16 – 21 July 2007
Fran Burrows, Ailsa Burrows, Larna Campbell, Mark Madden, Rachel Jesse, Jane Liggins, Tim Pulleyn, Rose Thompson and the MA Collective, CAST.
Press Release
To launch the Summer program of exhibitions and events taking place at 42 New Briggate Gallery, Cannonball will bring together a range of work from the Leeds’ art institutes including Leeds College of Art and Design, Leeds Metropolitan University and The University of Leeds, with artists recently graduating from Foundation level through to MA.
This will be a rare chance to experience work from across the Leeds art school board in the same place at the same time. Marvel at the sight of cross-course inter-pollution unfolding before your eyes. Enjoy the rarity of college-ites’ and post grads’ art works sitting side by side. This dynamic interplay will provide a fresh context for the works and act as a small but overdue step towards linking the institutions of Leeds.
For the artists involved the exhibition presents an opportunity to expand on, rework or re-present the practice they have developed during study, facilitating a continuation of activity post art-education rather than travelling tumbleweeds and office jobs.
Works will include performative wall drawings, sleepy photography, sado-masochistic paper works, noisy sawdust, book-works, interactive birds, index fingers and a bench.
Rachel Jesse
Graph Paper Ruined My Mind
Paper, 2007
Graph Paper Ruined my Mind by Rachel Jesse
Paper, 2007.
"How do you ruin your mind? Take five weeks, eighteen sheets of graph paper, and 56,700 squares and strive for a machine-like perfection. Of course, human error always finds a way in. Then the question becomes - how do you walk away from an obsession?" Gallery visitors were invited to pick a letter out of hat which corresponded with a sheet of graph paper and then invited to destroy the artist's labour during the week-long exhibition.
Please see the 'Film Showcase' exhibition for the continuation of the project.
Rose Thompson
The Passage of Time
Artist Books 2007
The Passage of Time by Rose Thompson.
Rose Thompson creates artist’s books that combine the processes investigating time and movement. Her books are abstract interpretations about her experience of walking, providing a true insight for the viewer to see and touch.
Fran and Ailsa Burrows
Once Again
Video and Wall Drawing 2007
Once Again by Fran and Ailsa Burrows.
Fran and Ailsa are twins. Their work concerns ‘the double’ and the act of collaboration; at times exploring these subjects in a literal manner, and at other times taking elements such as the endeavor for symmetry as the basis of their work. In this wall drawing and accompanying film their uncommon relationship and working processes are revealed.
Fran and Ailsa studied BA Fine Art at the University of Leeds.
CAST Collective
CAST Fingers
20 Bronze Finger Sculptures
CAST fingers is a collaboration between six artists; Steven Anderson, Joanna Brown, Paula Fleming, Victoria Lucas, Ju Youn Yim, and Janis Rafailidou. The project explores a notion of creativity, through bronze representations of the index finger cast from visual artists, musicians, writers, animators, and poets. Two complete sets of the fingers, as well as each individual finger will be auctioned in aid of The Medical Foundation and the Art House in autumn 2007. Please visit www.leedscast.org for more information.
CAST studied MA/MFA Fine Art at the University of Leeds.
Larna Campbell
Wallpaper Cranes
Paper, 2007
Larna Campbell is interested in the oft-overlooked three dimensional, tactile qualities of paper. In Wallpaper Cranes she invited the viewer to explore these qualities themselves by constructing origami paper cranes and contribute to the final outcome of the work.
Larna studied BA Fine Art at Leeds Metropolitan University.
Jane Liggins
Wake Up
Photography 2007
Jane Liggins photographs her friends as she disturbs them from sleep, capturing them in between states of consciousness. This instant depicts the moment before each subject can fully suppress a more truthful side to him or herself and when viewed en-mass creates a new dimension in voyeurism.
Jane studied BA Fine Art at Leeds Metropolitan University.
Tim Pulleyn
Untitled
Sound Piece/Sculpture with Sawdust, 2007
Tim Pulleyn’s installation played with the texture of sound via frequency application and white noise. Vibrations from the sound-piece created visual patterns in the sawdust placed inside the speaker. Tim’s work straddles sculpture and all out noise, for the most part it lay dormant but erupting every thirty minutes. The sounds are abstracted from recordings of everyday objects and places.
Tim studied Foundation Fine Art at Leeds College of Art and Design.
Mark Madden
Talking To Granddad
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Mark Madden creates furniture with a specific function, combining elements of his grandfather’s personality with notions of his upbringing. The different levels of the bench, designed for adult and child, represent the act of storytelling. Gallery-goers were invited to take a seat, and tell a story.
Mark studied BA Furniture at Leeds College of Art and Design.
Photographs taken by Yvonne Carmichael.