Interlopers
Continuing her exploration of childhood and camouflage, Permindar Kaur has created a site-specific installation that sees her faceless black teddy-bears scale the gallery space. Over the last six months, Kaur has been artist-in-residence at the University of Hertfordshire, working alongside fine art students and initiating a conversation with the Department of Psychology further informing the work’s critique of human nature.
18 March – 7 May 2016, Art & Design Gallery, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/interlopers-permindar-kaur
Catherine Biocca, Cornelia Baltes, Rosalie Schweiker
Louise Hobson curates this exhibition as part of her curatorial residency for the first Jane Phillips Award. Siting her practice between that of an artist and curator, Hobson’s ongoing interest in dialogue and exchange comes through in the relationship between each artist’s practice. Biocca’s Space drawings made in collaboration with her former-spacecraft-engineer father, Baltes’ site-specific murals that ‘shift the gallery space into a stage’, and most notably Schweiker’s narrative-based migrant worker’s fridge magnet collection, are all strategies for expanding the space of the artwork to redefine existing functions.
19 March – 9 April 2016, Mission Gallery, Gloucester Place, Swansea.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/catherine-biocca-cornelia-baltes-rosalie-schweiker
Beyond Jewellery: Performing the Body
This one day symposium considers artworks that bridge the boundaries between dance and jewellery. Highlights include a keynote talk from Di Mainstone, a practitioner who transforms suspension bridges into giant harps through the Human Harp Project, and a performance of wearable objects as part of the opening of the flockOmania2 exhibition.
Thursday 17 March 2016, 10am-5pm(symposium)/6-8pm (performance), Birmingham City University, Cardigan Street, Birmingham.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/beyond-jewellery-performing-the-body
All is More is Nothing
Ian Rayer-Smith’s vibrant, emotive canvases reveal the influence of abstract expressionism tinged with references to romanticism and renaissance painting. His turbulent forms and brush strokes are suggestive of something more figurative, perhaps hinting at combat, flight or meteorological conditions – manifestations of external conditions and internal emotions.
17 March – 1 April 2016, Screaming Gander Gallery, Unit 4, 2 Lampwick Lane, Manchester.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/all-is-more-is-nothing
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