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Artspace Exhibition
Posted on 13/10/2007
P. Klein
If you didnt catch our news article on the new ArtSpace exhibition which has already received much praise you still have some time left. It really is worth a visit.
ArtSpace is now into its tenth year, having been formed in 1997 to encourage the development of artists careers through networking, skill sharing and making artwork available to the community. The group currently has 25 members. Artists exhibit high quality contemporary work individually and in small groups all over the country, but come together several times a year to exhibit.
James France Building (in the middle of Loughborough University Campus) has a large open area designed for exhibitions, and for students, lecturers and visitors to meet. The exhibition is called New Horizons partly because this is a new venue for ArtSpace and ArtSpace wants to develop its relationship with the University.
Photography and the influence of photography and computers feature strongly in the exhibition. Tony Thorys photographic triptych of scenes from Kerala explores a moment of spiritual awareness experienced on his travels in Asia.
Phillip Ayriss and Mary Byrne use photos as inspiration for paintings. Phillip takes photos in scrap yards and then paints rusted cars gone back to nature in luscious colours. Mary is inspired in the mixed media and collage Norfolk Girl by an old sepia photograph of a girl found in a Norfolk junk shop. The girls face is open and yet mysterious.
Helen Ward and Susan West use newer digital technology. Helens Veiled Threats is an impression of ice melting and shifting but it is not based on any photographs. Instead, Helens starting point is to draw with a mouse or tablet straight into the computer. Susans digital imagery, partly representational and partly abstract, is about the space between public monuments and their surroundings.
Nature influences artists too. Judith Eason paints light within birch woods. Sally Chisholm has a series of landscape paintings in acrylic showing mountains in the south of France in different weather and light conditions. Joanne Sheppards paintings in oil and wax find beauty in the pattern and patina of fossils.
Two artists use craft techniques to make art. Sue Clewss Heart Doodle is a large heart-shaped wall-hanging constructed from wire. Julie Turners Trapped is a dress on a pink canvas and reflects aspects of feeling trapped as a woman.
Sally Reayers Turkish Mosaic is an intensely-coloured amalgam of images reflecting the history and culture that have shaped modern Turkey.
Michael Beals prints of Bamburgh Castle and Lindisfarne continue Michaels interest in views of the past in the present. Gillian Hugman Perkinss paintings of henge stones explore the mystery of such constructions seen centuries later.
Erica Middletons exquisite oil paintings of domestic cutlery and food glitter with gold and silver gilding.
Chris Englishs paintings are also about his world but a highly imaginative world of imagery and bright colours.
ArtSpaces New Horizons shows the quality and breadth of contemporary art being produced right now in this area.
New Horizons exhibition. James France Building, Loughborough University (access via main university entrance on Epinal Way where Security will direct you). Monday 8th October to Friday 2nd November. Opening times Mon to Frid 9am to 5 pm (closed weekends). ArtSpace would like to thank Loughborough University for its kind loan of the gallery.
If you would like further information on ArtSpace, please email artspace@easynet.co.uk or see their website www.artspace-lboro.co.uk