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| Our 2008/2009 exhibition programme. FREE ADMISSION |
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BLACK GOLD
23 January - 7 March
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| The exhibition’s title, Black Gold, references the historical impact and value that coal had to Barnsley in terms of its industrial history. Barnsley became known as the heart of the South Yorkshire coalfield. Past generations toiled and risked their lives to pull this black rock from the ground. As time and regeneration have covered signs of this industry it still impacts our landscape both mental and physical and we continue to live its legacy.
This exhibition features work by 5 contemporary artists based in Barnsley.
Barrie Jones, John Ledger, Patrick Murphy, Mikk Murray, Jo Pearson
The work on show reflects their own personal relationships with the town and its history.
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CONTINUUM
31 October - 13 December
MAREK TOBOLEWSKI |
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The Continuum series of work has evolved over 12 years. Dealing in formal abstraction, controlling planes of continuous constructed
reverting lines. Exploring the dialogue of interpretation and construct, the actual method, process and our perception.
Balancing notional simplicity within complex linear structures that hold rhythmical balance and embrace harmony.
Image: 2LC DipSym NEG
Negative white line, drawn up to in solid graphite Duration 7.06.09 - 6.07.09
150 x 120 cm 2009
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THE ART OF
SUBJECTIVE MEASURING
12 September - 25 October
BOB LEVENE |
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| 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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UNSTRUNG THEORY
25 July - 6 September
ADRIAN PRITCHARD |
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Just what is the Universe made of?
Adrian Pritchard investigates the nature of matter and the basic laws of physics. 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 and then spins the canvas, as if panning for gold, in order to simulate the spinning of an atmosphere.
As part of his ability to demonstrate these processes Pritchard has developed an installation called String Theory. This art work will be a kinetic installation which develops and grows throughout the course of his HIVE GALLERY show. The work uses precipitation to illustrate the vibration of strings as viscous material stretches itself to the floor producing layers of formations over time. Too wet and the strings break down back into an expanding pool of gloop.
Adrian Pritchard is an artist and gallerist based in Blackpool.
Image: Un-strung Theory. 2008
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ART IN MOTION
6 June - 19 July
LEN LYE |
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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
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THRESHOLDS
18 April - 31 May
RUTH SOLOMONS |
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Ruth Solomons' work derives from working with linear forms and flat shapes. Her sources are silhouette-like in character and lend themselves to being reproduced in paint and collage cut outs. Early work used wire models to create abstract shapes which were transposed to canvas, this developed to using string, cardboard cut outs and monoprints of scribbles and brushmarks onto acetate. From this she has recently begun to draw freehand shapes that emphasis the kicks and curls found in the brushmark monoprints. Her large canvases evoke reflections and water, and her collages build up shapes and lines against a puzzle like backdrop of repeated shapes.
Image: Puzzle Painting, 2007
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GREG COX
21 February - 29 March
CLOUD OF HAMMERS |
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| BUsing fabricated cabinet drawers and doors engulfed by large swathes of brightly coloured laminate, Greg Cox has created a new body of works for his first solo exhibition, A Cloud of Hammers. Perhaps drawing parallels with architecture’s ability to construct entire amenities from scratch, these new works also glance to Minimalist archetypes for their sharp lines and rectilinear forms. It is within the obviously faux elements of vague furniture origin that we place our faith that it has once had function. It is this perception, however, that the tautological aspect of the work is revealed and where craft gives way to fantasy. |
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RICHARD BARTLE
10 January - 14 February
MAKE MINE A MOLOTOV |
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| Bartle uses the mass media images that form part of our every day experience, sampling and transferring these into cellular panels, clustering them together to form savage new images, ‘visual tumors’. Presented like sliding panel puzzles, they have a sense of transience - also mirrored in the textured, almost nostalgic surfaces that are created by the actual transferring process. Compositions that appear fixated upon one particular event become ephemeral - displaying the potential to be shifted or rearranged both physically and in the imagination. That which is depicted, though seemingly static, is therefore in a constant state of flux and appears at times beyond history or any given moment.
Bartle’s work at once feels like a premonitory dream and an historical document. Despite its often anger inducing and saddening subject matter, the work paradoxically offers a sense of pleasure and visual harmony. Through its manifestation the artist succeeds in creating order out chaos, as well as reconciling the bridge between a utopian and dystopian world - a balance is created in all our worlds.
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PETER BLAKE
25 October - 23 November
ALPHABET |
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Alphabet is a set of bold and colourful silkscreen prints, one for each letter of the alphabet, produced by Peter Blake in 1991. Alphabet characterises Blake’s method of working, incorporating images from postcards, magazines and popular ephemera. Peter Blake emerged in the 1960s as one of the leading British Pop Artists; he is most famous, perhaps, for his cover design of The Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper album in 1967.
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LESLEY HALLIWELL
13 September - 19 October
HYPOTROCHOIDS |
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Lesley Halliwell resurrects the 1970’s children’s favourite, the Spirograph, creating ragged, dizzy, psychedelic and beautifully pointless pen drawings. Halliwell transforms the ready-made format of the Spirograph and everyday biro pens into large scale colourful works which gently hover between a playfulness that we all recognise and a sophistication that comes from her focused and obsessive application.
Image: Tutti Frutti (detail)
3465 Minutes (Biro on paper)
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VINCENT JAMES
2 August- 7th September
JET SET TRASH |
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Vincent James' collages, sculptures, animations and installations are based on objects appropriated from cartoons. In these works props from different cartoon worlds collide in surprising interactions from the strange to the surreal. Objects originally only glimpsed in a few frames of a cartoon become frozen in time, locked in three-dimensional space or trapped in endless loops of animation.
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SOME LITTLE ARTISTS
14 June - 27 July
LITTLE ARTISTS |
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The Little Artists are John Cake and Darren Neave. Cake and Neave's practice considers cultural identity, branding and what it means to be a contemporary artist through adopting the concept of the figure of the artist as a logo, a brand name, a lifestyle choice. They created and became 'The Little Artists' brand. Their work has been exhibited across the UK, Europe and in New York. This is the first time a slice of their practice has been brought together.
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PROCESS
26 April - 8 June
JANE MELLOR
KATE WHATELEY
AETHAN WILLS
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| Process: a systematic series of actions directed to some end. HIVE presents PROCESS an exhibition which explores the notion or concept of process / processes which artists employ in their work. |
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OPENING TIMES: Gallery open: Thursday - Sunday 12-4pm
HIVE GALLERY, Elsecar Heritage Centre, Wath Road, Elsecar, Barnsley, S74 8HJ
Tel: +44 (0)1226 743122 Email:info@hivegallery.co.uk |
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