Jim Howieson, Untitled (caddy),
video still,,
2010
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SHOWCASE:
New work from S1
Bursary Studio Artists 2010
James Clarkson | Joe Cutts |
Jim
Howieson
Peter Martin | Emily Musgrave |
Linny Venables
30 June - 18 July
Previews:
Tues 29 June & Tues 13 July | 6 -
8pm
See below for opening days and times
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To mark the completion of the 2010 S1 Bursary Studio programme, S1
Artspace presents SHOWCASE, two week long exhibitions presenting new work by six
recent BA Fine Art graduates from Sheffield Hallam University. James
Clarkson, Joe Cutts, Jim Howieson, Peter Martin, Emily Musgrave
and Linny Venables were selected for the S1 Bursary
Studio programme in January this year, a pilot scheme aimed at providing third
year fine art students insight and experience of working within an artist-led
studio environment during the final stages of their BA programme, as well as
opportunities to benefit from mentoring and professional support. The individual
exhibitions include sculpture, sound, video and collage works.
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pt 1: James Clarkson | Joe Cutts | Linny
Venables
30 June – 4 July | Preview: Tues 29 June, 6 - 8pm
James Clarkson creates exotic sound and
sculptural works using electronic circuitry, natural materials and
unsophisticated custom built objects. He creates new relationships amongst
disparate objects opening up new possibilities for them to engage with the
potential of their new fictional settings. Similarly, in his collage works,
fragments of found photographs are isolated from their original context,
breaking the structural conventions of their usual environment.
In his videos, Joe Cutts captures vistas which at
first glance appear static and void of any discernible human presence.
Interested in the relationship between photography and video, Cutts creates
seemingly still scenes shot from one perspective which he then slows down to
such an extent he reveals subtle movements and almost imperceptible shifts in
momentum.
Linny Venables uses found, commonplace
materials and objects which she incorporates into new sculptures and groupings
of items. Her work centre’s on the transformation of these exhausted
materials, ascribing them new status by emphasising their absurdity, vacuity, or
oblique social reference. Her aim is to liberate them from the drudgery of
service, allowing them to masquerade outside their traditional
norm.
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pt 2: Jim Howieson | Peter Martin | Emily
Musgrave
14 – 18 July | Preview: Tues 13 July, 6 -
8pm
Jim Howieson’s works are
largely informed by an interest in the language of design and the boundaries
that divide an art encounter from that of an everyday experience. Through
enquiries into material, form and spatial arrangement, he explores the
displacement and reconfiguration of everyday objects and materials through video
and sculptural works.
Peter Martin
finds new ways of exploiting information that technology makes readily
available. This materialises as a combination of sculptural installations and
traditional digital forms. Using source material from television, the
Interne
t and popular music, he re-appropriates particular aspects to find new
significance, meaning and mode of understanding.
Emily
Musgrave’s work addresses
the formal qualities of abstract sculpture by using forms influenced by the
subtle details of everyday construction materials. She makes multiple
compositions, each piece developing in such a way that it directs the next. Her
assemblages and collages explore and test the elasticity and fragility of the
materials. The move from studio to exhibition space offers up specific
relationships between object and environment, making reference to minimalist
values of action, site and
material.
For further information please contact Rob Lowe at
'press@s1artspace.org' or 0114 2493386
Open Wed - Sun | 12 -
6pm
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