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YOU’RE SHIT ARRRGH!

YOU’RE SHIT ARRRGH!

6TH-14TH June

26 Camden High Street, London

Camden Collective

By Rebecca Read

     The idea of football-based art exhibition may initially spark images of shouting, louting and primary colours; yet ‘YOU’RE SHIT ARRRGH!’ although admittedly more light-hearted than other art collections, highlights some very dark and important issues evident in the ‘beautiful game’, and in the contemporary world generally. This show is comprised of art of eleven artists and covers numerous genres and mediums; from provocative objects, moving image and stunning black and white photography. Therefore, much like football, it is nothing if no diverse.

    Camden Collective are an organisation that put on ‘pop-up’ art shows in vacant spaces around London, and on this occasion it was hosted in an empty shop on Camden high street. This minimalist space was crammed with excited art and/or football fans, clutching their free can of beer to mark the occasion of the coming together of the two subjects.

  Out of the eleven eclectic pieces, Mark Cocksedge’s ‘Officials Only’ truly shone. Shy tucked away at the back of the venue is where Cocksedge displays his tribute to the arguably under-appreciated and on occasion, vilified role of the referee within the game of football. These uncomfortably intimate portraits depicted a series of these dedicated men from the Hackney Marshes, who referee for Sunday League football in London. These photographs told the story of the men who loved the game, but that devotion was not one always reciprocated. They were shot with the men looking directly into the camera, on what looked to be a freezing cold and misty day in London; this gave the photographs depth and endearment, feelings not normally associated with referees. The sense of the lost souls of the misunderstood rule-keepers is a very moving one.

   Second to the work of Cocksedge, was the moving image piece by Charlotte Turner, entitled ‘Fauxhawk’. This piece was inspired by David Beckham’s contribution to football culture and history, by which it recreates numerous celebrations from the football star’s eighyty-five goals scored with Manchester United. These joyous movements, now seen out of context, were shot in what appeared to be an industrial car park and performed by a female. This isolation from a how football fans would usually view a goal celebration and therefore took the sense of god-like celebrity away from them, and left them rather cold. This was perhaps to comment upon David Beckham’s evolution from Manchester United fan himself, to sporting hero to now embodying the idea of the celebrity.

   The issue of racism and violence was also tackled in this exhibition. A selection of artists produced some pieces of literal art which raised some of these difficult questions. One of the most controversial and interesting pieces was a football scarf which read ‘if you look English you may be arrested’, which was in reference to the advice given to Korea policemen when hosting a game against England. These pieces complimented the already very poignant and thought provoking work brilliantly.

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To celebrate Earth Day, five pieces from Creative Time Reports in which artists grapple with climate change and other environmental issues:

Fracking Away our Air, Water, and Land, by Barbara Arrindell and Ruth Hardinger

Connecting Green Politics with Race and Class, by Marc Bamuthi Joseph

Rewinding the Clock on Climate Change Through Culture, a discussion between Maya Lin, NRDC President Frances Beinecke, and Creative Time President and Artistic Director Anne Pasternak

Performing Climate Change, by DJ Spooky

Death Chamber of Commerce, by A. L. Steiner

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Add some cinematic flair to your photos with the new Cinestill 800 Tungsten Xpro film!

Are you a certified cinephile? Then you’d surely love these photos taken using the Cinestill 800 film that are bursting with rich colors and tones that all cinephiles would appreciate!

http://bit.ly/1nUPnZW

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MUSIC: BANKS - Goddess 

Queen BANKS and producer Lil Silva are back at it, as today the talented Los Angeles-based singer has released a brand new tune, titled “Goddess.” 

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AWAD, the Association of Women Art Dealers, is pleased to invite you to the Arts Media Contacts Workshop: Running Successful Press Campaigns, suitable for anyone who is involved in managing press campaigns for exhibitions and other arts events. The workshop will be led by Jessica Wood, publisher of Arts Media Contacts and director of Artsinform Communications, one of the UK's leading PR agencies for the arts. Jessica worked as an art journalist for visual arts, design and architecture magazines before setting up Artsinform in 1998. This year she represented Derry-Londonderry UK City of Culture, The London Group and Sluice Art Fair among other clients.  The Arts Media Contacts Workshop will cover: Running Successful Press Campaigns Effective press campaign strategy Writing excellent newsworthy press materials Inside advice about approaching the press Practical advice on using Arts Media Contacts service Full demonstration and tuition in Arts Media Contacts Individual advice on your own public relations campaigns The Association of Women Art Dealers is hosting the second in a series of workshops on arts marketing led by Arts Media Contacts, the organisation's preferred supplier. Cost: £5 for AWAD Members, £10 non-members (early bird booking - before 31 May) £15 after 1 June 2014. Price includes refreshments. The demonstration will run from 1.30pm to 3.30pm at 9-13 Kean Street (Covent Garden). Once you sign up for the session your email address will be supplied to Arts Media Contacts who will generate a temporary access login so you can test the directory in advance on the session. This login will also allow you to follow the session that will be eminently practical.  We advise you bring your own laptop. For any questions please contact AWAD on info@womenartdealers.org Bookings are non-refundable.

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Spoil and Fill private view at Studio 1.1 in Shoreditch 03.04.14

Show runs 4th to 27th April 2014

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Explore Lomography Nearby - Taipei, Taiwan

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ART: 19-Year-Old Sleep Paralysis Victim Recreates His Visions in Stunning Surreal Photographs

Conceptual photographer Nicolas Bruno has suffered from sleep paralysis since he was 15.

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Anna Dumitriu’s major groundbreaking new solo exhibition “The Romantic Disease: An Artistic Investigation of Tuberculosis” ran from 15th January and 24th March 2014. It will now tour to Waag Society in Amsterdam and Art Laboratory Berlin. Supported by The Wellcome Trust

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Jonathan Barnes: Wolf

Artist Jonathan Barnes spent time in the company of wolves at the UK Wolf Conservation Trust, Berkshire in order to observe and paint the animals for his latest series of paintings on show at Alexis Dove in Lewes this month.  After observing the animals by day and night, the artist created a series of drawings, paintings and cardboard cut-outs. Together, the eight pieces in the exhibition portray different aspects of this mysterious creature.

  “Man has had an affinity with wolves since time began. For some reason we like to imagine being like them - images of humans living among wolves are found in the earliest mythology. These paintings attempt to look into that psyche, while presenting my observations of seeing wolves in the flesh.”  JB

  Jonathan Barnes lives and works in Lewes. His principal interest is lines and the cross between 2D and 3D. He experiments with carving with cardboard and other materials onto which he paints and draws. His work was exhibited recently at Sluice Art Fair 2013, London, with Fordham Gallery as well as at Rich Mix, Shoreditch 2011, Brighton Festival Open Houses, Lewes Artwave and Artists United. Jonathan Barnes: Wolf is on at Alexis Dove Jewellery, The Needlemakers, West Street, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 2NZ from 4 April to 10 May. Open 10am-5pm Monday to Saturday. www.alexisdove.com

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Spoil and Fill

Terrorism, capitalism, construction and destruction:

the story of one building in the City, 1993 – 2013

Shoreditch gallery studio 1.1 presents first solo exhibition

by artist Amanda Loomes, 4–27 April 2014.

Spoil and Fill is an ambitious new moving image project and installation that reveals the dramatic story of 80 Bishopsgate, a building destroyed by an IRA bomb in 1993, rebuilt, and subsequently demolished in 2011. A personal project for artist Amanda Loomes – who previously worked in the construction industry and was a site engineer on the re-building of 80 Bishopsgate before beginning her career as an artist – Spoil and Fill is also Loomes’ largest project to date.

Drawing from the artist’s archive of documentation on the building and historical footage of the city, a video is projected onto a wall built from 144 concrete test cubes in the gallery which stands minutes from the location of the bombing. In addition the installation comprises a pop-up book by artist Marenka Gabeler and texts from writer Charmian Griffin, these works were developed in collaboration with Loomes in response to investigations into ruins, facsimiles and decay.

Loomes’ work often focuses on the overlooked workers of our daily lives – cleaners, factory workers, foresters, chimney sweeps, billposters, builders – through her videos and installations she makes poetic connections and exposes extraordinary stories, offering new perspectives on our everyday world. With Spoil and Fill she hones in on the story of one building and reveals it in a highly personalised way as a microcosm for Capitalism’s doomed cycle of destruction and construction, of levelling and beginning again, of spoiling and refilling.

“Capitalism permeates our lives, yet in its ideological dominance it often remains incomprehensible. On some level we are aware that Capitalism needs to destroy value in order to create value; dead labour caught in a perpetual loop. Every now and then something happens to draw attention to this cycle.” Amanda Loomes 

Notes to editors:

Spoil and Fill 4–27 April 2014 | Private View 3 April 6pm-9pm studio 1.1, 57a Redchurch Street, Shoreditch, London E2 7DJ Open: Wednesday to Sunday, 12 noon to 6pm, or by appointment Tube: Shoreditch High Street, Liverpool Street, Old Street. Tel: +44 (0)7952 986 696 Email: studio1-1.gallery@virgin.net Web: www.studio1-1.co.uk FB: /studio1.1London

Spoil and Fill is supported using public funding by Arts Council England. Archive material has been provided by London Screen Study Collection (Birkbeck College, University of London). Steel reinforcement supplied by Midgard Limited (the main contracting arm of the JRL Group). There is a series of events around the exhibition that are open to the public (see below).

Amanda Loomes graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2006. Recent group exhibitions have included ‘Jerwood Open Forest’, Jerwood Space (2014); ‘The London Group Centenary’, PM Gallery (2013); ‘On My Behalf’, The Cumberland (2012) and ‘Emergency5’, Aspex (2011). Prizes include the Mini Green Documentary Award at Sheffield Documentary Festival (2007) and the Neville Burston Memorial Award (2006). Loomes was shortlisted for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2006 and 2007 and was one of five shortlisted artists for the inaugural Jerwood Open Forest commission.

Marenka Gabeler works with painting, photography and performance to explore the imaginative potential of a location and the loss of identity. She is a researcher for architectural historian Dan Cruickshank, current projects include uncovering the history behind houses in Spitalfields. Gabeler has extensive experience of bookbinding having worked for Charles Gledhill. Gabeler and Loomes have previously collaborated on a highly acclaimed film project commissioned by the Dutch pharmaceutical company Roche: Longstories.

Charmian Griffin writes about and produces projects with artists and technologists. Recent work includes writing on erotic typography, stenography and analogue radio as well as films with Ryoji Ikeda, Michael Bracewell and Matt Stokes. She graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2012 on the inaugural year of the Critical Writing in Art and Design MA. Now working as a digital producer for Artangel she also teaches the Art Criticism short course at Central Saint Martins.

Related events:

9 April Free Breakfast Talk/Screening hosted by New London Architecture NLA, The Building Centre 26, Store Street, WC1E 7BT 8:30-9:30am (Registration from 8am). This breakfast talk is free to attend but registration is essential www.newlondonarchitecture.org 10 April Artists’ Talk at studio 1.1, 57a Redchurch Street, London E2 7DJ. Free. 6pm. 23 April, 7pm-9pm, Film Screening, Birkbeck College Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, Birkbeck College, University of London, London WC1H 0PD

Images: Images for press are available: Spoil and Fill Dropbox, www.dropbox.com/sh/8f75iomc6tydhau/3tEAe75Pbb# Please credit the artist when using images. Press Contact For further information, images, or interview requests please contact: Jessica Wood, Artsinform, +44 (0)1273 488996 | jessica@artsinform.co.uk | +44 (0)7939 226988

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The Pavilion Contemporary programme was inaugurated in 2010/11, now on its 3rd outing artist Maisie Broadhead takes the reigns with some great ideas about wealth, privacy and the voyeuristic times we live in.

Check out the facebook page for more information about about the Pavilion Contemporary series of exhibitions, and about this years exciting new commission.

There is also a twitter feed for up-to-the-minute updates!

@pavilioncon #pavcon  

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Spoil and Fill

Terrorism, capitalism, construction and destruction: the story of one building in the City, 1993 – 2013

Shoreditch gallery Studio 1.1 presents first solo exhibition by artist Amanda Loomes, 4–27 April 2014.

Spoil and Fill is an ambitious new moving image project and installation that reveals the dramatic story of 80 Bishopsgate, a building destroyed by an IRA bomb in 1993, rebuilt, and subsequently demolished in 2011.

A personal project for artist Amanda Loomes – who previously worked in the construction industry and was a site engineer on the re-building of 80 Bishopsgate before beginning her career as an artist – Spoil and Fill is also Loomes’ largest project to date. Drawing from the artist’s archive of documentation on the building and historical footage of the city, a video is projected onto a wall built from 144 concrete test cubes in the gallery which stands minutes from the location of the bombing. In addition the installation comprises a pop-up book by artist Marenka Gabeler and texts from writer Charmian Griffin, these works were developed in collaboration with Loomes in response to investigations into ruins, facsimiles and decay.

Loomes’ work often focuses on the overlooked workers of our daily lives – cleaners, factory workers, foresters, chimney sweeps, billposters, builders – through her videos and installations she makes poetic connections and exposes extraordinary stories, offering new perspectives on our everyday world. With Spoil and Fill she hones in on the story of one building and reveals it in a highly personalised way as a microcosm for Capitalism’s doomed cycle of destruction and construction, of levelling and beginning again, of spoiling and refilling.

“Capitalism permeates our lives, yet in its ideological dominance it often remains incomprehensible. On some level we are aware that Capitalism needs to destroy value in order to create value; dead labour caught in a perpetual loop. Every now and then something happens to draw attention to this cycle.”  Amanda Loomes

Notes to editors:

Spoil and Fill 4–27 April 2014 | Private View 3 April 6pm-9pm Studio 1.1, 57a Redchurch Street, Shoreditch, London E2 7DJ Open: Wednesday to Sunday, 12 noon to 6pm, or by appointment Tube: Shoreditch High Street, Liverpool Street, Old Street. Tel: +44 (0)7952 986 696 Email: studio1-1.gallery@virgin.net Web: www.studio1-1.co.uk FB: /studio1.1London

Spoil and Fill is supported using public funding by Arts Council England. Archive material has been provided by London Screen Study Collection (Birkbeck College, University of London). There is a series of events around the exhibition that are open to the public (see below).

Amanda Loomes graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2006. Recent group exhibitions have included 'Jerwood Open Forest', Jerwood Space (2014); 'The London Group Centenary', PM Gallery (2013); 'On My Behalf', The Cumberland (2012) and 'Emergency5', Aspex (2011). Prizes include the Mini Green Documentary Award at Sheffield Documentary Festival (2007) and the Neville Burston Memorial Award (2006). Loomes was shortlisted for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2006 and 2007 and was one of five shortlisted artists for the inaugural Jerwood Open Forest commission.

Marenka Gabeler works with painting, photography and performance to explore the imaginative potential of a location and the loss of identity. She is a researcher for architectural historian Dan Cruickshank, current projects include uncovering the history behind houses in Spitalfields. Gabeler has extensive experience of bookbinding having worked for Charles Gledhill. Gabeler and Loomes have previously collaborated on a highly acclaimed film project commissioned by the Dutch pharmaceutical company Roche: Longstories.

Charmian Griffin writes about and produces projects with artists and technologists. Recent work includes writing on erotic typography, stenography and analogue radio as well as films with Ryoji Ikeda, Michael Bracewell and Matt Stokes. She graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2012 on the inaugural year of the Critical Writing in Art and Design MA. Now working as a digital producer for Artangel she also teaches the Art Criticism short course at Central Saint Martins.

Related events: 9 April Free Breakfast Talk/Screening hosted by New London Architecture NLA, The Building Centre 26, Store Street, WC1E 7BT 8:30-9:30am (Registration from 8am). This breakfast talk is free to attend but registration is essential  www.newlondonarchitecture.org

10 April Artists’ Talk at Studio 1:1, 57a Redchurch Street, London E2 7DJ. Free.  6pm.

24 April Film Screening, Birkbeck College Cinema, 41 Gordon Square (use entrance at 43 Gordon Square) 

Birkbeck College, University of London London WC1H 0PD (check for times jessica@artsinform.co.uk)

Images:    

Images for press are available here: Spoil and Fill Dropbox Please credit the artist when using images.

Press Contact

For further information, images, or interview requests please contact: Jessica Wood, Artsinform | +44 (0)1273 488996 | jessica@artsinform.co.uk | +44 (0)7939 226988

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Pavilion Contemporary

The Royal Pavilion announces winner of major new commission

PRESS LAUNCH  | Monday 24th March 3.30pm-4.30pm | Royal Pavilion, Brighton (meet at the main entrance 3.15pm) | Includes tour and interviews with the artist |

The Royal Pavilion, Brighton is delighted to announce that artist Maisie Broadhead has won the commission for Pavilion Contemporary, the third in a series of major installations at the palace funded by Arts Council England.

Nicola Coleby, Creative Programmer, Royal Pavilion says “we are thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Maisie Broadhead on such an exciting commission. We were captivated by the boldness of her proposal and the impact it will have on visitors to the Royal Pavilion.”

The winning project, with a working title of ‘Peepers’ will see visitors feel like tiny figures in a decadent doll’s house, as a series of photographic light boxes project giant faces peering through the windows.

Broadhead’s work plays with a multitude of ideas including the notion of ‘palace outsiders’ versus ‘palace insiders’; and our voyeuristic fascination with peering in at other people’s lives and homes - especially those of celebrities and royals. It also looks at scale and the history of the architecture of the Pavilion and the lives of its famous inhabitants.

“Whilst writing the proposal for the Pavilion I was seeing images in the media of anti-government protesters in the Ukraine seen looking with fascination through the windows of grand government buildings, it was confirmation this is the right territory for the project.”   Maisie Broadhead

Until October this year, Maisie will be creating the final work, processes which typically involve photographic shoots using costumes, props and sets and models choreographed by the artist. The installation will be unveiled in November 2014 and will be open to the public until February 2015.

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Terrorism capitalism construction and destruction the story of one building in the City 1993 ndash 2013 Artist Amanda Loomes presents a screening of Spoil and Fill which tells the story of 80 Bishopsgate a building destroyed by an IRA bomb in 1993 rebuilt and...