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- Stuart Bastik joins BankART1929 panel
Following several years working with Artists and more recently Architects from Japan BankART1929, Yokohama have officially invited Art Gene's Artist founder Stuart Bastik to be a panelist on an all expenses paid trip to attend their International Conference of art initiative organisations this September.
BankART1929 have also invited Stuart to visit Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale in Niigata, following the conference where they have a satallite site.
The visit coincides with the city of Yokohama's Creative Conference which he will also be attending:
http://www.yaf.or.jp/creativecity/ccic/en_index.html
Before his return Stuart will spend time with recent resident artists, architects and associates of Art Gene who live and work in Yokohama and Tokyo.
- NO. 3: Expanding possibilities for artists’ professional practice
and opportunities for artists in industry.
Saturday 20 June 2009, 11.30am - 4pm (Registration 11am)
The event is free but booking is essential. To book a place contact:
E: events@castlefieldgallery.co.uk T: 0161 832 8034.
Ten travel bursaries are available up to the value of £25 (5 for Lancashire based artists and 5 for others based in the North West). To apply E: events@castlefieldgallery.co.uk with a short explanation (100 words max) of why you wish to attend. Please include your postal address. In return you will be required to write a short report. N.B. Preference will be given to those who have not already received bursaries for Fly Eric Symposia Nos.1 and 2.
Speakers:
Richard Layzell
(www.rescen.net/Richard_Layzell/r_layzell.html)
Richard Layzell’s practice encompasses challenging contexts and diverse audiences. His public sculpture commissions include the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and sites in Colchester, Didcot and Maidenhead. His interactive sensory installation Tap Ruffle and Shave was seen by 100,000 people in galleries across the UK. His experiential facilitation led to a long-term relationship with industry in the role of ‘visionaire’, where he effected organisational, cultural and physical change. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jun/06/the-manifestation
Hazel Grian
(www.pmstudio.co.uk/collaborator/hazel-grian)
Hazel Grian is highly regarded as a writer and creator of Alternate Reality Games, multi-media stories that find worldwide audiences online. With a background in film, theatre, radio and design, three years ago Hazel became Artist in Residence for Hewlett Packard Labs on Arts Council England’s Diffraction scheme with further support from South West Screen and Watershed, Bristol’s media centre.
Alice Angus
(www.proboscis.org.uk)
Alice Angus is artist and co-director of Proboscis. Proboscis seeks to place artistic processes in new contexts and our projects include research, publications, symposia, residencies, artworks and creative tools that bring new perspectives, their partners include industry, government, academia and communities.
Chair - Mitra Memarzia
(www.memarzia.org)
Mitra Memarzia is an artist working in a variety of media including photography, film, installation, sculpture performance, and socially engaged practice. With a combined theory and practice PhD in fine art on Contemporary Iranian Women Artists, her specialist subject is the construction and representation of identities. Although her work is diverse, she often explores the notion displacement, boundaries and power.
More on Fly Eric
Fly Eric is a developmental network of artist focused organisations in the North West of England, led by Art Gene, Castlefield Gallery and Storey Gallery. Its mission is to support visual artists to infiltrate, inhabit and contribute to society.
- Going Home From Here
Maddi Nicholson
Terrace on Tour Cumbria
The terrace will only be brought out in good weather so please check with the gallery on the day of the tour for updates to avoid disappointment. Tel: 01228 618718
For more information about 'Going Home From Here' please visit the Tullie House website here.
TOUR DATES
1st June (Mon) 1-4.00pm
Rickerby Park, Brampton Road, Carlisle. Cumbria
10th, June. (Wed) 1-4.00pm
Crow Park (The Field to the side of Theatre by the Lake) Lakeside, Keswick. Cumbria CA12 5DJ
13th June. (Sat) 1-4.00pm
Hodge Close Green Slate Quarry, Hodge Close, Little Langdale, Coniston, Cumbria LA21 8DJ
21st June (Sun). 1-4.00pm
Cumbria County Council land, Opposite St Helens lane, signed for Cumbria costal route - (brown wooden sign.)
On A596 opposite side of road to Thomas Armstrong Factory and Eastmans Chemical Factory, Siddick, Workington Cumbria CA14 1LG.
23rd June (Tues) 1-4.00pm
Wind Farm on Moota Fell, Near Bothel, A595 North Cumbria
Run by Wind Prospect, Dovenby Hall Estates, Dovenby.
26th June (Fri) 1-4.00pm
Sights in and around Barrow-in-Furness
- Fly Eric Symposia series -
Changing perceptions of what artists can do
NO 2: Expanding possibilities for artists’ professional practice and opportunities for artists in the creative industries.
Sat 30 May
11.30am until 4.30pm
The Storey Gallery is newly located in the Storey Creative Industries Centre and is keen to utilise this situation to investigate avenues for artists to gain a professional status and income.
Artists have commercially valuable skills which are often not recognised, either by themselves or others.This symposium will explore some examples of artists who are doing that, and some routes for development. Speakers include artist and cultural icon Linder Sterling, artist and architect team Sans façon, and artist Olivia Plender. Each speaker will talk about their experience of working within the commercial creative industries and making the most of these opportunities.
The event is chaired by Mitra Memarzia.
Registration 11am
Storey Gallery, The Storey Institute, Meeting House Lane, Lancaster, LA1 1TH
The event will begin with a tour of the newly refurbished building.
The event is free but booking is essential. To book a place contact bookings@storeygallery.org.uk or call 01524 844133 or 01524 509008.
Information about the speakers below.
For more info visit: www.storeygallery.org.uk
Speakers:
Linder Sterling
The artistic career of Linder Sterling stretches over three decades and many areas of cultural production. Through her work, Sterling continuously explores the possibilities and principals of collage, through print media, music, performance and design. In recent years Linder has had solo shows at PS1 New York, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London and Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin. Earlier this year, Linder collaborated with the British fashion designer, Richard Nicoll, and the collection was premiered as part of London Fashion Week 2009. Her work has been acquired by the Tate gallery, Arts Council Collection, and other private collections. Linder is presently making new work for The Storey Gallery.
Sans façon
Sans façon formed in 2001 as a collaborative art practice between an English artist, Tristan Surtees and a French architect, Charles Blanc. They started because of a shared way of looking at and responding to their environment, and to find opportunities where the relationship between art in its traditional guise and real life everyday situations can be explored and expanded in a meaningful and beneficial way. We like to see the role of the artist and of art as a catalyst in a process of raising questions and inviting one to look and think differently.
Olivia Plender
Olivia Plender is an artist, based in London. Her work is based on drawing and references pulp novels, magazines and comic strips. Olivia’s practice interrogates the changing role of the artist within society. A number of projects, particularly the comic book series The Masterpiece made between 2001-06, explore the clash between the stereotype of the artist often perpetuated by the art market (the 19th century hang over of the lone crazed genius) and the role of the artist as ‘service provider’ within the new post-fordist labour market.
Chair - Mitra Memarzia
Mitra is an artist working in a variety of media including photography, film, installation, sculpture performance, and socially engaged practice. With a combined theory and practice PhD in fine art on Contemporary Iranian Women Artists, her specialist subject is the construction and representation of identities. Although her work is diverse, she often explores the notion displacement, boundaries and power.
Bursaries
Ten travel bursaries are available to the value of £25 each (up to five for Lancashire based artists and the others are for artists based in the North West). To apply email mail@celia-cross.co.uk with a short explanation of why you wish to attend. Please include address. In return you will be required to write a short report.
N.B. Preference will be given to those who did not receive bursaries for Fly Eric No.1
Fly Eric
Fly Eric is a developmental network of artist focused organisations in the North West of England, led by Art Gene, Castlefield Gallery and Storey Gallery. Its mission is to support visual artists to infiltrate, inhabit and contribute to society.
The next Fly Eric symposium will take place at Castlefield Gallery on 20 Jun.
For information about the 1st Symposium in the Fly Eric series that was held at Art Gene please click here.
- New (Inter)national Research Fellowship Residency at Art Gene
Art Gene welcomes Adam Kalinowski, he will be at Art Gene until 29th April. For more information about Adam's residency please click here.
- New U-Hang Exhibitions at Art Gene
4th February - 2nd March
Admission to the U-Hang exhibitions is free
Opening times: Monday to Thursday 9:00am - 5:00 pm, Friday 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
John Deller
Wreckin' Ball, a site specific sculpture
An apparently incoherent, structureless mass, Wreckin’ Ball has developed from a previous series of sculptures entitled Incomplete Open Tower built from timber and red and white hazard tape. The original began life as a modular geometric cuboid form, which existed within strict constructional parameters, the last incarnation of which was subsequently destroyed (whether by human hand or natural forces is under debate). The towers have subsequently transformed into Wreckin Ball; a spherical mass reflecting the anarchic, destructive and chaotic nature of its inception which attempts to encapsulate the dichotomy within (de)construction and redevelopment.
Martene Rouke
State of Flux, a series of photographs
The urban environment constantly changes and develops and the buildings within it represent how and when this change takes place. The buildings within a city act as layers which build up a picture of its history and its social and economic structure. By photographing buildings from different periods of time which stand side by side Martene’s aim is to present a stark contrast in order to provoke thought on this change within urban environments.
- New U-Hang Exhibitions at Art Gene
Birkbeck & Duffy
Untitled Coin Operation
Installation
5th January - 2nd February
Exploration into narrative potential and automative uncanny as experienced through a children's coin operated ride. The ride, often an animal, car or helicopter or other transportation device is emblematic of the uncanny through taking on a life of its own and providing the automatic with a sense of the personal. Often found near shopping and retail spaces the coin op kiddie ride is in this instance observed as a one off occurrance of simulacra, a technological hyperreality event of monetary exchange and de-familiarisation.
This is the first in a series of coin operation interventions by the artists Birkbeck & Duffy.
James Johnson-Perkins
Pixel Talk
5th January - 2nd February
Pixel Talk is an exhibition, selected from an ongoing series of works by Johnson-Perkins, where he creates text walls using Lego and 'mega blok' plaques with retro or site specific statements.
Johnson-Perkins is an international artist whose work reflects a retrospective and nostalgic gaze at pop culture, exploring iconic imagery and play. He had exhibited in major art spaces in the USA, Russia, Spain, Romania and Lithuania. Including the Long Island Digital Media Festival at The IMAC Cinema - New York and at the Moscow Centre for Contemporary Arts - Russia. He has recently had solo shows in 2008 at Nospace Gallery, Bangkok - Thailand, The King's Lynn Art Centre - UK, Red Gallery, Hull - UK, The Star and Shadow Art Space, Newcastle Upon Tyne - UK and Exhibit Gallery - London.
- New Collaborative Residency Artists at Art Gene
Art Gene welcomes UHC Collective for a collaborative residency, they will be at Art Gene from 15th September until 9th November.UHC have an interest in exploring the social, natural and built environment. During their residency they will be seeking to challenge a broad variety of audiences to question social and geographical entrenchment, isolation and enclosure. It will pose a serious question to people who are rarely (if ever) asked: is where you live getting better or worse? For more information about UHC's residency at Art Gene please click here.
- New Collaborative Curatorial Residency Artist at Art Gene
Art Gene welcomes Sophie Mellor for a two month residency. Sophie will be at Art Gene from 1st September until 30th November. Sophie is interested in collaborative working that looks outside the traditional gallery environment and engages directly with site and audience. For more information about Sophie's work and her residency at Art Gene please click here.
- Art Gene Opportunities 2008-09
Art Gene is now accepting applications to it's (Inter)national Fellowship and U Hang @ Art Gene exhibition programmes.
Successful applications will be based on the quality of the artist’s work, the artistic merit of the project, its compatibility with the physical space and services available, and the strength of the contribution that will be made to Art Gene research remit;
‘the role(s) of artists in the regeneration of the social, natural and built environment’.
The deadline for submission is Friday 26th September 2008.
Apply Here!
- 'Out of Place', Photo and Video Work from Xiamen, China
Art Gene invites you to the preview night of 'Out of Place'.
Preview: 15th May 2008, 7.00-9.00pm
Exhibition continues until 14th November
- Art Gene Presents:
'Quality Street'
Friday 15th February Starting: 7.30pm
"Quality Street" is a short animation developed and devised by young people from Drop Zone, Hindpool and Barrow Island Youth Groups, working with Art Gene’s Maddi Nicholson, in collaboration with Swedish artist/filmmaker Cecilia Stenbom.
Free - All welcome. Refreshments will be served.
- New (Inter)national Research Residency Artist at Art Gene
Art Gene welcomes Jennifer Douglas for a two month residency. Jennifer will be at Art Gene from 9th January until 5th March. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and the Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing. For more information about Jennifer's work and her residency at Art Gene please click here.
- Art Gene welcomes Mashasi Sogabe from Mikan
Art Gene are pleased to announce the arrival of Mashasi, one of the four partners of the renowned Japanese company MIKAN. For more information please view Mikan's Artist page here.
Mashasi Sogabe working in Studio 2
- Art Gene hosts two new residences!
Art Gene is pleased to announce the arrival of Artist/Architects Mikan for the Arts Council England International Fellowship Residency from 1st November until 6th March 2008. For more information please view Mikan's Artist page here.
We are also pleased to announce that Ruth Pringle has joined us for a month for our Landing Strip Residency, she will be at Art Gene until 30th November. For more information about Ruth's residency please click here.
- Art Gene Open Prize Exhibition winner announced!!
"We are very pleased to announce UHC Collective as the winners of the 2007 Art Gene Open Prize Exhibition. Their work has made a significant contribution to the show and have advanced our understanding of the roll of artists in the regeneration of the social and built environment. We very much look forward to working with them as they undertake their residency and beyond." Stuart Bastik, Artist/Founder.
(UHC Collective celebrating their win)
For more information about the Art Gene Open and a complete list of exhibiting artists please click here.
- Private View for the Art Gene Open Prize Exibition 2007
12th October 7-9pm
You are all invited to the Art Gene Open Prize 2007 exhibition. The exhibition is a survey of artworks by artists connected to the North East and North West of England, selected through open submission and invitation.
Japanese Curator Emiko Kato will give a preview night presentation from 6pm on 12th October, discussing the flourishing art initiatives movement in Japan encouraging links between Art and Japanese society.
This is a free event but booking is essential:
Tel: 01229 825085
Email: artgenemichelle@btconnect.com
(Image detail: 'People's Tower of Manchester' Joseph Richardson-UHC Collective)
- Art Gene artists/founders nominted for Art Prize 2007
Art Gene are proud to announce that Maddi Nicholson and Stuart Bastik have been nominated for the Northern Art Prize 2007 as part of the Nicholson Bastik Art Gene Partnership.
For a selection of images of works and projects created by Maddi and Stuart please view the Nicholson Bastik Art Gene Partnership artist page.
- (Inter)national Research Residency 2007
1st September - 31st October
Art Gene welcomes Hajime Mizutani from Japan for a two month studio based research residency. Hajime will use this opportunity to explore and develop his artistic practice.
- (Inter)national Curatorial Research and Development residency 2007
1st September - 31st October
Art Gene welcomes Emiko Kato from Japan for a two month curatorial Research and Development Residency. Emiko will develop her contemporary curatorial practice in the supportive context of Art Gene and it's challenging geographical and social contexts.
- Art Gene NW Open Prize Winner, 2005 Ben Cove
Open Studio Event
Friday 31st August 2007, Studio 5
12:00 noon until 2:00 pm
Art Gene NW Open Prize Winner 2005, Ben Cove will mark his residency period here in Barrow by holding an Open Studio Event.
Over coffee and biscuits Ben will display and informally discuss his work including work created during his residency at Art Gene.
This event is free and we hope to see you there, if you would like to bring guests or if you know someone who would be interested in this event, please invite them along.
- Art Gene welcomes winner of 2005 NW Open
Art Gene is delighted to welcome Artist Ben Cove, winner of the 2005 NW Open Prize Exhibition, for his two month Research and Development Residency. Ben will have use of one of our high quality studios, with a £2,000 artist fee as part of his NW Open prize.
- Art Gene Open Prize Exhibition - Call for Submissions
Art Gene is pleased to announce the Art Gene Open Exhibition.
Exhibition Dates:
12th October – 11th November 2007
Exhibition Private View and Prize Giving.
12th October 7:00-9:00 p.m.
The Art Gene Open Exhibition is open to all Professional Artists born, living, working or who have studied in the North East and North West Regions, (North East and North West Regions as defined by Arts Council England).
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All forms of Fine Art work will be accepted for submission, including Video and Photography.
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The Art Gene Open Exhibition is NOT open to students.
Selection Panel
A specially appointed panel comprising artists and other arts professionals will make selections. Selections will be based on the quality of the artist’s work.
Prize
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Art Gene will provide one prize winner with a 2 month, Self-Directed Research and Development Residency at Art Gene for 2008/09. Working from large studio space at Art Gene the artist will focus on the production of his or her own new work, reflecting their interest in architecture and the regeneration of the social and built environment in a supportive and creative artist led environment.
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£2,000 Artists Fee.
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Free high quality studio space at Art Gene, all bills covered.
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Accommodation is NOT provided, however Art Gene will help the Artist to find local accommodation.
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The Artist will be expected to undertake 2 days Community/Education work from the Studio space towards the end of the Residency.
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The total value of the Residency and Prize is £6,500.
To download an application form Click Here
- Art Gene receives £10,000 Awards For All Grant
Art Gene continues to develop facilities at the cutting edge of what is possible, providing high quality artists studio spaces and a prestigious gallery space.
Following a successful bid to the National Lottery Awards For All panel, Art Gene now boasts a fully accessible artists studio space (Studio 5) and the installation of a platform lift ensures independent access to the Art Gene office and facilities.
- Art Gene hosts Brazilian Artists
Artist and Art Gene Founder Maddi Nicholson further developed international relationships when welcoming Brazilian Artists.
Building on their already successful relationship with the British Council in Brazil during the summer Art Gene became the artistic base for Fabiano Marques (14th May – 30th June 2007) and Edouard Fraipont.
- Art Gene opens offices in China and Japan
During a recent curatorial visit to China and Japan, Artists and Art Gene Founders Stuart Bastik and Maddi Nicholson took the opportunity to officially open the Art Gene Offices in China and Japan.
While in Xiamen, China, Stuart and Maddi visited Art Gene’s China office meeting with Lucy Chen, Curator and Head of the China Office.
In Kanagawa, Japan, Stuart and Maddi where shown around Art Gene’s Japan office by Tomoko Takahashi, Artist and Head of the Japan Office.
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