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Our 2009/2010 exhibition programme. FREE ADMISSION
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ART IN MOTION
6 June - 19 July
LEN LYE 		 

A pioneer of direct-animation, Len Lye (1901-1980) was also a highly innovative painter, photographer and poet, as well as an important figure in kinetic sculpture. In 1938, Time magazine proclaimed filmmaker, sculptor and writer Len Lye to be the English Walt Disney. History had other plans - despite being a huge influence on the animators of Disney's Fantasia (1940), Lye (originally from New Zealand) remained an experimental and seminal abstract artist/filmmaker.

This exhibition shows 3 of Lye's filmsColour Box (1935) Rainbow Dance (1936) and Trade Tattoo (1937). These films illustrate Lye's pioneering vision in abstract filmaking; the films were commissioned by the GPO (General Post Office) to be screened as adverts in cinemas.

To counterpoint Lye's work we feature the work contemporary artists/designers Airside, Mario Cavalli, Takafumi Tsuchiya and Universal Everything whose work shares Lye's pioneering vision but utilises the latest computer software.

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Images (top): Len Lye, Rainbow Dance.1936
(bottom left): Mario Cavalli, Long Build Loop. 2009
(middle): Universal Everything, Nokia E71/Art Film. 2009
(right): Airside, Nice Weather for Ducks. 2006

 

  
UNSTRUNG THEORY
25 July - 6 September
ADRIAN PRITCHARD 		 
Just what is the Universe made of? Adrian Pritchard investigates the nature of matter and the basic laws of physics. Pritchard is aiming to un-string these theories by using viscous substances which explores entropy and symmetry.

In his still paintings the works express chaos systems like weather formations by repeating the process of pouring colours at a singular point on a flat canvas he works wet on wet until the puddles expand in mass. Adrian then spins the canvas as if panning for gold in order to simulate the spinning of an atmosphere.
These paintings are then left to dry flat for many months, some develop thick membranes of skin which can bulge and ejaculate producing stalagmite formations. Other Paintings may Crack revealing different layers of mantle.

As part of Adrian’s ability to demonstrate these processes Adrian has developed an installation called string theory. This art work will be a live piece of art which develops and grows through out the course of the show. This work again uses precipitation to illustrate the vibration of strings as the viscous material stretches itself to the floor producing layers of formations over time. Too wet and the strings brake down back into an expanding pool of gloop.

Image: Un-strung Theory. 2008




  
THE ART OF
SUBJECTIVE MEASURING
12 September - 25 October
BOB LEVENE 		 
In The Art of Subjective Measuring Bob explores our understanding of the physical world and how it is shaped by the limitations of the body we inhabit. Time, distance, speed and the notion of human scale are all investigated and in some way measured bringing together a scientific reading of the land and our experience within it.

Fascinated by the contradictions and conflicts that arise when trying to represent our perceived world through another medium, she works with tools and process that measure, objectify and give our world order, questioning ideas around representation and the notion of ‘truth’.


Image: Ground Covered, 72 days in New York. 2008


 
 
 
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