Left Bank opening times in November 2011: Lisa O’Brien show
The gallery will be open on:
Sunday 13th November 11am – 5pm
Friday 18th November 11am – 5pm
Saturday 19th November 11am – 5pm
Friday 25th November 11am – 5pm
Saturday 26th November 11am – 5pm
Please call 01339881603 if you would like to see the exhibition at any other time.
Saturday 12th November 2011: Preview of work by Lisa O’Brien at Left Bank, Tarland
Lisa O’Brien
Saturday 12th November 2011
Preview 6pm – 8pm
Lisa O’Brien lives and works in Wester Ross on the west coast of Scotland.
Two years ago Lisa had a residency at Left Bank and we are delighted to welcome her back.
Lisa has been developing her work at the Highland print studio in Inverness and has a particular interest in photogravure technique. This is where a polymer plate is coated with a light-sensitive gelatin tissue and is then exposed to a film positive. This is made into a high quality plate that can reproduce the detail and continuous tones of a photograph.
On show will be a collection of atmospheric photogravure prints on BFK Rives Grey paper
and archival digital inkjet prints on Somerset fine art paper.
Artist Cv
Qualifications and training
- 2007 MFA Fine Art with Distinction, Grays School of Art RGU, Aberdeen
- 1989 Ba(hons) Expressive Arts, Brighton Polytechnic, Brighton
Solo exhibitions
- 2006 – 07 Black Cube, JIPB Cube Gallery, An Tuireann, Isle of Skye, Scotland
- 2004 Annat, Annat beach, Torridon, Wester Ross
Group exhibitions
- 2011 Sublime Film Festival, Rose Street Car Park, Inverness
- 2011 Uproot/Displace/Resettle, Heartwood, Monkquell, Blairgowrie
- 2010 Architectural Disorder (Disturbance), OVADA Gallery, Oxford
- 2008 Single Track Road, New Media Scotland, Toured to Belgrade, Boston, Vancouver, CCA Glasgow
- 2007 Swing, Leeds International Film Festival, Leeds
- 2006 Disturbance Cube, JIPB Cube, Ichinomiya, Japan, also toured to Denmark, France
- 2001 Losing Gravity, Merlin Theatre, Sheffield, St Annes Church, Manchester
Creative Futures’ artists in residence project at the Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability (ACES), Aberdeen. 2011
Creative residencies at ACES 2011
During the run up to the ACES conference in Aberdeen this August, four creative practitioners have been working with members of the ACES team and other affiliated and interested parties to explore the theme of Conflicts in Conservation.
The creative practitioners are:
Dalziel and Scullion, environmental artists
Helen Denerley, sculptor
Huw Warren, jazz pianist
Esther Woolfson, writer
Project manager:
Sera James Irvine
The residencies have been funded by Creative Scotland’s Creative Futures program and supported by ACES and the University of Aberdeen.
‘Creative Futures’ is an ambitious program of residencies and related activities designed to promote the professional development, vision, connectivity and ambitions of Scotland’s creative practitioners and organisations. It is the largest coordinated residency programme in Europe, and includes residencies that are single discipline, interdisciplinary, cross sectoral and international.
July 1st – July 3rd 2011 Left Bank in collaboration Scottish Sculpture Workshop are pleased to present new works by RSA residency winner Tom Harrup.
’Internal Tourist’
Preview
Friday 1st July 2011
6pm – 8pm
Opening hours:
Saturday 2nd July 11am – 5pm
Sunday 3rd July 11am – 5pm
Tea and cake 3pm – 5pm on Sunday
Harrup has spent the last month at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop developing the use of a bronze age mould making technique which utilises clay, sand and horse dung to create a unique material for firing.
This traditional method is predominantly used as an in-between material that holds a temporary negative for casting, although Harrup has reversed this technique allowing this to become the finished work itself. His work has been influenced by an interest in the architecture of the unseen, with works such as Gordon Matta Clark’s conical intersect and the ancient underground cities of Cappadocia, Turkey playing a major role in the development of his practice.
Tom graduated from the MFA course at Glasgow School of Art in 2010 and has continued his practice at the Glasgow Sculpture Studios.
Photograph by Deniz Üster
You can follow Tom’s progress and read about his practice on his blog http://tomresidencyssw.blogspot.com/
Previous work can be seen on his website http://www.tomharrup.com/
Emrys Williams exbhibition at Left Bank, Tarland.
Photos of Emrys Williams painting a new work at Left Bank.
During the installation of the show the artist painted a new work based on a series of ink drawings inspired by the song, ‘Another World’, by Antony and the Johnsons.
To see more images click here to visit the artist’s web page.
The ink drawings and the wall painting can be seen at the gallery along with the exhibition of water colours .
John Redhead: Remains of Occitania. Friday 29th October 2010
A Cathar Forensic in words, images and sounds
Friday 29 October 2010, 6.00pm – 8pm
Exhibition runs until Saturday 13 November
Opening hours: Thursday to Saturday 11 am – 5 pm
Zarathushtra sent a Gnostic-dual-carriageway west to greet the sun in Aragon, transporting the written word from ‘The Big One’. The vortex sent, the Stargate established, the Marys built their station. Tantric! With diamond hearts they spiralled jade-fire into the Cosmos. Heresy! But in 1244 the big boy Catholics interceded with their own story and genocide buried the book of love. Was the Cathars only crime that of hope and peace and transcendence? The Tresar Cathar went down and the Pope and feudal France “Killed them all”. Death to civility and tolerance. French was imposed on Rousillon in 1700.
“If you know yourself you know God”
This multimedia intervention searches for fragments as much of the future as the past – of rituals, riddle and chaos across the landscape of the Albigensian Crusade, from Montsegur, Languedoc to Rosslyn, Scotland. My intent is a loose-fun-wandering and broad, objective glance. As words become bald and the images played out, they take cover as the sounds take over, as Cosmic Karaoke! Sleep dances with me through the slaughter and images and stellar soundscapes appear and voices seep from the rocks of Bugaresh. Biblical texts implode into shattered ribs and the ‘Devil’ seeks a shoulder. Is there a whispering underground…? The landscape reveals a supernatural audio visual library – flashes of total ecstasy and ‘multiverse’ belonging and a gaping hole of hellfire, where even the grass seems to think shame. Thought! Joy! Where is the truth in this labour of beliefs and symbolism and pain – in this trance of light, starships and cruelty – this theatre of Heaven!
John Redhead, Formigueres, March 2009
Video footage of Montsegur and Rosslyn Chapel
Biography
From the age of fourteen, John, born in Yorkshire from Jewish Gypsy origin exhibited and sold his paintings. From self taught artist he became professional and exhibited prolifically through London and the provincial galleries.
In the mountains of North Wales he was an activist and pioneer on rock and his routes are a legacy in British climbing. He led the first ascents of Britain’s first grade E7, The Bells, The Bells, and the first grade of E8, Margins of the Mind. A BBC documentary ‘E9 6c’ and Anglia TV documentary, ‘Clown Ascending’ offer insight into his approach.
His multimedia exhibitions, ‘Shaft of the Dead Man’ and ‘Music of Decline’ attempted to portray the sacrificial aspect to movement on rock.
Whilst sponsored by the Arts Council to study Anazazi rock art and sacred sites in Arizona and New Mexico, he became more aware of the rituals and ceremonial aspect behind image making. His separation from the gallery environment had begun.
Whilst in his Liverpool warehouse studio he completed a series of site specific paintings that were exhibited in a ceremonial circle outdoors under the title, ‘Serious Clowning’. This interactive and controversial performance with an unsuspecting audience confronted a consumer complacent society with the issues of the day.
His ascent of Norwich and Liverpool cathedrals as part of an arts performance with his huge canvasses were documented and filmed.
John’s first limited edition book, ‘…and one for the crow’ of words and images of ascent, achieved cult status and was the first ‘outdoors’ book to be banned in many shops. His sonic exploration of Liverpool streets and heroin addiction, ‘Hero Gone bent’ follows from his extensive research and recorded transcripts of street prostitution.
His second publication was a multimedia investigation into the energy left at Dinorwic Quarry, North Wales. His sound sculpture, Soft Explosive Hard Embrace, is a claim for the sacred land and accompanied the words and images. His film of the same name has featured at mountain film festivals worldwide.
For ten years John has developed his sonic compositions and performance, ‘Talking House Soundscapes’ and ‘Orchestration of the Senses’ and continues to paint huge canvasses from his studio in the mountains of the Pyrenees Orientales, where he now works. He will be performing his new project, ‘Dead Room Chiseller’, tracks of sonic mourning at various venues in Calalunya Nord.
His current work ‘Remains of Occitania’ follows his forensic approach to human occupation of space and returns John to a gallery exhibition.
His third book, ‘Colonist’s Out’, a search for the meaning of home, is due for publication shortly.
Click here to see the artist’s webpage
Closing event for James Adams exhibition. Saturday 4th September 2010.
Closing event, with tea and cake, for the James Newton Adams exhibition.
3pm – 4.30pm on Saturday 4th September 2010
Emrys Williams show at Left Bank, Tarland. September 2010
New ink drawings and watercolours by Emrys Williams.
Preview September 10th 2010
6pm – 8pm
The artist will be present at the preview.
Show runs until 25th September 2010
Emrys Williams was born in Liverpool in the late 1950s. He studied at The Slade School of Fine Art and has exhibited widely both in London and throughout the UK.
He has lived and worked in Wales for many years and is currently on the advisory committee for Wales at the Venice Biennale.
Artist statement
‘My work develops a vocabulary of imagery that explores ideas to do with memory, the subjective nature of our experience and “mental space”. The paintings have qualities of spatial displacement, and ambiguity, with images derived from various sources. As well as creating images I am interested in exploiting the material qualities and elements of chance and suggestion that the manipulation of paint on different surfaces can bring about, whether it be on a large scale in oil and wax on canvas or the fluidity of work in watercolour on paper.
It is important for me to work quickly and intuitively; I see each work as a journey that unfolds, very much in the moment and there is a sense of a “stream of consciousness” in different scales and formats.’
Emrys Williams April 2010
The show will also include new works on paper made specifically for the exhibition.
“Another Place” 2010 is a series of ink drawings ( all 55cm x 76 cm on Waterman watercolour or khadi handmade paper) made as wall installation piece for a show at the Left Bank.
The drawings were a response to the album “Another World” by Antony and the Johnsons “.
‘Grove’
‘Annunciation’
‘Palm and boat’
‘Small red sails’
‘Armchair’
‘Large table’
‘Chair, boat, lake’
‘Chair, boat, mountain’
Click here for a link to the artist’s web page.
James Newton Adams exhibition at Left Bank, Tarland
Exhibition of new work by Skye based artist James Newton Adams.
Preview
Friday August 13th
6pm – 8pm
Show runs until 4th September 2010
Anne Marquis residency at Left Bank
Jewellery maker Anne Marquis will be working in the gallery during the first week of August.
Evening viewing and opportunity to meet the artist on Friday August 6th 6pm – 8pm
More images on the gallery Facebook page
Anne Marquiss has received funding from Aberdeenshire Arts and Creative Scotland.
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