3rd February 2010 Art Walk Schedule

Schedule for Wednesday 3 February:

17:30 – Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery: A discipline of the mind: The Drawings of Wilheimina Barns-Graham.

18:15 – Leeds Art Gallery: Northern Art Prize.

18:45 – Howard Assembly Rooms: Janet Cardiff: VOICES: The Forty Part Motet.

This month we have been invited to stay on for the opening of the Janet Cardiff sound installation at the Howard Assembly Rooms following the art walk.

Meet at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery at 5:30pm.

For more information contact Gill at Pavilion
T > 0113 242 5100
E > gill@pavilion.org.uk

More about the exhibitions:

A discipline of the mind: The Drawings of Wilheimina Barns-Graham.

Drawings by Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, produced between 1949-1993, showing her analytical and enquiring draughtsmanship. The exhibition was curated by Mel Gooding for The Pier Art Centre in collaboration with The Barns-Graham Charitable Trust.

Northern Art Prize.

Leeds Art Gallery hosts the 3rd Northern Art Prize for contemporary visual artists. The prize celebrates and rewards professional artists of any age, working in any medium, living in the North of England. This year’s short-listed artists were Pavel Buchler, Rachel Goodyear, Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson and Matt Stokes. All their work is exhibited here. The winner Pavel Buchler was announced on 10th Jan.Come along and see if you agree with the judges decision!

VOICES: The Forty Part Motet.

A unique sound installation based on Thomas Tallis’s masterpiece for forty voices, Spem in Alium. In Janet Cardiff’s re-working each of the forty voices are heard through independent speakers spaced throughout the Howard Assembly Room.  Audiences are invited to wander around the room and absorb this rich, aural experience.

Art Walk takes a break for January

Seasons Greetings and Happy New year everybody. We have decided to take a break from the Art Walk in January as post-Christmas blues and returning to work occupy people’s time. So there’s no walk on Wednesday 6th January.

The Art Walk will return on Wednesday 3rd February, starting at the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery. More details to follow.

2 December 2009 Art Walk Schedule

This month we will be taking in some art in unusual spaces, including art in empty shop units.

Schedule for Wednesday 2nd December:

17:30 – Leeds City Museum: Comings and Goings.

18:00 – Leeds Shopping Plaza: Woolgatherer*

18:30 – Tonic (Leeds General Infirmary): Sharon Scott.

19:00 – Merrion Centre: Curiosity Shops.

19:15 – The artmarket: (tbc)

Meet on the steps outside Leeds City Museum, millenium square.

For more information contact Gill at Pavilion
T > 0113 242 5100
E > gill@pavilion.org.uk

*if you wish to start the walk at this venue please enter by the Albion Street entrance as the shopping plaza will be closed to the public from 6pm.

 

More about the exhibitions/Projects:

Comings and Goings by Casey Orr:

Comings and Goings is a photographic series in three parts. The photographs tell several stories, all of them linked. There is a story of migration – human, plant, and animal – and stories which explore ideas of interconnectedness: the notion that all things are linked, that everything somehow connects with everything else and that all of nature, history, human and animal experience is ultimately linked and resonates from the same source. The three parts of the exhibition also propose the idea that foreign and indigenous are not so far apart, trying to show the links and connections between all living things; our desire to be free, our instinct to nest, to seed, to move and be alive. And from the standpoint of a northern industrial community, Comings and Goings also tells the story of our constantly moving and changing world. All of the photographs are taken in the inner city borough of Armley in Leeds.

Curiosity Shops

Part of ‘Art in Unusual Spaces’, two media spaces within the Merrion Centre are being curated by Leeds based arts organisation Lumen <http://lumen.org.uk>. They have selected contemporary experiment work from leading filmmakers, artists and animators. For more information on the programme see the Lumen website.

 

7 October 2009 Art Walk Schedule

Join us for the next Leeds Art Walk on Wednesday 7 October. A fantastic opportunity to meet fellow art lovers and experience the best of visual art in Leeds. This month we have been invited to join the private view of Wandering Abroad at Leeds Art Gallery after the Art Walk.

Schedule for Wednesday 7 October:

17:30 – Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery: Obsession: Contemporary Art from the Lodeveans Collection.
18:00 – Leeds Met Gallery: As long as it lasts, Souvenir and Old Wars New Wars.
18:45 – Leeds Art Gallery: Hughie O’Donoghue: Anabasis – The Journey as Metaphor and Wandering Abroad – Corrine Silva.

Meet at Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, The University of Leeds.

For more information contact Gill at Pavilion
T > 0113 242 5100
E > gill@pavilion.org.uk

More about the exhibitions:

Obsession: Contemporary Art from the Lodeveans Collection.

Artworks selected from the Lodeveans Collection of contemporary art, set up by Stuart and John Evans show the diversity of artistic talent and imagination emerging on a global scale. The collecting interests of the father and son are showcased in this exhibition of thought-provoking and often challenging new work.

Leeds Met Gallery

Leeds Met Gallery stages 3 simultaneous exhibitions, to mark the end of its life at its current venue.

As long as it lasts – Simon and Tom Bloor.

As long as it lasts sees the outside brought inside as the double height gallery is filled with living silver birch trees that tower above a collection of sculptures and ink drawings on day-glo paper.

Souvenir

Featuring the work of Susan Collis, Patrick Lowry, Harry Meadley, Indya Mealing and Tracey Oldham. Souvenir celebrates the last ever gallery programme on this site and commemorates the building in which the gallery stands.

Old Wars New Wars – Heidi Schaefer

Old Wars New Wars considers how an artist can engage intimately with the issue of war from any distance. The work raises questions on the relationship between violence, aesthetics and ethics in art production.

Anabasis - The Journey as Metaphor – Hughie O’Donoghue

Hughie O’Donoghue, an artist deeply embedded in the history of painting. Often likened to Anselm Kiefer, his subjects are history, memory and myth. His powerful figurative paintings and drawings often draw from the old Masters and have been compared to School of London painters such as Francis Bacon, but over the last decade photography has also played an increasingly important role. This has extended from the artist’s initial use of found and documentary imagery to recent paintings where the painted image incorporates within its surface photographic compositions set up by the artist in the land around his studio in Ireland.

Wandering Abroad -Corinne Silva

This is a moving image installation that serves as memorial to David Oluwale, the Nigerian stowaway, whose body was pulled out of the river Aire in 1969. The work gives visual form to history and memory which is latent in the architecture and landscape of the present. It explores the memory of a city undergoing regeneration, draw attention to those on the margin of society, and explores the significance and symbolism both in Oluwale’s life and within West-African culture.

2 September 2009 Art Walk Schedule

This month we will be venturing out of Leeds City Centre and visiting the Bowery in Headingley, so please bring your bus fare.

The walk will finish at Arcardia bar in Headingley for a sociable drink.

Schedule for Wednesday 2 September:

17:30 – Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery: A Malham Family of Painters.
18:00 – Leeds College of Art and Design: Chris Osburn: Red State – Excess and Despair in the American South.
18:45 – Bowery: Emmy Twigge: Did you do it for the art? And Sally Taylor: “aaa”

Meet at Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, The University of Leeds.
For more information contact Gill at Pavilion
T > 0113 242 5100
E > gill@pavilion.org.uk

More about the exhibitions:

A Malham Family of Painters

This exhibition traces the careers of three generations of women artists from the same family who have made the Yorkshire Dales their subject. The work of Constance Pearson, her daughter Philippa, and granddaughter Katharine Holmes is complemented by a display of works by Dales artists in the University Art Collection.

Red State – Excess and Despair in the American South

American photojournalist Chris Osburn recently revisited his Deep South hometown of Chickamauga, Georgia and the nearby environs of South-eastern Tennesse and North-Western Alabama to shoot photographs depicting the area’s transition from argrarian society to the commodity/service industry culture of today within the context of the current economic conditions and in light of the out-going Bush administration and the incoming Obama presidency. The result is this fascinating exhibition of photographs.

Did you do it for the art?

Did You Do It For The Art? is a new body of work evidencing Emmy Twigges negotiation of the space between power and impotency post bereavement. Ostensibly concerned with loss through suicide, this work is actually consistent with Twigge’s ongoing practice of considering herself as “artist”. Every piece in this collection of work acknowledges process and thus the artists point of execution, the point at which her power is felt becomes the subject matter.

“aaa”

Taylor’s drawings affirm a desire to understand more about human relationships, specifically her own interaction with others. They are equally about forming a balance between formal concerns and the creation of emotional resonance.

In this body of work Taylor has focused on recording and mapping social interaction. Through mark-making she engages with humanistic themes as intimate or public dialogues are played out on the paper in an attempt to challenge the validity of language in articulating aspects of human experience.

5 August 2009 (Photo) Art Walk Schedule

This month we are running the art walk in collaboration with Exposure Leeds photography group  (http://exposureleeds.org/). Participants from Exposure Leeds will be bringing along cameras and snapping away during the walk, including some set activities. If you’d like to join in then please bring a camera. If you simply want to walk as usual then that’s fine too!

17:30 – Pavilion: Andy Lock: Lost Horizons.

17:50 – Wonderwood: public art installation in Holbeck Urban Village.

18:15 – PSL [Project Space Leeds]: Town & Country and Jerwood Contemporary Painters.

19:00 – Leeds Art Gallery: British Surrealism in Contcxt: A Collector’s Eye

Meet at Pavilion.

For more information contact Gill Howard: 0113 242 5100 or gill@pavilion.org.uk.

More about the exhibitions:

Andy Lock: Lost Horizons

Lost Horizons depicts the most marginal of spaces, populated by equally marginal objects: small, cheaply made toy animals, collected from garage sales, flea-markets and antique malls. The photographs present scenes reminiscent of childhood myth-making and play, the worn edge of a table becomes a horizon line and a painted panel creates a turbulent sky. The beauty of these apparently trivial images is at odds with the sheer insignificance of their contents.

Wonderwood

Wonderwood, a new temporary art+park in Holbeck Urban Village, designed to turn a wasteland into a wonderwood, for use all summer by the local community. The site was earmarked for the development, but since the recession bit, was left idle…until a fleet of wide-eyed rabbits and some other kitsch accompaniments turned up to transform this patch.

Town & Country

Town and Country is a collaboration between Project Space Leeds and Harewood House Trust exploring issues around the urban and the rural based on the relationship between the two sites and notions of migration. Featuring works by Susan Collins, Justine Gaunt, Pippa Hale, Kerry Harker, Diane Howse, Nous Vous and Simon Warner.

Jerwood Contemporary Painters

PSL hosts this year’s Jerwood Contemporary Painters exhibition during its national tour. This year’s vibrant collection of twenty six emerging artists exhibit one work each. The exhibition offers an exciting opportunity to emerging artists who are at a particular stage in their development, falling between student and recognised artist status; all have graduated since 2000.

British Surrealism in Context: A Collector’s Eye

The Ruth and Jeffrey Sherwin collection is probably Leeds largest private collection. An exhibition of Surrealist Art in 1986, held at Leeds City Art Gallery, triggered Sherwin’s interest in Surrealist works and started his collecting in earnest.

The exhibition will look into different aspects of his collecting, his process and chronology of collecting and the reasons for acquiring works of art.  An integral part of his collecting is the forming of groups by either acquiring works of art of the same subject matter but executed in different media, visual connections or related material.

The different artistic and chronological approaches to related subject matter offer fresh views. The works in the collection establish formal and thematic relationships.

1st July 2009 Art Walk Schedule

Please note the change in schedule. We will now be visiting St. Johns at 18:15 and The Carriageworks at 19:15.

17:30 – Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery: A Malham Family of Painters: Constance Pearson, Philippa and Katharine Holmes

18:15 – St Johns Church: In my other life …

18:45 – Henry Moore Institute: The New Monumentality/ Art in Public Places

19:15 – Carriageworks: Tower Works: The Italian Connection

Meet at Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, The University of Leeds.

For more information contact Gill Howard: 0113 242 5100 or gill@pavilion.org.uk.

More about the exhibitions:

A Malham Family of Painters

This exhibition traces the careers of three generations of women artists from the same family who have made the Yorkshire Dales their subject. The work of Constance Pearson, her daughter Philippa, and granddaughter Katharine Holmes is complemented by a display of works by Dales artists in the University Art Collection.

Tower Works: The Italian Connection

Leeds artist collective Black Dogs invite you to ponder over the curious history and origins of one of Leeds’ most eccentric landmarks, Tower Works in Holbeck. At the Carriageworks you can view a selection of photographs bringing together The Giotto Tower and its original big brother in Florence. The exhibition continues at the Midnight Bell in Holbeck and with a sound work at Tower Works itself. Though we won’t visit these venues on the art walk, you will be able to hear more about the project and pick up a self-guided walk map enabling you to visit the other exhibition sites yourself. http://black-dogsleeds.blogspot.com/

The New Monumentality

The New Monumentality explores the attraction of modern post-war buildings for three artists born in the heyday of monumental architecture, as typified by London’s Barbican Centre. Gerard Byrne, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Dorit Margreiter are among the most interesting artists working in Europe today. All three use film and script to investigate and animate the architecture of the 1960s and this project brings them together for the first time.

Art in Public Places

As one of the first organisations of its kind, the Public Art Development Trust (PADT), established in 1983, defined public art in the UK for some twenty years. The archive of the PADT was acquired by the Henry Moore Institute in 2005 and this exhibition traces projects generated by the Trust – realised and unrealised – featuring artists such as Julian Opie, Cornelia Parker and Katarina Fritsch. The material gives a unique insight into the evolution of public art and charts the major shift from permanent bronze and stone figures to temporary interventions, installations and projections. The exhibition also gives a snapshot of how an organisation is represented through its archive, with the complex genesis of sometimes controversial projects played out through ephemeral and documentary material.

In my other life …

‘In my other life……’ is an exhibition by 4 Leeds artists that responds to the space at St John’s Church through sculpture, painting, print, photography and installation.Rosie Kearton uses installation to explore the journey and tensions between her strong Catholic upbringing, that formed the foundation of her childhood, and the fragility and vulnerability of growing old. Jane Kenington uses the visual word to draw from life situations and question understanding, her response draws upon her feelings about religion and the church. John Shaw seeks to express the spiritual freedom that can be discovered through outdoor adventure and the importance of precarious situations. Stuart Symonds work is a continuing progression into figments of reality, predominately motivated by science and representing notions that are constantly adapting and revolutionizing the way we think.

The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of one of the original exhibition group, Chrisopher Lockwood, who died in an accident in the Alps early March this year, and will include some of his work.

3rd June 2009 Art Walk Schedule

Join us for Leeds Art Walk on 3rd June

Schedule:

17:30 – Project Space Leeds: Morphic Resonance
18:00 – Leeds Art Gallery: The Russian Linesman
19:00 – MAP Gallery: Spoonerism
19:30 – superscript: Alex Farrah, Iona Smith and Harry Meadley

Meet at PSL at 17:30.

For more information/ to book contact Gill at Pavilion
T > 0113 242 5100
E > gill@pavilion.org.uk
(Booking is not essential but will help us estimate numbers)

6th May 2009 Art Walk Schedule

Join us for the fourth Leeds Art Walk on Wednesday 6th May.

Schedule:

17:30 – Stanley And Audrey Burton Gallery: The Object of Photography
18:00 – Leeds College of Art & Design: Damien Hirst
18:30 – Leeds Met Gallery: The Cover of a Book is the Beginning of a Journey and Reading & Writing by Christopher Hall and Alexander Kelly.
19:00 – Pavilion: Millie Burton, Home Improvements (exhibition launch)

Meet at Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, The University of Leeds.

For more information contact Gill Howard: 0113 242 5100 or gill@pavilion.org.uk.

More about the exhibitions:

The Object of Photography

Ignaz Cassar, Hondartza Fraga, Joe Mawson and Andrew Warstat explore the medium of photography itself as their subject. The artists respond to and critique photography and theories of photography in a variety of media, using traditional and digital photographic formats, collage, drawing, installation and animation. Playful and subtle treatments of the photographic process show that there is more to the medium than meets the eye.

The Cover of a Book is the Beginning of a Journey

The Cover of a Book is the Beginning of a Journey proposes a hands-on approach to engaging with books, playing with shifting roles of writer and reader, audience and participant. With a focus on artists’ books that either give rise to or are derived from actions this highly interactive exhibition expands over its duration as a result of public engagement. On 6th May Conway and Young will be providing instructions for you to do or disregard.
Reading & Writing

Reading & Writing by Christopher Hall and Alexander Kelly takes aspects of Alex’s personal history as a starting point for 2 engaging DVD projections. Each work weaves a kind of narrative from the key moments in life that define who we are and how we relate to the world around us.

Millie Burton, Home Improvements

Home Improvements is a photographic and film based series that documents exiled domestic objects found at recycling centres within the UK. Like Frankenstein’s monster, the waste mountains that now exist are both frightening and pathetic creations of our own time.

The objects discarded are seen to be victims of expired empathy, out -dated status symbols, discarded by the ruthless march of aspiration. However, in their silent masses they present a challenge to our existence and way of life, whilst questioning our attachment and sense of value.

1st April 2009 Art Walk schedule

Join us for the third Leeds Art Walk on Wednesday 1st April.

Schedule:

17:30 – Pavilion: Kevin Newark: Protoplasm
18:00 – Project Space Leeds: Morphic Resonance
18:30 – arts@trinity: NCND
19:00 – The Henry Moore Institute: Asta Groting Sculpture

Meet at Pavilion, 7 Saw Mill Yard, Leeds, LS11 7WH. Saw Mill Yard is on Saw Mill Street, off Water Lane, a 5-10 minute walk from Leeds train station.

For more information contact Amelia Crouch: ameliacrouch@projectspaceleeds.org.uk, tel: 07930 236383 or Ruth Haycock: ruth@pavilion.org.uk, tel: 0113 242 5100.

More about the exhibitions:

Protoplasm – Kevin Newark

Protoplasm presents a series of discarded plastic carrier bags found in the canals of East London. In photographing these objects Newark looked to
find solace for the exiled soul of the plastic bag.

Morphic Resonance

An experimental project for PSL by artists and artist collectives nominated by artist-led spaces from across the North of England. For the first 6 weeks artists will be using PSL as an extended studio space, working towards an exhibition from 13th May. The project examines the urge amongst artists to control the dissemination and production of art.

NCND

Artists Oliver Salmon and Tom Pearson set about creating an entirely audio installation within Holy Trinity Church; taking as their starting point encrypted messages that have been broadcast between the frequencies since World War Two. Like voices from a long forgotten past salmon and Pearson will be filling the church with sound both pre-recorded and live utilising suspended radio receivers and transmitters.

Asta Gröting Sculpture: 1987-2008

Twenty years ago Asta Gröting’s glass sculptures of human entrails caused a stir and were exhibited all over Europe. Twenty years later, after a ten-year period working across other media, Gröting is again making objects. This exhibition is not only her first solo show in the UK, but also the first retrospective of the sculptural production of this highly individualistic artist.

This exhibition features pieces selected by Gröting herself, from both the early and latter parts of her career to date. Together in a gallery the works look at first like mysterious props left scattered across a stage, as if they might have a role within a larger and unspecified narrative. From early works about the interior of the human body – for instance the enormously enlarged inner ear of her ‘Orientierungsapparat’ [Orientation Device] – to later works expressive of how the outside of the body connects to its interior – such as the recently completed ‘Space in between two people having sex’ – there is a constant thread which is all about the thinking body. Other recent works, including ‘Acker’ [Soil], ‘Kartoffeln’ [Potatoes] and ‘Feuerstelle’ [Fireplace], return the viewer to the basic conditions necessary for human survival: earth, food and warmth.