TAR: Come over to the dark side
March 13, 2013
TAR: Come over to the dark side…
Exhibition @ Black Diamond Gallery, Port Adelaide, South Australia
22 February – 10th March 2013
A group of contemporary artists bring you TAR – be it tar of shipyard, rope and sails, of night, of roads and pitch, sealing or preserving, medicinal or harmful. This exhibition celebrates the dark, resinous, aromatic, binding, bitumous and symbolic nature of tar. Curated by Tony Kearney.
TAR is the third in a series of contemporary mixed media exhibitions curated by Tony Kearney, the previous two being RUST and SALT. Tony brings together established and emerging artists from disparate disciplines to celebrate elemental themes. Glass, ceramics, contemporary jewellery, photography, painting, drawing, installation, sculpture; all these work together to explore and respond to the theme of TAR.
Brenda L. Croft, Bruce Nuske, Christine Cholewa, Danica Gacesa McLean, Deb Jones, Emily Taylor, Emma Johnson, Grant Hancock, Hailey Lane, Kate Cullity, Kirsten Coelho, Jaqueline Barmentloo, Nici Cumpston, Peter Johnson, Sandra Elms, Tom Moore, Tony Kearney, Trevor Wren.
TAR: Come over to the dark side…
February 7, 2013
Black Diamond Gallery
66 Commercial Road, Port Adelaide, Australia
A group of contemporary artists bring you TAR – be it tar of shipyard, rope and sails, of night, of roads and pitch, sealing or preserving, medicinal or harmful. This exhibition celebrates the dark, resinous, aromatic, binding, bitumous and symbolic nature of tar. Curated by Tony Kearney.
TAR is the third in a series of contemporary mixed media exhibitions curated by Tony Kearney, the previous two being RUST and SALT. Tony brings together established and emerging artists from disparate disciplines to celebrate elemental themes. Glass, ceramics, contemporary jewellery, photography, painting, drawing, installation, sculpture; all these work together to explore and respond to the theme of TAR.
Affordable Art Fairs 2012
October 19, 2012
My work will be on show at the TAG Fine Arts stand at The Affordable Art Fairs in Battersea & Hampstead.
AAF Battersea Park (25-28 Oct, Stand H10),
AAF Hampstead (1 -4 Nov, Stand J12)
London Art Fair 2012
January 11, 2012
The Art of Mapping
November 6, 2011
TAG Fine Arts: Art Fairs, Exhibitions and Events, Autumn 2011
September 30, 2011
At the AAF Battersea, exhibiting at stand H10
At the AFF Hampstead, exhibiting at stand E8
The Art of Mapping: Press Release
July 29, 2011
KONTAKT
October 23, 2010
KONTAKT
RESPONSE @ LANDGUARD FORT, FELIXSTOWE
22nd-24th October 2010
Response
October 20, 2010
RESPONSE
video – installation – performance
This coming Friday (22nd October) 6.30 to 10 p.m.
Performances will be continuous throughout the evening.
Admission Free – bring your friends, warm clothing and a torch.
Continues on Saturday and Sunday 10 to 5 pm
Only via admission to the fort (£3.50)
Includes periodic performances.
At Landguard Fort, Felixstowe
VIDEO WORKS: Carol Gant; Tamar Nissim (Israel)
INSTALLATIONS: Mel Donohoe; Helen Lydia Green; Emma Johnson;
Michael Lumb; Linda Theophilus
PERFORMANCES: Ervin Babic (Bosnia & Herzegovina); Nenad Bogdanovic (Serbia);
Pasko Burdelez (Croatia); Mel Donohoe; Jane Dudman (Carlisle);
Dawn Rose; Helen Lydia Green; Paul Grimmer (Newcastle);
Dominik Jałowiński (Poland); Beni Kori (Israel, – b.Turkey); Michael Lumb;
Tamar Nissim (Israel); Iza Tarasewicz (Poland); Helena Walsh (Ireland).
AND ‘guest student’ Elena Italia (Italy – Norwich School of Art)
SATURDAY includes Student Platform: Emmi Edwards (UCS)
SUNDAY includes guest performance artist Di Clay and
Where not stated, artists are from the region.
NATURE OF THE WORKS
All works will be made specifically for this event. Other than the title ‘Response’ the curators prefer not to set a theme but to give the artists complete freedom although the nature of the work that the artists produce indicates coherence. However, the artists have been encouraged to explore the building (in some cases this will be through web images) and make work that considers and is empathetic to the building as well as demonstrating an awareness of the proximity to the shoreline and container port.
In particular, a number of the artists come from troubled countries. This is born out in the work of Israeli Tamar Nissim who says: –
“My work is political and personal.
I use my body and my personal memories as my pallet of colours.
I live in Tel Aviv a modern city but I speak in the language of the bible.
I feel that I live a normal life and raise my children in a quiet neighbourhood but I’m a woman in a military culture, I am in the middle of endless conflict.
All the conflicts and duality that I experience are becoming part of my work.”
For those from countries that were part of Yugoslavia, only they can know the pain of the memories of those horrendous years of war.
It seems particularly fitting or on the contrary, maybe ironic, that they should be making art in a military Fort.
Curated by Helen Lydia Green & Michael Lumb for GRIP.
asylum open studios
May 7, 2010
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