Save the date for Arches Open Studios 2024, taking place over a jam-packed summer weekend ☀️
Featuring free artist led activities, a range of fun workshops, music, food, drinks and all around great vibe’s.
Stay tuned to the @aspacearts & @archesstudiossouthampton pages as we bring you all the details over the next few weeks. 🤘🏼
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Delighted to have work selected for this years CAS Open: Seeing Red.
The PV is 18th May
I’m looking forward to showing a recently completed painting at this group show in Southampton at the end of April.
The show takes place in two shipping containers temporarily erected in Guildhall Square. It will be on display from 12pm - 4pm Friday 26th April until Sunday, with a late showing and Private View party starting at 6pm on Friday evening. Do come down!
20 Southampton artists explore our archaeological past in a new exhibition
Following a successful first exhibition in 2023 by the ZING collective, this year the networking group for artists with connections to Southampton, bring more artists and ideas together in the heart of the city.
A contemporary art exhibition, titled 'Material Remains,' will fill part of the Guildhall Square in Southampton with work by local visual artists from the collective between Friday 26th and Sunday 28th April 2024.
Sparked by an ongoing project where ZING artists are working with Southampton Cultural Services, the exhibition will present a conceptually explorative visual journey into themes surrounding archaeology.
Ongoing visits to the museum stores has allowed ZING artists to explore their collection of thousands of everyday items discovered in the city and uncover stories about their potential owners. The exhibition will include works which take direct influence from the collection, as well as works which more broadly consider archaeological themes.
This new collection of work will be displayed in and around repurposed shipping containers in Guildhall Square and is free and open to all to attend. The exhibition will include artworks in textiles, print, mixed media sculpture, painting, photography, crochet and more.
Richard Henry, Curator of Archaeology, Southampton City Council Cultural Services said: "Southampton has a rich archaeological tapestry with hundreds of thousands of objects within Southampton City Council’s Designated collection. It has been wonderful collaborating with ZING to help uncover new stories about Southampton’s diverse collections celebrating the city’s cultural heritage."
ZING Collective are extremely grateful to Southampton Cultural Services and Richard Henry the Curator of Archaeology who has been working with the artists to make the exhibition possible. The museum stores contain thousands of items which have been dug up in the city over many years. The collaboration has enabled these objects and their stories to be brought back to life and new meanings to be discovered.
ZING Collective is a networking group for artists at any career stage with connections to Southampton. It was set up and is run by ZEST Collective.
Image provided: Material Remains poster designed by Ellen Gillett.
Find out more about ZING: instagram.com/zestinclusivegroup or zestartscollective.com/zing
Find out more about Southampton Cultural Services: www.southampton.gov.uk/arts-heritage
We have been very busy working on ‘Useful Drawings’, an exhibition of over 130 drawings from a range of disciplines, which opens tonight (30 March) at 6pm in the studio! We are really excited to share this with you all, we’ve had some fantastic submissions and great conversations with the contributors who have come to drop off drawings over the past week. Each drawing is cataloged with a correlating comment by contributors on why it is useful to them. Come and join us for a drink tonight to celebrate the opening!
Opening times:
Fri 31 March & Sat 1 April: 12-6pm
Sun 2 April: 12-4pm
Address: Eye to Pencil Studio, 26 Exmouth Market. EC1R 4QE
I’ve been shortlisted for this year’s Royal Academy Summer Show.
After many years of applying this is the first time I have had success.
The next stage is to deliver the painting for judging. It will have about a 1:4 chance of making the exhibiton.
I’m delighted that my painting “Esophageamania”, 2023 has made it to the long-list for the #jacksonspaintingprize. This is such a pleasant surprise as they received thousands of high quality entries.
This painting is part of my recent series about chaos and order.
You can be added to the prize draw for £150 Jackson’s Gift Voucher by voting for your favourite painting between now and 6th April.
The shortlist will be announced on the 30th of March. 🤞🏻
I'm honoured to have work selected for the International Women's Day exhibition curated by @aspacearts. The show features 100 works on paper celebrating inspirational women. All of the works are available for sale via auction, and the money raised will go to @yellowdoorsol, a charity supporting survivors of domestic abuse.
I made this painting in 2021 when I was looking at the work of Fiona Rae. I have to write a bit about the work so I said the following:
“Fiona Rae is a contemporary British Painter who rose to fame during the 1990s. She creates energetic, rhythmic, abstract paintings and is obsessive about the nature of the marks she makes and how different materials make the paint respond. It is a fascination I relate to. This is one of many paintings I have made trying to capture the essence of her lyrical mark-making. The marks come together in a painting that works like a visual poem, or a piece of music.”
You can browse all the work and bid in the silent auction via this link. (Bidding opens this evening and runs until April 21st.
A cohort from the Turps Correspondence Course of 2022 put on a group show at Fitzrovia Gallery, London. I was excited to show my sculptural painting, “Black Bird” as part of the show.
I’m delighted to have been given a studio space at Arches Studios, Southampton.
This is going to have a big impact on my practice which up to now, has been in the front room of my home. I have been craving the company of other artists, especially during these last few years of Covid Lockdown.
Thank you Aspace Arts for giving me this opportunity.
I'm delighted to share that @birdbox_gallery invited me to show my recently completed work "Black Forest" in their Cambridge gallery. The gallery is a great concept - just one window in a front garden that anyone passing by can enjoy.
St Thomas’s Sq, BARA, Coleridge Ward, Cambridge, CB1 3TG
We are very excited to present ‘In Formation’, the second exhibition of a group of artists who met through the Turps Correspondence course 20/21 and who put on their first show ‘In Response’ during September 2021. ‘In Formation’ refers to a nascent sense of this group’s identity and to the mutating nature of each artist’s own formation as something grounding in a world full of flux. The Thames-Side Studios Gallery is an exciting and expansive space situated among a large complex of artist studios, that offers the perfect environment in which to showcase the breadth and diverse nature of the group’s work. ‘In Formation’ runs for 2 weeks and will open to the public with a Private View on Saturday 8th January between 12-5pm at The Thames-Side Studios Gallery near Woolwich Arsenal.
https://www.thames-sidestudios.co.uk/news/exhibitions/in-formation
In what has been another unique year, a group of 92 international artists participating in the 2020/2021 Turps Correspondence Course have contributed painted works to be shared with viewers in ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ an online exhibition developed on the Cohort.Art platform.
In a unique year, a group of 29 London artists connected by the 20/21 Turps Correspondence Course worked in a back & forth dialogue with their mentors, not unlike the motion of an artist’s paintbrush across a canvas.
United by this and an interest in furthering questions of what painting & making could mean at this time, they present their first group show.
Learn my approach to abstract painting in this one day course in a beautiful Hampshire barn
Details and booking information: https://hampshireart.studio/playful-intent-abstract-painting/
As a guest teacher in June 2020, Barbara J Graham gave an interview about her practice and how it can be applied to every day creativity
