Linna Borgesen
University of Sunderland BA (Hons) Photography, Video & Digital Imaging Degree Show opens Friday 15 June 2012, from 5-8pm and runs until 22 June 2012.
This is the last degree show at the historic Ashburne House, all welcome to celebrate with those graduating.
Where:
Ashburne House, Ryhope Road, Sunderland, SR2 7EF
More information at: http://transvisionexhibition.co.uk/
Sam O’Neill
Marjolaine Ryley’s exhibition of new work ‘Growing up in the New Age’ opens at Street Level Photoworks on Saturday 21 April – 3 June 2012.
Ryley’s practice uses autobiography as a tool for investigating her subjects, moving between the personal album and the social document, between research and practice.
Growing up in the New Age explores ideas of memory, history, familial relationships and archival narratives. It is an ongoing journey through the fascinating subject of alternative education and philosophies of the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s including pacifism, anarchism, counter-culture, left wing politics, women’s rights and ‘new age’ ideas. Drawing on her own life growing up in the 1970s and 80s and her parents experiences, from their initial meeting in a commune in the south of France, she uncovers the early formulation of their ideologies, set against the backdrop of political and cultural happenings of the 1960s and early 1970s.
She also explores alternative education and the belief systems that led to the founding of Kirkdale Free School by a group of alternative thinking parents in the 1960s, which Ryley attended from 1976 – 1987. Included in the exhibition are a series of black and white prints by Dave Walkling, whose images of Kirkdale and the squatting scene add a salient primary source of evidence of the time alongside other items which knit the archival records with the lyrical imagery of Ryley’s.
An exhibition guide with contributions from Zoe Lippett, Val Williams and Malcolm Dickson is available.
Exhibition Related Events:
Friday 18th May, 2pm. Exhibition talk for photography students with Marjolaine Ryley. Free, all welcome.
Saturday 19th May, 12-1.30pm, Portfolio reviews led by Marjolaine Ryley. Free, booking essential.
Saturday 19th May, 3pm. Exhibition tour with Marjolaine Ryley. Free, All welcome.
More information at: http://www.streetlevelphotoworks.org/programme/exhibitionsandprojects/marjolaineryley/mryley.html
‘Brenda Burrell inhabits and documents the uneasy survival of a coastal pit village from the inside, its uniquely English architecture and vibrant, indefatigable people.
After a spirited struggle, the mine, one of the most productive in Europe, was finally closed in 1991, putting a whole community out of work, its buildings, and all surrounding supply industries shattered and then bulldozed.
The twenty intervening years has seen photographers Simon Norfolk, John Davies, Sirkka Liisa Konttinen and the Billy Elliot filmmaker Lee Hall walk the streets, comb the now beautiful deserted beaches, making art where the pit waste once was dumped.
This latest, ongoing series of works shows the younger inhabitants of the village twenty years after the pit was forcibly closed, those whose fathers were barely toddlers themselves during the days of coal, the neatly dressed windows and weather-washed streets embarking on a new century.’
The exhibition is at the Decisive Moment Gallery at Darlington Arts Centre until 17 December 2011. Open Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays 12-6pm and Saturdays 10-4pm.
or more information visit:
http://www.brendaburrell.co.uk
http://www.mediaworkshop.org.uk/
7 October – 27 November 2011
Commissioned artist Laura Guy has recently been involved in the curation of an exhibition at Milton Keynes Gallery which explores the roles of contemporary art and communities in New Towns across the globe. The project opens with an an exhibition and a video programme and will present during the exhibition period, six new artist’s commissions, a research laboratory, publication and symposium on the 26 November.
Artists in the exhibition include: Paulo Catrica, Nathan Coley, Cao Fei, Jesal Kapadia, Wayne Lloyd, Vincent Meessen, Ishmael Randall Weeks, Pia Rönicke and Stuart Whipps.
Paul Alexander Knox, from The Space Between
NE-based photographers Paul Alexander Knox and Aaron Guy are included in a major exhibition exploring the northern landscape at Side Gallery until 8 October 2011.
‘The centre of power so long situated in the South East, there is a rich complexity to the ways in which the northern landscape has been used to project oppositional ideas – untamed wilderness to industrial blight, heroic monumentalism to abandonment and social cost. There’s a sense of ‘the other’ in the North: an honesty of experience somehow defined against southern sophistication, the dishonesty of power more plainly revealed. It is no accident that there is such a resonant relationship between documentary photography and the North. Side Gallery playing its own part in that, Fields of Vision explores the ideas of northern landscapes revealed in its photographic collection.
Aaron Guy
Between C19th Northumberland photographer John Pattison Gibson and new practitioners Paul Alexander Knox and Aaron Guy, the exhibition opens up on work by Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martine Franck, John Davies, Marketa Luskacova, Chris Killip, Ian Macdonald, Paul Caponigro, Martin Parr, Isabella Jedrzejczyk, John Kippin, Sally-Ann Norman, Simon Norfolk and many more.’
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Exhibition open: Monday 3 October 2011- Friday 14 October 2011, 10AM-4PM.
Reception: Friday 7 October 2011, 6-8pm
The ten photographers exhibiting have come together from across the world, and represent countries as diverse as Thailand, Pakistan, Estonia, New Zealand and Italy and the counties of Britain including Cumbria, Northumberland, Yorkshire and Durham. They met at Sunderland to create a collection of photographs and personal testimonies which document and celebrate their journey during the MA Photography.
The work created comes from each individuals experience and looks at issues of memory and loss, social and community environments, faith and symbols. The work provides a common ground of criss-crossing threads concerning issues that enquire into the heart and soul of contemporary living.
Vardy Gallery
University of Sunderland
Ashburne House, Ryhope Road
Sunderland SR2 7EF
Mike Golding, Untitled 2010
Mike Golding will be exhibiting his new work ‘Remembrance’ at the Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington Arts Centre from 29 July – 24 September 2011.
Free Gallery Talk: Friday 29 July, 12noon – 1pm.
REMEMBRANCE
When those we love die we continue to remember them, but they can only be glimpsed at the corner of the mind’s eye, never quite seeming to come into focus. Remembrance is an art project concerned with a recollection of the dead through the creation of fake photographic images using the creative possibilities of the forensic software E-Fit, used by police forces to construct images of human faces from witness interviews.
Memory recall is prompted by the visual qualities of the E-Fit software which contains a photographic database of face shapes, eye shapes, mouth size, hair style etc. In short, photographic fragments are assembled to create a recognisable image of a face. I am working with a number of participants who will be asked to remember people who have died. The resulting images will have the appearance of photographs, but they are inaccurate renderings shaped by the imprecision of recall, the state of mind of the respondent and the aesthetic qualities of photographic montage.
When researching the project, I worked with a Northumbria Police expert in E-Fit to create an image of my father who died in 2004. The resulting image does not completely resemble my father, but it does begin to and I was struck by the fact that I thought of him in terms of how I remembered him from my childhood rather than in later years. The resulting image has an uncanny quality, in that it hovers on the edge of believable photographic realism and exists as a kind of materialisation, a struggle to give memory substance.
In Remembrance I am proposing a reworking of photographic realism by appropriating forensic software, with its implications as evidence, to make a work of imagination in relation to the past. The project will involve the memories of others, operating as a social collaboration and a demonstration of how memory and photography work. From the prompting of memory a visual manifestation of memory will be produced which is both improbable and uncanny: the work can be seen as being related to the spirit photography of the nineteenth century in which the dead were supposedly manifested through the creation of fake photographs.
We have come to rely on the photograph because it bears an indexical trace of the past and comes to stand instead of memory. The idea of the photograph as inherently truthful has informed its usage since the nineteenth century. Photographic realism is a part of the social, political and psychological landscape which we inhabit.
That spirit photography is a result of fakery does not detract from the fact that it shows that there are other possibilities for photography outside of photographic realism, and that all photographs are potentially fake, as RJ Mitchell argues in The Reconfigured Eye, his analysis of the effects of digital technologies upon the photographic image.
The subject of Remembrance is partly an engagement with ideas about photography but it is also about the role of imagination in acts of memory and the essentially human trait of remembering or trying to remember.
Mike Golding
August 2010
Clarita Lulic will be exhibiting images from her series ‘Seven Short One Long’ at Newcastle Arts Centre from 2nd– 6th August 11am – 5pm.
Preview: Monday 1st August, 6.30 – 8.30pm. The show forms part of a series of exhibitions at the centre ‘What condition our terms of condition are in’, showcasing the work of artists who have been undertaking placements at Northumbria University as part of the AA2A national scheme (http://www.aa2a.org/)
Seven Short One Long is a self-initiated project exploring life on board a cruise ship as photographer over a period of seven-months. More information
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