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Exhibitions in the ArtSpace
- 9-11 May Domestic Bliss - Rachel Dormer, Lizzy McCaughan, Andy McKenzie
- 16-21 May Parallels and Sails - James Ward & Adeline Darling
- 30-31 May Paintings by an emerging young artist - special event upstairs
- 30 May -5 June 7° and rising - showcase of contemporary photography
- 5/6th and 12/13th July CAMBRIDGE OPEN STUDIOS - all studio artists at Artworks
5/6th and 12/13th July
CAMBRIDGE OPEN STUDIOS: OPEN STUDIO WEEKEND AT ARTWORKS
Seventeen artists open their studios. Opening their studios is seen as an important part of the artistic process as the artists welcome the discussion, exchange of ideas and feedback they gain from their visitors. All studios will have art on view, with much of it for sale, and the Artspace will showcase a mixed exhibtion by the studio artists. Visitors are made to feel very welcome with refreshments available throughout the day.
25 Sept - 5 Oct
Face Up
Photography by Kay Goodridge and Norah Al-AniPrevious exhibitions in ArtSpace
9 – 11 May 2008Domestic BlissPrivate View 6 - 8pm Friday 9th May
Open 11am - 5pm Saturday 10th May and Sunday 11th May
Domestic Bliss showcases new work by ceramicists Rachel Dormor and Lizzy McCaughan, and printmaker Andy McKenzie. |
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Rachel and Lizzy, in very different ways, have re-appraised the most basic of ceramic forms, functional tableware. Rachel’s expressive throwing freezes the moment when a piece is removed from the wheel, and all her porcelain work retains the fluidity and elegance of the making process.
Lizzy is fascinated by the possibilities of mixed media. With this body of work she brings together materials and processes which occupy widely differing places on the scale of values operating within contemporary art crafts.
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Andy’s new work explores the aesthetic potential of everyday domestic objects, and his lively, quirky drawings translate imaginatively onto paper and fabric. He is showing a new range of framed prints alongside cards, tea-towels, bags and other accessories.
All work is for sale |
16 – 21 May 2008‘Parallels’ and ‘Sails’An exhibition of new paintingsby James Ward & Adeline Darling16 – 21 May 2008 Opening times: 11.00am – 6.00pm daily |
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Sails - Adeline Darling
Adeline comes from a background of both art and science – she has a degree in medicine but she has always been pulled towards art and painting – and both disciplines form part of her quest to answer the bigger questions in life. This is her first exhibition.
She says, “What inspires me to paint is usually abstract. I'm drawn to that which is truly real within all of us, and which often only manifests itself in our common struggle, but is also there in our brief glimpses of a world which fades when we try and put it into words.”
The title 'Sails' is about being held up, pulled along, by something indefinable.
Parallels - James Ward
James studied painting at the Accademia de Belle Arte in Florence and at Bath Academy of Art. He has exhibited widely, including at Kettles Yard and the Fitzwilliam Museum. He lives in Cambridge.
“My response to landscape and geometric forms has shifted from abstract to figurative. The reason for this change of approach springs from drawing directly from the figure.
“As a result the paintings arise directly from the drawings so that the original pencil lines enclose and dictate the painted shapes. Lying, standing, sitting and crouching, the figure represents itself. As with previous work there is no reference to place and there is no story, except that which we choose to project onto the image.
“The paintings remain a series of patterns and rhythms, and like abstract art, are open to the subjective gaze.”
30 and 31 May Upstairs - Special Event - Paintings by an emerging young artist |
30 May – 5 June
7° and rising
5-6 APRIL Fugitive Fox Exhibition
Public preview Saturday 5th April 18:00-21:00
Also open Sunday 6th April 11:00-16:00
Steve Westbury and Kate Theodore who originally met at the Cyprus College of Art are delighted to showcase the premier of their collaberative Fugitive Fox exhibitions. The show consists of a series of over 20 very foxy paintings and drawings.
25 – 27 April ROGER PRIME - Textiles
Wall hangings - sculptural pieces - printed textile pieces
Friday 25 April Preview 6.30-9pm
Saturday 26 – Sunday 27 April Exhibition open to the public 12 - 6pm
Sunday 27 April Artist Talk 2pm
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This work is based on surface, the skin around us, and how this changes by age and wear. The tactile qualities that are produced within the work not only are visually stimulating but also make the viewer want to explore through touch. Textiles give us the opportunity to explore the tactile surfaces that most of us enjoy. They are the materials that we all use to protect us, to keep us warm and to hide our modesty. |
Roger Prime is a textile artist who has sold work across the country and produced commissions. This will be his first solo exhibition and comes after spending many years studying the subject. He studied textiles as a mature student at Huddersfield University in Yorkshire, formerly the heart of the textile industry. The experience opened up a whole new world for him: the creating of textile art using natural and manmade fibres, combining these with traditional and non-traditional techniques to produce sculptural art pieces and using printed textiles to produce conceptual pieces. |
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Chiara Mu
IN-SIGHT SERIES mixed media
3-10 February 12.00 -19.00 daily
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Winter fundraising event
Charity art auction. Saturday 8 December 2007
CamIris
'Pre-Christmas Winter Exhibition 2007'
Saturday 17th November and Sunday 18th November 10am – 5pm.
A diverse and exciting selling exhibition of framed prints of local areas, nature, abstract, still life and more. Digital and black and white images. Prints and cards also available.
CamIris is a group of women photographers who meet on a regular basis and hold exhibitions, conferences and workshops.
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Jan Ayton, Millie Brierley, Julie Coimbra, Alex Gilbert,
Kay Goodridge, Helena Hadjioannou, Jeannette Josse,
Soo Martin, Rosie McMurray, Alex Murphy,
Anne Rivington
For further information, please contact Jan Ayton
Building on Common Ground
Paintings by Georgina Amos
24 November -3 December 2007
Friday 23 November Preview 6-8.30pm
24-30 November Exhibition open to public 12-6pm Sat, Mon-Wed, Fri, (Thursday 6pm for artist talk) 12-5pm Sunday
1-3 December viewing available on request
Sunday 25 November 2pm artist talk
Thursday 29 November 6pm artist talk
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Georgina Amos’ paintings involve layering planes of colour, and masking areas that are then later removed to reveal the hidden image. Past work has always revelled in the specialism of painting, being set apart from the three dimensional art forms of sculpture, installation and other media. Recent works still play with illusion while exploring surface more radically. Paintings inescapable dependence on surface opens further possibilities, both the surface of the paint and the underlying shape of the material underneath, form the texture of this new body of work. Using discarded packaging to create a relief, the shadows they cast are painted in, exploring the illusion of painting. New objects are formed through this process, possessing new visual qualities, creating an oscillating illusion of depiction and reality.
Amos’ paintings often give the impression of landscape through the use of strong horizon lines; often suggestive of desolate places where there is a sense of new growth. The title plays with this barren impression with the optimism of creating new things. Explored in these works is the notion of Utopia, a ‘no place’, an idea that is originates with the hope of producing something different, while still dealing with the same materials, playing th current ideas on the development of contemporary painting. The forms that are built within the paintings are combination of the shapes and shadows cast from the relief of the packaging, familiar shapes that are built into new things with new characteristics. Often items that are non- communicating objects are formed into a new visual language.
After studying at Chelsea College of Art, Amos is based in Cambridge, exhibiting in galleries throughout the country.
For further information and high resolution images, please contact george_amos@hotmail.com 07973 361188
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Rosanna’s Story: an exhibition of new work by Jill Ogilvy
Jill Ogilvy’s large, dark and atmospheric landscapes display a timeless, spiritual quality, suggesting a previous existence or experience, with their remnants of old tin mining architecture. An accompanying illustrated narrative, Rosanna’s Story, relates the fictitious account of a Cornish mining disaster, which actually occurred at Levant in 1919. Resembling a book of remembrance, the story enhances the larger work and evokes the harsh lives of those who lived and worked in the old tin mines of the landscapes.
A Celtic influence also infuses new smaller work but contrast the paintings with a more contemporary feel. Incorporating ogham script with various motifs referencing ancient pre-Christian tradition, richly layered images in ochres and reds evoke strange sacred ritual, offering and sacrifice. Collagraphs and monoprints display organic designs developed from ammonites, fossils, and ferns. Like a seam of iron ore through the land, this show is stitched together with a thread of Celtic cultural heritage and symbolic imagery resulting in a rich and engaging collection of work.
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April 2007 Ceramics: Paul McAllister
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February 2007: Lizzy McCaughan, Rachel Dormor, Rebecca Wood |
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Nathan Huxtable 23 March to 1 April 2007
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