Crossings and Driftings/ Croesi a Crwydro
Delighted to have an exhibition with my friend Sarah Rhys in her newly opened gallery Oriel Archipelago in Llansteffan in Wales.
The exhibition creates connections between her recent project of building a coracle and surrounding research into traditions, tales and texts and my work of thinking about surfaces construction in relation to painting. The literal meets the metaphorical - either way!
With artist talks on Saturday 23/11/2024.
A daylong celebration of WEVAA’s programme. I was very happy to support the event by exhibiting works produced as recipient of one of their bursaries.
The event will include presentations from Bristol City Council’s Arts & Culture team, WEVAA Fellows Bath Art Depot, Weston Artspace and Art in Motion, and artists Anna Haydock-Wilson and Jack Young.
There will be live performances from eden, Art Business Ltd and Infinite Spirit Music, films from Bristol Refugee Artist Collective, The Brunswick Club and Spike Island, alongside work by artists daqhan collective, Alice Jennings, Kathy Hinde and Vicky Smith.
The West of England Visual Arts Alliance (WEVAA) is a collaborative partnership that aims to transform Bristol and the West of England into a place where the visual arts can thrive, providing critical opportunities and support to enable artists, curators and young people to develop their careers and achieve their potential.
WEVAA is co-led by Spike Island and Visual Arts South West. The Alliance includes partners Bath Spa University School of Art, Bristol City Council, The Brunswick Club, Creative Youth Network, North Somerset Council, Super Culture and UWE Bristol.
RWA Secret Postcard Auction 2024
The RWA Secret Postcard Auction is a hotly anticipated event which offers the chance to purchase original large postcard-sized works of art by leading figures from the art world.
Bidding starts at just £40 allowing everyone the opportunity to take part and a chance to own a work of art.
Online bidding: Bidding takes place online on the secure 32 Auctions portal from Friday 25 October at 5pm. Sign up and log in to see the 354 postcards on offer.
Public Display: Tuesday 29 October - Thursday 7 November
Bidding ends: Online Thursday 7 November 10pm
I am delighted to be one of the 354 contributors to this annual fundraising event.
The RWA now has no regular public funding at all, and we rely on fundraising events such as the Secret Postcard Auction.
JSS Open Studios
Jamaica Street Studios Bristol - Open Studios coming up this weekend. (And yes, c’est moi on the poster!)
My studio is on the third floor. Look forward to seeing you.
We are also having an auction again, in support of our bid to buy the building, please take a look!
Material Thinking - Symposium
Friday 13 September 2024, 2 – 5.30pm
This event will explore ideas around artists materials and making things. The Material Thinking exhibition will be discussed through the lens of individual artists studio practices and writing.
Dr Jon Wood and Jo Baring will reflect on The Ingram Collection’s relationship to contemporary art, and discuss some of the interesting parallels across generations that the exhibition presents. Prof Angus Pryor will chair a conversation about artist's materials and what it is like to make art objects like paintings and sculpture.
This will include contributions from Hannah Hughes, Vera Boele-Keimer and Susie Olczak from the University of Gloucestershire.
This will be followed by Claire Baily from Goldsmiths University, who will present a keynote talk on her Explorations in Carbon Free Matter material research.
The event will conclude with a screening of a film by Richard Billingham.
https://www.thelightbox.org.uk/event/material-thinking-symposium
Vera Boele-Keimer: Crossing the Line
Solo exhibition at John Street Gallery, Stroud Valleys Artspace, Stroud.
PV Friday, 23/8/24, 6 - 8pm with live performance /and back by Eeva-Maria Mutka and Vera Boele-Keimer
Exhibition open 24/8/ - 7/9/24, Thurs - Sat 10 - 3, performances on Saturday, 24/8/24, 11.30 and Thursday, 5/9/24, 6.30.
Material Thinking
Saturday 20 July to Sunday 13 October 2024
Main Gallery, Lightbox Museum, Woking
Discoveries are made through making...
The Ingram Collection and The University of Gloucestershire (UoG) present Material Thinking, featuring works from exciting contemporary artists like Olivia Bax, Andrew Bick and Richard Billingham alongside influential modern works by Barbara Hepworth, Eduardo Paolozzi, Elisabeth Frink and more.
Comprised of over 50 pieces in mediums ranging from sculpture, painting and prints, to photography, film and installation, Material Thinking explores The Ingram Collection as a historic context for artists working today. It seeks to open new conversations with artists who use varied, unusual, or unexpected materials and methods to share a better understanding of what it is to make things, between disciplines and across generations.
© Deniz Guzel, 2024
Aperiodic
APERIODIC brings together artists, scientists, musicians and others in a 2-week festival across Bristol. The exhibition is curated by Lucy Ward (UWE) and Dr Felix Flicker (UoB) and presents work that explores ideas relating to the mathematics and science of ‘aperiodic order’: the absence of regular or repetitive patterns. Or, more simply, ‘things that almost repeat, but not quite’.
Exhibiting artists include: Ella Emanuele, Giulia Ricci, Ameet Hindocha, Kate Farley, Les Bicknell, Richard Scott, Julian Walker, Franceso Turci, Andrew Bracey, Felix Flicker and Emma Laughton., Vera Boele-Keimer, Lucy Ward, Liam Taylor-West, Air Giants.
Kit Form Gallery, 37-39 Jamaica Street, Bristol BS2 8JP
3-14 July 2024, Wednesday – Saturday 12-8pm, Sundays 12-4pm, Opening party Friday 5 July 6-9pm
https://sites.google.com/view/thegrimmnetwork/aperiodic-exhibition
Artist Residency at Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, USA
I spent January and February 2024 as artist in residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, CT.
With access to the archive of both artists, trips to New York and Yale art gallery in New Haven, and a dream studio, this was the best way to start 2024!
https://www.albersfoundation.org/foundation/residencies/Bethany-residencies
WEVAA Research and Development Bursary 2023/24
I have been awarded one of the research and development bursaries from the West of England Visual Arts Alliance (WEVAA)
In other good news: I have received funding from the Gane Trust and the Doughton Memorial Fund from UoG!
This will all enable me to go on the residency at the Albers Foundation in January 2024!