Hondartza Fraga
Hondartza Fraga is interested in using souvenirs and domestic objects (‘Blank Globes’, ‘Mappa’) to force a dialogue between the domestic and the remote, suggesting narrative and contradictions between seemingly unconnected subjects. In this way, a drawing of a ship’s model shadow, evocative of travels to faraway lands, is exposed as the negation of that very journey (‘Never Arrived, Never Parted’). Beached whales are the starting point and main characters in the series ‘As it falls, either remembered or not seen’. Based on found images of beached whales, shipwrecks and other scenes at sea, the subjects float against the flatness of the blank paper as if incomplete fragments of a dream or a half remembered story. These characters stand for distance, dislocation, the meaning of being lost, of disappearing.
http://www.hondartzafraga.com/
Debi Holbrook
“The lure of the abandoned object is hard for me to ignore, curiosity and empathy compel me to question its story and reason for discard.”
Debi Holbrook transposes the human condition with inanimate and often domestic, found objects where distinction become blurred between autobiographical memory, imagination and evidence.
Duncan Lister & Bob Milner
For the next twelve months we will be adapting and evolving a constructed room within a studio situation, dedicating time and effort into creating the ideal drinking and exhibiting environment. This personal space will be opened to the public on six occasions during the year when strangers will be invited to become friends, if only for the moment. At other times, the room will remain by invitation only, a private drinking den; the perfect setting for a vigorous exchange of ideas. It will be a space in which to play, question and explore. And get drunk. And draw a bit.
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Anna Beam & Lois MacDonald
The year is 3012. The Human race continues to thrive. Due to over population on Earth, Mars has been terra-formed, and now supports 30% of civilisation. The planets biggest export is Iron Ore. Soap Opera’s still exist. We are only Human, after all.
Anna and Lois present a visual hypothesis of the future of the Soap Opera genre. Over their two week residency they will build, film and edit a pilot for the first Martian Soap, Rugxa Limo. Looking at the way in which Soap’s both reflect and question the ideals of the society they are set within, the work will reappropriate the scripts of iconic scenes from beloved British Soap Opera’s. Finance, Love and Loss. Will the drama’s of the daily grind and human relationships remain the same in 1000 years?
Temporary Art Show 3 Part 1
Wednesday 30th March 2011, 5-9pm
Westgate Studios Project Space
For the first installment of Temporary Art Show 3, selected artists and collectives present diverse works of sculpture, installation, intervention, performance, drawing, sound and video for one night only.
Anna Beam & Lois MacDonald, Georgia Boniface, Alice Bradshaw, Jenny Core, Hondartza Fraga, Debi Holbrook, Duncan Lister & Bob Milner, Milk Two Sugars, Susan Mortimer, Music For Installations, Georgie Park, Matthew Smith, Kathy Toth, Steve White.
Curated by Alice Bradshaw & Bob Milner, Curators in Residence, Westgate Studios Project Space.
Download pdf (935KB): http://bit.ly/TAS3part1
Temporary Art Show 3 Part 2 will be held on Wednesday 25th May 2011, 5-9pm.
Temporary Art Show 3 is sponsored in kind by Ossett Brewery http://www.ossett-brewery.co.uk/
Wednesday 30th March will also be a chance to see Open Studios at Westgate Studios and Wakefield Art Walk happening across the city.
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http://www.facebook.com/pages/Artwalk-Wakefield/180554171977074
Yesterday was our move-in day to studio A6. Bob is making us some DIY tables from some rescued boards (pictured). I’m considering removing all the chips from the woodchip wallpaper. Or as wikipedia prefers, ingrain wallpaper; invented by German pharmacist Hugo Erfurt in 1864 and marketed by the company his grandfather founded, first used as a decoration for shop windows, but began seeing use as a wallpaper from the 1920s on as well.
Our studio overlooks Westgate, which is known locally as the Westgate Run on a weekend. The studios are above a nightclub and apparently you can hear and feel the output on a Friday / Saturday night 2, stories up. I am intrigued. I might do a studio weekend evening with some sound recording equipment experiments.
After studio, we went for a pint in The Hop http://www.thehop-wakefield.co.uk/ which is our nearest real ale pub and turned out to be halfway through their Tuesday night quiz. We’re now keen to make studio plus pub quiz a regular Tuesday event (team members welcome). There seems to be already a super team who won and probably win every time but the mix of music, science and sci-fi is actually mostly in our range of knowledge and Bob knows some sport too. There is a gallon of ale to be won every Tuesday. And free sandwiches.
There’s now less than a week to go of open submissions to Temporary Art Show 3. 5 days in fact. I feel there’s already a strong show emerging from the longlist and wonder what the last final days will bring. We also have another show to plan as well which I’m very excited about and hopefully we can publish details soon!
Duncan Lister has kindly provided us with a snazzy autoCAD plan of the Project Space he made previously. The space is 4.7 x 4.7m and 2.8m high.
We also received an email from an art magazine offering 50% off for a listing in their lovely periodical. £295 may be some people’s idea of good value for a listing seen by 10k but that’s precisely £295 over our budget. Equivalent to 50k flyers. We’ll get 1000 Project Space flyers done instead at a cost of about £20 each and hand distribute them to places we visit. So apologies in advance if I’m the one at a preview waving some cheap looking flyer about, telling you how exciting the project is and that you should really get involved. They will be cheap.
Met with Bob today for a catch up in the Barge & Barrel in Elland, sampling Elland Best Bitter 4.0% ABV and Rooster Whisky Stout 4.7% ABV. Very tasty on both accounts. Jon Wakeman @eaststreetarts reminded me via twitter that artist Gordon McKiernan is head brewer at Elland Brewery Bar staff informed me that Elland Best was cloudy but not compromising on flavour. Rooster’s Whisky Stout was how you’d imagine – stouty with significant peaty overtones – but somehow still surprising. Elland Best very smooth and nicely tangy.
Proposals are coming in well for Temporary Art Show 3. Today I compiled the longlist from submissions so far from all over including Belgium, Germany, Italy, US, Slovakia and Canada, and across the UK. Some very exciting proposals, and still 2 weeks left of open call! Really excited about the potential. Also warned Bob that I’m literally getting off the train from London show and coming straight to Temporary Art Show just in time for 5pm opening on 30th March, so we’ve planned curation, install and bar stocking in advance of Londoning. All a bit freakishly über-organised. Which is good, as there’s bound to be something unexpected round the corner.
Had a lovely email from a former Temporary Art Space volunteer offering up some time towards the project. Looking forward to working with her more. Anyone wanting to get involved in projects on any level send us an email [email protected]
Bob & I made some vague plans for future shows and decided to also focus on some residencies in the intervals (details to follow). First residency we’re facilitating is by Susan Mortimer, who is also a-n blogging: www.a-n.co.uk/p/1089702 We’re looking forward to her next visit next week.
Our studio move in date is 1st March. Although a busy month already, I’m looking forward to having an expanse of space to play with straight away. I have a studio at home in my tiny box room which is convenient and cheap but pretty small, so really looking forward to working on some larger scale ideas.
