Drawing, Movement and Dance Workshop at Chance to Dance

Sunday May 20th, 2012
10:30am
11.15am

Netherhall Sports Centre,
Queen Edith’s Way,
Cambridge

Drawing, Movement and Dance workshop
An open and fun workshop in which movement and drawing will be explored, through dance and  other physical activity.  All drawings will be exhibited, at the Changing Spaces ‘Scribble Games’, pop up gallery which is  part of this year’s  Big Weekend.  Materials will be supplied.

For further information on, workshops,  please contact anji@changing-spaces.org

Age: Open to all (children under 8 accompanied by an adult)

“The Heroes Project can be seen at 38 Regent St. It is a result of a project that run during the summer of 2010. It was a collaboration between Wintercomfort and local artist Linton Bocock and the Arts Council of Great Britain. All the participants were recruited from the Cambridge homeless community and the exhibits are a series of figurative sculptures depicting people who have had a positive effect on the participant’s lives.”

Watch Linton’s interview with Changing Spaces here.

Photographs © Lou Dellow

He says about his work: “These paintings are developed from an initial idea of reducing the painting to its essentials. Using an idea first created by Sol leWitt, the artist uses the cube as the basic modular unit for the painting—“the grammatical device”—from which his work would be made. The artist creates forms derived from the cube made up of various shapes and colour and hopes to create a tension through the shapes and colour relationships, allowing the eye of the viewer to move around the space freely.”

He is currently an MFA student at the Cambridge School of Art.

Photographs © Lou Dellow

Alison’s work entitled Reach explores “the notions of communication and connection, distance and difficulty. It suggests sustained physical and emotional effort. Distance over time in a relationship involves reaching. Consciously and unconsciously, your lives intermingle, drifting on a tide of mixed emotions. Common thoughts and memories may go unspoken day to day; but who can say if they are not shared nightly across the vast reaches of dream?  Who can say whose dream?
The black tide ebbs and flows.”

Claire’s A Dream within a Dream “looks at nature for the expression of light that transforms and illuminates everything. The light that expresses the unseen.” Her work “attempts to express a presence of something we can only grasp, the power of nature, the power of the unseen forces that we can only begin to comprehend.”

Photographs © Lou Dellow

A series of weed plaster prints by Sue Mealing can be seen at 38 Regent St.
She says about her work:
“My main interest lies with the flawed and disdained. My work embraces imperfection and impermanence, and the wabi sabi belief that nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect is fundamental to my philosophy and aesthetics. A strong component of these concerns draws me towards both entropy and the accidental, and these aspects are important in my approach and method of working.”

“The weed plaster prints are part of a series called memento mori. This work explores the contemporary struggle with the perceived sentimentality of the beautiful and the decorative, and its particular relevance to the depiction of flowers. The initial starting point is the ugly and rejected which is represented using weeds and dying decaying plants. The intention of the work is to transform these objects into images of beauty creating a metamorphosis from which they are elevated to the status of Fine Art. The subject matter is also used as metaphor and symbolism to represent the notion of traditional 17th century vanitas and still life. To give a heightened consciousness of the fragility of the human condition and the awareness of the brevity of life is a strong consideration in this body of work together with the exploration of the tension between life’s beauty and its fleeting nature, and indeed the eternal struggle of the reconciliation of beauty and death.”

Photographs © Sarah Vigliotti

The 2012 Scribble Games will unite everybody under the motto ‘THE ARTIST IS THE ATHLETE’, inspired by Matthew Barney’s Drawing Restraint series. Barney’s theory is that working under difficult and unusual circumstances can be used to strengthen an artist’s output, much as resistance is used by athletes to build muscle.

So lets build some drawing muscles and celebrate the Olympics a la Changing Spaces! There will be lots of sport props and paper rolls, hurdles and crayons getting you fit for the next drawing marathon!

To make the 2012 Scribble Games an outrageously enjoyable event come down to Parker’s Piece on the 7th July 2012, 12 – 6 pm and see what’s in you, you might go home with the Gold Medal in weight-drawing!

If you are interested in getting involved as an artist running one of the competitions and earning some money, follow this link:
http://www.artsjobs.org.uk/arts-job/post/artist-commission-for-olympic-drawing-event/

Photographs © Sarah Vigliotti

An off-site project exhibition of the larger Design Icons in the Ruskin Gallery is currently showing at 38-40 Regent St. The Exhibition is a unique celebration of Cambridge design talent which recognises 20 of the most important products designed in Cambridgeshire over the last 40 years.

Photographs © Lou Dellow

Miranda Boulton will be showing her work entitled “Lost in The Middle” at New Hall Art Collection from the 18th February – 16th March

“‘Lost in the middle’ is a brave statement and defines the artistic practice and visual language of Miranda Boulton. With paintings, which captivate through their folk influenced honesty the viewer finds himself lost in dark landscapes which are both fictional and at times strangely familiar, populated by obscured female figures and signs of abandoned habitation.
Throughout her work Boulton lays bare deliberate connections between drawing and painting, with the act of drawing consistently pitted against the act of painting throughout the execution of the work. Boulton’s physical relationship with her work and practice is exposed and celebrated, either evident in graphite marks or having been drawn with a paintbrush into or under tense fields of oil paint.”

Private View – Saturday 18th February, 3pm – 5pm

Interview with Pete jackson.