Instruments of Industry
Hannah Leighton-Boyce has created a new sound installation and series of drawings and scores in response to the Touchstone Museum’s collection of historic hand-tools. Having been artist-in-residence at the Museum for the past 12 months, Leighton-Boyce considers the disembodied relationship between these now silent tools and their previous operators.
Until 11 June 2016, Touchstones Art Gallery, The Esplanade, Rochdale.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/instruments-of-industry
Compromised Collaborations
Artists Gordon Culshaw and John O’Hare have invited proposals from artists that reconsider notions of collaboration. The resulting works include playful collaborations, the reimagining of an artist’s workspace and unresolved work left over from the conflict and dissolution of a collaborative relationship. The exhibition itself is also a collaboration that builds compromise into its curatorial remit. Artist and Cafe Ollo curator Alice Bradshaw interprets and second guesses Culshaw and O’Hare’s curatorial choices, writing up the exhibition blurb using information mainly sourced from independent research.
12 May – 7 September 2016, Cafe Ollo, The Media Centre, Northumberland Street, Huddersfield.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/compromised-collaborations
Art of Caring
International Nurses Day is on 12 May, the day that Florence Nightingale was born. To celebrate the art of caring, the Rose Theatre is displaying over 300 postcards by artists, writers and poets that consider this year’s theme of ‘resilience’.
12 – 24 May 2016, Rose Theatre, Kingston upon Thames, London, KT1.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/art-of-caring
A Ballad for Southwell
The building of a former 19th century workhouse, now run by the National Trust, has become the site for a series of creative residencies that consider the history of the site and its relevance today. As part of an after-hours storytelling evening, lead artist and musician Chris T-T will introduce his project, a series of audio works drawing on the stories of past residents, which will culminate in a performance at The Workhouse in the autumn.
Friday 13 May 2016, 6.30pm, The Workhouse, Upton Road, Southwell, Nottinghamshire.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/a-ballad-for-southwell
Neon
Artist-run Sticks Gallery curates an off-site exhibition of Brighton-based artist and musician Dominic Bradnum‘s saturated paintings of neon signs and texts that conjure up nightclubs, graffiti and are suggestive of artificial, natural and otherworldly occurrences.
Until 4 July 2016, Garbos Gallery Albert Road, Portsmouth.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/dominic-bradnum-neon
All of the above are taken from a-n’s Events listings section, featuring events posted by a-n’s members
Images
1. Hannah Leighton-Boyce, Instruments of Industry. Photo: John Lynch
2. Compromised Collaborations. Photo: Laura Gower
4. Art of Caring poster
5. The Workhouse, Southwell. Photo: courtesy of The National Trust
