Reservoir
Jolanta Dolewska‘s stark photographic works proffer a foreboding narrative that takes the viewer beyond the immediate image. Exploring ‘ambiguity of perception’, the normality of an otherwise everyday scene is filled with a potentially menacing otherness. In Reservoir, Dolewska takes inspiration from her late photographer father’s own archive of family photographs, school portraits and technical documentation and transposes his negatives with her own in order to subtly alter and expand the possible interpretations.
Until 29 March 2016, Rough Print Gallery, 14 Bradbury Street, Dalston, London, N16.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/reservoir
Cultivating fertile ground: People Make Places
Creative Kirklees has been staging a series of discussions that explore how cultural development can be instigated in the West Yorkshire borough. The final panel discussion brings together artists who are each involved in place making to explore what this means and the positive impacts socially engaged practices can bring to an area. Led by Susan Jones, with contributions from Jean McEwan, Steve Pool & Kate Genever, and Rachel Howfield Massey.
Thursday 10 March 2016, 5.30pm, Cafe Ollo, The Media Centre, Northumberland Street, Huddersfield.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/cultivating-fertile-ground-people-make-places
CHANNEL
The geographical context of Penarth Pier Pavilion, surrounded by the waves and weather of the Bristol Channel, is the impetus for this exhibition of works that consider the narratives that ebb and flow with water. Featured artists are Mal Bennett, Louisa Fairclough, Chris Short, Josephine Sowden and Bedwyr Williams, while a special screening of the documentary, Here is Always Somewhere Else: The Disappearance of Bas Jan Ader, takes place on 4 April.
11 March – 5 April 2016, Penarth Pier Pavilion, The Esplanade
www.a-n.co.uk/events/channel
Shaping the Future: making a vision for craft in the North West
An afternoon of conversations and presentations organised by the North West Craft Network to envision the future of craft in the North West. Speakers including Louise Allen, Geoffrey Mann and Liam Hopkins will explore the global context of craft, the impact of new technologies and strategies for innovation. A series of break out sessions will allow for networking, maker development and the opportunity to contribute to future planning for craft in the North West.
Thursday 10 March 2016, 12.30-7pm, University of Bolton, Deane Road, Bolton.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/shaping-the-future-making-a-vision-for-craft-in-the-north-west
The Waste Land
Over two days, Tunnel Artists Collective present works by 18 artists within the crumbling Asylum Chapel. Responding to TS Eliot’s epic poem on the decline of western civilisation, the exhibition is sited within the haunting, world war two-damaged 19th century chapel.
12 & 13 March 2016, Asylum Chapel, Asylum Road, Peckham, London, SE15.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/the-waste-land
All of the above are taken from a-n’s Events listings section, featuring events posted by a-n’s members
