtuffrey.freeserve.co.uk or visit our website: www.newa.cwc.net or alternatively NEWA Press Officer, David Wilson Tel. 0151 336 5656 or Write to: NEWA, 11 Dibbins Hey, Poulton Lancelyn, Bebington, Wirral CH63 9JU |
Rochdale Museum
Rochdale’s museum collection opened its new hands-on home in November. Touchtones Rochdale is a new arts and heritage centre, which includes a museum, local studies centre, art gallery, heritage gallery, tourist information centre, education studio, café, and bookshop.
Details from Touchstones Rochdale, The Esplanade, Rochdale OL16 1AQ Tel. 01706 864986 Email: touchstones@rochdale.gov.uk
New Gallery in Chester
Rawatuk is a new Chester-based art gallery and agency that exhibits work by Cheshire artists. They also place work in alternative spaces such as high street shops and hairdressers. They are open Tuesday-Sunday.
Rawatuk, 4 Old Port Square, Chester CH1 4JP Tel. 01244 381085/Fax. 01244 381172 Email: enquiries@rawatuk.com
CHESHIRE ARTISTS' DIRECTORY
Cheshire Artists' Directory has been revised to enable it to be available on the internet and the second phase of redevelopment is in place to allow images and examples of work to be displayed. Artists that would like to be included in the directory and would like work including on the website, contact Audrey Siddall, Arts Services, Goldsmith House, Hamilton Place, Chester, Cheshire CH1 1SE Tel. 01244 602839 Website: www.cheshire.gov.uk/arts/home.html
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Artists Database 'So Many Words' is a disability arts organisation in Salford offering a programme of high quality performing arts activities for young people and adults with learning difficulties. The company is developing a database of professional artists to work on a variety of projects, including short-term residentials to longer-term performance-led projects. Artforms include: dance, drama, creative writing, puppetry, video making, music, visual art and photography. Interested artists should send a CV and covering letter to: Liz Taylor, Artistic Director, So Many Words, Oakwood High Youth Club, Park La, Salford M6 7RQ |
Interreligious Art
Call for artists to make seaside pilgrimage to the 'interreligious art flat'.
Artists, craftworkers, fashion designers, dancers, film-makers, performers, musicians, writers, poets, monks, nuns, immams, fakirs, shamans, faith-healers, etc, are invited to holiday in Morecambe and leave work at a gallery/DSS flat devoted to the post-modern mix of religious and secular life. Minority groups are especially welcome.
Contact Anthony Padgett, 40 Mayfield Dr, Morecambe, Lancs LA4 6EP, Tel. 07812 79952 Email: anthonydpadgett@yahoo.co.uk
(Source: Various, but including Arts Council of England, North West)
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