Westgate Studio

University of Incidental Knowledge: Meet the Tutors

Wednesday 28th September 2011, 5-9pm

Studio A6, Westgate Studios, Wakefield, WF1 1BW

University staff will be on hand to discuss 2011/12 courses and incidental knowledge on Wednesday 28th September, 5-9pm, in Studio A6 (2nd floor) accompanied by hand-pulled real ale.

2011/12 Course Leaders: Louise Atkinson, Fundada, Vanessa Haley, Debi Holbrook, Duncan Lister, Bob Milner and Sparrow+Castice.
Staff profiles: http://universityincidentalknowledge.wordpress.com…

The University of Incidental Knowledge is a collaboration based on a higher education model, incorporating self-directed and peer-to-peer learning, initiated by UK-based artist and curator Alice Bradshaw.

Incidental Knowledge is acquired by chance; through the process of doing something else such as a journey, a day job, a holiday, watching a film or overhearing a conversation. It is unexpected, unintentional, extraneous, random, accidental or found, discovered in connection with or resulting from a primary activity.

http://universityincidentalknowledge.wordpress.com…

A6 Part 2 Launch

Strictly limited edition of A6, part 2 is to be launched on Wednesday 28th September, 5-9pm, at Westgate Studio coinciding with Wakefield Artwalk. Only 20 editions are available to those people who ask really nicely on the night. A further 20 will then be available for sale at the Leeds Alternative Comics Fair #3 on Saturday 1st October, 12-5pm, at A Nation of Shopkeepers to those people who part with a very limited amount of cash. http://leedsalternativecomics.wordpress.com/

A6 is a blind collaboration which reflects the current practice, state of mind and/or obsessions of Alice Bradshaw and Bob Milner as part of their year of a shared studio experimentation. This will not last forever!

Beth Shapeero – Hanging Gloss

Installation

Temporary Art Show 3 Part 2

Wednesday 25th May 2011, 5-9pm

Westgate Studios Project Space
Prudential Building
55 Westgate
Wakefield
West Yorkshire
WF1 1BW

http://aliceandbobcurate.wordpress.com/

For the second installment of Temporary Art Show 3, selected artists and collectives present diverse works of sculpture, installation, drawing, artists’ books and video for one night only.

Sally Barker, Kevin Boniface, Alice Bradshaw & Bob Milner, Andrea Cotton, Marcin Konior, Pui Lee, Lemeh42, Duncan Lister & Bob Milner, Pete McPartlan, Marc Renshaw, Rosanne Robertson, Preben Van der Straete, Jared Szpakowski, WildLand Urban Interface Collective.

Curated by Alice Bradshaw & Bob Milner, Curators in Residence, Westgate Studios Project Space.

Download artist information: http://bit.ly/TAS3part2 (2.3MB pdf)

Temporary Art Show 3 is sponsored in kind by Ossett Brewery
http://www.ossett-brewery.co.uk/

Wednesday 25th May 2011 will also be a chance to see Open Studios at Westgate Studios and Wakefield Art Walk happening across the city.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Artwalk-Wakefield/180554171977074

Beth Shapeero – Hanging Gloss

Westgate Studios Project Space
55 Westgate, Wakefield, WF1 1BS, UK

Saturday 21st May 2011, 12-6pm
Sunday 22nd May 2011, 12-4pm

The Prince Albert in Studio A6 will be open from 6pm on Saturday 21st May 2011 (buzzer entry).

Curators in Residence at Westgate Studios Project Space Alice Bradshaw and Bob Milner present the first solo show by Nottingham based artist Beth Shapeero.

Beth Shapeero explores the nature and physicality of liquid materials (paints, varnishes, oils) through painting, sculpture and installation works.

Strategically using repetition and controlling pre-determined elements, Beth works within defined parameters to concentrate on playful experimentation. An ambitious scale draws attention to the physicality of the materials, inviting the viewer to move around the work, taking in the variations in surface and texture and engaging with the work on a sensory level.

Through negotiating contrasts between the perfect and the imperfect, Beth conveys the raw and beautiful qualities of paint.

“Working with poured paint I’m fascinated by the way household gloss forms a skin and remains wet underneath; once the skin is formed and air doesn’t reach the paint below it stays viscous forever.”

About the Artist

In 2008 Beth Shapeero graduated from Nottingham Trent University with a first class degree in Fine Art. The following September she became one of the founders and directors of Backlit Gallery and Studios, an artist led, grass roots experimental hub for artists in Nottingham.

Since graduating Shapeero has taken part in a number of exhibitions across the UK including ‘Making the Future II’ at the Bonington Gallery, Nottingham in 2008, ‘BASE:’ at Coexist in South end-on-sea 2009, ‘We Are Here’ at The Wallner Gallery, May 2010, Lakeside in Nottingham and ‘Scale’ at The Fishmarket gallery in Northampton. She has upcoming exhibitions in Nottingham, Long Eaton and Gotland, Sweden.

http://www.bethshapeero.com http://www.backlit.org.uk