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The Hepworth Wakefield and Westgate Studios: 'The Swap' - 28th July Barbara Hepworth, Mother and Child, 1934. Courtesy Bowness, The Hepworth Estate
On the July 28th Wakefield Artwalk, The Hepworth Wakefield swapped one of its most treasured works of art – Barbara Hepworth’s, Mother and Child (1934) - for the work of five Wakefield-based artists.
Nicholas Jeremy Clarke, 'Turned Out Nice Again' - 30th June - 10th July Nicholas Jeremy Clarke is an artist of international obscurity, who prefers a cackhand approach to Arrrt. The concept for ‘Turned out nice again’ is based on a dystopian view of British culture as seen through piss tinted glasses, delivered through a naughty post-card, pound shop aesthetic. Although satirical in nature, it’s rooted in playful humour and toys with the notion of high and low culture. Blah Blah Blah.
AMALGAMATE - 26th May - 2nd June Electroacoustic composition is a modern compositional technique that uses recorded samples of everyday objects that are then manipulated and turned into something completely alien to the original sound. Theses sounds are then layered up to create a structured piece that can take the form of a soundscape.
Empty Shop Front Exhibitions Westgate Studios in association with East Street Arts presents: Empty Shop Fronts Exhibitions The scheme kicks off on 28th April 2010 in Wakefield with 3 shop fronts transformed into gallery spaces. 98 Kirkgate – Julie Clarke exhibits ‘Thousand Cranes’ 88 Kirkgate – Alice Bradshaw exhibits ‘Blown Light Bulbs’ with the PEEP Gallery 102/104 Kirkgate – Richard Sweeney and Andy Singleton show paper sculptures and a large scale mural. Much of this exhibited work has been specially developed in response to the space.
Richard Gentle - Quantum Relationship Art: 31st March - 10th April Richard works with light to express ideas and emotions about life and relationships. His latest work is broadly entitled ‘Quantum Relationship Art’ and focuses on the relationship connections between all things – currently he is looking at human relationships and illustrating the complexity of connections through colour projections. The work in the Project Space represents two separate ‘beings’ meeting for the first time – red and blue. Their interaction is a blend of both colours. As individuals, we have a strong sense of self, even in the presence of another. We interact but we do not become the other person. We maintain the core of our being, even when strongly influenced or affected by another. As you enter the room, and step into the area of relationship, you immediately start to interact – forming an additional relationship.
Collect: 27th January - 4th April 2010 Click here to see a video of the curator, Victoria Lucas, talking about the exhibition on Axis web (www.axisweb.org). Louise Atkinson Why do we feel the need to archive, to save, to cut out, and to keep? What drives us to accumulate, record and assemble? Collect is an exhibition that features the loved object created using paper based materials. The artists selected are all concerned with the passionate interest we have for personal possessions, and the objects of the everyday. Collections are extraordinary instruments that allow us to learn about the civilisations we live in, past and present. They allow us to rationalise the passage of time, putting our fears surrounding the constant loss time demands temporarily at rest. Most of all they tell us something about ourselves, allowing us to place ourselves in the real, to remember, and to make ourselves feel more alive. Curated by Victoria Lucas Click here to see a video of Katherine Johnson and Stacey Allen performing 'Eat Your Words'
Thousand Cranes: Stairwell Space, 27th January - 10th February 2010 One thousand paper cranes folded by studio holders and friends of Westgate Studios.
Deck the Halls: 25th November 2009 Westgate Studios’ Project Space presented a show of work for sale by resident artists. An exhibition arriving just in time for Christmas, with present ideas for that special somebody.
The Big Draw, Scrawl of Sound: 28th October 2009 and 'Drawn', an exhibition in the Project Space Corridor "October is ‘BIG DRAW’ month and in celebration of ten years of this national institution, Westgate Studio held a very special event: SCRAWL OF SOUND. On Wednesday, October 28th for one night only, we invited individual artists, members of local arts organisations and the general public to spend the evening in our project space making marks, doing doodles and having a lot of fun, all to a varied and contemporary musical accompaniment. We brought together visual artists and live musicians in a free style mix that created a unique experience and one that broadened the accepted boundaries of drawing. For the accompanying 'Drawn' exhibition, artists based at Westgate studios were invited to submit A6 or postcard sized black and white examples of ‘drawing’. Originals, copies, whole images and details were accepted. This exhibition includes pieces specifically drawn in response to the brief and snippets from some of the artists’ sketchbooks – allowing a rare glimpse at work that might otherwise not be exhibited. Click here to see a video of Scrawl of Sound
Previous events
Falling Water: 25th to 30th September 2009 Falling Water is an installation made in a collaboration project between the Danish glass artist Stine Diness Mikkelsen (stinediness.dk) and the visual artist Martin Oluf Thaulow (www.thaulow.dk) . With a 1000 glass drops Stine has made a cloud, which interacts with a round video sequence and a sound scape by Martin Thaulow. All created to be exposed in a dark space, the cloud hanging from the ceiling lit by a spot, the video sequence projected below on the floor and the sound scape played in surround sound. Together they create an art installation in space.
Artomata: 22nd to 28th August 2009 Artomata evolved through discussion between a collective of Leeds based artists: Nick Birch, Clare Carter, Alisia Casper, Sarah Dale, Madeleine Newman, Joanne Stanbury and Richard Taylor, around the theme of the machine, cyborg and effect of mechanical processes within art making. It was decided that the show would function as an opportunity for practitioners who had previous experience of exhibiting work, as well as those that had not showcased their work, allowing the group to explore the notion of the artist working as a self-operating machine.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park touring exhibition Shared Horizon comes to Westgate Studios. Shared Horizon is a display of photographs by fifteen young people seeking asylum in Wakefield, Barnsley and Kirklees. These inspiring images were taken and initially displayed at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and will now tour to Wakefield, Huddersfield and Castleford. The tour begins at Westgate Studios on 29th July 2009, opening from 5pm – 9pm as part of Wakefield Art Walk. Coming from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Gambia, Kurdistan and Senegal, the participants share the common experience of hoping to rebuild their lives in a foreign land. Using the rich potential of photography in the vast landscape of YSP, this creative activity has enabled those involved to make friends, share experiences and learn about themselves, each other and the world around them. One of the main aims of the project has been to use photography as a tool to improve language skills, as well as to celebrate the participants' own mother tongues. The images have been taken, selected and titled by the young people themselves. Shared Horizons continues at Westgate Studios until 19th August 2009, to make an appointment to see the show please contact: info@westgatestudios.net or telephone: 01924 383453.
Identity Cards: 24th June 2009 to 8th July 2009
Forays into Abstraction: Peter Buttle 27th May 2009 to 17th June 2009
We Will Finish It For You: Wednesday 29th April 9am - 9pm As administrators desperately try to find investors for the city's £100,000,000 Trinity Wharf project the building site remains devoid of activity. Half built steel skeletons gather dust as Wakefield commuters continue to negotiate the fencing and barricades. Did Wakefield ever need another large bundle of glass fronted warehouses in its centre? Another Sainsburys? A Debenhams? Another collection of giant chain stores? Does it not whiff of a doomed attempt at competing with the shopping mecca that is Leeds? 'We Will Finish It For You' puts tools in the hands of Wakefield citizens, to collectively finish a preferred landscape in one day using paint by numbers on Westgate Studios gallery wall. We will open our doors to the public between 9am and 9pm on Wednesday 29th of April. Let the work begin!
Unidentified Flawed Objects Sophie Littlewood 25/3 – 3/2/09 Through the involvement of collage, sculpture and painting, Sophie Littlewood creates neo-assemblages that reveal hybrid arrangements of disparate media. From this notion the resemblance of uncanny objects evolve that propose a type of narrative but retain ambiguity through their odd hybrid identities.
Inside Out: Julie Clarke and Helen Thomas 28/01/09 - 18/03/09 44 views from
the studios and landing windows in Westgate Studios.
Hamn Hamd Sharef (YSP Artist in Residence): Artist Presentation- 11/11/08, 6pm This presentation welcomed Kurdish-Iraqi artist Hemn Hamd Sharef where he shared his experiences of living and working in the UK. Hemn Hamd Sharef has been artist in residence at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and has visited exhibitions and art projects across the UK. Hemn's residency was organised with ArtRole as part of their extensive programme of cultural exchange with the Middle East. Click Here to see a film of his presentation.
Scandinavian Light In Wakefield 26/11/08
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‘There’s more of them than us': Bob Milner Wednesday September 17th 2008 On Wednesday September 17th, 5,000 polystyrene cups will occupy the newly renovated gallery space at Westgate Studios, Wakefield as part of the Art Walk. The piece is titled ‘There’s more of them than us’. It might be a comment on the environment or a pithy comment on the state of contemporary art. It could be a statement about the role of the artist or what can constitute art. It might be that we got a lot of cups at a good price. Cups with faces drawn on them. You look at them, looking at you. The audience becomes a part of the work. Take one home if you like. Some cups are so enthusiastic that they will be joining the crowds on the Art Walk, appearing in or near all the venues.
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Fat Richard Wiliam Wheater 13/8/2008
INCYDENTY/INCIDENTS April 2008
This was an Arthouse initiative but due to the delayed opening of their building we at were asked by them to step in and provide the artists with studio space. It was a interesting and exciting opportunity for us and we thoroughly enjoyed hosting the artists residencies and working in conjunction with our neighbours at the Arthouse. Many Thanks and farewell to our guest artists in residence. Sally
Booth from London
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