The Fair, a multi-site solo project for Glasgow Open House Art Festival, 2nd-4th May 2015

The Fair #6, Screen print and pencil on card, 10.5cm x 40.1cm, 2015

The Fair #7, Screen print and pencil on card, 10.5cm x 40.1cm, 2015

The Fair is a long established Glaswegian holiday taking place in the last fortnight of July.  Businesses and organisations closed; families travelled ‘doon the water’ to Lancashire seaside resorts of Blackpool and Morecambe, which acted as sites of enjoyment and glamour from everyday work. ‘The Fair’ is a multi-site exhibition across five artist’s homes, where artist Jenny Steele has created drawings reflecting on ‘seaside moderne’ buildings; Blackpool Casino and Midland Hotel, Morecambe.  Souvenir drawings were posted to inhabitants, allowing them to decide how to position the drawing in their own home.  A publication of the project will be produced post festival.

Opening times: Sat 2^nd – Mon 4^th May 2015 12pm – 6pm

Sites:

Venue 9, 3/2 Montague Projects, 34 Montague St, Glasgow, UK, G4 9HX

Venue 31, 6F Claythorn Park, Glasgow, G40 2HY (Sun 3^rd May 3 – 4.30pm only)

Venue 39, 62 Nith Street, Riddrie, Glasgow, G33 2AF 

Venue 55, Flat 0/1, 54 Carnarvon Street, G3 6HP, Glasgow

Venue 56, 2/2, 78 Kingarth Street, Glasgow, G42 7RW

For more information & maps for Glasgow Open House Art Festival 2015: www.glasgowopenhouse.co.uk

For more details on The Fair: www.glasgowopenhouse.co.uk/map?v=9&e=the-fair

The Fair is part of a year-long project LOOKING BACK| MOVING FORWARDS by artist Jenny Steele researching into seaside moderne architecture in North West England and Scotland (https://lookingbackmovingforward2014.wordpress.com). The project is supported by Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England.

For more information, please contact the artist Jenny Steele via email: jennysteelestudio@gmail.com or mobile: 07870701339.

LOOKING BACK|MOVING FORWARDS April 2015- May 2016

I am delighted to announce that I have been awarded Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England funding for a 14 month research and development project LOOKING BACK| MOVING FORWARDS.  

During 2015, I will undertake a period of research visiting selected examples of Seaside Moderne architecture in North England and Scotland, and also explore archived drawings and photographs of the visited buildings in the RIBA archive.   Concurrently, I  will research into examples of modernist interior design by Marion Dorn, Marian Mahler, Gunta Stolzl and Lucienne Day within the archives of the Whitworth Museum and Art Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

From this visual research, I will create a series of new drawing, print and sculptural based works in 2015-2016, to be exhibited in three exhibitions in the North West of England and Scotland in 2015 – Spring 2016.

You can follow the project on the research blog: https://lookingbackmovingforward2014.wordpress.com/

I am also so very grateful to Blackpool Council and UcLan for supporting this project.

If you would like more information on the project, to collaborate or be involved, please contact me by email -  jennysteelestudio@gmail.com

Blackpool Casino and Pleasure Beach, 2015. Photo: Jenny Steele