Friday, August 31, 2007

Minature Art Show

Miniature Art Show
1st September – 8th September
Summer Season closing event – Saturday 8th Sept 5-8pm - Everyone welcome.



42 New Briggate concludes a jam-packed Summer programme not so much with a grand finale but a critical mass of arty reductions. Its curious that in Leeds, a city which wants to ‘be big on’ every conceivable subject, artists have a track record of working with great success on the miniature-scale. Locker and doll’s-house galleries including Lawrence Molloy’s ‘A Delicate
Matter’ and Harry Meadley’s 1032 have provided the inspiration for this show of small works which will act as a round-up of the last couple of months activity in our similarly dinky gallery space.

Works have been acquired through an open submission and invitation format with loosely stipulated size restrictions. Over 25 artist’s work will be accommodated into the gallery in various media ranging from postage-stamp painting to multiple edition bagged sculpture and food for the smallest of appetites. Many of the works will be available for purchase providing a rare opportunity to own some exhibits for those small of pocket. Refreshments provided on the night will be in keeping with the diminutive theme.

The Artists

1. Larna Campbell, Wallpaper Cranes (Miniature) 2007, Origami
A scaled down version of her interactive installation Wallpaper Cranes, which was exhibited in the Cannonball show.

2. Mick Wellbourn, Untitled, 2007, 1:1 scale screen print

3. Karen Hall, Gnomes, 2007
The gnome patterns have to be studied very closely to reveal the stories behind them. The characters are all based on people seen in Leeds.

4. Theo Reeves-Evison, Big Beach Cyclone, 2007
References are made to corporate, architectural and science-fiction imagery by re-employing existing cultural artefacts.

5. Kamaljeet Ajimal, Prem, 2007, Gouache on Paper
An image depicting just one mood of Raga Yaman.

6. Alice Bradshaw, Brown Paper Bags, 2007
Alice uses mass-produced, anonymous objects to create a sense of curiosity, creating dysfunctional caricatures through the manipulation of scale and materials.

7. Lil Adams, Trolley 2007, Wire
A sculpture as seen in 'Trollyed', created for theartmarket during Situation Leeds 2007.

8. Rebekka Kill, Decks, 2007
Digital prints on fantastic plastic.

9. Steve Nuttall, Self Portraits, 2007
Collages in matchboxes of the artist smoking a pipe.

10. Yvonne Carmichael, Tiny Appetites, 2007

11. Ailsa and Fran Burrows, Once Again (Miniature) 2007
This wall drawing is a miniature version of the one created for the Cannonball show at 42 New Briggate.

12. Dave Ronalds, Coded Landscapes (Miniature), 2007

13. Lucy Gibson, Concealed Skin, 2004
An audio narrative piece that peeks at suburbia through the eyes of a small child.

14. Tim Pulleyn, Untitled, 2007, 8min audio CD
Tim Pulleyn experiments with the texture of sound, via frequency application and white noise. The sounds are abstracted from recordings of everyday objects and places.

15. Chris Limb, Journals, 2007, Brown and Black Ink on Canvas
An indecipherable record of Chris’ daily activities in her studio.

16. Gerry Brookes, Cedar Tree, 2006, Mixed Media

17. Gareth Brew and Ailsa Burrows, Untitled 2007

18. Carly Gledhill, Untitled, 2007, Embroidered illustrations

19. Matthew Atkinson, A Little Skip, 2007

20. Bruce Rimell, Crash Of Thunder, 2007
Inspired by a hunting scene petroglyph on Mt Karkom in the Negev Desert, Israel.

21. Les Child, The Grand & 42 New Briggate Gallery, 2007
Scaled down prints of watercolour paintings.

22. Ben Rathmell, Wallace Arnold Leeds, 2007
Part of Tales of The City, a six edition series of photographs taken in Leeds. The full series can be seen in the 42 New Briggate Shop.

23. Sophie Moore, Souvenir, 2007, Badge and Sticker Series
Sticker and badges illustrations of well-known landmarks situated across Leeds City Centre.

24. Ryan Riddington, Wart, 2007, Mixed Media

25. Steven Albutt, 7, 2007
7 miniature baseball bats to link with the ‘seven sins’.

26. Rona Smith, Hold On, 2007
A layer of chilli powder clings to a strip of sandpaper.

27. Amy Fowler, House of Cards, 2007
Miniature Houses constructed out of Playing Cards.

28. Claire Blundell-Jones, Tumbleweed (Miniature), 2007, Wire, photograph
A miniature version of Claire’s performance, Introducing Tumbleweeds in to the British Landscape.

29. Jon Williams, Ruby (Shopping mode)

30. Andy Abbott, Tiny Revolutions
Everyone’s an artist but not all of us have the time. Andy provides a selection of art activities for you attempt in those moments in between working and sleeping.

31. Brian and Laura Davies, What has past and what is to come?' 2007
Sculptures inspired by Brancusi's Endless Column and tall buildings.

32. Luke Drozd, Artistic Temperament Finger Puppets, 2007,
Pick up illustrated instructions on how to make your own.

33. Lorna Barrowclough, Amulet Arca Archa, 2007
A series of superstitious amulets designed to be explored.

34. Rose Thompson, Index, Encounter, Sky Line, 2007,

35. Rachel Jesse, 12,600, 2007,
Handmade graph paper book.

36. Mark Madden, Talking To Grandad (Miniatures), 2007
Proposals for benches made out of concrete, steel and wood.

Archive of Inspiration for the Miniature Art Show (in the back room)

37. Hooray Hurrah, 2007
Miniature artworks presented in Opposite Café for Situation Leeds this year.

38. Harry Meadley, 1032 Gallery
Documentation of the locker sized gallery situated at Leeds Metropolitan University.

39. Lawrence Molloy, A Delicate Matter
Documentation of the dolls-house sized gallery formally situated at Patrick Studios.

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Film Showcase

42 New Briggate Gallery presents a film showcase:
Sunday 26th - Wednesday 29th August 2007
Films will be shown on a loop from 12-7pm everyday
Closing Event: 5 – 7pm 29th August




Four days of artist’s film ranging from 6 seconds to 10 minutes, including found footage, animation, documentaries and performative works. With moving images from artists such as Bob Levene, Esther Johnson, Josh Whitaker, and Andy Abbott there will be something for every attention span and interest.

Kulture Cine Club Show reel: 5 – 6pm every evening

As part of this exhibition kultur Cine club will be presenting some of their favourite shorts. Kultur Cine Club is a film exhibition and audience development organisation set up in Oct 2006. They deliver their own events and offer programming and consultancy services for arts and cultural events, film festivals and cinemas in the UK and worldwide. To find out more please visit www.kulturcineclub.co.uk.


Artist’s Film Showcase Info

Steven Albutt: All that man makes, he eventually destroys. This video is the closing chapter in a work where remains of the destruction caused during the Battle of Verdun were formed in to large-scale bullets. The bullets were then destroyed utilising hand-crafted baseball bats so the rubble of the battlefield once again returned to its demolished state. The piece explores the cyclical nature of man; the destruction of the work becoming its own completion.

Bryony Pritchard and Yvonne Carmichael: Bus Dancing by Numbers was a collaborative performance enacted at various bus stops around Leeds. Bryony and Yvonne had developed a series of dance-moves corresponding to the numbers that indicate the bus routes and chose a few sunny days to put them into practice in public. This video documentation also operates as a family-friendly party game.

Josh Whitaker: A series of famous and lesser-known clips taken from film and television are edited together, creating a surreal amalgamation that gradually appears to take one particular direction. In this film Josh demonstrates how the stuff of our image-saturated everyday lives can be altered and find meaning in new contexts.

Victoria Lucas: Through metaphorical representations, the medium of video is used to present the transitory nature of life and notions of mortality. Objects, places, and moments that celebrate life are examined, reinforcing the ephemeral nature of existence against the passage of time.

Andy Abbott: ‘The Canal-Church of Ratty’ is Andy’s exercise in the dual dĂ©tournement of the serene glow felt at the end of a regular bike-ride along the Leeds-Liverpool canal towpath and the Zen undertones of Wind in The Willows. Footage shot near Silsden by Andy and an audio book of Grahame’s children’s slacker classic have been processed to convey what a jolly life it is to live by the river and to work indoors at a computer for most of the day.

Rachel Jesse: Documentation of the destruction of Rachel Jesse’s installation, Graph Paper Ruined my Mind (2007) which was exhibited at 42 New Briggate Gallery in July 2007. After laboriously removing the negative space from 18 sheets of graph-paper with a scalpel Rachel sanctioned curators Yvonne and Vicky’s destruction of these skeletal sheets, thus reversing hours worth of time and patience employed by the artist during the making of the work.

Rose Butler: Butler creates films that form relationships between the context of the moving image and sound to the actual framing and manipulation of film itself. Box represents the movement of birds heard throughout the film, through edited flickering motions.

Esther Johnson: Tune In follows the fascinating world of amateur radio operators, better known as HAMS. Dealing with the politics of space and social communication, this portrait blends documentary and abstract audio to reflect the world of HAM radio and the use of DIY equipment in an ever-changing modern world.

Joe Gilmore and Paul Emery: Clut is a collaboration documenting a series of experiments using an analogue and digital feedback system. The system consists of a digital 3D model displayed on a monitor which is in turn being captured by a video camera whose input is then textured back onto the surface of the 3D model.

Your Arms!: This film documents the ‘Bring us Your Arms Bradford’ participatory event which happened as part of 2007’s STIR festival. The Your Arms! project intends to link communities affected by present changes in industry and production through the exchange of picture-books made by groups and individuals. In this instance passers-by contributed to a collaborative ‘Book of Bradford’. Further info about the project can be found at www.yorkshirebiella.blogspot.com

Greg Kurcewitz: Three-dimensional imagery is created through the manipulation of the moving image captured on film. The distortion of film creates a seemingly living organism, the sounds of birds creating a suspension of disbelieve within the viewer that enables them to be part of the illusion depicted.

Thanks to Lumen for their support.









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Macunicate offers marketing, PR and consultancy services for independent film production, sales and distribution companies, willing to reach new markets, taking an unique approach to each project and working to create effective marketing campaigns, develop effective release strategies and facilitate entry in international markets. To find out more please visit www.kulturcineclub.co.uk and www.macunicate.com.

Monday, August 20, 2007

Dave Ronalds and Claire Blundell-Jones

42 New Briggate Gallery, Leeds
Tuesday – Saturday 21st – 25th August
Late Night opening: Friday 24th 6-8pm
With refreshments all are most welcome.




With so much information to take in daily, and of course, so much important business to attend to, do we ever stop to digest the ‘city landscape’? 42 New Briggate present a further pairing of the region’s talent with an upcoming show featuring hole-punched paper, tumbleweed and leaf-blowers.

Claire Blundell Jones will execute daily performances in various parts of Leeds for the duration of the exhibition. These performances consist of Claire escorting a ball of tumbleweed around the city whilst wearing different outfits and employing assorted tumbleweed-animating techniques.

Maps will be displayed in the gallery to show where the walks are going to take place, and the performances will be relayed into 42 on five separate monitors. Viewers are invited to make suggestions as to the attire Claire should wear, the method she should use to guide the tumbleweed and the destination of her fifth and final day at the late night opening event 6-8pm Friday 24th August.

Dave Ronalds’ hole-punch drawings reference some kind of architectural mapping, but the ambiguity as to whether they are plans of rooms or buildings, maps of streets and towns, or whether they mark territories dividing countries is intentional.

Dave’s drawings can be read as critical exercises in the way in which we listlessly navigate the all-to-familiar city, but they also hint at how we can reconnect with the city through a shift in perspective.

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Notes to the editors:

Claire Blundell Jones graduated with a Fine Art degree from Wimbledon School of Art in 2004. Since then she has been living and working in Leeds. She has exhibited in Leeds, Nottingham, London and had film screenings or performances in Sheffield, Bracknell, Norwich and Hastings.

Dave Ronald’s graduated with a Fine Art degree from University of Leeds in 2005 and is a founding member of Leeds based arts collective Black Dogs.

Upcoming shows

Showcase of films made by regional artists
Sunday 26th August – Wednesday 31st August

Miniature art show and finale to the 42 New Briggate summer
An exhibition of scaled down works and documentation of the miniature galleries of Leeds.
Saturday 1st September – Saturday 8th September
Closing event: Saturday 5-8pm

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Break Dancing and Sleep Deprevation

'ITCHY’
Tom Poultney
16th August 2007, 12-8pm
Refreshments from 5pm





Itchy comprises of film, music and dance, on multiple
screens and turntables. Various scratched records play
infinitely repeating musical loops, played together to
create a new vinyl orchestra. Television screens show
movements of a break-dancer; edited to move to the
repetitive sounds from the turntables.

At 5pm live in the gallery Cia the break-dancer will
try to replicate edited footage of herself in a man vs
machine dance-off.



‘24/7’
Rebekka Kill
18-19th August 2007, 9am-9am
Tea and informal talk with the artist: 19th August,
3pm





Have you ever wondered what a DJ's record collection
really looks like?
There must be some amazing records in there, but
surely there are the same embarrassing ones we all
have hidden away? In 24/7 Rebekka Kill will play a
selection of her 7" records for 24 hours. Once played
the records will begin to fill the gallery. Some are
good, some terrible, some beautiful, coloured vinyl,
design classics, some are battered and abused, some
well loved....

Thursday, August 2, 2007

Press clippings

Metro - Little London Arts Preview



Northern Exposure Preview

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Baseball Bats and Chilli

Rona Smith and Steven Albutt
Tuesday 7th August – Saturday 11th August
(12-7pm)




42 New Briggate present an intriguing installation of handcrafted
baseball bats, alongside delicate layers of chilli powder trapped
between sheets of glass. This follows Steven and Rona’s successful
show at Saint Mark’s church during Situation Leeds earlier this year;
once again in 42 their newly developed work and ideas are put
together.

Steven Albutt - 84
Steven Albutt replicates a vivid and haunting vision he experienced as
a child during the miners strike in 1984. Having been sent to
Amsterdam and then taken care of by squatters, he recalls a corridor
he witnessed in which rows and rows of baseball bats were aligned,
each accompanied by a gas mask.

Rona Smith - White Heat
White Heat is a floor based work comprising of a layer of chilli
powder, pressed between two sheets of glass. The colour will,
depending on the weather in the space, continue to fade over the
duration of the exhibition, archiving the passage of time through this
organic medium and process.

Accompanying this exhibition - resourceCITE
resourceCITE presents a plethora of interesting
documentation and
artwork of site and context responsive work housed in recycled
suitcases. For more information about the archive or how
to submit your own work/documentation please visit the gallery or
email carmichael_yvonne@ yahoo.co. uk.

The rest of the summer programme at 42 New Briggate

Itchy - Thomas Poultney
One day event with turntables, video loops, and a live break-dance-
off.
Thursday 16th August (open 12-8pm)

24/7 Leeds – Rebekka Kill
24 hours worth 7inch records DJ-ed live from 9am Saturday 18th August–
9am Sunday 19th August
Sunday at 3pm: Afternoon tea and informal artist talk

Claire Blundell-Jones and Dave Ronalds
Performance art using tumbleweed and hole punch drawings based on
deconstructions of architecture.
Tuesday 21st August – Saturday 25th August

Showcase of films made by regional artists
Sunday 26th August – Wednesday 31st August

Miniature art show and finale to the 42 New Briggate summer
An exhibition of scaled down works and documentation of the miniature
galleries of Leeds.
Saturday 1st September – Saturday 8th September
Closing event: Saturday 5-8pm




Supported by art@leeds

HANDCRAFTED - The House of Rose and Brown

4th and 5th August (opening times 12-7pm)







A weekend of old 78's playing on a wind-up gramophone, a tea trolley
loaded with homemade buns and a gallery full of handcrafted treasures
including handbags, clothes, jewellery, corsages and cushions from a
selection of Yorkshire's talented makers and artists. Everything
quirky, individual and beautifully handcrafted. Come and sing along
to the Ink Spots and Nat King Cole, enjoy tea & cake and see the old
crafts being kept alive and brought bang up to date.