Abingdon Studios in partnership with Grundy Art Gallery delivered a series of Drawing sessions made available to people at varying stages in their personal and professional development as artists. After an overwhelming list of applicants, 15 individuals were invited onto the programme ranging from their 20’s-60’s and travelling regionally to Blackpool to take part.
Over four months the venues offered different approaches to drawing for people to experiment and trial new ways of working within their own artistic oeuvre.
Grundy Art Gallery offered participants traditional figurative drawing sessions with life models using various materials in response to the figure.
Abingdon Studios focused on the contemporary experimentation in drawing and or the abstract observational aspect of mark making.
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Drawing Works Programme 2015
6-8pm, 6 July @ Grundy Art Gallery
Taking the Lead: Life Drawing with unusual materials
6-8pm, 20 July @ Abingdon Studios
Walk the line: Exploring mark making
6-8pm, 3 August @ Grundy Art Gallery
Ways of Seeing: Life Drawing from a different perspective
6-8pm, 17 August @ Abingdon Studios
Chance Encounters: Utilising accidents in drawing
6-8pm, 7 September @ Grundy Art Gallery
Lights Up: Exploring contrast and shadow in Life Drawing
6-8pm, 21 September @ Abingdon Studios
Drawing in the Dark: Experimenting with light
For further information, or to book your place contact Hannah Gaunt, Education Officer, Grundy Art Gallery: Hannah.Gaunt@blackpool.gov.uk or 01253 478176.
Please note the Drawing Works Programme is currently fully booked with a waiting list. However people will be offered places subject to any cancellations throughout the programme.
Last Updated: 2nd January 2017 by Abingdon Studios
Tom Smith
Curated by UNIT Projects
Tom Smith was selected as Artist in Residence in Aug/Sep 2015 and sited at Abingdon Studios.
Smith?s practice looks at the loyalty of images to their subjects. The market, atemporality, and a desire for narrative contribute to his investigation of fidelity. Employing different techniques and strategies, television and cinema trivia are recurring subject matter; describing these peculiarities as screen bleed, he highlights the moments when images supplant the subjects they represent.
Smith developed a presentation of new works while undertaking the residency, under the title Stolen Tear.
Tom Smith (b1981, Peterborough).
Tom studied at the Royal College of Art and Central St Martins.
Exhibitions include, ?Vulcan Point?, Embassy Gallery; ?Admitting The Flats?, Open File, MK Gallery; ?Amen Brother?, Grand Union; and ?Broken Replica?, Stanley Picker Gallery.
Tom Smith?s website.
image courtesy of Tom Smith; Some Mistakes are Judged Differently to Others, 2015.
Last Updated: 2nd January 2017 by Abingdon Studios
DESTROY BLACKPOOL
Curated by Supercollider Contemporary Art Projects
AUGUST 2015?
THERE IS GOING TO BE A SHOW; AN EXHIBITION ABOUT ART MAKING AND CONSUMPTION IN BLACKPOOL
WHICH MAY INDICATE A POSSIBLE DIRECTION FOR ITS FUTURE.
BRINGING TOGETHER LOCALLY BASED CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTISTS, THE AIM IS NOT TO CREATE AN
AUTHORITATIVE SURVEY OF ARTMAKING IN BLACKPOOL IN 2015, BUT RATHER TO CURATE AN EXHIBITION, OR
SITUATION, DESIGNED TO STIMULATE CONVERSATION AND RAISE QUESTIONS ABOUT BLACKPOOL AS A
PLACE IN WHICH ARTISTS CHOOSE TO LIVE AND WORK.
sprclldrprjcts@gmail.com / www.supercolliderhq.org.uk / @sprclldrprjcts
LeftCoast Directors Julia Turpin and Michael Trainor, ACE Chief Executive Darren Henley and Senior Relationship Manager Neil Harris at Destroy Blackpool curated by Tom Ireland of Supercollider Contemporary Art Projects.
Last Updated: 2nd January 2017 by Abingdon Studios
Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Curated by UNIT Projects
Estate, a Reverie by Andrea Luka Zimmerman
JUL 16
UNIT presents a special one-off screening of Estate, a Reverie by Andrea Luka Zimmerman. Estate, a Reverie tracks the passing of the Haggerston Estate in Hackney, London, and the Utopian promise of social housing it offered when it was built in the 1930s. Filmed over seven years, Estate, a Reverie reveals and celebrates the resilience of residents who are profoundly overlooked by media representations and wider social responses. Interweaving intimate portraits with the residents? own historical reenactments, landscape and architectural studies and dramatised scenes, Estate, a Reverie asks how we might resist being framed exclusively through class, gender, ability or disability, and even through geography.
Praise for Estate, a Reverie ~
A spirited celebration of extraordinary everyday humanity, Estate is a deeply moving portrait of a community struggling to survive in a boarded-up London public housing project, long slated for demolition. Multi-layered and profound, Andrea Zimmerman?s film masterfully immerses us in a dreamlike lost-world of misfits, outcasts and survivors whom she films with love and aching tenderness. ? Joshua Oppenheimer, Director of The Act Of Killing.
Last Updated: 2nd January 2017 by Abingdon Studios
Drawing Works Programme
Abingdon Studios in partnership with Grundy Art Gallery delivered a series of Drawing sessions made available to people at varying stages in their personal and professional development as artists. After an overwhelming list of applicants, 15 individuals were invited onto the programme ranging from their 20’s-60’s and travelling regionally to Blackpool to take part.
Over four months the venues offered different approaches to drawing for people to experiment and trial new ways of working within their own artistic oeuvre.
Grundy Art Gallery offered participants traditional figurative drawing sessions with life models using various materials in response to the figure.
Abingdon Studios focused on the contemporary experimentation in drawing and or the abstract observational aspect of mark making.
Drawing Works Programme 2015
6-8pm, 6 July @ Grundy Art Gallery
Taking the Lead: Life Drawing with unusual materials
6-8pm, 20 July @ Abingdon Studios
Walk the line: Exploring mark making
6-8pm, 3 August @ Grundy Art Gallery
Ways of Seeing: Life Drawing from a different perspective
6-8pm, 17 August @ Abingdon Studios
Chance Encounters: Utilising accidents in drawing
6-8pm, 7 September @ Grundy Art Gallery
Lights Up: Exploring contrast and shadow in Life Drawing
6-8pm, 21 September @ Abingdon Studios
Drawing in the Dark: Experimenting with light
For further information, or to book your place contact Hannah Gaunt, Education Officer, Grundy Art Gallery: Hannah.Gaunt@blackpool.gov.uk or 01253 478176.
Please note the Drawing Works Programme is currently fully booked with a waiting list. However people will be offered places subject to any cancellations throughout the programme.
Last Updated: 2nd January 2017 by Abingdon Studios
Show #1: Studio artists move in
Abingdon Studios opened its doors as part of Blackpool’s first ever Other Worlds Festival of Experimental Music and Sound Art in April 2015.
To coincide with the Project Space exhibition Knit, Loop and Grate by artist Michael Ridge, the studio artists exhibited a selection of works and works in progress alongside an open studio setting for visitors to see the types of work/s being experimented with and developed ?in Blackpool.
Last Updated: 2nd January 2017 by Abingdon Studios
Michael Ridge (Gallery)
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Lisa Wigham
Last Updated: 2nd January 2017 by admin
Michael Ridge
MICHAEL RIDGE
Knit, Loop and Grate
April 2015
A selection of new solo and collaborative cassette and record works by UK based multimedia artist Michael Ridge.
Inspired by and conceptually rooted in the Dada and Fluxus movements this selection explores and presents his fascination with deconstructing and re-imagining both audio formats. The viewer/listener will be presented with works which are insightful, interactive and a little absurd.
On several pieces Michael has collaborated with textile artist and illustrator Lisa Little and Douglas Lucas of NONE records (USA)
Michael has exhibited and performed works at a variety of venues including Norwich Arts Centre, Luise T Blouin Institure, Royal Opera House, Rathmines Library (Dublin), New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and Phoenix Art Museum (USA)
Since 2008 he has been a member of the Norwich artist collective other/other/other and in 2013 with fine artists Elizabeth Scrase co-founded Ridge & Scrase– a sound and drawing arts collaboration.
The exhibition is brought to Abingdon Studios as part of the Other World Festival 2015.
Also: The exhibition coincided with?LeftCoast’s Golden Section guest talk by Chris Watson, which took place at Grundy Art Gallery
Last Updated: 2nd January 2017 by admin
Ruth Heritage
Ruth Heritage
Ruth practices across arts and film, and academia and has produced & directed several broadcast documentaries, written, produced/directed short indie fictions, & practices, plays & experiments around creative truth and lies of film and ?the document? through arts, culture, & trans/media work. Ruth lectures across cultural sociology, film & media, and engaged arts/communities. Ruth established socially-engaged arts & cultural producers They Eat Culture in 2009, and is creative director.
www.theyeatculture.org
Last Updated: 2nd January 2017 by Abingdon Studios
Graduate Placement Studio
Abingdon Studios currently offers a shared studio space in support of Final Year BA(hons) students through to graduation; in order to support their Professional Placement Practice Module- a crucial stage in their artistic development and decision making as artists.
Abingdon Studios is in partnership with Blackpool & Fylde College and School of Creative Arts in order to offer the studio as an ongoing opportunity for student artists to experience working in context amongst emerging Blackpool based artists, whilst being able to engage and liaise with a new network of creative practitioners.
The space has been dedicated to Graduating studients since late 2015?and afford up to 6 weeks for artists to continue to develop work post study.
Artists supported to date, Megan Kelsall, Steven Wilson, Ian Fraser, Brian Fish