Friday, 30 May 2008

Live Art Falmouth 2008

Live Art Falmouth 
6-8 June 2008
Wellington Terrace, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 3BN

This annual festival features an innovative program of live/performance art, interactive video installations, cutting edge technology, video screenings and sound art. With more than 70 international, national and regional artists, including Matthew Appleby, Evangelia Basdeskis, Tine Bech, Claire Blundell Jones, Stephen Cornford, Vana Gacina, gilbertandgrape, Rachel Gomme, Alex Hetherington, Katherine Hymers, Misha Horacek, Richard Layzell, Tom Marshman, Rachel Parry, People in Pieces, Kathy Rose, Ken Turner, Nathan Walker, Jane Whitaker and Rupert White.

For further information, please see: www.liveartfalmouth.com/site/EVENT

Tuesday, 27 May 2008

invite to exhibtion of small sculptures

Hello to all

I personally invite you to the private view of my forthcoming exhibition of small sculptures based on narratives created in sardine cans, cabinets and paper cuts


The New Maynard Gallery,
Theatre Foyer, Campus West, The Campus,

Welwyn Garden City AL8 6BX.
Telephone 01707 326109 & 01707 357117.
(Hours as building.)

WINNERS: DIGSWELL ARTS TRUST AWARD
for best entry in the 2007 Open Exhibition in 2D & 3D

You are invited to the Private View on Thursday
12th June, 2008, 8-10pm.
The Exhibition runs from Friday 13th June to
Saturday 19th July 2008





Wednesday, 21 May 2008

gallery pics






hello again, the images are of the uh gallery. it's a huge space and many things could be done. it also has a cafe area which is open during the day for visitors staff and students (although pricey) There are other places on campus near by to get food
The space has a glazed roof, so there is a lot of natural daylight. previous exhibitions have had built enclosed spaces however that would be our responsibility. nevertheless the uni has several auditoriums which could be used to show reel performance work etc

Tuesday, 20 May 2008

group show opportunity

hello everybody

There is an opportunity to curate a group exhibition at the University of Hertfordshire Galleries, this is where I studied. I have been speaking to Matthew Shaul senior curator and operations manager is interested in the id ea. Is it possible to get some feedback from people regarding this.

I have e-mailed Matthew for more information regarding the gallery space and images of the space. once i have this information I will post it on the blog.

The proposal would have to be written up for August for an exhibition in 2010/11 as the gallery runs on a two year schedule.

I hope all are well

Franko and Tom, let me know when you will next be in Wysing. sorry to here about the troubles with the car.

hugs to all

Jon x

Tuesday, 22 April 2008

tekkie question...


does anyone know about photographic printing on metal sheet?

I've been thinking again about these injury images... it has always bugged me because i've never really felt i've resolved how to present them. I had riginally framed them but it didn't feel very considered or intrinsic to the idea...

They are images that really underpin a lot of what I do. I had to send one off for an exhibition i'm in later in the year, and once again it reared a nagging doubt that the work is just not finished. so i'm exploring a return to them. I also perhaps want to put myself in the pictures, anonymously, I think it has always felt wrong that I have taken the pictures of other people and i want to get inside the process more. I like the idea of the privacy and autonomy of taking the image myself of myself, but nobody actually needs to know that...

Or does anyone have any other thoughts on presenting photographs? I'd also had an idea of having it as a dvd still so the tv becomes the frame, like a documentary? I'd imagined an ordinary portible tv not a flashy plasma screen...

Sorry i've been absent, I've not been very confident about my thoughts, internalising them. But then on sunday I got into a discussion with the jewellery group i'm involved in and when I started talking I realised I had made progress in my mind, without realising it. Time to open up again i guess!

love mads x

Sunday, 6 April 2008

Friday, 4 April 2008

Arrgghh it is actually happening and a possibilty to write a proposal for a group show to submitt to the university of hertfordshire

today we have been served notice to vacate our studio spaces by the 30th Septmber. we are unsure if the council will give us another place to go to in the interim period whilst the trust trys to arrange funding to develop a build of purpose built studios here in stevenage. this project if it goes ahead would possibly take three years if not more.

i feel so disconnected at the moment. the folk in my studios are pleasant to be around but are not the most inspiring driving force which is what I feel when i meet up with all of you.

my motivation has died. i feel the arts in stevenage is some kind of rude word.

Nevertheless an opportunity has arisen to raise a submission for the university of hertfordshire galleries. I was wondering if anyone would like to collaborate in a group kind of happening???
or should i put forward a submission of my own work?
the deadline for submissions is the 5th may.

let me know what you think.

Hugs j xx