Gods own Junkyard at the WVWG
The people behind Walthamstow’s famous temple of neon, God’s Own Junkyard, have created this installation of neon signs and artworks in memory of the junkyard’s founder Chris Bracey. The former hardware store’s windows will commemorate the celebrated neon artist from Walthamstow who went on to create iconic pieces for films such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Batman and Eyes Wide Shut. Encapsulating the essence of the artist and his collection, which is housed in the Junkyard – also open to the public and just a stones throw away from the windowspace gallery.
4 December 2015 (from 7pm) – 10 January 2016, Walthamstow Village Window Gallery, 47 Orford Road, London E17.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/gods-own-junkyard-at-the-wvwg
Thinking/Making: an exhibition of artists’ maquettes
Curiosity is the starting point for this exhibition of experiments into the creative thinking process. Curious Projects has invited artists to present a range of works in progress, sketches and maquettes which reveal the thought processes that emerge through the act of making, the premise being that making is a tool for creative thought.
5 December 2015 – 5 February 2016, Curious Projects, The Labyrinth, 7 Mark Lane, Eastbourne.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/thinkingmaking-an-exhibiton-of-artists-maquettes
Power in the Land
Ten artists from Wales and England have taken the decommissioning of the UK’s last remaining Magnox nuclear power station in Anglesey, north Wales as the backdrop for a series of new works that consider the wider context of this form of power. The artist-filmmakers of X-10 bring these considerations to Oxfordshire, the historical home of the UK’s nuclear fission experiments, for a film screening and talk that brings together artists and cultural academics with speakers from the nuclear industry.
Sunday 6 December 2015, 2-5.30pm, Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/power-in-the-land
It’ll Hold Until It Breaks
Nicola Ellis has been undertaking research at a number of steel manufacturing sites around the country as she develops an ongoing body of work that reframes the acts of welding and fabrication, creating new functions and revealing the methodologies involved. Exploring the sculptural nature of the weld itself, an 11ft mild steel weld is the centrepiece of this exhibition, alongside a series of smaller experiments with the rules, traditions and materials of this industrial practice.
10 December 2015 – 14 January 2016, Platform A Gallery, Middlesbrough Railway Station, Middlesbrough.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/itll-hold-until-it-breaks-nicola-ellis
borderlands
Following Albus 3‘s successful crowdfunding campaign last year, the team of three have done up the top floor of Northampton’s former Albion Brewery building with new sinks, electrics and a general make-over. Now functioning as artists studios with the capacity for guest residencies and an exhibitions programme, the inaugural show, borderlands, features works by 19 painters.
11 December 2015 – 29 January 2016, Albus 3 Arts, 53 Kingswell Street, Northampton.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/borderlands
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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