closing event, sites of exchange, SPACE Gallery, Portsmouth.

You are warmly invited to the closing event of

Sites of exchange: materialising conversations 

Tuesday May 13th, 5-7pm 

Space, Eldon Building West, University of Portsmouth, PO1 2DJ

ALL WELCOME - light refreshments available 

Join the artists, Eileen White, Belinda Mitchell, Trish Bould and Kathy Oldridge, along with Dr Jane Greaves, Cosmologist (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of St Andrews) 

as they explore the exhibition, make and imagine dark matter.

 "To hold galaxies together, there needs to be 'dark matter', which we know very little about."  Dr Jane Greaves

You can contribute at any skill level, imagining through drawing, cutting, folding and stitching as well as working with crochet and knitted fabrics.

Sites of Exchange has developed over a five week period extending past dialogues and generating new ones.

Conversation takes many forms and shapes, they grow and develop through a series of improvised inputs that meander, have direction, pace and rhythm.  Exhibition making has given space for the artists to visualise, experiment, make new links and formalise new ideas and opportunities.

In particular new alliances have developed with creative writing and cosmology and new opportunities for exhibition and publication formed.

Both the developing exhibition and the methods of working have provoked analysis about the nature of conversation and research. How what might appear as  disparate thoughts can trigger new connections and shape new forms.

hope to see you there.

'sites of exchange:materialising conversations' exhibition, Space Gallery, University of Portsmouth.

The exhibition is installed.  Talks and workshops are taking place as well as an interactive Facebook page. 

Admission is free to the Eldon Building on weekdays between 10 - 5 pm. until 13 May 2014.

'sites of exchange' exhibition, installation begins at SPACE GALLERY, University of Portsmouth

sites of exchange exhibition, space gallery, portsmouth university, installing day 1
photo trish bould 31.3.14

 

sites of exchange exhibition, space gallery, portsmouth university, installing day 1
photo trish bould 31.3.14

sites of exchange exhibition, space gallery, portsmouth university, installing day 1
photo trish bould 31.3.14

sites of exchange exhibition, space gallery, portsmouth university, installing day 2
photo eileen white 1.4.14

unwrapping and placing the work in the context of the new gallery space.  has taken two days of systematic organisation involving many conversations, with each other, the space, the work and weary gallery assistants.  The ongoing processes involved in curation as well as practical considerations have been huge, but informed the journey of the work.  At the end of day 2 we adopted a code relating to our body,  in terms of the time and place the work was generated.  This has been employed as a device for materialising the structure. 

'Sites of Exchange' Exhibition SPACE Gallery Portsmouth University

I've been working at a variety of sites for the past two weeks, using new and different materials to add to the layers in my work,  re-translating all the conversations that have been taking place.

Its been a constant process of observing and then allowing things to develop, creating work that is a material response to a place and achieving an intrinsic 'knowing'  through the making.

Because the sun has finally decided to shine, I've been able to work outside using alternative photographic techniques, such as cyanotype and pinhole photography.  In addition there's been the luxury and total joy of being able to work at Badger Press for three days.  I am really enjoying the building of layers as well as their degrees of separation. The way a piece of work evolves when you start to work intuitively and organically creating a rich new surface, an expression of being in the moment, the concern being more about the doing and actions rather than an end product.

work in progress ......

'Sites of Exchange Exhibition', Space Gallery Portsmouth.