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The recently established MA Course at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth will this year be showcased in the Gallery, transforming the space for two weeks in September as the graduating students prepare to launch their careers as practicing artists.
The MA Show represents the culmination of an intensive period of study which has brought together 18 individuals from across the globe and encompasses Animation, Fine Art, Costume, and Photography pathways, anticipating a varied and exciting exhibition.
Private View: Thursday 4 September 2008
‘...In the footsteps of Henry Taunt’ offers a prestigious exhibition opportunity that brings together historical and contemporary photographs of the River Thames; many of these fascinating images have never been displayed before and will be new to the public eye.
HENRY TAUNT’S RIVER THAMES Henry Taunt was one of Victorian England’s most prolific photographers. His maps and guides, illustrated by beautiful photographs of the Thames, played a major role in developing the Victorian’s love of the river and its related activities including rowing, camping and steamer trips. Books such as ‘Three Men in a Boat’ or ‘The Wind in the Willows’ might never have been written, or certainly would not have achieved such popularity, were it not for his albums, postcards, lectures and detailed and enthusiastic descriptions of the Thames from its Cotswold source to London.
Borderlands will present the works of two artists, Christian Edwardes and Tom Hall, and two writers, Lee Mackinnon and Frank Brown, shifting and testing the borders of the different ways of thinking of both artists and writers.
The works exhibited in Borderlands will consist of a series of ideological islands, drawings, and photographed constructions made from materials found in the home, made by Christian Edwardes, and as a reference to the separation between an idea of utopian places and homemade attempts to reconstruct them. The islands set out the possibility of a transformation of space and physical ‘stuff’ through the act making and re-presenting objects.
Tom hall will present an imagined reconstruction of the library depository in Dallas from which JKF was assassinated: designed from hearsay, media coverage, and conspiracy plots of the assassination. Built out of cardboard, the material refers to storage or packaging and the artifice of the theatre, the work looks to a collective idea of space and events and draws contemporary parallels to the public’s construction.
Event: Thursday 6 November 2008
In no particular order: painting as metaphor for presentness, is an exhibition of paintings by Simón Granell with the writings of Kathleen Abiker.
This collaborative project is an exploration into process in painting as metaphor for presentness and into what it means to be stuck, unable to act: a reason to create or a reason to stop. The paintings in the exhibition do not merely reflect the process of painting but are about the process of painting; they are evidence of process, but of process interpreted by gesture. Some of the paintings are reminiscent of macro or micro-landscapes: fields, layers, cross-sections or fingerprints, seen from a great height, or seen from close up. Central to the collaboration and to the exploration of process of painting is what French philosopher Francois Jullien refers to as blandness: “Blandness not as the absence of defining qualities but as the harmonious union of all potential values - an infinite opening into human experience.” The exhibited paintings will chronicle existence and evoke the passage of time in their ‘daily recording’, complemented by a series of incidental speculations presented in the text.
Event: Thursday 11 December 2008