INSIDE OUT AND UPSIDE DOWN “The anatomy of a cardboard box”
Taking as a starting point a discarded piece of packaging, Diana Hand has created a body of drawings that explore “the anatomy of a cardboard box” re-conceiving its forms in terms of positive and negative space, suggestive of a series of architects’ studies.
Until 29 April 2016, Dunblane Museum Gallery, The Cross, Dunblane, Scotland
www.a-n.co.uk/events/inside-out-and-upside-down-the-anatomy-of-a-cardboard-box
Rara Avis
Christie Brown’s unsettling animal-human hybrids remind us that we cannot really know the other. With a nod to theorists such as Derrida, Cixous and Segarra, Brown’s statues and portrait busts consider the unreadable gaze from an animal, as well as human perspective.
Until 30 April 2016, ARTHOUSE1, 45 Grange Road, London SE1
www.a-n.co.uk/events/rara-avis
Roam
A city-wide arts trail, including works by Jethro German, Kristi Minchin, Christina Evans and Isabella Rose Martin. Starting from the K6 Gallery telephone boxes and meandering through Southampton, uncover art in trees, on billboards and flying over rivers.
10 April – 7 July 2016, K6 Gallery and throughout Southampton
www.a-n.co.uk/events/roam-an-arts-trail-in-southampton
Droppers
Inspired by Drop City, the 1965 rural commune and creative community set up by art graduates in Texas, Andy Webster and Darren Ray initiate a series of happenings and events centred around a geodesic structure that they are constructing inside the OSR Project Space. Their programme of events will consider how the Droppers’ search for the ‘true life’ might hold resonance today.
16 April – 8 May 2016, OSR Project Space, Church Street, West Coker, Somerset
www.a-n.co.uk/events/droppers-andy-webster-darren-ray
Silent Spaces
Inspired by the Chiltern Hills, Nicholas Herbert captures the solitude and exposure of this landscape in his intense mixed media, graphite, crayon and acrylic works on paper. Herbert’s dense and textured mark-making captures a sense of the topography and transient qualities of this rolling landscape.
16 April – 10 May 2016, Alan Kluckow Fine Art, 65 Chobham Road, Sunningdale, Berkshire
www.a-n.co.uk/events/nicholas-herbert-silent-spaces-twenty-six-mixed-media-landscapes
All of the above are taken from a-n’s Events listings section, featuring events posted by a-n’s members
Images:
1. Diana Hand, Charcoal drawing #2
2. Christie Brown, Lop eared woman and statue, Fired Clay
3. Christina Evans, Roam
4. Droppers
5. Nicholas Herbert, L890 Near Bison Hill, Mixed media 2015
