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

Jotta - Future Map 11 Feature

Working with a range of media systems including drawing, installation, sculpture, sound and video Camberwell graduate Alexander Small examines ideas of the Dyonisian and the Absurd....

Creative BOOM - Future Map 11

Future Map 11 coverage in Creative Boom





Future Map 11, London’s pre-eminent exhibition of University of the Arts London’s best recent graduates selected from the 2011 degree shows, brings together thirty artists and designers destined to define our visual landscape.......

Future Map 11: Camberwell Snapshot

The Camberwell Future Map 11 nominees have been announced on Camberwell Snapshot, the Camberwell College of Arts graduates included this year as well as myself are:

• Geoff Bartholomew – BA Photography
• Martha Lewis – BA Painting
• Joanna Mires – BA Ceramics
• Alexander Small – MA Fine Art
• Chieh-Ting Huang – MA Designer Maker
• Karin Soderquist – BA Illustration

http://blogs.camberwell.arts.ac.uk/snapshot/2011/12/02/future-map-11-camberwell/

Limited Edition Prints

Limited Edition Prints are now available from our collectors page!

The prints are all archive quality inks printed on somerset enhanced velvet 225gsm paper and each print is signed, stamped and numbered by the artist.

We'll be adding more to the range over the coming months so keep an eye out for updates or sign up for the news letter here.

Prints take up to 10 days to be prepared and delivered.

(All water marks are for display purposes only and will not appear on the actual print).

Selected for Future Map 11

The video piece 'Trooping the Other' has been selected for the Future Map 11 exhibition taking place in January 2012 at the Zabludowicz Collection!

The full list of artists involved can be found here

www.futuremap.arts.ac.uk

www.zabludowiczcollection.com

GLI.TC/H 20111 @ Vivid Birmingham

We attended the GLI.TC/H 20111 Festival at Vivid (an excellent art space) in Birmingham and saw some great art, workshops, screenings and talks. The Glitch Art 'movement' and Glitch aesthetics are a very important phenomenon being visible in many art forms. Glitch is the new media and digital term for a very old technique long live the wrong ones.

Check out the GLI.TC/H 20111 READER[ROR] available as a PDF here

http://gli.tc/h/

http://www.vivid.org.uk

Here's the work 'I Saw A Dream' 2010 that could be viewed as Glitch Art

Carbon Essence Blot Prints Now Available on Imagekind

Carbon Essence Blot Prints now available on the Imagekind website. Many options are available including framed prints and canvases.

Carbon Essence Blot Prints on Imagekind

Disturbing Laughter with Who's Jack

The installation 'Micky Bliss' receives a brief mention in Octobers edition of 'Who's Jack' magazine in the Young & Talented section! (issue 53 page 78)

Open publication - Free publishing - More art

Camberwell Installations - Trooping the Other and Micky Bliss

Trooping the Other Installation Camberwell

Micky Bliss Sound Installation Camberwell

MA Fine Art Show Camberwell

'Trooping the Other' Video Projection 2011

The show is now open!

Private View: Tuesday 6 September 2011 / 18.00 – 21.00
Open to public: Friday 2 September – Thursday 8 September (closed Sunday 4 September)
Opening hours: Monday – Friday: 10.00 – 20.00 / Saturday: 11.00 – 17.00

New work including video projection 'Trooping the Other' sound installation 'Micky Bliss' and sound piece, 'Swarm, a Thousands Voices'.

Full details of all artists and events can be found here

www.mafineartcamberwell.co.uk

Live Exhibition Stream

Free desktop streaming application by Ustream

New Products on Society6!

'Tragedy is Dionysian impulse discharging itself in Apollonian imagery'

'Each dimension will then play into the other, as dream-world and intoxication merge and begin to speak each other’s language, beauty or the Apollonian rescuing the Dionysian from pure amorphousness, and the Dionysian redeeming the Apollonian from the dead-end of sheer vacuous form. Tragedy is Dionysian impulse discharging itself in Apollonian imagery'.

Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic by Terry Eagleton

Carbon Essence Collider Prints Now Available on Imagekind

Carbon Essence Collider Prints now available on the Imagekind website. Many options are available including framed prints and canvases. Take a look via the image below.

The Artist's Joke, edited by Jennifer Higgie

The Artist's Joke, edited by Jennifer Higgie is one of a series documenting major themes and ideas in contemporary art, its well funny, its a good laugh, well for art theory it is.


Favourite quote:


'Goofing-off requires developing a fine-tuned sense of what it means to pause long enough and distance oneself far enough from worldly objects and events to recognise their illusory dimension and thereby reinvest the world with wonder. In order to really goof-off well, the instrumental sense of purpose deeply ingrained in Western ego and epistemology must be abandoned.'


Fluxus Performance and humour 1995
Kristine Stiles