Middlesex University

STATE 04/03/2014 – 07/03/2014

PRIVATE VIEW: 04/03/2014 6pm – 9pm

This exhibition investigates the role of artisanal sensibilities within contemporary art practice. The artists involved in the exhibition have a tactile relationship with the materials that they use and this can be seen in the autographic nature of the artworks on display.

Each of the outcomes featured in the exhibition are born out of the physicality of material and process. The artists’ mediation of this dichotomy roots their practice in processes of a truly physical nature.

Here, artisanal traditions are re-imagined in a contemporary art context; the artworks that are exhibited all exist as the (occasionally momentary) termination of an action in which something physical is manipulated by the artist.

Curated by Chris Alton, StevieRay Latham and Laura Porter

Proposal for STATE exhibition.

Aspire to Inspire: made for a site specific exhibition at Islington Arts Factory-previously a Swedenborgian Church.

The spire from the Church was removed in the 1990’s due to health and safety.

Aspire to Inspire was the outcome of recreating a representation of a spire missing from the Church.

Alteration for the STATE exhibition:

Red Velvet- hierarchy, monument, altar.