Installations

Sunday 23 September 2012

The Manchester Contemporary with PAPER Gallery, 27th - 30th September 2012


PAPER Gallery will be showing some of my work  at The Manchester Contemporary, Spinningfields next weekend 27th - 30th September 2012, alongside work by Jenny Core, Bethan Hamilton, Alice Bradshaw, James Moore, Richard Shields and other PAPER Gallery artists.

To read more about PAPER gallery and its artists, please visit the PAPER website.

To register for free tickets for Manchester Contmporary visit their website.

Wednesday 5 September 2012

Access All Areas, Manchester School of Art, PV 27th Sept 6-8.30pm

 

‘Access All Areas’ displays work from the five artists upon the 2011/12 AA2A scheme at Manchester Metropolitan University; Mark Beecroft, Julie Cassels, Rachel Goodyear, Bethan Hamilton and Jenny Steele.

AA2A is a national set of schemes hosted in visual art departments in Higher and Further Education institutions that provide access for practicing artists to specialist workshop and support facilities.  This opportunity allows artists access to equipment which may be difficult or expensive for them to source independently, allowing them to realise a project or period of research.  In exchange, artists bring ideas and experience to the students and institution.

2011/12 AA2A artists would like to thank Manchester Metropolitan University for generously providing access to postgraduate lecture programmes, the library and the range of workshops, in addition to a grant towards the costs of materials. 

Mark Beecroft
Mark Beecroft’s practice is an exploration of process, working with predetermined systems and mathematical forms. Mark has used his time on the AA2A scheme at Manchester School of Art to develop skills in digital fabrication, working with laser cutting technology. Beginning with patterns created from handmade mathematical models he has created digital files, which have been laser cut in a range of materials. These pieces are then ‘played’ with, experimenting with different configurations before being assembled by hand. The results are a series of sculptural forms that unite digital technology and handmade craft.

Julie Cassels
Julie Cassels’s uses the photographic image as her medium, the AA2A residency has enabled her to concentrate on the three dimensional aspect of her work in the form of digitally reconstructed objects. ‘Someone Else’s Things’, the latest series of work, considers the replication of an object and the relevance of its source. Drawn to rare or, potentially, obsolete ‘found objects’, she digitally reconstructs them; their associations consider the past, the future and possession. The main body of work carried out during the residency was a ‘virtual’ restoration project. A rare 17th Century bodice was digitally restored and then recreated using digitally printed fabric. The Whatcombe Bodice project is on show at the Gallery of Costume, Platt Hall, Manchester.    www.juliecassels.co.uk

Rachel Goodyear
My practice focuses on drawing, working predominantly with pencil on paper. The AA2A scheme has helped me to explore ways to subtly allow my drawings to slip out of the paper into the realms of sculptural form. However, rather than a fixed permanence that an object can suggest, I am finding ways to give my 3 dimensional forms the similar nature of fragility and fleeting moments my drawings on paper offer.  With drawing at its core I have been exploring the relationships between the imagined space of the paper and the real gravitational space we occupy. For Access All Areas, I will be presenting a collection of works that suggest a state or change or escape; graphite covered paper forms quietly explode from the chest of a life size porcelain bird, whilst drawings on paper attempt an escape from their 2 dimensional world like a papery ectoplasm.
www.rachelgoodyear.com

Bethan Hamilton
An exploration of the obese female body with a focus on mass, weight and disproportionate form through mark making. My project has been focused on the creation of ambiguous forms; indeterminate in sex, species or context, through drawing & printmaking. I sought to visualize a selection of these 2D forms as tangible 3D sculptural objects through a series of individual frames viewed within a 360°rotation.
Artists Access to Colleges has provided me with the time and freedom to make mistakes. Through the scheme I have learnt new skills and revived old interests, had access to an extensive range of facilities at Manchester Metropolitan University and met some kind and inspirational individuals. AA2A has changed the face of my practice for the better. I feel excited to be making art again.
www.bethanhamilton.co.uk

Jenny Steele
Jenny Steele’s practice explores our inhabitation within physical and digital architectures, through print, drawing and installation. During the AA2A scheme at Manchester School of Art, Jenny has focused upon her experiences as a new inhabitant, moving within city centre streets of Manchester and the architectural structures she encounters.  Access to book-making, printmaking, sculpture and digital editing facilities have allowed Jenny to explore her research further through still imagery and movement and sequence.  She has produced a series of editions of books, laser-cut wood block prints, screen-prints and animation as a result of time and generous access to a wide range of workshops.


‘Access All Areas’

Exhibition of work from the Artists Access to Art Colleges Scheme 2011/12

PV Thursday 27th September 6-8.30pm

28th September - 5th October 10-4pm (excluding Sunday)

The Holden Cafe

Manchester Metropolitan University

Grosvenor Building

Cavendish Street

M15 6RB

For more information on the AA2A scheme (Artists Access to Art Colleges) please visit http://www.aa2a.org/.