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.

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

A Private Space is a web-based sound-art project by Ross Whyte and Shenpen Chokyi. It is designed to allow visitors to ‘journey’ to various imagined locations on a map and experience surreal sonic environments. The opening night will include the official launch of the site along with a live performance from Ross Whyte.

Friday 4 November 2011
7pm
Free

The Exhibition will run until Monday 7 November.

Opening hours: daily 11am – 5pm

5 Bridge Street, Tarland, AB34 4YN

Phone: 013398 81603

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.

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/

Pete Stollery

‘Discoveries’

On Sunday 31 October 2010, 7.30 pm Pete Stollery will present and evening of electroacoustic Discoveries in his inimitable style. This will be Pete Stollery’s third performance at Left Bank and with previous sonic encounters with Ferrari’s, Lego and a cactus the performance is bound to have a few unorthodox musical moments. ‘Discoveries’ will include music by school children from Aberdeenshire, students from the University of Aberdeen as well as his own work.

Sunday 31st October 2010 Tickets £5: limited availability.

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 .

Thank you for your interest in showing at Left Bank.  Please read the information below regarding applications.

The gallery has a high number of unsolicited applications from artists who would like to show here.

It is important for interested artists to know that the gallery program is prepared at least a year ahead and that very few new artists are taken on and these are usually invited by the gallery.

It is also worthwhile considering if your work fits in with the ethos and vision of the gallery and this is best judged by visiting the shows and the web page.

If you do feel that your work is compatible then you may email the gallery with a brief CV and a few low resolution images.

All efforts are taken to reply to applications within a week.

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

3pm – 4.30pm on Saturday 4th September 2010