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Spacex (art Gallery)
Spacex was a contemporary art organisation, located in Exeter, between 1974 and 2017. It was founded in 1974 by John Butler as an artist co-operative. Its programme spanned installations, performance, photography, sculpture, painting, film and video. Its learning programme focused on helping visitors of all ages to explore and engage with contemporary art. Spacex ceased activity at the end of 2017 with the formal closure of the charity. Origin and aims Spacex was located in a converted 19th century warehouse, midway between Exeter Cathedral and Exeter quayside. It was established in 1974 by an artists’ co-operative. The original purpose was to offer affordable studio and exhibition space to local artists. In the early 1990s, Spacex became a registered charity and a publicly funded space showing contemporary art free of charge. Collaboration was at the heart of Spacex. The gallery's role in working with innovative local, national and international artists has been recognis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exeter
Exeter () is a city in Devon, South West England. It is situated on the River Exe, approximately northeast of Plymouth and southwest of Bristol. In Roman Britain, Exeter was established as the base of Legio II Augusta under the personal command of Vespasian. Exeter became a religious centre in the Middle Ages. Exeter Cathedral, founded in the mid 11th century, became Anglican in the 16th-century English Reformation. Exeter became an affluent centre for the wool trade, although by the First World War the city was in decline. After the Second World War, much of the city centre was rebuilt and is now a centre for education, business and tourism in Devon and Cornwall. It is home to two of the constituent campuses of the University of Exeter: Streatham and St Luke's. The administrative area of Exeter has the status of a non-metropolitan district under the administration of the County Council. It is the county town of Devon and home to the headquarters of Devon County Council. A p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Rooney (artist)
Paul Rooney (born 1967 in Liverpool) is an English artist who works with music and words, primarily through installations and records. He studied painting at Edinburgh College of Art. In the late 1990s his art practice shifted from painting to video and music, initially with the artist group Common Culture and then the band Rooney. His work later focussed on sound and music within video works, installations and performances. His art works often explore the difficulties inherent in the representation of place, mixing unreliable narratives of personal experience and urban myth. Awards include an Abbey Award in Painting at The British School at Rome in 1995, Art Prize North in 2003, the Northern Art Prize in 2008, and the Morton Award for Lens Based Work (2012). His works have been purchased for the Arts Council Collection and through the Contemporary Art Society Acquisitions Scheme. Work The three CD music albums released from 1998 to 2000 under the band name Rooney (not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buildings And Structures In Exeter
A building, or edifice, is an enclosed structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory (although there's also portable buildings). Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for a wide number of factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the term ''building'' compare the list of nonbuilding structures. Buildings serve several societal needs – primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical division of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) and the ''outside'' (a place that at times may be harsh and harmful). Ever since the first cave paintings, buildings have also become objects or canvasses of much artistic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllida Barlow
Dame Phyllida Barlow (born 4 April 1944) is a British artist. She studied at Chelsea College of Art (1960–63) and the Slade School of Art (1963–66). She joined the staff of the Slade in the late 1960s and taught there for more than forty years. She retired in 2009 and is thus an emeritus, emerita professor of fine art. She has had an important influence on younger generations of artists; at the Slade her students included Rachel Whiteread and Angela de la Cruz. In 2017 she represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale. Early life and education Although born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England in 1944 (as her psychiatrist father Erasmus Darwin Barlow, a great-grandson of Charles Darwin, was stationed there at the time), Barlow was brought up in a London recovering from the World War II, Second World War. She studied at Chelsea College of Art (1960–63) under the tutelage of George Fullard who was to influence Barlow's perception of what sculpture can be. "Fullard, among ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mika Taanila
Mika Taanila (born 1965 in Helsinki) is a Finnish film director and visual artist. His films can be categorized somewhere between the traditions of classic documentary film-making, avant-garde and video art. His most notable films are ''Tectonic Plate'' (2016), ''Return of The Atom'' (2015, co-dir. with Jussi Erola), ''Optical Sound'' (2005), ''The Future Is Not What It Used To Be'' (2002) and ''Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow'' (1998). In addition to traditional cinematic screenings, Taanila shows his works also in galleries and museum as film and video installations. Taanila has participated to numerous international group shows, such as The Venice Biennale (2017), Aichi Triennale (2013), Arctic Hysteria at PS.1. (2008), Shanghai Biennale (2006), Berlin Biennale (2004) and Manifesta 4 (2002). Solo shows include Padiglione de L'Esprit Nouveau in Bologna (2020), STUK Leuven (2018), Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki (2013–2014), Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Farmer
Geoffrey Farmer (born 1967) is best known for extensive multimedia installations made of cut-out images which form collages. Life Early career Farmer was born on Eagle Island, BC in 1967. His career as an artist was unplanned, but he attended an art class with his sister when he was 21 and became interested. He received his art training at the San Francisco Art Institute (1991-1992) and Emily Carr University (1993). Art practice Geoffrey Farmer creates installation-based artworks to create intersections of personal and lived experiences. He uses a combination of a broad range of elements, including: drawing, photography, video, sculpture, performance, found materials, and sometimes sound, bronze casting and waterworks. His work offers a subtle take on the legacies of minimalist and postminimalist art. Minimalism emphasized the artwork's ability to instill in the viewer a powerful sense of their own presence; Farmer's work begins with this idea of the art gallery as a site of ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andre Stitt
André Stitt (born 1958 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an artist currently based in Cardiff, Wales, where he is a Professor of Fine Art at the Cardiff School of Art & Design. Background Stitt's family moved from Belfast in the 1960s and spent his early life in Seymour Hill, where he attended Dunmurry High School before going to Art College. From 1980-1999 he lived and worked in London, presenting his work increasingly internationally throughout the eighties. André Stitt Biography He is currently a Professor of /Painting at the Cardiff School of Art & Design, |
Laura Kikauka
Laura Kikauka (born 1963, Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian installation and performance artist. Kikauka is known for her sculptural installations and performances incorporating found objects and electronics. Career and work Kikauka is known for functioning hand-etched electronic circuits. Her aesthetic has been described as kitsch, while also being compared to self-organizing systems. She has lived and worked in New York City, and for nearly two decades in Berlin. She currently works in Ontario on her long-term project the ''Funny Farm''. Kikauka's 1996 piece ''Hairbrain 2000'' presented an early "virtual reality" headset based on an analog system of electronic relays activated by ball bearings as the viewer moved their head. Her 1988 performance collaboration with artist Norman White, ''Them Fuckin' Robots'' involved two robots, a "female" one by Kikauka and a "male" one by White. Both robots were assembled and activated in a single day in front of an audience. Kikauka's robot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Wardill
Emily Wardill (born 1977 in Rugby, England), is a British artist and film maker. She studied fine art at Central St. Martins College of Arts and Design in London. In 2010, Wardill was awarded the Film London Artists' Moving Image Network Jarman Award, which allowed her to show her works on national television in the UK. Wardill was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Visual and Performing Arts in 2011. Wardill has exhibited her works internationally, in Australia, Denmark, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United States. Wardill's work has been exhibited at Art Basel, the Serpentine Gallery, Tate Britain, and the Venice Biennale. Her films have appeared in the International Film Festival Rotterdam, London Film Festival, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, and Toronto International Film Festival The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott King (artist)
Scott King (born 1969) is a graphic designer and visual artist. Past experiences include Art Director of '' i-D'' and Creative Director of ''Sleazenation'' magazines, for which he was awarded 'Best Cover' and 'Best Designed Feature of the Year' prizes. King occasionally produces work under the banner 'CRASH!' with writer and historian Matt Worley. King’s work has been exhibited widely in European and American galleries, including the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Kunst-Werke in Berlin, Portikus in Frankfurt, White Columns in New York, Kunstverein Munich and the Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ... in New York. References {{DEFAULTSORT:King, Scott 1969 births Living people English graphic designers English contemporary ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Art Organisation
Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from approximately 1945 to the present. Contemporary history is either a subset of the late modern period, or it is one of the three major subsets of modern history, alongside the early modern period and the late modern period. In the social sciences, contemporary history is also continuous with, and related to, the rise of postmodernity. Contemporary history is politically dominated by the Cold War (1947–1991) between the Western Bloc, led by the United States, and the Eastern Bloc, led by the Soviet Union. The confrontation spurred fears of a nuclear war. An all-out "hot" war was avoided, but both sides intervened in the internal politics of smaller nations in their bid for global influence and via proxy wars. The Cold War ultimately ended with the Revolutions of 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The latter stages and afterma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathew Sawyer
Mathew John Sawyer (born 1977, Hammersmith, England) is a British visual artist and musician, who lives and works in London. Sawyer studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design and the Royal College of Art in London. His band Mathew Sawyer and The Ghosts were signed to Fire Records. They have three albums available: ''Blue Birds Blood'' (2007) originally released on Stolen Recordings and Catbird Records (US), ''How Snakes Eat'' (2010) and ''Sleep Dreamt A Brother'' (2013). Sawyer was a member of Television Personalities for their 2006 album '' My Dark Places'', released on Domino Records. In 2007, Mathew Sawyer and The Ghosts played the Queen Elizabeth Hall as part of the Meltdown Festival, curated by Jarvis Cocker. Sawyer's artwork has been shown internationally in solo, and group exhibitions, including ''The Distance Between Me and You'' (Lisson Gallery), ''Documentary Creations'' (Museum of Art Luzern), ''Protest and Survive'' (Whitechapel Art Gallery) and ''Frieze Art F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
