AMBER SWALLOWS PRESENTS 'TRANNY BINGO'.
She’s the toast of the town in her Paris Gown.
She put the’It’ into Grit.
She’s the face of a Thousand Covers &
She’s Manchester's First Lady of Drink and Drama.
Amber Swallows will be bringing all the oozing style and panache of Her now infamous Monthly Club Night, MIRROR MIRROR to the Antifreeze Festival in the from of TRANNY BINGO. Eye's down, and enjoy a big juicy line as there will be 3 sets of TRANNY BINGO throughout the day. Prizes will be in the form of 'Lucky Trips', where winners will have to follow directions and secret maps to retrieve their loot.
www.mirrormirrorclub.com
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Liz Murphy
An artist and curator hailing from Leeds but now firmly rooted in Manchester, Liz is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Contents May Vary and has recently become the Coordinator for the Blackpool Museum of Contemporary Art .The (B.M.C.A) is an artist led organization founded by Stuart Edmundson and Magnus Quaife.
Using installation, intervention and performance Liz’s work invites the spectator to create narratives drawn from suggestions laid within the work. By involving the audience in the creative process this then gives them a claim to the works authorship sharing the burden of making. By incorporating objects we are familiar with in the 'everyday' an atmosphere of confidence is created born from familiarity, when dealing with the work.
Now That’s What I did Call Music (Vol 53)
For 10 months between 2002-2003 every week Monday to Thursday (term time only) myself and four other 18 year old girls drove in a red VW polo from the LS25 region of Leeds to York College (campus opposite Big Tesco’s). This journey was undertaken in order to complete a foundation diploma in Art and Design. Shirking the conventional ‘shop-bought’ compilations for a DIY mix tape the original copy of this tape looped everyday throughout every journey within this time period.
The songs on this tape aren’t great, and they positively aren’t cool, there is definitely no Joy Division or Morrissey, there is certainly no Kinks and no Led Zeppelin, we weren’t try hard art students and we all had haircuts that were the same length on both sides. No one at college spoke to us for the first 3 months as they all thought we were ‘common’. I think they couldn’t understand that because of our accents we talked at least one notch louder than everyone else.
After passing said diploma we all chose separate careers, I now do art, the others probably should too because they were better at it than me.
A limited edition of 200 copies of this tape will be on sale at ANTIFREEZE 2009
Using installation, intervention and performance Liz’s work invites the spectator to create narratives drawn from suggestions laid within the work. By involving the audience in the creative process this then gives them a claim to the works authorship sharing the burden of making. By incorporating objects we are familiar with in the 'everyday' an atmosphere of confidence is created born from familiarity, when dealing with the work.
Now That’s What I did Call Music (Vol 53)
For 10 months between 2002-2003 every week Monday to Thursday (term time only) myself and four other 18 year old girls drove in a red VW polo from the LS25 region of Leeds to York College (campus opposite Big Tesco’s). This journey was undertaken in order to complete a foundation diploma in Art and Design. Shirking the conventional ‘shop-bought’ compilations for a DIY mix tape the original copy of this tape looped everyday throughout every journey within this time period.
The songs on this tape aren’t great, and they positively aren’t cool, there is definitely no Joy Division or Morrissey, there is certainly no Kinks and no Led Zeppelin, we weren’t try hard art students and we all had haircuts that were the same length on both sides. No one at college spoke to us for the first 3 months as they all thought we were ‘common’. I think they couldn’t understand that because of our accents we talked at least one notch louder than everyone else.
After passing said diploma we all chose separate careers, I now do art, the others probably should too because they were better at it than me.
A limited edition of 200 copies of this tape will be on sale at ANTIFREEZE 2009
Monday, 22 June 2009
Caron Ottewell and Victoria Foster
Caron Ottewell explores memory and identity with an interest in the surface. Using found images she breaks these down into layers to create a sense of space in which to explore fragments of memories. Graduating with a fine art degree in 2007 Caron is a studio holder and trustee of Crate Studios and Project Space in Margate.
Exploring notions of ‘place’, our many and varied relationships with space, and the objects we encounter, Victoria Foster investigates how art can influence and encourage the viewer to engage with their surroundings. She is an interdisciplinary fine artist currently based in Folkestone, Kent working within the arts collective, 'Club Shepway'.
Statement Outlining the Project
Caron Ottewell
In this current climate of economic distress thoughts often turn to the past which becomes imbued with a sense of nostalgia and longing. What, however, is it like to not be able to remember the past, to have no childhood memories?
Caron presents two bodies of work. Her first, Wish you were here? 2009, starts with 3D postcard assemblages of fictional events or places. These have been made into something more permanent, almost a “souvenir” to act as a reminder of a certain place or time.
Her second body of work, The Ladybird Series, 2009 uses simplified vintage Ladybird images to represent something darker but hidden from the viewer.
Vicky Foster
Still Life? Series of drawings, 2009
In a society so focused on regeneration, what traces of domestic histories will remain whilst others disintegrate under the weight of the new?
The objects drawn in white ink onto lengths of lining wallpaper are on first glance, barely visible but on closer inspection the everyday items are revealed.
Fancy That! Series of collages, 2009
Embracing the myth of quintessential Englishness, nostalgic activities such as letter writing, cake baking, tea drinking, bird watching, walks in the countryside and dips in the sea are all jumbled up and brought together in one-off collages.
Web links
http://www.caronottewell.co.uk
caronottewell@googlemail.com
http://www.victoria-foster.blogspot.com
victoriahfoster@gmail.com
Exploring notions of ‘place’, our many and varied relationships with space, and the objects we encounter, Victoria Foster investigates how art can influence and encourage the viewer to engage with their surroundings. She is an interdisciplinary fine artist currently based in Folkestone, Kent working within the arts collective, 'Club Shepway'.
Statement Outlining the Project
Caron Ottewell
In this current climate of economic distress thoughts often turn to the past which becomes imbued with a sense of nostalgia and longing. What, however, is it like to not be able to remember the past, to have no childhood memories?
Caron presents two bodies of work. Her first, Wish you were here? 2009, starts with 3D postcard assemblages of fictional events or places. These have been made into something more permanent, almost a “souvenir” to act as a reminder of a certain place or time.
Her second body of work, The Ladybird Series, 2009 uses simplified vintage Ladybird images to represent something darker but hidden from the viewer.
Vicky Foster
Still Life? Series of drawings, 2009
In a society so focused on regeneration, what traces of domestic histories will remain whilst others disintegrate under the weight of the new?
The objects drawn in white ink onto lengths of lining wallpaper are on first glance, barely visible but on closer inspection the everyday items are revealed.
Fancy That! Series of collages, 2009
Embracing the myth of quintessential Englishness, nostalgic activities such as letter writing, cake baking, tea drinking, bird watching, walks in the countryside and dips in the sea are all jumbled up and brought together in one-off collages.
Web links
http://www.caronottewell.co.uk
caronottewell@googlemail.com
http://www.victoria-foster.blogspot.com
victoriahfoster@gmail.com
Julia Peat
Participating artists: Julia Peat with assistance from CArgos casual team member Jayne Seddon
I am an artist whose work crosses disciplines, embracing sculpture, installation, lens-based and performance work. The work is often site-specific and a response to the history and social aspects of a place. Humour plays a part in my practice and this is often reflected in text, perhaps informed by a background in journalism. Since graduating from the University of Salford five years ago, I have been involved in commissioned and artist-led projects/events in places as diverse as a prison, reclaimed factory site, slate quarry and WWII lookout post, have exhibited and performed around the UK and will be showing in ‘Thoroughly Modern Dora’, part of the Dora Gordine retrospective season in London next month.
‘CArgos’ presents a catalogue shop extravaganza of the weird, wonderful, wacky, the tat and tacky – all genuine car booty! The work will take a playful poke at car boot culture, dodgy dealers, the crap-you-never-realised-you-needed-until-today catalogues that fall out of the weekend papers and the mass-produced goods sold in High Street stores.
Dazzled by the glowing and extremely witty catalogue item listings, shoppers will complete slips to request the coveted hunk of junk. But in a nod to online auctions, there can only be one winner! CArgos staff, including artist Jayne Seddon, will be on hand to help enhance/inhibit the catalogue shopping experience!
Contact: juliapeat@yahoo.com
M A Longbottom
M A Longbottom representing design58 and platform58 showcasing recent artwork, has been producing, exhibiting and performing since 1984 and living since 1964.
Providing full creative design agency services with design58 and a creative art network and monthly art e-zine with platform58.
The space will house a hatch back (suitcase). A site specific showroom including platform58’s big brother (seen on http://www.malongbottom.com/ home page). With ready to wear circular metal artwork and larger collaged pieces of mixed media
http://www.malongbottom.com/
Providing full creative design agency services with design58 and a creative art network and monthly art e-zine with platform58.
The space will house a hatch back (suitcase). A site specific showroom including platform58’s big brother (seen on http://www.malongbottom.com/ home page). With ready to wear circular metal artwork and larger collaged pieces of mixed media
http://www.malongbottom.com/
POOL ARTS
Pool Arts:
including
Annette Ebanks, Trae England, Tess Lomas, Colin Nixon, Eddie Price, Siobhan Samuels, Nicola Smith, David Speers.
Pool Arts
Pool Arts aims, through its very existence to educate the public about the positive effects of artistic practice on well being, and provide studio space, support, training, professional and personal development opportunities for members.
The artists involved come from diverse backgrounds and their chosen art forms are equally varied. Pool Arts include writers, photographers, textile and fashion artists, craftspeople and a rock DJ as well as contemporary visual artists. They are working to create a supportive framework, facilities and opportunities to produce, promote their work.
This year Pool Arts will be opening its first permanent flexible studio facility in Ancoats, thanks to the generous support of Arts Council England and The Lankelly Chase Foundation
INTERNATIONAL POUND WORLD (2009)
we will beat you with our prices
An exhibition of art works on the theme of the ubiquitous “Pound Shop”: We all know and love a pound shop on our local high street and who can resist their charms?! Browse these delightful emporia of everything and anything from “luxury-style” ornaments to pan scrubs, whose products are as seductive and tempting as those in the finest art gallery!
Pool Arts take a wry look at how globalised consumer culture impacts on our everyday lives, whilst creating new interpretations of some cut-price “objets trouves”!
The work aims to re-value these anonymous yet ingenious items that have arrived from across the globe and represent hours of human endeavour, exploitation, ecological cost, design, manufacture and trade, only to be snapped up for mere pennies and without a thought in this microcosm of global trade.
Find out more about Pool Arts at www.poolarts.org or e.mail poolarts@gmail.com
including
Annette Ebanks, Trae England, Tess Lomas, Colin Nixon, Eddie Price, Siobhan Samuels, Nicola Smith, David Speers.
Pool Arts
Pool Arts aims, through its very existence to educate the public about the positive effects of artistic practice on well being, and provide studio space, support, training, professional and personal development opportunities for members.
The artists involved come from diverse backgrounds and their chosen art forms are equally varied. Pool Arts include writers, photographers, textile and fashion artists, craftspeople and a rock DJ as well as contemporary visual artists. They are working to create a supportive framework, facilities and opportunities to produce, promote their work.
This year Pool Arts will be opening its first permanent flexible studio facility in Ancoats, thanks to the generous support of Arts Council England and The Lankelly Chase Foundation
INTERNATIONAL POUND WORLD (2009)
we will beat you with our prices
An exhibition of art works on the theme of the ubiquitous “Pound Shop”: We all know and love a pound shop on our local high street and who can resist their charms?! Browse these delightful emporia of everything and anything from “luxury-style” ornaments to pan scrubs, whose products are as seductive and tempting as those in the finest art gallery!
Pool Arts take a wry look at how globalised consumer culture impacts on our everyday lives, whilst creating new interpretations of some cut-price “objets trouves”!
The work aims to re-value these anonymous yet ingenious items that have arrived from across the globe and represent hours of human endeavour, exploitation, ecological cost, design, manufacture and trade, only to be snapped up for mere pennies and without a thought in this microcosm of global trade.
Find out more about Pool Arts at www.poolarts.org or e.mail poolarts@gmail.com
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