No Man is an Island
To raise awareness of the approaching United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP21), Faye Pearson Jones is exhibiting a body of work that explores climate migration. Alongside her figurative paintings, the artist has created a suspended sculpture of bronze and driftwood. The works sit as part of a group show of Liverpool-based artists.
Until 9 October 2015, The Gallery Liverpool, Stanhope Street, Liverpool
www.a-n.co.uk/events/no-man-is-an-island
Somerset Art Weeks Festival 2015
For this year’s edition of the Somerset-wide arts festival, a new hackerspace in Yeovil will open its doors, Simon Lee Dicker will reveal the results of his 6-month residency in a twineworks and Alice Maddicott’s Car Boot Museum will tour the county. With over 350 artists taking part, it is not only the week’s theme that has ‘Momentum.’
3 – 17 October 2015, Various venues across Somerset and Bath
www.a-n.co.uk/events/somerset-art-weeks-festival-2015
The will of another cannot fulfil everything. Splendour isn’t slick
K6 is a brand new non-profit gallery in Southampton, perhaps one of the smallest in the city – converted as it is from two grade II listed red telephone boxes. The inaugural residency-exhibition by Portsmouth-based collective Stair/Slide/Space will see the evolution of a process-led piece based on conversations and interactions with those who come into contact with these renovated Kiosk 6s.
9 October 2015 – 7 January 2016, The Phone Boxes, Castle Way, Southampton
www.a-n.co.uk/events/the-will-of-another-cannot-fulfil-everything-splendour-isnt-slick
The Excursionist – How can tourism work for art and art work for tourism?
b-side return to the Isle of Portland with this two-day symposium that explores the relationship between art and the tourism industries. Participants including Artangel co-director James Lingwood, artists Katrina Palmer and Alistair Gentry and local authority and environment representatives, will consider how art can play a responsible and sustainable role in rural tourism.
8-9 October 2015, The Stonehall, Portland, Dorset
www.a-n.co.uk/events/the-excursionist-how-can-tourism-work-for-art-and-art-work-for-tourism%E2%80%A8
Harvest Film Festival
Taking place in the out buildings of the organic smallholding, Lower Hewood Farm and then touring to Open School East in London (7 November), this critically-minded film festival curated by Maria Benjamin considers food production, ecology and how agricultural land is used.
Saturday 10 October 2015, Lower Hewood Farm, Hewood, Card, Dorset
www.a-n.co.uk/events/harvest-film-festival
All of the above are taken from a-n’s Events listings section, featuring events posted by a-n’s members
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DOLPH at Art Licks Weekend: revealing the “blood, sweat and tears” of artistic practice by Pippa Koszerek
