The Infinity Show 2013

The Infinity Show 2013, a set by nncontemporaryart on Flickr.

Infinite Print Workshop at NN Contemporary

Infinite Print workshop with Pauline Wood & Alexander Small
3 August 2013, 2–4pm

Drop in to NN to work with the artists to create your own piece of infinite print. Wear old clothes and be prepared to get inky! All ages and abilities welcome! Children must be accompanied by an adult.

We will also be holding a small workshop on the opening night!

Opening night & Infinite Print
18 July 2013, 6pm

Join us to celebrate the opening of The Infinity Show and make your own print with artists Pauline Wood & Alexander Small and their press.

Childhood Dreams Exhibition Opening

An excellent show curated by Ikran Abdille with support from the Youth Arts Collective and NN Contemporary.

The Infinity Show at NN Contemporary

Opening night & Infinite Print 18 July 2013, 6pm
19 July–1 September 2013

NN Contemporary says

Taha Belal, Lesley Halliwell, Felippe Moraes, Stefan Saffer, Alexander Small, Sarah Sparkes, Jorinde Voigt, Justin Washtell.

Full of contradiction and paradox, The Infinity Show starts but does not end with 8 artists and every visitor of the exhibition. The exhibition is the beginnings of an idea of art as a momentary resting point for ideas, forms and the potential, yet impossible, iterations of everything.

The show brings together artists from the UK, Brazil, Egypt, Germany and beyond, working in film, drawing, print, sculpture, Spirograph, text and online media. Using self-imposed rules the artists investigate endless possibilities within geometry, philosophy, the cosmos and more. The falsehood of the infinite imbues everything with each decision both opening up and shutting down a thousand potential routes.

Starting with the end, an infinite coffin by Sarah Sparkes greets the visitor. Monoprints by Taha Belal are rendered from mass-produced newspaper photographs; all the more pertinent now as the Cairo-based artist is working in a country rewriting itself through revolution. Felippe Moraes captures the cosmos in his ink drawing, whilst Justin Washtell invites anyone and everyone to contribute to the writing of a story. Time and distance fold and expand in works by Jorinde Voigt and Alexander Small. Jorinde Voigt uses the Fibonacci sequence in her logarithmic drawing series 2 People Kissing, with each page becoming ever more densely covered. Small captures a marching band in an eternal loop, forever turning the corner. Spirals are the base component of Lesley Halliwell’s expansive Spirograph drawings and Oggo a sculpture by Stefan Saffer, extrapolated from a Danish Church painting, will be spiralling out into the world visiting a host of offsite locations.

Events
Opening night & Infinite Print
18 July 2013, 6pm
Join us to celebrate the opening of The Infinity Show and make your own print with artists Pauline Wood & Alexander Small and their press.

Infinite Print workshop with Pauline Wood & Alexander Small
3 August 2013, 2–4pm
Drop in to NN to work with the artists to create your own piece of infinite print. Wear old clothes and be prepared to get inky! All ages and abilities welcome! Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Crit Group
6 August 2013, 7pm
NN hosts the Crit Group for artists at all stages of their career to come together to discuss their work in progress, run by Kate Harrison & Peter Slack.

Drawing performance by Lesley Halliwell
9–10 August 2013
Lesley Halliwell will be drawing live in NN to make a counterpart to the work on show. See the growth of a new work using mathematics, pattern and graft first hand and a chance to talk to the artist as she works.

Dance: I Infinite, Tom Dale Company
31 August 2013
As part of the closing weekend, Tom Dale Company presents an extract of I Infinite an interactive multi-media dance installation inspired by the digital world’s quest to re-create life. The graphic imagery and dance draw you within centimetres of the performer who moves between robotic isolation and liquid fluidity.

Childhood Dreams Exhibition at The Royal and Derngate Theatre

Running alongside the play "His Dark Materials" , the exhibition features work playing with the themes of ; a childish imagination, fantasy lands, and mythical creatures.

We'll be showing a 'drawing' from the 'Carbon Essence' series which are about a Dionysian playfulness with material



Private view 10th July 5-8pm.
Royal and Derngate Theatre, underground floor 4.

Open to all from 10th July- 13th July from 11am- 4pm.

15x15x15 Exhibition Avenue Gallery University of Northampton

We currently have six prints available in the 15x15x15 exhibition at Avenue Gallery, University of Northampton.

Idle Hands... Exhibition and Catalogue

Excellent turn out for the opening night and MERRIN's performance (see video below) the exhibition included 23 wall based works, a sound installation in the gallery spreading out to the stair way, a dedicated video room showing a show reel of 10 video works and another projector showing the same reel in the main gallery.

A catalogue of the exhibition is also available from blurb and published by Gallery Six with generous help from the Juliet Gomperts Trust.

Idle Hands... by Alexander Small | Make Your Own Book

MERRIN received critical acclaim from the gallery audience proving the contemplative elements of the soundscapes work perfectly in a gallery setting. We look forward to a solo show by MERRIN in 2013! 

Idle Hands...

11 October - 11 November 2012

Opening 11th October 6pm - 9pm

at The Artist Sanctuary, 2 Clare Street, Northampton NN1 3JF

An exhibition of recent work by Alexander Small, showing some previously unseen work in Northampton for the first time.The private view will include a unique performance from Doom Lord MERRIN.

http://www.alexandersmall.com

https://www.facebook.com/pages/-M-E-R-R-I-N-/267587061424

http://www.myspace.com/metalmerrin

Artefacts of Failure - Quad Derby

We will be showing our new book 'What You Could Have Won' from Articulating History at the 'Artefacts of Failure' exhibition at the Quad in Derby. The exhibition explores failure as an unavoidable part of any artistic practice and celebrates all the projects that never made it.

What You Could Have Won by Articulating History | Make Your Own Book

The exhibition runs from Friday 27th July to Sunday 7th October


http://www.derbyquad.co.uk/exhibition/artefacts-failure

Past and Present at Occupy My Time Gallery

OCCUPY MY TIME GALLERY 

PRESENTS

PAST AND PRESENT

CURATED BY SUE COHEN

The first opening show for OCCUPY MY TIME GALLERY will be Past and Present showcasing an exciting group exhibition.

Opening 15th June, 6-9.30pm + afterparty
Exhibition continues to the 15th July.

PAST: HISTORY/PRECEDENT/ANCIENT TIMES/EARLIER PERIOD.
PRESENT:CURRENT/CONTEMPORARY/EXSISITNG/IN ATTENDENCE.

PAST AND PRESENT 2012 explores the celebration of freedom, where judgment is not judgmental. It explores a new direction away from the everyday bombardment of the mundane. Using the dictionary definition of PAST AND PRESENT and using Egg’s 1858 interpretation artists have been invited to make work that explores our endurance fortitude and resilience for our existence.
In the painting Past and Present, No. 3 1858 by Augustus Leopold Egg 1816-1863set under the Adelphi arches, by the River Thames. . The woman shelters a young child, the result of her affair. The posters behind her advertise two plays – Victims and The Cure for Love – and ‘Pleasure excursions to Paris’. These are ironic comments on her situation. This is a social moralist series of paintings but it is left to the viewer to decide whether the woman is to be pitied or condemned. The Art Journal described them as ‘the lowest of all the profound deeps of human abandonment in this metropolis’

Artists:
Shona Davis and Dave Monaghan Andy Wicks, Mark Bell, Leanne Bell Gonczarow, Ian Gonczarow, Jonathan Alibone, Alexander Small,
Marianne Walker, Bea Denton, Patrick Stpaul, Jessica Piddock, Owen Bowden, Maslen and Mehra, Greg Rook, Alessando Columbano and Sophie Hamer, Annabel Tilley, Raimi Gbadamosi, Sara Bevan, Barbara Dean and Sue Cohen.

Opening Events: Sound Artists: Thomas Cohen(S.C.U.M) Performance Barbara Dean. Fabulous fantasy cakes supplied by Kitsch in Sync.

OCCUPY MY TIME was founded in 2006 by Sue Cohen an artist, curator and educator. This will be the first permanent Gallery space for OCCUPY MY TIME which has been presenting exciting and intriguing visual arts events in interesting spaces. These spaces were often outside the traditional gallery space and interacted directly with the audience through its choice of fascinating environments.

OCCUPY MY TIME GALLERY 

Enclave Unit 9 Resolution Way Deptford SE8 4NT
Opening Times:
Tuesday-Saturday.100am-5.30pm

OCCUPY MY TIME GALLERY is part of Last Fridays, SLAM, South London Art Tours.

www.occupymytimearts@wordpress.com

Please go to www.occupymytime.co.uk for details of all previous OCCUPY MY TIME events.
For press and further details please contact: Sue Cohen suecohen@ntlworld.com or occupymytimearts@hotmail.com
OCCUPY MY TIME will share this unique building with Enclave. www.enclaveprojects.com

Electric Picture House - Picture Postcard Show

Upcoming Exhibition!


Picture Postcard Show
Electric Picture House

9th June to 23rd June 2012

Cross Street 
Congleton 
CW12 1HQ



www.electricpicturehouse.com

code500 EP Cover

We recently licensed some art work for the awesome band code500 and their new EP 'Red Flag'.


Check them out here


We used the painting Carbon Essence Drawing 21 for the cover and we also took the photographs. The package was put together by Paul Foreman.

AIR Mini Residency

I recently completed the AIR Mini Residency in Archway, north London, which was an intensive two week residency leading to a public art proposal. The programme included visits from and the chance to meet Ruth Ewan, Alan Kane, Claire Doherty from Situations and Rachel Anderson from Artangel.

A significant part of London for anyone from the 'North' it was interesting to find a cultural link with another Northamptonian Alan Moore and 'The Highbury Working, A Beat Séance'.

I completed two new pieces during the residency a collaborative work with Oliver Cronk and Serra Tansel entitled 'A Long Wait' and a sound piece entitled 'Sub Pylon'. The final proposal was for an exploratory sound event entitled 'Under Sound'.

Surface Gallery - The International Postcard Show 2012

We are showing the piece 'False Economies 2' (2012) in this exhibition at the Surface Gallery in Nottingham running from the 25th January - 11th February 2012.

www.surfacegallery.org

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