It Fell From Earth
Alexandra Darbyshire invites the viewer to imagine new worlds, other life forms and naturally occurring shapes from her expressive yet ambiguous paintings, which equally explore the medium of paint itself. Curated by Jesse James and Rosalie Darien Jones, Line Gallery is the newly constructed exhibition space for Stroud Valley Arts.
30 May – 12 June 2016, Line Gallery, SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/alexandra-darbyshire-it-fell-from-earth
Concrete Legacies
Iavor Lubomirov curates this exhibition of works by Charlie Warde, inspired by brutalism and the buildings of Ernő Goldfinger. Combining deep research into the technical details of architectural brutalism through archival sources and his own interviews with those in the architecture profession, Warde reconstructs these architectural fragments, creating precise copies of weathered brutalist artefacts. Warde’s painterly approach transforms these concrete and aggregate replicas into visually sensuous art objects.
2-19 June 2016, The Muse at 269, Portobello Road, London.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/concrete-legacies
125 Year Celebration Weekend
Lovelys, Margate’s oldest framing, art supplies and exhibition space rolled into one, celebrates 125 years in the Kent town, which is enjoying an artistic revival with Turner Contemporary and a number of artist-led spaces setting down roots. To mark the longevity of its life in this artistic hub, Lovelys are holding a retro ’60s weekend on 4-5 June, with music, cake, champagne, goody bags (with over £10 material purchases) and local memorabilia of Thanet in the swinging 60s.
4-5 June; exhibition until 2 July 2016, Lovelys Gallery, Cliftonville, Margate.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/lovelys-125-year-celebration-weekend
‘TIME’
The exhibition presents work by over 20 Kent-based artists, whose brief was to explore the past, present and future through ideas around time, memory and reality. Claire Manning’s response is a collage, developed from her film shot using a mobile phone camera, In search of the unreal n.01, which explores concepts of non-space through a train journey.
Until 24 June 2016, Maidstone Museum, Bentlif Art Gallery, St Faith’s Street, Maidstone.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/time-art-exhibition
The Desire Project
Photographer Les Monaghan asked people in Doncaster what they most desired, leaving open to interpretation how they responded. The result is 70 near life-size portraits, paired with a personal quote and displayed large-scale along the public thoroughfares of Doncaster’s Frenchgate Centre.
Until 31 August 2016, Frenchgate Centre, St Sepulchre Gate, Doncaster.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/the-desire-project
All of the above are taken from a-n’s Events listings section, featuring events posted by a-n’s members
Images:
1. Alexandra Darbyshire, It Fell From Earth
2. ‘Concrete Legacies’ exhibition invite
3. Lovelys celebrate 125 years
4. Claire Manning, Unreality n.01, collage, 2016 (detailed shot)
5. Les Monaghan, The Desire Project, Installation, railway station entrance
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