Creeking
17th-20th & 24th-27th March 2011

An exhibition by ‘Matters’ group Sue Evans, Teddy Kempster, Jeanette Newman, & Teresa Tanner which with varying approaches, materials & styles responds to the atmosphere, history of Faversham Creek and environs.

The Sculpture Show
25th Feb – 19th March
A wonderful selection of sculpture featuring:

DIANE COATES – SUZ EVASDAUGHTER – CAMERON FOYE – LORRAINE GRANDI
JAMES MCILVENNY – GAVIN ROWETH – JOANNE WEAVER

Herbert Read Gallery
The Other Workspace
5 March – 8 April 2011,
Tuesday – Friday 10am-5pm. Saturday, 12-5pm.
Opening Event: 4 March 5-9pm.

Part 1: Ben Cain solo
4 – 19 March.

Part 2: Ben Cain, Aernout Mik, Jamie Shovlin
22 March – 8 April.

Performances and Workshops:

Laure Prouvost and Francesco Pedraglio
2pm, 1 April.

Sally O Reilly
2pm, 2 April
(To book a place see the website)

Cally Spooner
5pm 8 April
(followed by closing event until 7pm).

In The Other Workspace, seven artists using sculpture, film, performance and text explore the role of collaborative and dissenting processes in defining space. The exhibition will change over the course of a month, in reflection of the fluid nature of the Herbert Read Gallery space and the works on display.

At the core of this exhibition lies the question,
“What is it that differentiates this gallery space from the other spaces within the University for The Creative Arts building, and how stable is that differentiation?”
As such it explores notions of work, education, dissent and description, and aims to articulate the viewer’s position in relation to these factors.

The exhibition will open with a new set of works by Ben Cain. These will include a large modular architectural intervention, sets of hand-made objects, texts and presentation platforms, which will also be represented through a series of documented workshops and reconfigured as the show progresses.

These works ask how the gallery might be seen in light of the workshop and studio spaces on site; whether the modes of production enacted there might have equivalents in the gallery – where the ‘work’ and outcomes of that work might not be that same as the material objects represented there.

Halfway into the exhibition, on 21 March, Cain’s work will reconfigure to accommodate two further works.

In Aernout Mik’s Glutinosity, we witness a familiar orgiastic scenario resembling a riot: uniformed men, balaclava wearing figures and demonstrators tussle on the roadside. However, any presumed differences between police and protester dissolve as the camera strafes the scene: The space the figures exist in is in flux – with background and foreground shifting counter intuitively. They appear to be trapped in time and space; their pushing and pulling that of a single multifarious organism.

In Jamie Shovlin’s Mike Harte- Make Art, the artist presents a portrait of his college friend Mike, who struggled to make any ‘work’, instead preferring to send Shovlin letters and cuttings that he thought his friend would find interesting. For this piece, Shovlin collects 36 of these funny, perverse observations, stating that he “hope[s] that the upshot of this one-way correspondence was, if nothing else, the development of a pretext for Mike Harte to make art. Of course, he had no idea of this at the time of sending each of these envelopes.” Shovlin’s presentation asks questions about art’s ability to confer value and its need for a supporting narrative.

The exhibition will also feature three performative works. Laure Prouvost, in collaboration with Francesco Pedraglio, will give a performance on Friday 1 April at 2pm. Prouvost’s work presents the artwork as a shaggy dog story, where the meaning (or punchline) is under fire from mistakes, mistranslations and competing exterior voices.

At 2pm on Saturday 2 April, as part of a project for Whitechapel Gallery (where she is writer in residence),Sally O’Reilly will be holding a workshop which “invites participants to collaborate on the writing of a new radio sitcom that explores mainstream (mis)representations of the art world and the intersections between live performance and writing.” The project will utilise the ‘rules’ of sitcom writing, exploring the tragicomic predicament of the artist whose persona is continuously shaped and used by outside forces. (Booking is advised for the workshop – see below).

Cally Spooner will give a performative lecture on 8 April at 5pm. Spooner’s energetic, entertaining performances translate other people’s texts, existing artworks, historic events and notation into live productions, where the performers enact the difficulties of determining how to speak or behave in a way that is faithful to these sources.

The Other Workspace was made possible by CD:EK (Curatorial Development East Kent), an 18-month programme supporting the professional development of early career curators based at three host visual arts organisations in East Kent. CD:EK is supported by Arts Council England, South East and by Canterbury City and Ashford Borough Councils.

Aernout Mik’s Glutinosity appears courtesy of carlier | gebauer and the artist.
Jamie Shovlin’s Mike Harte – Make Art appears courtesy of V22 and the artist.

Bob Lamoon
Small Squares of Light
13th Jan – 16th Jan 2011

Creek Creative Faversham

An exhibition of new limited edition photographs by Bob Lamoon. The photographs are in sets which are poems. Each picture has 3 words attached being a line of a poem. The pictures are tending towards abstraction where the negligible becomes considerable.

Richard Shipp & Sharon Hall Shipp – Contemporary Photographs
6-27 January 2010

Tuesday-Friday 9am to 6pm
Saturday 9.30am to 4pm
Cranbrook Library ArtSpace, Carriers Road, Cranbrook TN17 3JT

Exhibition of contemporary photographs of seaside and urban landscapes and interiors, including Bexhill, Margate, Sandgate, Hastings and Eastbourne.

Free

Sonja Earl
Agnitio Photography Exhibition
PRIVATE VIEW: 2ND DECEMBER 2010
19:00 – 22:00

PUBLIC VIEW: 3RD ‒ 7TH DECEMBER
MONDAY ‒ FRIDAY 11:00 – 17:00
SATURDAY ‒ SUNDAY 11:00 – 15:00
Agnitio is a group exhibition by four contemporary Photographers: Dominika Ciemira (Poland), Sonja
Earl (UK), Ida Söderlund (Finland), Vladimir Shilin (Latvia).

It will begin at 7pm on the 2nd of December
2010 at No. 35 High St. Chatham.

Coming from different cultural backgrounds the artists reached a linguistic consensus by choosing
the Latin word Agnitio which means recognition, knowledge; perception of nature or identity. This
concept unites the photographic work – all investigating aspects of perception and knowledge.

Alison Blackburn
Christmas Open Studios
Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th December

11am to 5pm daily

Old Reed Bed Studios
The Street
Lower Halstow
Sittingbourne
Kent. ME9 7DY
01795 842481

A mixed show of high quality crafts by Kentish makers.
Featuring ceramics by Jean Lowe, Jola Spytkowska, Alison Swan, Dan Stafford, Ming Wai Sun and Pam Dodds; textiles by Alison Blackburn; jewellery by Olivia Schlevogt; and paintings by Jenny Smith.

Christmas Food and drink will available.

Sheran Baker
‘Elements’

Saturday 23rd October to Sunday 24th October 2010
Interpreted by 20 established local artists showcasing their work in this local setting for a fourth year participating in the Canterbury Festival 2010

Matthew de Pulford
Interior Life – Bernice Donszelmann, Natasha Kidd, Mary Maclean,
2 November – 27 November 2010
Monday – Friday 10-6pm, Saturday 12-4 pm
Private View: Thursday 4 November 2010, 6.00-8.00 pm

Herbert Read Gallery
University for the Creative Arts, New Dover Road, Canterbury, Kent CT1 3AN

In a recent magazine interview the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk remarks that the human need for an interior space is a primary need. Interior Life presents new work by five artists who in different ways picture or construct interior spaces and in doing so establish a place in which to reflect upon the feeling and meaning of this need. The diversity of work in this exhibition could be said to underline the fact that any attempt at a succinct summary of this need is insufficient to contain the multiplicity of experiences and thoughts that circulate between a body and the space that operates to enclose it. Even the simple act of locating an interior may not be as simple as it seems, a point highlighted by Natasha Kidd’s painting installations where the paint that is pumped over a surface/wall literally runs away from us.

The materiality of contemporary interiors plays a central role here and finds itself reflected in various ways in many of the works exhibited. This is not least because the commodification and instrumentalization of the contemporary interior may move to eclipse or even remove time and memory from the surface of a ‘living room’ and, in effect, inhibit what might be called the deep occupation of a space. Mary Maclean’s meticulously constructed photographs dwell on this blankness but through a visualizing reverie she finds traces and anticipations of a presence on the surface of functional forms. This psychological impulse to transform a space is extended in the stage like scenes painted by Camilla Wilson. Their suggestions of intimacy are ambiguous, however. Representational devices function both to draw the viewer in and to frustrate the desire for a total possession of space.

One consequence of the critical attention given to the public realm is that interior or a private space can become negatively defined as a retreat. Like the paint walls of Kidd, Donszelmann uses materials to reanimate space and introduce an elasticity between body and space that metaphorically folds the two distinct realms into one another. The interior here is conceived responsive to the needs and movements of an occupying body rather than a fixed and static enclosure. This interdependence between bodies and space runs through the exhibition and in Tim Renshaw’s paintings for tabletops the relationship is pictured as a series of plans that fuse modular proportions designed with bodies in mind using Bruno Taut’s colour alphabet that would chart a space according to sensations.

Supported by Arts Council England and Reading University

Sioux Peto
A Garden of England
Every Saturday 10-4pm til end of October
If we carry on dropping litter Nature will take control and mutate. We have growing in the Garden at the Polka Dot the first new growths. Please view it at your own risk.

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