Excavations Exhibited at the Fishmarket Gallery Opening

Northampton Herald & Post

The Fishmarket Gallery reopens after its second refurbishment

This wonderful venue reopens to the public from 10-6 Thursday - Saturday THIS WEEK (3rd/4th/5th). www.fishmarketgallery.co.uk will be launched next week to co-incide with the first show opening.

This newly refurbished venue will have new workshop space, 3 galleries and a refurbished cafe bar & scaffold garden. Come see us !!!

For details of exhibiting please email submissions@fishmarketgallery.co.uk


This reopening will be the first exhibition of 'Excavations' the new collaborative video project by Jonathan Alibone and Alexander Small based on Northampton's Arts Collective Fish Market Gallery site.

Excavations is a short, digitally animated sequence inspired by historical and archaeological evidence that positions the present Fishmarket above the site of a medieval synagogue in what was once the heart of Northampton’s Jewish quarter.

This animation forms the latest collaborative work from Northampton based artists Jonathan Alibone and Alexander Small, and represents only one aspect of their continuing concern to critically explore the social and cultural significance of sites and their surrounding areas as part of their collaborative practice 'Art ] iculating History'. Through these projects we attempt to locate Art Concepts in Historical Contexts to create new meanings, links and perspectives whilst engaging new audiences.

‘[G]iven the Fishmarket’s proposed demolition, it felt necessary to reflect on our changing urban landscape. The Fishmarket [...] provides an appropriate metaphor for the cyclical nature of history; its rupture and continuity revealed in not only the physical environment, but also in the less tangible realms of religious belief and culture.’

Conceived and produced by Jonathan Alibone and Alexander Small, with invaluable technical support from Mark Walman, director of the Artist Sanctuary.

For more information email jonathanalibone@gmail.com or alexandersmallart@gmail.com

or visit the website


www.articulatinghistory.co.uk

To accompany this opening an illustrated booklet of the sites history has been produced with local Historian and Archaeologist J.Small. The booklet high lights some the sites possible past uses including that of a medieval Synagogue, public house and church.