Bar-Tur Award - Shortlisted
My series of photographs UnFamily Portraits was recently shortlisted for the Bar-Tur award in the Indentities category.
A key focus of the Bar-Tur Award is the immense power photography has to influence the way that we understand and engage with the world around us. To explore this power a number of themes have been selected which ask students and graduates to respond to and represent both their own personal contexts and some pressing and dominant issues of our time.
The Bar-Tur Award encourages a diversity of photographic approaches that reflect vibrant and continuing photographic traditions whilst at the same time embracing and revealing how students and graduates are engaging with new forms and approaches to image-making in a technologically changing world. An important aspect of the Award is the endorsement of the quality of work selected for the exhibition and prizes by a renowned team of Nominators and world leading panel of Judges who are drawn from across a wide spectrum of the professional photography industries.
A key focus of the Bar-Tur Award is the immense power photography has to influence the way that we understand and engage with the world around us. To explore this power a number of themes have been selected which ask students and graduates to respond to and represent both their own personal contexts and some pressing and dominant issues of our time.
The Bar-Tur Award encourages a diversity of photographic approaches that reflect vibrant and continuing photographic traditions whilst at the same time embracing and revealing how students and graduates are engaging with new forms and approaches to image-making in a technologically changing world. An important aspect of the Award is the endorsement of the quality of work selected for the exhibition and prizes by a renowned team of Nominators and world leading panel of Judges who are drawn from across a wide spectrum of the professional photography industries.
We Live In Public
27 May - 12 June 2011
The Officers Club, Bath
Soon it will be a decade since 9/11 changed global attitudes to safety and security and has made us the most heavily monitored nation in the world. This decade has also witnessed the lifespan of phenomenally popular Orwellian television series Big Brother, as well as such advances in technology as Google Street View, giving us all the possibility of becoming both peeping Toms and global travellers.
‘We Live in Public’ borrows it’s title from Ondi Timoner’s award-winning documentary film based on the life of Josh Harris, an eccentric internet visionary and entrepreneur. The opening sequence of the film shows Harris recording a video message which he sent to his mother as she lay on her deathbed - his last words to her, as he chose not to be there when she finally passed away. Seeing such an intimate moment as this, the last words to one’s dying mother, being captured home-video style, demands a raw and sometimes uncomfortable acknowledgement that ‘living in public’ means to not only eat, sleep and shit but to fight, make love, give birth and mourn aswell.
“Speaking to you virtually is how I [..] do this best - I’m sending you out in style here. This is haute couture, and now, this is what art is NOW.” - Josh Harris
This art of ‘NOW’ is raw, invasive and dismissive of privacy. The exhibition ‘We Live in Public’ brings together eight artists whose diverse practices tackle issues of privacy and security and explore the merits of the ‘virtual’ as a mode of social interaction.
‘We Live in Public’ hopes to reveal the sometimes futile nature of surveillance and the absurd fact that playing reality back to ourselves, as is, can indeed become a form of entertainment. We comb through the minutiae of our lives fed back to us, hoping to find some sort of meaning that seems to constantly evade us in first-hand experience.
Featured artists: Damaris Booth, Doug Clark, Alex Cotterell, Jason Gibilaro, Hayley Louise Goodsell, Tim Holsgrove, Will Kendrick, Samuel Lindup, Lucy Odlin, Mike Odlin
The Officers Club, Bath
Soon it will be a decade since 9/11 changed global attitudes to safety and security and has made us the most heavily monitored nation in the world. This decade has also witnessed the lifespan of phenomenally popular Orwellian television series Big Brother, as well as such advances in technology as Google Street View, giving us all the possibility of becoming both peeping Toms and global travellers.
‘We Live in Public’ borrows it’s title from Ondi Timoner’s award-winning documentary film based on the life of Josh Harris, an eccentric internet visionary and entrepreneur. The opening sequence of the film shows Harris recording a video message which he sent to his mother as she lay on her deathbed - his last words to her, as he chose not to be there when she finally passed away. Seeing such an intimate moment as this, the last words to one’s dying mother, being captured home-video style, demands a raw and sometimes uncomfortable acknowledgement that ‘living in public’ means to not only eat, sleep and shit but to fight, make love, give birth and mourn aswell.
“Speaking to you virtually is how I [..] do this best - I’m sending you out in style here. This is haute couture, and now, this is what art is NOW.” - Josh Harris
This art of ‘NOW’ is raw, invasive and dismissive of privacy. The exhibition ‘We Live in Public’ brings together eight artists whose diverse practices tackle issues of privacy and security and explore the merits of the ‘virtual’ as a mode of social interaction.
‘We Live in Public’ hopes to reveal the sometimes futile nature of surveillance and the absurd fact that playing reality back to ourselves, as is, can indeed become a form of entertainment. We comb through the minutiae of our lives fed back to us, hoping to find some sort of meaning that seems to constantly evade us in first-hand experience.
Featured artists: Damaris Booth, Doug Clark, Alex Cotterell, Jason Gibilaro, Hayley Louise Goodsell, Tim Holsgrove, Will Kendrick, Samuel Lindup, Lucy Odlin, Mike Odlin
You, Me & Everyone Else
21 April - 24 April 2011
Over three weekends in April twenty one artists from across the UK will present a solo show in each of the seven gallery spaces in Wolstenholme Creative Space.
All the artists involved will be experimenting with space, medium and technique. The exhibitions promise to be a mix of some of the most exciting and original contemporary art by some of the art world's rising stars.
Promising to be challenging, thought provoking and relentless, these shows are an opportunity to see a mixture of what's happening in the selected artist’s studios right now, a self curated glimpse into their current practice. The artists have been given no common theme, no limit on imagination, no accompanying essay, just the four gallery walls to show their work.
Hayley Louise Goodsell … You, Me & Everyone Else
Celia Hempton … Razed Built
Harry Lawson … Even the Stars Look Like a Mess
Philip McHugh … Thank You Phenomenal
David Penny … Outside of the Walls
Jenny Porter … Technicolour
Sam Venables … JT MEGAMIX
www.wolstenholmecreativespace.blogspot.com
Wolstenholmecreativespace@googlemail.com
Wolstenholme Creative Space
11 Wolstenholme Square,
Liverpool,
L1 4JJ
Over three weekends in April twenty one artists from across the UK will present a solo show in each of the seven gallery spaces in Wolstenholme Creative Space.
All the artists involved will be experimenting with space, medium and technique. The exhibitions promise to be a mix of some of the most exciting and original contemporary art by some of the art world's rising stars.
Promising to be challenging, thought provoking and relentless, these shows are an opportunity to see a mixture of what's happening in the selected artist’s studios right now, a self curated glimpse into their current practice. The artists have been given no common theme, no limit on imagination, no accompanying essay, just the four gallery walls to show their work.
Hayley Louise Goodsell … You, Me & Everyone Else
Celia Hempton … Razed Built
Harry Lawson … Even the Stars Look Like a Mess
Philip McHugh … Thank You Phenomenal
David Penny … Outside of the Walls
Jenny Porter … Technicolour
Sam Venables … JT MEGAMIX
www.wolstenholmecreativespace.blogspot.com
Wolstenholmecreativespace@googlemail.com
Wolstenholme Creative Space
11 Wolstenholme Square,
Liverpool,
L1 4JJ
Life Is Elsewhere - The Crypt Gallery - Private View - Thursday April 21st 2011
Life Is Elsewhere
True life is elsewhere, Rimbaud.
We agree, but prefer Kundera.
Life is Elsewhere resonates in us, it is a profound precept of our condition and germane to the space we choose.
BORA AKINCITURK
FRANK AMMERLAAN
SOHRAB BAYAT
ELIF BOYNER
TIANZHUO CHEN
EDWARD COLLINSON
BETH FOX
HAYLEY LOUISE GOODSELL
VIVIENNE HOLLIS
OLIVER GUY-WATKINS
LARA KAMHI
GEMINI KIM
GALA KNORR
ANNE KUHN
ENDA MAC NALLY
HOLLIE MARSHALL
JENNIFER LOUISE MARTIN
KATE MCLEOD
ELAINE MULLINGS
AINE O’DWYER
ASLI OZDEMIR
JAMIE PARTRIDGE
ELSA PHILIPPE
GIUSY PIRROTTA
ANNA SALAMON
LIESEL THOMAS
KSENIA VASCHENKO
TYLER VIPOND
JWAN YOSEF
Responding in a direct and literal way to the history of The Crypt Gallery under St Pancras Church, the theme Life Is Elsewhere is drawn from title of a novel by Milan Kundera. The phrase also acts as a metaphor to the lives of those working within the institution. All participating artists are currently studying, or have recently studied within Central St Martins, The Royal Academy, The Royal College, Slade School Of Art, Chelsea, Goldsmiths and The London College Of Fashion.
The challenge of moving from the routine implied by educational establishments into the less directed world of producing in a self-motivated environment is a fact that looms on the horizon. But where does life exist? Is life an ongoing continuum or can we place it on hold? These questions and others relating to the theme will be investigated by the participating artists, resulting first in a ten day exhibition beginning on April 22nd 2011, and secondly in a publication to be released on the weekend of April 29th/30th. The launch will coincide with a series of modest performances, talks and experiments within the space.
The exhibition will be split into two parts, with one location showing a series of films by six artists on a single screen.
Private View - 1800 - 2100 Thursday April 21st 2011
