N GALLERIES HELMSLEY NORTH YORKSHIRE

8 Nov, 2021, No comments

The end of the summer has been a new stage of development collaborating with N Galleries in Helmsley. The new contemporary gallery space is situated in a small courtyard area called Barkers Yard and provides the perfect space for a gallery and presenting the collective. I have my handmade bespoke service available from here and recycle and re-purpose jewellery pieces for customers as I like to create a new item from their own story and be as sustainable as possible.

What I have been doing ..... workshop online

4 Mar, 2021, No comments

Recently I have made a short video about mixed media and sketching ideas to go onto North Yorkshire Together site and it is really wonderful to see how the digital platforms can allow access to such a broad spectrum of places and people.

My recorded video runs for approx 30 minutes it will be hosted on our North Yorkshire Together Facebook playlist, which will reach the combined audiences of Rural Arts, North Yorkshire Sport, and North Yorkshire Youth.

These are accessible on Facebook to view

https://fb.watch/3_ebNy1FOq/

The Neversuch Innocence Competition

http:// https://www.neversuchinnocence.com/2020-21-competition currently open which is an interesting competition to encourage young people to be creative and develop there own thoughts around the times we are in and issues they are thinking about.

2021 Art and Creative ideas working at home.

19 Jan, 2021

The recent months have been interesting to work through, with times of isolation and concern but also creative depth and extended periods of time to consider ideas. So, as for many in different aspects of work during the lockdown, it shall be interesting to see how we all see the unlock down and embrace sharing our thoughts, development and sense of well being after it all.

We had a great time with the artists and visitors

16 Sep, 2020, No comments

Charlotte arranging her lovely ceramics in the gallery!

RECENTLY - outside gallery and meeting up with everyone!

24 Jul, 2020

The work with the venues and collaborating with artists has been curtailed due to the 'Lockdown'.

In the meantime, all of the artists are working at their own studios until further notice. Of course, there have been lots of social media chat and sharing with each other, about our experiments, trials and tribulations.

Maybe new baking, gardening or making new discoveries with other elements of creative practice. It has been difficult and interestingly challenging at the same time during the first half of the year.

Really looking forward to artists weekend coming up in August at the gallery. We will have measures in place for social distancing and it will be so good to have lots of space outside and in the courtyard to chat with people who visit the event.

Nunnington Galleries

18 Feb, 2020, No comments

The year has been exciting, to say the least. New opportunities and arrivals to the programme have meant some great meetings and potentials for the 2020 year ahead.

Working closer to home has made an interesting and a good alternative to the travelling to West Yorkshire over the last two years. Finding out about new stages of development in North Yorkshire's Art and Culture.

Nunnington Galleries has a collective of six artists, including myself who are working under the banner of the NG owned by Kevin Bradshaw. There are postings on our Instagram site @NunningtonGalleries.

The NAEA Collection

14 Jul, 2019, No comments

Developed from research carried out with Pyrah’s former pupils and colleagues, Ewan’s project explores the teacher’s unconventional methods and continues Ewan’s investigation into alternative education models and overlooked histories. Reconstructed as faithfully as possible, the classroom walls showcase children’s paintings, drawings and embroidery drawn from the NAEA collection. Activating the artwork and bringing the space to life, Ewan invites people to contribute to the space and to participate in creative activities echoing those taught by Pyrah, including studying nature through creativity. Ewan has created a situation for people to think about creative education, its impact upon social mobility, and how this can be mobilised today at a time when creative forms of learning have been marginalised from the curriculum.

YSP Website

https://ysp.org.uk/exhibitions/ruth-ewan-and-oscar-murillo

Material of Land Experience Day at YSP Practical Project 705

3 Jul, 2019, No comments

The project was a collaboration with YSP, National Art Education Archive, facilitators, a focus group from a sixth form college in Leeds and two artists. The majority of the event was a focus on the group's interaction with the workshop and the environment. Rachel Sedman provided the professional assistance in this specific area sound and notation.

The experience of working with artists, the environment and students was very insightful and rewarding for all concerned. It is a good way to interact with space and have ideas to discuss the personal interpretations of deep listening, reflection and sharing with the group.

Sound Cloud recordings connecting sound to the landscape and through notations

Working with a focus group, artist and walking in the landscape with connection to sculptures and natural spaces in the parklands of YSP.

Please go to this link to sample a couple of the 100 recordings that we obtained on the MOL at YSP on 12th June 2019

Available at Sound Cloud please use this the link below of the recordings which, last a few minutes per sample.

Examples of recording on 12th June 2019 for Material of Land.

https://soundcloud.com/user-94852690/190612_003a

https://soundcloud.com/user-94852690/190612_001-yspmol

https://soundcloud.com/user-94852690/mol-at-sean-scully

Notation' Material of Land ' ink on paper with natural seed head brushes and sticks.

Student

Art for purpose and planet

30 Jun, 2019, No comments

I have always thought that I had a kindred spirit somewhere, although I have had a spirit 'of making' in my everyday life as a designer, I needed to find a place to re-position it.

The uncomfortableness of the planets waste, consumerism and global climate emergency for me needs to be dealt with creativity and not passivity. A place for Art with a purpose for the planet

Understanding more about the ideas of changing the current art and presenting through curation has been the most significant message for me during my masters.

The new thoughts towards a curatorial position as an Eco-Centric curator. This has in part come to fruition during the latter stages of the project Material of Land

Similarly reflected by the new thinking curators such as Alistair Hudson and the Grizedale Arts concepts that are filtering through into the consciousness via these larger organisations at the summit of the so-called art world, The Whitworth, The Manchester Gallery, Mima and the Turner Prize. This is not without criticisms but if perhaps on top of these ideas of community

Alistair Hudson - Arte Util

Youtube discussion about Alistair Hudson and his movement to work with people in urban areas about their lives and communities.

Crafting Change Ethical Business

23 May, 2019, No comments

Ethically based practice, considering our ecological issues.

The recent event set up by Chrysalis Arts, I have been attending their Greening Arts Practice discussion and invited artists forums over the past year. A series of talks revealing how artists made decisions to work with their practice in ethical ways, using suppliers, materials and organisation.

I have a particular interest in Ute Decker as she works as a jeweller and trades as an ethical goldsmith and I have been following the development in fairtrade and ethical jewellery practice over the last decade. I intend to use a more ethical approach in my own practice.

Crafting Change speaker Ute Decker at Selby Abbey - Chrysalis Arts 2019

http://www.utedecker.com/ethical_jewellery.html

Ute Decker from website Cafod report of gold

The Ethical Making Resource provides practical information for jewellers and silversmiths who want to improve the environmental and social sustainability of their practice, and for buyers and collectors looking for information on purchasing ethically made jewellery and silver.

Created by the Incorporation of Goldsmiths Scotland, Ute Decker was the principal consultant and has fed over nine years of her own research, passion and commitment to excellence, into this Resource.

http://www.ethicalmaking.org

Goldsmiths’ Fair

24 - 29 Sep 2019
Week 1
goldsmithsfair.co.uk

ute decker- ethical jewellery, artist jeweller - ethical making resource, incorporation of goldsmiths, greg valerio
Ute Decker. (Photography James Robertson)

Ways of Seeing, Listening and Understanding

14 May, 2019, No comments

The Trees around us have complexity we have never even considered, they can feed and communicate to each other over long distances.

Its a good point to start to think!

The ideas for the live project have been developing and formulated through the space and environment that is offered at YSP. My research has engaged me with ideas about learning in the context of process of sharing knowlege ( Deborah Riding) and ways of seeing. James Bridle BBc Sounds explains complexities of our world and technolgies and linking those with the environment and learning who we can use it to help rather than detract from the future and climate. emergency. @jamesbridle @BBCRadio4

Reframing and understanding ideas and looking at the past, looking at artists who used landscape in their art and noting the changes that are visible, perhaps learning what we can engage with in this way to show future generations how using technology and visual ideas to encapsulate what is not directly visible but what is important

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0004sdb

The Hepworth Gallery - Wakefield

29 Apr, 2019, No comments

The Modern Nature Symposium 25th and 26th April

The Hepworth Gallery which is situated in the centre of Wakefield, since 2015 it has been growing in notoriety and has displayed wonderful exhibitions. Recently they have been gathering funding for a development outside the gallery in the wasteland and urban space that surrounds it.

The Urban Green Spaces are being increased diminished as funding for looking after these municipal areas is cut and also the pressures of using the land for housing developments.

The Exhibition and Talks Future Now - Aesthetica

19 Mar, 2019, No comments

Dr Dawn Woolley Still Life things Devouring Time

Still Life Things Devouring Time at Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery.

https://library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event/1900/galleries/81/still-life-things-devouring-time

The Round Table session started at 11.00 am in the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery with the group and Dawn Woolley co-curator of Still Life Things Devouring Time.

Footage of the questions and discussions are on this link ...

The Thursday and Friday last week were days out of the office and studying books and papers but taking the time to listen to a varied range of papers delivered as part of the Aesthetica Conference. There were lots of professionals attending and it was quite successful. The sessions that I booked on were about Art Films, Curator - Getty Images, Technology and Futures, and a brilliant lecture by a Sound Artist Nick Ryan, which was very inspiring. There were lots of networking moments, meeting people from different parts of the industry and taking note of new developments. There was time to go and see the York Gallery where the exhibition for the prize is being displayed. Also looking forward to the coming exhibition about Ruskin and Turner - the landscapes and their story!

Ruskin and Turner - York Art Gallery

Planning a Round Table Discussion and Curated Talk

28 Feb, 2019, No comments

The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery Leeds University Gallery.

Talk in the Gallery - Dr. Dawn Woolley, Louise Dwyer, and an invitation to fellow curations students to join an informal discussion.

EXHIBITION: Still Life: Things Devouring Time, 21st Nov 2018 - 23rd March 2019
The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds.
An exhibition exploring consumer culture, sustainability and still life. This exhibition explores the notion of consumerism through the lens of historical and contemporary still life artworks. Bringing together works by contemporary artists Simon Ward, Dawn Woolley, Caroline McCarthy and Nicole Keeley with Still Life with Drinking-Horn by Willem Kalf, a 17th century Dutch still life painting on loan from The National Gallery. The exhibition is co-curated by Dr Dawn Woolley (Leeds Arts University), and is generously supported by Leeds Arts University.

https://library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event/1900/galleries/81/still-life-things-devouring-time

The Exhibition: Still Life Things Devouring Time	Aims	Research studies
Dawn Woolley outline idea/profile of the exhibition, collective of artists	Response to the work	Record responses
Use of social media, development of idea,	Context sustainability, consumerism, waste	Workshop?
	Connections to the objects/items displayed	Record outcome
Following with a round table Q & A	Curation issues and inspirations

Art Outside the Gallery

15 Jan, 2019, No comments

Sounds Street Art

In conversation with artists work who have taken art and creativity out into different spaces ie from the installation of 12 chairs at Runnymeade -The Juriers about the Magna Carter by Hew Locke, it able to begin conversation, as people didn't realise they could sit on the chairs they do and how they felt. Leaving the gallery space and seeing things in the public domain has more open interpretations allowing people to touch and feel perhaps to react in a different way.

Susan Philips Turner prize winner people stranded in Space - Violin Sound Installation

The reaction is different outside the gallery forum, she comments that people are more aware of the weather and time, of it in an new way unexpectedly, unformatted space - it is not a controlled environment. It can make a difference to the way we are with the work as the distance between art work outside the gallery we are part of the art work.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b09r7h5

We are to used to the rules of the galleries and museum as spaces of ritual and that they look like temples and is it a question of being a performer, talking very quietly, moving to a set pattern around a gallery space. The gallery can often resemble a temple and for that reason can be upholding subconsciously to this sort of (Carole Duncan) ritualist mode of engaging with the art, or whatever is being displayed.

Rachel Whiteread - The House.1993.

Involved people directly with its size and structure - it had interaction by leaving milk bottles and notes left there and for sale signs put there, the sculpture was about gentrification and perhaps the interaction with it by people in the community.

Public Art is in Squares and Town Halls

Social Turn Art of the social turn and it is about engaging with people in places where people don't generally visit art galleries, is it Art-washing and how can we use art in public spaces that is public art?

Autumn Walks - Nissan Hut Rachel Whiteread 14-18

12 Nov, 2018, No comments

Seeding Art Currency

23 Oct, 2018, No comments

The next live opportunity to come up will be hosted at the Art Hostel, Kirkgate Leeds.

Seeding Art Currency

The programme of events includes, textiles, wall art, painted mural, digital capture of stories of visitors, and other exciting interventions.

Nii Kwartey Owoo Live performance 'The Harvest' which I am curating with the performer.

24th October 2018 at the Art Hostel studio space.

http://www.miishe.com