Polemically Small Exhibition

Orleans House Gallery – Richmond

Polemically Small Exhibition

23 June – 23 September

Polemically Small, curated by Zavier Ellis and Edward Lucie-Smith, is based on the idea that small works of art are often more powerful in their effect than big ones. Certainly they require a different, more focused attention from the spectator. The exhibition consists of paintings and works on paper by 50 British artists, and offers a panorama of the current London art scene, currently the liveliest in the world.

Artists:

Henny Acloque – Alexander Adams – Dale Adcock – Dominic Allan – Iain Andrews  Emma Bennett – Kiera Bennett – Gabriella Boyd – Jemima Brown – Gordon Cheung  Jake Clark – Dan Coombs – Tom Doran – Katie Elder – Nadine Feinson – Rose Gibbs  David Hancock – Justin Hibbs – Sigrid Holmwood – Alex Hudson –  Luke Jackson  Sam Jackson – James Jessop – Chris Jones – Benjamin Kustow – Peter Lamb   Cathy Lomax – Robert Luzar – Joe Machine – Jasmine Maddock – Maslen & Mehra  Robin Mason – Hugh Mendes – Alexis Milne – Richard Moon – Alex Gene Morrison            Gavin Nolan  – Tom Ormond – Tim Parr – Claire Pestaille – Harry Pye                Dominic Shepherd – John Stark – Kate Street – Charles Thomson                Covadonga Valdes – Stephen Walter – Hannah Wooll

Big Screen at Latitude 2012

Curated and produced by Louise Colbourne with assistance from Paul Burgess, Jim Hobbs, DJ Harry K, Kate Street, Jenny Baines and in association with LUX film archive, Cine-city film festival and No.W.Here film recourse.

The Big Screen and Film Gallery will run through-out the three days of the Latitude Festival from 13-15th July 2012.

The Big Screen will feature a selection of different artist’s film and video work eachevening, and will then go on to show-case experimental film, alternative sound-tracks and re-workings of classic cinema footage. Also there will be late night VJ’s and DJ’s. The Film Gallery will focus on artist’s 16mm and 8mm film work and will include curated programmes by Jim Hobbs and Jenny Baines to include a wide variety of artists work from classic early experimental film to contemporary artists, who also work with printed film. Each day will have a loose theme to anchor the selected works in sequence and bring a focus on the possible relationship between the various and varied works on show.

Friday will be entitled CUT-UP and will present montage, collage, and the experimental clash of ‘alternative’ sound-track with moving image. Artists such as Malcolm Le Grice, Jeff Keen, Laure Prouvost, David Blandy and Mordant Music’s re-soundtracking of a selection of BBC information films will be among those selected for the programme. There will also be a live set by People Like Us and a section from ‘Old Films New Music’ by DJ Harry K to include a re-sound-tracking of Appocalypse Now. Plus an appearance by Jonny Trunk of Trunk Records

Saturday will be entitled OUT OF THIS WORLD and will include the surreal, abstracted, ethereal and other-worldly within moving image. From the work of olderexperimental film makers such as Brunuel & Dali, Stan Brackage and Len Lye, through to contemporary artists selected from an open call (TBC). We will also include screenings in this programme by Semiconductor, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Emma Hart, Kevin Gaffney, Ian Helliwell, Rosa Barba, and many others.

Vj by David Wilson and DJ by Phil Hartnol (Orbital) and DJ Harry K

Sunday will be entitled Big Screen SHEBEEN and will include a selection of artist’s film and video that have a connection to music and/or dance. This programme will include animated work by artists selected by Kate Street. There will also feature a compilation of interesting and experimental music promos selected by Squint. Luke Losey’s Orbital video promo The Box, Tracey Emin’s Riding For a Fall, Jayne Parker’s the Whirlpool and Zoe Brown’s ‘Dad’ will also feature amongst others. A selection by Don Letts and Paul Burgess will showcase rare footage of Punk/Reggae archive film and video to include footage of The Clash.

Plus a DJ set with Donn Letts

My first post!

This is my first post – if we’re expecting students to have a blog then it seems just for me to also have one! I will be using this page to post information on exhibitions, artists, designers and other information that might be of interest.

Happy blogging!