Site09 Darbyshire Award: Emily Smith Installation; The Clearing, Colin Glen Installation; Seven, Matt Curtis painting; Open Studios exhibition Alison Cockcroft, sculpture
| Site09
darbyshire award |
The Clearing | Seven |
| 6th-30th
June Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm Saturday & Sunday 11am-5pm The Museum in the Park Stratford Park, Stroud GL5 4AF tel: 01453 763394 www.stroud.gov.uk/museum |
3rd-27th June Wednesday-Saturday 10am-5pm No.1 Middle Street, Stroud, GL5 1DZ Forest of Dean Sculpture Trust Beechenhurst Lodge, Coleford www.jelf.com www.forestofdean-sculpture.org.uk |
1st-30th
June Wed - Sat 11am to 5pm or by appointment Stroud House, Station Road, Stroud, GL5 2HH www.unit4studio.com |
| The site09
darbyshire award exhibition will present selected work from an open submission by UK based contemporary
artists shortlisted by Tom Trevor, director of the Arnolfini in Bristol.
At the heart of Bristol's harbourside, Arnolfini is one of Europe's
leading centres for the contemporary arts. Tom Trevor will select one of the exhibiting artists for the darbyshire award. Darbyshire Framers are offering a prize of framing services to the winner and SVA will also host a solo exhibition of the selected artist at John Street, Stroud in the following spring. Darbyshire Framers is a leading framer and art fabricator in the contemporary art world and has attracted a range of high-profile artists to commercial and public galleries such as Gagosian and White Cube Galleries |
Colin Glen's new work for Jelf Projects will engender an intriguing connection between two contrasting places; a gallery space in a busy residential part of Stroud - the ultimate symbol of the cultured, built environment - and the eerie stillness of a woodland glade in the Forest of Dean Sculpture Park. A skeletal construction in whitened timber framework, recreating the internal dimensions of the gallery space, will be placed in a clearing in the Forest whilst on the walls of the space will hang photographs of views from the sculpture out into the surrounding woodland. The work is intended to act as the starting point for a series of discussion events as part of Glen's ongoing 'in negotiation' project which encourages opinion, conversation and conflict as an essential element of critical process. | This year
Unit 4 Studio artists create a show of individual
and collaborative artworks in the recently vacated Stroud House Gallery
space. The Unit 4 artists are Helen Kinkaid (Painter), Matt
Curtis (Painter),Dan
Sparkes (Mixed media graphics), Mat Moran (Mixed
media graphics), Ralph
Macartney (Sound,
video and drawing),Nadine
Faye James (Illustrator) and Genevieve Frosch (Photographer/Painter). The new home of the Unit 4 Studio is in the front building of Stroud Valleys Artspace.The studio environment is a fertile creative hub, which allows the coming together of a diverse range of studio practices encouraging unique and exciting collaborations. Supported in kind by Griffiths Clark. |