Sketching in the Air artNucleus photograph; Quercus: Aimee Lax sculpture; Anna Usbourne drawing; Ann-Margreth Bohl stonecarving
| Sketching in the
Air |
Quercus: Beyond the
Verge |
Tray |
| Saturday 13th-Sunday 14th June Saturday 20th-Sunday 21st June 11am-6pm Stroud Valleys Artspace, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA www.artnucleus.org |
Saturday 13th-Sunday 14th
June Saturday 20th-Sunday 21st June 11am-6pm The Courtyard Stroud Valleys Artspace, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA |
30th May-30th June Stroud Valleys Artspace, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA Shop windows in Stroud town centre www.jackgibbon.co.uk/tray |
| A chance to look behind the scenes of a two-year (2008-10) residency by artNucleus (aka Reinhild Beuther & Simon Ryder) as they work in the Academic & Pathology departments of the North Bristol NHS Trust. 'Sketching in the Air' is a work-in-progress exhibition, including sketchbooks, proposals and photos that focus on such diverse subjects as French soldiers from the Napoleonic wars, DNA analysis, deep freezing horsetail ferns and a massive koy carp. The artists will be present on all four days to answer any questions. | A collaborative response
to the rural and urban margins. "The verge is both the vertical measure and the horizontal measure, the boundary marker and the greensward within, both spindle of time and stretch of space; both woman and man; paper and pen; hesitation and wickedness." (Of Memory, Reminiscence and Writing: On the Verge. D. Farell Krell.) Quercus is Ann-Margreth Bohl, Alison Cockroft, Aimee Lax, Emily Smith and Anna Usborne. |
Tray
is a month long exhibition of works by 15 Southwest based artists.
All the works in the show incorporate in some way a 72cm x 86cm
x 3cm large old wooden paper tray. These trays came into the artists'
hands as the result of a recent local business premises clearance.
The trays, made suddenly redundant have been rethought and adapted
by the artists and are now presented in shop window spaces left
empty in the streets of Stroud. As well as Tray works suspended and exhibited in the shop window frontages, the show also includes a space hidden behind the Trays and boards in the SVA John street shop space. This space will be used as a gallery / project space / shop for small artworks using ready-mades and found objects and will be open during the Saturdays of the festival and for the Open Studio weekends. The exhibition will host a readymade related event on 13th June. For more details and map visit website. Supported in kind by Andrew Wattons |